Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6686 pp607-716
Opinion
Benefits of federation p607
A new association of European neuroscientists highlights the opportunities to establish a transatlantic balance of disciplinary activity, and the failure of others to achieve it.
doi:10.1038/31283
Keep dual funding p607
The temptation to eliminate Britain's 'dual support system' for university research should be resisted.
doi:10.1038/31285
News
Clinton's ocean agenda offers modest treasures for science p609
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/31287
Call to drop charges in French blood affair p609
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/31290
US research safety system 'in jeopardy' p610
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/31292
Review board head defends fenfluramine tests p610
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/31295
Job discrimination based on genetics set for California ban p611
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/31297
Israel reaches deal to join EU Framework programme p611
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/31299
State department to hire science adviser p612
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/31302
Senate's proposed budget increases disappoint NSF and NASA p612
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/31305
Japanese media fuel fears of 'endocrine disrupters' p613
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/31307
Canada putting its faith in consolidation in health sector p613
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/31309
News Analysis
Europeans adapt to compete with US neuroscience body p614
After a series of annual meetings that have failed to challenge the attractiveness of those organized by its US rival, the European Neuroscience Association is changing its name — to the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies — and structure, and has made financial savings. There are already signs that these changes, to be formally announced at its meeting in Berlin later this month, will reverse the trend.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31311
Cell biologists set out on the path of reform p615
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31314
Correspondence
Avenues of discovery in bioprospecting p617
Richard D. Firn, Clive G. Jones, Tianhan Xue and Li Zhang
doi:10.1038/31319
Smarter than you think p617
Lewis Wolpert
doi:10.1038/31321
Cancer controversy p617
John Brockman
doi:10.1038/31323
No conference critique p618
Klaus-Michael Debatin and Peter H. Krammer
doi:10.1038/31325
Environmental costs of subsidies oversimplified p618
Joel Darmstadter
doi:10.1038/31327
Congressional hearings on genetics research p618
Mark S. Frankel, Director
doi:10.1038/31329
An art form whose time has come p618
John Dalton
doi:10.1038/31331
News and Views
Putting it on plastic p619
Karl Ziemelis
doi:10.1038/31333
Circadian rhythms: New cogwheels in the clockworks p620
Ueli Schibler
doi:10.1038/31337
Colloids: A surprisingly attractive couple p621
David G. Grier
doi:10.1038/31340
Molecular motors: Keeping the beat p624
Alan J. Hunt
doi:10.1038/31344
Earth science: Subtle minds and mid-ocean ridges p625
Joe Cann
doi:10.1038/31347
100 and 50 years ago p627
doi:10.1038/31351
Holography: Solid information p628
Hans Coufal
doi:10.1038/31353
Palaeobiology: 101 uses for fossilized faeces p629
Peter Andrews and Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo
doi:10.1038/31356
HIV: Envelope's letters boxed into shape p630
John P. Moore and James Binley
doi:10.1038/31359
Daedalus: Thermal noise p631
David Jones
doi:10.1038/31362
Obituary: Pere Alberch (1954-98) p632
David B. Wake
doi:10.1038/31364
Science and Image
Venus's voyeurs p633
Pictures of far-off planets sent back to Earth by spacecraft allow us all to be armchair explorers. The rendering of these images in a form that we can see involves choices that would be familiar to any traditional landscape painter.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/31367
Scientific Correspondence
Mechanisms for memory types differ p635
Iván Izquierdo, Daniela M. Barros, Tadeu Mello e Souza, Marcia M. de Souza, Luciana A. Izquierdo and Jorge H. Medina
doi:10.1038/31371
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Walking on Mars p636
G. A. Cavagna, P. A. Willems and N. C. Heglund
doi:10.1038/31374
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Relations of the new phylum Cycliophora p636
B. M. H. Winnepenninckx, T. Backeljau and R. M. Kristensen
doi:10.1038/31377
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Gulf Stream shifts following ENSO events p638
Arnold H. Taylor, Michael B. Jordan and John A. Stephens
doi:10.1038/31380
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Book Reviews
The origin of altruism p639
John Maynard Smith reviews Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
doi:10.1038/31383
Floral prints p639
doi:10.1038/31385
Per ardua ad Stockholm p640
Walter Gratzer reviews I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity by Max Perutz
doi:10.1038/31388
Science book prize p640
doi:10.1038/31391
Chemistry gallery p641
István Hargittai reviews Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life by John Emsley
doi:10.1038/31393
In retrospect chosen by David Jones p642
David Jones reviews The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly Baked IdeasIrving John Good, Alan James Mayne and John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/31395
Articles
Generation of hydrothermal megaplumes by cooling of pillow basalts at mid-ocean ridges p643
M. R. Palmer and G. G. J. Ernst
doi:10.1038/31397
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Structure of an HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein in complex with the CD4 receptor and a neutralizing human antibody p648
Peter D. Kwong, Richard Wyatt, James Robinson, Raymond W. Sweet, Joseph Sodroski and Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/31405
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (724K)
See also: News and Views by Moore & Binley
Letters to Nature
A large-scale, interstellar Faraday-rotation feature of unknown origin p660
A. D. Gray, T. L. Landecker, P. E. Dewdney and A. R. Taylor
doi:10.1038/31413
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Long-range electrostatic attraction between like-charge spheres in a charged pore p663
W. Richard Bowen and Adel O. Sharif
doi:10.1038/31418
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Non-volatile holographic storage in doubly doped lithium niobate crystals p665
K. Buse, A. Adibi and D. Psaltis
doi:10.1038/31429
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Isolation and properties of small-bandgap fullerenes p668
Michael D. Diener and John M. Alford
doi:10.1038/31435
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An intermolecular (H2O)10 cluster in a solid-state supramolecular complex p671
Leonard J. Barbour, G. William Orr and Jerry L. Atwood
doi:10.1038/31441
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (481K) | Supplementary information
Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation p673
Gerald H. Haug and Ralf Tiedemann
doi:10.1038/31447
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Palaeozoic and Proterozoic zircons from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge p676
Joachim Pilot, Carl-Dietrich Werner, Frank Haubrich and Nils Baumann
doi:10.1038/31452
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A king-sized theropod coprolite p680
Karen Chin, Timothy T. Tokaryk, Gregory M. Erickson and Lewis C. Calk
doi:10.1038/31461
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Genetics underlying inbreeding depression in Mimulus with contrasting mating systems p682
Michele R. Dudash and David E. Carr
doi:10.1038/31468
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A nutrient-sensing pathway regulates leptin gene expression in muscle and fat p684
Jiali Wang, Rong Liu, Meredith Hawkins, Nir Barzilai and Luciano Rossetti
doi:10.1038/31474
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Male-to-female sex reversal in M33 mutant mice p688
Yuko Katoh-Fukui, Reiko Tsuchiya, Toshihiko Shiroishi, Yoko Nakahara, Naoko Hashimoto, Kousei Noguchi and Toru Higashinakagawa
doi:10.1038/31482
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Premotor commands encode monocular eye movements p692
Wu Zhou and W. M. King
doi:10.1038/31489
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Silent glutamatergic synapses and nociception in mammalian spinal cord p695
Ping Li and Min Zhuo
doi:10.1038/31496
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Synaptic laminin prevents glial entry into the synaptic cleft p698
Bruce L. Patton, Arlene Y. Chiu and Joshua R. Sanes
doi:10.1038/31502
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Association of missense and 5'-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17 p702
Mike Hutton, Corinne L. Lendon, Patrizia Rizzu, Matt Baker, Susanne Froelich, Henry Houlden, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Sumi Chakraverty, Adrian Isaacs, Andrew Grover, Jennifer Hackett, Jennifer Adamson, Sarah Lincoln, Dennis Dickson, Peter Davies, Ronald C. Petersen, Martijn Stevens, Esther de Graaff, Erwin Wauters, Jeltje van Baren, Marcel Hillebrand, Marijke Joosse, Jennifer M. Kwon, Petra Nowotny, Lien Kuei Che, Joanne Norton, John C. Morris, Lee A. Reed, John Trojanowski, Hans Basun, Lars Lannfelt, Michael Neystat, Stanley Fahn, Francis Dark, Tony Tannenberg, Peter R. Dodd, Nick Hayward, John B. J. Kwok, Peter R. Schofield, Athena Andreadis, Julie Snowden, David Craufurd, David Neary, Frank Owen, Ben A. Oostra, John Hardy, Alison Goate, John van Swieten, David Mann, Timothy Lynch and Peter Heutink
doi:10.1038/31508
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The antigenic structure of the HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein p705
Richard Wyatt, Peter D. Kwong, Elizabeth Desjardins, Raymond W. Sweet, James Robinson, Wayne A. Hendrickson and Joseph G. Sodroski
doi:10.1038/31514
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See also: News and Views by Moore & Binley
Dynein arms are oscillating force generators p711
Chikako Shingyoji, Hideo Higuchi, Misako Yoshimura, Eisaku Katayama and Toshio Yanagida
doi:10.1038/31520
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See also: News and Views by Hunt
New on the Market
A tale of two cultures p715
Cell and tissue culture are the focus of this week's lineup which includes synthetic culture media, an automated tissue resistance measurement system, a cell culture respirometer and trace elements for media enhancement.
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