Opinion

Genetic revolution overdue at the USDA p207

Agricultural research is being neglected by the US federal government, despite its clear relevance to economic prosperity, social development and environmental stewardship.

doi:10.1038/28220

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A Wellcome break for science p207

The significant boost in funds for UK science is a triumph, above all, for the Wellcome Trust.

doi:10.1038/28222

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News

UK provides 'step increase' in funding for its science base p209

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/28224

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Wellcome secures new synchrotron source p209

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/28226

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Fusion machines 'breach treaty and open weapons risk' p210

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/28229

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Plant scientists want focus on the best and brightest p210

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/28231

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Monsanto backs $150m plant science centre p211

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/28235

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UK court gives green light to trial of modified maize p212

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/28237

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Britain ignores warning on privatization of defence research p212

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/28240

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Gore's satellite may fill role of lost SOHO p213

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/28242

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Biologists recommend scrapping NASA's research on crystals p213

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/28245

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Israel split on rights to genetic privacy p214

Haim Watzman

doi:10.1038/28247

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Swiss databank to start charging for use p214

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/28249

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News in Brief p215

doi:10.1038/28251

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Correspondence

When names are less than crystal clear p216

Michael Ashburner

doi:10.1038/28254

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Tokyo campus rising p216

Shun-ichi Kobayashi

doi:10.1038/28256

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Haldane's speculation p216

I. J. Good

doi:10.1038/28258

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Commentary

How to make microbes safer p217

doi:10.1038/28260

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News and Views

Dust hides a universal starburst p219

Douglas Scott

doi:10.1038/28263

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Signal transduction:  Why Ras needs Rho p220

Frank McCormick

doi:10.1038/28268

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Planetary impacts:  Craters unchained p221

H. J. Melosh

doi:10.1038/28271

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100 and 50 years ago p224

doi:10.1038/28274

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Bioremediation:  Incas and alders p224

Peter D. Moore

doi:10.1038/28276

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Display technology:  Printing screens p225

Robert Wisnieff

doi:10.1038/28278

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Autoimmunity:  The pathogen connection p227

Christophe Benoist and Diane Mathis

doi:10.1038/28282

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Oceanography:  Eddies make ocean deserts bloom p228

Richard G. Williams and Michael J. Follows

doi:10.1038/28285

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Ecology:  Rarity as double jeopardy p229

Kevin J. Gaston

doi:10.1038/28288

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Daedalus:  His master's fist p230

David Jones

doi:10.1038/28291

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Science and Image

Feynman's figurations p231

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a diagram can be worth many lines of complicated algebraic formulas. Feynman diagrams are also powerful tools of explanation and prediction.

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/28293

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Scientific Correspondence

Selection on swallow tail streamers p233

Matthew R. Evans

doi:10.1038/28297

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The oldest coelurosaurian p234

Xijin Zhao and Xing Xu

doi:10.1038/28300

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Seal whiskers detect water movements p235

Guido Dehnhardt, Björn Mauck and Horst Bleckmann

doi:10.1038/28303

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Alanine enantiomers in the Murchison meteorite p236

S. Pizzarello and J. R. Cronin

doi:10.1038/28306

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Book Reviews

Microbiology for the millions p237

W. F. Bynum

doi:10.1038/28309

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From meat to merchandise p238

John Robb

doi:10.1038/28312

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Surfing the wet p238

doi:10.1038/28314

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No laughing matter p239

Colin L. Masters

doi:10.1038/28317

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Bamboozled by habitat loss p239

doi:10.1038/28320

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The making of a biochemist p240

Mikulá Teich

doi:10.1038/28323

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Software reviews at www.nature.com p240

doi:10.1038/28326

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Article

High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey p241

David H. Hughes, Stephen Serjeant, James Dunlop, Michael Rowan-Robinson, Andrew Blain, Robert G. Mann, Rob Ivison, John Peacock, Andreas Efstathiou, Walter Gear, Seb Oliver, Andy Lawrence, Malcolm Longair, Pippa Goldschmidt and Tim Jenness

doi:10.1038/28328

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Letters to Nature

Submillimetre-wavelength detection of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift p248

A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, D. B. Sanders, E. Fulton, Y. Taniguchi, Y. Sato, K. Kawara and H. Okuda

doi:10.1038/28338

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A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths p251

S. Y. Lin, J. G. Fleming, D. L. Hetherington, B. K. Smith, R. Biswas, K. M. Ho, M. M. Sigalas, W. Zubrzycki, S. R. Kurtz and Jim Bur

doi:10.1038/28343

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An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays p253

Barrett Comiskey, J. D. Albert, Hidekazu Yoshizawa and Joseph Jacobson

doi:10.1038/28349

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See also: Commentary by Michaels et al.

Continuous self-assembly of organic–inorganic nanocomposite coatings that mimic nacre p256

Alan Sellinger, Pilar M. Weiss, Anh Nguyen, Yunfeng Lu, Roger A. Assink, Weiliang Gong and C. Jeffrey Brinker

doi:10.1038/28354

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Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U–Pb and Ar–Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin
plutonic complexes p260

M. A. Hamilton, D. G. Pearson, R. N. Thompson, S. P. Kelley and C. H. Emeleus

doi:10.1038/28361

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Influence of mesoscale eddies on new production in the Sargasso Sea p263

D. J. McGillicuddy, Jr, A. R. Robinson, D. A. Siegel, H. W. Jannasch, R. Johnson, T. D. Dickey, J. McNeil, A. F. Michaels and A. H. Knap

doi:10.1038/28367

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See also: News and Views by Williams & Follows

Eddy-induced enhancement of primary production in a model of the North Atlantic Ocean p266

Andreas Oschlies and Véronique Garçon

doi:10.1038/28373

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Local and global vectors in desert ant navigation p269

M. Collett, T. S. Collett, S. Bisch and R. Wehner

doi:10.1038/28378

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Species extinction and the relationship between distribution and abundance p272

C. N. Johnson

doi:10.1038/28385

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A multimodal language region in the ventral visual pathway p274

Christian Büchel, Cathy Price and Karl Friston

doi:10.1038/28389

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Control of pain initiation by endogenous cannabinoids p277

Antonio Calignano, Giovanna La Rana, Andrea Giuffrida and Daniele Piomelli

doi:10.1038/28393

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Expression of a potassium current in inner hair cells during development of hearing in mice p281

Corné J. Kros, J. Peter Ruppersberg and Alfons Rüsch

doi:10.1038/28401

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Mice lacking serum paraoxonase are susceptible to organophosphate toxicity and atherosclerosis p284

Diana M. Shih, Lingjie Gu, Yu-Rong Xia, Mohamad Navab, Wan-Fen Li, Susan Hama, Lawrence W. Castellani, Clement E. Furlong, Lucio G. Costa, Alan M. Fogelman and Aldons J. Lusis

doi:10.1038/28406

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Combined effects of angiostatin and ionizing radiation in antitumour therapy p287

Helena J. Mauceri, Nader N. Hanna, Michael A. Beckett, David H. Gorski, Mary-Jane Staba, Kerri Anne Stellato, Kevin Bigelow, Ruth Heimann, Stephen Gately, Mohanraj Dhanabal, Gerald A. Soff, Vikas P. Sukhatme, Donald W. Kufe and Ralph R. Weichselbaum

doi:10.1038/28412

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V(D)J recombinase induction in splenic B lymphocytes is inhibited by antigen-receptor signalling p292

Marc Hertz, Valérie Kouskoff, Tetsuya Nakamura and David Nemazee

doi:10.1038/28419

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Signals from Ras and Rho GTPases interact to regulate expression of p21^Waf1/Cip1 p295

Michael F. Olson, Hugh F. Paterson and Christopher J. Marshall

doi:10.1038/28425

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Structure of dehydroquinate synthase reveals an active site capable of multistep catalysis p299

Elisabeth P. Carpenter, Alastair R. Hawkins, John W. Frost and Katherine A. Brown

doi:10.1038/28431

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Addendum:  A prolactin-releasing peptide in the brain p302

Shuji Hinuma, Yugo Habata, Ryo Fujii, Yuji Kawamata, Masaki Hosoya, Shoji Fukusumi, Chieko Kitada, Yoshinori Masuo, Tsuneo Asano, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Masahiro Sekiguchi, Tsutomu Kurokawa, Osamu Nishimura, Haruo Onda and Masahiko Fujino

doi:10.1038/28437

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Correction:  Engineering cyclophilin into a proline-specific endopeptidase p302

Eric Quéméneur, Mireille Moutiez, Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier and André Ménez

doi:10.1038/28439

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