Table of contents
Volume 395 Number 6700 pp307-414
Opinion
"Red-Green" warning signals p307
A change in Germany's government could place some sensitive science issues on centre stage.
doi:10.1038/26281
Wanted: a voice for the life sciences p307
Academic life scientists are currently well-funded, but they need to develop better advocacy skills in order to exert some influence over issues related to their work.
doi:10.1038/26283
News
Panel urges caution on genetic testing for mental disorders p309
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/26285
US gene-therapy proposals come under fire p309
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26287
France to strengthen regional centres ... p310
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26289
Biology federation urged to widen focus p310
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26292
... and more money for Paris laboratories p311
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26294
Map of research activities highlights disparity across European regions p311
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26296
India blocks panel hearings on impact of dam construction p312
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/26299
Edgy Japan wants a new reconnaissance satellite p312
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/26301
SOHO returns, Mars Surveyor hiccups p313
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/26304
Call for scientific experts to keep State Department up to speed p313
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26307
Brussels rewrites mission of 'Eurolabs' p314
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/26309
New Chile observatory shows its mettle p314
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/26311
UK life science students seek better deal p315
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/26314
France to set up co-ordinating committee p315
doi:10.1038/26318
Correspondence
Restrict genetic susceptibility tests p317
Sandy Thomas, Director, Fiona Caldicott, Chairman of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working party on Mental Disorders and Genetics, Chris Barchard, Rachel Bartlett, John Haldane, Sonia Hornby, Peter McGuffin, Nigel Pleming, Martin Richards, Pamela Taylor, Andrew Wilkie and Sally Young
doi:10.1038/26322
Star chambers will result in injustice p317
Daniel J. Kevles
doi:10.1038/26324
Was Moses the first ecologist? p317
John Lydon
doi:10.1038/26326
News and Views
A home from home for coelacanths p319
Peter Forey
doi:10.1038/26328
Planet formation: Twin planetary systems in embryo p320
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/26331
Protein breakdown: Ubiquitous déjà vu p321
Stefan Jentsch and Helle D. Ulrich
doi:10.1038/26335
Thermodynamics: Imperfect fluids and inheritance p323
Glenn H. Fredrickson
doi:10.1038/26338
Developmental biology: Birds of a feather flock together p324
Mark Peifer
doi:10.1038/26345
Isotope astrophysics: Sorting stardust p325
Sara S. Russell
doi:10.1038/26348
Behavioural genetics: Worming out social secrets p327
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/26351
Membrane fusion: SNARE the rod, coil the complex p328
William I. Weis and Richard H. Scheller
doi:10.1038/26354
Origins of life: Buried beginnings p329
Christopher Chyba
doi:10.1038/26357
Earth science Melting moments p329
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/26359
100 and 50 years ago p330
doi:10.1038/26362
Plant domestication: Getting to the roots of tubers p330
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/26364
Daedalus A magnetic speaker p331
David Jones
doi:10.1038/26367
Obituary: Otto Wichterle (1913-98) p332
Jindrich Kopecek
doi:10.1038/26369
Science and Image
Gray's greyness p333
What a piece of work is Man! But not in some relentlessly dull anatomy books of the nineteenth century, when 'style' was falling out of fashion. Or perhaps Henry Gray thought the wonders of the body spoke for themselves.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/26372
Scientific Correspondence
Indonesian 'king of the sea' discovered p335
Mark V. Erdmann, Roy L. Caldwell and M. Kasim Moosa
doi:10.1038/26376
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Cage structures and nanotubes of NiCl2 p336
Y. Rosenfeld Hacohen, E. Grunbaum, R. Tenne, J. Sloan and J. L. Hutchison
doi:10.1038/26380
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No fractals in fossil extinction statistics p337
James W. Kirchner and Anne Weil
doi:10.1038/26384
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Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater p338
Ross Nickson, John McArthur, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Peter Ravenscroft and Mizanur Rahmanñ
doi:10.1038/26387
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Book Reviews
Beware scientists writing history p339
J. L. Heilbron reviews The Atom in the History of Human Thought by Bernard Pullman
doi:10.1038/26390
It's written in stone, but can we trust it? p340
Andrew B. Smith reviews The Adequacy of the Fossil Record edited by Stephen K. Donovan and Christopher R. C. Paul
doi:10.1038/26393
Rambling along the byways of probability p341
A. W. F. Edwards reviews Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938 by Judy L. Klein
doi:10.1038/26396
Life is like a game of chess p342
Hanspeter Mallot
doi:10.1038/26399
Correction p342
doi:10.1038/26402
Articles
Role of plagioclase crystal chains in the differentiation of partly crystallized basaltic magma p343
Anthony R. Philpotts, Jianyang Shi and Caroline Brustman
doi:10.1038/26404
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Crystal structure of a SNARE complex involved in synaptic exocytosis at 2.4 Å resolution p347
R. Bryan Sutton, Dirk Fasshauer, Reinhard Jahn and Axel T. Brunger
doi:10.1038/26412
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (865K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Weis & Scheller
Letters to Nature
Compact protoplanetary disks around the stars of a young binary system p355
L. F. Rodríguez, P. D'Alessio, D. J. Wilner, P. T. P. Ho, J. M. Torrelles, S. Curiel, Y. Gómez, S. Lizano, A. Pedlar, J. Cantó and A. C. Raga
doi:10.1038/26421
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (263K)
See also: News and Views by Boss
Continuous excitation of planetary free oscillations by atmospheric disturbances p357
Naoki Kobayashi and Kiwamu Nishida
doi:10.1038/26427
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Global and local measures of the intrinsic Josephson coupling in Tl2Ba2CuO6 as a test of the interlayer tunnelling model p360
A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Grüninger, J. Schützmann, J. W. van der Eb, H. S. Somal and J. H. Wang
doi:10.1038/26439
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (339K)
Ultra-low-threshold field emission from conjugated polymers p362
I. Musa, D. A. I. Munindrasdasa, G. A. J. Amaratunga and W. Eccleston
doi:10.1038/26444
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Abiotic nitrogen reduction on the early Earth p365
Jay A. Brandes, Nabil Z. Boctor, George D. Cody, Benjamin A. Cooper, Robert M. Hazen and Hatten S. Yoder, Jr
doi:10.1038/26450
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See also: News and Views by Chyba
Quantification of dust-forced heating of the lower troposphere p367
P. Alpert, Y. J. Kaufman, Y. Shay-El, D. Tanre, A. da Silva, S. Schubert and J. H. Joseph
doi:10.1038/26456
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Evidence for long-term diffuse deformation of the lithosphere of the equatorial Indian Ocean p370
Richard G. Gordon, Charles DeMets and Jean-Yves Royer
doi:10.1038/26463
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Postcranial pneumatization in Archaeopteryx p374
Brooks B. Britt, Peter J. Makovicky, Jacques Gauthier and Niels Bonde
doi:10.1038/26469
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Object-based attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey p376
Pieter R. Roelfsema, Victor A. F. Lamme and Henk Spekreijse
doi:10.1038/26475
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An analgesia circuit activated by cannabinoids p381
Ian D. Meng, Barton H. Manning, William J. Martin and Howard L. Fields
doi:10.1038/26481
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Paired-spike interactions and synaptic efficacy of retinal inputs to the thalamus p384
W. Martin Usrey, John B. Reppas and R. Clay Reid
doi:10.1038/26487
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Drosophila oocyte localization is mediated by differential cadherin-based adhesion p387
Dorothea Godt and Ulrich Tepass
doi:10.1038/26493
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See also: News and Views by Peifer
A function for lipoxygenase in programmed organelle degradation p392
Klaus van Leyen, Robert M. Duvoisin, Harald Engelhardt and Martin Wiedmann
doi:10.1038/26500
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (422K) | Supplementary information
A protein conjugation system essential for autophagy p395
Noboru Mizushima, Takeshi Noda, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Yae Tanaka, Tomoko Ishii, Michael D. George, Daniel J. Klionsky, Mariko Ohsumi and Yoshinori Ohsumi
doi:10.1038/26506
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See also: News and Views by Jentsch & Ulrich
Retinoid-X receptor signalling in the developing spinal cord p398
Ludmila Solomin, Clas B. Johansson, Rolf H. Zetterström, Reid P. Bissonnette, Richard A. Heyman, Lars Olson, Urban Lendahl, Jonas Frisén and Thomas Perlmann
doi:10.1038/26515
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Position and orientation of the globular domain of linker histone H5 on the nucleosome p402
Y.-B. Zhou, Sue Ellen Gerchman, V. Ramakrishnan, Andrew Travers and Serge Muyldermans
doi:10.1038/26521
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correction: Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region p405
Randall S. Cerveny and Robert C. Balling, Jr
doi:10.1038/26527
New on the Market
Tools of the DNA trade p407
The hooks and needles of molecular biology include some of the items found here — DNA and plasmid isolation kits, vectors, enzymes and labels — as well as the loom of the trade, an automated purification workstation.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/26529
Careers and Recruitment
Taking knowledge from bench to bank p409
Academic research provides the basis for many commercial ventures; investors are confident that they will go on reaping the rewards. But it must be remembered that scientific knowledge is the property of all, not just the few.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/26533
Partnerships and the critical mass p410
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/26536
How to turn R into D and get paid for it p411
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/26539
Medicon Valley: a bridge to collaboration p412
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/26542
From research to commercial benefits p413
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/26545
