Table of contents
Volume 395 Number 6705 pp823-923
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Opinion
Reflections on the death of a young scientist p823
The tragic suicide of an outstanding graduate student at Harvard University poses troubling questions about academic priorities. But it also reinforces deeper concerns about the contemporary culture of research.
doi:10.1038/27478
Crop research meets the public p823
The UK government has some way to go in building trust in its handling of genetic modification in agriculture.
doi:10.1038/27480
News
US plans a multi-million dollar boost to computer simulation p825
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/27482
Biomedicine wins British budget top-up p825
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/27485
Suicide highlights graduate student woes p826
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/27487
Damaged satellite adds to delays facing X-ray astronomers p826
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/27489
Italian scientists fear impact of cabinet reshuffle on reforms p827
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/27492
Alarm raised over drop in basic research at NASA p827
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/27495
US panel split on endocrine disruptors ... p828
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/27497
... while Japan studies drop in sperm counts p828
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/27500
French inquiry into misconduct is shelved p829
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/27502
Controversial Swedish science minister loses seat in reshuffle p829
Peter Sylwan
doi:10.1038/27504
UK holds up applications of genetically modified crops p830
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/27507
Canada announces second round of infrastructure awards p830
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/27510
Brazil forced to cut back science funding p831
Andrea Kauffman-Zeh
doi:10.1038/27512
Clash over demand for more synchrotron sources in Europe p831
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/27515
News in Brief p832
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Correspondence
Rising costs hold up drug discovery p835
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/27520
Gender gap in health decline in East Europe p835
Gerdi Weidner
doi:10.1038/27522
Missing the mark on misconduct p835
Rustum Roy
doi:10.1038/27524
Question marks over genetic counselling p836
Alan Akers
doi:10.1038/27526
Germany keen to reduce the nuclear threat p836
Martin Erdmann
doi:10.1038/27528
'No controversy' at CITES p836
Victoria Lichtschein
doi:10.1038/27530
News and Views
Strategies for cutting carbon p837
David G. Victor
doi:10.1038/27532
Perception: Measuring distance in two dimensions p838
Walter Metzner
doi:10.1038/27536
Materials science: Crystal cages for clean coolers p839
Laszlo Mihaly
doi:10.1038/27540
Neurodegeneration: A fly's eye view of Huntington's disease p841
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/27543
Human genetics: A map for cyberspace p842
Peter Little
doi:10.1038/27546
Galaxies: New members of the Local Group p843
Sidney van den Bergh
doi:10.1038/27549
100 and 50 years ago p843
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Neurobiology: In the mind's eye of the beholder p845
Robert Shapley
doi:10.1038/27554
Muscle proteins: The clash in titin p846
Anthony R. Means
doi:10.1038/27557
Daedalus: Photocoiffure p847
David Jones
doi:10.1038/27560
Obituary: André Weil (1906-98) p848
Robert P. Langlands
doi:10.1038/27562
Science and Image
Laudable labs? p849
You can read much about the history of science and of architecture in the changing styles and materials used in the building of laboratories. It's a story of fashion, functionality and financial constraints.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/27565
Scientific Correspondence
Maternal antibodies block malaria p851
Michal Fried, François Nosten, Alan Brockman, Bernard J. Brabin & Patrick E. Duffy
doi:10.1038/27570
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Object recognition can drive motion perception p852
V. S. Ramachandran, C. Armel, C. Foster & R. Stoddard
doi:10.1038/27573
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Preserving tardigrades under pressure p853
Kunihiro Seki & Masato Toyoshima
doi:10.1038/27576
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Specific interference by ingested dsRNA p854
Lisa Timmons & Andrew Fire
doi:10.1038/27579
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Book Reviews
Beefing up the food police p855
John Godfrey reviews Poison on a Plate: The Dangers in the Food We Eat and How To Avoid Them by Richard Lacey and Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet by Stephen Nottingham
doi:10.1038/27582
Hawaiian headgear p856
doi:10.1038/27586
The freedom not to listen p856
John Ziman reviews Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review and Scholarly Communication by Gordon Moran
doi:10.1038/27589
How the brain holds our attention p857
Steven Yantis reviews The Attentive Brain edited by Raja Parasuraman
doi:10.1038/27592
Looking after your molecules p858
John Emsley reviews The Molecules within Us: Our Body in Health and Disease by Charles A. Pasternak
doi:10.1038/27595
Progress
Star formation triggered by galaxy collisions p859
Reinhard Genzel, Dieter Lutz & Linda Tacconi
doi:10.1038/27597
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Article
Structural basis for activation of the titin kinase domain during myofibrillogenesis p863
Olga Mayans, Peter F. M. van der Ven, Matthias Wilm, Alexander Mues, Paul Young, Dieter O. Fürst, Matthias Wilmanns & Mathias Gautel
doi:10.1038/27603
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Letters to Nature
Carbon monoxide emission as a precise tracer of molecular gas in the Andromeda galaxy p871
N. Neininger, M. Guélin, H. Ungerechts, R. Lucas & R. Wielebinski
doi:10.1038/27612
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Microwave spectroscopy of a quantum-dot molecule p873
T. H. Oosterkamp, T. Fujisawa, W. G. van der Wiel, K. Ishibashi, R. V. Hijman, S. Tarucha & L. P. Kouwenhoven
doi:10.1038/27617
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Localized vibrational modes in metallic solids p876
V. Keppens, D. Mandrus, B. C. Sales, B. C. Chakoumakos, P. Dai, R. Coldea, M. B. Maple, D. A. Gajewski, E. J. Freeman & S. Bennington
doi:10.1038/27625
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Synthesis of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on patterned silicon wafers p878
Jing Kong, Hyongsok T. Soh, Alan M. Cassell, Calvin F. Quate & Hongjie Dai
doi:10.1038/27632
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Energy implications of future stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content p881
Martin I. Hoffert, Ken Caldeira, Atul K. Jain, Erik F. Haites, L. D. Danny Harvey, Seth D. Potter, Michael E. Schlesinger, Stephen H. Schneider, Robert G. Watts, Tom M. L. Wigley & Donald J. Wuebbles
doi:10.1038/27638
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Oil preserved in fluid inclusions in Archaean sandstones p885
Adriana Dutkiewicz, Birger Rasmussen & Roger Buick
doi:10.1038/27644
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Triggering of volcanic eruptions p888
Alan T. Linde & I. Selwyn Sacks
doi:10.1038/27650
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Electric fish measure distance in the dark p890
Gerhard von der Emde, Stephan Schwarz, Leonel Gomez, Ruben Budelli & Kirsty Grant
doi:10.1038/27655
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Seeing biological motion p894
Peter Neri, M. Concetta Morrone & David C. Burr
doi:10.1038/27661
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Temporal dynamics of chromatic tuning in macaque primary visual cortex p896
Nicolas P. Cottaris & Russell L. De Valois
doi:10.1038/27666
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Selective activation of Ca2+-activated K+ channels by co-localized Ca2+ channels in hippocampal neurons p900
Neil V. Marrion & Steven J. Tavalin
doi:10.1038/27674
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Mice without myoglobin p905
Daniel J. Garry, George A. Ordway, John N. Lorenz, Nina B. Radford, Eva R. Chin, Robert W. Grange, Rhonda Bassel-Duby & R. Sanders Williams
doi:10.1038/27681
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Role of Ca2+/K+ ion exchange in intracellular storage and release of Ca2+ p908
Thien Nguyen, Wei-Chun Chin & Pedro Verdugo
doi:10.1038/27686
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Structure of a glutamate-receptor ligand-binding core in complex with kainate p913
Neali Armstrong, Yu Sun, Guo-Qiang Chen & Eric Gouaux
doi:10.1038/27692
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Chromatin deacetylation by an ATP-dependent nucleosome remodelling complex p917
Jeffrey K. Tong, Christian A. Hassig, Gavin R. Schnitzler, Robert E. Kingston & Stuart L. Schreiber
doi:10.1038/27699
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Erratum FGF-mediated mesoderm induction involves the Src-family kinase Laloo p921
Daniel C. Weinstein, Jennifer Marden, Francesca Carnevali & Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou
doi:10.1038/27706
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Neuroscience on the brain p923
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