Opinion

Business and pleasure can mix p353

The British government should not miss an opportunity to show its support for an innovative scheme from the Wellcome Trust to help take genomics research from the lab to the market.

doi:10.1038/18710

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Pulling together in Latin America p353

Greater pan-regional scientific collaboration could raise Latin American science to the next level of excellence.

doi:10.1038/18712

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News

Wellcome wages battle to house companies next to genome labs p355

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/18714

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Local residents unimpressed by growth plan p355

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/18718

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Scientists welcome Prodi as European Commission president p356

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/18720

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New Howard Hughes head seeks bioinformatics boost p356

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/18722

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Wyoming physics faculty faces closure p357

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/18725

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Geological problems drive up cost of nuclear waste dump in Japan p357

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/18728

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Cosmic-ray observatory in Argentina gets go-ahead p358

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/18730

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Canadian scientists win over rare species p358

David Spurgeon

doi:10.1038/18732

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Court suspends pioneering gene deal in Yellowstone p358

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/18734

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US concern grows over secrecy clauses p359

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/18736

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UK research councils look to future needs p359

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/18738

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Biotech industry seeks 'honest brokers' p360

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/18741

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Asians link up to protect plant resources p360

K. S. Jayaraman

doi:10.1038/18744

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News Profile

Women scientists unite to battle cowboy culture p361

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/18746

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News in Brief p362

doi:10.1038/18749

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Correspondence

Budget shock hits Danish universities p365

Kaj Sand-Jensen

doi:10.1038/18751

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High priests of science fear for their position p365

George Lauer

doi:10.1038/18753

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Harpoons fly in whale wars p365

Alan Macnow

doi:10.1038/18755

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System values seniority over innovation p366

I. A. Brown

doi:10.1038/18757

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Curb abuses in graduate school p366

doi:10.1038/18759

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News and Views

Phage-lift for game theory p367

Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund

doi:10.1038/18761

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Gamma-ray astronomy:  A burst caught in flagrante p368

Peter Mészáros

doi:10.1038/18764

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Animal behaviour:  Spit and polish off p369

John Whitfield

doi:10.1038/18766

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Population biology:  Crash tests for real p371

Robert M. May

doi:10.1038/18769

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100 and 50 years ago p372

doi:10.1038/18772

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Semiconductor physics:  Phonons rewrite structural recipes p372

Mark S. T. Bukowinski

doi:10.1038/18774

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Developmental biology:  A unity of opposites p375

Ethan Bier

doi:10.1038/18778

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Microbiology:  Millennium bug p376

R. S. Siew

doi:10.1038/18781

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Synthetic chemistry:  Sugars slide into heparin activity p377

Pierre Sinaÿ

doi:10.1038/18783

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Sonoluminescence:  And there was light! p378

Robert Apfel

doi:10.1038/18786

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Daedalus:  Oscillating enzymes p379

David Jones

doi:10.1038/18788

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Obituary:  Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-99) p380

Gertrude Belle Elion: Pioneer of drug discovery, who was awarded a Nobel prize for developing drugs such as acyclovir and allopurinol.

Richard Kent and Brian Huber

doi:10.1038/18790

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Scientific Correspondence

Angiogenesis inhibited by drinking tea p381

Yihai Cao and Renhai Cao

doi:10.1038/18793

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Trimethylamine induces migration of waterfleas p382

Hinnerk Boriss, Maarten Boersma and Karen H. Wiltshire

doi:10.1038/18796

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Ancient stunted trees on cliffs p382

D. W. Larson, U. Matthes, J. A. Gerrath, J. M. Gerrath, J. C. Nekola, G. L. Walker, S. Porembski, A. Charlton and N. W. K. Larson

doi:10.1038/18800

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Molecular basis of triclosan activity p383

Colin W. Levy, Anna Roujeinikova, Svetlana Sedelnikova, Patrick J. Baker, Antoine R. Stuitje, Antoni R. Slabas, David W. Rice and John B. Rafferty

doi:10.1038/18803

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Book Reviews

Evolutionists red in tooth and claw p385

David L. Hull

doi:10.1038/18806

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On from Babylon p385

J. D. North

doi:10.1038/18809

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The laying on of genes p387

Karol Sikora reviews The Development of Human Gene Therapy: Monograph 36 edited by Theodore Friedmann and Genetics of another animal

The Zebrafish: Biology (Methods in Cell Biology Vol. 59) edited by H. William Detrich III

doi:10.1038/18812

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An explosive laboratory p387

Ilkka Hanski reviews Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation by Robert J. Whittaker

doi:10.1038/18814

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New Journals p388

doi:10.1038/18816

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Science in culture p388

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/18818

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Articles

The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the -ray burst of 23 January 1999 p389

S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, S. C. Odewahn, J. S. Bloom, R. R. Gal, C. D. Koresko, F. A. Harrison, L. M. Lubin, L. Armus, R. Sari, G. D. Illingworth, D. D. Kelson, D. K. Magee, P. G. van Dokkum, D. A. Frail, J. S. Mulchaey, M. A. Malkan, I. S. McClean, H. I. Teplitz, D. Koerner, D. Kirkpatrick, N. Kobayashi, I.-A. Yadigaroglu, J. Halpern, T. Piran, R. W. Goodrich, F. H. Chaffee, M. Feroci and E. Costa

doi:10.1038/18821

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The effect of magnetic fields on -ray bursts inferred from multi-wavelength observations of the burst of 23 January 1999 p394

T. J. Galama, M. S. Briggs, R. A. M. J. Wijers, P. M. Vreeswijk, E. Rol, D. Band, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, R. D. Preece, M. Bremer, I. A. Smith, R. P. J. Tilanus, A. G. de Bruyn, R. G. Strom, G. Pooley, A. J. Castro-Tirado, N. Tanvir, C. Robinson, K. Hurley, J. Heise, J. Telting, R. G. M. Rutten, C. Packham, R. Swaters, J. K. Davies, A. Fassia, S. F. Green, M. J. Foster, R. Sagar, A. K. Pandey, Nilakshi, R. K. S. Yadav, E. O. Ofek, E. Leibowitz, P. Ibbetson, J. Rhoads, E. Falco, C. Petry, C. Impey, T. R. Geballe and D. Bhattacharya

doi:10.1038/18828

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Letters to Nature

Observation of contemporaneous optical radiation from a -ray burst p400

C. Akerlof, R. Balsano, S. Barthelmy, J. Bloch, P. Butterworth, D. Casperson, T. Cline, S. Fletcher, F. Frontera, G. Gisler, J. Heise, J. Hills, R. Kehoe, B. Lee, S. Marshall, T. McKay, R. Miller, L. Piro, W. Priedhorsky, J. Szymanski and J. Wren

doi:10.1038/18837

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A simple explanation of light emission in sonoluminescence p402

Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse

doi:10.1038/18842

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Immobility of protons in ice from 30 to 190 K p405

J. P. Cowin, A. A. Tsekouras, M. J. Iedema, K. Wu and G. B. Ellison

doi:10.1038/18848

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Electrical conduction through DNA molecules p407

Hans-Werner Fink and Christian Schönenberger

doi:10.1038/18855

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Glacial–interglacial changes in ocean surface conditions in the Southern Hemisphere p410

F. Vimeux, V. Masson, J. Jouzel, M. Stievenard and J. R. Petit

doi:10.1038/18860

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Gravity-driven continental overflow and Archaean tectonics p413

R. C. Bailey

doi:10.1038/18866

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Absolute measures of the completeness of the fossil record p415

Mike Foote and J. John Sepkoski, Jr

doi:10.1038/18872

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Synthesis of thrombin-inhibiting heparin mimetics without side effects p417

Maurice Petitou, Jean-Pascal Hérault, André Bernat, Pierre-Alexandre Driguez, Philippe Duchaussoy, Jean-Claude Lormeau and Jean-Marc Herbert

doi:10.1038/18877

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-Catenin regulates expression of cyclin D1 in colon carcinoma cells p422

Osamu Tetsu and Frank McCormick

doi:10.1038/18884

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Local inhibition and long-range enhancement of Dpp signal transduction by Sog p427

Hilary L. Ashe and Michael Levine

doi:10.1038/18892

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A new secreted protein that binds to Wnt proteins and inhibits their activites p431

Jen-Chih Hsieh, Laurent Kodjabachian, Martha L. Rebbert, Amir Rattner, Philip M. Smallwood, Cynthia Harryman Samos, Roel Nusse, Igor B. Dawid and Jeremy Nathans

doi:10.1038/18899

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A capsaicin-receptor homologue with a high threshold for noxious heat p436

Michael J. Caterina, Tobias A. Rosen, Makoto Tominaga, Anthony J. Brake and David Julius

doi:10.1038/18906

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Prisoner's dilemma in an RNA virus p441

Paul E. Turner and Lin Chao

doi:10.1038/18913

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