Opinion

GM foods debate needs a recipe for restoring trust p639

The soundest possible science must underlie any effort to regulate genetically modified foods. But regulations must also acknowledge uncertainty — and incorporate trust in the judgement of the consumer.

doi:10.1038/19336

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News

Europe and US in confrontation over GM food labelling criteria p641

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/19338

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US sets up 'round-table' talks with scientists p641

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/19341

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Europe will fly animals on space station p642

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/19343

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UK's royal societies oppose new research council for Scotland p642

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/19346

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Transplant panel to play 'honest broker' p643

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/19348

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Looser ties urged for Japanese scientists p643

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/19350

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Financial doubts over future of chimp lab p644

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/19353

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Japan plans cDNA hunt for disease genes p644

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/19356

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Spanish watchdog sees way ahead for stem-cell research p645

Xavier Bosch

doi:10.1038/19358

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Private nuclear waste plan faces critics in Australia p645

Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/19360

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Scientists urged to raise lobbying efforts p646

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/19363

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Bioinformatics institute plans public database for gene expression data p646

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/19366

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News Analysis

A meeting of parallel paths for US fusion? p647

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/19368

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News in Brief p648

doi:10.1038/19371

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News

Nonlinear dynamics could help in battle for sustainability p650

doi:10.1038/19373

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India's science funds 'safe' despite fall of government p650

doi:10.1038/19375

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Canadian plea for freedom of information p650

doi:10.1038/19377

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Intellectual rights 'must serve the needs of developing countries' p650

doi:10.1038/19379

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Briefings

Long-term effect of GM crops serves up food for thought p651

The media has inflamed public fears about the risks of genetically modified crops for human health and biodiversity. But many responsible scientists agree on the need for more research to identify potential long-term problems.

doi:10.1038/19381

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Basic research holds key to weighing risks p652

doi:10.1038/19385

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Assessing the threat to biodiversity on the farm p654

doi:10.1038/19388

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A pragmatist comes to the defence of the British countryside p654

doi:10.1038/19392

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Japan defends its drive for self-sufficiency p655

doi:10.1038/19395

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Industry critic warns that damages claims 'could run into millions' p656

doi:10.1038/19398

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Correspondence

When extra authors get in on the act p657

Eugen Tarnow

doi:10.1038/19401

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Miscalculation p657

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

doi:10.1038/19403

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Hand over your clones or lose your reputation p657

Mark Tester

doi:10.1038/19405

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Did Parisians catch HIV from 'monkey glands'? p657

R. V. Short

doi:10.1038/19407

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News and Views

Three planets for Upsilon Andromedae p659

Jack J. Lissauer

doi:10.1038/19409

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Biochemical sensors:  Adapting to nanoscale events p660

Daniel Branton and Jene Golovchenko

doi:10.1038/19412

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Neurobiology:  Attraction is relative not absolute p661

Masataka Watanabe

doi:10.1038/19414

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Atmospheric chemistry:  Uncertain road to ozone recovery p663

Paul J. Fraser and Michael J. Prather

doi:10.1038/19418

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100 and 50 years ago p664

doi:10.1038/19421

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DNA repair:  Gatekeepers of recombination p665

James E. Haber

doi:10.1038/19423

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Astronomy:  Fine-structure variable? p667

Antoinette Songaila and Lennox L. Cowie

doi:10.1038/19426

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Earth science:  A big slip p667

Tim Lincoln

doi:10.1038/19428

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Immunogenetics:  Defence by diversity p668

Adrian V. S. Hill

doi:10.1038/19431

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Daedalus:  Spiritual matters p669

David Jones

doi:10.1038/19434

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Obituary:  Gerhard Herzberg (1904-99) p670

Dudley Herschbach

doi:10.1038/19436

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Scientific Correspondence

Antibacterial peptide from H. pylori p671

Katrin Pütsep, Carl-Ivar Brändén, Hans G. Boman and Staffan Normark

doi:10.1038/19439

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Cleaner fish really do clean p672

Alexandra S. Grutter

doi:10.1038/19443

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Reply:  Perception of changes in loudness p673

John G. Neuhoff

doi:10.1038/19446

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Perception of changes in loudness p673

Georges Canévet, Bertram Scharf, Robert S. Schlauch, Martha Teghtsoonian and Robert Teghtsoonian

doi:10.1038/47772

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Movement of motor and cargo along cilia p674

Jose T. Orozco, Karen P. Wedaman, Dawn Signor, Heather Brown, Lesilee Rose and Jonathan M. Scholey

doi:10.1038/19448

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Book Reviews

Drugs wipe out a sporting chance p675

Craig Sharp reviews Dying to Win: Doping in Sport and the Development of Anti-Doping Policy by Barrie Houlihan

doi:10.1038/19451

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Peering into a child's priorities p675

Simon Baron-Cohen reviews The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out The Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris

doi:10.1038/19454

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A singularity in modern science p677

Peter Galison reviews Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics by John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford

doi:10.1038/19457

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Monsters in the night p678

Chris Reynolds reviews Active Galactic Nuclei by Julian H. Krolik

doi:10.1038/19460

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The charm of the single neuron p678

Erik De Schutter reviews Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons by Christof Koch and An Introduction to Natural Computation by Dana H. Ballard and Applied Neural Networks for Signal Processing by Fa-Long Luo & Rolf Unbehauen and Brain Function and Oscillations. Volume I: Brain Oscillations. Principles and Approaches by Erol Baar and Rational Models of Cognition edited by Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater

doi:10.1038/19462

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Letters to Nature

Environmentally decoupled sds -wave Josephson junctions for quantum computing p679

Lev B. Ioffe, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, Mikhail V. Feigel'man, Alban L. Fauchère and Gianni Blatter

doi:10.1038/19464

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Metastable ice VII at low temperature and ambient pressure p681

S. Klotz, J. M. Besson, G. Hamel, R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday and W. G. Marshall

doi:10.1038/19480

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Low-temperature superplasticity in nanostructured nickel and metal alloys p684

S. X. McFadden, R. S. Mishra, R. Z. Valiev, A. P. Zhilyaev and A. K. Mukherjee

doi:10.1038/19486

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Stochastic sensing of organic analytes by a pore-forming protein containing a molecular adapter p686

Li-Qun Gu, Orit Braha, Sean Conlan, Stephen Cheley and Hagan Bayley

doi:10.1038/19491

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See also: News and Views by Branton & Golovchenko

Present and future trends in the atmospheric burden of ozone-depleting halogens p690

S. A. Montzka, J. H. Butler, J.W. Elkins, T. M. Thompson, A. D. Clarke and L. T. Lock

doi:10.1038/19499

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Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming p694

A. Timmermann, J. Oberhuber, A. Bacher, M. Esch, M. Latif and E. Roeckner

doi:10.1038/19505

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Continental-shelf sediment as a primary source of iron for coastal phytoplankton p697

Kenneth S. Johnson, Francisco P. Chavez and Gernot E. Friederich

doi:10.1038/19511

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Archaeopteris is the earliest known modern tree p700

Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Stephen E. Scheckler and Jobst Wendt

doi:10.1038/19516

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Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites p701

Cameron R. Currie, James A. Scott, Richard C. Summerbell and David Malloch

doi:10.1038/19519

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Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex p704

Léon Tremblay and Wolfram Schultz

doi:10.1038/19525

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p63 is a p53 homologue required for limb and epidermal morphogenesis p708

Alea A. Mills, Binhai Zheng, Xiao-Jing Wang, Hannes Vogel, Dennis R. Roop and Allan Bradley

doi:10.1038/19531

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p63 is essential for regenerative proliferation in limb, craniofacial and epithelial development p714

Annie Yang, Ronen Schweitzer, Deqin Sun, Mourad Kaghad, Nancy Walker, Roderick T. Bronson, Cliff Tabin, Arlene Sharpe, Daniel Caput, Christopher Crum and Frank McKeon

doi:10.1038/19539

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MCP-1 and IL-8 trigger firm adhesion of monocytes to vascular endothelium under flow conditions p718

Robert E. Gerszten, Eduardo A. Garcia-Zepeda, Yaw-Chyn Lim, Masayuki Yoshida, Han A. Ding, Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr, Andrew D. Luster, Francis W. Luscinskas and Anthony Rosenzweig

doi:10.1038/19546

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Tyro-3 family receptors are essential regulators of mammalian spermatogenesis p723

Qingxian Lu, Martin Gore, Qing Zhang, Todd Camenisch, Sharon Boast, Franca Casagranda, Cary Lai, Michael K. Skinner, Rüdiger Klein, Glenn K. Matsushima, H. Shelton Earp, Stephen P. Goff and Greg Lemke

doi:10.1038/19554

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Binding of double-strand breaks in DNA by human Rad52 protein p728

Eric Van Dyck, Alicja Z. Stasiak, Andrzej Stasiak and Stephen C. West

doi:10.1038/19560

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