Opinion

Cells, FAQs and a new monthly journal p733

Cell biology is flourishing, in the liveliness of its community and in the breadth and connectivity of the science. Hence today's launch of Nature Cell Biology, complementing Nature's continuing enthusiasm for the subject.

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Smallpox preservation advisable p733

Previous agreements notwithstanding, it makes sense not to destroy a key protective resource.

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News

NIH plan brings global electronic journal a step nearer reality p735

Declan Butler

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National project to boost Japan's net presence p735

Asako Saegusa

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Swiss reject GM trial to protect organics p736

Alison Abbott

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US processor rejects maize that EU won't take p736

Meredith Wadman

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Swedish minister rebuilds scientists' trust p737

Peter Sylwan

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Mars sundial celebrates joy of discovery p737

Tony Reichhardt

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Monitoring system planned for US biodiversity drive p738

Rex Dalton

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NASA's plan to hire peer-review contractor raises scientists' fears p738

Tony Reichhardt

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SSC spectre hovers over neutron project p739

Colin Macilwain

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Japan moves to evaluate its engineers p740

Asako Saegusa

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University libraries put pen to paper in journal pricing protest p740

Alison Abbott

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Scientists split on US smallpox decision p741

Meredith Wadman

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Radioactive leak at Indian power station p741

K. S. Jayaraman

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News in Brief p742

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News

Ethics group to look at energy, water and the information society p744

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How biotechnology could be Africa's route to riches p744

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Virtual labs offer chance for South to beat the science brain drain p744

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Correspondence

Why Japan's professors fear evaluation p745

Mitsuo Tagaya

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Some PhDs are more equal than others p745

Leonor Cruzeiro-Hansson

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Name and shame the scientific fraudsters p745

James McComb

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News and Views

Ants, plants and antibiotics p747

Ted R. Schultz

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Quantum computation:  Solid-state qubits under control p748

D. V. Averin

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Developmental biology:  Legs to wings and back again p751

Lee Niswander

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100 and 50 years ago p752

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Microbial ecology:  Molecular probing of deep secrets p752

Roger Summons

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Cell biology:  Coated-pit dynamics p753

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

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Climate change:  Linear and nonlinear signatures p755

Klaus Hasselmann

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Apoptosis:  Life and death in a FLASH p756

Jan Paul Medema

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Cell cycle:  Mitotic treasures in the nucleolus p757

Jeffrey B. Bachant and Stephen J. Elledge

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April fool p758

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Daedalus:  Theological chemistry p758

David Jones

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Scientific Correspondence

Acoustic guide in bat-pollinated flower p759

Dagmar von Helversen and Otto von Helversen

doi:10.1038/19648

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Cognitive restoration of reversed speech p760

Kourosh Saberi and David R. Perrott

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Co-carcinogenic effect of -carotene p760

M. Paolini, G. Cantelli-Forti, P. Perocco, G. F. Pedulli, S. Z. Abdel-Rahman and M. S. Legator

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Growth of nanotubes for probe microscopy tips p761

Jason H. Hafner, Chin Li Cheung and Charles M. Lieber

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Spring Books

An octopus-like obsession with loyalty p763

Daniel J. Kevles

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Rainbow reptiles p764

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Beware the diseases of the will, my child p764

Pere Puigdomènech

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AfterAesop p765

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German science admits to fraud p765

Alison Abbott

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A further string to the believers' bow p766

John Maddox

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The self-centred meme p767

Jerry A. Coyne

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Shady secrets of the Enlightenment p768

W. F. Bynum

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The outward urge p770

Walter Gratzer

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Turning evening into morning p771

John Bayley

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Mind where you put your molecules p771

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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand p772

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Lord of the flies p773

Yadin Dudai

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Dance at sea p773

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Hitting the target p774

Stephen Neidle

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Tracing the development of lines p774

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Taming the black dog p775

Charles B. Nemeroff

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Starr book wins Los Angeles Times prize p776

Douglas Starr's book Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce was announced as the winner of the science and technology category of the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize last Friday (23 April). Starr was one of five finalists in the science and technology category:

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Article

The CED-4-homologous protein FLASH is involved in Fas-mediated activation of caspase-8 during apoptosis p777

Yuzuru Imai, Takaharu Kimura, Akira Murakami, Nobuyuki Yajima, Kazuhiro Sakamaki and Shin Yonehara

doi:10.1038/19709

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See also: News and Views by Medema

Letters to Nature

Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair box p786

Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin and J. S. Tsai

doi:10.1038/19718

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The existence of supercooled liquid water at 150 K p788

R. Scott Smith and Bruce D. Kay

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Structure of the polymer electrolyte poly(ethylene oxide)₆:LiAsF₆ p792

Graham S. MacGlashan, Yuri G. Andreev and Peter G. Bruce

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A nanometre-sized hexahedral coordination capsule assembled from 24 components p794

Nobuhiro Takeda, Kazuhiko Umemoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Makoto Fujita

doi:10.1038/19734

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Self-assembly of nanoscale cuboctahedra by coordination chemistry p796

Bogdan Olenyuk, Jeffery A. Whiteford, Andreas Fechtenkötter and Peter J. Stang

doi:10.1038/19740

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Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes p799

S. Corti, F. Molteni and T. N. Palmer

doi:10.1038/19745

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Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments p802

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, John M. Hayes, Sean P. Sylva, Peter G. Brewer and Edward F. DeLong

doi:10.1038/19751

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Reduced antinociception in mice lacking neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits p805

Lisa M. Marubio, Maria del Mar Arroyo-Jimenez, Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, Clément Léna, Nicolas Le Novère, Alban de Kerchove d'Exaerde, Monique Huchet, M. Imad Damaj and Jean-Pierre Changeux

doi:10.1038/19756

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Tbx5 and Tbx4 genes determine the wing/leg identity of limb buds p810

Jun K. Takeuchi, Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi, Ken Matsumoto, Astrid Vogel-Höpker, Mayumi Naitoh-Matsuo, Keiko Ogura, Naoki Takahashi, Kunio Yasuda and Toshihiko Ogura

doi:10.1038/19762

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The T-box genes Tbx4 and Tbx5 regulate limb outgrowth and identity p814

Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, Tohru Tsukui, Sayuri Yonei, Jorge Magallon, Koji Tamura and Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

doi:10.1038/19769

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Cfi1 prevents premature exit from mitosis by anchoring Cdc14 phosphatase in the nucleolus p818

Rosella Visintin, Ellen S. Hwang and Angelika Amon

doi:10.1038/19775

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Ligand-dependent transcription activation by nuclear receptors requires the DRIP complex p824

Christophe Rachez, Bryan D. Lemon, Zalman Suldan, Virginia Bromleigh, Matthew Gamble, Anders M. Näär, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst and Leonard P. Freedman

doi:10.1038/19783

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Composite co-activator ARC mediates chromatin-directed transcriptional activation p828

Anders M. Näär, Pierre A. Beaurang, Sharleen Zhou, Shaji Abraham, William Solomon and Robert Tjian

doi:10.1038/19789

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