Table of contents
Volume 399 Number 6734 pp285-392
Opinion
The wages of spin p285
Steps to increase the transparency of the procedures used to judge the safety of genetically modified foods are to be welcomed. The scientific advice on which such judgements are made must reflect the same openness.
doi:10.1038/20478
A sorry affair p285
A patent dispute involving allegations of scientific misconduct mars the image of the biotechnology industry.
doi:10.1038/20480
News
Britain opens biotech regulation to greater public involvement p287
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/20482
Trade concerns dominate GM debate in US p287
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/20485
Britain backs biotech, seeks tougher regulation p288
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/20487
South Africa reveals plans to make AIDS a notifiable disease p288
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/20489
Charges fly in $1bn hormone patent battle p289
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/20492
Who's telling the truth about crucial plasmid? p289
doi:10.1038/20495
Europe seeks greater role for women on key advisory panels p290
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/20497
Australian geologists left reeling by budget cuts... p290
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/20499
... while New Zealand research gets thin rations p290
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/20501
NIH strives to keep resource sharing alive p291
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/20503
Hubble spots giant cyclonic storm on Mars p291
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/20505
Ethicists urge funding for extraction of embryo cells p292
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/20508
Europe's molecular biologists could join global e-journal plan p292
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/20511
NASA beefs up life science involvement p293
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/20513
Tokyo meeting airs problems of international space collaboration p293
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/20516
News
How expertise could add up to help for developing countries p296
doi:10.1038/20520
Swedes call for emphasis on access to knowledge p296
doi:10.1038/20522
Nobel laureates lined up for US delegation p296
doi:10.1038/20524
Correspondence
Alarm raised over elephant ivory trade p297
Katy Payne, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole
doi:10.1038/20526
Guidelines point the way on genetics ethics p297
Dorothy C. Wertz
doi:10.1038/20528
Genentech stands by original data p297
Dennis J. Henner, David V. Goeddel, Herbert Heyneker, Keiichi Itakura, Daniel Yansura, Michael Ross and Giuseppe Miozzari
doi:10.1038/20530
Statement from Peter Seeburg p298
Peter H. Seeburg
doi:10.1038/20532
Innocents suffer as rogue regime rapped p298
Qais Al-Awqati
doi:10.1038/20534
Science powerhouse of Central America p298
Jorge Cortés
doi:10.1038/20536
Commentary
Will biomedicine outgrow support? p299
The number of scientists in the biomedical field is growing exponentially at rates that outstrip funding. The present system of short-term research grants, resulting in armies of postdocs without career prospects, must be changed.
doi:10.1038/20538
News and Views
Reinventing the engine p303
Steven L. Garrett
doi:10.1038/20546
Ecology: When one eye is better than two p305
Mandyam V. Srinivasan
doi:10.1038/20550
Planetary science: Plate tectonics on Mars? p307
Dan McKenzie
doi:10.1038/20554
Ageing: A message from the gonads p308
Donald L. Riddle
doi:10.1038/20557
100 and 50 years ago p309
doi:10.1038/20560
Condensed-matter physics: Taking the frustration out of ice p311
Mark Harris
doi:10.1038/20562
Microbiology: Virus on virus infects bacterium p312
Ronald K. Taylor
doi:10.1038/20565
Palaeoclimatology: Warming without high CO2? p313
Benjamin P. Flower
doi:10.1038/20568
Daedalus: Untrue feelings p314
David Jones
doi:10.1038/20571
Scientific Correspondence
Topology in chaotic scattering p315
David Sweet, Edward Ott and James A. Yorke
doi:10.1038/20573
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Rainfall characteristics of hurricane Mitch p316
Jon Hellin, Martin Haigh and Frank Marks
doi:10.1038/20577
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Analysis of telomere lengths in cloned sheep p316
Paul G. Shiels, Alexander J. Kind, Keith H. S. Campbell, David Waddington, Ian Wilmut, Alan Colman and Angelika E. Schnieke
doi:10.1038/20580
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Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period? p317
Gareth J. Dyke and Gerald Mayr
doi:10.1038/20583
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reply: Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period? p318
Thomas A. Stidham
doi:10.1038/20585
Book Reviews
Grain of truth in fears of biotechnology p319
John Mugabe reviews Against the Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture by Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey
doi:10.1038/20587
A call for unification p320
Nicholas Rescher reviews The Uncertain Sciences by Bruce Mazlish
doi:10.1038/20590
Non-sectarian structure p321
Richard A. L. Jones reviews The Structure of Materials by Samuel L. Allen and Edwin L. Thomas
doi:10.1038/20592
Keeping it under wraps p321
doi:10.1038/20594
Why can't people be more like bats? p322
Laurent Excoffier
doi:10.1038/20597
The Universe and everything p322
Ray Carlberg
doi:10.1038/20599
Article
Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima p323
Karen E. Nelson, Rebecca A. Clayton, Steven R. Gill, Michelle L. Gwinn, Robert J. Dodson, Daniel H. Haft, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, William C. Nelson, Karen A. Ketchum, Lisa McDonald, Teresa R. Utterback, Joel A. Malek, Katja D. Linher, Mina M. Garrett, Ashley M. Stewart, Matthew D. Cotton, Matthew S. Pratt, Cheryl A. Phillips, Delwood Richardson, John Heidelberg, Granger G. Sutton, Robert D. Fleischmann, Jonathan A. Eisen, Owen White, Steven L. Salzberg, Hamilton O. Smith, J. Craig Venter and Claire M. Fraser
doi:10.1038/20601
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (2,013K)
Letters to Nature
The inevitable youthfulness of known high-redshift radio galaxies p330
Katherine M. Blundell and Steve Rawlings
doi:10.1038/20612
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (363K)
Zero-point entropy in 'spin ice' p333
A. P. Ramirez, A. Hayashi, R. J. Cava, R. Siddharthan and B. S. Shastry
doi:10.1038/20619
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (296K)
A thermoacoustic Stirling heat engine p335
S. Backhaus and G. W. Swift
doi:10.1038/20624
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (369K)
Weak surface anchoring of liquid crystals p338
G. P. Bryan-Brown, E. L. Wood and I. C. Sage
doi:10.1038/20646
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (349K)
Epitaxial diamond growth on sapphire in an oxidizing environment p340
Mamoru Yoshimoto, Kenji Yoshida, Hideaki Maruta, Yoshiko Hishitani, Hideomi Koinuma, Shigeru Nishio, Masato Kakihana and Takeshi Tachibana
doi:10.1038/20653
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (217K)
A large and abrupt fall in atmospheric CO2 concentration during Cretaceous times p342
Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Richard D. Pancost and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
doi:10.1038/20659
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (222K)
Large-scale chemical and thermal division of the Pacific mantle p345
I. Vlastélic, D. Aslanian, L. Dosso, H. Bougault, J. L. Olivet and L. Géli
doi:10.1038/20664
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,674K) | Supplementary information
A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China p350
Xing Xu, Zhi-lu Tang and Xiao-lin Wang
doi:10.1038/20670
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (804K) | Supplementary information
Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems p354
Bernd Blasius, Amit Huppert and Lewi Stone
doi:10.1038/20676
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Auditory collusion and a coupled couple of outer hair cells p359
Hong-Bo Zhao and J. Santos-Sacchi
doi:10.1038/20686
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (314K)
Signals from the reproductive system regulate the lifespan of C. elegans p362
Honor Hsin and Cynthia Kenyon
doi:10.1038/20694
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (322K)
The homeobox gene Phox2b is essential for the development of autonomic neural crest derivatives p366
Alexandre Pattyn, Xavier Morin, Harold Cremer, Christo Goridis and Jean-FranÇois Brunet
doi:10.1038/20700
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Clathrin self-assembly is mediated by a tandemly repeated superhelix p371
Joel A. Ybe, Frances M. Brodsky, Kay Hofmann, Kai Lin, Shu-Hui Liu, Lin Chen, Thomas N. Earnest, Robert J. Fletterick and Peter K. Hwang
doi:10.1038/20708
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A bacteriophage encoding a pathogenicity island, a type-IV pilus and a phage receptor in cholera bacteria p375
David K. R. Karaolis, Sita Somara, David R. Maneval, Jr, Judith A. Johnson and James B. Kaper
doi:10.1038/20715
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Structure of Cdc42 in complex with the GTPase-binding domain of the 'Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome' protein p379
Norzehan Abdul-Manan, Behzad Aghazadeh, Grace A. Liu, Ananya Majumdar, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Katherine A. Siminovitch and Michael K. Rosen
doi:10.1038/20726
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Structure of the small G protein Cdc42 bound to the GTPase-binding domain of ACK p384
Helen R. Mott, Darerca Owen, Daniel Nietlispach, Peter N. Lowe, Edward Manser, Louis Lim and Ernest D. Laue
doi:10.1038/20732
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (483K)
New on the Market
The media are the message p389
A selection of new products for the microbiology lab includes some
45's, not made of black vinyl and not by the Beatles, a manual approach to
cryopreservation and ready-to-use media.
Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided
by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/20739
