Table of contents
Volume 400 Number 6739 pp1-92
Opinion
Gore's humanitarianism loses out to strong-arm tactics p1
Now that the giant drug manufacturers are stamping their feet over proposed compulsory licensing as a means of easing South Africa's AIDS crisis, Al Gore's "values of conscience" appear to have withered away.
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Gems in a millennium's history p1
Introducing a series of essays celebrating quirks and little-known milestones of the past.
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News
Sweden sets ethical standards for use of genetic 'biobanks' p3
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/21720
Expert group to look at UK cloning law ... p4
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/21723
... as US DNA advisory body redefines itself p4
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/21726
Vast database offers vision of biodiversity p5
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/21728
US 'wastes vital time' as climate-change minority sows confusion p5
Meredith Wadman
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Congress threat to technology transfer p6
Rex Dalton
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Japan to launch ambitious genome project p6
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/21736
Reactor may switch to low-grade uranium p7
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/21738
European Union tightens GMO regulations p7
Heather McCabe and Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/21741
Academies call for ban on patenting agricultural life forms p8
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/21743
Islamic nations set themselves tough target for science budgets p8
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/21745
Debt relief cash 'should be spent on a fund for science' p8
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/21747
Clinton's adviser foresees a new breed of civic scientist p9
doi:10.1038/21750
Research 'must aid fight against poverty' p9
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/21752
Young scientists seek help from Unesco p9
Natasha Loder
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Correspondence
Weathering a storm of global statistics p13
Kelly Sponberg
doi:10.1038/21758
Colonial adventures p13
Michael A. G. Michaud
doi:10.1038/21760
Modern museums are far from fossilized p13
James Hanken
doi:10.1038/21762
Secondary metabolism and the risks of GMOs p13
Richard D. Firn and Clive G. Jones
doi:10.1038/21764
Making sense of GM tomatoes p14
Simon Bright and Wolfgang Schuch
doi:10.1038/21766
Winners and losers in Framework programme p14
Carlos M. Duarte and Maria-José Delgado
doi:10.1038/21768
Commentary
Why Africa needs agricultural biotech p15
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News and Views
Taking stock of new flavours p17
Harold McGee
doi:10.1038/21775
Materials science: A century of zero expansion p18
Peter Mohn
doi:10.1038/21778
Cell cycle: A snip separates sisters p19
Andrew Murray
doi:10.1038/21781
Particle physics: And you're glue p21
Frank Wilczek
doi:10.1038/21784
100 and 50 years ago p22
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Palaeobiology: A refugium for relicts p23
Zhexi Luo
doi:10.1038/21790
Malaria: Tying the conductor's arms p25
Michael F. Good
doi:10.1038/21793
Daedalus: Virtual overpopulation p26
David Jones
doi:10.1038/21796
Millennium Essay
The inventor of modern science p27
Freeman J. Dyson
doi:10.1038/21798
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Scientific Correspondence
Genetic link to cervical tumours p29
Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Pär Sparén and Ulf B. Gyllensten
doi:10.1038/21801
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Isochores result from mutation not selection p30
M. Pilar Francino and Howard Ochman
doi:10.1038/21804
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Periodicity in marine phosphorus burial rate p31
R. K. Tiwari and K. N. N. Rao
doi:10.1038/21807
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Life-sustaining planets in interstellar space? p32
David J. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/21811
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Book Reviews
At the third stroke, the time will be 2300 p33
John L. Casti
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As old as the stones p33
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Wise old wives p33
Rima D. Apple
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How far the stars? p34
Virginia Trimble
doi:10.1038/21821
Underground enlightenment p35
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Sustaining hopes for change p35
Peter Doran
doi:10.1038/21826
Science in culture p36
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/21828
Article
Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase onset is promoted by cleavage of the cohesin subunit Scc1 p37
Frank Uhlmann, Friedrich Lottspeich and Kim Nasmyth
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Letters to Nature
Spin gap and magnetic coherence in a clean high-temperature superconductor p43
B. Lake, G. Aeppli, T. E. Mason, A. Schröder, D. F. McMorrow, K. Lefmann, M. Isshiki, M. Nohara, H. Takagi and S. M. Hayden
doi:10.1038/21840
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Origin of the Invar effect in iron–nickel alloys p46
Mark van Schilfgaarde, I. A. Abrikosov and B. Johansson
doi:10.1038/21848
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Confinement-induced miscibility in polymer blends p49
S. Zhu, Y. Liu, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. Gersappe, D. A. Winesett and H. Ade
doi:10.1038/21854
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Spontaneous assembly of ten components into two interlocked, identical coordination cages p52
Makoto Fujita, Norifumi Fujita, Katsuyuki Ogura and Kentaro Yamaguchi
doi:10.1038/21861
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Rapid accumulation and turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest p56
Daniel D. Richter, Daniel Markewitz, Susan E. Trumbore and Carol G. Wells
doi:10.1038/21867
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Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China p58
Carl C. Swisher, III, Yuan-qing Wang, Xiao-lin Wang, Xing Xu and Yuan Wang
doi:10.1038/21872
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Hydrologically defined niches reveal a basis for species richness in plant communities p61
Jonathan Silvertown, Mike E. Dodd, David J. G. Gowing and J. Owen Mountford
doi:10.1038/21877
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Ectoparasite infestation and sex-biased local recruitment of hosts p63
Philipp Heeb, Isabelle Werner, A. C. Mateman, Mathias Kölliker, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, C. M. Lessells and Heinz Richner
doi:10.1038/21881
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Motion streaks provide a spatial code for motion direction p65
Wilson S. Geisler
doi:10.1038/21886
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Mox2 is a component of the genetic hierarchy controlling limb muscle development p69
Baljinder S. Mankoo, Nina S. Collins, Peter Ashby, Elena Grigorieva, Larysa H. Pevny, Albert Candia, Christopher V. E. Wright, Peter W. J. Rigby and Vassilis Pachnis
doi:10.1038/21892
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Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes modulate the maturation of dendritic cells p73
Britta C. Urban, David J. P. Ferguson, Arnab Pain, Nick Willcox, Magdalena Plebanski, Jonathan M. Austyn and David J. Roberts
doi:10.1038/21900
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Eph receptors and ephrins restrict cell intermingling and communication p77
Georg Mellitzer, Qiling Xu and David G. Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/21907
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DNA-dependent protein kinase is not required for the p53-dependent response to DNA damage p81
Gretchen S. Jimenez, Fredrik Bryntesson, Maria I. Torres-Arzayus, Anne Priestley, Michelle Beeche, Shin'ichi Saito, Kazuyasu Sakaguchi, Ettore Appella, Penny A. Jeggo, Guillermo E. Taccioli, Geoffrey M. Wahl and Michael Hubank
doi:10.1038/21913
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DNA protection by stress-induced biocrystallization p83
Sharon G. Wolf, Daphna Frenkiel, Talmon Arad, Steven E. Finkel, Roberto Kolter and Abraham Minsky
doi:10.1038/21918
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Solution structure of the catalytic domain of GCN5 histone acetyltransferase bound to coenzyme A p86
Yingxi Lin, C. Mark Fletcher, Jianxin Zhou, C. David Allis and Gerhard Wagner
doi:10.1038/21922
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erratum: The CED-4-homologous protein FLASH is involved in Fas-mediated activation of caspase-8 during apoptosis p89
Yuzuru Imai, Takaharu Kimura, Akira Murakami, Nobuyuki Yajima, Kazuhiro Sakamaki and Shin Yonehara
doi:10.1038/21927
Correction: Structural basis for initiation of transcription from an RNA polymerase–promoter complex p89
Graham M. T. Cheetham, David Jeruzalmi and Thomas A. Steitz
doi:10.1038/21929
New on the Market
Going down the tubes p91
Infrared analysers are flavour of the month in the food and pharmaceuticals industries, and a recent patent seeks to replace the familiar test tube. All this and alcohol too.
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