Table of contents
Volume 400 Number 6741 pp195-293
Opinion
Science needs women (cont.) p195
Campaigns on behalf of women researchers are achieving a higher political profile. Recent European initiatives are welcome, but lobbying leadership is needed for them to be followed through amidst political change.
doi:10.1038/22156
Fighting the China syndrome p195
The next head of the US nuclear weapons laboratories must repair the damage done by the recent spy scandal.
doi:10.1038/22158
News
Legal bid could extend US animal welfare law to cover lab rodents p197
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/22160
UK spotlight on alternatives to using animals p197
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/22163
Five young life scientists win $1m no-strings grants p198
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/22165
UK biotech industry aims to clean up its act p198
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/22167
France losing genome race, says report... p199
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/22169
... as government announces creation of genome research consortium p199
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/22172
Bumpy ride for 'core e-journals' project p200
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/22174
Critics query financing of proposed 'E-Biomed' p200
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/22176
US seeks a big increase in wind power p201
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/22179
Mexican project shows that emissions reductions could be traded p201
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/22182
Supernetwork to boost women in science p202
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/22184
NASA to visit Mercury and dig into a comet p202
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/22187
Spanish university sued for advertising posts in August p203
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/22190
Belgian scientist proposed to head EC research directorate p203
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/22193
Correspondence
Covert trade in toxic vetch continues p207
Max E. Tate, Jane Rathjen, Ian Delaere and Dirk Enneking
doi:10.1038/22198
Valuable biodiversity data under threat p207
Angelo Capparella
doi:10.1038/22200
Global e-journal must take radical approach p207
Lance Sultzbaugh
doi:10.1038/22202
News and Views
Charting the shores of nuclear stability p209
Neil Rowley
doi:10.1038/22204
100 and 50 years ago p210
doi:10.1038/22209
Behavioural ecology: Electrifying diversity p211
Michael J. Ryan
doi:10.1038/22211
Signal transduction: Neither straight nor narrow p213
Mark Peifer
doi:10.1038/22214
Quantum optics: A box for a single photon p215
Philippe Grangier
doi:10.1038/22218
Neurobiology: Monkeys play the odds p217
M. James Nichols and William T. Newsome
doi:10.1038/22221
Physiology: Crossing over to the dark side p218
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/22224
Human evolution: We are what we ate p219
Bernard Wood and Alison Brooks
doi:10.1038/22227
Cosmology: Clues to galaxy formation p220
J. Bland-Hawthorn
doi:10.1038/22230
Biophysics: Relating dynamics to function p221
Ann Stock
doi:10.1038/22233
Daedalus: Reason to be cheerful p222
David Jones
doi:10.1038/22236
Millennium Essay
Too good to be true p223
John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/22238
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Scientific Correspondence
Prions prevent neuronal cell-line death p225
Chieko Kuwahara, Alice M. Takeuchi, Takuya Nishimura, Keiko Haraguchi, Atsutaka Kubosaki, Yasunobu Matsumoto, Keiichi Saeki, Yoshitsugu Matsumoto, Takashi Yokoyama, Shigeyoshi Itohara and Takashi Onodera
doi:10.1038/22241
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Breast-cancer diagnosis using hair p226
Fatma Briki, Bertrand Busson, Bruno Salicru, François Estève and Jean Doucet
doi:10.1038/22244
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Evolution of cooperation between individuals p226
Arnon Lotem, Michael A. Fishman and Lewi Stone
doi:10.1038/22247
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Higher fullerenes in the Allende meteorite p227
Luann Becker, Theodore E. Bunch and Louis J. Allamandola
doi:10.1038/22250
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Book Reviews
Learning from the rainbow p229
Philip Ball reviews Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism by John Gage
doi:10.1038/22253
Bedrock of geology p230
Paul Lucier
doi:10.1038/22256
Patterns in the sea floor p230
doi:10.1038/22258
Everyday extinctions in embattled forests p231
Norman Myers reviews Our Forests, Our Future: World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
doi:10.1038/22261
Lunar celebration p232
doi:10.1038/22263
Experimenting with drugs p232
John Foreman reviews Instant Pharmacology by Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Ravi G Assomull, Fakhar Z. Khan, Kasra Saeb-Parsy and Eamonn Kelly and New in paperback
Forbidden Drugs, 2nd edn by Philip Robson
doi:10.1038/22266
Article
Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex p233
Michael L. Platt and Paul W. Glimcher
doi:10.1038/22268
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See also: News and Views by Nichols & Newsome
Letters to Nature
Seeing a single photon without destroying it p239
G. Nogues, A. Rauschenbeutel, S. Osnaghi, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond and S. Haroche
doi:10.1038/22275
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See also: News and Views by Grangier
Synthesis of nuclei of the superheavy element 114 in reactions induced by 48Ca p242
Yu. Ts. Oganessian, A. V. Yeremin, A. G. Popeko, S. L. Bogomolov, G. V. Buklanov, M. L. Chelnokov, V. I. Chepigin, B. N. Gikal, V. A. Gorshkov, G. G. Gulbekian, M. G. Itkis, A. P. Kabachenko, A. Yu. Lavrentev, O. N. Malyshev, J. Rohac, R. N. Sagaidak, S. Hofmann, S. Saro, G. Giardina and K. Morita
doi:10.1038/22281
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See also: News and Views by Rowley
Observation of negative electron-binding energy in a molecule p245
Xue-Bin Wang and Lai-Sheng Wang
doi:10.1038/22286
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Dual modes of the carbon cycle since the Last Glacial Maximum p248
H. Jesse Smith, H. Fischer, M. Wahlen, D. Mastroianni and B. Deck
doi:10.1038/22291
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Surface effects of bottom-generated turbulence in a shallow tidal sea p251
W. A. M. Nimmo Smith, S. A. Thorpe and A. Graham
doi:10.1038/22295
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Predation enhances complexity in the evolution of electric fish signals p254
Philip K. Stoddard
doi:10.1038/22301
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See also: News and Views by Ryan
'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators p256
Jinrong Peng, Donald E. Richards, Nigel M. Hartley, George P. Murphy, Katrien M. Devos, John E. Flintham, James Beales, Leslie J. Fish, Anthony J. Worland, Fatima Pelica, Duraialagaraja Sudhakar, Paul Christou, John W. Snape, Michael D. Gale and Nicholas P. Harberd
doi:10.1038/22307
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Melanin-concentrating hormone is the cognate ligand for the orphan G-protein-coupled receptor SLC-1 p261
Jon Chambers, Robert S. Ames, Derk Bergsma, Alison Muir, Laura R. Fitzgerald, Guillaume Hervieu, George M. Dytko, James J. Foley, John Martin, Wu-Schyong Liu, Janet Park, Catherine Ellis, Subinay Ganguly, Susan Konchar, Jane Cluderay, Ron Leslie, Shelagh Wilson and Henry M. Sarau
doi:10.1038/22313
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Molecular characterization of the melanin-concentrating-hormone receptor p265
Yumiko Saito, Hans-Peter Nothacker, Zhiwei Wang, Steven H. S. Lin, Frances Leslie and Olivier Civelli
doi:10.1038/22321
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Therapy of tuberculosis in mice by DNA vaccination p269
Douglas B. Lowrie, Ricardo E. Tascon, Vania L. D. Bonato, Valeria M. F. Lima, Lucia H. Faccioli, Evangelos Stavropoulos, M. Joseph Colston, Robert G. Hewinson, Karin Moelling and Celio L. Silva
doi:10.1038/22326
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ovo/svb integrates Wingless and DER pathways to control epidermis differentiation p271
FranÇois Payre, Alain Vincent and Sebastien Carreno
doi:10.1038/22330
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See also: News and Views by Peifer
The cell-surface proteoglycan Dally regulates Wingless signalling in Drosophila p276
Manabu Tsuda, Keisuke Kamimura, Hiroshi Nakato, Michael Archer, William Staatz, Bethany Fox, Melanie Humphrey, Sara Olson, Tracy Futch, Vesna Kaluza, Esther Siegfried, Lynn Stam and Scott B. Selleck
doi:10.1038/22336
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See also: News and Views by Peifer
Dally cooperates with Drosophila Frizzled 2 to transduce Wingless signalling p281
Xinhua Lin and Norbert Perrimon
doi:10.1038/22343
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See also: News and Views by Peifer
The chromatin-specific transcription elongation factor FACT comprises human SPT16 and SSRP1 proteins p284
George Orphanides, Wei-Hua Wu, William S. Lane, Michael Hampsey and Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/22350
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Millisecond-timescale motions contribute to the function of the bacterial response regulator protein Spo0F p289
Victoria A. Feher and John Cavanagh
doi:10.1038/22357
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See also: News and Views by Stock
