Table of contents
Volume 402 Number 6760 pp329-444
Opinion
Seedless in Seattle? p329
When negotiators gather in Seattle this weekend for the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization, the future of genetically modified crops will be high on their agenda.
doi:10.1038/46344
A bioethics dilemma for Germany p329
Debates on the ethics of biomedical research must find a way to combine breadth of vision with a practical timescale.
doi:10.1038/46346
News
German bioethics inquiry 'could hold up essential changes' p331
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/46348
'It's a G': the one-billionth nucleotide p331
David Dickson and Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/46351
Israel urged to set up labs to carry out military research p332
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/46354
Concern at cheap AIDS drug fears p332
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/46356
Praise greets accuracy of Leonid prediction p333
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/46358
Brookhaven leak reactor to close p333
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/46361
Science lobby 'ecstatic' after triumph in NIH budget battle p334
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/46365
Hughes institute unveils top team p334
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/46367
Busquin plans white paper to integrate European research p335
Keith Nuttall
doi:10.1038/46370
Genentech pays $200m over growth hormone 'theft' p335
Rex Dalton and Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/46372
China on verge of putting man into space... p336
Tian Xuewen
doi:10.1038/46374
...as a new failed satellite launch embarrasses Japan p336
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/46376
Gender discrimination 'undermines science' p337
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/46379
Briefings
Access issues may determine whether agri-biotech will help the world's poor p341
Despite doubts in the West about GM crops, many developing countries are keen to exploit them — if they are allowed to do so at an affordable price.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/46385
India intends to reap the full commercial benefits p342
Licensing problems are slowing the adoption of GM crops in India
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/46391
Agri-biotech information sources p344
doi:10.1038/46398
Smugglers aim to circumvent GM court ban in Brazil p344
Brazilian farmers are fighting back against legal barriers of GM crops.
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/46400
Academies link to map scientific priorities for meeting real needs p345
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/46403
Correspondence
Promoting a standard nomenclature for genes and proteins p347
Julia White, Hester Wain, Elspeth Bruford and Sue Povey
doi:10.1038/46405
Sequencing challenge p347
Lois J. Maltais and Ian Jackson
doi:10.1038/46407
What's in a name? p347
Tony Smith
doi:10.1038/46409
Cooperative efforts around Lake Tahoe p348
Stephen G. Wells, James S. Coleman, Joseph N. Crowley and Kenneth W. Hunter, Jr
doi:10.1038/46411
Precautionary approach to risk assessment p348
Alister Scott, Andy Stirling, Nick Mabey, Frans Berkhout, Chris Williams, Chris Rose, Michael Jacobs, Robin Grove-White, Ian Scoones and Melissa Leach
doi:10.1038/46413
Book Reviews
Mastering the art of the skies p349
The observations of Virgil and of a Quaker chemist converge on canvas.
Euan Nisbet reviews John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science by John E. Thornes
doi:10.1038/46415
Personal views of an impersonal world p350
Howard P. Segal reviews Meaning in Technology by Arnold Pacey
doi:10.1038/46419
A friend of one's own p351
Paul L. Harris reviews Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create them by Marjorie Taylor
doi:10.1038/46421
Sniffing the world of olfaction p351
Vincent Dusastre reviews Electronic Noses: Principles and Applications by Julian W. Gardner and Philip N. Bartlett
doi:10.1038/46424
Cellular variations p352
doi:10.1038/46426
Millennium Essay
Two millennia of animal spirits p353
An ancient theory about nerves proved surprisingly hard to dislodge.
Ian Glynn
doi:10.1038/46428
Futures
Emortality — at last! p355
Ali Zaman's recipe for eternal life will set us free.
Brian Stableford
doi:10.1038/46431
News and Views
Plug-in quantum software p357
Some quantum states are hard to create and maintain, but are a valuable resource for computing. Twenty-first century entrepreneurs could make a fortune selling disposable quantum states.
John Preskill
doi:10.1038/46434
Botany: The family tree flowers p358
Paul Kenrick
doi:10.1038/46437
Astronomy: Clouds from near and far p359
W. Butler Burton and Robert Braun
doi:10.1038/46440
Functional genomics: What do yeast proteins do? p362
Philip Hieter
doi:10.1038/46443
Ocean biogeochemistry: Sulphur in the mix p363
Ronald P. Kiene
doi:10.1038/46446
100 and 50 years ago p363
doi:10.1038/46448
Phylogenomics: Ancestral primate viewed p365
Stephen J. O'Brien and Roscoe Stanyon
doi:10.1038/46450
Ecology: Competition and coexistence p366
Ulrich Sommer
doi:10.1038/46453
Daedalus: Internal ecology p367
David Jones
doi:10.1038/46455
Obituary: Charles M. Steinberg (1932–99) p368
Jack von Borstel and John Cairns
doi:10.1038/46457
Brief Communications
Feeding by mandibular raking in a snake p369
The tiny threadsnake has a unique way of devouring ants before they can strike back.
N. J. Kley and E. L. Brainerd
doi:10.1038/46460
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Genetic techniques: A universal marker for transgenic insects p370
Andreas J. Berghammer, Martin Klingler and Ernst A. Wimmer
doi:10.1038/46463
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Development: Ubiquitin tag for sperm mitochondria p371
Peter Sutovsky, Ricardo D. Moreno, João Ramalho-Santos, Tanja Dominko, Calvin Simerly and Gerald Schatten
doi:10.1038/46466
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Oceanography: Iron, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean p372
John J. Cullen
doi:10.1038/46469
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reply: Oceanography: Iron, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean p372
Toby Tyrrell
doi:10.1038/46472
Progress
Active site-directed protein regulation p373
Bostjan Kobe and Bruce E. Kemp
doi:10.1038/46478
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (170K)
Article
Structure of fumarate reductase from Wolinella succinogenes at 2.2 Å resolution p377
C. Roy D. Lancaster, Achim Kröger, Manfred Auer and Hartmut Michel
doi:10.1038/46483
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Letters to Nature
Discovery of molecular hydrogen in a high-velocity cloud of the Galactic halo p386
P. Richter, K. S. de Boer, H. Widmann, N. Kappelmann, W. Gringel, M. Grewing and J. Barnstedt
doi:10.1038/46492
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Accretion of low-metallicity gas by the Milky Way p388
B. P. Wakker, J. C. Howk, B. D. Savage, H. van Woerden, S. L. Tufte, U. J. Schwarz, R. Benjamin, R. J. Reynolds, R. F. Peletier and P. M. W. Kalberla
doi:10.1038/46498
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Demonstrating the viability of universal quantum computation using teleportation and single-qubit operations p390
Daniel Gottesman and Isaac L. Chuang
doi:10.1038/46503
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Coupled synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles to give structures with controlled organization p393
Mei Li, Heimo Schnablegger and Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/46509
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Role of vertical mixing in controlling the oceanic production of dimethyl sulphide p396
Rafel Simó and Carlos Pedrós-Alió
doi:10.1038/46516
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The effect of climate change on ozone depletion through changes in stratospheric water vapour p399
Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff, Eric J. Hintsa, James G. Anderson and David W. Keith
doi:10.1038/46521
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Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from multiple genes as a tool for comparative biology p402
Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis and Mark W. Chase
doi:10.1038/46528
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The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes p404
Yin-Long Qiu, Jungho Lee, Fabiana Bernasconi-Quadroni, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Michael Zanis, Elizabeth A. Zimmer, Zhiduan Chen, Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase
doi:10.1038/46536
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Biodiversity of plankton by species oscillations and chaos p407
Jef Huisman and Franz J. Weissing
doi:10.1038/46540
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The dynamics of chromosome evolution in birds and mammals p411
David W. Burt, Charlotte Bruley, Ian C. Dunn, Cheryl T. Jones, Anne Ramage, Andy S. Law, David R. Morrice, Ian R. Paton, Jacqueline Smith, Dawn Windsor, Alexei Sazanov, Ruedi Fries and David Waddington
doi:10.1038/46555
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Large-scale analysis of the yeast genome by transposon tagging and gene disruption p413
Petra Ross-Macdonald, Paulo S. R. Coelho, Terry Roemer, Seema Agarwal, Anuj Kumar, Ronald Jansen, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Amy Sheehan, Dawn Symoniatis, Lara Umansky, Matthew Heidtman, F. Kenneth Nelson, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Karl Hager, Mark Gerstein, Perry Miller, G. Shirleen Roeder and Michael Snyder
doi:10.1038/46558
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Chromosomal landscape of nucleosome-dependent gene expression and silencing in yeast p418
John J. Wyrick, Frank C. P. Holstege, Ezra G. Jennings, Helen C. Causton, David Shore, Michael Grunstein, Eric S. Lander and Richard A. Young
doi:10.1038/46567
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LTP promotes formation of multiple spine synapses between a single axon terminal and a dendrite p421
N. Toni, P.-A. Buchs, I. Nikonenko, C. R. Bron and D. Muller
doi:10.1038/46574
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Conserved regulation of proximodistal limb axis development by Meis1/Hth p425
Nadia Mercader, Esther Leonardo, Natalia Azpiazu, Antonio Serrano, Ginés Morata, Carlos Martínez-A and Miguel Torres
doi:10.1038/46580
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CtBP/BARS induces fission of Golgi membranes by acylating lysophosphatidic acid p429
Roberto Weigert, Maria Giuseppina Silletta, Stefania Spanò, Gabriele Turacchio, Claudia Cericola, Antonino Colanzi, Silvia Senatore, Raffaella Mancini, Elena V. Polishchuk, Mario Salmona, Francesco Facchiano, Koert N. J. Burger, Alexander Mironov, Alberto Luini and Daniela Corda
doi:10.1038/46587
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Crystal structures of the membrane-binding C2 domain of human coagulation factor V p434
Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Wolfram Bode, Robert Huber, Mary Ann Quinn-Allen, Suhng Wook Kim, Thomas L. Ortel, Gleb P. Bourenkov, Hans D. Bartunik, Milton T. Stubbs, William H. Kane and Pablo Fuentes-Prior
doi:10.1038/46594
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Structure of the C2 domain of human factor VIII at 1.5 Å resolution p439
Kathleen P. Pratt, Betty W. Shen, Kazuya Takeshima, Earl W. Davie, Kazuo Fujikawa and Barry L. Stoddard
doi:10.1038/46601
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addendum: Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores p442
Chris Carbone, Georgina M. Mace, S. Craig Roberts and David W. Macdonald
doi:10.1038/46607
New on the Market
Please release me p443
This software update includes releases of old favourites like SigmaPlot.
doi:10.1038/46609
