Opinion

Critics of 'gene foods' report are avoiding the real issues p689

Have US critics of agricultural biotechnology chosen to attack the authors of a new study on the safety of genetically modified crops because they lack the arguments with which to counter the study's content?

doi:10.1038/35008203

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Framework lives, but does it learn? p689

As the European Commission starts to plan its next Framework research programme, flaws in the present one are emerging.

doi:10.1038/35008205

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News

Critics challenge Celera's claims over human genome sequence... p691

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35008207

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...as biotech debate splits along party lines p691

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35008211

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German parliament agrees on limits to bioethics inquiry p692

Quirin Schiermeier and Ulrike Hellerer

doi:10.1038/35008213

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Ontario joins the genomics goldrush p692

David Spurgeon

doi:10.1038/35008215

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US academy study finds GM foods are safe... p693

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35008217

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...but critics claim the panel was biased p693

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35008220

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Music software to come to genome aid? p694

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/35008223

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Space detectors show off their paces p694

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/35008226

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Frustration grows over EU grant application procedures p695

Alison Abbott and Patrick Weydt

doi:10.1038/35008229

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Deaths bring South African HIV drug trials to a premature halt p695

Michael Cherry

doi:10.1038/35008232

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Director of Wellcome centre resigns over damning report p696

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35008235

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Fake bird fossil highlights the problem of illegal trading p696

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35008237

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Affymetrix loses first round of patent battle p697

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35008240

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UK ethicists back use of stem cells p697

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35008243

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News in brief p698

doi:10.1038/35008245

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News

Correction p699

doi:10.1038/35008248

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Storming the Tower of Babel p700

The search for life among the stars stepped up a gear last week with the First Astrobiology Science Conference in California. Henry Bortman and Philip Ball were there to test the atmosphere.

Henry Bortman and Philip Ball

doi:10.1038/35008250

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Correspondence

Technology failures were caused by managers not listening to engineers p701

Richard Wilson

doi:10.1038/35008254

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No conflict between SLAC and Japan's KEK p701

Helen Quinn

doi:10.1038/35008256

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reply: No conflict between SLAC and Japan's KEK p701

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35008258

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Book Reviews

More than meets the eye p703

Chemistry, psychology, art and alchemy casting light on a multifaceted topic.

Philip Ball reviews Color: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Heinrich Zollinger

doi:10.1038/35008126

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Endangered harvest? p704

John G. Robinson and John Thorbjarnarson review Sustainable Use of Hawksbill Turtles: Contemporary Issues in Conservation by N. Mrosovsky

doi:10.1038/35008129

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Seeds that never grew in Sweden p704

Harriet Ritvo reviews Linnaeus: Nature and Nation by Lisbet Koerner

doi:10.1038/35008131

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New in paperback p704

doi:10.1038/35008135

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An uncertainty principle for geometry p705

Peter T. Landsberg reviews The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890–1930

doi:10.1038/35008137

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A fraternal view of Russian fauna p706

Mikhail Mina reviews Animals in Nature by Vladimir Smirin and Yuri Smirin

doi:10.1038/35008139

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Millennium Essay

Venture funding for new ideas p707

Explanations for anomalies should be sought with an open mind.

Jayant V. Narlikar

doi:10.1038/35008158

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Futures

Regenesis p708

Transcript of the last cybercast from Fox-Warner reporter Daniel Lundgren.

Cynthia Ward

doi:10.1038/35008162

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News and Views

Perfect use of imperfection p709

When making proteins, cells opt for high speed at the cost of large amounts of waste. But the waste-recycling process has a happy side effect — it gives the immune system a head start in its battle against viral invaders.

Hansjörg Schild and Hans-Georg Rammensee

doi:10.1038/35008165

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Nonlinear dynamics: Chaos in space and time p710

J. P. Gollub and M. C. Cross

doi:10.1038/35008168

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Plant biology: Shattering developments p711

Günter Theien

doi:10.1038/35008171

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100 and 50 years ago p711

doi:10.1038/35008174

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High-temperature superconductivity: Stripes defeat the Fermi liquid p714

J. Zaanen

doi:10.1038/35008176

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Signal transduction: An arresting tale p714

Bernd Pulverer

doi:10.1038/35008179

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Functional genomics: Recognizing DNA in the library p715

Satish K. Nair and Stephen K. Burley

doi:10.1038/35008182

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Astronomy: The stellar fuel p717

Leslie Sage

doi:10.1038/35008185

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Non-equilibrium physics: Freezing by heating p718

H. Eugene Stanley

doi:10.1038/35008188

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Immunology: Commit ye helpers p719

Anne O'Garra

doi:10.1038/35008191

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Daedalus: Rain, rain, go away p720

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35008194

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Brief Communications

Delaying the onset of Huntington's in mice p721

This unremitting disease develops later in animals stimulated by their environment.

Anton van Dellen, Colin Blakemore, Robert Deacon, Denis York and Anthony J. Hannan

doi:10.1038/35008142

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Biogeochemistry: Hexadecane decay by methanogenesis p722

Robert T. Anderson and Derek R. Lovley

doi:10.1038/35008145

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Insect behaviour: Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment p723

Madeleine Beekman, Johan N. M. Calis and Willem Jan Boot

doi:10.1038/35008148

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Progress

Specificities of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in developmental processes p725

Norbert Perrimon and Merton Bernfield

doi:10.1038/35008000

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Article

One-dimensional nature of the magnetic fluctuations in YBa₂Cu ₃O_6.6 p729

H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, F. Dogan and R. D. Hunt

doi:10.1038/35008005

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Letters to Nature

Magnetic field surrounding the starburst nucleus of the galaxy M82 from polarized dust emission p732

J. S. Greaves, W. S. Holland, T. Jenness and T. G. Hawarden

doi:10.1038/35008010

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Mechanisms of extensive spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh–Bénard convection p733

David A. Egolf, Ilarion V. Melnikov, Werner Pesch and Robert E. Ecke

doi:10.1038/35008013

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Phase transitions in the incoherent lattice fluctuations in YBa ₂Cu₃O_7- p736

R. P. Sharma, S. B. Ogale, Z. H. Zhang, J. R. Liu, W. K. Chu, Boyed Veal, A. Paulikas, H. Zheng and T. Venkatesan

doi:10.1038/35008018

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Complete photonic bandgaps in 12-fold symmetric quasicrystals p740

M. E. Zoorob, M. D. B. Charlton, G. J. Parker, J. J. Baumberg and M. C. Netti

doi:10.1038/35008023

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Manipulation of atoms across a surface at room temperature p743

T. W. Fishlock, A. Oral, R. G. Egdell and J. B. Pethica

doi:10.1038/35008030

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Self-assembly of nanoparticles into structured spherical and network aggregates p746

Andrew K. Boal, Faysal Ilhan, Jason E. DeRouchey, Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Thomas P. Russell and Vincent M. Rotello

doi:10.1038/35008037

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Subduction erosion along the Middle America convergent margin p748

C. R. Ranero and R. von Huene

doi:10.1038/35008046

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Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines p752

Jeff. E. Houlahan, C. Scott Findlay, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Andrea H. Meyer and Sergius L. Kuzmin

doi:10.1038/35008052

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The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape p755

Ilkka Hanski and Otso Ovaskainen

doi:10.1038/35008063

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Asymmetric redirection of flow through the heart p759

Philip J. Kilner, Guang-Zhong Yang, A. John Wilkes, Raad H. Mohiaddin, David N. Firmin and Magdi H. Yacoub

doi:10.1038/35008075

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Interruption of a basal ganglia–forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations p762

Michael S. Brainard and Allison J. Doupe

doi:10.1038/35008083

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SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis p766

Sarah J. Liljegren, Gary S. Ditta, Yuval Eshed, Beth Savidge, John L. Bowman and Martin F. Yanofsky

doi:10.1038/35008089

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Rapid degradation of a large fraction of newly synthesized proteins by proteasomes p770

Ulrich Schubert, Luis C. Antón, James Gibbs, Christopher C. Norbury, Jonathan W. Yewdell and Jack R. Bennink

doi:10.1038/35008096

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The major substrates for TAP invivo are derived from newly synthesized proteins p774

Eric A. J. Reits, Jan C. Vos, Monique Grommé and Jacques Neefjes

doi:10.1038/35008103

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NAK is an IB kinase-activating kinase p778

Yuichiro Tojima, Atsushi Fujimoto, Mireille Delhase, Yi Chen, Shigetsugu Hatakeyama, Kei-ichi Nakayama, Yoko Kaneko, Yuji Nimura, Noboru Motoyama, Kyoji Ikeda, Michael Karin and Makoto Nakanishi

doi:10.1038/35008109

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AFX-like Forkhead transcription factors mediate cell-cycle regulation by Ras and PKB through p27^kip1 p782

René H. Medema, Geert J. P. L. Kops, Johannes L. Bos and Boudewijn M. T. Burgering

doi:10.1038/35008115

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Normalizing mitochondrial superoxide production blocks three pathways of hyperglycaemic damage p787

Takeshi Nishikawa, Diane Edelstein, Xue Liang Du, Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Takeshi Matsumura, Yasufumi Kaneda, Mark A. Yorek, David Beebe, Peter J. Oates, Hans-Peter Hammes, Ida Giardino and Michael Brownlee

doi:10.1038/35008121

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New on the Market

Diamonds are for cryo-sectioning p791

Microscopy and image analysis provide the grist for this week's mill.

doi:10.1038/35008152

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Careers and Recruitment

Universities encourage industrialists to come back to their roots p793

Returning to the academic world after a spell in industry offers some unique opportunities. Brendan Horton explores the options.

doi:10.1038/35008196

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Georgia realizes the commercial potential of science p794

Brendan Horton

doi:10.1038/35008200

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