Table of contents
Volume 405 Number 6790 pp981-1082
Opinion
Human genome projects: work in progress p981
Whatever doubts there may be about the timing, public celebrations of genome projects are well deserved. Researchers should now be left to complete significant tasks that remain, and to tidy up troublesome errors in their databases.
doi:10.1038/35016692
Bad clinical practices p981
When it comes to research, Germany's medical profession may have a lot to answer for.
doi:10.1038/35016694
News
World leaders heap praise on human genome landmark p983
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35016696
The story so far... p983
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35016700
Draft data leave geneticists with a mountain still to climb p984
Declan Butler and Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35016703
Call for monitoring plan on German GM crops p986
Alison Abbott and Ulrike Hellerer
doi:10.1038/35016706
'Dolly' team wins further patents p986
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/35016709
Martian gullies tempt NASA to look for water p987
Michael Milsteinm
doi:10.1038/35016711
Astronomers fume over night light p987
Bill Triplett
doi:10.1038/35016714
Educated US public get more wary of genetic engineering p988
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35016717
Call for more accelerator research p988
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35016720
Patent suit on Alzheimer's mouse rejected... p989
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35016722
...but controversy over rights lingers on p989
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35016725
UK studies ways of paying to join Chile Observatory p990
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/35016727
Pasteur Institute to abandon departmental structure? p990
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35016729
News Meeting Report
Feathers fly in Beijing p992
The question of whether birds evolved from dinosaurs arouses strong opinions. Rex Dalton reports on a scientific meeting that at times bore more resemblance to a political sparring match.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35016735
Correspondence
Africa needs locally trained soil specialists to improve land use p993
Dan H. Yaalon
doi:10.1038/35016739
Did Greeks beat Chinese on blood circulation ... p993
Tsung O. Cheng
doi:10.1038/35016741
... or was 'blood as the river of life' just poetic? p993
Plinio Prioreschi
doi:10.1038/35016743
Book Reviews
A question of compliance p995
How an epidemic was overcome by criminalizing the patients.
Thomas Dormandy reviews From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis by Richard Coker
doi:10.1038/35016649
Reactions of a chemical kindred p996
Gautam R. Desiraju reviews Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists
doi:10.1038/35016652
Putting science in its place p997
David N. Livingstone reviews The Architecture of Science
doi:10.1038/35016655
Architectural adventures p997
doi:10.1038/35016657
Science in culture p998
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/35016660
Millennium Essay
The microscope's coat of arms p999
...or, the sting of the bee and the moons of Jupiter.
Giovanni F. Bignami
doi:10.1038/35016689
Futures
Tuberculosis bacteria join UN p1001
WHO proposes to include disinfectant under the Geneva Convention.
Joan Slonczewski
doi:10.1038/35016664
News and Views
Critical time for fluid dynamos p1003
Einstein once cited the origin of the Earth's magnetic field as one of the fundamental unsolved problems of physics. Although there has been progress on paper, experimental models have been elusive until now.
Andy Jackson
doi:10.1038/35016667
Genetics: Targeting sheep p1004
Milind Suraokar and Allan Bradley
doi:10.1038/35016670
100 and 50 years ago p1005
doi:10.1038/35016673
Condensed-matter physics: Misbehaviour in metals p1007
Philip B. Allen
doi:10.1038/35016675
Linguistics: Talking trees tell tales p1008
Rebecca L. Cann
doi:10.1038/35016679
Astronomy: The cosmic origin of deuterium p1009
Francesca Matteucci
doi:10.1038/35016682
Neurobiology: Translating activity into plasticity p1011
Aaron DiAntonio
doi:10.1038/35016684
Daedalus: Tradesman's entrance p1012
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35016687
Brief Communications
Conditioning and opiate withdrawal p1013
The amygdala links neutral stimuli with the agony of overcoming drug addiction.
G. Schulteis, S. H. Ahmed, A. C. Morse, G. F. Koob and B. J. Everitt
doi:10.1038/35016630
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Biotechnology: Enzymatic production of biohydrogen p1014
Jonathan Woodward, Mark Orr, Kimberley Cordray and Elias Greenbaum
doi:10.1038/35016633
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Population genetics: Malaria susceptibility and CD36 mutation p1015
Timothy J. Aitman, Lisa D. Cooper, Penny J. Norsworthy, Faisal N. Wahid, Jennefer K. Gray, Brian R. Curtis, Paul M McKeigue, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Brian M. Greenwood, Robert W. Snow, Adrian V Hill and James Scott
doi:10.1038/35016636
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Taxonomy: Species status of hybridizing oaks p1016
Graham Muir, Colin C. Fleming and Christian Schltterer
doi:10.1038/35016640
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Review
Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies p1017
Rosamond L. Naylor, Rebecca J. Goldburg, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Nils Kautsky, Malcolm C. M. Beveridge, Jason Clay, Carl Folke, Jane Lubchenco, Harold Mooney and Max Troell
doi:10.1038/35016500
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (329K)
Letters to Nature
Deuterium in the Galactic Centre as a result of recent infall of low-metallicity gas p1025
D. A. Lubowich, Jay M. Pasachoff, Thomas J. Balonek, T. J. Millar, Christy Tremonti, Helen Roberts and Robert P. Galloway
doi:10.1038/35016506
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See also: News and Views by Matteucci
The mean free path for electron conduction in metallic fullerenes p1027
O. Gunnarsson and J. E. Han
doi:10.1038/35016512
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See also: News and Views by Allen
Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations p1030
Dehong Hu, Ji Yu, Kim Wong, Biman Bagchi, Peter J. Rossky and Paul F. Barbara
doi:10.1038/35016520
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Dynamic self-assembly of magnetized, millimetre-sized objects rotating at a liquid–air interface p1033
Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Howard A. Stone and George M. Whitesides
doi:10.1038/35016528
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (220K) | Supplementary information
Structural basis for the fracture toughness of the shell of the conch Strombus gigas p1036
S. Kamat, X. Su, R. Ballarini and A. H. Heuer
doi:10.1038/35016535
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Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air p1040
W. Aeschbach-Hertig, F. Peeters, U. Beyerle and R. Kipfer
doi:10.1038/35016542
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The plastic deformation of iron at pressures of the Earth's inner core p1044
H.-R. Wenk, S. Matthies, R. J. Hemley, H.-K. Mao and J. Shu
doi:10.1038/35016558
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Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes p1047
David M. Post, Michael L. Pace and Nelson G. Hairston, Jr
doi:10.1038/35016565
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Cryptophyte algae are robbed of their organelles by the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum p1049
Daniel E. Gustafson, Jr, Diane K. Stoecker, Matthew D. Johnson, William F. Van Heukelem and Kerri Sneider
doi:10.1038/35016570
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Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion p1052
Russell D. Gray and Fiona M. Jordan
doi:10.1038/35016575
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See also: News and Views by Cann
Mosaic evolution of brain structure in mammals p1055
Robert A. Barton and Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/35016580
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The temporal response of the brain after eating revealed by functional MRI p1058
Yijun Liu, Jia-Hong Gao, Ho-Ling Liu and Peter T. Fox
doi:10.1038/35016590
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Postsynaptic translation affects the efficacy and morphology of neuromuscular junctions p1062
Stephan J. Sigrist, Philippe R. Thiel, Dierk F. Reiff, Pascal E. D. Lachance, Paul Lasko and Christoph M. Schuster
doi:10.1038/35016598
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See also: News and Views by DiAntonio
Production of gene-targeted sheep by nuclear transfer from cultured somatic cells p1066
K. J. McCreath, J. Howcroft, K. H. S. Campbell, A. Colman, A. E. Schnieke and A.J. Kind
doi:10.1038/35016604
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See also: News and Views by Suraokar & Bradley
Gigantism in mice lacking suppressor of cytokine signalling-2 p1069
Donald Metcalf, Christopher J. Greenhalgh, Elizabeth Viney, Tracy A. Willson, Robyn Starr, Nicos A. Nicola, Douglas J. Hilton and Warren S. Alexander
doi:10.1038/35016611
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Crystal structure of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli intimin–receptor complex p1073
Yu Luo, Elizabeth A. Frey, Richard A. Pfuetzner, A. Louise Creagh, Derek G. Knoechel, Charles A. Haynes, B. Brett Finlay and Natalie C. J. Strynadka
doi:10.1038/35016618
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Solid-state NMR determination of the secondary structure of Samia cynthia ricini silk p1077
J. D. van Beek, L. Beaulieu, H. Schäfer, M. Demura, T. Asakura and B. H. Meier
doi:10.1038/35016625
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New on the Market
Catalytic converters p1081
Enzyme assays, enzyme handling and enzyme kinetics.
doi:10.1038/35016643
