Opinion

Desperately seeking a syndrome p819

The US Congress should stop pushing researchers to invent a medical definition for Gulf War syndrome, the collection of maladies associated with veterans of the 1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf.

doi:10.1038/35038205

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Systems biology's multiple maths p819

Modelling cellular systems will be a key element of post-genomics science.

doi:10.1038/35038207

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News

Tissue donors use their influence in deal over gene patent terms p821

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35038209

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Spain's science figures under fire p821

Xavier Bosch

doi:10.1038/35038212

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Mbeki agrees to step back from AIDS debate p822

Michael Cherry

doi:10.1038/35038214

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UK to make the northwest a post-genomics hotspot p822

David Adam

doi:10.1038/35038217

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NSF puts big money into complex ecology p823

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35038220

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Deep roots of Nazi science revealed p823

Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35038223

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Canada plans reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions p824

David Spurgeon

doi:10.1038/35038226

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US court slashes damages in polymerase- theft case p824

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35038228

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French take physics archives into the future p825

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/35038231

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Anger as Princeton closes 'inspirational' museum p825

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35038234

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News in brief p826

doi:10.1038/35038237

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News

Correction p827

doi:10.1038/35038240

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News Feature

For my next trick. . . p828

Is it possible to produce a complete mathematical description of complex biological systems? Leroy Hood thinks so, as Paul Smaglik discovers.

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35038242

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India's finest, for hire p830

By collaborating with western companies, are India's research institutes consolidating their positions or allowing their young researchers to be exploited as a cheap scientific labour force? K. S. Jayaraman investigates

K. S. Jayaraman

doi:10.1038/35038246

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Correspondence

Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality p833

Dean Falk

doi:10.1038/35038251

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Enigma thief stole a very special machine p833

E. T. Hall

doi:10.1038/35038254

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Did civil reactors supply plutonium for weapons? p833

K. W. J. Barnham, J. Nelson and R. A. Stevens

doi:10.1038/35038256

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Achievers should stay to aid Brazilian science . . . p834

Maria J. Hötzel

doi:10.1038/35038258

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. . .yet the path is strewn with needless obstacles p834

Ricardo de Souza Pereira

doi:10.1038/35038260

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If free speech costs lives that's a high price to pay p834

Simon Wain-Hobson and Robin A. Weiss

doi:10.1038/35038262

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Book Reviews

A many-feathered tale p835

Luck, and chickens, were pivotal in the identification of a dietary disease.

Susan E. Lederer reviews Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure by Kenneth J. Carpenter

doi:10.1038/35038171

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Cultivating the power of the empire p836

Lewis Pyenson reviews Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World by Richard Drayton

doi:10.1038/35038141

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A warm topic for cogitation p836

Andrew R. Cossins reviews The Hot Brain: Survival, Temperature, and the Human Body by Carl V. Gisolfi and Francisco Mora

doi:10.1038/35038144

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Catch as catch can? p837

John Godfrey reviews Fish, Markets, and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing by Suzanne Iudicello, Michael Weber and Robert Wieland

doi:10.1038/35038146

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Views of an underworld p837

doi:10.1038/35038148

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Science in culture p838

Martin Kemp reviews

doi:10.1038/35038151

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Millennium Essay

Prophets without honour? p839

Or honour without profits?

R. M. Simmons

doi:10.1038/35038172

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Futures

Subpoenaed in Syracuse p841

Eureka!©

Tom Holt

doi:10.1038/35038175

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News and Views

Identifying cosmic muck p843

A fireball that landed in the Canadian Yukon has yielded meteorite fragments that are proving difficult to classify — could they be the most primitive samples to have been found on Earth so far?

Harry Y. McSween, Jr

doi:10.1038/35038178

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Microbiology: A case of bacterial immortality? p844

R. John Parkes

doi:10.1038/35038181

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Cardiovascular biology: Tuning channels for blood pressure p845

Nick Standen

doi:10.1038/35038185

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100 and 50 years ago p847

doi:10.1038/35038188

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Geochemistry: Tracing the Earth's evolution p848

Mark Rehkämper

doi:10.1038/35038190

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Palaeontology: Mitrates on the move p849

Henry Gee

doi:10.1038/35038193

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Global change: A world in transition... p851

Harry Elderfield

doi:10.1038/35038196

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Gene regulation: One man's food p852

Mitchell A. Lazar

doi:10.1038/35038199

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Obituary: Robert H. Abeles (1926–2000) p854

Lizbeth Hedstrom and Perry A. Frey

doi:10.1038/35038202

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Brief Communications

Genital damage, kicking and early death p855

The battle of the sexes takes a sinister turn in the bean weevil.

Helen S. Crudgington and Mike T. Siva-Jothy

doi:10.1038/35038154

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Environmental chemistry: Is acidification still an ecological threat? p856

C. Alewell, B. Manderscheid, H. Meesenburg and J. Bittersohl

doi:10.1038/35038158

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reply: Is acidification still an ecological threat? p857

J. L. Stoddard, D. S. Jeffries, A. Lükewille, M. Forsius, J. Mannio and A. Wilander

doi:10.1038/35038161

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Palaeoecology: A 3,000-year record of penguin populations p858

Liguang Sun, Zhouqing Xie and Junlin Zhao

doi:10.1038/35038163

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Review

Glacial/interglacial variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide p859

Daniel M. Sigman and Edward A. Boyle

doi:10.1038/35038000

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Article

Vasoregulation by the 1 subunit of the calcium-activated potassium channel p870

Robert Brenner, Guillermo J. Peréz, Adrian D. Bonev, Delrae M. Eckman, Jon C. Kosek, Steven W. Wiler, Andrew J. Patterson, Mark T. Nelson and Richard W. Aldrich

doi:10.1038/35038011

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Letters to Nature

Molecular emission from single-bubble sonoluminescence p877

Yuri T. Didenko, William B. McNamara III and Kenneth S. Suslick

doi:10.1038/35038020

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Strain effects and phase transitions in photonic resonator crystals p880

Harald Pier, Eli Kapon and Michael Moser

doi:10.1038/35038026

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Origin of ferromagnetic exchange interactions in a fullerene–organic compound p883

Bakhyt Narymbetov, Ales Omerzu, Viktor V. Kabanov, Madoka Tokumoto, Hayao Kobayashi and Dragan Mihailovic

doi:10.1038/35038032

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Electrochemically induced annealing of stainless-steel surfaces p885

G. T. Burstein, I. M. Hutchings and K. Sasaki

doi:10.1038/35038040

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Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary p887

Linda C. Ivany, William P. Patterson and Kyger C. Lohmann

doi:10.1038/35038044

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Non-chondritic distribution of the highly siderophile elements in mantle sulphides p891

Olivier Alard, William L. Griffin, Jean Pierre Lorand, Simon E. Jackson and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

doi:10.1038/35038049

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Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest p894

Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst and Patricia Hansell

doi:10.1038/35038055

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Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal p897

Russell H. Vreeland, William D. Rosenzweig and Dennis W. Powers

doi:10.1038/35038060

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The proteins of linked genes evolve at similar rates p900

Elizabeth J. B. Williams and Laurence D. Hurst

doi:10.1038/35038066

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Metapopulation dynamics of bubonic plague p903

M. J. Keeling and C. A. Gilligan

doi:10.1038/35038073

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Involuntary orienting to sound improves visual perception p906

John J. McDonald, Wolfgang A. Teder-Sälejärvi and Steven A. Hillyard

doi:10.1038/35038085

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Ghrelin induces adiposity in rodents p908

Matthias Tschöp, David L. Smiley and Mark L. Heiman

doi:10.1038/35038090

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Repressor activity of Headless/Tcf3 is essential for vertebrate head formation p913

Cheol-Hee Kim, Takaya Oda, Motoyuki Itoh, Di Jiang, Kristin Bruk Artinger, Settara C. Chandrasekharappa, Wolfgang Driever and Ajay B. Chitnis

doi:10.1038/35038097

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Development of Th1-type immune responses requires the type I cytokine receptor TCCR p916

Qi Chen, Nico Ghilardi, Hua Wang, Thad Baker, Ming-Hong Xie, Austin Gurney, Iqbal S. Grewal and Frederic J. de Sauvage

doi:10.1038/35038103

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The nuclear receptor CAR mediates specific xenobiotic induction of drug metabolism p920

Ping Wei, Jun Zhang, Margarete Egan-Hafley, Shuguang Liang and David D. Moore

doi:10.1038/35038112

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Structure of a serpin–protease complex shows inhibition by deformation p923

James A. Huntington, Randy J. Read and Robin W. Carrell

doi:10.1038/35038119

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erratum: Intraprotein radical transfer during photoactivation of DNA photolyase p926

Corrine Aubert, Marten H. Vos, Paul Mathis, André P. M. Eker and Klaus Brettel

doi:10.1038/35038135

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erratum: Neural synchrony correlates with surface segregation rules p926

Miguel Castelo-Branco, Rainer Goebel, Sergio Neuenschwander and Wolf Singer

doi:10.1038/35038137

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New on the Market

Software selection p927

Crystal diffraction analysis "can be fun", on a Mac.

doi:10.1038/35038166

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