Table of contents
Volume 409 Number 6821 pp649-744
Opinion
For the want of a test. . . p649
As Europe wrestles with its BSE crisis, the top priority is to develop a diagnostic test that can reliably identify animals incubating the disease and people incubating its human form.
doi:10.1038/35055664
Handling (mis?)appropriated data p649
Introducing a policy to ensure due credit for unpublished data.
doi:10.1038/35055666
News
Japan's ape sequencing effort set to unravel the brain's secrets p651
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35055668
Science 'in crisis' says commission p651
Irwin Goodwin
doi:10.1038/35055671
Japanese premier underlines opposition to human cloning p652
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35055673
Italian biologists left out in the cold p652
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35055676
Germany targets international talent p652
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35055679
Greek plutonium haul raises smuggling fears p653
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35055681
Top research universities face up to gender bias p653
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/35055684
India struggles to cope with IT brain drain p654
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/35055687
NASA celebrates as spacecraft homes in on asteroid p654
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35055690
Australian leader pledges research boost before election p655
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35055693
Tissue donations slump after revelations about misuse p655
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35055696
news feature
Testing times for BSE p658
No one knows whether the diagnostic tests being used to search for BSE infection in Europe's cattle can reliably detect animals incubating the disease. Given this limitation, asks Quirin Schiermeier, what is the testing programme likely to achieve?
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35055703
In search of a cure for CJD p660
Many thousands of people may be incubating the human form of BSE. Could drugs or other therapeutic agents prevent them from succumbing? Clare Thompson reports on the race against time to find a treatment.
Clare Thompson
doi:10.1038/35055708
Correspondence
Leaders need to realize that science can offer a route out of poverty p662
Germán Poveda
doi:10.1038/35055714
Secret behind Hungary's stellar intellects p662
Leon Eisenberg
doi:10.1038/35055716
Why didn't flood of print launch science in China? p662
P. -L. Chau
doi:10.1038/35055718
Book Reviews
Fit for the seven-league boots p663
The story of a man who sought to harness nature for the American good.
Richard White reviews A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster
doi:10.1038/35055602
Taxonomy and the blues p664
James Mallet reviews Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
doi:10.1038/35055606
Wings and other things p664
doi:10.1038/35055608
Crash, bang, wallop p665
Bernard Richardson reviews Science of Percussion Instruments by Thomas D. Rossing
doi:10.1038/35055611
Science in culture p666
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/35055614
words
Gained in the translation p667
Scientific knowledge is enriched as it moves between languages.
Scott L. Montgomery
doi:10.1038/35055634
News and Views
The dark side of aerosols p671
According to new modelling calculations, black carbon in the atmosphere exerts a large warming influence on global climate. Curbing emissions of this pollutant may be advisable both on climate and on human health grounds.
Meinrat O. Andreae
doi:10.1038/35055640
Diabetes: Dialogue between muscle and fat p672
Knocking out a glucose transporter in fat cells also affects the uptake of glucose into muscle cells, which may prompt a rethink of the transporter's role in diabetes.
Morris J. Birnbaum
doi:10.1038/35055643
Astronomy: The age of the Universe p673
Dating the Universe has always been a tricky business with unsatisfying answers. Astronomers now have a better clock, based on radioactive uranium, that puts the age at around 12.5 billion years.
Christopher Sneden
doi:10.1038/35055646
Evolution: Infectious speciation p675
The bacterium Wolbachia has strange and wonderful effects on reproduction in its many invertebrate host species. In effect, the creation of new species can now be added to the list.
Michael J. Wade
doi:10.1038/35055648
100 and 50 Years ago p675
doi:10.1038/35055652
Astronomy: The day the solar wind nearly died p677
On 11 May 1999, the density of the solar wind dropped almost to zero. Space scientists are now giving their first reports of this rare opportunity to study the complex relationship between the Sun and Earth.
Mike Lockwood
doi:10.1038/35055654
Developmental biology: A macho way to make muscles p679
The 'mosaic' theory of development applies, to different degrees, to most animals. It owes its existence in part to a group of obscure marine invertebrates, which now take centre stage in the molecular age.
Olivier Pourquié
doi:10.1038/35055657
Brief Communications
Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion p681
A waning success in siring counters a ram's high score in competition for ewes.
Brian T. Preston, Ian R. Stevenson, Josephine M. Pemberton and Kenneth Wilson
doi:10.1038/35055617
Biotechnology: Transgenic crops in natural habitats p682
M. J. Crawley, S. L. Brown, R. S. Hails, D. D. Kohn and M. Rees
doi:10.1038/35055621
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (307K) | Supplementary information
Materials science: Nanoscale control of chain polymerization p683
Yuji Okawa and Masakazu Aono
doi:10.1038/35055625
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (322K)
Gene expression: View of a mouse clock gene ticking p684
Shun Yamaguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Shigeru Mitsui, Yoshiki Ishida, Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst, Misao Suzuki, Shigenobu Shibata and Hitoshi Okamura
doi:10.1038/35055628
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Article
Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection p685
J. Kawai, A. Shinagawa, K. Shibata, M. Yoshino, M. Itoh, Y. Ishii, T. Arakawa, A. Hara, Y. Fukunishi, H. Konno, J. Adachi, S. Fukuda, K. Aizawa, M. Izawa, K. Nishi, H. Kiyosawa, S. Kondo, I. Yamanaka and T. Saito
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (147K) | Supplementary information
Letters to Nature
Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay p691
R. Cayrel, V. Hill, T. C. Beers, B. Barbuy, M. Spite, F. Spite, B. Plez, J. Andersen, P. Bonifacio, P. François, P. Molaro, B. Nordström and F. Primas
doi:10.1038/35055507
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (127K)
See also: News and Views by Sneden
Generic mechanism for generating a liquid–liquid phase transition p692
Giancarlo Franzese, Gianpietro Malescio, Anna Skibinsky, Sergey V. Buldyrev and H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/35055514
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (191K)
Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols p695
Mark Z. Jacobson
doi:10.1038/35055518
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (139K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Andreae
Tropical climate changes at millennial and orbital timescales on the Bolivian Altiplano p698
Paul A. Baker, Catherine A. Rigsby, Geoffrey O. Seltzer, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Tim K. Lowenstein, Niklas P. Bacher and Carlos Veliz
doi:10.1038/35055524
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (500K)
Upper-mantle dynamics revealed by helium isotope variations along the southeast Indian ridge p701
D. W. Graham, J. E. Lupton, F. J. Spera and D. M. Christie
doi:10.1038/35055529
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (157K) | Supplementary information
Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution p704
Alan Cooper, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Simon Anderson, Andrew Rambaut, Jeremy Austin and Ryk Ward
doi:10.1038/35055536
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (182K) | Supplementary information
Wolbachia-induced incompatibility precedes other hybrid incompatibilities in Nasonia p707
Seth R. Bordenstein, F. Patrick O'Hara and John H. Werren
doi:10.1038/35055543
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (135K)
See also: News and Views by Wade
Evolutionary radiations and convergences in the structural organization of mammalian brains p710
Willem de Winter and Charles E. Oxnard
doi:10.1038/35055547
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (241K)
Neurons derived from radial glial cells establish radial units in neocortex p714
Stephen C. Noctor, Alexander C. Flint, Tamily A. Weissman, Ryan S. Dammerman and Arnold R. Kriegstein
doi:10.1038/35055553
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (658K)
The gating mechanism of the large mechanosensitive channel MscL p720
Sergei Sukharev, Monica Betanzos, Chien-Sung Chiang and H. Robert Guy
doi:10.1038/35055559
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (497K) | Supplementary information
macho-1 encodes a localized mRNA in ascidian eggs that specifies muscle fate during embryogenesis p724
Hiroki Nishida and Kaichiro Sawada
doi:10.1038/35055568
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (333K)
See also: News and Views by Pourquié
Adipose-selective targeting of the GLUT4 gene impairs insulin action in muscle and liver p729
E. Dale Abel, Odile Peroni, Jason K. Kim, Young-Bum Kim, Olivier Boss, Ed Hadro, Timo Minnemann, Gerald I. Shulman and Barbara B. Kahn
doi:10.1038/35055575
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (192K)
See also: News and Views by Birnbaum
Negative regulation of T-cell activation and autoimmunity by Mgat5N-glycosylation p733
Michael Demetriou, Maria Granovsky, Sue Quaggin and James W. Dennis
doi:10.1038/35055582
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (1,237K)
Crystal structure of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 Å resolution p739
Athina Zouni, Horst-Tobias Witt, Jan Kern, Petra Fromme, Norbert Krauss, Wolfram Saenger and Peter Orth
doi:10.1038/35055589
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (364K)
Articles
correction: Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion p743
Russell D. Gray and Fiona M. Jordan
doi:10.1038/35055596
correction: Warm-coding deficits and aberrant inflammatory pain in mice lacking P2X3 p743
Veronika Souslova, Paolo Cesare, Yanning Ding, Armen N. Akoplan, Louise Stanfa, Rie Suzuki, Katherine Carpenter, Daniela Nebenius-Oosthuizen, Andrew J. H. Smith, Emma J. Kidd and John N. Wood
doi:10.1038/35055598
erratum: The protein–protein interaction map of Helicobacter pylori p743
Jean-Christophe Rain, Luc Selig, Hilde De Reuse, Véronique Battaglia, Céline Reverdy, Stéphane Simon, Gerlinde Lenzen, Fabien Petel, Jérôme Wojcik, Vincent Schächter, Y. Chemama, Agnès Labigne and Pierre Legrain
doi:10.1038/35055600
New on the Market
Image conscious p744
The main theme this week is image acquisition and handling.
doi:10.1038/35055631
