Table of contents
Volume 412 Number 6845 pp3-461
Naturejobs
ProspectsMore data, more potential p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35091256
regions
Hong Kong: Putting the pieces together p4
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35091251
Opinion
Back from the brink p361
The government's threat to suspend clinical trials at America's largest medical school highlights an impasse over funding.
doi:10.1038/35086710
Ripe opportunities for regional collaboration in east Asia p361
East Asian collaboration in molecular biology could enhance the scientific viability of the region, but it requires more enthusiastic support from potential participants — particularly Japan.
doi:10.1038/35086712
News
Johns Hopkins researchers fume over government crackdown p363
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/35086714
Scientists fear new guidelines will stifle basic research p364
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35086717
Drugs approval process gets speed treatment p364
Erica Klarreich
doi:10.1038/35086720
'Political fix' saves Kyoto deal from collapse p365
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/35086723
US rejects bioweapon inspections p365
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35086726
Author of anti-encryption program faces jail p366
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35086729
NASA mission has wind in its sails p366
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35086732
Physicists rally behind linear-collider plan p367
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35086735
Sea lions massacred in Galapagos for sex organs p367
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35086738
news feature
Building a biopolis p370
Having established itself as a financial and manufacturing centre, Singapore now wants to become a leading player in advanced biological research. David Cyranoski assesses the scientific ambitions of a vibrant city-state.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35086696
Picture perfect p372
Medical imaging techniques are being adapted to study gene expression and other cellular activities in living animals. Corie Lok talks to the pioneers who are watching cells at work in their natural habitat.
Corie Lok
doi:10.1038/35086702
Correspondence
Framework welcome, but could do with fine-tuning p375
Let's get details sorted out, timescales defined, postdocs funded, entrepreneurs trained.
Frédéric Sgard
doi:10.1038/35086615
Climate-change strategy needs to be robust p375
Robert Lempert and Michael E. Schlesinger
doi:10.1038/35086617
When three's not a crowd p375
Michael A. Thomas
doi:10.1038/35086619
Book Reviews
Medicine as performance p377
Early British modern medicine can be considered as a type of theatre.
John Harley Warner reviews Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 by Roy Porter
doi:10.1038/35086621
The director's tale p378
Susan Wright reviews The Recombinant DNA Controversy: A Memoir. Science, Politics and the Public Interest 1974–1981 by Donald S. Fredrickson
doi:10.1038/35086624
Mitigating mutations p379
Andrew Berry reviews The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings/Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life by Mark Ridley
doi:10.1038/35086627
To begin at the beginning p380
Sean J. Morrison reviews Stem Cell Biology
doi:10.1038/35086629
Through the eye of the camera? p380
doi:10.1038/35086631
Reactions of a chemical nature p381
Georges Bram reviews Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry by Alan J. Rocke
doi:10.1038/35086634
Science in culture p382
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/35086637
words
Celebrating science p383
Scientists feel passion, but they need to convey it in their writing, too.
John Carmody
doi:10.1038/35086659
News and Views
Caught in the crossflow p387
Suspension-feeding fishes filter water through complex structures in their throats. Food particles could clog the filters, but the fishes have a cunning system to prevent that happening.
Elizabeth L. Brainerd
doi:10.1038/35086666
Chemistry: How green was my ester p388
Hydrogen peroxide is an ideal oxidant. It cannot yet be used widely, because viable catalysts aren't available for many industrially important processes. But there are encouraging indications of progress.
Giorgio Strukul
doi:10.1038/35086670
Neurobiology: Feeling bumps and holes p389
We use our hands as well as our eyes to perceive physical objects. New insight into how our hands feel a surface may have implications for developing virtual-reality tools such as training devices for surgeons.
J. Randall Flanagan and Susan J. Lederman
doi:10.1038/35086674
Condensed-matter physics: In search of soft solutions p391
Physicists are turning their attention to delicate forms of matter, some of which appear mundane, but all of which are hard to understand. Fortunately, different materials share similar properties and problems.
Douglas Durian and Haim Diamant
doi:10.1038/35086677
Chemistry: Rings of destruction p392
Many organisms use natural peptides to ward off microbes, but it's proved hard to make similar molecules for medical use. A ring-shaped peptide that might puncture microbial membranes could be the way forward.
Tomas Ganz
doi:10.1038/35086680
Dyslexia: Talk of two theories p393
One possible reason why people with dyslexia have problems in learning to read is that some neuronal pathways involved in vision and hearing are damaged. That theory may need to be revised.
Franck Ramus
doi:10.1038/35086683
100 and 50 years ago p394
doi:10.1038/35086686
Planetary science: Uncool Callisto p395
Models of heat convection suggested that any liquid on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, must be frozen. But those models did not take into account the different properties a surface layer of ice might have.
Kristin A. Bennett
doi:10.1038/35086688
Population ecology: Birds in a buffer state p396
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/35086691
Daedalus: Deft definitions p396
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35086694
News and Views Feature
Chemistry beyond the molecule p397
Supramolecular chemistry has grown in importance because it goes beyond the molecule — the focus of classical chemistry. It also offers a fresh interface with biological and materials science.
Gautam R. Desiraju
doi:10.1038/35086640
Brief Communications
Persistence of visual memory for scenes p401
A medium-term memory may help us to keep track of objects during visual tasks.
David Melcher
doi:10.1038/35086646
Bone histology: Evolution of growth pattern in birds p402
Anusuya Chinsamy and Andrzej Elzanowski
doi:10.1038/35086650
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Seed dispersal: Directed deterrence by capsaicin in chillies p403
Joshua J. Tewksbury and Gary P. Nabhan
doi:10.1038/35086653
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Nanostructure: Epitaxial diamond polytypes on silicon p404
Y. Lifshitz, X. F. Duan, N. G. Shang, Q. Li, L. Wan, I. Bello and S. T. Lee
doi:10.1038/35086656
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Progress
Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins p405
Kevin Padian, Armand J. de Ricqlès and John R. Horner
doi:10.1038/35086500
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Letters to Nature
The stability against freezing of an internal liquid-water ocean in Callisto p409
Javier Ruiz
doi:10.1038/35086506
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See also: News and Views by Bennett
Evidence for recent climate change on Mars from the identification of youthful near-surface ground ice p411
John F. Mustard, Christopher D. Cooper and Moses K. Rifkin
doi:10.1038/35086515
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In situ detection of collisionless reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail p414
M. Øieroset, T. D. Phan, M. Fujimoto, R. P. Lin and R. P. Lepping
doi:10.1038/35086520
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Quantum-enhanced positioning and clock synchronization p417
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd and Lorenzo Maccone
doi:10.1038/35086525
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Diamagnetic activity above Tc as a precursor to superconductivity in La2-xSrxCuO4 thin films p420
Ienari Iguchi, Tetsuji Yamaguchi and Akira Sugimoto
doi:10.1038/35086540
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Sn-zeolite beta as a heterogeneous chemoselective catalyst for Baeyer–Villiger oxidations p423
Avelino Corma, Laszlo T. Nemeth, Michael Renz and Susana Valencia
doi:10.1038/35086546
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See also: News and Views by Strukul
Warm tropical ocean surface and global anoxia during the mid-Cretaceous period p425
Paul A. Wilson and Richard D. Norris
doi:10.1038/35086553
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Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates p429
Gregory M. Erickson, Kristina Curry Rogers and Scott A. Yerby
doi:10.1038/35086558
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Mealybug 
-proteobacterial endosymbionts contain 
-proteobacterial symbionts p433
Carol D. von Dohlen, Shawn Kohler, Skylar T. Alsop and William R. McManus
doi:10.1038/35086563
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The buffer effect and large-scale population regulation in migratory birds p436
Jennifer A. Gill, Ken Norris, Peter M. Potts, Tómas Grétar Gunnarsson, Philip W. Atkinson and William J. Sutherland
doi:10.1038/35086568
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Crossflow filtration in suspension-feeding fishes p439
S. Laurie Sanderson, Angela Y. Cheer, Jennifer S. Goodrich, Jenny D. Graziano and W. Todd Callan
doi:10.1038/35086574
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See also: News and Views by Brainerd
Natural conjugative plasmids induce bacterial biofilm development p442
Jean-Marc Ghigo
doi:10.1038/35086581
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (310K) | Supplementary information
Force can overcome object geometry in the perception of shape through active touch p445
Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre and Vincent Hayward
doi:10.1038/35086588
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (491K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Flanagan & Lederman
Ubiquitination-dependent mechanisms regulate synaptic growth and function p449
Aaron DiAntonio, Ali P. Haghighi, Scott L. Portman, Jason D. Lee, Andrew M. Amaranto and Corey S. Goodman
doi:10.1038/35086595
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Antibacterial agents based on the cyclic d,l-
-peptide architecture p452
Sara Fernandez-Lopez, Hui-Sun Kim, Ellen C. Choi, Mercedes Delgado, Juan R. Granja, Alisher Khasanov, Karin Kraehenbuehl, Georgina Long, Dana A. Weinberger, Keith M. Wilcoxen and M. Reza Ghadiri
doi:10.1038/35086601
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See also: News and Views by Ganz
RPA governs endonuclease switching during processing of Okazaki fragments in eukaryotes p456
Sung-Ho Bae, Kwang-Hee Bae, Jung-Ae Kim and Yeon-Soo Seo
doi:10.1038/35086609
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