Table of contents
Volume 413 Number 6854 pp3-438
Opinion
Japan's beef scandal p333
The detection of BSE in Japan last week raises the prospect of vCJD to follow. The history of government handling of human health crises gives little basis for confidence that appropriate preventative measures will be taken.
doi:10.1038/35096696
Reviewing cancer and immunology p333
Introducing two new Nature journals.
doi:10.1038/35096698
News
'Identity crisis' racks depleted research arms of spy agencies p335
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35096700
Swift move to collect fallout data p335
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35096704
Support for science is firm as emergency raises budget p336
Matthew Davis
doi:10.1038/35096706
Japan's first BSE case fuels fears elsewhere p337
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35096710
Transgenic corn found growing in Mexico p337
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35096714
British archaeology boost may uncover old enthusiasm p338
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35096716
Crushing victory could help in quest for fusion energy p338
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35096719
China plans 'hybrid' embryonic stem cells p339
Alison Abbott and David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35096722
Stamp booklet has physicists licked p339
Erica Klarreich
doi:10.1038/35096725
news feature
All creatures great and small p342
The living world is governed by laws based on fractal geometry and on the sizes of organisms, some scientists claim. John Whitfield looks at the debate surrounding a biological 'theory of everything'.
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/35096683
Storm in a culture dish p345
Will restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research and attempts to ban therapeutic cloning erode the United States' leadership in biomedical research? Laura Bonetta considers the evidence.
Laura Bonetta
doi:10.1038/35096688
Correspondence
Need for public debate about fertility treatments p347
Manipulations of the mitochondrial germ line must be openly debated and followed up.
Robert K. Naviaux and Keshav K. Singh
doi:10.1038/35096737
Risk that websites could break code of anonymity p347
David L. Reed, Brett Moyer and Dale Clayton
doi:10.1038/35096739
Commentary
IVF and the history of stem cells p349
Embryo stem cells are poised to fulfil their considerable historical potential.
doi:10.1038/35096649
Autumn Books
Does ivory burn? p353
One man's battle to protect Africa's elephants from extinction.
Colin Tudge reviews Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell
doi:10.1038/35096597
Wormholes through physics p354
Paul Davies reviews Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True by Robert Ehrlich and Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time by J. Richard Gott
doi:10.1038/35096600
Cut-and-paste knowledge p355
W.F. Bynum reviews Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture by Richard Yeo
doi:10.1038/35096603
The price of success p355
David Dickson reviews Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel S. Greenberg
doi:10.1038/35096606
An astronomical adventure story p356
Joel Wm. Parker reviews Beyond Pluto: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System by John Davies
doi:10.1038/35096609
The other man to discover evolution p357
Jane R. Camerini reviews Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life by Peter Raby
doi:10.1038/35096612
Unlocking nature's ancient secrets p358
Tomas Lindahl reviews The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA by Martin Jones
doi:10.1038/35096615
Modern values in post-modernism p359
John Ziman reviews The One Culture? A Conversation about Science
doi:10.1038/35096618
A life of good taste p360
Tom Sanders reviews Fine Wines and Fish Oils: The Life of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair by Jeannette Ewin
doi:10.1038/35096621
In for the count p361
Simon Singh reviews Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time by John Casti
doi:10.1038/35096624
Is anyone out there listening? p362
Harold Mooney reviews The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth by Stuart Pimm
doi:10.1038/35096627
Discourse and discord p363
Geoffrey Cantor reviews Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth Century Britainby Peter J. Bowler and Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Centuryby Denis Alexander
doi:10.1038/35096630
Washing one's hands of controversy p364
Martyn Poliakoff reviews Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
doi:10.1038/35096633
words
Bridge or ravine? p365
Ideas that cross the border between scientists and non-scientists do not always survive the trip.
George and Eva Klein
doi:10.1038/35096653
News and Views
Once upon an asteroid p369
When the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the asteroid Eros earlier this year, it provided an unprecedented view of these battered relics from the early Solar System. The next step is to find out what's inside.
Erik Asphaug
doi:10.1038/35096660
Human genetics: Testing telomerase p370
The molecular defect in the human disease dyskeratosis congenita is a reduction in function of telomerase. This discovery provides a direct test of the importance of this enzyme in ageing and cancer.
Robert Marciniak and Leonard Guarente
doi:10.1038/35096663
100 and 50 years ago p371
doi:10.1038/35096666
Statistical physics: The salesman and the tourist p373
Solutions to optimization problems, such as that faced by the travelling salesman, have many practical applications. Might a related problem offer insight into the behaviour of foraging animals?
H. Eugene Stanley and Sergey V. Buldyrev
doi:10.1038/35096668
Plant hormones: Transporters on the move p374
The hormone auxin is moved across plant cells by transporters called efflux carriers. It now looks as if these carriers behave much more dynamically than had been thought.
Mark Estelle
doi:10.1038/35096672
Quantum physics: Entangled atomic samples p375
Quantum mechanics has potential applications in communication and computation. But first a quantum connection — known as entanglement — has to be created between bigger and bigger objects.
J. Ignacio Cirac
doi:10.1038/35096675
Daedalus: Ardent spirits p377
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35096678
Obituary: Patrick D. Wall (1925–2001) p378
Clifford J. Woolf
doi:10.1038/35096680
Brief Communications
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery p379
ATM technology now enables operations to be performed over huge distances.
Jacques Marescaux, Joel Leroy, Michel Gagner, Francesco Rubino, Didier Mutter, Michel Vix, Steven E. Butner and Michelle K. Smith
doi:10.1038/35096636
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Microbiology: Cyanobacteria track water in desert soils p380
Ferran Garcia-Pichel and Olivier Pringault
doi:10.1038/35096640
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Intracellular signalling: Receptor-specific messenger oscillations p381
Mark S. Nash, Kenneth W. Young, R. A. John Challiss and Stefan R. Nahorski
doi:10.1038/35096643
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Hospital waiting-lists (Communication arising): Do power laws imply self-regulation? p382
Robert P. Freckleton and William J. Sutherland
doi:10.1038/35096646
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Article
Two-component circuitry in Arabidopsis cytokinin signal transduction p383
Ildoo Hwang and Jen Sheen
doi:10.1038/35096500
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Letters to Nature
The landing of the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros p390
J. Veverka, B. Farquhar, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, A. Harch, P. G. Antreasian, S. R. Chesley, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr, B. G. Williams, D. Yeomans, D. Dunham, G. Heyler, M. Holdridge, R. L. Nelson, K. E. Whittenburg, J. C. Ray, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, C. Chapman, J. F. Bell, III, M. Bell, B. Bussey, B. Clark, D. Domingue, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren and D. Wellnitz
doi:10.1038/35096507
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Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros p394
P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, M. S. Robinson and S. Murchie
doi:10.1038/35096513
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The nature of ponded deposits on Eros p396
M. S. Robinson, P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, S. Murchie and B. Carcich
doi:10.1038/35096518
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Experimental long-lived entanglement of two macroscopic objects p400
Brian Julsgaard, Alexander Kozhekin and Eugene S. Polzik
doi:10.1038/35096524
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A Bragg glass phase in the vortex lattice of a type II superconductor p404
T. Klein, I. Joumard, S. Blanchard, J. Marcus, R. Cubitt, T. Giamarchi and P. Le Doussal
doi:10.1038/35096534
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The jamming route to the glass state in weakly perturbed granular media p407
G. D'Anna and G. Gremaud
doi:10.1038/35096540
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Photochemical cycling of iron in the surface ocean mediated by microbial iron(iii)-binding ligands p409
K. Barbeau, E. L. Rue, K. W. Bruland and A. Butler
doi:10.1038/35096545
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Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia p413
R. X. Zhu, K. A. Hoffman, R. Potts, C. L. Deng, Y. X. Pan, B. Guo, C. D. Shi, Z. T. Guo, B. Y. Yuan, Y. M. Hou and W. W. Huang
doi:10.1038/35096551
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Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics p417
Paul M. Thompson and Janet C. Ollason
doi:10.1038/35096558
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Histamine regulates T-cell and antibody responses by differential expression of H1 and H2 receptors p420
Marek Jutel, Takeshi Watanabe, Sven Klunker, Mübeccel Akdis, Olivier A. R. Thomet, Jozef Malolepszy, Teresa Zak-Nejmark, Ritsuko Koga, Takashi Kobayashi, Kurt Blaser and Cezmi A. Akdis
doi:10.1038/35096564
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Auxin transport inhibitors block PIN1 cycling and vesicle trafficking p425
Niko Geldner,
Ji
í Friml,
York-Dieter Stierhof,
Gerd Jürgens
and
Klaus Palme
doi:10.1038/35096571
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Voltage-induced membrane movement p428
Ping-Cheng Zhang, Asbed M. Keleshian and Frederick Sachs
doi:10.1038/35096578
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The RNA component of telomerase is mutated in autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita p432
Tom Vulliamy, Anna Marrone, Frederick Goldman, Andrew Dearlove, Monica Bessler, Philip J. Mason and Inderjeet Dokal
doi:10.1038/35096585
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DNA topoisomerase II
is required for RNA polymerase II transcription on chromatin templates p435
Neelima Mondal and Jeffrey D. Parvin
doi:10.1038/35096590
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