Volume 414 Issue 6859, 1 November 2001

Opinion

Finding a future for GM crops

Some parties to debates over the safety of genetically modified crops don't want to hear the results of objective research. But that isn't an excuse for not doing it.

Opinion 01 Nov 2001

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Double standards

Developing countries deserve as much leeway to deal with their public-health crises as the United States has allowed itself.

Opinion 01 Nov 2001

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Prospects

A model establishment

Paul Smaglik
Prospects 01 Nov 2001

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News

Atomic-bomb experts interrogated over Taliban links

David Adam
News 01 Nov 2001
Crackdown on hazardous agents raises concern for bona fide labs

Jonathan Knight
News 01 Nov 2001
Legal provision for electronic eavesdropping ignites debate

David Adam
News 01 Nov 2001

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Regions

Managing mergers Cambridge

Paul Smaglik
Regions 01 Nov 2001

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News

Science marshalled to cut bioterror confusion

Rex Dalton
News 01 Nov 2001
Germany warned over threat posed by nuclear reactor

Quirin Schiermeier
News 01 Nov 2001
Chance encounter hints at planetary origins

Alison Abbott
News 01 Nov 2001
UK changes policy on life insurance

David Adam
News 01 Nov 2001
Spotlight on scrapie in hunt for sheep BSE

Declan Butler
News 01 Nov 2001
Middle Eastern promise as synchrotron wins approval

Quirin Schiermeier
News 01 Nov 2001

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News in Brief

news in brief

News in Brief 01 Nov 2001

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News Feature

The flu HQ

Leading virologists plan to thwart emerging strains of influenza by creating a global laboratory to keep tabs on this ever-changing virus. Alison Abbott reports.

Alison Abbott
News Feature 01 Nov 2001
Exploring a virtual universe

Cosmologists have already created entire universes within computers. Now astrophysicists are focusing on the fine details of asteroid collisions and supernovae. Govert Schilling investigates.

Govert Schilling
News Feature 01 Nov 2001

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Correspondence

Vanishing websites are the weakest link

Joseph Cheung
Correspondence 01 Nov 2001
Recognizing risks and potential promise of germline engineering

The consequences of mitochondrial DNA manipulation are unknown, but sufferers of some diseases might benefit.

Sharon E. Hesterlee
Correspondence 01 Nov 2001
Give and take the lead

Susan M. Fitzpatrick
Correspondence 01 Nov 2001

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Book Review

Counting on science

Scientific uncertainties relating to the social issues of today.

Robert M. May
Book Review 01 Nov 2001
Jewels on the wing

Book Review 01 Nov 2001
Science and war

John Ziman
Book Review 01 Nov 2001
The American dream personified?

Richard A. Fortey
Book Review 01 Nov 2001
Elementary tales

Andrea Sella

Collection:

The International Year of the Periodic Table
Book Review 01 Nov 2001

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Concepts

Nature's helping hand

W. F. Bynum
Concepts 01 Nov 2001

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News & Views

See potassium run

Nearly all cells have membranes spanned by potassium-conducting channel proteins, without which your nerves (and much else) simply wouldn't work. Ion permeation through these channels can now be seen in dazzling detail.

Christopher Miller

Focus:

Ion channels: structure and function
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
The atomic nanoscope

An ideal probe should be as small as possible so it doesn't interfere with the observation. When measuring the distribution of a light field, it seems that a single atom is up to the job.

Andrew Steane
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
How cells choose to die

Humans have several ways of keeping cancer at bay, and the p53 protein forms a crucial part of this self-defence. The newly discovered action of a p53-binding protein helps explain how cells respond to p53.

David Lane
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
The insulator uncovered

Microscopes that reveal the structures of surfaces one atom at a time are good at imaging conductors but perform poorly with insulators. That may be about to change.

John B. Pethica
Russ Egdell
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
100 and 50 years ago

News & Views 01 Nov 2001
Bacteria thread the needle

When bacteria attack another organism, one of the first steps is the injection of 'virulence effector proteins' into its cells. Two of the main players in such a system have been caught in action.

Craig L. Smith
Scott J. Hultgren
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
In search of exact solutions

Many-body systems, such as electrons flowing in a superconductor, are among the most difficult theoretical problems to study. A new family of exactly solvable models may offer some answers.

Michel Héritier
News & Views 01 Nov 2001
Recycled oil

Converting the combustion engine into a clean machine is an enormous challenge. A new diesel engine that uses incoming fuel to mop up pollutants in the exhaust could be a winner.

David Jones
News & Views 01 Nov 2001

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Brief Communication

Water capture by a desert beetle

This insect has a tailor-made covering for collecting water from early-morning fog.

Andrew R. Parker
Chris R. Lawrence
Brief Communication 01 Nov 2001
Partial leptin deficiency and human adiposity

I. Sadaf Farooqi
Julia M. Keogh
Stephen O'Rahilly
Brief Communication 01 Nov 2001
Magnetic cues trigger extensive refuelling

Thord Fransson
Sven Jakobsson
Adrian Vallin
Brief Communication 01 Nov 2001
Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex

Foon Wu-Baer
Richard Baer
Brief Communication 01 Nov 2001
Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex

Shang Li
Nicholas S. Y. Ting
Wen-Hwa Lee
Brief Communication 01 Nov 2001

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Article

Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K⁺ selectivity filter

João H. Morais-Cabral
Yufeng Zhou
Roderick MacKinnon

Focus:

Ion channels: structure and function
Article 01 Nov 2001
Chemistry of ion coordination and hydration revealed by a K⁺ channel–Fab complex at 2.0 Å resolution

Yufeng Zhou
João H. Morais-Cabral
Roderick MacKinnon

Focus:

Ion channels: structure and function
Article 01 Nov 2001

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Letter

A single ion as a nanoscopic probe of an optical field

G. R. Guthöhrlein
M. Keller
H. Walther
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Ultrafast generation of magnetic fields in a Schottky diode

Y. Acremann
M. Buess
D. Pescia
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Imaging the atomic arrangements on the high-temperature reconstructed α-Al₂O₃(0001) surface

Clemens Barth
Michael Reichling
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Photoselective adaptive femtosecond quantum control in the liquid phase

T. Brixner
N. H. Damrauer
G. Gerber
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years

W. S. B. Paterson
Niels Reeh
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals

J. David Archibald
Alexander O. Averianov
Eric G. Ekdale
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change

M. S. Warren
J. K. Hill
C. D. Thomas
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Perceptual basis of bimanual coordination

Franz Mechsner
Dirk Kerzel
Wolfgang Prinz
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Energetics of ion conduction through the K⁺ channel

Simon Bernèche
Benoît Roux
Letter 01 Nov 2001
Maintenance of an unfolded polypeptide by a cognate chaperone in bacterial type III secretion

C. Erec Stebbins
Jorge E. Galán
Letter 01 Nov 2001
In vitro evolution suggests multiple origins for the hammerhead ribozyme

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
Jack W. Szostak
Letter 01 Nov 2001

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Corrigendum

Correction: Retrotransposition of a bacterial group II intron

Benoit Cousineau
Stacey Lawrence
Marlene Belfort
Corrigendum 01 Nov 2001
Correction: Crystal structures of SarA, a pleiotropic regulator of virulence genes in S. aureus

Maria A. Schumacher
Barry K. Hurlburt
Richard G. Brennan
Corrigendum 01 Nov 2001
Correction: Biodegradation of oil in uplifted basins prevented by deep-burial sterilization

A. Wilhelms
S. R. Larter
C. Zwach
Corrigendum 01 Nov 2001

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Foreword

Stem cells

Foreword 01 Nov 2001

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Overview

The future for stem cell research

Robin Lovell-Badge
Overview 01 Nov 2001

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Review Article

The end of the beginning for pluripotent stem cells

Peter J. Donovan
John Gearhart
Review Article 01 Nov 2001
Stem cells find their niche

Allan Spradling
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
Toshie Kai
Review Article 01 Nov 2001
Stem cells, cancer, and cancer stem cells

Tannishtha Reya
Sean J. Morrison
Irving L. Weissman
Review Article 01 Nov 2001
The development of neural stem cells

Sally Temple
Review Article 01 Nov 2001

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Progress

Stem cells in tissue engineering

Paolo Bianco
Pamela Gehron Robey
Progress 01 Nov 2001

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Review Article

Reprogramming of genome function through epigenetic inheritance

M. Azim Surani
Review Article Open Access 01 Nov 2001

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Commentary

Ethical and social considerations of stem cell research

Anne McLaren
Commentary 01 Nov 2001

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Corporate Support

Applications of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Corporate Support 01 Nov 2001
When The Body Can't Heal Itself

Mark F. Pittenger Ph.D.
Corporate Support 01 Nov 2001

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Insight

Stem cells

Stem cell research has been transformed by successes achieved in culturing human embryonic stem cells, the building blocks for every tissue we comprise, and in manipulating their differentiation in vitro. The challenge is now on to bring stem cell therapies to the clinic. Here, top researchers cut through the hype and explain the fundamentals of stem cell biology as they see it today.

Insight 01 Nov 2001

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