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Lessons from literature p3

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj6864-03a

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Scope for improvement: Assisting astronomy's rising stars p4

As astronomy shifts towards automation and collaboration, the nature of employment in the field is also changing, says Leslie Sage.

Leslie Sage

doi:10.1038/nj6864-04a

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Opinion

Reasons to be cloned p567

Current debates on human cloning have been stimulated by questionable achievements. All the more reason for proponents of cloning for biomedical research to articulate the full range of potential benefits.

doi:10.1038/414567a

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Welcome SciDev.Net p567

This week sees the launch of an independent website for the developing world.

doi:10.1038/414567b

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News

Gene therapy may be up to speed for cheats at 2008 Olympics p569

David Adam

doi:10.1038/414569a

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Poor practices led to BSE brains mix-up, say auditors p569

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/414569b

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Cell biologist quits editorial board over cloning paper p570

Jonathan Knight

doi:10.1038/414570a

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Anthrax evidence implies US culprit p570

David Adam

doi:10.1038/414570b

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Wandering Chinese fossil turns up at museum p571

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/414571a

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NASA engages outside help for mission to Pluto p571

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/414571b

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European Parliament rejects move to restrict genetics p572

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/414572a

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Rescuers of Europe's cultural heritage struggle for funding p572

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/414572b

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Researchers plan probe into Antarctic lakes p573

Helen Gavaghan

doi:10.1038/414573a

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France boosts funding for biotechnology start-ups p573

Sally Goodman

doi:10.1038/414573b

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news in brief p574

doi:10.1038/414574a

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news feature

A wolf in sheep's clothing p576

Is BSE lurking in sheep, but masked by scrapie? Reliable and fast tests that can tell the diseases apart are urgently needed, says Declan Butler.

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/414576a

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The budding amateurs p578

From the results of an annual Alaskan betting contest to sightings of migratory birds, ecologists are using a wealth of unusual data to predict the impact of climate change. John Whitfield rummages in the archives.

John Whitfield

doi:10.1038/414578a

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Correspondence

Patronage lies at the heart of Italy's academic problems p581

Funds are distributed through a system that runs on favours: nobody gets on without friends in high places.

Claudio Chiesa and Lucia Pacifico

doi:10.1038/414581a

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CNR choices were made on the basis of capability p581

Lucio Bianco, President

doi:10.1038/414581b

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A challenge for research in Italy: to raise the dead p581

Arturo Sala

doi:10.1038/414581c

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Open debate is essential on conservation issues p581

Anthony Trewavas

doi:10.1038/414581d

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Belief in our dominion is a backward step p582

Robert C. Fleck

doi:10.1038/414582a

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It's Sulston all right — but not as we know him p582

Jerry Lanchbury

doi:10.1038/414582b

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Reality hits postdocs earlier in France p582

P.-L. Chau

doi:10.1038/414582c

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Book Reviews

Retrieving the 'eu' from eugenics p583

Can anything positive be rescued from the wreckage of the Nazi era?

Nick Martin reviews The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson and Eugenics: A Reassessment by Richard Lynn

doi:10.1038/414583a

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The three ages of fire p584

C. K. Brain reviews Fire: A Brief History by Stephen J. Pyne

doi:10.1038/414584a

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To the ends of the Earth p584

doi:10.1038/414584b

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Navigating a delicate dilemma p585

Justine Burley and Alan Colman review The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy by Ronald M. Green

doi:10.1038/414585a

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What if Mendel had studied sheep? p586

William G. Hill reviews Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: A Prelude to Mendel by Roger J. Wood & Vítzslav Orel

doi:10.1038/414586a

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A trip to the sea p586

doi:10.1038/414586b

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Weaving a social web p587

The Internet promises to revolutionize public engagement with science and technology.

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/414587a

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News and Views

Light work with water p589

Sunlight can be harnessed by semiconductors to generate a fuel, hydrogen gas, from water. This approach will be impracticable until certain materials-related constraints are overcome: photochemists are on the case.

Nathan S. Lewis

doi:10.1038/414589a

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Animal behaviour: How mice make their mark p590

The social behaviour of many animals relies on their ability to use odour cues to distinguish among individuals. Studies of mice highlight the importance of urinary proteins in this complex signalling system.

Peter Brennan

doi:10.1038/414590a

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Astronomy: Gravitational microlens in motion p591

Astronomers have now imaged a stellar microlens as it speeds across the sky. A similar effect will soon allow them to measure the mass of a lens, whether dark or luminous.

Andrew P. Gould

doi:10.1038/414591a

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Cell biology: Conservation signals location p593

During development, many messenger RNAs are spread asymmetrically within cells. Surprisingly, in fruitflies the RNA signals and machinery used for distribution seem to be conserved in different developmental stages.

Alexandre Costa and Paul Schedl

doi:10.1038/414593a

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100 and 50 years ago p594

doi:10.1038/414594a

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Human evolution: Questions of growth p595

The evolution of an extended childhood had implications for human society and culture. New analyses of dental development in fossil hominins suggest that our lengthy growth processes arose quite late in evolution.

Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi

doi:10.1038/414595a

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Cell biology: High-performance fungal motors p597

Kinesin proteins are nanoscale transport vehicles. Analysis of the structure and function of one such protein has revealed the secrets of its rapid movement.

Susan P. Gilbert

doi:10.1038/414597a

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Daedalus: Extra security p598

David Jones

doi:10.1038/414598a

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Brief Communications

Plastic transistors in active-matrix displays p599

The handling of grey levels by these large displays paves the way for electronic paper.

H. E. A. Huitema, G. H. Gelinck, J. B. P. H. van der Putten, K. E. Kuijk, C. M. Hart, E. Cantatore, P. T. Herwig, A. J. J. M. van Breemen and D. M. de Leeuw

doi:10.1038/414599a

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Phenology: False estimates of the advance of spring p600

Raphael Sagarin

doi:10.1038/414600a

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Brood parasitism: Female ducks can double their reproduction p600

Matti Åhlund and Malte Andersson

doi:10.1038/414600b

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Invertebrate evolution (Communications arising): Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc? p601

Gerhard Steiner and Luitfried Salvini-Plawen

doi:10.1038/414601a

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Invertebrate evolution (Communications arising): Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc? p602

Mark Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter and Derek J. Siveter

doi:10.1038/414602a

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Review

Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes p603

Martin J. Siegert, J. Cynan Ellis-Evans, Martyn Tranter, Christoph Mayer, Jean-Robert Petit, Andrey Salamatin and John C. Priscu

doi:10.1038/414603a

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Article

Conserved signals and machinery for RNA transport in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis p611

Simon L. Bullock and David Ish-Horowicz

doi:10.1038/414611a

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Letters to Nature

Direct detection of a microlens in the Milky Way p617

C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett, K. H. Cook, A. J. Drake, K. C. Freeman, M. Geha, K. Griest, S. C. Keller, M. J. Lehner, S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti, C. A. Nelson, B. A. Peterson, P. Popowski, M. R. Pratt, P. J. Quinn, C. W. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, A. B. Tomaney, T. Vandehei and D. Welch

doi:10.1038/414617a

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Electrical control of spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures p619

G. Salis, Y. Kato, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom

doi:10.1038/414619a

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Breakdown of intermediate-range order in liquid GeSe₂ at high pressure p622

Wilson A. Crichton, Mohamed Mezouar, Tor Grande, Svein Stølen and Andrzej Grzechnik

doi:10.1038/414622a

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Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst p625

Zhigang Zou, Jinhua Ye, Kazuhiro Sayama and Hironori Arakawa

doi:10.1038/414625a

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Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins p628

Christopher Dean, Meave G. Leakey, Donald Reid, Friedemann Schrenk, Gary T. Schwartz, Christopher Stringer and Alan Walker

doi:10.1038/414628a

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Individual recognition in mice mediated by major urinary proteins p631

Jane L. Hurst, Caroline E. Payne, Charlotte M. Nevison, Amr D. Marie, Richard E. Humphries, Duncan H. L. Robertson, Andrea Cavaggioni and Robert J. Beynon

doi:10.1038/414631a

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Drosophila Stardust interacts with Crumbs to control polarity of epithelia but not neuroblasts p634

Yang Hong, Beth Stronach, Norbert Perrimon, Lily Yeh Jan and Yuh Nung Jan

doi:10.1038/414634a

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Drosophila Stardust is a partner of Crumbs in the control of epithelial cell polarity p638

André Bachmann, Martina Schneider, Eva Theilenberg, Ferdi Grawe and Elisabeth Knust

doi:10.1038/414638a

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Kinesin-mediated axonal transport of a membrane compartment containing -secretase and presenilin-1 requires APP p643

Adeela Kamal, Angels Almenar-Queralt, James F. LeBlanc, Elizabeth A. Roberts and Lawrence S. B. Goldstein

doi:10.1038/414643a

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Group A Streptococcus tissue invasion by CD44-mediated cell signalling p648

Colette Cywes and Michael R. Wessels

doi:10.1038/414648a

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The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol p652

Yihong Ye, Hemmo H. Meyer and Tom A. Rapoport

doi:10.1038/414652a

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phot1 and phot2 mediate blue light regulation of stomatal opening p656

Toshinori Kinoshita, Michio Doi, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Takatoshi Kagawa, Masamitsu Wada and Ken-ichiro Shimazaki

doi:10.1038/414656a

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AID is required to initiate Nbs1/-H2AX focus formation and mutations at sites of class switching p660

Simone Petersen, Rafael Casellas, Bernardo Reina-San-Martin, Hua Tang Chen, Michael J. Difilippantonio, Patrick C. Wilson, Leif Hanitsch, Arkady Celeste, Masamichi Muramatsu, Duane R. Pilch, Christophe Redon, Thomas Ried, William M. Bonner, Tasuku Honjo, Michel C. Nussenzweig and André Nussenzweig

doi:10.1038/414660a

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NEJ1 controls non-homologous end joining in Saccharomyces cerevisiae p666

Maria Valencia, Marc Bentele, Moreshwar B. Vaze, Gernot Herrmann, Eliayhu Kraus, Sang Eun Lee, Primo Schär and James E. Haber

doi:10.1038/414666a

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New on the Market

Life and death in the cell p671

Microscopes to view living cells — and kits to detect dying cells.

doi:10.1038/414671a

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