Table of contents
Volume 414 Number 6866 pp3-938
In this issue (20 December 2001)
Naturejobs
ProspectsBacking a meeting of minds p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6866-03a
movers
Biology, Biology and Physics, Biotechnology, and Biotech Management p4
doi:10.1038/nj6866-04a
Opinion
Time to halt the gravy train p829
As European integration gathers pace, the notion that scientists must be rewarded with tax-free salaries and other perks for working at a 'foreign' international laboratory has become an anachronism.
doi:10.1038/414829a
News
Map data kept under wraps as Pentagon focuses on security p831
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/414831a
Spain sets sights on fusion facility p831
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/414831b
Bush turns to Silicon Valley moguls for scientific advice p832
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/414832a
Canadian budget cranks up investment in research p832
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/414832b
EU ministers temper Framework reforms p833
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/414833a
Planned merger worries Japan's nuclear researchers p833
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/414833b
British research audit may be last of its kind p834
David Adam
doi:10.1038/414834a
2001 IN CONTEXT
The big picture: Science in a changed world p836
It should have been a year of celebration, as science passed a major milestone with the publication of the human genome sequence. Instead, a global economic slowdown and the world-changing events of 11 September have cast a long shadow. Nature's reporters look back on a tumultuous year.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/414836a
Bioweapons: Delivering death in the mail p837
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/414837a
Regenerative medicine: A world of difference p838
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/414838a
US science policy: Under new management p839
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/414839a
Animal health: The killing fields p839
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/414839b
Postgenomics: Data, data, everywhere... p840
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/414840a
Big science: Down to Earth with a bump p841
David Adam and Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/414841a
Correspondence
Beware the baited hook of publicity p843
Headlines are tempting but lead to disillusionment — and a sour taste with your spaghetti.
Michele Pagano
doi:10.1038/414843a
Industry and evaluation p843
Les Firbank
doi:10.1038/414843b
Dogs won more fame than female colleagues p843
Caroline L. Herzenberg
doi:10.1038/414843c
Book Reviews
The poetic mystery of dark matter p845
The life and poetry of astronomer Rebecca Elson.
Ingrid Fiske reviews A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson
doi:10.1038/414845a
A nebulous secret revealed p845
doi:10.1038/414845b
The sorry story of drug prohibition p846
Leslie Iversen reviews The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500–2000 by Richard Davenport-Hines
doi:10.1038/414846a
Going organic p847
doi:10.1038/414847a
From clay to computer screen p847
Maurice Pope reviews A History of Writing by Steven Roger Fischer
doi:10.1038/414847b
Golem schmolem p848
Henry Gee reviews Kiln People by David Brin
doi:10.1038/414848a
On the jungle beat p848
doi:10.1038/414848b
A celebration of science p849
Fran Balkwill reviews The Science Book edited by Peter Tallack
doi:10.1038/414849a
A clever idea to swallow p850
Michael Gillmer reviews This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill by Carl Djerassi and Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill by Lara V. Marks
doi:10.1038/414850a
words
Sines in terse verse p851
Coding large numbers in synthetic words made them easier to memorize.
Roddam Narasimha
doi:10.1038/414851a
News and Views
Astronomy: Blinded by the light p853
If gamma-ray bursts released their energy uniformly in all directions they would be the most powerful events in the Universe. Astronomers are trying to see past the glare to determine the true energy.
Stan Woosley
doi:10.1038/414853a
The human genome: Part three in the book of genes p854
Working out the draft sequence of the human genome was a landmark achievement. But there's lots more to be done before the finished product is available. The complete sequence of chromosome 20 sets us on the way.
Masahira Hattori and Todd D. Taylor
doi:10.1038/414854a
Biomechanics: Damper for bad vibrations p855
Some muscle fibres in the legs of horses seem to be evolutionary leftovers with no function. But in fact they may act to damp damaging vibrations generated in the leg as the horse runs.
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/414855a
Meteoritics: Life's sweet beginnings? p857
Sugars are common components of organisms on Earth. So their discovery in a meteorite from a lifeless part of the asteroid belt has implications for theories of the origin of life.
Mark A. Sephton
doi:10.1038/414857a
Molecular biology: Specifying transcription p858
To switch on the right genes at the right times, our cells rely on many different proteins. Some help to remodel the architecture of the genome, and are remarkably choosy about which other proteins they work with.
Ian F. G. King and Robert E. Kingston
doi:10.1038/414858a
100 and 50 years ago p859
doi:10.1038/414859a
Geophysics: Deep down at Chicxulub p861
The best-preserved large impact crater on Earth is overlain by a kilometre of sediment. It is possible to look not only through that wrapping but also beyond, at the effects of the impact at the crust–mantle boundary.
Jay Melosh
doi:10.1038/414861a
Daedalus: Away with oxygen! p862
David Jones
doi:10.1038/414862a
Brief Communications
Health: Endothelin-1 synthesis reduced by red wine p863
Red wines confer extra benefit when it comes to preventing coronary heart disease.
Roger Corder, Julie A. Douthwaite, Delphine M. Lees, Noorafza Q. Khan, Ana Carolina Viseu dos Santos, Elizabeth G. Wood and Martin J. Carrier
doi:10.1038/414863a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (428K) | Supplementary information
Image processing: Fractals in pixellated video feedback p864
Johannes Courtial, Jonathan Leach and Miles J. Padgett
doi:10.1038/414864a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (384K)
Articles
The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20 p865
and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
doi:10.1038/414865a
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (926K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Hattori & Taylor
Structural basis of water-specific transport through the AQP1 water channel p872
Haixin Sui, Bong-Gyoon Han, John K. Lee, Peter Walian and Bing K. Jap
doi:10.1038/414872a
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (519K)
Letters to Nature
Carbonaceous meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early Earth p879
George Cooper, Novelle Kimmich, Warren Belisle, Josh Sarinana, Katrina Brabham and Laurence Garrel
doi:10.1038/414879a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (187K)
See also: News and Views by Sephton
Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance p883
Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, Matthias Steffen, Gregory Breyta, Costantino S. Yannoni, Mark H. Sherwood and Isaac L. Chuang
doi:10.1038/414883a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (381K)
A limit on spin–charge separation in high-Tc superconductors from the absence of a vortex-memory effect p887
D. A. Bonn, Janice C. Wynn, Brian W. Gardner, Yu-Ju Lin, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, J. R. Kirtley and K. A. Moler
doi:10.1038/414887a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (203K)
Folding-driven synthesis of oligomers p889
Keunchan Oh, Kyu-Sung Jeong and Jeffrey S. Moore
doi:10.1038/414889a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (302K) | Supplementary information
Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites p893
J. Ando, Y. Shibata, Y. Okajima, K. Kanagawa, M. Furusho and N. Tomioka
doi:10.1038/414893a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (240K)
Horses damp the spring in their step p895
Alan M. Wilson, M. Polly McGuigan, Anne Su and Anton J. van den Bogert
doi:10.1038/414895a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (244K)
See also: News and Views by Hattori & Taylor
Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia p899
Victor Alekseev and Winfried Lampert
doi:10.1038/414899a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (147K)
The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species p901
Catherine L. Peichel, Kirsten S. Nereng, Kenneth A. Ohgi, Bonnie L. E. Cole, Pamela F. Colosimo, C. Alex Buerkle, Dolph Schluter and David M. Kingsley
doi:10.1038/414901a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (225K) | Supplementary information
Dynamic properties of neurons in cortical area MT in alert and anaesthetized macaque monkeys p905
Christopher C. Pack, Vladimir K. Berezovskii and Richard T. Born
doi:10.1038/414905a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (154K)
Noggin and retinoic acid transform the identity of avian facial prominences p909
S.-H. Lee, K. K. Fu, J. N. Hui and J. M. Richman
doi:10.1038/414909a
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Gene defect in ectodermal dysplasia implicates a death domain adapter in development p913
Denis J. Headon, Stephanie A. Emmal, Betsy M. Ferguson, Abigail S. Tucker, Monica J. Justice, Paul T. Sharpe, Jonathan Zonana and Paul A. Overbeek
doi:10.1038/414913a
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Role of G-protein-coupled adenosine receptors in downregulation of inflammation and protection from tissue damage p916
Akio Ohta and Michail Sitkovsky
doi:10.1038/414916a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (232K) | Supplementary information
MIF regulates innate immune responses through modulation of Toll-like receptor 4 p920
Thierry Roger, John David, Michel P. Glauser and Thierry Calandra
doi:10.1038/414920a
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Selectivity of chromatin-remodelling cofactors for ligand-activated transcription p924
Bryan Lemon, Carla Inouye, David S. King and Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/414924a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (220K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by King & Kingston
Stimulatory effect of splicing factors on transcriptional elongation p929
Yick W. Fong and Qiang Zhou
doi:10.1038/414929a
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Crystal structure of an Eph receptor–ephrin complex p933
Juha-Pekka Himanen, Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar, Martin Lackmann, Chad A. Cowan, Mark Henkemeyer and Dimitar B. Nikolov
doi:10.1038/414933a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (534K) | Supplementary information
correction: Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories p938
Tracey J. Shors, George Miesegaes, Anna Beylin, Mingrui Zhao, Tracy Rydel and Elizabeth Gould
doi:10.1038/414938a