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Volume 419 Issue 6905, 26 September 2002

Volume 419 Issue 6905

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Regions

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  • Not a moment too soon, the microarray community has issued guidelines that will make their data much more useful and accessible. Nature and the Nature research journals will respond accordingly.

    Opinion
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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Investigations of scientific misconduct need expert input, but they can prove harrowing experiences for the scientists involved. Erika Check finds out why.

    • Erika Check
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  • As China pours research funds into regenerative medicine, its scientists are starting to explore the field's technical and ethical frontiers. Carina Dennis visits the labs that are creating an international stir.

    • Carina Dennis
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Correspondence

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Book Review

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Concepts

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News & Views

  • Mycorrhizal associations of fungi and plants are usually viewed as mutually beneficial, but some non-photosynthetic plants cheat their fungal partners. Molecular tools can now be used to identify the fungi being exploited.

    • David S. Hibbett
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  • How did the preference for 'single-handedness' in biological molecules arise? Amplification of the trace imbalance in a mixture of handed molecules bolsters the case for chance being the answer.

    • Jay S. Siegel
    News & Views

  • The transport of molecules from one cellular compartment to another often requires membrane-bounded carriers. New work gives insight into how the shaping of membrane into such vesicles is linked to the selection of cargo.

    • Anne A. Schmidt
    News & Views

  • Like Earth, Mars has experienced long-term fluctuations in climatic conditions. The cause of certain fluctuations is now identified as variation in the planet's astronomical behaviour.

    • Alan D. Howard
    News & Views

  • Like prisoners, condemned intracellular proteins are shackled with chains to await their fate. These chains are a signal that the proteins must be destroyed and are removed on protein degradation. New work shows how.

    • Keith D. Wilkinson
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  • Self-organizing molecules can form structures with useful electronic properties. These supramolecular materials combine the benefits of polymers with those of organic crystalline systems.

    • E. W. Meijer
    • Albert P. H. J. Schenning
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Correction

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News and Views Feature

  • Natural philosophers have speculated on the existence of worlds around other suns for millennia. Now that real data are available, we find a diversity far beyond that expected by scientists, or science-fiction writers.

    • Jack J. Lissauer
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Brief Communication

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Letter

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New on the Market

  • Immunological reagents and techniques.

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