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Volume 424 Issue 6944, 3 July 2003

Volume 424 Issue 6944

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Editorial

  • Biologists and their institutions are increasingly confronted by the challenges of working in major collaborations that other disciplines have already addressed. A gathering last week showed how much further there is to go.

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Many candidate drugs to fight diseases in the developing world have been shelved before approval — until now. Enter a medical charity that made its name by bringing hope to the world's disaster zones. Declan Butler reports.

    • Declan Butler
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  • Think peer review takes too long? One mathematician has waited four years to have his paper refereed, only to hear that the exhausted reviewers can't be certain whether his proof is correct. George Szpiro investigates.

    • George Szpiro
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Lifeline

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News & Views

  • A powerful arm of the cellular defence against microbial invaders has been characterized. APOBEC3G, a protein that can fight off HIV, works by introducing 'typographical errors' during viral replication.

    • Yapeng Gu
    • Wesley I. Sundquist
    News & Views

  • Giant impacts on Earth destroyed the envelope of gases surrounding the fledgling planet — so how has the modern-day planet regained its atmosphere? The answer, it seems, is that all was not lost.

    • H. J. Melosh
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  • In most animal groups, females put more effort into rearing children, and males compete for female attention. But what about seahorses and pipefish, in which males invest the most in offspring?

    • Mark Pagel
    News & Views

  • Ultracold molecules have been made by applying a changing magnetic field to a quantum gas of 'fermionic' atoms. This raises the prospect of creating novel superfluids and molecular Bose–Einstein condensates.

    • Paul S. Julienne
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  • Identification of a pheromone that induces suckling in newborn rabbits sets a standard for studies on other mammals, and should prime investigations of the neurobiological basis of this behaviour.

    • Elliott M. Blass
    News & Views

  • Competition between plants is in part responsible for the diversity of vegetation in different ecosystems. Diversity studies have to take into account what is happening beneath the soil as well as above it.

    • Peter D. Moore
    News & Views

  • Different oscillations in the flux of X-rays emitted from a neutron star now seem to be linked to the frequency at which the star is spinning. That spin rate in turn hints at what the interior of such a star is made of.

    • Robert V. Wagoner
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  • Mechanically controlled ion channels — transduction channels — are a key feature of the cells that detect sound, touch and movement. In fruitfly ears, the channels belong to a very familiar group of proteins.

    • Rachel A. Dumont
    • Peter G. Gillespie
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Brief Communication

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Article

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Letter

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New on the Market

  • A model for oestrogen receptor defects, and in vitro antibody production.

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Prospects

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Special Report

  • For researchers in industry, a part-time teaching job can prove to be hugely beneficial. Myrna Watanabe reports from the classroom.

    • Myrna Watanabe
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