Table of contents
Volume 424 Number 6946 pp237-353
Editorial
Don't believe the hype p237
Nanotechnologists are increasingly concerned about the lurid descriptions of the dangers of their work being promulgated by environmental campaigners. But the field's proponents aren't helping their cause by making exaggerated claims.
doi:10.1038/424237a
News
China launches primate centre to broaden medical use of monkeys p239
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/424239a
Are China's bioethics under control? p239
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/424239b
Experts find fault with US plan to intercept missiles at source p240
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/424240a
AIDS research cut to pay for anthrax vaccine p241
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/424241a
Time runs short for opponents of chemical-testing rules p241
Glenn Murphy
doi:10.1038/424241b
Seed bank raises hope of Iraqi crop comeback p242
Tom Clarke
doi:10.1038/424242a
Ants join online colony to boost conservation efforts p242
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/424242b
Arctic rockets give glimpse of the atmosphere's top layers p243
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/424243a
Preliminary inquiry clears brain scientist of fraud allegation p243
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/424243b
News Features
Nanotechnology: A little knowledge... p246
Nanotechnology is set to be the next campaign focus for environmental groups. Can scientists avoid the mistakes made over genetically modified food, and secure public trust for their research? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
doi:10.1038/424246a
Neuroscience: A new atlas of the brain p249
When considering the location of human cognitive functions, neuroscientists still refer to imprecise anatomical maps drawn up almost a century ago. But not for much longer, says Alison Abbott.
doi:10.1038/424249a
Correspondence
Virtual solution to carbon cost of conferences p251
Improved technology is making virtual meetings more like real ones, without the flights.
David S. Reay
doi:10.1038/424251a
Looking into the safety of AAV vectors p251
Mark A. Kay and Hiroyuki Nakai
doi:10.1038/424251b
Books and Arts
A troubled pilgrim's progress p253
The compelling personal journey of a founding father of cellular immunology.
Gustav J. V. Nossal reviews Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne by Thomas Söderqvist
doi:10.1038/424253a
Scanning Shakespeare p254
Kevan A. C. Martin reviews The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging by Paul M. Matthews and Jeffery McQuain
doi:10.1038/424254a
There and back again p255
Axel Meyer reviews The Development of Animal Form: Ontogeny, Morphology, and Evolution by Alessandro Minelli
doi:10.1038/424255a
Portrait: Updating Hooke p255
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/424255b
News and Views
Ecology: Evolution in population dynamics p257
In their study of predator–prey cycles, investigators have assumed that they do not need to worry about evolution. The discovery of population cycles driven by evolutionary factors will change that view.
Peter Turchin
doi:10.1038/424257a
Accelerator physics: In the wake of success p258
Particle accelerators tend to be large and expensive. But an alternative technology, which could result in more compact, cheaper machines, is proving its viability for the acceleration of subatomic particles.
Robert Bingham
doi:10.1038/424258a
Ageing: Microarraying mortality p259
Understanding how we grow old is a long-sought goal. A new large-scale study of gene expression in worms allows us to glimpse the complex biochemistry of lifespan.
David Gems and Joshua J. McElwee
Global change: The past and future of El Niño p261
A new study of past variations in El Niño behaviour provides a much improved record from pre-instrumental times. It will be a valuable resource for testing the models used in climate prediction.
Sandy Tudhope and Mat Collins
doi:10.1038/424261a
100 and 50 years ago p261
doi:10.1038/424261b
Quantum physics: Uncertain future p262
The uncertainty principle limits the accuracy of measurement at the quantum level. A device sensitive to subatomic-scale displacement has come close to revealing that principle in action in the macroscopic world.
Miles Blencowe
doi:10.1038/424262a
Evolutionary biology: Body plans and simple brains p263
Genes expressed in the vertebrate brain and spinal cord show up in the surface nerve net of a closely related group of invertebrates. Could this mean that brains started out on the body surface?
Thurston Lacalli
doi:10.1038/424263a
News and views in brief p265
doi:10.1038/424265a
Brief Communications
Ecology: Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise p267
Great tits hit the high notes to ensure that their mating calls are heard above the city's din.
Hans Slabbekoorn and Margriet Peet
doi:10.1038/424267a
Fluid dynamics: Vortex rings in a constant electric field p267
David G. Grier
doi:10.1038/424267b
Development rate (communication arising): Modelling developmental time and temperature p268
Peter Rombough
doi:10.1038/424268a
Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? p269
Ángel López-Urrutia
doi:10.1038/424269a
Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? p270
James F. Gillooly, Eric L. Charnov, James H. Brown, Van M. Savage and Geoffrey B. West
doi:10.1038/424270a
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Articles
El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium p271
Kim M. Cobb, Christopher D. Charles, Hai Cheng and R. Lawrence Edwards
doi:10.1038/nature01779
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (512K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Tudhope & Collins
Genes that act downstream of DAF-16 to influence the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans p277
Coleen T. Murphy, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Andrew Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie Ahringer, Hao Li and Cynthia Kenyon
doi:10.1038/nature01789
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (538K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Gems & McElwee
Letters to Nature
Type II supernovae as a significant source of interstellar dust p285
Loretta Dunne, Stephen Eales, Rob Ivison, Haley Morgan and Mike Edmunds
doi:10.1038/nature01792
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Efficient disruption of small asteroids by Earth's atmosphere p288
P. A. Bland and N. A. Artemieva
doi:10.1038/nature01757
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (345K)
Nanometre-scale displacement sensing using a single electron transistor p291
Robert G. Knobel and Andrew N. Cleland
doi:10.1038/nature01773
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See also: News and Views by Blencowe
Creep-strengthening of steel at high temperatures using nano-sized carbonitride dispersions p294
Masaki Taneike, Fujio Abe and Kota Sawada
doi:10.1038/nature01740
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (190K) | Supplementary information
Measuring dipolar width across liquid–liquid interfaces with 'molecular rulers' p296
William H. Steel and Robert A. Walker
doi:10.1038/nature01791
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Palaeoceanographic implications of genetic variation in living North Atlantic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma p299
D. Bauch, K. Darling, J. Simstich, H.A. Bauch, H. Erlenkeuser and D. Kroon
doi:10.1038/nature01778
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Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system p303
Takehito Yoshida, Laura E. Jones, Stephen P. Ellner, Gregor F. Fussmann and Nelson G. Hairston, Jr
doi:10.1038/nature01767
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (293K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Turchin
Complex hybrid origin of genetic caste determination in harvester ants p306
Sara Helms Cahan and Laurent Keller
doi:10.1038/nature01744
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (195K) | Supplementary information
Sustained division of the attentional spotlight p309
M. M. Müller, P. Malinowski, T. Gruber and S. A. Hillyard
doi:10.1038/nature01812
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Perceptual consequences of centre–surround antagonism in visual motion processing p312
Duje Tadin, Joseph S. Lappin, Lee A. Gilroy and Randolph Blake
doi:10.1038/nature01800
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Analgesia and hyperalgesia from GABA-mediated modulation of the cerebral cortex p316
Luc Jasmin, Samuel D. Rabkin, Alberto Granato, Abdennacer Boudah and Peter T. Ohara
doi:10.1038/nature01808
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A cytoplasmic region determines single-channel conductance in 5-HT3 receptors p321
Stephen P. Kelley, James I. Dunlop, Ewen F. Kirkness, Jeremy J. Lambert and John A. Peters
doi:10.1038/nature01788
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Viral infection switches non-plasmacytoid dendritic cells into high interferon producers p324
Sandra S. Diebold, Maria Montoya, Hermann Unger, Lena Alexopoulou, Polly Roy, Linsey E. Haswell, Aymen Al-Shamkhani, Richard Flavell, Persephone Borrow and Caetano Reis e Sousa
doi:10.1038/nature01783
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Impairment of dendritic cells and adaptive immunity by anthrax lethal toxin p329
Anshu Agrawal, Jai Lingappa, Stephen H. Leppla, Sudhanshu Agrawal, Abdul Jabbar, Conrad Quinn and Bali Pulendran
doi:10.1038/nature01794
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Two-piconewton slip bond between fibronectin and the cytoskeleton depends on talin p334
Guoying Jiang, Grégory Giannone, David R. Critchley, Emiko Fukumoto and Michael P. Sheetz
doi:10.1038/nature01805
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Structural transitions and elasticity from torque measurements on DNA p338
Zev Bryant, Michael D. Stone, Jeff Gore, Steven B. Smith, Nicholas R. Cozzarelli and Carlos Bustamante
doi:10.1038/nature01810
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Visualization of an unstable coiled coil from the scallop myosin rod p341
Yu Li, Jerry H. Brown, Ludmilla Reshetnikova, Antal Blazsek, László Farkas, László Nyitray and Carolyn Cohen
doi:10.1038/nature01801
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New on the Market
Cell, cell, cell p347
New for tissue and cell culture.
doi:10.1038/424347a
Naturejobs
ProspectsGolden handcuffs p351
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6946-351a
REGIONS
Western Japan: Go west, young postdoc p352
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/nj6946-352a
