Table of contents
Volume 428 Number 6979 pp105-238
Editorials
Time for a French revolution p105
France's scientists take to the streets more readily than most, but are now rightly confronting a neglectful government. They should resist short-term concessions unless these help to secure the long-term health of research.
doi:10.1038/428105a
Enhancing Nature's services p105
Introducing greater opportunity for feedback and improved navigation to relevant literature.
doi:10.1038/428105b
News
Transgenic planting approved despite scepticism of UK public p107
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/428107a
Californian county bans transgenic crops p107
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/428107b
Wave of protest strikes Europe's universities p108
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/428108a
French scientists prepare for mass resignation p108
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/428108b
Terror watchdog set up for 'dual use' biology p109
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/428109a
Nigerian states disrupt campaign to eradicate polio p109
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/428109b
Biotechnologists seek to bridge South Asian divide p110
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/428110a
Problems of the poor set to face cost–benefit treatment p110
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/428110b
Air force clips the wings of UK wind power p111
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/428111a
Scheme to track rare dolphins hits troubled waters p111
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/428111b
News Features
Greenland's climate: A rising tide p114
The ice covering Greenland holds enough water to raise the oceans seven metres — and it's starting to melt. How far will it go? Quirin Schiermeier wades into the evidence.
doi:10.1038/428114a
Ageing: Growing old gracefully p116
Across the industrialized world, birth rates are falling and people are living longer. This will require a new focus on research to promote healthy ageing, rather than simply treating the diseases of old age. Alison Abbott reports.
doi:10.1038/428116a
Correspondence
Time to choose the right site for a fusion reactor p119
Europe is ready, willing and able to host the ITER, so let's get on and meet the challenge.
Paul Vandenplas
doi:10.1038/428119a
US science has never been more coherent p119
John H. Marburger
doi:10.1038/428119b
More to consider about European research body p119
Julia Higgins
doi:10.1038/428119c
Commentary
High-tech cluster bombs p121
Why successful biotech hubs are the exception, not the rule.
doi:10.1038/428121a
Books and Arts
Why we did it p123
An account of the driving forces behind the unfolding of human civilization.
Melvin Konner reviews A Brief History of the Human Race by Michael Cook
doi:10.1038/428123a
Sowing seeds of discontent p124
Anthony Trewavas reviews So Shall We Reap by Colin Tudge
doi:10.1038/428124a
The age-old problem of mortality p125
Caleb E. Finch reviews The Biology of Death: Origins of Mortality by André Klarsfeld and Frédéric Revah
doi:10.1038/428125a
Dress for DNA p125
Mary Purton
doi:10.1038/428125b
News and Views
Hurricanes and butterflies p127
Chaotic systems can be characterized by the swirling patterns of 'strange attractors'. A powerful method to determine their behaviour has been validated for the most famous case, the Lorenz attractor.
Thomas C. Halsey and Mogens H. Jensen
doi:10.1038/428127a
Human longevity: The grandmother effect p128
Why do women live long past the age of child-bearing? Contrary to common wisdom, this phenomenon is not new, and is not due to support for the elderly. Rather, grannies have a lot to offer their grandchildren.
Kristen Hawkes
doi:10.1038/428128a
Quantum information: Flight of the qubit p129
A trapped ion emits a photon. Ion and photon are entangled, so the photon carries away information on the state of the ion. Now realized, this system could become a communication link in a quantum network.
Eugene Polzik
doi:10.1038/428129a
Global change: An Earth on fire p130
Fifty-five million years ago the Earth suddenly got much hotter. Events are recorded in a 'spike' in the carbon-isotope record, for which a provocative new explanation has been proposed.
Helmut Weissert and Stefano M. Bernasconi
doi:10.1038/428130a
100 and 50 years ago p131
doi:10.1038/428131a
Astrophysics: The inconstant constant? p132
Has the value of the fine-structure constant changed over the history of the Universe? An earlier analysis of radiation from distant quasars suggested the answer is yes — a new analysis says no.
Lennox L. Cowie and Antoinette Songaila
doi:10.1038/428132a
Condensed-matter physics: Supramolecular twelve-a-side p133
May Chiao
doi:10.1038/428133a
Stem cells: More like a man p133
Most female mammals experience a reproductive decline with increased age, previously attributed to the instability of ageing oocytes. But could it be due to a previously unrecognized stem-cell well drying up?
Allan C. Spradling
doi:10.1038/428133b
Planetary science: Secrets of the deep p134
The magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are markedly different from those of other planets in the Solar System. Can this be attributed to structural differences deep inside the planets?
Jonathan Aurnou
doi:10.1038/428134a
news and views in brief p136
doi:10.1038/428136a
Brief Communications
Live birth after ovarian tissue transplant p137
Fresh pieces of monkey ovary remain fully functional even when moved to a new site.
D. M. Lee, R. R. Yeoman, D. E. Battaglia, R. L. Stouffer, M. B. Zelinski-Wooten, J. W. Fanton and D. P. Wolf
doi:10.1038/428137a
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Tissue engineering: Creation of long-lasting blood vessels p138
Naoto Koike, Dai Fukumura, Oliver Gralla, Patrick Au, Jeffrey S. Schechner and Rakesh K. Jain
doi:10.1038/428138a
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Animal behaviour (communication arising): Inequity aversion in capuchins? p139
Joseph Henrich
doi:10.1038/428139a
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Animal behaviour: Fair refusal by capuchin monkeys p140
Clive D. L. Wynne
doi:10.1038/428140a
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Animal behaviour: Fair refusal by capuchin monkeys p140
Sarah F. Brosnan and Frans B. M. de Waal
doi:10.1038/428140b
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Corrigendum p140
doi:10.1038/428140c
Progress
Has the Higgs boson been discovered? p141
Peter Renton
doi:10.1038/nature02324
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Article
Germline stem cells and follicular renewal in the postnatal mammalian ovary p145
Joshua Johnson, Jacqueline Canning, Tomoko Kaneko, James K. Pru and Jonathan L. Tilly
doi:10.1038/nature02316
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See also: News and Views by Spradling
Letters to Nature
Convective-region geometry as the cause of Uranus' and Neptune's unusual magnetic fields p151
Sabine Stanley and Jeremy Bloxham
doi:10.1038/nature02376
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See also: News and Views by Aurnou
Observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon p153
B. B. Blinov, D. L. Moehring, L.- M. Duan and C. Monroe
doi:10.1038/nature02377
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See also: News and Views by Polzik
Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasicrystals p157
Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar, Yongsong Liu, Virgil Percec, Andrés E. Dulcey and Jamie K. Hobbs
doi:10.1038/nature02368
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Links between salinity variation in the Caribbean and North Atlantic thermohaline circulation p160
Matthew W. Schmidt, Howard J. Spero and David W. Lea
doi:10.1038/nature02346
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Seismic reflection imaging of two megathrust shear zones in the northern Cascadia subduction zone p163
Andrew J. Calvert
doi:10.1038/nature02372
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Unified spatial scaling of species and their trophic interactions p167
Ulrich Brose, Annette Ostling, Kateri Harrison and Neo D. Martinez
doi:10.1038/nature02297
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Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests p171
William F. Laurance, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Susan G. Laurance, Richard Condit, Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Ana C. Sanchez-Thorin, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ana Andrade, Sammya D'Angelo, José E. Ribeiro and Christopher W. Dick
doi:10.1038/nature02383
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Sustainable trophy hunting of African lions p175
Karyl Whitman, Anthony M. Starfield, Henley S. Quadling and Craig Packer
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Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women p178
Mirkka Lahdenperä, Virpi Lummaa, Samuli Helle, Marc Tremblay and Andrew F. Russell
doi:10.1038/nature02367
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See also: News and Views by Hawkes
Immunogenicity of a highly attenuated MVA smallpox vaccine and protection against monkeypox p182
Patricia L. Earl, Jeffrey L. Americo, Linda S. Wyatt, Leigh Anne Eller, J. Charles Whitbeck, Gary H. Cohen, Roselyn J. Eisenberg, Christopher J. Hartmann, David L. Jackson, David A. Kulesh, Mark J. Martinez, David M. Miller, Eric M. Mucker, Joshua D. Shamblin, Susan H. Zwiers, John W. Huggins, Peter B. Jahrling and Bernard Moss
doi:10.1038/nature02331
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Myocardin and ternary complex factors compete for SRF to control smooth muscle gene expression p185
Zhigao Wang, Da-Zhi Wang, Dirk Hockemeyer, John McAnally, Alfred Nordheim and Eric N. Olson
doi:10.1038/nature02382
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Control of the SCFSkp2–Cks1 ubiquitin ligase by the APC/CCdh1 ubiquitin ligase p190
Tarig Bashir, N. Valerio Dorrello, Virginia Amador, Daniele Guardavaccaro and Michele Pagano
doi:10.1038/nature02330
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Degradation of the SCF component Skp2 in cell-cycle phase G1 by the anaphase-promoting complex p194
Wenyi Wei, Nagi G. Ayad, Yong Wan, Guo-Jun Zhang, Marc W. Kirschner and William G. Kaelin, Jr
doi:10.1038/nature02381
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Insight into tubulin regulation from a complex with colchicine and a stathmin-like domain p198
Raimond B.G. Ravelli, Benoît Gigant, Patrick A. Curmi, Isabelle Jourdain, Sylvie Lachkar, André Sobel and Marcel Knossow
doi:10.1038/nature02393
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China
IntroductionMessages to China from the West p203
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/428203a
Commentary
Cultural reflections p204
China's economy is booming and yet its scientific output isn't. Mu-ming Poo explains why.
Mu-ming Poo
doi:10.1038/428204a
Making an impact p206
Compared with researchers in the United States, Chinese scientists publish far fewer highly cited papers. Ray Wu believes that this can change.
Ray Wu
doi:10.1038/428206a
The new Silk Road p208
Kenneth Chien and Luther Chien look to the past to inspire biomedical research of the future.
Kenneth Chien and Luther Chien
doi:10.1038/428208a
An embryonic nation p210
Liberal views on human-embryo technology make China ideal to become a world leader in this field. Xiangzhong Yang explores its potential.
Xiangzhong Yang
doi:10.1038/428210a
A case for conservation p213
China urgently needs to take action to preserve its wealth of biodiversity, say Chung-I Wu, Suhua Shi and Ya-ping Zhang.
Chung-I Wu, Suhua Shi and Ya-ping Zhang
doi:10.1038/428213a
Agriculture of the future p215
Current technology will be insufficient to meet China's food demand in 2050. It is time to take action, says T. C. Tso.
T. C. Tso
doi:10.1038/428215a
Making big money from small technology p218
With venture-capital funds depressed, kick-starting a technology business can prove to be problematic. James C. Hsiao and Kenneth Fong offer some advice for budding entrepreneurs.
James C. Hsiao and Kenneth Fong
doi:10.1038/428218a
Follow your nose p221
Alice Shih-hou Huang draws on her own experience to highlight the many careers and opportunities open to scientists in the West and in China.
Alice Shih-hou Huang
doi:10.1038/428221a
Technology Features
Drug target identification: A question of biology p225
Complete genome sequences have provided a plethora of potential drug targets. But the hard task of finding their weak spots is just beginning, as Caitlin Smith finds out.
Caitlin Smith
doi:10.1038/428225a
Running interference on the genome p225
doi:10.1038/428225b
Drug discovery in reverse p227
doi:10.1038/428227a
Getting up speed p229
doi:10.1038/428229a
Table of suppliers p232
doi:10.1038/428232a
Naturejobs
ProspectsThe waiting game p235
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6979-235a
Special Report
Reinventing the Silk Road p236
Can the intellectual route from China to the United States become a two-way street? Paul Smaglik investigates.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6979-236a
Career View
Graduate Journal: The lab environment p238
Philipp Angerer
doi:10.1038/nj6979-238a
Bricks & Mortar p238
Kristian Helin
doi:10.1038/nj6979-238b
Movers p238
doi:10.1038/nj6979-238c
