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Volume 431 Issue 7006, 16 September 2004

Volume 431 Issue 7006

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Editorial

  • The prominence of embryonic stem cells as a key issue in the US presidential election campaign is, at best, a mixed blessing for science.

    Editorial

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  • Using RNA to manipulate gene expression is a powerful experimental tool, but can lead researchers astray.

    Editorial
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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • The party conventions are over, and the candidates have been anointed. Now it's a straight race to the tape between President George W. Bush and his challenger John Kerry. Nature asked them where they stand on science.

    • Colin Macilwain
    News Feature
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

  • Do strangers cooperate when they have to work together?

    • Herbert Gintis
    Books & Arts

  • A documentary film reveals the great surrealist's passion for science.

    • Alison Abbott
    Books & Arts
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Turning Points

  • Theory and experiment meet to find the key adaptor for gene translation.

    • Mahlon Hoagland
    Turning Points
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News & Views

  • Electromechanical resonators are components in many technologies. A nanometre-size version — a resonating carbon nanotube — has now been created that can be tuned over a range of frequencies.

    • A. N. Cleland
    News & Views

  • A central part of the machinery of cell division is the spindle. The creation and operation of this structure seem to require a component of the cell's infrastructure not previously associated with it.

    • Margaret A. Titus
    News & Views

  • The relative abundances of magnesium isotopes in the Allende meteorite reveal the precise chronology of the early Solar System — a geochemical second hand on the clock of creation.

    • Alex Halliday
    News & Views

  • The origins of the arrow worms have long been obscure, but molecular studies are finally bringing the true evolutionary position of these beautiful marine predators into sharper focus.

    • Maximilian J. Telford
    News & Views

  • To what extent do photosynthetic organisms use quantum mechanics to optimize the capture and distribution of light? Answers are emerging from the examination of energy transfer at the submolecular scale.

    • Graham R. Fleming
    • Gregory D. Scholes
    News & Views

  • Identification of the enzyme that mediates insertion of a rare amino acid, pyrrolysine, into protein solves a puzzle and expands the rules of the genetic code established nearly half a century ago.

    • Paul Schimmel
    • Kirk Beebe
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Research Highlights

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Brief Communication

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Article

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Letter

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Introduction

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Review Article

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Prospects

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Special Report

  • Four years has become the magic number for many graduate programmes in the United States and Europe. Eugene Russo explains the logic behind the maths.

    • Eugene Russo
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Career View

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