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Volume 437 Issue 7062, 20 October 2005

Editorial

  • Novel techniques that could help to make human embryonic stem-cell research morally acceptable will not immediately defuse the ethical debate over the work.

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  • Prescription guidelines should not be written by people with financial conflicts of interest.

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  • Germany's coalition government is well placed to reform the country's scientific system.

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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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Correction

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News Feature

  • Biologists, planetary scientists and engineers have gathered in southern Spain to test a robotic drill. They hope some day to probe for life beneath the surface of Mars. Jenny Hogan investigates.

    • Jenny Hogan
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  • For years it was assumed that tiny differences in our genetic make-up gave us our individual traits. Now it seems that those characteristics are caused by rearrangements of large chunks of our DNA — variations that could be the key to understanding disease. Erika Check investigates.

    • Erika Check
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Business

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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Essay

  • Hermann Weyl made prescient contributions to both mathematics and physics, but also strove to understand reality as a whole.

    • Frank Wilczek
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News & Views

  • DNA can shape itself into many forms to achieve its purposes in life. The crystal structure of the junction between two of its forms provides insight into how DNA might accomplish some of these acrobatics.

    • Richard R. Sinden
    News & Views
  • The chemical industry would be transformed if selective oxidation of hydrocarbons could be achieved efficiently using cheap and clean oxygen from the air. Doing that with gold as a catalyst is a method gaining in allure.

    • Masatake Haruta
    News & Views
  • An investigation of brain development in sea spiders provides hints about how the earliest arthropod head evolved. These observations are bound to provoke controversy in an already acrimonious field.

    • Graham E. Budd
    • Maximilian J. Telford
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  • Matter-wave interferometers are unique tools for exposing particles acting like waves — one of the stranger facets of quantum theory. They can even measure the quickening of an atom's ‘pulse’ as it flies past a surface.

    • Maarten DeKieviet
    • Joerg Schmiedmayer
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  • Cells have many ways of coping with damage to their DNA, but how are these all coordinated? It seems that BID — a regulator of programmed cell death — stands at the crossroads of several damage-response pathways.

    • Michael B. Kastan
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  • Black holes cannot yet be seen directly, but their influence on surrounding stars is allowing them to be identified with increasing certainty. That those stars are there to be influenced, though, raises other questions.

    • Fulvio Melia
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  • A comparison of two fruitfly genomes shows that much of their non-coding DNA is controlled by either negative or positive selection, dealing a double blow to the neutral theory of molecular evolution.

    • Alexey S. Kondrashov
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Brief Communication

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Letter

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Technology Feature

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Prospects

  • EMBO award winner points to good working environment as secret to his success.

    • Paul Smaglik
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Careers and Recruitment

  • Whatever title is afforded today's practitioners of molecular genetics, one thing is certain — success hinges on having a wide set of skills. Ricki Lewis reports.

    • Ricki Lewis
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Movers

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Career View

  • German organization aims to bring young scientists out of isolation.

    • Ulrich Schollwöck
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Graduate Journal

  • Poster session leads to networking opportunities.

    • Karolina Tkaczuk
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