Table of contents
Volume 443 Number 7111 pp481-604
In this issue (5 October 2006)
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Editorials
To build bridges, or to burn them p481
Environmentalists who have grown impatient with science and technology need not be dismissed as beyond the reach of reason.
doi:10.1038/443481a
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Power and particles p482
String theories dominate for good reason.
doi:10.1038/443482a
One small step p482
Nature Nanotechnology will spearhead rapid progress in understanding the nanoscale.
doi:10.1038/443482b
News
Special ReportClimate in court p486
A forthcoming case in the Supreme Court could push the United States towards regulating against global warming, says Emma Marris.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/443486a
Youthful duo snags a swift Nobel for RNA control of genes p488
Award comes just eight years after publication.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/443488a
Sidelines p488
doi:10.1038/443488b
Cosmic ripples net physics prize p489
Vision of early Universe makes its mark.
Katharine Sanderson and Jenny Hogan
doi:10.1038/443489a
Theorists snap over string pieces p491
Books spark war of words in physics.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/443491a
Q&A: Fabio Mussi p492
Italian research minister speaks his mind.
doi:10.1038/443492a
Cloners break away from the herd p492
Differentiated cells may hold more promise than adult stem cells.
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/443492b
Wikipedia rival calls in the experts p493
Encyclopaedia aims to recognize status of academic editors.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/443493a
Business
Copycats gear up to dog biotech brands p496
Pressure is mounting on US regulators to create an approval track for generic versions of biotechnology drugs. Meredith Wadman reports.
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/443496a
In brief p497
doi:10.1038/443497a
Market watch p497
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/443497b
News Features
Environmental activism: In the name of nature p498
What drives environmental activists to fire-bomb laboratories? Emma Marris investigates a radical fringe of the US green movement.
doi:10.1038/443498a
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Driven to market p502
We're selfish and rational — that's what classical economics says. But play parlour games with brain scanners and you'll find we're pulled in different directions when it comes to money. Jonah Lehrer reports.
doi:10.1038/443502a
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A novel reality p505
Can an advertising executive write an accurate thriller about science? Britta Danger talks to a German author who thinks he has pulled it off.
doi:10.1038/443505a
Correspondence
Speaking different languages on biodiversity p506
R. M. Ewers and A. S. L. Rodrigues
doi:10.1038/443506a
Bench-to-bedside solution to funding problems p506
Samuel F. Bakhoum
doi:10.1038/443506b
Learning from painful experience of disaster p506
Steven B. Oppenheimer
doi:10.1038/443506c
Hoyle's observations were right on the ball p506
Simon K Rushton and Rob Gray
doi:10.1038/443506d
Books and Arts
Unburdened by proof p507
String theorists are setting a worrying trend by downplaying the need for experimental evidence.
George Ellis reviews The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
doi:10.1038/443507a
Developing diversity p508
Michael Karin reviews The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution by Eric H. Davidson
doi:10.1038/443508a
Putting DNA on the map p509
Denis Thieffry reviews Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
doi:10.1038/443509a
Science in Culture p510
A series of exhibitions across Europe show how Leonardo da Vinci linked art and science.
Stefano Grillo
doi:10.1038/443510a
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News and Views
Microbiology: Death of a chaperone p511
To help their growth and spread, bacteria rely on virulence factors, many of which are toxic. One such factor is highly potent, as it attacks a key protein that 'chaperones' other proteins through their synthesis.
Cesare Montecucco and Maurizio Molinari
doi:10.1038/443511a
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Atomic physics: Quantum leap from light to atoms p512
Quantum-information networks use matter for long-term storage and light for long-distance transmission. Teleporting a quantum state from light onto matter has now been achieved.
Mikhail Lukin and Matthew Eisaman
doi:10.1038/443512a
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Cell cycle: Complex evolution p513
Cell division is fundamental to life, and so might be expected to have changed little during evolution. Data from four species show that the genes involved can vary, but the regulation of complexes is a common theme.
Gavin Sherlock
doi:10.1038/443513a
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50 & 100 years ago p513
doi:10.1038/443513b
Earth Science: Lost lithium found p516
Lithium isotopes provide a fingerprint of recycled material in Earth's upper mantle. But this fingerprint is different from what had been expected. So do we need to reassess our ideas about how the upper mantle evolves?
Elisabeth Widom
doi:10.1038/443516a
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Nanotechnology: Downsizing SQUIDs p517
Jessica Thomas
doi:10.1038/443517a
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Microbiology: Resurrecting a broken genome p517
A remarkable bacterium can survive extraordinary doses of ionizing radiation that shatter its genome into thousands of pieces. How does it accurately reassemble these DNA fragments into an intact genome?
Susan T. Lovett
doi:10.1038/443517b
Correction p519
doi:10.1038/443519a
News and Views Feature
Genetics: Junk DNA as an evolutionary force p521
Transposable elements were long dismissed as useless, but they are emerging as major players in evolution. Their interactions with the genome and the environment affect how genes are translated into physical traits.
Christian Biémont and Cristina Vieira
doi:10.1038/443521a
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Brief Communications
Biomechanics: Robotic whiskers used to sense features p525
Joseph H. Solomon and Mitra J. Hartmann
doi:10.1038/443525a
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Top of page
Brief Communications Arising
Gluconeogenesis: Re-evaluating the FOXO1–PGC-1
connection pE10
Marcia M. Schilling, James K. Oeser, Jared N. Boustead, Brian P. Flemming and Richard M. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/nature05288
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Review
From in vivo to in silico biology and back p527
Barbara Di Ventura, Caroline Lemerle, Konstantinos Michalodimitrakis and Luis Serrano
doi:10.1038/nature05127
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Articles
Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge p534
Kailash C. Sahu, Stefano Casertano, Howard E. Bond, Jeff Valenti, T. Ed Smith, Dante Minniti, Manuela Zoccali, Mario Livio, Nino Panagia, Nikolai Piskunov, Thomas M. Brown, Timothy Brown, Alvio Renzini, R. Michael Rich, Will Clarkson and Stephen Lubow
doi:10.1038/nature05158
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Genome-wide genetic analysis of polyploidy in yeast p541
Zuzana Storchová, Amanda Breneman, Jessica Cande, Joshua Dunn, Kendra Burbank, Eileen O'Toole and David Pellman
doi:10.1038/nature05178
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (684K) | Supplementary information
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AB5 subtilase cytotoxin inactivates the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP p548
Adrienne W. Paton, Travis Beddoe, Cheleste M. Thorpe, James C. Whisstock, Matthew C. J. Wilce, Jamie Rossjohn, Ursula M. Talbot and James C. Paton
doi:10.1038/nature05124
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Letters
Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection p553
J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, H. Che and M. A. Shay
doi:10.1038/nature05116
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Quantum teleportation between light and matter p557
Jacob F. Sherson, Hanna Krauter, Rasmus K. Olsson, Brian Julsgaard, Klemens Hammerer, Ignacio Cirac and Eugene S. Polzik
doi:10.1038/nature05136
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Rapid subtropical North Atlantic salinity oscillations across Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles p561
Matthew W. Schmidt, Maryline J. Vautravers and Howard J. Spero
doi:10.1038/nature05121
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Lithium isotope evidence for subduction-enriched mantle in the source of mid-ocean-ridge basalts p565
Tim Elliott, Alex Thomas, Alistair Jeffcoate and Yaoling Niu
doi:10.1038/nature05144
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Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans p569
Ksenija Zahradka, Dea Slade, Adriana Bailone, Suzanne Sommer, Dietrich Averbeck, Mirjana Petranovic, Ariel B. Lindner and Miroslav Radman
doi:10.1038/nature05160
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Functional epistasis on a common MHC haplotype associated with multiple sclerosis p574
Jon W. Gregersen, Kamil R. Kranc, Xiayi Ke, Pia Svendsen, Lars S. Madsen, Allan Randrup Thomsen, Lon R. Cardon, John I. Bell and Lars Fugger
doi:10.1038/nature05133
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Genomic analysis of increased host immune and cell death responses induced by 1918 influenza virus p578
John C. Kash, Terrence M. Tumpey, Sean C. Proll, Victoria Carter, Olivia Perwitasari, Matthew J. Thomas, Christopher F. Basler, Peter Palese, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Adolfo García-Sastre, David E. Swayne and Michael G. Katze
doi:10.1038/nature05181
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Sodium-dependent uptake of inorganic phosphate by the intracellular malaria parasite p582
Kevin J. Saliba, Rowena E. Martin, Angelika Bröer, Roselani I. Henry, C. Siobhan McCarthy, Megan J. Downie, Richard J. W. Allen, Kylie A. Mullin, Geoffrey I. McFadden, Stefan Bröer and Kiaran Kirk
doi:10.1038/nature05149
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Identification of a mammalian mitochondrial porphyrin transporter p586
Partha C. Krishnamurthy, Guoqing Du, Yu Fukuda, Daxi Sun, Janardhan Sampath, Kelly E. Mercer, Junfeng Wang, Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, K. Gopal Murti and John D. Schuetz
doi:10.1038/nature05125
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Molecular architecture and assembly of the DDB1–CUL4A ubiquitin ligase machinery p590
Stephane Angers, Ti Li, Xianhua Yi, Michael J. MacCoss, Randall T. Moon and Ning Zheng
doi:10.1038/nature05175
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Co-evolution of transcriptional and post-translational cell-cycle regulation p594
Lars Juhl Jensen, Thomas Skøt Jensen, Ulrik de Lichtenberg, Søren Brunak and Peer Bork
doi:10.1038/nature05186
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Corrigendum
Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization p598
Seyed-Reza Afraz, Roozbeh Kiani and Hossein Esteky
doi:10.1038/nature05153
Erratum
Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity p598
Maria Dornelas, Sean R. Connolly and Terence P. Hughes
doi:10.1038/nature05187
Corrigenda
Sexual reproduction selects for robustness and negative epistasis in artificial gene networks p598
Ricardo B. R. Azevedo, Rolf Lohaus, Suraj Srinivasan, Kristen K. Dang and Christina L. Burch
doi:10.1038/nature05189
Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum p598
Mark Pagani, Nikolai Pedentchouk, Matthew Huber, Appy Sluijs, Stefan Schouten, Henk Brinkhuis, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Gerald R. Dickens & the Expedition 302 test Scientists and , (Jan Backman, Steve Clemens, Thomas Cronin, Frédérique Eynaud, Jérôme Gattacceca, Martin Jakobsson, Ric Jordan, Michael Kaminski, John King, Nalân Koc, Nahysa C. Martinez, Jens Matthiessen, David McInroy, Theodore C. Moore, Jr, Kathryn Moran, Matthew O'Regan, Jonaotaro Onodera, Heiko Pälike, Brice Rea, Domenico Rio, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, David C. Smith, Ruediger Stein, Kristen E. K. St John, Itsuki Suto, Noritoshi Suzuki, Kozo Takahashi, Mahito Watanabe and Masanobu Yamamoto)
doi:10.1038/nature05211
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p599
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7111-599a
Special Report
A jumping off point p600
The recent flood of genome sequences has given evolutionary genetics a boost. Ricki Lewis takes a sharp look at a varied field.
Ricki Lewis
doi:10.1038/nj7111-600a
Career Views
Sam Aronson, director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York p602
Sam Aronson takes the helm at Brookhaven.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7111-602a
Stand up and be quoted p602
Society of young UK scientists fosters better interaction with media.
Richard Van Noorden
doi:10.1038/nj7111-602b
D-day p602
After years of preparation, dissertation day looms large.
Andreas Andersson
doi:10.1038/nj7111-602c
Highlights
Highlight: The National Institutes of Health
doi:10.1038/nj0126
