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Volume 445 Issue 7130, 22 February 2007

Editorial

  • Ten years on, mammalian cloning is moving forward with central societal issues remaining unresolved. Yet human reproductive cloning seems inevitable.

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  • The European Research Council, launched next week, is a stimulus for weak universities.

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  • A move to wrest control of US federal regulations from government agencies should be opposed.

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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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Business

  • Except for their use in military reconnaissance, unmanned aircraft have been seen mainly as expensive toys. But as technologies mature, Ned Stafford asks when drones are set to go commercial.

    Business
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News Feature

  • An Italian scientist revived the hunt for the mafia's boss of bosses. Declan Butler reports.

    • Declan Butler
    News Feature
  • How did a mud volcano come to destroy an Indonesian town? David Cyranoski reports from Sidoarjo.

    • David Cyranoski
    News Feature
  • Hundreds of orchid species lure their pollinators with the promise of sex, only to send them away unfulfilled. Heidi Ledford looks at how dishonesty gives them the evolutionary edge.

    • Heidi Ledford
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Connections

  • To understand cells as dynamic systems, mathematical tools are needed to fill the gap between molecular interactions and physiological consequences.

    • John J. Tyson
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News & Views

  • It is commonly believed that planning for the future is a skill unique to humans. Could other animals, even those as evolutionarily distant as western scrub-jays, share this skill with us?

    • Sara J. Shettleworth
    News & Views
  • Iodine atoms can be fitted with a chemical jacket to control the conversion of simple carbon chains into complex iodine-containing molecules. Previously, such reactions were only possible with enzymes.

    • Phil S. Baran
    • Thomas J. Maimone
    News & Views
  • Mathematical simulations of prey capture in an aqueous environment, tuned by observational data, have produced a fresh view of the forces generated by suction feeding in fishes.

    • Mason N. Dean
    • Adam P. Summers
    News & Views
  • Most common diseases arise from interaction between multiple genetic variations and factors such as diet. Studies of such diseases that exploit the rich data on variation in the human genome are just beginning.

    • Nelson B. Freimer
    • Chiara Sabatti
    News & Views
  • More than 150 subglacial lakes have been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The four most recent additions, found right at the start of fast flow in a large ice stream, suggest that the lakes influence ice dynamics.

    • Jack Kohler
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  • The nature of the boundary between water and oil is crucial to many nanometre-scale assembly processes, including protein folding. But until now, what the interface really looks like remained in dispute.

    • David Chandler
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Introduction

    • Barbara Marte
    • Joshua Finkelstein
    • Lesley Anson
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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

  • Translating global science extends beyond language.

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
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Careers and Recruitment

  • It's a tough brief to fill, but geneticists with mathematical and computing skills find jobs easy to get. Virginia Gewin reports.

    • Virginia Gewin
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Movers

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Networks and Support

  • Jumping to a new discipline brings both anxiety and satisfaction.

    • Alexander Griekspoor
    Networks and Support
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Career View

  • Balancing work and family has made me a better scientist.

    • Moira Sheehan
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Recruitment

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Authors

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Brief Communications Arising

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Insight

  • Skin is the largest organ of the body and performs many functions. It helps us sense our surroundings and provides a barrier to environmental insults. Greater understanding of the mechanisms of skin development and the molecular interactions within and between skin cells and other cell types is leading to new therapeutics and laboratory-engineered skin with which to treat skin disease and injury.

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