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Brief Communications Arising

Bone Metastasis: Can osteoclasts be excluded? pE19

T. John Martin and Gregory R. Mundy

doi:10.1038/nature05657


Bone Metastasis: Can osteoclasts be excluded? (Reply) pE19

D. Holstead Jones, Tomoki Nakashima, Otto H. Sanchez, Ivona Kozieradzki, Svetlana V. Komarova, Ildiko Sarosi, Sean Morony, Evelyn Rubin, Renu Sarao, Carlo V. Hojilla, Vukoslav Komnenovic, Young-Yun Kong, Martin Schreiber, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Stephen M. Sims, Rama Khokha, Teiji Wada and Josef M. Penninger

doi:10.1038/nature05658


Making the paper: Mark Achtman pxiii

A gut bacterium throws light on ancient human migrations.

doi:10.1038/7130xiiia


Abstractions pxiii

doi:10.1038/7130xiiib


Key collaborators pxiii

doi:10.1038/7130xiiic


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Editorials

Dolly's legacy p795

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

doi:10.1038/445795a


Rise to the challenge p795

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

doi:10.1038/445795b


Regulatory fist-fight p796

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

doi:10.1038/445796a


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Research Highlights

Research highlights p798

doi:10.1038/445798a


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News

Special Report

Cloning special: Dolly: a decade on p800

Ten years ago, the birth of Dolly the sheep sparked a media frenzy and a prolonged ethical debate. Today, the arguments have switched focus to stem cells, and the research itself is beginning to change tack.

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/445800a


Cloning special: Dolly: a hard act to follow p802

Cloning mammals has proved to be more difficult than researchers hoped.

Erika Check

doi:10.1038/445802a


Direct view of a dark and distant world p803

Spectra from gas giant hint at a planet shrouded in cloud.

Katharine Sanderson

doi:10.1038/445803a


Japanese TV show admits faking science p804

Programme makers redubbed interviews and changed experimental results.

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/445804a


Sidelines p806

doi:10.1038/445806a


Role of state climatologist comes under scrutiny p806

Local governments crack down on unorthodox views.

Michael Hopkin

doi:10.1038/445806b


News in brief p807

doi:10.1038/445807a


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Business

Spy in the sky p808

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.

doi:10.1038/445808a


In brief p809

doi:10.1038/445809a


Market watch p809

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/445809b


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News Features

Forensic science: Ghost buster p811

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

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/445811a


Indonesian eruption: Muddy waters p812

How did a mud volcano come to destroy an Indonesian town? David Cyranoski reports from Sidoarjo.

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/445812a


Plant biology: The flower of seduction p816

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

doi:10.1038/445816a


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Correspondence

Concrete evidence that volcanoes can be stopped p818

John Carpenter

doi:10.1038/445818a


Newspaper scare headlines can be counter-productive p818

Mike Hulme

doi:10.1038/445818b


Niche drugs aren't a cheap alternative to blockbusters p818

W. Ross Tracey

doi:10.1038/445818c


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Books and Arts

Calamity gene p819

When biotechnology spins out of control.

doi:10.1038/445819a


The two faces of science p820

doi:10.1038/445820a


Ordering according to size p821

doi:10.1038/445821a


For the love of Greece p822

doi:10.1038/445822a


The pleasure principle p822

doi:10.1038/445822b


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Essay

Connections

Bringing cartoons to life p823

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

John J. Tyson

doi:10.1038/445823a


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News and Views

動物行動:明日の朝食を準備する

Animal Behaviour: Planning for breakfast p825

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

doi:10.1038/445825a


有機化学:ヨウ素原子のためのタキシード

Organic chemistry: A tuxedo for iodine atoms p826

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 and Thomas J. Maimone

doi:10.1038/445826a


生体力学:魚の採餌はほとんど抵抗がない

Biomechanics: Fish feeding hardly a drag p827

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 and Adam P. Summers

doi:10.1038/445827a


50 & 100 Years Ago p827

doi:10.1038/445827b


ヒトの遺伝学:よくある病気につきものの遺伝的変異

Human genetics: Variants in common diseases p828

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 and Chiara Sabatti

doi:10.1038/nature05568


音楽:みんなで歌いましょう

Music: Let the people sing p829

Richard Webb

doi:10.1038/445829a


雪氷学:潤滑剤となる湖

Glaciology: Lubricating lakes p830

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

doi:10.1038/445830a


物理化学:濁り水の上の油

Physical chemistry: Oil on troubled waters p831

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

doi:10.1038/445831a


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Insight: Skin Biology

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Insight: Skin Biology

Skin Biology p833

Barbara Marte, Joshua Finkelstein and Lesley Anson

doi:10.1038/445833a


Scratching the surface of skin development p834

Elaine Fuchs

doi:10.1038/nature05659


Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation p843

Jennifer Y. Lin and David E. Fisher

doi:10.1038/nature05660


Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy p851

Vanessa Gray-Schopfer, Claudia Wellbrock and Richard Marais

doi:10.1038/nature05661


Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin p858

Ellen A. Lumpkin and Michael J. Caterina

doi:10.1038/nature05662


Pathogenesis and therapy of psoriasis p866

Michelle A. Lowes, Anne M. Bowcock and James G. Krueger

doi:10.1038/nature05663


Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin p874

Sheila MacNeil

doi:10.1038/nature05664



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Articles

遺伝:ゲノム規模での関連分析による2型糖尿病のリスクにつながる新しい遺伝子座の同定

A genome-wide association study identifies novel risk loci for type 2 diabetes p881

Robert Sladek, Ghislain Rocheleau, Johan Rung, Christian Dina, Lishuang Shen, David Serre, Philippe Boutin, Daniel Vincent, Alexandre Belisle, Samy Hadjadj, Beverley Balkau, Barbara Heude, Guillaume Charpentier, Thomas J. Hudson, Alexandre Montpetit, Alexey V. Pshezhetsky, Marc Prentki, Barry I. Posner, David J. Balding, David Meyre, Constantin Polychronakos and Philippe Froguel

doi:10.1038/nature05616


発生:膵臓では胚の前駆細胞の数によって器官のサイズが制限されるが肝臓では制限されない

Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver p886

Ben Z. Stanger, Akemi J. Tanaka and Douglas A. Melton

doi:10.1038/nature05537


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Letters

宇宙:太陽系外惑星のスペクトル

A spectrum of an extrasolar planet p892

L. Jeremy Richardson, Drake Deming, Karen Horning, Sara Seager and Joseph Harrington

doi:10.1038/nature05636


物理:強く結合した量子ドット-共振器系の量子的性質

Quantum nature of a strongly coupled single quantum dot–cavity system p896

K. Hennessy, A. Badolato, M. Winger, D. Gerace, M. Atatüre, S. Gulde, S. Fält, E. L. Hu and A. Imamog brevelu

doi:10.1038/nature05586


化学:求核性ホスホロアミダイトに誘起されるポリプレノイドのエナンチオ選択的ハロ環化反応

Enantioselective halocyclization of polyprenoids induced by nucleophilic phosphoramidites p900

Akira Sakakura, Atsushi Ukai and Kazuaki Ishihara

doi:10.1038/nature05553


地球:急速な氷の流れが始まる場所にある東南極の大きな氷底湖

Large subglacial lakes in East Antarctica at the onset of fast-flowing ice streams p904

Robin E. Bell, Michael Studinger, Christopher A. Shuman, Mark A. Fahnestock and Ian Joughin

doi:10.1038/nature05554


気候:中央アメリカを横切る水蒸気輸送が突発的な気候変化に及ぼす正のフィードバック

Moisture transport across Central America as a positive feedback on abrupt climatic changes p908

Guillaume Leduc, Laurence Vidal, Kazuyo Tachikawa, Frauke Rostek, Corinne Sonzogni, Luc Beaufort and Edouard Bard

doi:10.1038/nature05578


生態:オットセイの雌はヘテロ接合度が高くて血縁関係のない雄を積極的に選ぶ

Female fur seals show active choice for males that are heterozygous and unrelated p912

J. I. Hoffman, J. Forcada, P. N. Trathan and W. Amos

doi:10.1038/nature05558


遺伝:ヒトとピロリ菌の密接なかかわりはアフリカに起源をもつ

An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori p915

Bodo Linz, François Balloux, Yoshan Moodley, Andrea Manica, Hua Liu, Philippe Roumagnac, Daniel Falush, Christiana Stamer, Franck Prugnolle, Schalk W. van der Merwe, Yoshio Yamaoka, David Y. Graham, Emilio Perez-Trallero, Torkel Wadstrom, Sebastian Suerbaum and Mark Achtman

doi:10.1038/nature05562


行動:アメリカカケスの将来計画能力

Planning for the future by western scrub-jays p919

C. R. Raby, D. M. Alexis, A. Dickinson and N. S. Clayton

doi:10.1038/nature05575


細胞:体細胞で機能するeIF4Eは線虫の老化を制御する

eIF4E function in somatic cells modulates ageing in Caenorhabditis elegans p922

Popi Syntichaki, Kostoula Troulinaki and Nektarios Tavernarakis

doi:10.1038/nature05603


医学:APOBEC3はマウス乳癌ウイルスのin vivoでの複製を阻害する

APOBEC3 inhibits mouse mammary tumour virus replication in vivo p927

Chioma M. Okeoma, Nika Lovsin, B. Matija Peterlin and Susan R. Ross

doi:10.1038/nature05540


免疫:T細胞刺激時のFoxp3による重要な標的遺伝子の占有と調節

Foxp3 occupancy and regulation of key target genes during T-cell stimulation p931

Alexander Marson, Karsten Kretschmer, Garrett M. Frampton, Elizabeth S. Jacobsen, Julia K. Polansky, Kenzie D. MacIsaac, Stuart S. Levine, Ernest Fraenkel, Harald von Boehmer and Richard A. Young

doi:10.1038/nature05478


免疫:分化中および成熟後の調節性T細胞におけるFoxp3の標的遺伝子のゲノム全体にわたる解析

Genome-wide analysis of Foxp3 target genes in developing and mature regulatory T cells p936

Ye Zheng, Steven Z. Josefowicz, Arnold Kas, Tin-Tin Chu, Marc A. Gavin and Alexander Y. Rudensky

doi:10.1038/nature05563


細胞:TRAPPIは被覆サブユニットSec23に結合することにより、COPII小胞を係留する

TRAPPI tethers COPII vesicles by binding the coat subunit Sec23 p941

Huaqing Cai, Sidney Yu, Shekar Menon, Yiying Cai, Darina Lazarova, Chunmei Fu, Karin Reinisch, Jesse C. Hay and Susan Ferro-Novick

doi:10.1038/nature05527


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Naturejobs

Prospect

Prospects p945

Translating global science extends beyond language.

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj7130-945a


Careers and Recruitment

Count on it p946

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

Virginia Gewin

doi:10.1038/nj7130-946a


Career Views

Colin Masters, executive director, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Australia p948

Colin Masters prepares to tackle psychiatric disorders.

Virginia Gewin

doi:10.1038/nj7130-948a


Torn between two ladders p948

Jumping to a new discipline brings both anxiety and satisfaction.

Alexander Griekspoor

doi:10.1038/nj7130-948b


Smart moves p948

Balancing work and family has made me a better scientist.

Moira Sheehan

doi:10.1038/nj7130-948c


Recruitment

The inside track from academia and industry: Crossing boundaries, hitting barriers p950

Interdisciplinary research may be lauded, but it's not yet rewarded.

Adina Paytan & Mary Lou Zoback

doi:10.1038/nj7130-950a


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