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Volume 446 Issue 7131, 1 March 2007

Editorial

  • Only the most promising AIDS gels should reach large-scale trials.

    Editorial

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  • In praise of those physicists who are unobtrusively revolutionizing everyday life.

    Editorial
  • Japan's professed interest in whale research rings rather hollow.

    Editorial
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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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Business

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb has been stoking its research productivity. Meredith Wadman investigates whether an acquisition would be the right prescription for the company.

    Business
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News Feature

  • Physicists are planning lasers powerful enough to rip apart the fabric of space and time. Ed Gerstner is impressed.

    • Ed Gerstner
    News Feature
  • From a New Jersey beauty parlour to cutting-edge genetics by way of her own alopecia, Angela Christiano's life has all been tied up with hair. Helen Pearson meets a woman whose head is full of the stuff that covers it.

    • Helen Pearson
    News Feature
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Business Feature

  • As radar satellites reach ever higher resolutions, they are exciting both scientists and the military. Can they make money too? Quirin Schiermeier reports.

    • Quirin Schiermeier
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Connections

  • Biodiversity researchers have focused on diversity at the cost of ignoring the networks of interactions between organisms that characterize ecosystems.

    • Kevin McCann
    Connections
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News & Views

  • Newton's gravity, that old classical warhorse, is well established on scales as large as the Solar System. The latest experimental confirmation of its validity is tiny in scale, but big in implications.

    • Clive Speake
    News & Views
  • Mutations that affect the opening and closing of ion channels in cell membranes are associated with disease. Defects in other properties of these channels can also cause ion leakage, with equally devastating consequences.

    • Richard Horn
    News & Views
  • Atomic force microscopy is a well-established technique to image all kinds of surfaces at the atomic scale. But the force patterns that emerge can also pin down the chemical identity of individual atoms.

    • Alexander Shluger
    • Tom Trevethan
    News & Views
  • Insect viruses that cause polyhedrosis produce infectious microcrystals within a cell. These inclusions were used in a study that pushed the state of the crystallographic art to explain their exceptional stability.

    • Felix A. Rey
    News & Views
  • Photonic lattices are materials specially designed to cage light. By shaking the mesh of the cage, we can see how light, initially passing freely, finds its room for manoeuvre progressively restricted.

    • Z. Valy Vardeny
    • Mikhail Raikh
    News & Views
  • Aneuploidy is the condition in which a cell has extra or missing chromosomes, and is often associated with tumours. But whether it is a cause or a consequence of cancer remains a vexed question.

    • David Pellman
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Article

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Letter

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Erratum

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Addendum

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Corrigendum

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Erratum

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Prospects

  • Origami expert illustrates the power of creative transformation.

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
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Special Report

  • The conditions for framework funding are complex and the competition is tough, says Nora Eichinger. But many find the prize is worth the effort.

    • Nora Eichinger
    Special Report
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Movers

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Bricks & Mortar

  • BP's Energy Biosciences Institute brings jobs and research opportunities to Berkeley.

    • Virginia Gewin
    Bricks & Mortar
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Career View

  • Postodc takes time to tie her shoelaces.

    • Maria Ocampo-Hafalla
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Recruiters

  • If you look on short-term employment as a way of window shopping, you could get a bargain.

    • Martin Lang
    Recruiters
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Authors

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Brief Communications Arising

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