Table of contents
Volume 448 Number 7153 pp511-622
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Editorials
Free at last p511
The liberation of six foreign health workers, held without cause in Libya, is to be welcomed. Now Libya should face facts — and clear their names.
doi:10.1038/448511a
Board games p511
The way research on human subjects is overseen in the United States requires reform.
doi:10.1038/448511b
A sporting chance p512
Bans on drug enhancement in sport may go the way of earlier prohibitions on women and remuneration.
doi:10.1038/448512a
Research Highlights
Research highlights p514
doi:10.1038/448514a
Correction p515
doi:10.1038/448515a
News
The mouse map gets a lot more signposts p516
Researchers pin down what makes a lab mouse.
Ewen Callaway
doi:10.1038/448516a
Q&A: Jürgen Graeser p517
The first Westerner invited to spend time on a Russian drifting station contemplates his eight-month voyage to the North Pole.
doi:10.1038/448517a
Special report
China's green accounting system on shaky ground p518
Beijing is attempting to introduce a 'green GDP' accounting scheme as a way of ranking local governments' success in achieving economic growth that does not cost the environment. But the scheme is faltering at the pilot stage due to political infighting, says Jane Qiu.
Jane Qiu
doi:10.1038/448518a
Sidelines p520
doi:10.1038/448520a
Russia at forefront of Arctic land-grab p520
Countries battle over ownership of lucrative seabed.
Daniel Cressey
doi:10.1038/448520b
New life for nuclear warheads p520
US starts work on its first mixed-oxide plant.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/448520c
Implant boosts activity in injured brain p522
Deep-brain stimulation offers hope for minimally conscious patients.
Michael Hopkin
doi:10.1038/448522a
See also: Editor's summary
Flatworms' starring role in stem-cell research p522
Biologists hope insight into cell differentiation and communication will transfer to humans.
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/448522b
Column
Party of OneMaking room for dissent p524
Washington has reached an easy consensus on the need to train more scientists and engineers but, argues David Goldston, the United States needs to consider a broader approach to combat global competition.
David Goldston
doi:10.1038/448524a
Business
Swiss on a roll p525
Smart investors who know the drugs business well are helping to make Zurich's stock market a popular place for biotechnology firms to raise money. Andrea Chipman reports.
doi:10.1038/448525a
News Features
Future crops: The other greenhouse effect p526
Rising carbon dioxide levels should increase crop yields. But what if their effect on the nutritional value of our food is less benign, asks Ned Stafford.
doi:10.1038/448526a
See also: Editor's summary
Human-subjects research: Trial and error p530
The ethics committees that oversee research done in humans have been attacked from all sides. Heidi Ledford recounts the struggle to come up with alternatives.
doi:10.1038/448530a
See also: Editor's summary
Correspondence
Profit or perish even worse than publish or perish p533
Edward Kiegle
doi:10.1038/448533a
Interdisciplinary research could pull cash into science p533
John R. Helliwell
doi:10.1038/448533b
The 'hundred surnames' of China run into thousands p533
Dafeng Hui
doi:10.1038/448533c
University speaks up in dispute over cancer centre p533
Virgil Renzulli
doi:10.1038/448533d
Climate information helps homeowners make choices p533
David Purcell
doi:10.1038/448533e
See also: Editor's summary
Books and Arts
Social climbers p535
Does a baboon's success in social situations depend solely on learning the rules of the game?
Asif A. Ghazanfar reviews Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth
doi:10.1038/448535a
The atomic peacemaker p536
Yaron Ezrahi reviews Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
doi:10.1038/448536a
Nervous systems made simple p537
Eve Marder reviews An Introduction to Nervous Systems by Ralph Greenspan
doi:10.1038/448537a
Science in culture: Consulting nature's pattern-book p538
Peter Randall-Page's massive granite sculpture for the Eden Project emulates natural form.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/448538a
News and Views
Neurology: An awakening p539
Neuroscientists and engineers are developing ways to help patients overcome paralysis and stroke. But what about mental function itself? Can medical intervention restore consciousness?
Michael N. Shadlen & Roozbeh Kiani
doi:10.1038/448539a
See also: Editor's summary
Climate change: Aerosols heat up p541
Solid particles suspended in the atmosphere have long played second fiddle to greenhouse gases as agents of climate change. A study of atmospheric heating over the Indian Ocean could provoke a rethink.
Peter Pilewskie
doi:10.1038/448541a
See also: Editor's summary
Microbiology: The inside story p542
The human intestine is home to trillions of bacteria. Investigation of the colonization of the infant gut by these microorganisms is a prelude to understanding how they may act in both health and disease.
Laurie E. Comstock
doi:10.1038/448542a
Applied physics: Champing at the bit p544
When two 'bits' of magnetic information race around a nanoscale wire, two factors determine whether or not they survive the course: the condition of the track, and how fast they respond to the starting signal.
Russell P. Cowburn
doi:10.1038/448544a
Cancer: Broken genes in solid tumours p545
Mutations that cause portions of two genes to fuse together and form a hybrid gene are frequent in blood-related cancers. New findings implicate one such fusion gene in the most common type of lung cancer.
Matthew Meyerson
doi:10.1038/448545a
See also: Editor's summary
50 & 100 Years Ago p546
doi:10.1038/448546a
Magnetism: Managed mess p546
The presence of non-magnetic atoms can create a random internal field in magnetic crystals. Tuning that field from outside allows the intrinsic magnetic properties of the material to be precisely controlled.
Zachary Fisk
doi:10.1038/448546b
See also: Editor's summary
Cancer: An infernal triangle p547
Signals induced by sex hormones and inflammation have been viewed as different aspects of tumour development. But a three-way interaction between these two classes of signal and carcinogenesis has emerged.
Alberto Mantovani
doi:10.1038/448547a
Genomic biology: The epigenomic era opens p548
Readout of information from the genome depends on intricate regulation of how DNA is packaged by proteins. The great endeavour to reveal how this packaging operates pan-genomically is now under way.
Stephen B. Baylin & Kornel E. Schuebel
doi:10.1038/448548a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views Q&A
Biodiversity: Climate change and the ecologist p550
The evidence for rapid climate change now seems overwhelming. Global temperatures are predicted to rise by up to 4 °C by 2100, with associated alterations in precipitation patterns. Assessing the consequences for biodiversity, and how they might be mitigated, is a Grand Challenge in ecology.
Wilfried Thuiller
doi:10.1038/448550a
See also: Editor's summary
Articles
Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells p553
Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Manching Ku, David B. Jaffe, Biju Issac, Erez Lieberman, Georgia Giannoukos, Pablo Alvarez, William Brockman, Tae-Kyung Kim, Richard P. Koche, William Lee, Eric Mendenhall, Aisling O'Donovan, Aviva Presser, Carsten Russ, Xiaohui Xie, Alexander Meissner, Marius Wernig, Rudolf Jaenisch, Chad Nusbaum, Eric S. Lander & Bradley E. Bernstein
doi:10.1038/nature06008
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Baylin & Schuebel
Identification of the transforming EML4–ALK fusion gene in non-small-cell lung cancer p561
Manabu Soda, Young Lim Choi, Munehiro Enomoto, Shuji Takada, Yoshihiro Yamashita, Shunpei Ishikawa, Shin-ichiro Fujiwara, Hideki Watanabe, Kentaro Kurashina, Hisashi Hatanaka, Masashi Bando, Shoji Ohno, Yuichi Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Toshiro Niki, Yasunori Sohara, Yukihiko Sugiyama & Hiroyuki Mano
doi:10.1038/nature05945
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Meyerson
Letters
A ferromagnet in a continuously tunable random field p567
D. M. Silevitch, D. Bitko, J. Brooke, S. Ghosh, G. Aeppli & T. F. Rosenbaum
doi:10.1038/nature06050
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Fisk
Electronic spin transport and spin precession in single graphene layers at room temperature p571
Nikolaos Tombros, Csaba Jozsa, Mihaita Popinciuc, Harry T. Jonkman & Bart J. van Wees
doi:10.1038/nature06037
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Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption p575
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Muvva V. Ramana, Gregory Roberts, Dohyeong Kim, Craig Corrigan, Chul Chung & David Winker
doi:10.1038/nature06019
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Pilewskie
Non-volcanic tremor driven by large transient shear stresses p579
Justin L. Rubinstein, John E. Vidale, Joan Gomberg, Paul Bodin, Kenneth C. Creager & Stephen D. Malone
doi:10.1038/nature06017
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Jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes p583
Hector Botella, Henning Blom, Markus Dorka, Per Erik Ahlberg & Philippe Janvier
doi:10.1038/nature05989
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Morphological evolution through multiple cis-regulatory mutations at a single gene p587
Alistair P. McGregor, Virginie Orgogozo, Isabelle Delon, Jennifer Zanet, Dayalan G. Srinivasan, François Payre & David L. Stern
doi:10.1038/nature05988
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A genome-wide association study identifies KIAA0350 as a type 1 diabetes gene p591
Hakon Hakonarson, Struan F. A. Grant, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Luc Marchand, Cecilia E. Kim, Joseph T. Glessner, Rosemarie Grabs, Tracy Casalunovo, Shayne P. Taback, Edward C. Frackelton, Margaret L. Lawson, Luke J. Robinson, Robert Skraban, Yang Lu, Rosetta M. Chiavacci, Charles A. Stanley, Susan E. Kirsch, Eric F. Rappaport, Jordan S. Orange, Dimitri S. Monos, Marcella Devoto, Hui-Qi Qu & Constantin Polychronakos
doi:10.1038/nature06010
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Distinct classes of chromosomal rearrangements create oncogenic ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer p595
Scott A. Tomlins, Bharathi Laxman, Saravana M. Dhanasekaran, Beth E. Helgeson, Xuhong Cao, David S. Morris, Anjana Menon, Xiaojun Jing, Qi Cao, Bo Han, Jindan Yu, Lei Wang, James E. Montie, Mark A. Rubin, Kenneth J. Pienta, Diane Roulston, Rajal B. Shah, Sooryanarayana Varambally, Rohit Mehra & Arul M. Chinnaiyan
doi:10.1038/nature06024
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Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury p600
N. D. Schiff, J. T. Giacino, K. Kalmar, J. D. Victor, K. Baker, M. Gerber, B. Fritz, B. Eisenberg, J. O'Connor, E. J. Kobylarz, S. Farris, A. Machado, C. McCagg, F. Plum, J. J. Fins & A. R. Rezai
doi:10.1038/nature06041
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Shadlen & Kiani
Common effector processing mediates cell-specific responses to stimuli p604
Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Kevin A. Janes, Joan S. Brugge & Douglas A. Lauffenburger
doi:10.1038/nature06001
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Crystal structure of a human membrane protein involved in cysteinyl leukotriene biosynthesis p609
Hideo Ago, Yoshihide Kanaoka, Daisuke Irikura, Bing K. Lam, Tatsuro Shimamura, K. Frank Austen & Masashi Miyano
doi:10.1038/nature05936
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Structural basis for synthesis of inflammatory mediators by human leukotriene C4 synthase p613
Daniel Martinez Molina, Anders Wetterholm, Andreas Kohl, Andrew A. McCarthy, Damian Niegowski, Eva Ohlson, Tove Hammarberg, Said Eshaghi, Jesper Z. Haeggström & Pär Nordlund
doi:10.1038/nature06009
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Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p617
Climate science buzz doesn't necessarily translate into climate science jobs.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7153-617a
Special Report
Climate of opportunity p618
Awareness about climate change is at an all-time high. Will this surge of attention translate into more jobs for climate scientists? Amanda Haag reports.
Amanda Haag
doi:10.1038/nj7153-618a
Highlights
Opportunities: The National Institutes of Health
doi:10.1038/nj0166
