Table of contents
Volume 450 Number 7169 pp457-584
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Editorials
Mind games p457
How not to mix politics and science.
doi:10.1038/450457a
Replicator review p457
Nature has implemented a peer-review policy for strong claims.
doi:10.1038/450457b
Better late than never p458
The decision to make the Leopoldina Germany's national academy of sciences is to be welcomed.
doi:10.1038/450458a
News
Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells p462
'Personalized" tissues come a step closer.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/450462a
Drug firms accused of biasing doctors' training p464
The uneasy link between industry and education.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/450464a
UK 'terrorist' fights science-course ban p467
Iraqi national challenges British government for right to study biology and chemistry.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/450467a
Sidelines p468
Scribbles on the margins of science.
doi:10.1038/450468a
UK astronomers stunned by Gemini withdrawal p468
But decision to pull out of observatory could save millions.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/450468b
Proposal raises bones of contention p469
Anthropologists lobby to retain Native Indian skeletons for study.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/450469a
Germany sets up national academy of sciences p470
doi:10.1038/450470a
Climate body's summary urges action on warming p470
doi:10.1038/450470b
Stem-cell researcher accused of negligence p470
doi:10.1038/450470c
Presidential veto leaves NIH facing shortfall p470
doi:10.1038/450470d
Midwest coalition joins fight against emissions p470
doi:10.1038/450470e
Congolese government creates bonobo reserve p470
doi:10.1038/450470f
Corrections
Correction p470
doi:10.1038/450470g
Business
Trip into the unknown p471
A plant in Uganda hopes to sell cut-price drugs by taking advantage of exemptions from rules that protect patents. But its operators face major obstacles, as Tatum Anderson reports.
Tatum Anderson
doi:10.1038/450471a
News Features
Into the Deep: Lights in the deep p472
Far below the surface of the ocean, beyond the reach of the Sun's rays, organisms still have eyes. Mark Schrope investigates seeing without sunlight.
doi:10.1038/450472a
Profile: Innate ability p475
With keen immunological insight and a knockout mouse 'factory', Shizuo Akira leads by quiet example. David Cyranoski visits the world's most-cited scientist as he prepares to run one of Japan's premier research centres.
doi:10.1038/450475a
Correspondence
Biofuel: microalgae cut the social and ecological costs p478
Peter J.le B. Williams
doi:10.1038/450478a
Biofuel: corn isn't the king of this growing domain p478
C. Ford Runge & Benjamin Senauer
doi:10.1038/450478b
Research in the wild p478
Ine Van Hoyweghen & Bart Penders
doi:10.1038/450478c
Kyoto: doing our best is no longer enough p478
Barry W. Brook, Nick Rowley & Tim F. Flannery
doi:10.1038/450478d
Books and Arts
Flavour and plenty p479
There may be more to great dishes than a dash of chemistry and a squeeze of lime juice.
Peter Barham reviews Citrus: A History by Pierre Laszlo and Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Hervé This
doi:10.1038/450479a
Quests of a theoretical astronomer p480
Owen Gingerich reviews Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington by Matthew Stanley
doi:10.1038/450480a
Time deconstructed p480
Lawrence M. Krauss reviews The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics by David Toomey
doi:10.1038/450480b
Scientists on film p481
Emma Marris reviews Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World by Sidney Perkowitz
doi:10.1038/450481a
Dishing the dirt on hygiene p482
Virginia Smith reviews The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
doi:10.1038/450482a
Essay
Science & politicsAccommodating dissent p483
Providing cures for health problems isn't enough, if people's personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections.
Melissa Leach
doi:10.1038/450483a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views
Stem cells: Primates join the club p485
Researchers have achieved the testing goal of generating embryonic stem cells from the cells of an adult primate. The procedure used could provide insights into a variety of diseases, if it can be applied in humans.
Ian Wilmut & Jane Taylor
doi:10.1038/450485a
See also: Editor's summary
Materials science: Purity rolled up in a tube p486
Before carbon nanotubes can fulfil their potential in device applications, better ways must be found to produce pure samples of them. A promising approach involves wrapping them up in a shell of polymer.
Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos & Sang-Yong Ju
doi:10.1038/450486a
Microbiology: Woodworker's digest p487
Termites digest wood with the help of their intestinal microorganisms. The first metagenomic analysis of the inhabitants of a termite gut provides insight into this feat of biomass-to-energy conversion.
Andreas Brune
doi:10.1038/450487a
See also: Editor's summary
Astronomy: Sloan at five p488
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey represents the most ambitious attempt yet to map out a slice of the sky. In the first five years of its existence, it has revealed cosmic structures on every conceivable scale.
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr
doi:10.1038/450488a
Earth science: Sediment en route to oblivion p490
Sudden collapses of the sea floor can generate oceanic sediment flows that dwarf the global annual sediment input from rivers. Such flows can travel great distances, and undergo transformation along the way.
Philip A. Allen
doi:10.1038/450490a
Carbon cycle: Marine manipulations p491
The effect of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on carbon uptake in and export from the upper ocean is one of the big questions in environmental science. But it can be tackled experimentally.
Kevin R. Arrigo
doi:10.1038/450491a
See also: Editor's summary
High-temperature superconductivity: Schizophrenic electrons p492
The split personality of the conduction electrons in one high-temperature superconductor might indicate that periodic modulations of their spin and charge density are a general feature of these mystifying materials.
Christian Pfleiderer & Rudi Hackl
doi:10.1038/450492a
See also: Editor's summary
Feature
Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases p494
The top 20 policy and research priorities for conditions such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Abdallah S. Daar, Peter A. Singer, Deepa Leah Persad, Stig K. Pramming, David R. Matthews, Robert Beaglehole, Alan Bernstein, Leszek K. Borysiewicz, Stephen Colagiuri, Nirmal Ganguly, Roger I. Glass, Diane T. Finegood, Jeffrey Koplan, Elizabeth G. Nabel, George Sarna, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Richard Smith, Derek Yach & John Bell
doi:10.1038/450494a
See also: Editor's summary
Brief Communications Arising
Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines pE12
David S. Cram, Bi Song & Alan O. Trounson
doi:10.1038/nature06456
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Evidence for mantle plumes? pE15
Don L. Anderson & James H. Natland
doi:10.1038/nature06376
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Bourdon et al. reply pE16
B. Bourdon, N. M. Ribe, A. Stracke, A. Saal & S. Turner
doi:10.1038/nature06377
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Articles
Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer p497
J. A. Byrne, D. A. Pedersen, L. L. Clepper, M. Nelson, W. G. Sanger, S. Gokhale, D. P. Wolf & S. M. Mitalipov
doi:10.1038/nature06357
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (876K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Wilmut & Taylor
Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb p503
Ko Kobayakawa, Reiko Kobayakawa, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichiro Oka, Takeshi Imai, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Toshio Ikeda, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Takefumi Kikusui, Kensaku Mori & Hitoshi Sakano
doi:10.1038/nature06281
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (2,539K) | Supplementary information
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Human CtIP promotes DNA end resection p509
Alessandro A. Sartori, Claudia Lukas, Julia Coates, Martin Mistrik, Shuang Fu, Jiri Bartek, Richard Baer, Jiri Lukas & Stephen P. Jackson
doi:10.1038/nature06337
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Crystal structure of a catalytic intermediate of the maltose transporter p515
Michael L. Oldham, Dheeraj Khare, Florante A. Quiocho, Amy L. Davidson & Jue Chen
doi:10.1038/nature06264
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Letters
White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres p522
P. Dufour, J. Liebert, G. Fontaine & N. Behara
doi:10.1038/nature06318
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See also: Editor's summary
Coupled 142Nd–143Nd evidence for a protracted magma ocean in Mars p525
V. Debaille, A. D. Brandon, Q. Z. Yin & B. Jacobsen
doi:10.1038/nature06317
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Coherent zero-state and 
-state in an exciton–polariton condensate array p529
C. W. Lai, N. Y. Kim, S. Utsunomiya, G. Roumpos, H. Deng, M. D. Fraser, T. Byrnes, P. Recher, N. Kumada, T. Fujisawa & Y. Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/nature06334
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Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors p533
David LeBoeuf, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Julien Levallois, R. Daou, J.-B. Bonnemaison, N. E. Hussey, L. Balicas, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, S. Adachi, Cyril Proust & Louis Taillefer
doi:10.1038/nature06332
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (527K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Pfleiderer & Hackl
Dissolved organic carbon trends resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry p537
Donald T. Monteith, John L. Stoddard, Christopher D. Evans, Heleen A. de Wit, Martin Forsius, Tore Høgåsen, Anders Wilander, Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle, Dean S. Jeffries, Jussi Vuorenmaa, Bill Keller, Jiri Kopácek & Josef Vesely
doi:10.1038/nature06316
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Onset of submarine debris flow deposition far from original giant landslide p541
P. J. Talling, R. B. Wynn, D. G. Masson, M. Frenz, B. T. Cronin, R. Schiebel, A. M. Akhmetzhanov, S. Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. Benetti, P. P. E. Weaver, A. Georgiopoulou, C. Zühlsdorff & L. A. Amy
doi:10.1038/nature06313
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See also: News and Views by Allen
Enhanced biological carbon consumption in a high CO2 ocean p545
U. Riebesell, K. G. Schulz, R. G. J. Bellerby, M. Botros, P. Fritsche, M. Meyerhöfer, C. Neill, G. Nondal, A. Oschlies, J. Wohlers & E. Zöllner
doi:10.1038/nature06267
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Arrigo
Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales p549
Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Stefan Bengtson, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Guido W. Grimm & Marco Stampanoni
doi:10.1038/nature06278
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An antidepressant that extends lifespan in adult Caenorhabditis elegans p553
Michael Petrascheck, Xiaolan Ye & Linda B. Buck
doi:10.1038/nature05991
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Social evaluation by preverbal infants p557
J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn & Paul Bloom
doi:10.1038/nature06288
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Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite p560
Falk Warnecke, Peter Luginbühl, Natalia Ivanova, Majid Ghassemian, Toby H. Richardson, Justin T. Stege, Michelle Cayouette, Alice C. McHardy, Gordana Djordjevic, Nahla Aboushadi, Rotem Sorek, Susannah G. Tringe, Mircea Podar, Hector Garcia Martin, Victor Kunin, Daniel Dalevi, Julita Madejska, Edward Kirton, Darren Platt, Ernest Szeto, Asaf Salamov, Kerrie Barry, Natalia Mikhailova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Eric G. Matson, Elizabeth A. Ottesen, Xinning Zhang, Myriam Hernández, Catalina Murillo, Luis G. Acosta, Isidore Rigoutsos, Giselle Tamayo, Brian D. Green, Cathy Chang, Edward M. Rubin, Eric J. Mathur, Dan E. Robertson, Philip Hugenholtz & Jared R. Leadbetter
doi:10.1038/nature06269
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Brune
The inhibitory cytokine IL-35 contributes to regulatory T-cell function p566
Lauren W. Collison, Creg J. Workman, Timothy T. Kuo, Kelli Boyd, Yao Wang, Kate M. Vignali, Richard Cross, David Sehy, Richard S. Blumberg & Dario A. A. Vignali
doi:10.1038/nature06306
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A SNARE–adaptor interaction is a new mode of cargo recognition in clathrin-coated vesicles p570
Sharon E. Miller, Brett M. Collins, Airlie J. McCoy, Margaret S. Robinson & David J. Owen
doi:10.1038/nature06353
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Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants p575
Alexander V. Ruban, Rudi Berera, Cristian Ilioaia, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, John T. M. Kennis, Andrew A. Pascal, Herbert van Amerongen, Bruno Robert, Peter Horton & Rienk van Grondelle
doi:10.1038/nature06262
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See also: Editor's summary
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p579
India's biotech bottleneck is a cautionary tale on how to look past the hype and gauge job prospects.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7169-579a
Special Report
Indian biotech's bumpy road p580
The rush to join in India's latest boom sector has led to a bottleneck.
Paroma Basu
doi:10.1038/nj7169-580a
Career View
Susan Avery, president and director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts p582
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute welcomes new director.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582a
Grand designs p582
University College London opens new cancer institute.
Hannah Hoag
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582b
Leaving science research p582
Nervously, and with much trepidation, I've decided to leave science research.
Peter Jordan
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582c
Futures
Dating for the wired generation p584
A match made in silicon.
Stephen Gaskell
doi:10.1038/450584a
