Editorials

Mind games p457

How not to mix politics and science.

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Replicator review p457

Nature has implemented a peer-review policy for strong claims.

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Better late than never p458

The decision to make the Leopoldina Germany's national academy of sciences is to be welcomed.

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Research Highlights

Research highlights p460

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Journal Club

Journal club p461

Arturo Zychlinsky

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News

Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells p462

'Personalized" tissues come a step closer.

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/450462a

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Drug firms accused of biasing doctors' training p464

The uneasy link between industry and education.

Jim Giles

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UK 'terrorist' fights science-course ban p467

Iraqi national challenges British government for right to study biology and chemistry.

Geoff Brumfiel

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Sidelines p468

Scribbles on the margins of science.

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UK astronomers stunned by Gemini withdrawal p468

But decision to pull out of observatory could save millions.

Eric Hand

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Proposal raises bones of contention p469

Anthropologists lobby to retain Native Indian skeletons for study.

Rex Dalton

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Germany sets up national academy of sciences p470

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Climate body's summary urges action on warming p470

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Stem-cell researcher accused of negligence p470

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Presidential veto leaves NIH facing shortfall p470

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Midwest coalition joins fight against emissions p470

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Congolese government creates bonobo reserve p470

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Corrections

Correction p470

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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

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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.

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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.

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Correspondence

Biofuel: microalgae cut the social and ecological costs p478

Peter J.le B. Williams

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Biofuel: corn isn't the king of this growing domain p478

C. Ford Runge & Benjamin Senauer

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Research in the wild p478

Ine Van Hoyweghen & Bart Penders

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Kyoto: doing our best is no longer enough p478

Barry W. Brook, Nick Rowley & Tim F. Flannery

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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

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Quests of a theoretical astronomer p480

Owen Gingerich reviews Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington by Matthew Stanley

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Time deconstructed p480

Lawrence M. Krauss reviews The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics by David Toomey

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Scientists on film p481

Emma Marris reviews Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World by Sidney Perkowitz

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Dishing the dirt on hygiene p482

Virginia Smith reviews The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

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Essay

Accommodating 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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-T_c 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

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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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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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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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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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Naturejobs

Prospects 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

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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

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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

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Grand designs p582

University College London opens new cancer institute.

Hannah Hoag

doi:10.1038/nj7169-582b

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Leaving science research p582

Nervously, and with much trepidation, I've decided to leave science research.

Peter Jordan

doi:10.1038/nj7169-582c

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Futures

Dating for the wired generation p584

A match made in silicon.

Stephen Gaskell

doi:10.1038/450584a

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