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Making the paper: Paul Bieniasz pxi

Unravelling a mechanism that stops HIV travelling between cells.

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Abstractions pxi

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From the blogosphere pxi

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Editorials

Fuel's paradise p373

The utopian urge to separate the world's nuclear-fuel cycles from national strategic ambitions has merit.

doi:10.1038/451373a


Competition and noise p373

Mitt Romney's pledge to plough $20 billion a year into energy research may signal an unseemly bidding war.

doi:10.1038/451373b


A little less Disneyland p374

DARPA should focus on its founding values.

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Research Highlights

Research highlights p376

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Journal Club

Journal club p377

Hidde Ploegh

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News

How the world invests in R&D p378

The changing face of public and private funding.

Rachel Courtland

doi:10.1038/451378a


International genome project launched p378

Three-year study will capture variation in 1,000 people.

Erika Check Hayden

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Q&A: Larry Brilliant p379

He's a physician who has had a major role in the eradication of smallpox and in tackling blindness. Now Larry Brilliant is heading up Google.org, the dotcom giant's philanthropic arm, which plans to tackle emerging diseases, climate change and poverty. Declan Butler talks to him about his diseases strategy.

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/451379a


Nuclear fuel: keeping it civil p380

In the third of a series of articles examining nuclear issues, Jeff Tollefson looks at options for fuelling a global boom in nuclear power stations without enabling nuclear proliferation.

Jeff Tollefson

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A very mysterious foundation p382

Shroud of secrecy surrounds innovation organization.

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/451382a


Creationists launch 'science' journal p382

Research within a biblical framework to be peer reviewed.

Geoff Brumfiel

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Huge crystal baffles chemists p383

Molecular cluster defies accurate analysis.

Katharine Sanderson

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Cellular memory hints at the origins of intelligence p385

Slime mould displays remarkable rhythmic recall.

Philip Ball

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Sidelines p385

Scribbles on the margins of science.

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NIH in the dark over conflicts of interest p386

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Ice runway knocks weeks off journey to Antarctica p386

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Early-stage human embryos cloned from adult cells p386

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UK government under pressure over physics cuts p386

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European registry makes stem-cell use transparent p386

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Government abandons bid to save US jaguars p386

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Column

Shattered illusions p387

Last-minute cuts to the research budget have left US scientists nervous about future funding. David Goldston looks at what Congress and the president might do next.

David Goldston

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News Features

Virology: The battle within p388

Viral and microbial interactions within living tissues are more complex than previously thought. Melinda Wenner explores whether a periodic table of the infectious could help sort out the mess.

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Defence research: Still in the lead? p390

Half a century after its creation, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considered a paragon of government innovation. But some question whether it is still relevant. Sharon Weinberger reports.

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Correspondence

Venezuelan students are campaigning for freedom p395

Benjamin Scharifker

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Independent institutes are being financially strangled p395

Name and address supplied.

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Government control has weakened universities p395

Orlando Albornoz

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Social sciences worst off as projects remain unfunded p395

Jaime Requena

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Grants awarded on the basis of political criteria p395

Klaus Jaffe

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Commentary

A tale of two citations p397

Are scientists publishing more duplicate papers? An automated search of seven million biomedical abstracts suggests that they are, report Mounir Errami and Harold Garner.

Mounir Errami & Harold Garner

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Books and Arts

Book: Behind the scenes p400

A Natural History Museum researcher unlocks its cluttered store rooms to expose an extraordinary past.

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Book: Networking knowledge p401

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Book: Parallel lives p401

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Film: Science at Sundance p402

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Preview: Revealing reptiles p402

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Essay

How the change agent has changed p403

As the US military's research arm turns fifty — and other branches of government seek to adopt its famously nimble approach — a former director reflects on what worked and what didn't.

Charles Herzfeld

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News and Views

炭素サイクル: 20世紀の収穫

Carbon cycle: Harvest of the century p405

A century-long record of levels of inorganic carbon in the Mississippi, extracted from the water-treatment plants of New Orleans, documents the changes wrought by shifting agricultural practices in the river's basin.

Emilio Mayorga

doi:10.1038/451405a


HIV/AIDS: ウイルスをつなぎとめる鎖

HIV/AIDS: Virus kept on a leash p406

Without its Vpu protein, the AIDS-associated virus HIV-1 becomes stuck to the surface of the human cell in which it has replicated. The mysterious factor that tethers HIV-1 is probably a cell-membrane protein.

Heinrich G. Göttlinger

doi:10.1038/nature06364


50 & 100 Years Ago p407

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材料科学: こびとの国のライトスティック

Materials science: Lilliputian light sticks p408

Building two different fluorescing dyes into a composite organic nanocrystal makes a tunable light generator. At just the right dye proportions, a low-cost, highly efficient source of white light is the result.

Melissa Fardy & Peidong Yang

doi:10.1038/451408a


惑星科学: 木星の脈動する表面の下では

Planetary science: Under Jupiter's pulsing skin p409

Fast jet streams blow along the hallmark coloured bands that engirdle Jupiter's surface. By observing how storms erupt in these jet streams and disturb them, we can penetrate deeper into what lies beneath.

Kunio M. Sayanagi

doi:10.1038/451409a


材料科学: 簡単にできるデザイナーポア

Materials science: Designer pores made easy p410

Imagine being able to tweak the properties of a compound simply by replacing a molecular 'cartridge' with a different one. Just such a capability has been developed in a new class of porous crystalline materials.

Michael J. Zaworotko

doi:10.1038/451410a


ゲノミクス: 相手と同じ手段で対決する

Genomics: Fighting fire with fire p412

Mobile genetic elements called transposons could cause havoc in the genome if left unregulated. Of the various cellular defence strategies used to preserve genome integrity, one involves exploiting transposons themselves.

Daniel F. Voytas

doi:10.1038/451412a


光学: 光の広がりを止める

Optics: Against the spread of the light p413

Light that propagates without spreading or diffracting sounds like a theorist's pipedream. But it is a very real proposition, and could be used to illuminate some profound aspects of wave–particle duality.

Kishan Dholakia

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News and Views Q&A

分子生物学: 低分子RNAの広がる世界

Molecular biology: The expanding world of small RNAs p414

Molecular cell biology has long been dominated by a protein-centric view. But the emergence of small, non-coding RNAs challenges this perception. These plentiful RNAs regulate gene expression at different levels, and have essential roles in health and disease.

Helge Gros zlighans & Witold Filipowicz

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Review

金属カルベノイドおよび金属ナイトレノイド挿入による触媒的C-H官能基化

Catalytic C–H functionalization by metal carbenoid and nitrenoid insertion p417

Huw M. L. Davies & James R. Manning

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Articles

tetherinはレトロウイルスの放出を抑制し、HIV-1 Vpuの作用に拮抗する

Tetherin inhibits retrovirus release and is antagonized by HIV-1 Vpu p425

Stuart J. D. Neil, Trinity Zang & Paul D. Bieniasz

doi:10.1038/nature06553


トランスポゾン由来のタンパク質による、宿主ゲノムのレトロトランスポゾン監視

Host genome surveillance for retrotransposons by transposon-derived proteins p431

Hugh P. Cam, Ken-ichi Noma, Hirotaka Ebina, Henry L. Levin & Shiv I. S. Grewal

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Letters

嵐によって引き起こされる惑星規模の擾乱から推定される強力な木星ジェットの深さ

Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms p437

A. Sánchez-Lavega, G. S. Orton, R. Hueso, E. García-Melendo, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Simon-Miller, J. F. Rojas, J. M. Gómez, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, L. Fletcher, J. Joels, J. Kemerer, J. Hora, E. Karkoschka, I. de Pater, M. H. Wong, P. S. Marcus, N. Pinilla-Alonso, F. Carvalho, C. Go, D. Parker, M. Salway, M. Valimberti, A. Wesley & Z. Pujic

doi:10.1038/nature06533


量子ドットにおける単一正孔スピンの光ポンピング

Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot p441

Brian D. Gerardot, Daniel Brunner, Paul A. Dalgarno, Patrik Öhberg, Stefan Seidl, Martin Kroner, Khaled Karrai, Nick G. Stoltz, Pierre M. Petroff & Richard J. Warburton

doi:10.1038/nature06472


高密度Li-Be規則合金における電子状態の次元性の創発的低下

Emergent reduction of electronic state dimensionality in dense ordered Li-Be alloys p445

Ji Feng, Richard G. Hennig, N. W. Ashcroft & Roald Hoffmann

doi:10.1038/nature06442


ミシシッピ川からの人為的に増加した水フラックスと炭素フラックス

Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River p449

Peter A. Raymond, Neung-Hwan Oh, R. Eugene Turner & Whitney Broussard

doi:10.1038/nature06505


海洋地殻の変形と破壊がハワイ火山群の成長を支配している可能性

Deformation and rupture of the oceanic crust may control growth of Hawaiian volcanoes p453

Jean-Luc Got, Vadim Monteiller, Julien Monteux, Riad Hassani & Paul Okubo

doi:10.1038/nature06481


熱帯の農業生態系にみられるアリ・コロニーのクラスターとロバストな臨界状態

Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem p457

John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto & Stacy M. Philpott

doi:10.1038/nature06477


GABAA受容体によるヒストンH2AX依存的な幹細胞の増殖制御

Histone H2AX-dependent GABAA receptor regulation of stem cell proliferation p460

Michael Andäng, Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Annalena Moliner, T. Kalle Lundgren, Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Evanthia Nanou, Ester Pozas, Vitezslav Bryja, Sophie Halliez, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Johannes Wilbertz, Ernest Arenas, Martin Koltzenburg, Patrick Charnay, Abdeljabbar El Manira, Carlos F. Ibañez & Patrik Ernfors

doi:10.1038/nature06488


DscamとSidekickタンパク質群は脊椎動物の網膜において層特異的シナプス結合を制御する

Dscam and Sidekick proteins direct lamina-specific synaptic connections in vertebrate retina p465

Masahito Yamagata & Joshua R. Sanes

doi:10.1038/nature06469


マウス網膜の神経突起の分枝形成とモザイク状の空間配置にはDSCAMが必要である

Neurite arborization and mosaic spacing in the mouse retina require DSCAM p470

Peter G. Fuerst, Amane Koizumi, Richard H. Masland & Robert W. Burgess

doi:10.1038/nature06514


シロイヌナズナ成長の光およびジベレリンによる協調的調節

Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsisthaliana development by light and gibberellins p475

Suhua Feng, Cristina Martinez, Giuliana Gusmaroli, Yu Wang, Junli Zhou, Feng Wang, Liying Chen, Lu Yu, Juan M. Iglesias-Pedraz, Stefan Kircher, Eberhard Schäfer, Xiangdong Fu, Liu-Min Fan & Xing Wang Deng

doi:10.1038/nature06448


光とジベレリンによる細胞の伸長制御の分子基盤

A molecular framework for light and gibberellin control of cell elongation p480

Miguel de Lucas, Jean-Michel Davière, Mariana Rodríguez-Falcón, Mariela Pontin, Juan Manuel Iglesias-Pedraz, Séverine Lorrain, Christian Fankhauser, Miguel Angel Blázquez, Elena Titarenko & Salomé Prat

doi:10.1038/nature06520


細菌鞭毛タンパク質の輸送におけるFliI ATPアーゼとプロトン駆動力の役割分担

Distinct roles of the FliI ATPase and proton motive force in bacterial flagellar protein export p485

Tohru Minamino & Keiichi Namba

doi:10.1038/nature06449


鞭毛のIII型分泌のエネルギー源

Energy source of flagellar type III secretion p489

Koushik Paul, Marc Erhardt, Takanori Hirano, David F. Blair & Kelly T. Hughes

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Naturejobs

Prospect

Prospects p493

More countires are opening their doors to scientific immigration.

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj7177-493a


Region

Argentina's pivotal moment p494

Rebuffing a troubled economic and political past, Argentina is trying to get on the science map with a new science ministry and attempts to retain young talent. Paul Smaglik reports.

Paul Smaglik

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Futures

SuperB p498

Raise a glass to world domination.

Janet Wright

doi:10.1038/451498a



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