Computational theory reveals an unusual quality in a pure compound.
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Volume 451 Number 7178 pp499-604
In this issue (31 January 2008)
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Making the paper: Ronald Cohen pxi
Abstractions pxi
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From the blogosphere pxi
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Editorials
Towards falling emissions p499
Although Europe's new energy plans may be too prescriptive on the means of achieving the goals, they offer the world an encouraging way forward.
doi:10.1038/451499a
Secret treasure-troves restored p500
Reflecting on the endeavours of scientists past can provide both inspiration and pleasure.
doi:10.1038/451500a
A quantum of solace p500
As the US writers' strike rolls on, now is the time for scientists to extend the hand of friendship.
doi:10.1038/451500b
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News
Europe spells out action plan for emissions targets p504
Heavy industry set to pay for allowances under carbon-trading scheme.
Quirin Schiermeier
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Canada abolishes its national science adviser p505
After just four years, government axes post.
Hannah Hoag
doi:10.1038/451505a
Sidelines p506
Scribbles on the margins of science.
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Cash for Russian nuclear scientists criticized p506
US payments to beat proliferation attacked as ineffective.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/451506b
Snapshot: Search for Higgs primed to start p507
Assembly of detector completes Large Hadron Collider.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/451507a
Funding freeze shakes Russia's prodigals p507
Academy pulls the plug on research programme.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/451507b
New York to police air monitoring p508
Legislation threatens to hamper research projects.
Rachel Courtland
doi:10.1038/451508a
Reviewer leaked Avandia study to drug firm p509
GlaxoSmithKline told early of diabetes blockbuster's links to heart attacks.
Brian Vastag
doi:10.1038/451509a
Fossil reptiles mired in controversy p510
Name-calling sparks dispute over aetosaurs.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/451510a
Kidney expert to head holistic-medicine centre p511
doi:10.1038/451511a
Early-warning system underestimates quake p511
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Synthetic genome paves the way to artificial life p511
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France and India to expand scientific collaborations p511
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OncoMed scores drug deal for $1.4 billion with Glaxo p511
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Gates foundation gives cash for agriculture in Africa p511
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Correction p511
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News Features
Human behaviour: Killer instincts p512
What can evolution say about why humans kill — and about why we do so less than we used to? Dan Jones reports.
doi:10.1038/451512a
Genome studies: Genetics by numbers p516
Genomewide association studies are starting to turn up increasingly reliable disease markers. Monya Baker investigates where we are now and what comes next.
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Correspondence
The action of enhancers can lead to addiction p520
Drugs can be used to treat more than disease p520
Low dose of alertness drug counters 'family fatigue' p520
Drugging unruly children is a method of social control p521
Humans have always tried to improve their condition p521
Policy must recognize drug impact on different sectors p521
Rationality is a better basis for ethics than repugnance p521
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Books and Arts
Trinity says: Let's talk p522
Dublin's new Science Gallery hopes to dissolve barriers between science and city through conversation. Director Michael John Gorman explains how the gentle art will bring new voices to research.
Michael John Gorman
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Van Allen remembered as belts turn 50 p523
doi:10.1038/451523a
Starvation: crime and punishment p524
doi:10.1038/451524a
Exhibition: Ancient orders of nature p525
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Hidden treasures: The University History Museum in Pavia p526
In the first of a monthly series on small museums, Alison Abbott profiles the University History Museum in Pavia, which recalls the key role of northern Italy in Enlightenment science.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/451526a
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News and Views
性決定: お熱いのがお好き（そうじゃないのもいるけど）
Sex determination: Some like it hot (and some don't) p527
There is a widely accepted theoretical explanation for why sex in some species is determined at the embryo stage by environmental factors such as temperature. That theory is now supported by experiment.
David Crews & James J. Bull
doi:10.1038/451527a
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ナノ材料: DNA塩基対合を使う結晶化
Nanomaterials: Golden handshake p528
Three-dimensional nanoparticle arrays are likely to be the foundation of future optical and electronic materials. A promising way to assemble them is through the transient pairings of complementary DNA strands.
John C. Crocker
doi:10.1038/451528a
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50 & 100 Years Ago p529
doi:10.1038/451529a
細胞生物学: 死ぬほど抱きしめたい
Cell biology: Dying to hold you p530
Certain cells bind so tightly to each other that, on occasion, one cell ends up inside another, usually with fatal consequences for the ingested cell. This involuntary cell death might help protect us from cancer.
Kimon Doukoumetzidis & Michael O. Hengartner
doi:10.1038/451530a
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宇宙論: 太古の加速の様子
Cosmology: An ancient view of acceleration p531
The Universe is expanding ever faster — the effect of 'dark energy', most astronomers believe. Surveys of how galaxies were distributed in the past could provide precise clues to what is driving this acceleration.
Michael A. Strauss
doi:10.1038/451531a
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イオンチャネル: インフルエンザウイルスのプロトンチャネルの構造
Ion channels: Coughing up flu's proton channels p532
Two research teams have captured snapshots of the influenza virus's membrane-bound hydrogen-ion channel, which is essential for infection and virulence. Their findings agree on the basics, but differ in details.
Christopher Miller
doi:10.1038/451532a
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デバイス物理学: ナノワイヤーを使った有望なディスプレイ
Device physics: Nanowires' display of potential p533
The future of the video display is both flexible and transparent. Finding a material for the attendant electronics that is small-scale, bendy and see-through is a tall order — but a promising candidate is emerging.
Hagen Klauk
doi:10.1038/451533a
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Article
ショウジョウバエ体節形成における調節配列に基づく発現パターンの予測
Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation p535
Eran Segal, Tali Raveh-Sadka, Mark Schroeder, Ulrich Unnerstall & Ulrike Gaul
doi:10.1038/nature06496
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Letters
宇宙の加速の性質の銀河の赤方偏移の歪みを用いた検証
A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions p541
L. Guzzo, M. Pierleoni, B. Meneux, E. Branchini, O. Le Fèvre, C. Marinoni, B. Garilli, J. Blaizot, G. De Lucia, A. Pollo, H. J. McCracken, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, K. Dolag, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, F. Lamareille, B. Marano, A. Mazure, P. Memeo, R. Merighi, L. Moscardini, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, E. Perez-Montero, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani & E. Zucca
doi:10.1038/nature06555
強誘電体におけるモルフォトロピック相境界の起源
Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics p545
Muhtar Ahart, Maddury Somayazulu, R. E. Cohen, P. Ganesh, Przemyslaw Dera, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Yang Ren, Peter Liermann & Zhigang Wu
doi:10.1038/nature06459
コロイドナノ粒子のDNA誘導結晶化
DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles p549
Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Mathew M. Maye, Daniel van der Lelie & Oleg Gang
doi:10.1038/nature06560
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DNAでプログラム可能なナノ粒子結晶化
DNA-programmable nanoparticle crystallization p553
Sung Yong Park, Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean, Byeongdu Lee, Steven Weigand, George C. Schatz & Chad A. Mirkin
doi:10.1038/nature06508
近年の大西洋のハリケーン活動の増大に対する海面温暖化の大きな寄与
Large contribution of sea surface warming to recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity p557
Mark A. Saunders & Adam S. Lea
doi:10.1038/nature06422
千島列島中央部の巨大双子地震と地震応力移動サイクル
A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands p561
Charles J. Ammon, Hiroo Kanamori & Thorne Lay
doi:10.1038/nature06521
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爬虫類の一種にみられる温度に依存した性決定の適応的意義
The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile p566
線虫のlethargusは睡眠に似た状態である
Lethargus is a Caenorhabditis elegans sleep-like state p569
David M. Raizen, John E. Zimmerman, Matthew H. Maycock, Uyen D. Ta, Young-jai You, Meera V. Sundaram & Allan I. Pack
doi:10.1038/nature06535
NLRX1は、ミトコンドリアの抗ウイルス免疫の調節因子である
NLRX1 is a regulator of mitochondrial antiviral immunity p573
Chris B. Moore, Daniel T. Bergstralh, Joseph A. Duncan, Yu Lei, Thomas E. Morrison, Albert G. Zimmermann, Mary A. Accavitti-Loper, Victoria J. Madden, Lijun Sun, Zhengmao Ye, John D. Lich, Mark T. Heise, Zhijian Chen & Jenny P-Y. Ting
doi:10.1038/nature06501
マクロファージ遊走阻止因子は、虚血心臓のAMP活性化プロテインキナーゼを刺激する
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor stimulates AMP-activated protein kinase in the ischaemic heart p578
Edward J. Miller, Ji Li, Lin Leng, Courtney McDonald, Toshiya Atsumi, Richard Bucala & Lawrence H. Young
doi:10.1038/nature06504
DBC1はSIRT1の負の調節因子である
DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1 p583
Ja-Eun Kim, Junjie Chen & Zhenkun Lou
doi:10.1038/nature06500
DBC1によるデアセチラーゼSIRT1の負の調節
Negative regulation of the deacetylase SIRT1 by DBC1 p587
Wenhui Zhao, Jan-Philipp Kruse, Yi Tang, Sung Yun Jung, Jun Qin & Wei Gu
doi:10.1038/nature06515
インフルエンザAウイルスM2プロトンチャネルの構造と作用機構
Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus p591
Jason R. Schnell & James J. Chou
doi:10.1038/nature06531
インフルエンザウイルス・プロトンチャネルの機能と阻害の構造基盤
Structural basis for the function and inhibition of an influenza virus proton channel p596
Amanda L. Stouffer, Rudresh Acharya, David Salom, Anna S. Levine, Luigi Di Costanzo, Cinque S. Soto, Valentina Tereshko, Vikas Nanda, Steven Stayrook & William F. DeGrado
doi:10.1038/nature06528
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Retraction
Anti-apoptotic function of a microRNA encoded by the HSV-1 latency-associated transcript p600
A. Gupta, J. J. Gartner, P. Sethupathy, A. G. Hatzigeorgiou & N. W. Fraser
doi:10.1038/nature06621
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Career View
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p601
The complexities of conducting science in India.
Gene Russo
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Career View
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland p602
New director-general coming to CERN.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7178-602a
Singapore gears up for translation p602
Singapore's Institute of Medical Biology strives for translation.
Ewen Callaway
doi:10.1038/nj7178-602b
Biopolis dreams p602
The Biopolis offers me vast opportunity and a challenging new laboratory culture.
Amanda Goh
doi:10.1038/nj7178-602c
