Table of contents
Volume 451 Number 7179 pp605-744
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Editorials
Best tests for candidates p605
Science in presidential debates? Absolutely. A science debate? Not so sure.
doi:10.1038/451605a
Working double-blind p605
Should there be author anonymity in peer review?
doi:10.1038/451605b
Don't ban labels p606
Providing context for sensitive declarations is the job of industry and government.
doi:10.1038/451606a
News
Bush asks for more physics — again p610
President seeks competitive edge with final budget request.
Eric Hand, Meredith Wadman, Rachel Courtland, Mitch Waldrop & Jeff Tollefson
doi:10.1038/451610a
The Moon: destination or distraction? p612
NASA plans for manned spaceflight re-assessed.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/451612a
Carbon burial buried p612
Energy department pulls the plug on FutureGen project.
Jeff Tollefson
doi:10.1038/451612b
'Normal' genes key to cancer growth p615
Shutting off genes stops cancer cells from growing but leaves healthy cells unharmed.
Erika Check Hayden
doi:10.1038/451615a
Sidelines p616
Scribbles on the margins of science.
doi:10.1038/451616a
Botanical identities p616
DNA barcoding for plants comes a step closer.
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/451616b
'Monogamous' vole in love-rat shock p617
Randy rodent revels in raunchy romps.
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/451617a
Wellcome Trust announces spending bonanza p618
doi:10.1038/451618a
Lab workers exposed to brucellosis by safety tests p618
doi:10.1038/451618b
No conflict of interest in misconduct case, says lab p618
doi:10.1038/451618c
Web alliance speeds up communication with Africa p619
doi:10.1038/451619a
Review article retracted amid plagiarism claims p619
doi:10.1038/451619b
Probe catches glimpse of surface troughs on Mercury p619
doi:10.1038/451619c
Column
A debatable proposition p621
Having the US presidential candidates face off over science issues could backfire, David Goldston argues.
David Goldston
doi:10.1038/451621a
News Feature
Stem cells: Stuck in new jersey p622
Scientists and politicians in New Jersey thought that they had a chance to make their state a stem-cell player. Voters thought otherwise. As proponents prepare for a second attempt, Meredith Wadman investigates what went wrong in the Garden State.
doi:10.1038/451622a
Correspondence
Law should recognize value of interspecies embryos p627
Justin C. St John, Lyle Armstrong, Stephen L. Minger & Keith H. S. Campbell
doi:10.1038/451627a
Italian neuroscientists are ready to start the debate p627
Fiorenzo Conti & Gilberto Corbellini
doi:10.1038/451627b
Darwin's legacy makes its mark in Croatia p627
Jasmina Muzinic
doi:10.1038/451627c
Books and Arts
JAMA and the mountebank p628
A timely tale of one man's mission to stamp out medical fraudsters in 1920s America.
Michael Shermer reviews Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
doi:10.1038/451628a
See also: Editor's summary
Multi-dimensional lives p629
Mark Ronan reviews Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy
doi:10.1038/451629a
Exhibition: Capturing colours of times past p630
Laura Spinney reviews Léon Gimpel
doi:10.1038/451630a
In Retrospect: Diagnosing deep similarity in nature p631
Michael Coates reviews On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse by Richard Owen
doi:10.1038/451631a
Fashion: Fleeting fabrics p631
Joanne Baker reviews Wonderland
doi:10.1038/451631b
Essay
Darwin's enduring legacy p632
As the 200th year since the great naturalist's birth begins, Kevin Padian looks forward to a season of celebration by outlining how Darwin's ideas changed scientific thinking.
Kevin Padian
doi:10.1038/451632a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: Ancient bacteria liked it hot p635
Proteins from ancestral bacteria have been modelled and reconstructed. Strikingly, the heat stability of these proteins parallels the temperatures of their ocean habitats, as determined from the geological record.
Manolo Gouy & Marc Chaussidon
doi:10.1038/451635a
See also: Editor's summary
Device physics: Update on 3D displays p636
Static three-dimensional images are easy to make using holographic techniques. Moving pictures are more of a problem. A palm-sized, updatable display using a specially designed polymer could be a breakthrough.
Joseph W. Perry
doi:10.1038/451636a
See also: Editor's summary
50 & 100 Years Ago p637
B. Baden-Powell
doi:10.1038/451637a
Neuropathology: Alzheimer's in real time p638
A hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the presence in the brain of protein deposits, or plaques, which are thought to form over a long period. But studies in mice suggest that the plaques can grow overnight.
Eliezer Masliah
doi:10.1038/451638a
See also: Editor's summary
Computational science: A hard statistical view p639
The sheer number of variables and logical conditions makes some computing problems seem intractable. Statistical physics, normally used to study huge groups of interacting particles, can supply powerful tools to crack them.
Bart Selman
doi:10.1038/451639a
Evolutionary genetics: Who shouldn't be your daddy p640
Unusual reproductive incompatibility has been discovered between two strains of a nematode worm. This finding indicates that natural selection can generate long-term divergence within self-fertilizing populations.
Patrick C. Phillips
doi:10.1038/451640a
Obituary: Bert Bolin (1925–2008) p642
Pioneering climate scientist and communicator.
Bob Watson
doi:10.1038/451642a
Horizons
Horizons p643
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/451643a
A systematic look at an old problem p644
As life expectancy increases, a systems-biology approach is needed to ensure that we have a healthy old age.
Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
doi:10.1038/451644a
See also: Editor's summary
Chemistry for everyone p648
Moves by chemists to help computers access the scientific literature have boosted the drive to make scientific information freely available to all.
Peter Murray-Rust
doi:10.1038/451648a
See also: Editor's summary
Building better batteries p652
Researchers must find a sustainable way of providing the power our modern lifestyles demand.
M. Armand & J.-M. Tarascon
doi:10.1038/451652a
See also: Editor's summary
Evolution of anatomy and gene control p658
Evo-devo meets systems biology.
Georgy Koentges
doi:10.1038/451658a
See also: Editor's summary
Wiring up quantum systems p664
The emerging field of circuit quantum electrodynamics could pave the way for the design of practical quantum computers.
R. J. Schoelkopf & S. M. Girvin
doi:10.1038/451664a
See also: Editor's summary
Review
Towards a molecular understanding of shape selectivity p671
Berend Smit & Theo L. M. Maesen
doi:10.1038/nature06552
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Article
The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa p679
Matthew J. Ferrari, Rebecca F. Grais, Nita Bharti, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Lara J. Wolfson, Philippe J. Guerin, Ali Djibo & Bryan T. Grenfell
doi:10.1038/nature06509
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (988K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
Letters
Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures p685
Jürgen Schmidt, Nikolai Brilliantov, Frank Spahn & Sascha Kempf
doi:10.1038/nature06491
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See also: Editor's summary
Phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with resonant interactions p689
Yong-il Shin, Christian H. Schunck, André Schirotzek & Wolfgang Ketterle
doi:10.1038/nature06473
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (522K) | Supplementary information
An updatable holographic three-dimensional display p694
Sava
Tay,
P.-A. Blanche,
R. Voorakaranam,
A. V. Tunç,
W. Lin,
S. Rokutanda,
T. Gu,
D. Flores,
P. Wang,
G. Li,
P. St Hilaire,
J. Thomas,
R. A. Norwood,
M. Yamamoto
&
N. Peyghambarian
doi:10.1038/nature06596
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (668K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Perry
Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary p699
Paola Vannucchi, Francesca Remitti & Giuseppe Bettelli
doi:10.1038/nature06486
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (963K) | Supplementary information
Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins p704
Eric A. Gaucher, Sridhar Govindarajan & Omjoy K. Ganesh
doi:10.1038/nature06510
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (279K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Gouy & Chaussidon
Bacterial carbon processing by generalist species in the coastal ocean p708
Xiaozhen Mou, Shulei Sun, Robert A. Edwards, Robert E. Hodson & Mary Ann Moran
doi:10.1038/nature06513
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See also: Editor's summary
Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands p712
Christopher M. Clark & David Tilman
doi:10.1038/nature06503
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (277K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
The coming acceleration of global population ageing p716
Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson & Sergei Scherbov
doi:10.1038/nature06516
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (264K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
Rapid appearance and local toxicity of amyloid-
plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease p720
Melanie Meyer-Luehmann, Tara L. Spires-Jones, Claudia Prada, Monica Garcia-Alloza, Alix de Calignon, Anete Rozkalne, Jessica Koenigsknecht-Talboo, David M. Holtzman, Brian J. Bacskai & Bradley T. Hyman
doi:10.1038/nature06616
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (1,047K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Masliah
TANK-binding kinase-1 delineates innate and adaptive immune responses to DNA vaccines p725
Ken J. Ishii, Tatsukata Kawagoe, Shohei Koyama, Kosuke Matsui, Himanshu Kumar, Taro Kawai, Satoshi Uematsu, Osamu Takeuchi, Fumihiko Takeshita, Cevayir Coban & Shizuo Akira
doi:10.1038/nature06537
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Drosophila Pgc protein inhibits P-TEFb recruitment to chromatin in primordial germ cells p730
Kazuko Hanyu-Nakamura, Hiroko Sonobe-Nojima, Akie Tanigawa, Paul Lasko & Akira Nakamura
doi:10.1038/nature06498
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Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly p734
Ee Sin Chen, Ke Zhang, Estelle Nicolas, Hugh P. Cam, Martin Zofall & Shiv I. S. Grewal
doi:10.1038/nature06561
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Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p739
What do you look for in a good workplace? How about free scuba-diving lessons?
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7179-739a
Postdocs and Students
Ready, set, hire p740
For junior science-faculty members and staff, hiring researchers is an important way to boost career success. But without management training, it's a shot in the dark. Genevive Bjorn reports.
Genevive Bjorn
doi:10.1038/nj7179-740a
Correction p741
doi:10.1038/nj7179-741a
Career View
Eva Feldman, director, Taubman Medical Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan p742
An accomplished career in neuroscience ends back up at Michigan.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7179-742a
Japanese postdocs seek their path p742
Large survey of Japanese postdocs reveals employment trends.
Toshiyuki Misu & Akira Horoiwa
doi:10.1038/nj7179-742b
Fruit medley p742
I'm trying to get my priorities straight. Is doing my postdoc overseas the best choice?
Zachary Lippman
doi:10.1038/nj7179-742c
