Volume 414 Issue 6865, 13 December 2001

Prospects

Take control of your destiny

Paul Smaglik
Prospects 13 Dec 2001
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Regions

Changing fortunes Australia

Peter Pockley
Regions 13 Dec 2001

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Opinion

Educating future scientists

Instead of helplessly pondering a new trove of data for guidance on how to improve science education, researchers should better exploit existing mechanisms for helping out at their local schools.

Opinion 13 Dec 2001
Europe must unite to preserve its heritage

The European Commission should not lose its enthusiasm for supporting research into the preservation of cultural heritage.

Opinion 13 Dec 2001

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News

Bioweapons treaty in disarray as US blocks plans for verification

Declan Butler
News 13 Dec 2001
Nobel officials recoil from expenses offer

David Cyranoski
News 13 Dec 2001
Mathematicians poised for major funding boost

Erica Klarreich
News 13 Dec 2001
Trial halted after gene shows up in semen

Nell Boyce
News 13 Dec 2001
Need for vaccine stocks questioned

Erika Check
News 13 Dec 2001
Wellcome bid sees Crick archive return home

Alison Abbott
Rex Dalton
News 13 Dec 2001
Jodrell Bank survives shake-up of UK astronomy

David Adam
News 13 Dec 2001
Partners' anger mounts over NASA plans for space station

Tony Reichhardt
News 13 Dec 2001
Europe's Mars mission to pay out for Beagle lander

Sally Goodman
News 13 Dec 2001

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News in Brief

news in brief

News in Brief 13 Dec 2001

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News Feature

Which way to energy utopia?

The vehicles of the future will almost certainly be powered by hydrogen. But no one is sure exactly how to get drivers to kick their fossil-fuel habit. Mark Schrope weighs up the options.

Mark Schrope
News Feature 13 Dec 2001
The curtain falls

Theatre seemed the ideal way for US bioprospectors working in Mexico to tell local people about their work. But did the plays distract attention from the involvement of commercial interests? Rex Dalton reports.

Rex Dalton
News Feature 13 Dec 2001

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Correspondence

Crops grown on set-aside land bring wild birds back to the fields

Monitoring is under way, and results so far are promising.

Chris Stoate
Dave Parish
Correspondence 13 Dec 2001
Schemes are monitored and effective in the UK

Peter D. Carey
Correspondence 13 Dec 2001
War: no time for dissent

Arno Arrak
Correspondence 13 Dec 2001
Church backing depends on ethical use of animals

Archbishop Monsignor Elio Sgreccia
Don Maurizio Calipari
Marialuisa Lavitrano
Correspondence 13 Dec 2001

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Book Review

Out of thin air

Towards an understanding of our responses to high altitude.

Sue Jackson
Book Review 13 Dec 2001
Lifting the curtain on the Nobels

Aant Elzinga
Book Review 13 Dec 2001
A turn-up for worms

Book Review 13 Dec 2001
Sex appeal of a musical insect

Marlene Zuk
Book Review 13 Dec 2001
Science in culture

Martin Kemp
Book Review 13 Dec 2001

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Concepts

mRNA readout at 40

John F. Atkins
Raymond F. Gesteland
Concepts 13 Dec 2001

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News & Views

Waving goodbye to measles

An innovative way of analysing statistics on measles incidence in England and Wales since 1944 reveals recurring waves of infection originating in large cities. The information can guide strategies for preventing the disease.

Peter M. Strebel
Stephen L. Cochi
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Charged with smuggling heat

Good conductors of heat are usually good at conducting electricity. So the discovery that electrons in a superconductor can carry an unauthorized amount of heat at low temperatures raises many questions.

Kamran Behnia
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
100 and 50 years ago

News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Sacrificial bonds heal bone

The toughness of bone is usually attributed to its collagen, but how does it work? New evidence shows that molecular bonds can temporarily sacrifice themselves to absorb impacts.

John Currey
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Rhythms of the auroral dance

Earlier this year, the four satellites of the Cluster mission passed through part of the electric circuit that causes aurorae. Their observations support the view that intense aurorae form in regions largely devoid of electrons.

Patrick T. Newell
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Bug detectors

Insects and mammals are thought to have similar 'innate' immune responses to infectious microorganisms. But there are differences, and even more now emerge from studies of how insects detect bacteria.

Tsuneyasu Kaisho
Shizuo Akira
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
An end to the protection racket

To modify a specific site on a molecule that has several similar sites, organic chemists have had to use cumbersome 'protecting groups'. New peptide catalysts with remarkable selectivities offer a protection-free alternative.

David Gani
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Short cut to disease genes

There are thousands of inherited human diseases. For the most part, the genes that are mutated in these diseases are unknown. But a new approach could save time and effort in identifying the genes responsible.

Alan F. Wright
Veronica Van Heyningen
News & Views 13 Dec 2001
Reduced bandwidth

The human eye slides around a visual scene, making several jumps per second in the process. Daedalus wants to take advantage of these 'saccades' to develop computer-transmitted videos that need fewer frames per second.

David Jones
News & Views 13 Dec 2001

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Brief Communication

Laterality in tool manufacture by crows

Neural processing and not ecological factors may influence 'handedness' in these birds.

Gavin R. Hunt
Michael C. Corballis
Russell D. Gray
Brief Communication 13 Dec 2001
A temperature-tunable random laser

Diederik S. Wiersma
Stefano Cavalieri
Brief Communication 13 Dec 2001
Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis

Dolf Weijers
Niko Geldner
Gerd Jürgens
Brief Communication 13 Dec 2001
Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis

Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
Ramamurthy Baskar
Ueli Grossniklaus
Brief Communication 13 Dec 2001

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Correction

Correction: Night-time predation by Steller sea lions

Correction 13 Dec 2001
Correction: Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery

Correction 13 Dec 2001
Correction: Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish

articles 13 Dec 2001

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Erratum

Erratum: Nitrate flux in the Mississippi River

Erratum 13 Dec 2001

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Article

Breakdown of Fermi-liquid theory in a copper-oxide superconductor

R. W. Hill
Cyril Proust
R. L. Greene
Article 13 Dec 2001
Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics

B. T. Grenfell
O. N. Bjørnstad
J. Kappey
Article 13 Dec 2001

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Letter

Temporal evolution of the electric field accelerating electrons away from the auroral ionosphere

G. T. Marklund
N. Ivchenko
A. Balogh
Letter 13 Dec 2001
A one-dimensional chain state of vortex matter

Alexander Grigorenko
Simon Bending
Mohamed Henini
Letter 13 Dec 2001
High-temperature ultrafast polariton parametric amplification in semiconductor microcavities

M. Saba
C. Ciuti
B. Deveaud
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Hierarchical self-assembly of metal nanostructures on diblock copolymer scaffolds

Ward A. Lopes
Heinrich M. Jaeger
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation

C. Beaumont
R. A. Jamieson
B. Lee
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats

Raphaël Arlettaz
Gareth Jones
Paul A. Racey
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Evidence for the evolution of multiple genomes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Gerrit Kuhn
Mohamed Hijri
Ian R. Sanders
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations

Raymond Gani
Steve Leach
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence

Sylvain Gandon
Margaret J. Mackinnon
Andrew F. Read
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Drosophila Toll is activated by Gram-positive bacteria through a circulating peptidoglycan recognition protein

Tatiana Michel
Jean-Marc Reichhart
Julien Royet
Letter 13 Dec 2001
A pol I transcriptional body associated with VSG mono-allelic expression in Trypanosoma brucei

Miguel Navarro
Keith Gull
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Thymus medulla consisting of epithelial islets each derived from a single progenitor

Hans-Reimer Rodewald
Sabine Paul
Carmen Blum
Letter 13 Dec 2001
c-Myc regulates mammalian body size by controlling cell number but not cell size

Andreas Trumpp
Yosef Refaeli
J. Michael Bishop
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Bone indentation recovery time correlates with bond reforming time

James B. Thompson
Johannes H. Kindt
Paul K. Hansma
Letter 13 Dec 2001
Bacteriophytochromes are photochromic histidine kinases using a biliverdin chromophore

Seong-Hee Bhoo
Seth J. Davis
Richard D. Vierstra
Letter 13 Dec 2001

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Erratum

Erratum: The rhythm of microbial adaptation

Philip Gerrish
Erratum 13 Dec 2001

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Foreword

Diabetes

Foreword 13 Dec 2001

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Review Article

Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic

Paul Zimmet
K. G. M. M. Alberti
Jonathan Shaw
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
Diabetes mellitus and genetically programmed defects in β-cell function

Graeme I. Bell
Kenneth S. Polonsky
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
β-Cell death during progression to diabetes

Diane Mathis
Luis Vence
Christophe Benoist
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism

Alan R. Saltiel
C. Ronald Kahn
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic β-cells

Pierre Maechler
Claes B. Wollheim
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
Biochemistry and molecular cell biology of diabetic complications

Michael Brownlee
Review Article 13 Dec 2001
New drug targets for type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

David E. Moller
Review Article 13 Dec 2001

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Corporate Support

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB AND DIABETES: Basic Science, Clinical Development, Global Surveillance

Peter S. Ringrose
Corporate Support 13 Dec 2001

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Insight

Diabetes

Diabetes is predicted to double in incidence in the next two decades, fuelled predominantly by modern lifestyles and an increasing incidence of obesity. Leading researchers discuss the spectrum of disorders that comprise diabetes, the biochemical causes of the complications that arise, and the best ways to treat and prevent this complex and potentially debilitating condition.

Insight 13 Dec 2001

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