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Volume 437 Issue 7055, 1 September 2005

Volume 437 Issue 7055

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Editorial

  • Editorial |

    Public controversies that involve scientific uncertainty can be influenced by mavericks. Open confrontation and analysis serves the public better than excommunication.

  • Editorial |

    Universities should back researchers determined to stand up for animal research in the face of terrorism.

  • Editorial |

    This issue of Nature includes several reasons for editorial celebration.

Research Highlights

News

News in Brief

News Feature

  • News Feature | | Open Access

    The chimp was a great start. But the genomes of our other primate relatives will help to reveal a whole lot more, says Carina Dennis.

    • Carina Dennis

  • News Feature |

    Interacting with our closest living relative can be a profound experience. To mark the publication of the chimpanzee genome, Nature asked four individuals for their different perspectives.

Business

Correspondence

Commentary

  • Commentary |

    In the wake of the chimpanzee genome publication, Pascal Gagneux, James J. Moore and Ajit Varki consider the ethical and scientific challenges for scientists who work on captive great apes.

    • Pascal Gagneux
    • James J. Moore
    • Ajit Varki

  • Commentary |

    Research using chimpanzees has been crucial in the fight against human diseases such as hepatitis. John L. VandeBerg, Stuart M. Zola and colleagues urge that this now dwindling resource be sustained.

    • John L. VandeBerg
    • Stuart M. Zola

Books & Arts

News & Views

  • News & Views |

    Two competing theories have been applied to the formation of high-mass stars. Observations of two stellar systems now suggest that the accretion model has a weightier claim than its rival merger model.

    • Barbara A. Whitney

  • News & Views |

    The most informative examples of large-scale evolution are provided by major transitions between environments. Fresh research on an ancient amphibian shows how it adapted to locomotion both in water and on land.

    • Robert L. Carroll

  • News & Views |

    The ratio of oxygen isotopes contained in the signal in deep-sea sediments can tell us a great deal about past ice-volume variations. The challenge is to disentangle the different contributions to the signal.

    • Mark Siddall

  • News & Views |

    The immune system is intimately involved in how tumours develop. But how do tumours avoid being killed by immune responses? It seems that in some instances they can lull immune cells into a false sense of security.

    • Cornelis J. M. Melief

Brief Communication

The Chimpanzee Genome

  • The Chimpanzee Genome |

    As our closest living relative, the chimpanzee holds a unique fascination for researchers from anthropologists to geneticists. Here, we chart the history of mankind's relationship with the chimp, culminating in this week's landmark genomic achievement.

  • The Chimpanzee Genome |

    Publication of the draft DNA sequence of the chimpanzee genome is an especially notable event: the data provide a treasury of information for understanding human biology and evolution.

    • Wen-Hsiung Li
    • Matthew A. Saunders

Progress

Article

Letter

Prospects

  • Prospects |

    Investment in New York biotech infrastructure and basic research could draw more entrepreneurs to the area

    • Paul Smaglik

Careers and Recruitment

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    Scientists willing to tackle membrane proteins should find opportunities unfolding, says Hannah Hoag.

    • Hannah Hoag

Futures

  • Futures |

    A novel resurrection.

    • Hiromi Goto

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