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2009, volume 461, articles 7268

Journal club pp. 1177-1177

Jonathan Weissman

African science feels the pinch pp. 1180-1180

Linda Nordling

Woo Suk Hwang convicted, but not of fraud pp. 1181-1181

David Cyranoski

US physicists propose astrophysics goals pp. 1181-1181

Eric Hand

Dark energy rips cosmos and agencies pp. 1182-1183

Eric Hand

Ozone protocol squares up to climate pp. 1184-1184

Jeff Tollefson

University tightens oversight of sensitive research pp. 1185-1185

Elie Dolgin

Jury still out on HIV vaccine results pp. 1187-1187

Declan Butler

Decision-making: Risk school pp. 1189-1192

Michael Bond

Neuroscience: Shooting pain pp. 1194-1196

Erik Vance

Brainstem tests not adequate to diagnose death in organ donors pp. 1198-1198

David W. Evans

Funding on 'Sheriff of Nottingham' model could cut productivity pp. 1198-1198

David Currie

A playful side to twelfth-century mathematics pp. 1198-1198

Ram Ramaswamy and Rohini Godbole

Weighing up NICE against private health-care schemes pp. 1198-1198

Todd A. Gibson

Global Darwin: Eastern enchantment pp. 1200-1201

Marwa Elshakry

The day the Internet age began pp. 1202-1203

Vinton G. Cerf

Reassessing the father of chemistry pp. 1205-1206

Peter Anstey

Capturing digital lives pp. 1206-1208

Fred Turner

Explorer of the deep pp. 1209-1210

Jean Vacelet

Darwin's puppy love pp. 1210-1211

Clive Wynne

Forgotten treasure seeker pp. 1211-1213

Jennifer Rohn

History of the hard stuff pp. 1213-1214

Jim Lapsley

Living by the calendar pp. 1214-1216

Serge Daan

Caught at the finishing line pp. 1217-1218

Bob B. Buckley and David D. Awschalom

Emerging routes to multiferroics pp. 1218-1219

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Arrhythmia of tempo and mode pp. 1219-1221

Paul B. Rainey

Most distant cosmic blast seen pp. 1221-1223

Bing Zhang

Bond control in surface reactions pp. 1223-1225

Jens K. Nørskov and Frank Abild-Pedersen

DNA binding shapes up pp. 1225-1226

Tom Tullius

Swirled by light pp. 1226-1226

Mark I. Dykman

Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications pp. 1227-1233

Francis Albarède

What recent ribosome structures have revealed about the mechanism of translation pp. 1234-1242

T. Martin Schmeing and V. Ramakrishnan

Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli pp. 1243-1247

Jeffrey E. Barrick, Dong Su Yu, Sung Ho Yoon, Haeyoung Jeong, Tae Kwang Oh, Dominique Schneider, Richard E. Lenski and Jihyun F. Kim

The role of DNA shape in protein–DNA recognition pp. 1248-1253

Remo Rohs, Sean M. West, Alona Sosinsky, Peng Liu, Richard S. Mann and Barry Honig

A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2 pp. 1254-1257

N. R. Tanvir, D. B. Fox, A. J. Levan, E. Berger, K. Wiersema, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Cucchiara, T. Krühler, N. Gehrels, J. S. Bloom, J. Greiner, P. A. Evans, E. Rol, F. Olivares, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, J. Farihi, R. Willingale, R. L. C. Starling, S. B. Cenko, D. Perley, J. R. Maund, J. Duke, R. A. M. J. Wijers, A. J. Adamson, A. Allan, M. N. Bremer, D. N. Burrows, A. J. Castro-Tirado, B. Cavanagh, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. A. Dopita, T. A. Fatkhullin, A. S. Fruchter, R. J. Foley, J. Gorosabel, J. Kennea, T. Kerr, S. Klose, H. A. Krimm, V. N. Komarova, S. R. Kulkarni, A. S. Moskvitin, C. G. Mundell, T. Naylor, K. Page, B. E. Penprase, M. Perri, P. Podsiadlowski, K. Roth, R. E. Rutledge, T. Sakamoto, P. Schady, B. P. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, J. Sollerman, A. W. Stephens, G. Stratta, T. N. Ukwatta, D. Watson, E. Westra, T. Wold and C. Wolf

GRB 090423 at a redshift of z ≈ 8.1 pp. 1258-1260

R. Salvaterra, M. Della Valle, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, S. Covino, P. D’Avanzo, A. Fernández-Soto, C. Guidorzi, F. Mannucci, R. Margutti, C. C. Thöne, L. A. Antonelli, S. D. Barthelmy, M. De Pasquale, V. D’Elia, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, L. K. Hunt, E. Maiorano, S. Marinoni, F. E. Marshall, E. Molinari, J. Nousek, E. Pian, J. L. Racusin, L. Stella, L. Amati, G. Andreuzzi, G. Cusumano, E. E. Fenimore, P. Ferrero, P. Giommi, D. Guetta, S. T. Holland, K. Hurley, G. L. Israel, J. Mao, C. B. Markwardt, N. Masetti, C. Pagani, E. Palazzi, D. M. Palmer, S. Piranomonte, G. Tagliaferri and V. Testa

Acceleration of neutral atoms in strong short-pulse laser fields pp. 1261-1264

U. Eichmann, T. Nubbemeyer, H. Rottke and W. Sandner

Preserving electron spin coherence in solids by optimal dynamical decoupling pp. 1265-1268

Jiangfeng Du, Xing Rong, Nan Zhao, Ya Wang, Jiahui Yang and R. B. Liu

A dearth of intermediate melts at subduction zone volcanoes and the petrogenesis of arc andesites pp. 1269-1273

Olivier Reubi and Jon Blundy

Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird pp. 1274-1277

Manuela Zapka, Dominik Heyers, Christine M. Hein, Svenja Engels, Nils-Lasse Schneider, Jörg Hans, Simon Weiler, David Dreyer, Dmitry Kishkinev, J. Martin Wild and Henrik Mouritsen

Regulation of cortical microcircuits by unitary GABA-mediated volume transmission pp. 1278-1281

Szabolcs Oláh, Miklós Füle, Gergely Komlósi, Csaba Varga, Rita Báldi, Pál Barzó and Gábor Tamás

Regulation of inflammatory responses by gut microbiota and chemoattractant receptor GPR43 pp. 1282-1286

Kendle M. Maslowski, Angelica T. Vieira, Aylwin Ng, Jan Kranich, Frederic Sierro, Di Yu, Heidi C. Schilter, Michael S. Rolph, Fabienne Mackay, David Artis, Ramnik J. Xavier, Mauro M. Teixeira and Charles R. Mackay

Resolvin D2 is a potent regulator of leukocytes and controls microbial sepsis pp. 1287-1291

Matthew Spite, Lucy V. Norling, Lisa Summers, Rong Yang, Dianne Cooper, Nicos A. Petasis, Roderick J. Flower, Mauro Perretti and Charles N. Serhan

Epigenetic reversion of post-implantation epiblast to pluripotent embryonic stem cells pp. 1292-1295

Siqin Bao, Fuchou Tang, Xihe Li, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Astrid Gillich, Kaiqin Lao and M. Azim Surani

A regulatory circuit for piwi by the large Maf gene traffic jam in Drosophila pp. 1296-1299

Kuniaki Saito, Sachi Inagaki, Toutai Mituyama, Yoshinori Kawamura, Yukiteru Ono, Eri Sakota, Hazuki Kotani, Kiyoshi Asai, Haruhiko Siomi and Mikiko C. Siomi

Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design pp. 1300-1304

Summer B. Thyme, Jordan Jarjour, Ryo Takeuchi, James J. Havranek, Justin Ashworth, Andrew M. Scharenberg, Barry L. Stoddard and David Baker

Ian Anderson pp. 1307-1307

Virginia Gewin

The many hats of science pp. 1307-1307

Bryan Venters

Fertile grounds pp. 1308-1309

Gene Russo

Helpdesk pp. 1312-1312

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2009, volume 461, articles 7267

Silk production from tarantula feet questioned pp. E9-E9

Fernando Pérez-Miles, Alejandra Panzera, David Ortiz-Villatoro and Cintya Perdomo

Gorb et al. reply pp. E9-E10

Stanislav N. Gorb, Senta Niederegger, Cheryl Y. Hayashi, Adam P. Summers, Walter Vötsch and Paul Walther

Journal club pp. 1031-1031

Corinne Le Quéré

Time running out for climate talks pp. 1034-1035

Jeff Tollefson

Hwang verdict imminent pp. 1035-1035

David Cyranoski

High hopes for Russia's nanotech firms pp. 1036-1037

Quirin Schiermeier

Hazy goals hold up conservation pp. 1037-1037

Linda Nordling

Europe's Galileo project gains ground pp. 1039-1039

Katharine Sanderson

Fossil primate challenges Ida's place pp. 1040-1040

Rex Dalton

Transgenic aubergines put on ice pp. 1041-1041

K.S. Jayaraman

Climate: When the ice melts pp. 1042-1046

Anjali Nayar

Climate: Counting carbon in the Amazon pp. 1048-1052

Jeff Tollefson

Sharing: project will make climate data freely available to all pp. 1053-1053

Don Gunasekera

Sharing: public databases combat mistrust and secrecy pp. 1053-1053

Andrew A. Farke, Michael P. Taylor and Mathew J. Wedel

Sharing: guidelines go one step forwards, two steps back pp. 1053-1053

Jelte Wicherts and Marjan Bakker

UK red tape as sticky as the US version for would-be students pp. 1053-1053

Colin Stoneking

India pushes for common responsibility pp. 1054-1054

Rajendra K. Pachauri

China expects leadership from rich nations pp. 1055-1055

Jiahua Pan

Copenhagen needs a strong lead negotiator pp. 1056-1057

Raúl Estrada-Oyuela.

Conveying the campaign message pp. 1058-1059

Sanjay Khanna

Q&A: The science of persuasion pp. 1059-1059

Sanjay Khanna

Climate books with clout pp. 1060-1060

David Reay

Q&A: Architect of a sustainable future pp. 1061-1061

John Whitfield

Molecular conformations fielded pp. 1063-1064

Albert Stolow

Saturn's colossal ring pp. 1064-1065

Matthew S. Tiscareno and Matthew M. Hedman

Early survival of Antarctic ice pp. 1065-1066

Damien Lemarchand

Kelp in postglacial time pp. 1066-1066

Tim Lincoln

Slip sliding on DNA pp. 1067-1068

Nicholas P. George and James L. Keck

Enzyme's black box cracked open pp. 1068-1069

David H. Sherman

Light from the dark pp. 1069-1070

Stefan W. Hell and Eva Rittweger

The DNA-damage response in human biology and disease pp. 1071-1078

Stephen P. Jackson and Jiri Bartek

A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation pp. 1079-1083

Jun Kitano, Joseph A. Ross, Seiichi Mori, Manabu Kume, Felicity C. Jones, Yingguang F. Chan, Devin M. Absher, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Richard M. Myers, David M. Kingsley and Catherine L. Peichel

Pten in stromal fibroblasts suppresses mammary epithelial tumours pp. 1084-1091

Anthony J. Trimboli, Carmen Z. Cantemir-Stone, Fu Li, Julie A. Wallace, Anand Merchant, Nicholas Creasap, John C. Thompson, Enrico Caserta, Hui Wang, Jean-Leon Chong, Shan Naidu, Guo Wei, Sudarshana M. Sharma, Julie A. Stephens, Soledad A. Fernandez, Metin N. Gurcan, Michael B. Weinstein, Sanford H. Barsky, Lisa Yee, Thomas J. Rosol, Paul C. Stromberg, Michael L. Robinson, Francois Pepin, Michael Hallett, Morag Park, Michael C. Ostrowski and Gustavo Leone

SSB protein diffusion on single-stranded DNA stimulates RecA filament formation pp. 1092-1097

Rahul Roy, Alexander G. Kozlov, Timothy M. Lohman and Taekjip Ha

Saturn's largest ring pp. 1098-1100

Anne J. Verbiscer, Michael F. Skrutskie and Douglas P. Hamilton

Information causality as a physical principle pp. 1101-1104

Marcin Pawłowski, Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Valerio Scarani, Andreas Winter and Marek Żukowski

Imaging chromophores with undetectable fluorescence by stimulated emission microscopy pp. 1105-1109

Wei Min, Sijia Lu, Shasha Chong, Rahul Roy, Gary R. Holtom and X. Sunney Xie

Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition pp. 1110-1113

Paul N. Pearson, Gavin L. Foster and Bridget S. Wade

Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge pp. 1114-1117

Ikuo Katayama, Ken-ichi Hirauchi, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi and Jun-ichi Ando

Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates pp. 1118-1121

Erik R. Seiffert, Jonathan M. G. Perry, Elwyn L. Simons and Doug M. Boyer

Sleep deprivation impairs cAMP signalling in the hippocampus pp. 1122-1125

Christopher G. Vecsey, George S. Baillie, Devan Jaganath, Robbert Havekes, Andrew Daniels, Mathieu Wimmer, Ted Huang, Kim M. Brown, Xiang-Yao Li, Giannina Descalzi, Susan S. Kim, Tao Chen, Yu-Ze Shang, Min Zhuo, Miles D. Houslay and Ted Abel

The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents pp. 1126-1129

Catherine Weisz, Elisabeth Glowatzki and Paul Fuchs

Unexpected consequences of a sudden and massive transposon amplification on rice gene expression pp. 1130-1134

Ken Naito, Feng Zhang, Takuji Tsukiyama, Hiroki Saito, C. Nathan Hancock, Aaron O. Richardson, Yutaka Okumoto, Takatoshi Tanisaka and Susan R. Wessler

A transposon-induced epigenetic change leads to sex determination in melon pp. 1135-1138

Antoine Martin, Christelle Troadec, Adnane Boualem, Mazen Rajab, Ronan Fernandez, Halima Morin, Michel Pitrat, Catherine Dogimont and Abdelhafid Bendahmane

Structural basis for biosynthetic programming of fungal aromatic polyketide cyclization pp. 1139-1143

Jason M. Crawford, Tyler P. Korman, Jason W. Labonte, Anna L. Vagstad, Eric A. Hill, Oliver Kamari-Bidkorpeh, Shiou-Chuan Tsai and Craig A. Townsend

Structural basis for translational fidelity ensured by transfer RNA lysidine synthetase pp. 1144-1148

Kotaro Nakanishi, Luc Bonnefond, Satoshi Kimura, Tsutomu Suzuki, Ryuichiro Ishitani and Osamu Nureki

Putting neurons on the map pp. 1150-1152

Michael Eisenstein

Going mobile pp. 1157-1157

Rich Pennock

Stefan Söldner-Rembold pp. 1157-1157

Virginia Gewin

Seeds of collaboration pp. 1158-1159

Paul Smaglik

Tropicbird pp. 1162-1162

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2009, volume 461, articles 7266

Journal club pp. 851-851

Sam Wang

Cancer metastasis scrutinized pp. 854-855

Elie Dolgin

Japan to slash huge grant scheme pp. 854-854

David Cyranoski

Fusion delays sow concern pp. 855-855

Geoff Brumfiel

Key protein-design papers challenged pp. 859-859

Erika Check Hayden

Structural biology bags chemistry prize pp. 860-860

Richard Van Noorden

Impact theory under fire once more pp. 861-861

Rex Dalton

Neuroscience: Small, furry … and smart pp. 862-864

Jonah Lehrer

Neuroscience: Opening up brain surgery pp. 866-868

Alison Abbott

Seismology: Shaking up earthquake theory pp. 870-872

Glennda Chui

Pakistan: basic education essential to underpin reforms pp. 874-874

Muhammad Naim Siddiqi, Abdul Wahab Yousafzai and Raza Ur Rahman

Pakistan: cash infusion of limited use to universities pp. 874-874

Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pakistan: sense of urgency powered education reforms pp. 874-874

Atta ur Rahman

Battlefield: hitting the supporters of biotechnology pp. 875-875

Jens A. Katzek

Battlefield: useful debate needs caution and civility pp. 875-875

Allison A. Snow

Commercial pressure quelling creation of new microscopes pp. 875-875

Brad Amos

Massively collaborative mathematics pp. 879-881

Timothy Gowers and Michael Nielsen

Stitching science together pp. 881-881

Cameron Neylon

Art history's window onto the mind pp. 882-883

Martin Kemp

In Retrospect: Brodmann's brain map pp. 884-884

Jacopo Annese

Q&A: The space entrepreneur pp. 885-885

Jascha Hoffman

Chemical love pp. 887-888

Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prud'homme

Wien route to monopoles pp. 888-889

Shivaji Sondhi

The inside story on place cells pp. 889-890

Douglas Nitz

The matrix neutralized pp. 890-891

Ilia Fishbein and Robert J. Levy

A fateful age gap pp. 891-892

Tim Stearns

Quasicrystals from nanocrystals pp. 892-893

Alfons van Blaaderen

Norman E. Borlaug (1914–2009) pp. 894-894

M. S. Swaminathan

Alzheimer's disease pp. 895-897

Lennart Mucke

Neurotechniques pp. 899-899

Noah Gray and Tanguy Chouard

Molecular genetics and imaging technologies for circuit-based neuroanatomy pp. 900-907

Benjamin R. Arenkiel and Michael D. Ehlers

Neuroscience in the era of functional genomics and systems biology pp. 908-915

Daniel H. Geschwind and Genevieve Konopka

Multimodal techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease pp. 916-922

Richard J. Perrin, Anne M. Fagan and David M. Holtzman

Reverse engineering the mouse brain pp. 923-929

Daniel H. O'Connor, Daniel Huber and Karel Svoboda

Electrophysiology in the age of light pp. 930-939

Massimo Scanziani and Michael Häusser

Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during virtual navigation pp. 941-946

Christopher D. Harvey, Forrest Collman, Daniel A. Dombeck and David W. Tank

Asymmetric centrosome inheritance maintains neural progenitors in the neocortex pp. 947-955

Xiaoqun Wang, Jin-Wu Tsai, Janice H. Imai, Wei-Nan Lian, Richard B. Vallee and Song-Hai Shi

Measurement of the charge and current of magnetic monopoles in spin ice pp. 956-959

S. T. Bramwell, S. R. Giblin, S. Calder, R. Aldus, D. Prabhakaran and T. Fennell

Cooper pair splitter realized in a two-quantum-dot Y-junction pp. 960-963

L. Hofstetter, S. Csonka, J. Nygård and C. Schönenberger

Quasicrystalline order in self-assembled binary nanoparticle superlattices pp. 964-967

Dmitri V. Talapin, Elena V. Shevchenko, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen and Christopher B. Murray

Scaleable catalytic asymmetric Strecker syntheses of unnatural α-amino acids pp. 968-970

Stephan J. Zuend, Matthew P. Coughlin, Mathieu P. Lalonde and Eric N. Jacobsen

Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets pp. 971-975

Hamish D. Pritchard, Robert J. Arthern, David G. Vaughan and Laura A. Edwards

Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria pp. 976-979

Willm Martens-Habbena, Paul M. Berube, Hidetoshi Urakawa, José R. de la Torre and David A. Stahl

Cheater-resistance is not futile pp. 980-982

Anupama Khare, Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller, Adam Kuspa and Gad Shaulsky

An anatomical signature for literacy pp. 983-986

Manuel Carreiras, Mohamed L. Seghier, Silvia Baquero, Adelina Estévez, Alfonso Lozano, Joseph T. Devlin and Cathy J. Price

Specialized cells tag sexual and species identity in Drosophila melanogaster pp. 987-991

Jean-Christophe Billeter, Jade Atallah, Joshua J. Krupp, Jocelyn G. Millar and Joel D. Levine

A secreted complement-control-related protein ensures acetylcholine receptor clustering pp. 992-996

Marie Gendrel, Georgia Rapti, Janet E. Richmond and Jean-Louis Bessereau

Spatiotemporal control of cell signalling using a light-switchable protein interaction pp. 997-1001

Anselm Levskaya, Orion D. Weiner, Wendell A. Lim and Christopher A. Voigt

Integrin-linked kinase is an adaptor with essential functions during mouse development pp. 1002-1006

Anika Lange, Sara A. Wickström, Madis Jakobson, Roy Zent, Kirsi Sainio and Reinhard Fässler

DNA demethylation in hormone-induced transcriptional derepression pp. 1007-1012

Mi-Sun Kim, Takeshi Kondo, Ichiro Takada, Min-Young Youn, Yoko Yamamoto, Sayuri Takahashi, Takahiro Matsumoto, Sally Fujiyama, Yuko Shirode, Ikuko Yamaoka, Hirochika Kitagawa, Ken-Ichi Takeyama, Hiroshi Shibuya, Fumiaki Ohtake and Shigeaki Kato

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski pp. 1015-1015

Paul Smaglik

Heart matters pp. 1015-1015

Joanne Isaac

Escapism pp. 1018-1018

Nick Mamatas

2009, volume 461, articles 7265

Gal4 turnover and transcription activation pp. E7-E7

Galen A. Collins, J. Russell Lipford, Raymond J. Deshaies and William P. Tansey

Nalley et al. reply pp. E8-E8

Kip Nalley, Stephen Albert Johnston and Thomas Kodadek

Journal club pp. 701-701

Judith E. Mank

Fossil rewrites early human evolution pp. 705-705

Rex Dalton

Chromosome protection scoops Nobel pp. 706-707

Alison Abbott

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to light pioneers pp. 707-707

Geoff Brumfiel

X-ray free-electron lasers fire up pp. 708-709

Eric Hand

From plant to power pp. 710-711

Katharine Sanderson

Human genetics: Hit or miss? pp. 712-714

Kelly Rae Chi

Environment: The disappearing nutrient pp. 716-718

Natasha Gilbert

Plasmonics: Surfing the wave pp. 720-722

Joerg Heber

Sanctions against scientists threaten progress pp. 723-723

Bengt Gustafsson

Measures urgently required to prevent multiple submissions pp. 723-723

Goudarz Molaei

Caution with claims that a species has been rediscovered pp. 723-723

Richard J. Ladle, Paul Jepson, Steve Jennings and Ana C. M. Malhado

An agenda for personalized medicine pp. 724-726

Pauline C. Ng, Sarah S. Murray, Samuel Levy and J. Craig Venter

Let's celebrate human genetic diversity pp. 726-728

Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein

Winning the arguments on Capitol Hill pp. 730-731

Harold Varmus

China's unofficial democracy pp. 731-731

Li Gong

Darwin's legacy down under pp. 732-732

Mark A. Elgar

A creative celebration of evolution pp. 733-733

Jason Hodin, Cory D. Bishop, Fred A. Sharpe and Ruben E. Valas

Sharp focus on the variable genome pp. 735-736

John A. L. Armour

Passage through chaos pp. 736-737

Daniel A. Steck

Gene therapy in colour pp. 737-739

Robert Shapley

Dark is the new black pp. 740-741

Richard Massey

Life on leaves pp. 741-742

Johan Leveau

Tracing Argonaute binding pp. 743-744

Samir Bouasker and Martin J. Simard

One-way road for light pp. 744-745

Eli Yablonovitch

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases pp. 747-753

Teri A. Manolio, Francis S. Collins, Nancy J. Cox, David B. Goldstein, Lucia A. Hindorff, David J. Hunter, Mark I. McCarthy, Erin M. Ramos, Lon R. Cardon, Aravinda Chakravarti, Judy H. Cho, Alan E. Guttmacher, Augustine Kong, Leonid Kruglyak, Elaine Mardis, Charles N. Rotimi, Montgomery Slatkin, David Valle, Alice S. Whittemore, Michael Boehnke, Andrew G. Clark, Evan E. Eichler, Greg Gibson, Jonathan L. Haines, Trudy F. C. Mackay, Steven A. McCarroll and Peter M. Visscher

Nucleation, propagation and cleavage of target RNAs in Ago silencing complexes pp. 754-761

Yanli Wang, Stefan Juranek, Haitao Li, Gang Sheng, Greg S. Wardle, Thomas Tuschl and Dinshaw J. Patel

Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of repressive histone marks pp. 762-767

Raphael Margueron, Neil Justin, Katsuhito Ohno, Miriam L. Sharpe, Jinsook Son, William J. Drury, Philipp Voigt, Stephen R. Martin, William R. Taylor, Valeria De Marco, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Danny Reinberg and Steven J. Gamblin

Quantum signatures of chaos in a kicked top pp. 768-771

S. Chaudhury, A. Smith, B. E. Anderson, S. Ghose and P. S. Jessen

Observation of unidirectional backscattering-immune topological electromagnetic states pp. 772-775

Zheng Wang, Yidong Chong, J. D. Joannopoulos and Marin Soljačić

Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean pp. 776-779

Peter K. Bijl, Stefan Schouten, Appy Sluijs, Gert-Jan Reichart, James C. Zachos and Henk Brinkhuis

Rapid ascent of rhyolitic magma at Chaitén volcano, Chile pp. 780-783

Jonathan M. Castro and Donald B. Dingwell

Gene therapy for red–green colour blindness in adult primates pp. 784-787

Katherine Mancuso, William W. Hauswirth, Qiuhong Li, Thomas B. Connor, James A. Kuchenbecker, Matthew C. Mauck, Jay Neitz and Maureen Neitz

STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity pp. 788-792

Hiroki Ishikawa, Zhe Ma and Glen N. Barber

Prohibitin couples diapause signalling to mitochondrial metabolism during ageing in C. elegans pp. 793-797

Marta Artal-Sanz and Nektarios Tavernarakis

Genetic variation in IL28B and spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus pp. 798-801

David L. Thomas, Chloe L. Thio, Maureen P. Martin, Ying Qi, Dongliang Ge, Colm O’hUigin, Judith Kidd, Kenneth Kidd, Salim I. Khakoo, Graeme Alexander, James J. Goedert, Gregory D. Kirk, Sharyne M. Donfield, Hugo R. Rosen, Leslie H. Tobler, Michael P. Busch, John G. McHutchison, David B. Goldstein and Mary Carrington

A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism pp. 802-808

Lauren A. Weiss and Dan E. Arking

Mutational evolution in a lobular breast tumour profiled at single nucleotide resolution pp. 809-813

Sohrab P. Shah, Ryan D. Morin, Jaswinder Khattra, Leah Prentice, Trevor Pugh, Angela Burleigh, Allen Delaney, Karen Gelmon, Ryan Guliany, Janine Senz, Christian Steidl, Robert A. Holt, Steven Jones, Mark Sun, Gillian Leung, Richard Moore, Tesa Severson, Greg A. Taylor, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Kane Tse, Gulisa Turashvili, Richard Varhol, René L. Warren, Peter Watson, Yongjun Zhao, Carlos Caldas, David Huntsman, Martin Hirst, Marco A. Marra and Samuel Aparicio

Direct RNA sequencing pp. 814-818

Fatih Ozsolak, Adam R. Platt, Dan R. Jones, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Lauryn E. Sass, Peter McInerney, John F. Thompson, Jayson Bowers, Mirna Jarosz and Patrice M. Milos

JAK2 phosphorylates histone H3Y41 and excludes HP1α from chromatin pp. 819-822

Mark A. Dawson, Andrew J. Bannister, Berthold Göttgens, Samuel D. Foster, Till Bartke, Anthony R. Green and Tony Kouzarides

Structural insights into mechanisms of the small RNA methyltransferase HEN1 pp. 823-827

Ying Huang, Lijuan Ji, Qichen Huang, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Xuemei Chen and Jin-Biao Ma

Erratum: Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids pp. 828-828

S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

Erratum: Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts pp. 828-828

Minkee Choi, Kyungsu Na, Jeongnam Kim, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Osamu Terasaki and Ryong Ryoo

Erratum: Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles pp. 828-828

Chris L. Organ, Daniel E. Janes, Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel

Robert Margolskee pp. 831-831

Virginia Gewin

Communicating science pp. 831-831

Julia Boughner

Rising star? pp. 832-833

David Cyranoski

Life in a monastic lab pp. 836-836

Joost Uitdehaag

2009, volume 461, articles 7264

Journal club pp. 573-573

Bruce R. Conklin

Booming biosafety labs probed pp. 577-577

Meredith Wadman

Iranian ministers in plagiarism row pp. 578-579

Declan Butler

Experts draw up ocean-drilling wish list pp. 579-579

Quirin Schiermeier

US agriculture research gets priority plan pp. 580-580

Lizzie Buchen

Instant climate model gears up pp. 581-581

Jeff Tollefson

Cellulosic ethanol hits roadblocks pp. 582-583

Roberta Kwok

Innovation strategy pp. 585-585

David Goldston

Eastern Europe: Scaling the wall pp. 586-589

Quirin Schiermeier

Eastern Europe: Beyond the bloc pp. 590-591

Quirin Schiermeier

Call from China for joint nanotech toxicity-testing effort pp. 593-593

Shuping Bi, Jing Zhang and Jiongjia Cheng

Consent: criteria should be drawn up for tissue donors pp. 593-593

Bernard Lo and Bruce R. Conklin

Consent: a need for guidelines to reflect local considerations pp. 593-593

Wendy Lipworth, Rob Irvine and Bronwen Morrell

Science and the Stasi pp. 594-595

Kristie Macrakis

Showcasing the evidence for evolution pp. 596-596

Laurence D. Hurst

Taxonomy comes of age pp. 597-597

Richard Lane

Q&A: Gustav Metzger on destruction pp. 598-598

Emma Marris

Propping up a destructive regime pp. 599-600

Randall T. Peterson

Droplets set light in a spin pp. 600-601

Miles Padgett

Feathered dinosaurs in a tangle pp. 601-602

Lawrence M. Witmer

Molecular crystal balls pp. 602-603

Seth M. Cohen

Winged warnings pp. 603-604

Graeme D. Ruxton

Lasers go nano pp. 604-605

Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal and Esteban Moreno

Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system pp. 607-613

Bjorn Stevens and Graham Feingold

Tankyrase inhibition stabilizes axin and antagonizes Wnt signalling pp. 614-620

Shih-Min A. Huang, Yuji M. Mishina, Shanming Liu, Atwood Cheung, Frank Stegmeier, Gregory A. Michaud, Olga Charlat, Elizabeth Wiellette, Yue Zhang, Stephanie Wiessner, Marc Hild, Xiaoying Shi, Christopher J. Wilson, Craig Mickanin, Vic Myer, Aleem Fazal, Ronald Tomlinson, Fabrizio Serluca, Wenlin Shao, Hong Cheng, Michael Shultz, Christina Rau, Markus Schirle, Judith Schlegl, Sonja Ghidelli, Stephen Fawell, Chris Lu, Daniel Curtis, Marc W. Kirschner, Christoph Lengauer, Peter M. Finan, John A. Tallarico, Tewis Bouwmeester, Jeffery A. Porter, Andreas Bauer and Feng Cong

Inhibitors selective for mycobacterial versus human proteasomes pp. 621-626

Gang Lin, Dongyang Li, Luiz Pedro Sorio de Carvalho, Haiteng Deng, Hui Tao, Guillaume Vogt, Kangyun Wu, Jean Schneider, Tamutenda Chidawanyika, J. David Warren, Huilin Li and Carl Nathan

Universality of galactic surface densities within one dark halo scale-length pp. 627-628

Gianfranco Gentile, Benoit Famaey, HongSheng Zhao and Paolo Salucci

Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale pp. 629-632

Rupert F. Oulton, Volker J. Sorger, Thomas Zentgraf, Ren-Min Ma, Christopher Gladden, Lun Dai, Guy Bartal and Xiang Zhang

X-ray observation of a transient hemiaminal trapped in a porous network pp. 633-635

Takehide Kawamichi, Tsuyoshi Haneda, Masaki Kawano and Makoto Fujita

Remote triggering of fault-strength changes on the San Andreas fault at Parkfield pp. 636-639

Taka’aki Taira, Paul G. Silver, Fenglin Niu and Robert M. Nadeau

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus pp. 640-643

Dongyu Hu, Lianhai Hou, Lijun Zhang and Xing Xu

Robust discrimination between self and non-self neurites requires thousands of Dscam1 isoforms pp. 644-648

Daisuke Hattori, Yi Chen, Benjamin J. Matthews, Lukasz Salwinski, Chiara Sabatti, Wesley B. Grueber and S. Lawrence Zipursky

Direct reprogramming of human neural stem cells by OCT4 pp. 649-653

Jeong Beom Kim, Boris Greber, Marcos J. Araúzo-Bravo, Johann Meyer, Kook In Park, Holm Zaehres and Hans R. Schöler

Discovery of Atg5/Atg7-independent alternative macroautophagy pp. 654-658

Yuya Nishida, Satoko Arakawa, Kenji Fujitani, Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Takeshi Mizuta, Toku Kanaseki, Masaaki Komatsu, Kinya Otsu, Yoshihide Tsujimoto and Shigeomi Shimizu

Membrane-bound Fas ligand only is essential for Fas-induced apoptosis pp. 659-663

Lorraine A. O’ Reilly, Lin Tai, Lily Lee, Elizabeth A. Kruse, Stephanie Grabow, W. Douglas Fairlie, Nicole M. Haynes, David M. Tarlinton, Jian-Guo Zhang, Gabrielle T. Belz, Mark J. Smyth, Philippe Bouillet, Lorraine Robb and Andreas Strasser

Cooperative binding of two acetylation marks on a histone tail by a single bromodomain pp. 664-668

Jeanne Morinière, Sophie Rousseaux, Ulrich Steuerwald, Montserrat Soler-López, Sandrine Curtet, Anne-Laure Vitte, Jérôme Govin, Jonathan Gaucher, Karin Sadoul, Darren J. Hart, Jeroen Krijgsveld, Saadi Khochbin, Christoph W. Müller and Carlo Petosa

Substrate interactions and promiscuity in a viral DNA packaging motor pp. 669-673

K. Aathavan, Adam T. Politzer, Ariel Kaplan, Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Yann R. Chemla, Shelley Grimes, Paul J. Jardine, Dwight L. Anderson and Carlos Bustamante

A human 5′-tyrosyl DNA phosphodiesterase that repairs topoisomerase-mediated DNA damage pp. 674-678

Felipe Cortes Ledesma, Sherif F. El Khamisy, Maria C. Zuma, Kay Osborn and Keith W. Caldecott

Older but not wiser pp. 681-681

Nicola Jones

A natural haven pp. 681-681

Sam Walcott

No place like home pp. 682-683

Claire Ainsworth

Quality control pp. 686-686

Marissa Lingen

2009, volume 461, articles 7263

Journal club pp. 451-451

Mikiko C. Siomi

Buoy damage blurs El Niño forecasts pp. 455-455

Naomi Lubick

German science looks to new political players pp. 456-457

Quirin Schiermeier

Genomics shifts focus to rare diseases pp. 459-459

Erika Check Hayden

The elephant and the neutrino pp. 459-459

Killugudi Jayaraman

Gold rush for algae pp. 460-461

Amanda Leigh Mascarelli

Physics: The edge of physics pp. 462-465

Eric Hand

Atmospheric science: Cloudy, with a chance of science pp. 466-468

Jane Qiu

Luxury bushmeat trade threatens lemur conservation pp. 470-470

Meredith A. Barrett and Jonah Ratsimbazafy

A communication wipeout by gabbling presenters pp. 470-470

Dongwook Ko

Politics and priorities behind Greek research reforms pp. 470-470

Fragiskos N. Kolisis

Overzealous use of decimal places has wrong kind of impact pp. 470-470

J. M. D. Coey

A safe operating space for humanity pp. 472-475

Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan A. Foley

The younger Oppenheimer pp. 476-477

Robert Crease

Howard's end at Perimeter pp. 477-477

João Magueijo

A floating island of sustainability pp. 478-478

Christopher Turner

Maya, Khmer and Inca pp. 479-480

Jared Diamond

Rise of the source–sink model pp. 480-481

Alexander F. Schier and Daniel Needleman

The El Niño with a difference pp. 481-484

Karumuri Ashok and Toshio Yamagata

Caught in the activation pp. 484-485

Yi Liu

Inner workings of a star pp. 485-486

Sung-Chul Yoon

A bad boy comes good pp. 486-487

Ulrich Theopold

Tracing India's invisible threads pp. 487-488

Aravinda Chakravarti

Reconstructing Indian population history pp. 489-494

David Reich, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Nick Patterson, Alkes L. Price and Lalji Singh

A luminal epithelial stem cell that is a cell of origin for prostate cancer pp. 495-500

Xi Wang, Marianna Kruithof- de Julio, Kyriakos D. Economides, David Walker, Hailong Yu, M. Vivienne Halili, Ya-Ping Hu, Sandy M. Price, Cory Abate-Shen and Michael M. Shen

Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage pp. 501-503

S. Charpinet, G. Fontaine and P. Brassard

Violation of Bell's inequality in Josephson phase qubits pp. 504-506

Markus Ansmann, H. Wang, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Max Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O'Connell, D. Sank, M. Weides, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland and John M. Martinis

Stable isotope constraints on Holocene carbon cycle changes from an Antarctic ice core pp. 507-510

Joachim Elsig, Jochen Schmitt, Daiana Leuenberger, Robert Schneider, Marc Eyer, Markus Leuenberger, Fortunat Joos, Hubertus Fischer and Thomas F. Stocker

El Niño in a changing climate pp. 511-514

Sang-Wook Yeh, Jong-Seong Kug, Boris Dewitte, Min-Ho Kwon, Ben P. Kirtman and Fei-Fei Jin

An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution pp. 515-519

Jamie T. Bridgham, Eric A. Ortlund and Joseph W. Thornton

Population context determines cell-to-cell variability in endocytosis and virus infection pp. 520-523

Berend Snijder, Raphael Sacher, Pauli Rämö, Eva-Maria Damm, Prisca Liberali and Lucas Pelkmans

Integration of neuronal clones in the radial cortical columns by EphA and ephrin-A signalling pp. 524-528

Masaaki Torii, Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, Pat Levitt and Pasko Rakic

Asymptomatic deer excrete infectious prions in faeces pp. 529-532

Gültekin Tamgüney, Michael W. Miller, Lisa L. Wolfe, Tracey M. Sirochman, David V. Glidden, Christina Palmer, Azucena Lemus, Stephen J. DeArmond and Stanley B. Prusiner

Fgf8 morphogen gradient forms by a source-sink mechanism with freely diffusing molecules pp. 533-536

Shuizi Rachel Yu, Markus Burkhardt, Matthias Nowak, Jonas Ries, Zdeněk Petrášek, Steffen Scholpp, Petra Schwille and Michael Brand

Reactive oxygen species prime Drosophila haematopoietic progenitors for differentiation pp. 537-541

Edward Owusu-Ansah and Utpal Banerjee

A dimerization-dependent mechanism drives RAF catalytic activation pp. 542-545

Thanashan Rajakulendran, Malha Sahmi, Martin Lefrançois, Frank Sicheri and Marc Therrien

Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 546-549

Saibal Chatterjee and Helge Großhans

Erratum: The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition pp. 550-550

Toshiro Oda, Mitsusada Iwasa, Tomoki Aihara, Yuichiro Maéda and Akihiro Narita

Erratum: Reptilian heart development and the molecular basis of cardiac chamber evolution pp. 550-550

Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi, Alessandro D. Mori, Bogac L. Kaynak, Judith Cebra-Thomas, Tatyana Sukonnik, Romain O. Georges, Stephany Latham, Laurel Beck, R. Mark Henkelman, Brian L. Black, Eric N. Olson, Juli Wade, Jun K. Takeuchi, Mona Nemer, Scott F. Gilbert and Benoit G. Bruneau

Erratum: Structural basis for leucine-rich nuclear export signal recognition by CRM1 pp. 550-550

Xiuhua Dong, Anindita Biswas, Katherine E. Süel, Laurie K. Jackson, Rita Martinez, Hongmei Gu and Yuh Min Chook

Sponsor a scientist, online pp. 553-553

Virginia Gewin

Lab trips foster collegiality pp. 553-553

Bryan Venters

Industrial endeavours pp. 554-555

Karen Kaplan

A kiss isn't just a kiss pp. 558-558

Steve Carper

2009, volume 461, articles 7262

VEGFR1-activity-independent metastasis formation pp. E4-E4

Michelle R. Dawson, Dan G. Duda, Dai Fukumura and Rakesh K. Jain

Kaplan et al. reply pp. E5-E5

Rosandra N. Kaplan, Rebecca D. Riba, Stergios Zacharoulis, Anna H. Bramley, Loïc Vincent, Carla Costa, Daniel D. MacDonald, David K. Jin, Koji Shido, Scott A. Kerns, Zhenping Zhu, Daniel Hicklin, Yan Wu, Jeffrey L. Port, Nasser Altorki, Elisa R. Port, Davide Ruggero, Sergey V. Shmelkov, Kristian K. Jensen, Shahin Rafii, David Lyden and J. Wels

Journal club pp. 319-319

Rusty Feagin

Vaccine venture boosts health hopes pp. 323-323

Declan Butler

Ear to the Universe starts listening pp. 324-324

Eric Hand

Ghosts still present in the medical machine pp. 325-325

Nicola Jones

Choon Fong Shih pp. 326-326

Daniel Cressey

Wonder weed plans fail to flourish pp. 328-329

Katharine Sanderson

Money in biomedicine: The senator's sleuth pp. 330-334

Meredith Wadman

Health economics: Life in the balance pp. 336-339

Daniel Cressey

Non-lethal weapons and the civilian death toll in war time pp. 340-340

Michael L. Gross

Don't overlook the rigorously reviewed novel work in patents pp. 340-340

Donald F. Weaver and Christopher Barden

Keeping track of the Earth's carbon-cycle components pp. 340-340

José Achache

Were crocodiles responsible for the stones we call tools? pp. 341-341

Patrick Dempsey

Ethical concerns over use of new cloning technique in humans pp. 341-341

Hans-Werner Denker

The need for a fresh symbol to designate copernicium pp. 341-341

Juris Meija

Plan B for Copenhagen pp. 342-344

David Victor

An alien concept pp. 345-346

Fred Kaplan

Ocean fertilization: time to move on pp. 347-348

Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller and John Cullen

On the origin of technology pp. 349-349

Jon Agar

Sound for the masses pp. 350-351

Peter Border

Q&A: The inventor with an ear for the past pp. 351-351

Jascha Hoffman

Thwarting the seeds of clouds pp. 353-354

Paul J. Ziemann

Asexual healing pp. 354-355

Eric A. Shoubridge

To merge or not to merge pp. 356-356

Frieder Mugele

Hepatitis C virus gets personal pp. 357-358

Shawn P. Iadonato and Michael G. Katze

Beyond radical thinking pp. 358-359

Léon Sanche

Ready for the marks pp. 359-360

Robert Feil

Showering with bacteria pp. 360-360

Shannon Amoils

The structural basis of tail-anchored membrane protein recognition by Get3 pp. 361-366

Agnieszka Mateja, Anna Szlachcic, Maureen E. Downing, Malgorzata Dobosz, Malaiyalam Mariappan, Ramanujan S. Hegde and Robert J. Keenan

Mitochondrial gene replacement in primate offspring and embryonic stem cells pp. 367-372

Masahito Tachibana, Michelle Sparman, Hathaitip Sritanaudomchai, Hong Ma, Lisa Clepper, Joy Woodward, Ying Li, Cathy Ramsey, Olena Kolotushkina and Shoukhrat Mitalipov

Misaligned spin and orbital axes cause the anomalous precession of DI Herculis pp. 373-376

Simon Albrecht, Sabine Reffert, Ignas A. G. Snellen and Joshua N. Winn

Non-coalescence of oppositely charged drops pp. 377-380

W. D. Ristenpart, J. C. Bird, A. Belmonte, F. Dollar and H. A. Stone

New particle formation in forests inhibited by isoprene emissions pp. 381-384

Astrid Kiendler-Scharr, Jürgen Wildt, Miikka Dal Maso, Thorsten Hohaus, Einhard Kleist, Thomas F. Mentel, Ralf Tillmann, Ricarda Uerlings, Uli Schurr and Andreas Wahner

Holocene thinning of the Greenland ice sheet pp. 385-388

B. M. Vinther, S. L. Buchardt, H. B. Clausen, D. Dahl-Jensen, S. J. Johnsen, D. A. Fisher, R. M. Koerner, D. Raynaud, V. Lipenkov, K. K. Andersen, T. Blunier, S. O. Rasmussen, J. P. Steffensen and A. M. Svensson

Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles pp. 389-392

Chris L. Organ, Daniel E. Janes, Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel

Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans pp. 393-398

Brian J. Haas, Sophien Kamoun, Michael C. Zody, Rays H. Y. Jiang, Robert E. Handsaker, Liliana M. Cano, Manfred Grabherr, Chinnappa D. Kodira, Sylvain Raffaele, Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Tolga O. Bozkurt, Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong, Lucia Alvarado, Vicky L. Anderson, Miles R. Armstrong, Anna Avrova, Laura Baxter, Jim Beynon, Petra C. Boevink, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Jorunn I. B. Bos, Vincent Bulone, Guohong Cai, Cahid Cakir, James C. Carrington, Megan Chawner, Lucio Conti, Stefano Costanzo, Richard Ewan, Noah Fahlgren, Michael A. Fischbach, Johanna Fugelstad, Eleanor M. Gilroy, Sante Gnerre, Pamela J. Green, Laura J. Grenville-Briggs, John Griffith, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Karolyn Horn, Neil R. Horner, Chia-Hui Hu, Edgar Huitema, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Richard W. Jones, Elinor K. Karlsson, Sridhara G. Kunjeti, Kurt Lamour, Zhenyu Liu, LiJun Ma, Daniel MacLean, Marcus C. Chibucos, Hayes McDonald, Jessica McWalters, Harold J. G. Meijer, William Morgan, Paul F. Morris, Carol A. Munro, Keith O’Neill, Manuel Ospina-Giraldo, Andrés Pinzón, Leighton Pritchard, Bernard Ramsahoye, Qinghu Ren, Silvia Restrepo, Sourav Roy, Ari Sadanandom, Alon Savidor, Sebastian Schornack, David C. Schwartz, Ulrike D. Schumann, Ben Schwessinger, Lauren Seyer, Ted Sharpe, Cristina Silvar, Jing Song, David J. Studholme, Sean Sykes, Marco Thines, Peter J. I. van de Vondervoort, Vipaporn Phuntumart, Stephan Wawra, Rob Weide, Joe Win, Carolyn Young, Shiguo Zhou, William Fry, Blake C. Meyers, Pieter van West, Jean Ristaino, Francine Govers, Paul R. J. Birch, Stephen C. Whisson, Howard S. Judelson and Chad Nusbaum

Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance pp. 399-401

Dongliang Ge, Jacques Fellay, Alexander J. Thompson, Jason S. Simon, Kevin V. Shianna, Thomas J. Urban, Erin L. Heinzen, Ping Qiu, Arthur H. Bertelsen, Andrew J. Muir, Mark Sulkowski, John G. McHutchison and David B. Goldstein

Modelling pathogenesis and treatment of familial dysautonomia using patient-specific iPSCs pp. 402-406

Gabsang Lee, Eirini P. Papapetrou, Hyesoo Kim, Stuart M. Chambers, Mark J. Tomishima, Christopher A. Fasano, Yosif M. Ganat, Jayanthi Menon, Fumiko Shimizu, Agnes Viale, Viviane Tabar, Michel Sadelain and Lorenz Studer

Optogenetic dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord pp. 407-410

Claire Wyart, Filippo Del Bene, Erica Warp, Ethan K. Scott, Dirk Trauner, Herwig Baier and Ehud Y. Isacoff

Response and resistance to MEK inhibition in leukaemias initiated by hyperactive Ras pp. 411-414

Jennifer O. Lauchle, Doris Kim, Doan T. Le, Keiko Akagi, Michael Crone, Kimberly Krisman, Kegan Warner, Jeannette M. Bonifas, Qing Li, Kristen M. Coakley, Ernesto Diaz-Flores, Matthew Gorman, Sally Przybranowski, Mary Tran, Scott C. Kogan, Jeroen P. Roose, Neal G. Copeland, Nancy A. Jenkins, Luis Parada, Linda Wolff, Judith Sebolt-Leopold and Kevin Shannon

KDM1B is a histone H3K4 demethylase required to establish maternal genomic imprints pp. 415-418

David N. Ciccone, Hui Su, Sarah Hevi, Frédérique Gay, Hong Lei, Jeffrey Bajko, Guoliang Xu, En Li and Taiping Chen

Histone H2A.Z cooperates with RNAi and heterochromatin factors to suppress antisense RNAs pp. 419-422

Martin Zofall, Tamás Fischer, Ke Zhang, Ming Zhou, Bowen Cui, Timothy D. Veenstra and Shiv I. S. Grewal

Bursts of retrotransposition reproduced in Arabidopsis pp. 423-426

Sayuri Tsukahara, Akie Kobayashi, Akira Kawabe, Olivier Mathieu, Asuka Miura and Tetsuji Kakutani

Selective epigenetic control of retrotransposition in Arabidopsis pp. 427-430

Marie Mirouze, Jon Reinders, Etienne Bucher, Taisuke Nishimura, Korbinian Schneeberger, Stephan Ossowski, Jun Cao, Detlef Weigel, Jerzy Paszkowski and Olivier Mathieu

Rudi Balling pp. 433-433

Flora Roenneberg

Am I still a postdoc or not? pp. 433-433

Joanne Isaac

Back to the beginning pp. 434-435

David Cyranoski

Answers from the event horizon pp. 438-438

Mercurio D. Rivera

2009, volume 461, articles 7261

Journal club pp. 149-149

Elena B. Pasquale

Cash crisis could ground NASA rocket pp. 153-153

Eric Hand

How green is your campus? pp. 154-155

Amanda Leigh Mascarelli

Export-control laws worry academics pp. 156-156

Sharon Weinberger

Ethics scrutiny needed for Chinese-European projects pp. 157-157

Daniel Cressey

Toxicity testing gets a makeover pp. 158-158

Alison Abbott

World climate services framework agreed pp. 159-159

Olive Heffernan

Data sharing: Empty archives pp. 160-163

Bryn Nelson

Evolution: Mouth to mouth pp. 164-166

Henry Nicholls

Choking on carbon emissions from Greek academic paperwork pp. 167-167

Costas Synolakis and Spyros Foteinis

Evolution pioneers: celebrating Lamarck at 200, Darwin 215 pp. 167-167

William E. Friedman

Evolution pioneers: Lamarck's reputation saved by his zoology pp. 167-167

Pietro Corsi

Religious belief and the history of science pp. 167-167

Scott Goode

Post-publication sharing of data and tools pp. 171-173

Paul N. Schofield, Tania Bubela, Thomas Weaver, Lili Portilla, Stephen D. Brown, John M. Hancock, David Einhorn, Glauco Tocchini-Valentini, Martin Hrabe de Angelis and Nadia Rosenthal

Call for a climate culture shift pp. 174-175

Robert Costanza

The wider lessons for finance pp. 175-176

Ehsan Masood

How Spain redrew the world pp. 176-176

Neil Safier

Birds do it with a Z gene pp. 177-178

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

A gentle jackhammer pp. 178-179

Enrico Gnecco

Oxygen for heavy-metal fans pp. 179-180

Timothy W. Lyons and Christopher T. Reinhard

Sent by the scent of death pp. 181-182

Christopher Gregory

Catalysts made thinner pp. 182-183

Avelino Corma

Instructions writ in blood pp. 183-184

Tariq Enver and Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen

Transcribing the genome pp. 185-185

Alex Eccleston and Magdalena Skipper

Defining mechanisms that regulate RNA polymerase II transcription in vivo pp. 186-192

Nicholas J. Fuda, M. Behfar Ardehali and John T. Lis

The logic of chromatin architecture and remodelling at promoters pp. 193-198

Bradley R. Cairns

Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers pp. 199-205

Axel Visel, Edward M. Rubin and Len A. Pennacchio

Implications of chimaeric non-co-linear transcripts pp. 206-211

Thomas R. Gingeras

Chromosome crosstalk in three dimensions pp. 212-217

Anita Göndör and Rolf Ohlsson

Molecular networks as sensors and drivers of common human diseases pp. 218-223

Eric E. Schadt

Co-translational mRNA decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 225-229

Wenqian Hu, Thomas J. Sweet, Sangpen Chamnongpol, Kristian E. Baker and Jeff Coller

An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase formed by TERT and the RMRP RNA pp. 230-235

Yoshiko Maida, Mami Yasukawa, Miho Furuuchi, Timo Lassmann, Richard Possemato, Naoko Okamoto, Vivi Kasim, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, William C. Hahn and Kenkichi Masutomi

The global distribution of pure anorthosite on the Moon pp. 236-240

Makiko Ohtake, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Junichi Haruyama, Yasuhiro Yokota, Tomokatsu Morota, Chikatoshi Honda, Yoshiko Ogawa, Masaya Torii, Hideaki Miyamoto, Tomoko Arai, Naru Hirata, Akira Iwasaki, Ryosuke Nakamura, Takahiro Hiroi, Takamitsu Sugihara, Hiroshi Takeda, Hisashi Otake, Carle M. Pieters, Kazuto Saiki, Kohei Kitazato, Masanao Abe, Noriaki Asada, Hirohide Demura, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Sho Sasaki, Shinsuke Kodama, Junya Terazono, Motomaro Shirao, Atsushi Yamaji, Shigeyuki Minami, Hiroaki Akiyama and Jean-Luc Josset

Coherent optical pulse sequencer for quantum applications pp. 241-245

Mahdi Hosseini, Ben M. Sparkes, Gabriel Hétet, Jevon J. Longdell, Ping Koy Lam and Ben C. Buchler

Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts pp. 246-249

Minkee Choi, Kyungsu Na, Jeongnam Kim, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Osamu Terasaki and Ryong Ryoo

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes pp. 250-253

Robert Frei, Claudio Gaucher, Simon W. Poulton and Don E. Canfield

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity pp. 254-257

Jonathan M. Levine and Janneke HilleRisLambers

Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes pp. 258-262

Itai Sharon, Ariella Alperovitch, Forest Rohwer, Matthew Haynes, Fabian Glaser, Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, Ron Y. Pinter, Frédéric Partensky, Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf, Nathan Nelson and Oded Béjà

Changes of mind in decision-making pp. 263-266

Arbora Resulaj, Roozbeh Kiani, Daniel M. Wolpert and Michael N. Shadlen

The avian Z-linked gene DMRT1 is required for male sex determination in the chicken pp. 267-271

Craig A. Smith, Kelly N. Roeszler, Thomas Ohnesorg, David M. Cummins, Peter G. Farlie, Timothy J. Doran and Andrew H. Sinclair

Targeted capture and massively parallel sequencing of 12 human exomes pp. 272-276

Sarah B. Ng, Emily H. Turner, Peggy D. Robertson, Steven D. Flygare, Abigail W. Bigham, Choli Lee, Tristan Shaffer, Michelle Wong, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Evan E. Eichler, Michael Bamshad, Deborah A. Nickerson and Jay Shendure

Modification of CO2 avoidance behaviour in Drosophila by inhibitory odorants pp. 277-281

Stephanie Lynn Turner and Anandasankar Ray

Nucleotides released by apoptotic cells act as a find-me signal to promote phagocytic clearance pp. 282-286

Michael R. Elliott, Faraaz B. Chekeni, Paul C. Trampont, Eduardo R. Lazarowski, Alexandra Kadl, Scott F. Walk, Daeho Park, Robin I. Woodson, Marina Ostankovich, Poonam Sharma, Jeffrey J. Lysiak, T. Kendall Harden, Norbert Leitinger and Kodi S. Ravichandran

ErbB2 resembles an autoinhibited invertebrate epidermal growth factor receptor pp. 287-291

Diego Alvarado, Daryl E. Klein and Mark A. Lemmon

Structure of the BK potassium channel in a lipid membrane from electron cryomicroscopy pp. 292-295

Liguo Wang and Fred J. Sigworth

Erratum: MicroRNA-mediated switching of chromatin-remodelling complexes in neural development pp. 296-296

Andrew S. Yoo, Brett T. Staahl, Lei Chen and Gerald R. Crabtree

Business skills for postdocs pp. 299-299

Virginia Gewin

Finding the perfect match pp. 299-299

Julia Boughner

Eyeing the underdog pp. 300-301

Kerry Grens

The pet pp. 304-304

Robert W. Janes

2009, volume 461, articles 7260

Scaling of BMP gradients in Xenopus embryos pp. E1-E1

Paul Francois, Alin Vonica, Ali H. Brivanlou and Eric D. Siggia

Reply to Francois et al pp. E2-E2

Danny Ben-Zvi, Ben-Zion Shilo, Abraham Fainsod and Naama Barkai

Journal club pp. 15-15

Richard Bennett

Climate-control plans scrutinized pp. 19-19

Geoff Brumfiel

Keeping genes out of terrorists' hands pp. 22-22

Erika Check Hayden

Stem-cell projects falter pp. 23-23

Rex Dalton

Cost of climate change underestimated pp. 24-24

Anjali Nayar

Budget instructions pp. 25-25

David Goldston

GM crops: Battlefield pp. 27-32

Emily Waltz

Arctic ecology: Tundra's burning pp. 34-36

Jane Qiu

Conservation: a small price for long-term economic well-being pp. 37-37

Boris M. Hillmann and Jan Barkmann

Conservation: the world's religions can help pp. 37-37

Shonil Bhagwat and Martin Palmer

Defining numbers in terms of their divisors pp. 37-37

D. Speijer

Pakistan's reform experiment pp. 38-39

Athar Osama, Adil Najam, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Syed Zulfiqar Gilani and Christopher King

Like minds can be small minds pp. 40-41

Herbert Gintis

Society need not be selfish pp. 41-41

Michael Tomasello

Pop artist displays primitive instincts pp. 42-42

Martin Kemp

Hidden chaos in cosmic order pp. 43-44

Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The fat and the furious pp. 44-45

Eyal Gottlieb

Pulsating vesicles pp. 45-47

Jan C. M. van Hest

A channel with a twist pp. 47-48

Valeria Vásquez and Eduardo Perozo

Oceans apart pp. 49-50

Maren Voss and Joseph P. Montoya

Persistent feedback pp. 50-51

Hyojung Seo and Daeyeol Lee

Early-warning signals for critical transitions pp. 53-59

Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock, Victor Brovkin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Vasilis Dakos, Hermann Held, Egbert H. van Nes, Max Rietkerk and George Sugihara

Structures of the tRNA export factor in the nuclear and cytosolic states pp. 60-65

Atlanta G. Cook, Noemi Fukuhara, Martin Jinek and Elena Conti

The remnants of galaxy formation from a panoramic survey of the region around M31 pp. 66-69

Alan W. McConnachie, Michael J. Irwin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, John Dubinski, Lawrence M. Widrow, Nicolas F. Martin, Patrick Côté, Aaron L. Dotter, Julio F. Navarro, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Thomas H. Puzia, Geraint F. Lewis, Arif Babul, Pauline Barmby, Olivier Bienaymé, Scott C. Chapman, Robert Cockcroft, Michelle L. M. Collins, Mark A. Fardal, William E. Harris, Avon Huxor, A. Dougal Mackey, Jorge Peñarrubia, R. Michael Rich, Harvey B. Richer, Arnaud Siebert, Nial Tanvir, David Valls-Gabaud and Kimberly A. Venn

Laser cooling by collisional redistribution of radiation pp. 70-73

Ulrich Vogl and Martin Weitz

From molecular to macroscopic via the rational design of a self-assembled 3D DNA crystal pp. 74-77

Jianping Zheng, Jens J. Birktoft, Yi Chen, Tong Wang, Ruojie Sha, Pamela E. Constantinou, Stephan L. Ginell, Chengde Mao and Nadrian C. Seeman

Denitrification as the dominant nitrogen loss process in the Arabian Sea pp. 78-81

B. B. Ward, A. H. Devol, J. J. Rich, B. X. Chang, S. E. Bulow, Hema Naik, Anil Pratihary and A. Jayakumar

The oldest hand-axes in Europe pp. 82-85

Gary R. Scott and Luis Gibert

iPS cells produce viable mice through tetraploid complementation pp. 86-90

Xiao-yang Zhao, Wei Li, Zhuo Lv, Lei Liu, Man Tong, Tang Hai, Jie Hao, Chang-long Guo, Qing-wen Ma, Liu Wang, Fanyi Zeng and Qi Zhou

Adult mice generated from induced pluripotent stem cells pp. 91-94

Michael J. Boland, Jennifer L. Hazen, Kristopher L. Nazor, Alberto R. Rodriguez, Wesley Gifford, Greg Martin, Sergey Kupriyanov and Kristin K. Baldwin

Reptilian heart development and the molecular basis of cardiac chamber evolution pp. 95-98

Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi, Alessandro D. Mori, Bogac L. Kaynak, Judith Cebra-Thomas, Tatyana Sukonnik, Romain O. Georges, Stephany Latham, Laural Beck, R. Mark Henkelman, Brian L. Black, Eric N. Olson, Juli Wade, Jun K. Takeuchi, Mona Nemer, Scott F. Gilbert and Benoit G. Bruneau

Coordination of Rho GTPase activities during cell protrusion pp. 99-103

Matthias Machacek, Louis Hodgson, Christopher Welch, Hunter Elliott, Olivier Pertz, Perihan Nalbant, Amy Abell, Gary L. Johnson, Klaus M. Hahn and Gaudenz Danuser

A genetically encoded photoactivatable Rac controls the motility of living cells pp. 104-108

Yi I. Wu, Daniel Frey, Oana I. Lungu, Angelika Jaehrig, Ilme Schlichting, Brian Kuhlman and Klaus M. Hahn

Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by loss of matrix attachment pp. 109-113

Zachary T. Schafer, Alexandra R. Grassian, Loling Song, Zhenyang Jiang, Zachary Gerhart-Hines, Hanna Y. Irie, Sizhen Gao, Pere Puigserver and Joan S. Brugge

Direct activation of protein kinases by unanchored polyubiquitin chains pp. 114-119

Zong-Ping Xia, Lijun Sun, Xiang Chen, Gabriel Pineda, Xiaomo Jiang, Anirban Adhikari, Wenwen Zeng and Zhijian J. Chen

Structure of a tetrameric MscL in an expanded intermediate state pp. 120-124

Zhenfeng Liu, Chris S. Gandhi and Douglas C. Rees

Direct observation of the binding state of the kinesin head to the microtubule pp. 125-128

Nicholas R. Guydosh and Steven M. Block

Waiting game pp. 131-132

Karen Kaplan

Fine-tuning the Universe pp. 134-134

Merrie Haskell