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2006, volume 444, articles 7122

Green activists enlist penguins to save the world pp. 978-978

Katie McGoldrick and Emma Marris

Gravity probe falters pp. 978-979

Geoff Brumfiel

Animal experiments under fire for poor design pp. 981-981

Jim Giles

NIH offers free access to wealth of disease data pp. 982-982

Gene Russo

Brilliant display pp. 985-991

Emma Marris

How Africa learned to love the cow pp. 994-996

Erika Check

Creating the perfect wave pp. 997-999

Mark Schrope

Freaks of nature? pp. 1000-1001

Helen Pearson

Life: perhaps we should take the porridge theory with a pinch of salt pp. 1002-1002

Peter Wigley

Life: porridge would be just right for each universe pp. 1002-1002

Ian Stewart

Biography of Crick aims to inspire a wider audience pp. 1002-1002

Michael Ashburner, Mark Bretscher and Peter A. Lawrence

Shellfish view of omega-3 and sustainable fisheries pp. 1002-1002

Anthony Robson

Measures for measures pp. 1003-1004

Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson and Benny E. Lautrup

The ambiguity is the essence pp. 1005-1006

Alan Lightman

The beginning of wisdom pp. 1006-1007

Stuart Ross Taylor

The next pandemic pp. 1007-1008

John Oxford

Science in culture pp. 1008-1008

Martin Kemp

Obesity and gut flora pp. 1009-1010

Matej Bajzer and Randy J. Seeley

A burst of new ideas pp. 1010-1011

Bing Zhang

Auditory fidelity pp. 1013-1014

Thomas D. Parsons

Neutrons radiating decay pp. 1014-1015

Nathal Severijns

Too fast by mistake pp. 1015-1017

Tom Kirkwood

A light touch pp. 1017-1017

Richard Webb

Proof at a roll of the dice pp. 1018-1019

Bernard Chazelle

Dangerous liaisons on neurons pp. 1019-1020

Giampietro Schiavo

Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons pp. 1021-1022

Phillip C. Watts, Kevin R. Buley, Stephanie Sanderson, Wayne Boardman, Claudio Ciofi and Richard Gibson

Human gut microbes associated with obesity pp. 1022-1023

Ruth E. Ley, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Samuel Klein and Jeffrey I. Gordon

Rubber bands reduce the cost of carrying loads pp. 1023-1024

Lawrence C. Rome, Louis Flynn and Taeseung D. Yoo

Underwater 'sniffing' by semi-aquatic mammals pp. 1024-1025

Kenneth C. Catania

An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest pp. 1027-1031

Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley, Michael A. Mahowald, Vincent Magrini, Elaine R. Mardis and Jeffrey I. Gordon

Blockade of Dll4 inhibits tumour growth by promoting non-productive angiogenesis pp. 1032-1037

Irene Noguera-Troise, Christopher Daly, Nicholas J. Papadopoulos, Sandra Coetzee, Pat Boland, Nicholas W. Gale, Hsin Chieh Lin, George D. Yancopoulos and Gavin Thurston

A new progeroid syndrome reveals that genotoxic stress suppresses the somatotroph axis pp. 1038-1043

Laura J. Niedernhofer, George A. Garinis, Anja Raams, Astrid S. Lalai, Andria Rasile Robinson, Esther Appeldoorn, Hanny Odijk, Roos Oostendorp, Anwaar Ahmad, Wibeke van Leeuwen, Arjan F. Theil, Wim Vermeulen, Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst, Peter Meinecke, Wim J. Kleijer, Jan Vijg, Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers and Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers

A new γ-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614 pp. 1044-1046

N. Gehrels, J. P. Norris, S. D. Barthelmy, J. Granot, Y. Kaneko, C. Kouveliotou, C. B. Markwardt, P. Mészáros, E. Nakar, J. A. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, M. Page, D. M. Palmer, A. M. Parsons, P. W. A. Roming, T. Sakamoto, C. L. Sarazin, P. Schady, M. Stamatikos and S. E. Woosley

No supernovae associated with two long-duration γ-ray bursts pp. 1047-1049

Johan P. U. Fynbo, Darach Watson, Christina C. Thöne, Jesper Sollerman, Joshua S. Bloom, Tamara M. Davis, Jens Hjorth, Páll Jakobsson, Uffe G. Jørgensen, John F. Graham, Andrew S. Fruchter, David Bersier, Lisa Kewley, Arnaud Cassan, José María Castro Cerón, Suzanne Foley, Javier Gorosabel, Tobias C. Hinse, Keith D. Horne, Brian L. Jensen, Sylvio Klose, Daniel Kocevski, Jean-Baptiste Marquette, Daniel Perley, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Maximilian D. Stritzinger, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Ralph A. M. Wijers, Kristian G. Woller, Dong Xu and Marta Zub

An enigmatic long-lasting γ-ray burst not accompanied by a bright supernova pp. 1050-1052

M. Della Valle, G. Chincarini, N. Panagia, G. Tagliaferri, D. Malesani, V. Testa, D. Fugazza, S. Campana, S. Covino, V. Mangano, L. A. Antonelli, P. D’Avanzo, K. Hurley, I. F. Mirabel, L. J. Pellizza, S. Piranomonte and L. Stella

A novel explosive process is required for the γ-ray burst GRB 060614 pp. 1053-1055

A. Gal-Yam, D. B. Fox, P. A. Price, E. O. Ofek, M. R. Davis, D. C. Leonard, A. M. Soderberg, B. P. Schmidt, K. M. Lewis, B. A. Peterson, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Berger, S. B. Cenko, R. Sari, K. Sharon, D. Frail, D.-S. Moon, P. J. Brown, A. Cucchiara, F. Harrison, T. Piran, S. E. Persson, P. J. McCarthy, B. E. Penprase, R. A. Chevalier and A. I. MacFadyen

A deep dynamo generating Mercury’s magnetic field pp. 1056-1058

Ulrich R. Christensen

Observation of the radiative decay mode of the free neutron pp. 1059-1062

Jeffrey S. Nico, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, H. Pieter Mumm, Alan K. Thompson, Brian M. Fisher, Isaac Kremsky, Fred E. Wietfeldt, Timothy E. Chupp, Robert L. Cooper, Elizabeth J. Beise, Kristin G. Kiriluk, James Byrne and Kevin J. Coakley

Fortnightly variations in the flow velocity of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica pp. 1063-1064

G. Hilmar Gudmundsson

Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals pp. 1065-1068

T. H. Clutton-Brock, S. J. Hodge, G. Spong, A. F. Russell, N. R. Jordan, N. C. Bennett, L. L. Sharpe and M. B. Manser

Axonal site of spike initiation enhances auditory coincidence detection pp. 1069-1072

Hiroshi Kuba, Takahiro M. Ishii and Harunori Ohmori

Early events in the thymus affect the balance of effector and regulatory T cells pp. 1073-1077

Daniel J. Pennington, Bruno Silva-Santos, Tobias Silberzahn, Mónica Escórcio-Correia, Martin J. Woodward, Scott J. Roberts, Adrian L. Smith, P. Julian Dyson and Adrian C. Hayday

The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA pp. 1078-1082

Qiaozhen Ye, Robert M. Krug and Yizhi Jane Tao

Inhibition of Dll4 signalling inhibits tumour growth by deregulating angiogenesis pp. 1083-1087

John Ridgway, Gu Zhang, Yan Wu, Scott Stawicki, Wei-Ching Liang, Yvan Chanthery, Joe Kowalski, Ryan J. Watts, Christopher Callahan, Ian Kasman, Mallika Singh, May Chien, Christine Tan, Jo-Anne S. Hongo, Fred de Sauvage, Greg Plowman and Minhong Yan

Essential role for collectrin in renal amino acid transport pp. 1088-1091

Ursula Danilczyk, Renu Sarao, Christine Remy, Chahira Benabbas, Gerti Stange, Andreas Richter, Sudha Arya, J. Andrew Pospisilik, Dustin Singer, Simone M. R. Camargo, Victoria Makrides, Tamara Ramadan, Francois Verrey, Carsten A. Wagner and Josef M. Penninger

Botulinum neurotoxin B recognizes its protein receptor with high affinity and specificity pp. 1092-1095

Rongsheng Jin, Andreas Rummel, Thomas Binz and Axel T. Brunger

Structural basis of cell surface receptor recognition by botulinum neurotoxin B pp. 1096-1100

Qing Chai, Joseph W. Arndt, Min Dong, William H. Tepp, Eric A. Johnson, Edwin R. Chapman and Raymond C. Stevens

NIH programme offers possibilities of independence for young researchers pp. 1101-1101

Paul Smaglik

Hotdogs at the end of the world pp. 1104-1104

Jeff Crook

2006, volume 444, articles 7121

Evolution of mate choice in the wild (Reply) pp. E16-E17

Anna Qvarnström, Jon E. Brommer and Lars Gustafsson

Evolution of mate choice in the wild pp. E16-E16

Erik Postma, Simon C. Griffith and Robert Brooks

Biosignatures and abiotic constraints on early life pp. E18-E18

Barbara Sherwood Lollar and Thomas M. McCollom

Biosignatures and abiotic constraints on early life (Reply) pp. E18-E19

Yuichiro Ueno, Keita Yamada, Naohiro Yoshida, Shigenori Maruyama and Yukio Isozaki

When good cholesterol turns bad pp. 794-794

Helen Pearson

Changes at the helm fuel Salk expansion plans pp. 794-795

Rex Dalton

Agency set up to tackle bioterror pp. 796-797

Meredith Wadman

'So far, so good' for shuttle pp. 796-796

Michael Hopkin

Australia lifts ban on cloning pp. 799-799

David Cyranoski

Stem-cell techique 'contrary to public order' pp. 799-799

Alison Abbott

Martian gullies turn tide in hunt for life pp. 800-801

Katharine Sanderson

A vision of life after Blair pp. 801-801

Jim Giles

Market watch pp. 805-805

Colin Macilwain

Grey Matters pp. 808-810

Emma Marris

caught in the middle pp. 811-811

Kerri Smith

Primates in the frame pp. 812-813

David Cyranoski

Mighty mouse pp. 814-816

Jane Qiu

Cultural differences reduce Japanese researchers' visibility on the Web pp. 817-817

Masao Ito and Torsten Wiesel

Real-space solution to the problem of full disclosure pp. 817-817

Bernhard Rupp

Top of the pops pp. 819-819

Jon Turney

Swoop and swerve pp. 820-820

H. K. Moffatt

2006 wrapped up pp. 821-822

Mary Purton

Saving time pp. 821-821

Lisa Jardine

Momentum in an uncertain light pp. 823-824

Ulf Leonhardt

A protective paradox pp. 825-827

Stephen L. Hoffman

Niche retreats for stem cells pp. 827-828

David A. Williams and Jose A. Cancelas

Organic crystals at large pp. 829-831

Paul Heremans

Unkind cuts for incense pp. 829-829

Peter D. Moore

A channel sets the gain on pain pp. 831-832

Stephen G. Waxman

Up the magnetic pressure pp. 832-833

Shaun Fisher and George Pickett

Kicking off the insulin cascade pp. 833-834

Catherine Jackson

A microworld in Triassic amber pp. 835-835

Alexander R. Schmidt, Eugenio Ragazzi, Olimpia Coppellotti and Guido Roghi

HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak pp. 836-837

Tulio de Oliveira, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Marco Salemi, Sharon Cassol, Massimo Ciccozzi, Giovanni Rezza, Guido Castelli Gattinara, Roberta D'Arrigo, Massimo Amicosante, Luc Perrin, Vittorio Colizzi, Carlo Federico Perno and Benghazi Study Group

Obesity and diabetes pp. 839-839

Deepa Nath, Marie-Thérèse Heemels and Lesley Anson

Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes pp. 840-846

Steven E. Kahn, Rebecca L. Hull and Kristina M. Utzschneider

Adipocytes as regulators of energy balance and glucose homeostasis pp. 847-853

Evan D. Rosen and Bruce M. Spiegelman

Gut hormones and the regulation of energy homeostasis pp. 854-859

Kevin G. Murphy and Stephen R. Bloom

Inflammation and metabolic disorders pp. 860-867

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil

Sirtuins as potential targets for metabolic syndrome pp. 868-874

Leonard Guarente

Mechanisms linking obesity with cardiovascular disease pp. 875-880

Luc F. Van Gaal, Ilse L. Mertens and Christophe E. De Block

Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome pp. 881-887

Jean-Pierre Després and Isabelle Lemieux

A Mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern China pp. 889-893

Jin Meng, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Xiaolin Wang and Chuankui Li

An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain pp. 894-898

James J. Cox, Frank Reimann, Adeline K. Nicholas, Gemma Thornton, Emma Roberts, Kelly Springell, Gulshan Karbani, Hussain Jafri, Jovaria Mannan, Yasmin Raashid, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Henan Hamamy, Enza Maria Valente, Shaun Gorman, Richard Williams, Duncan P. McHale, John N. Wood, Fiona M. Gribble and C. Geoffrey Woods

Regulation of the bacterial cell cycle by an integrated genetic circuit pp. 899-904

Emanuele G. Biondi, Sarah J. Reisinger, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Muhammad Arif, Barrett S. Perchuk, Kathleen R. Ryan and Michael T. Laub

MARSIS radar sounder evidence of buried basins in the northern lowlands of Mars pp. 905-908

Thomas R. Watters, Carl J. Leuschen, Jeffrey J. Plaut, Giovanni Picardi, Ali Safaeinili, Stephen M. Clifford, William M. Farrell, Anton B. Ivanov, Roger J. Phillips and Ellen R. Stofan

Minority spin condensate in the spin-polarized superfluid 3He A1 phase pp. 909-912

A. Yamaguchi, S. Kobayashi, H. Ishimoto and H. Kojima

Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays pp. 913-917

Alejandro L. Briseno, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Mang M. Ling, Shuhong Liu, Ricky J. Tseng, Colin Reese, Mark E. Roberts, Yang Yang, Fred Wudl and Zhenan Bao

Negligible glacial–interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates pp. 918-921

Gavin L. Foster and Derek Vance

Slip on 'weak' faults by the rotation of regional stress in the fracture damage zone pp. 922-925

D. R. Faulkner, T. M. Mitchell, D. Healy and M. J. Heap

Dynamical evolution of ecosystems pp. 926-928

Sandro Azaele, Simone Pigolotti, Jayanth R. Banavar and Amos Maritan

Robustness–epistasis link shapes the fitness landscape of a randomly drifting protein pp. 929-932

Shimon Bershtein, Michal Segal, Roy Bekerman, Nobuhiko Tokuriki and Dan S. Tawfik

Characterization of a carbohydrate transporter from symbiotic glomeromycotan fungi pp. 933-936

Arthur Schüßler, Holger Martin, David Cohen, Michael Fitz and Daniel Wipf

The circumsporozoite protein is an immunodominant protective antigen in irradiated sporozoites pp. 937-940

Kota Arun Kumar, Gen-ichiro Sano, Silvia Boscardin, Ruth S. Nussenzweig, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Fidel Zavala and Victor Nussenzweig

Inhibition of cytohesins by SecinH3 leads to hepatic insulin resistance pp. 941-944

Markus Hafner, Anton Schmitz, Imke Grüne, Seergazhi G. Srivatsan, Bianca Paul, Waldemar Kolanus, Thomas Quast, Elisabeth Kremmer, Inga Bauer and Michael Famulok

The cytohesin Steppke is essential for insulin signalling in Drosophila pp. 945-948

Bernhard Fuss, Thomas Becker, Ingo Zinke and Michael Hoch

Long-lasting arrest of murine polycystic kidney disease with CDK inhibitor roscovitine pp. 949-952

Nikolay O. Bukanov, Laurie A. Smith, Katherine W. Klinger, Steven R. Ledbetter and Oxana Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya

Polyadenylation factor CPSF-73 is the pre-mRNA 3'-end-processing endonuclease pp. 953-956

Corey R. Mandel, Syuzo Kaneko, Hailong Zhang, Damara Gebauer, Vasupradha Vethantham, James L. Manley and Liang Tong

Growing pains pp. 959-959

Michael Eisenstein

Graduate journal keepers look back on a year of lessons learned — in and out of the lab pp. 965-965

Paul Smaglik

Model Mentors pp. 966-968

Carina Dennis

The Godmother Protocols pp. 970-970

Heather M. Whitney

2006, volume 444, articles 7120

Evidence for sympatric speciation? pp. E12-E13

U. K. Schliewen, T. D. Kocher, K. R. McKaye, O. Seehausen and D. Tautz

Evidence for sympatric speciation? (Reply) pp. E13-E13

Marta Barluenga, Kai N. Stölting, Walter Salzburger, Moritz Muschick and Axel Meyer

A quality-controlled global runoff data set pp. E14-E14

Murray C. Peel and Thomas A. McMahon

A quality-controlled global runoff data set (Reply) pp. E14-E15

N. Gedney, P. M. Cox, R. A. Betts, O. Boucher, C. Huntingford and P. A. Stott

Journal reveals plans to fight fraud pp. 658-658

Meredith Wadman

Molecular HIV evidence backs accused medics pp. 658-659

Declan Butler

Bush faces rough ride over climate change pp. 660-661

Emma Marris

US backs revamp of nuclear warheads pp. 660-660

Geoff Brumfiel

South Africa takes steps to tackle HIV pp. 663-663

Michael Cherry

Oil firms back AIDS project in the Niger delta pp. 663-663

Colin Macilwain

Purdue attacked over fusion inquiry pp. 664-664

Eugenie Samuel Reich

Actions speak louder than images pp. 664-665

Apoorva Mandavilli

Drink the best and drive the rest pp. 670-672

Emma Marris

A field in ferment pp. 673-676

Katharine Sanderson

Making it up as you go along pp. 677-678

Heidi Ledford

Pseudoscience should not be published in Nature pp. 679-680

Uwe Balthasar and Susannah Maidment

A timely wake-up call as anti-evolutionists publicize their views pp. 679-679

U. Kutschera

Creationist views have no basis in science pp. 679-679

Gabriela Lorenc-Plucińska

Creationists weaken society's trust in scientists pp. 679-679

Joanna Rutkowska

Claim of bias against critics is refuted by publication pp. 679-679

Gerdien de Jong and Gert Korthof

There is no new evidence that undermines evolution pp. 680-680

Brian Charlesworth

Walking with dinosaurs? Not in the real world pp. 680-680

Gary S. Hurd

Creationists pose political, not scientific, threat pp. 680-680

Jerzy Banbura

How the word 'hominid' evolved to include hominin pp. 680-680

Simon Underdown

One good deed pp. 683-683

Oliver Curry

Bugs with bugs pp. 684-685

Mark L. Winston

The quest for immortality pp. 684-684

Emma Marris

In retrospect: The birth of contraception pp. 685-685

Michel Raymond

Stem cells and brain tumours pp. 687-688

Peter B. Dirks

On the node of a wave pp. 688-689

Tom Katsouleas

Caught right-handed pp. 689-692

A. Richard Palmer

Renewing embryonic stem cells pp. 692-693

Reka R. Letso and Brent R. Stockwell

Defects and perfect flows pp. 693-695

Henry R. Glyde

Plankton in a warmer world pp. 695-696

Scott C. Doney

A paddle in oil pp. 697-697

Anthony G. Lee

Metals line up for DNA pp. 698-698

Jens Müller

Unity among black holes pp. 699-699

Jörn Wilms

Reinhart Heinrich (1946–2006) pp. 700-700

Marc W. Kirschner

Nectar bat stows huge tongue in its rib cage pp. 701-702

Nathan Muchhala

Bat orientation using Earth's magnetic field pp. 702-702

Richard A. Holland, Kasper Thorup, Maarten J. Vonhof, William W. Cochran and Martin Wikelski

The critical role of disks in the formation of high-mass stars pp. 703-706

Riccardo Cesaroni, Daniele Galli, Giuseppe Lodato, Malcolm Walmsley and Qizhou Zhang

Electrical activity in early neuronal development pp. 707-712

Nicholas C. Spitzer

Insights into the dynamics of mantle plumes from uranium-series geochemistry pp. 713-717

Bernard Bourdon, Neil M. Ribe, Andreas Stracke, Alberto E. Saal and Simon P. Turner

The efficient interaction of indirect reciprocity and costly punishment pp. 718-723

Bettina Rockenbach and Manfred Milinski

Thymic selection threshold defined by compartmentalization of Ras/MAPK signalling pp. 724-729

Mark A. Daniels, Emma Teixeiro, Jason Gill, Barbara Hausmann, Dominique Roubaty, Kaisa Holmberg, Guy Werlen, Georg A. Holländer, Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne and Ed Palmer

Active galactic nuclei as scaled-up Galactic black holes pp. 730-732

I. M. McHardy, E. Koerding, C. Knigge, P. Uttley and R. P. Fender

Free fermion antibunching in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas released from an optical lattice pp. 733-736

T. Rom, Th. Best, D. van Oosten, U. Schneider, S. Fölling, B. Paredes and I. Bloch

Controlled injection and acceleration of electrons in plasma wakefields by colliding laser pulses pp. 737-739

J. Faure, C. Rechatin, A. Norlin, A. Lifschitz, Y. Glinec and V. Malka

Thermal radiation scanning tunnelling microscopy pp. 740-743

Yannick De Wilde, Florian Formanek, Rémi Carminati, Boris Gralak, Paul-Arthur Lemoine, Karl Joulain, Jean-Philippe Mulet, Yong Chen and Jean-Jacques Greffet

Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean pp. 744-747

D. A. Fike, J. P. Grotzinger, L. M. Pratt and R. E. Summons

How Neanderthal molar teeth grew pp. 748-751

Roberto Macchiarelli, Luca Bondioli, André Debénath, Arnaud Mazurier, Jean-François Tournepiche, Wendy Birch and M. Christopher Dean

Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity pp. 752-755

Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel, Charles R. McClain, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Gene C. Feldman, Allen J. Milligan, Paul G. Falkowski, Ricardo M. Letelier and Emmanuel S. Boss

Glioma stem cells promote radioresistance by preferential activation of the DNA damage response pp. 756-760

Shideng Bao, Qiulian Wu, Roger E. McLendon, Yueling Hao, Qing Shi, Anita B. Hjelmeland, Mark W. Dewhirst, Darell D. Bigner and Jeremy N. Rich

Bone morphogenetic proteins inhibit the tumorigenic potential of human brain tumour-initiating cells pp. 761-765

S. G. M. Piccirillo, B. A. Reynolds, N. Zanetti, G. Lamorte, E. Binda, G. Broggi, H. Brem, A. Olivi, F. Dimeco and A. L. Vescovi

A bacterial dynamin-like protein pp. 766-769

Harry H. Low and Jan Löwe

Klotho converts canonical FGF receptor into a specific receptor for FGF23 pp. 770-774

Itaru Urakawa, Yuji Yamazaki, Takashi Shimada, Kousuke Iijima, Hisashi Hasegawa, Katsuya Okawa, Toshiro Fujita, Seiji Fukumoto and Takeyoshi Yamashita

Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors pp. 775-779

Daniel Schmidt, Qiu-Xing Jiang and Roderick MacKinnon

Erratum: Smad4 signalling in T cells is required for suppression of gastrointestinal cancer pp. 780-780

Byung-Gyu Kim, Cuiling Li, Wenhui Qiao, Mizuko Mamura, Barbara Kasprzak, Miriam Anver, Lawrence Wolfraim, Suntaek Hong, Elizabeth Mushinski, Michael Potter, Seong-Jin Kim, Xin-Yuan Fu, Chuxia Deng and John J. Letterio

Erratum: Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous pp. 780-780

Julia A. Clarke, Claudia P. Tambussi, Jorge I. Noriega, Gregory M. Erickson and Richard A. Ketcham

How to ask yourself questions about major career decisions pp. 781-781

Paul Smaglik

Should I stay or should I go? pp. 782-785

Kendall Powell

Awakening the genius within pp. 788-788

Daniel Gregory

2006, volume 444, articles 7119

Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? pp. E6-E6

K Biemann

Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply) pp. E6-E7

G. Israël, C. Szopa, F. Raulin, M. Cabane, H. B. Niemann, S. K. Atreya, S. J. Bauer, J.-F. Brun, E. Chassefière, P. Coll, E. Condé, D. Coscia, A. Hauchecorne, P. Millian, M. J. Nguyen, T. Owen, W. Riedler, R. E. Samuelson, J.-M. Siguier, M. Steller, R. Sternberg and C. Vidal-Madjar

Revisiting Pollock's drip paintings pp. E9-E10

Katherine Jones-Smith and Harsh Mathur

Revisiting Pollock's drip paintings (Reply) pp. E10-E11

R. P. Taylor, A. P. Micolich and D. Jonas

Methane quashes green credentials of hydropower pp. 524-524

Jim Giles

Preprint analysis quantifies scientific plagiarism pp. 524-525

Jim Giles

A space dilemma: extend missions or start afresh? pp. 526-527

Katharine Sanderson

Amazon puts network power online pp. 528-528

Declan Butler

A womb with a view pp. 529-529

Narelle Towie

Past drought hints at Africa's future pp. 529-529

Michael Hopkin

Japan speeds up nuclear physics pp. 530-530

Ichiko Fuyuno

Market Watch pp. 533-533

Quirin Schiermeier

In search of lost time pp. 534-538

Jo Marchant

The cost of leafing pp. 539-541

John Whitfield

The earth-eaters pp. 543-544

Trevor Stokes

Islam: governments need to reform education and build a scientific culture pp. 545-545

Hilal A. Lashuel and Nasser Zawia

Islam: science is held back by paternalistic traditions pp. 545-545

Tasleem Akhtar

The Hungarian martians pp. 547-548

Arthur I. Miller

Women or just good scientists? pp. 548-548

Patricia Fara

Detecting hidden objects pp. 549-550

Manfred Fahle

Understanding cancer pp. 549-549

Chris Boshoff

Science in culture pp. 550-550

Martin Kemp

High tech from Ancient Greece pp. 551-552

François Charette

A move in the right direction pp. 552-553

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

A broader take on DNA pp. 553-555

Aaron M. Leconte and Floyd E. Romesberg

Rarity bites pp. 555-556

Barry W. Brook and Navjot S. Sodhi

Molecules in quarantine pp. 557-557

Julius Rebek

A memory boost while you sleep pp. 559-560

Robert Stickgold

A terahertz modulator pp. 560-561

Mittleman Daniel

Many things from one pp. 561-562

John R. S. Newman and Jonathan S. Weissman

Water from on high pp. 562-563

Dennis P. Lettenmaier and James S. Famiglietti

Wood used by Stradivari and Guarneri pp. 565-565

Joseph Nagyvary, Joseph A. DiVerdi, Noel L. Owen and H. Dennis Tolley

Red wine procyanidins and vascular health pp. 566-566

R. Corder, W. Mullen, N. Q. Khan, S. C. Marks, E. G. Wood, M. J. Carrier and A. Crozier

Protein delivery into eukaryotic cells by type III secretion machines pp. 567-573

Jorge E. Galán and Hans Wolf-Watz

Mesoangioblast stem cells ameliorate muscle function in dystrophic dogs pp. 574-579

Maurilio Sampaolesi, Stephane Blot, Giuseppe D’Antona, Nicolas Granger, Rossana Tonlorenzi, Anna Innocenzi, Paolo Mognol, Jean-Lauren Thibaud, Beatriz G. Galvez, Ines Barthélémy, Laura Perani, Sara Mantero, Maria Guttinger, Orietta Pansarasa, Chiara Rinaldi, M. Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Yvan Torrente, Claudio Bordignon, Roberto Bottinelli and Giulio Cossu

An RNA map predicting Nova-dependent splicing regulation pp. 580-586

Jernej Ule, Giovanni Stefani, Aldo Mele, Matteo Ruggiu, Xuning Wang, Bahar Taneri, Terry Gaasterland, Benjamin J. Blencowe and Robert B. Darnell

Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism pp. 587-591

T. Freeth, Y. Bitsakis, X. Moussas, J. H. Seiradakis, A. Tselikas, H. Mangou, M. Zafeiropoulou, R. Hadland, D. Bate, A. Ramsey, M. Allen, A. Crawley, P. Hockley, T. Malzbender, D. Gelb, W. Ambrisco and M. G. Edmunds

Rank clocks pp. 592-596

Michael Batty

Active terahertz metamaterial devices pp. 597-600

Hou-Tong Chen, Willie J. Padilla, Joshua M. O. Zide, Arthur C. Gossard, Antoinette J. Taylor and Richard D. Averitt

Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium pp. 601-604

David C. Lund, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz and William B. Curry

Petrology and thermal structure of the Hawaiian plume from Mauna Kea volcano pp. 605-609

Claude Herzberg

Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory pp. 610-613

Lisa Marshall, Halla Helgadóttir, Matthias Mölle and Jan Born

Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex pp. 614-618

Patrick McDonel, Judith Jans, Brant K. Peterson and Barbara J. Meyer

Centriole assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 619-623

Laurence Pelletier, Eileen O’Toole, Anne Schwager, Anthony A. Hyman and Thomas Müller-Reichert

p63 protects the female germ line during meiotic arrest pp. 624-628

Eun-Kyung Suh, Annie Yang, Arminja Kettenbach, Casimir Bamberger, Ala H. Michaelis, Zhou Zhu, Julia A. Elvin, Roderick T. Bronson, Christopher P. Crum and Frank McKeon

Repression of p53 activity by Smyd2-mediated methylation pp. 629-632

Jing Huang, Laura Perez-Burgos, Brandon J. Placek, Roopsha Sengupta, Mario Richter, Jean A. Dorsey, Stefan Kubicek, Susanne Opravil, Thomas Jenuwein and Shelley L. Berger

Oncogene-induced senescence is part of the tumorigenesis barrier imposed by DNA damage checkpoints pp. 633-637

Jirina Bartkova, Nousin Rezaei, Michalis Liontos, Panagiotis Karakaidos, Dimitris Kletsas, Natalia Issaeva, Leandros-Vassilios F. Vassiliou, Evangelos Kolettas, Katerina Niforou, Vassilis C. Zoumpourlis, Munenori Takaoka, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Frederic Tort, Kasper Fugger, Fredrik Johansson, Maxwell Sehested, Claus L. Andersen, Lars Dyrskjot, Torben Ørntoft, Jiri Lukas, Christos Kittas, Thomas Helleday, Thanos D. Halazonetis, Jiri Bartek and Vassilis G. Gorgoulis

Oncogene-induced senescence is a DNA damage response triggered by DNA hyper-replication pp. 638-642

Raffaella Di Micco, Marzia Fumagalli, Angelo Cicalese, Sara Piccinin, Patrizia Gasparini, Chiara Luise, Catherine Schurra, Massimiliano Garre’, Paolo Giovanni Nuciforo, Aaron Bensimon, Roberta Maestro, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci and Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna

Variability and memory of protein levels in human cells pp. 643-646

Alex Sigal, Ron Milo, Ariel Cohen, Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Yael Klein, Yuvalal Liron, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Tamar Danon, Natalie Perzov and Uri Alon

Scientists have several reasons to be thankful pp. 647-647

Paul Smaglik

Bio Bonanza pp. 648-649

Gene Russo

The charge-up man pp. 652-652

Catherine H. Shaffer

2006, volume 444, articles 7118

Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? pp. E6-E6

K Biemann

Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply) pp. E6-E7

G. Israël, C. Szopa, F. Raulin, M. Cabane, H. B. Niemann, S. K. Atreya, S. J. Bauer, J.-F. Brun, E. Chassefière, P. Coll, E. Condé, D. Coscia, A. Hauchecorne, P. Millian, M. J. Nguyen, T. Owen, W. Riedler, R. E. Samuelson, J.-M. Siguier, M. Steller, R. Sternberg and C. Vidal-Madjar

Tragedy increases woes of US ice fleet pp. 408-408

Rex Dalton

Italian government eases in radical reforms pp. 408-409

Alison Abbott

Britain plans tough limits to curb emissions pp. 409-409

Michael Hopkin

Aboriginal remains head for home pp. 411-411

Jim Giles

Universities urged to do more for poor nations pp. 412-413

Erika Check

A night out in the park pp. 413-413

Erika Check

Conscious of change pp. 416-417

Michael Cherry

A measure of happiness pp. 418-419

Tony Reichhardt

Spying on nature pp. 420-421

Michael Hopkin

The science community must unite over Iraq pp. 422-422

Bengt Gustafsson

German societies want to keep an international voice pp. 422-422

Peter Gruss

Imagine projects with a strong emotional appeal pp. 422-422

Patricia Osseweijer

Religious authorities overrule scientists in Iran pp. 422-422

Kamran Behnia

One small point pp. 422-422

Rupert C. Marshall

Life in the universal porridge pp. 423-424

Jim Al-Khalili

A giant leap? pp. 424-424

James R. Hansen

Healthy fats pp. 425-425

Asim K. Duttaroy

Learning from nature pp. 425-426

Robert W. Cahn

Science in culture: Burning Bush pp. 426-426

Colin Martin

Super silicon pp. 427-428

Robert J. Cava

In search of normality pp. 428-429

Kevin V. Shianna and Huntington F. Willard

Infectious Alzheimer's disease? pp. 429-431

Roland Riek

Molecular motion pictures pp. 431-432

Minhaeng Cho

Blastomeres and stem cells pp. 432-435

Joe Leigh Simpson

Triggering positive competition pp. 435-436

Ada Yonath

Mullite and the mystery of Hessian wares pp. 437-438

Marcos Martinón-Torres, Thilo Rehren and Ian C. Freestone

The taste of words on the tip of the tongue pp. 438-438

Julia Simner and Jamie Ward

Dynamics of seismogenic volcanic extrusion at Mount St Helens in 2004–05 pp. 439-443

Richard M. Iverson, Daniel Dzurisin, Cynthia A. Gardner, Terrence M. Gerlach, Richard G. LaHusen, Michael Lisowski, Jon J. Major, Stephen D. Malone, James A. Messerich, Seth C. Moran, John S. Pallister, Anthony I. Qamar, Steven P. Schilling and James W. Vallance

Global variation in copy number in the human genome pp. 444-454

Richard Redon, Shumpei Ishikawa, Karen R. Fitch, Lars Feuk, George H. Perry, T. Daniel Andrews, Heike Fiegler, Michael H. Shapero, Andrew R. Carson, Wenwei Chen, Eun Kyung Cho, Stephanie Dallaire, Jennifer L. Freeman, Juan R. González, Mònica Gratacòs, Jing Huang, Dimitrios Kalaitzopoulos, Daisuke Komura, Jeffrey R. MacDonald, Christian R. Marshall, Rui Mei, Lyndal Montgomery, Kunihiro Nishimura, Kohji Okamura, Fan Shen, Martin J. Somerville, Joelle Tchinda, Armand Valsesia, Cara Woodwark, Fengtang Yang, Junjun Zhang, Tatiana Zerjal, Jane Zhang, Lluis Armengol, Donald F. Conrad, Xavier Estivill, Chris Tyler-Smith, Nigel P. Carter, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Charles Lee, Keith W. Jones, Stephen W. Scherer and Matthew E. Hurles

Real-time observation of trigger factor function on translating ribosomes pp. 455-460

Christian M. Kaiser, Hung-Chun Chang, Vishwas R. Agashe, Sathish K. Lakshmipathy, Stephanie A. Etchells, Manajit Hayer-Hartl, F. Ulrich Hartl and José M. Barral

Magnetic vortex core reversal by excitation with short bursts of an alternating field pp. 461-464

B. Van Waeyenberge, A. Puzic, H. Stoll, K. W. Chou, T. Tyliszczak, R. Hertel, M. Fähnle, H. Brückl, K. Rott, G. Reiss, I. Neudecker, D. Weiss, C. H. Back and G. Schütz

Superconductivity in doped cubic silicon pp. 465-468

E. Bustarret, C. Marcenat, P. Achatz, J. Kačmarčik, F. Lévy, A. Huxley, L. Ortéga, E. Bourgeois, X. Blase, D. Débarre and J. Boulmer

Watching hydrogen-bond dynamics in a β-turn by transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy pp. 469-472

Christoph Kolano, Jan Helbing, Mariusz Kozinski, Wolfram Sander and Peter Hamm

Slip zone and energetics of a large earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project pp. 473-476

Kuo-Fong Ma, Hidemi Tanaka, Sheng-Rong Song, Chien-Ying Wang, Jih-Hao Hung, Yi-Ben Tsai, Jim Mori, Yen-Fang Song, Eh-Chao Yeh, Wonn Soh, Hiroki Sone, Li-Wei Kuo and Hung-Yu Wu

Ecological consequences of major hydrodynamic disturbances on coral reefs pp. 477-480

Joshua S. Madin and Sean R. Connolly

Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres pp. 481-485

Irina Klimanskaya, Young Chung, Sandy Becker, Shi-Jiang Lu and Robert Lanza

Endogenous neurosteroids regulate GABAA receptors through two discrete transmembrane sites pp. 486-489

Alastair M. Hosie, Megan E. Wilkins, Helena M. A. da Silva and Trevor G. Smart

Self-incompatibility in Papaver targets soluble inorganic pyrophosphatases in pollen pp. 490-493

Barend H. J. de Graaf, Jason J. Rudd, Michael J. Wheeler, Ruth M. Perry, Elizabeth M. Bell, Kim Osman, F. Christopher H. Franklin and Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

Polo kinase controls cell-cycle-dependent transcription by targeting a coactivator protein pp. 494-498

Zoulfia Darieva, Richard Bulmer, Aline Pic-Taylor, Kathryn S. Doris, Marco Geymonat, Steven G. Sedgwick, Brian A. Morgan and Andrew D. Sharrocks

In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences pp. 499-502

Len A. Pennacchio, Nadav Ahituv, Alan M. Moses, Shyam Prabhakar, Marcelo A. Nobrega, Malak Shoukry, Simon Minovitsky, Inna Dubchak, Amy Holt, Keith D. Lewis, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Jennifer Akiyama, Sarah De Val, Veena Afzal, Brian L. Black, Olivier Couronne, Michael B. Eisen, Axel Visel and Edward M. Rubin

Structure of the E. coli signal recognition particle bound to a translating ribosome pp. 503-506

Christiane Schaffitzel, Miro Oswald, Imre Berger, Takashi Ishikawa, Jan Pieter Abrahams, Henk K. Koerten, Roman I. Koning and Nenad Ban

Following the signal sequence from ribosomal tunnel exit to signal recognition particle pp. 507-511

Mario Halic, Michael Blau, Thomas Becker, Thorsten Mielke, Martin R. Pool, Klemens Wild, Irmgard Sinning and Roland Beckmann

Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres pp. 512-512

Irina Klimanskaya, Young Chung, Sandy Becker, Shi-Jiang Lu and Robert Lanza

Erratum: Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation pp. 512-512

Markus Kienast, Stephanie S. Kienast, Stephen E. Calvert, Timothy I. Eglinton, Gesine Mollenhauer, Roger François and Alan C. Mix

Erratum: Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera pp. 512-512

The Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium

Erratum: Potential of stem-cell-based therapies for heart disease pp. 512-512

Deepak Srivastava and Kathryn N. Ivey

Funding initiative offers boost for young scientists in Germany pp. 513-513

Paul Smaglik

Small talk pp. 514-515

Virginia Gewin

Robert Huber, professor, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK pp. 516-516

Virginia Gewin

Unhealthy choices pp. 516-516

Monya Baker

Roller hockey or science? pp. 516-516

Milan de Vries

The liquidators pp. 518-518

Michael Garrett Farrelly

2006, volume 444, articles 7117

Palaeo-altimetry of Tibet (reply) pp. E4-E5

D. B. Rowley and B. S. Currie

Palaeo-altimetry of Tibet pp. E4-E4

Peter Molnar, Gregory A. Houseman and Philip C. England

WHO boss faces test of independence pp. 250-250

Declan Butler

Q&A: Bart Gordon pp. 251-251

Emma Maris

Gunmen seize academics at Baghdad ministry pp. 252-253

Jim Giles and Declan Butler

UK civil servants accused of warping science pp. 252-252

Jim Giles

German stem-cell law under fire pp. 253-253

Alison Abbott

Neanderthal genome sees first light pp. 254-254

Rex Dalton

Codes and enigmas pp. 259-261

Helen Pearson

One man's trash pp. 262-263

David Cyranoski

Charmed, I'm sure pp. 264-264

Trevor Stokes

Answering critics can add fuel to controversy pp. 265-265

Edward Witten

Criticism: what to do about science's bad public image? pp. 265-265

Boris Striepen

Creationists attack secular education in Russia pp. 265-265

Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hoßfeld and Lennart Olsson

Creationism, evolution: nothing has been proved pp. 265-265

Maciej Giertych

Safe handling of nanotechnology pp. 267-269

Andrew D. Maynard, Robert J. Aitken, Tilman Butz, Vicki Colvin, Ken Donaldson, Günter Oberdörster, Martin A. Philbert, John Ryan, Anthony Seaton, Vicki Stone, Sally S. Tinkle, Lang Tran, Nigel J. Walker and David B. Warheit

Opposition to science pp. 271-272

James T. Bradley

Biology's big idea pp. 272-272

David Robinson

A complex mind pp. 273-273

Elio Raviola

Science in culture pp. 274-274

Philip Campbell

Ancient genomics is born pp. 275-276

David M. Lambert and Craig D. Millar

Greatness thrust upon them pp. 277-279

James F. Dolan

Brief encounters bolster contacts pp. 279-280

Tom L. Blundell and Juan Fernández-Recio

Grapes versus gluttony pp. 280-281

Matt Kaeberlein and Peter S. Rabinovitch

Spinning discs in the lab pp. 281-283

Steven A. Balbus

Browning the waters pp. 283-284

Nigel Roulet and Tim R. Moore

Upper Palaeolithic infant burials pp. 285-285

Thomas Einwögerer, Herwig Friesinger, Marc Händel, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Ulrich Simon and Maria Teschler-Nicola

Carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre pp. 286-286

M. Reibold, P. Paufler, A. A. Levin, W. Kochmann, N. Pätzke and D. C. Meyer

Chemical sensing pp. 287-287

I-han Chou, Tanguy Chouard, John E. Spiro and Lesley Anson

The receptors and cells for mammalian taste pp. 288-294

Jayaram Chandrashekar, Mark A. Hoon, Nicholas J. P. Ryba and Charles S. Zuker

Comparative chemosensation from receptors to ecology pp. 295-301

Cornelia I. Bargmann

Insects as chemosensors of humans and crops pp. 302-307

Wynand van der Goes van Naters and John R. Carlson

Pheromonal communication in vertebrates pp. 308-315

Peter A. Brennan and Frank Zufall

Smell images and the flavour system in the human brain pp. 316-321

Gordon M. Shepherd

The plant immune system pp. 323-329

Jonathan D. G. Jones and Jeffery L. Dangl

Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA pp. 330-336

Richard E. Green, Johannes Krause, Susan E. Ptak, Adrian W. Briggs, Michael T. Ronan, Jan F. Simons, Lei Du, Michael Egholm, Jonathan M. Rothberg, Maja Paunovic and Svante Pääbo

Resveratrol improves health and survival of mice on a high-calorie diet pp. 337-342

Joseph A. Baur, Kevin J. Pearson, Nathan L. Price, Hamish A. Jamieson, Carles Lerin, Avash Kalra, Vinayakumar V. Prabhu, Joanne S. Allard, Guillermo Lopez-Lluch, Kaitlyn Lewis, Paul J. Pistell, Suresh Poosala, Kevin G. Becker, Olivier Boss, Dana Gwinn, Mingyi Wang, Sharan Ramaswamy, Kenneth W. Fishbein, Richard G. Spencer, Edward G. Lakatta, David Le Couteur, Reuben J. Shaw, Placido Navas, Pere Puigserver, Donald K. Ingram, Rafael de Cabo and David A. Sinclair

Hydrodynamic turbulence cannot transport angular momentum effectively in astrophysical disks pp. 343-346

Hantao Ji, Michael Burin, Ethan Schartman and Jeremy Goodman

Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons pp. 347-349

Young-Woo Son, Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie

Free-electron-like dispersion in an organic monolayer film on a metal substrate pp. 350-353

R. Temirov, S. Soubatch, A. Luican and F. S. Tautz

Flushing submarine canyons pp. 354-357

Miquel Canals, Pere Puig, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Serge Heussner, Albert Palanques and Joan Fabres

Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures pp. 358-360

Steven G. Wesnousky

Allee effects and pulsed invasion by the gypsy moth pp. 361-363

Derek M. Johnson, Andrew M. Liebhold, Patrick C. Tobin and Ottar N. Bjørnstad

A protein interaction network for pluripotency of embryonic stem cells pp. 364-368

Jianlong Wang, Sridhar Rao, Jianlin Chu, Xiaohua Shen, Dana N. Levasseur, Thorold W. Theunissen and Stuart H. Orkin

Boc is a receptor for sonic hedgehog in the guidance of commissural axons pp. 369-373

Ami Okada, Frédéric Charron, Steves Morin, David S. Shin, Karen Wong, Pierre J. Fabre, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Susan K. McConnell

Influence of the thalamus on spatial visual processing in frontal cortex pp. 374-377

Marc A. Sommer and Robert H. Wurtz

Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type receptors pp. 378-382

Shinya Yamada, Yasuo Suzuki, Takashi Suzuki, Mai Q. Le, Chairul A. Nidom, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Yukiko Muramoto, Mutsumi Ito, Maki Kiso, Taisuke Horimoto, Kyoko Shinya, Toshihiko Sawada, Makoto Kiso, Taiichi Usui, Takeomi Murata, Yipu Lin, Alan Hay, Lesley F. Haire, David J. Stevens, Rupert J. Russell, Steven J. Gamblin, John J. Skehel and Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein–protein association pp. 383-386

Chun Tang, Junji Iwahara and G. Marius Clore

Bacterial chromatin organization by H-NS protein unravelled using dual DNA manipulation pp. 387-390

Remus T. Dame, Maarten C. Noom and Gijs J. L. Wuite

Structural basis for messenger RNA movement on the ribosome pp. 391-394

Gulnara Yusupova, Lasse Jenner, Bernard Rees, Dino Moras and Marat Yusupov

Global university rankings provide uncertain guidance pp. 395-395

Paul Smaglik

Treasure Ireland pp. 396-397

Quirin Schiermeier

John McNeil, scientific director, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Bethesda, Maryland pp. 398-398

Virginia Gewin

A step between bench and bedside pp. 398-398

Hannah Hoag

Done deal pp. 398-398

Andreas Andersson

An unfortunate book tour pp. 400-400

Will Heydt-Minor

2006, volume 444, articles 7116

Telescope is no longer dish of the day pp. 128-128

Heidi Ledford

Data handling causes image problem for top lab pp. 129-129

Geoff Brumfiel

It's the junk that makes us human pp. 130-130

Erika Check

Faculty forces president to quit Swiss role pp. 130-131

Alison Abbott

Power up your memory bank pp. 133-133

Kerri Smith

Dutch courage pp. 138-141

Jenny Hogan

Does it hurt? pp. 143-145

Jane Qiu

An open letter to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi pp. 146-146

Richard J. Roberts

Don't forget the steps that led physics to where it is pp. 146-146

Antonino Zichichi

Biodiversity definitions vary within the discipline pp. 146-146

Alison Holt

US scorn for treaties hasn't improved nuclear security pp. 146-146

Sebastian Raupach

One culture? pp. 147-148

Bart Kahr

Sowing the seeds pp. 148-148

Simon Mawer

The ballerina within pp. 149-149

Laura Spinney

Easing the pain pp. 149-149

John Carmody

A clean energy programme pp. 151-152

Toren Finkel

The south–north connection pp. 152-153

Eric J. Steig

Enzyme theory holds water pp. 153-155

Matthew Freeman

Right timing for retina repair pp. 156-157

Thomas A. Reh

Channelled pain pp. 156-156

Lesley Anson

A troupe of near dwarfs pp. 158-159

Sidney van den Bergh

Exposure of an executioner pp. 159-160

Michael Carroll

Information on heat pp. 161-162

Keith Schwab

Isotopic hide and seek pp. 162-162

Francis Albarède

Light from sonication of crystal slurries pp. 163-163

Nathan C. Eddingsaas and Kenneth S. Suslick

SIV infection in wild gorillas pp. 164-164

Fran Van Heuverswyn, Yingying Li, Cecile Neel, Elizabeth Bailes, Brandon F. Keele, Weimin Liu, Severin Loul, Christelle Butel, Florian Liegeois, Yanga Bienvenue, Eitel Mpoudi Ngolle, Paul M. Sharp, George M. Shaw, Eric Delaporte, Beatrice H. Hahn and Martine Peeters

Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau pp. 165-170

Nicole Feldl and Roger Bilham

Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia pp. 171-178

Jean-Marc Aury, Olivier Jaillon, Laurent Duret, Benjamin Noel, Claire Jubin, Betina M. Porcel, Béatrice Ségurens, Vincent Daubin, Véronique Anthouard, Nathalie Aiach, Olivier Arnaiz, Alain Billaut, Janine Beisson, Isabelle Blanc, Khaled Bouhouche, Francisco Câmara, Sandra Duharcourt, Roderic Guigo, Delphine Gogendeau, Michael Katinka, Anne-Marie Keller, Roland Kissmehl, Catherine Klotz, France Koll, Anne Le Mouël, Gersende Lepère, Sophie Malinsky, Mariusz Nowacki, Jacek K. Nowak, Helmut Plattner, Julie Poulain, Françoise Ruiz, Vincent Serrano, Marek Zagulski, Philippe Dessen, Mireille Bétermier, Jean Weissenbach, Claude Scarpelli, Vincent Schächter, Linda Sperling, Eric Meyer, Jean Cohen and Patrick Wincker

Crystal structure of a rhomboid family intramembrane protease pp. 179-180

Yongcheng Wang, Yingjiu Zhang and Ya Ha

Lunar activity from recent gas release pp. 184-186

Peter H. Schultz, Matthew I. Staid and Carlé M. Pieters

Single-mode heat conduction by photons pp. 187-190

Matthias Meschke, Wiebke Guichard and Jukka P. Pekola

Boundary lubrication under water pp. 191-194

Wuge H. Briscoe, Simon Titmuss, Fredrik Tiberg, Robert K. Thomas, Duncan J. McGillivray and Jacob Klein

An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins pp. 199-202

John A. Long, Gavin C. Young, Tim Holland, Tim J. Senden and Erich M. G. Fitzgerald

Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptor precursors pp. 203-207

R. E. MacLaren, R. A. Pearson, A. MacNeil, R. H. Douglas, T. E. Salt, M. Akimoto, A. Swaroop, J. C. Sowden and R. R. Ali

Spider toxins activate the capsaicin receptor to produce inflammatory pain pp. 208-212

Jan Siemens, Sharleen Zhou, Rebecca Piskorowski, Tetsuro Nikai, Ellen A. Lumpkin, Allan I. Basbaum, David King and David Julius

Structure of C3b reveals conformational changes that underlie complement activity pp. 213-216

Bert J. C. Janssen, Agni Christodoulidou, Andrew McCarthy, John D. Lambris and Piet Gros

Structure of C3b in complex with CRIg gives insights into regulation of complement activation pp. 217-220

Christian Wiesmann, Kenneth J. Katschke, JianPing Yin, Karim Y. Helmy, Micah Steffek, Wayne J. Fairbrother, Scott A. McCallum, Lizette Embuscado, Laura DeForge, Philip E. Hass and Menno van Lookeren Campagne

The structure of complement C3b provides insights into complement activation and regulation pp. 221-225

A. Abdul Ajees, K. Gunasekaran, John E. Volanakis, Sthanam. V. L. Narayana, Girish J. Kotwal and H. M. Krishna Murthy

Wza the translocon for E. coli capsular polysaccharides defines a new class of membrane protein pp. 226-229

Changjiang Dong, Konstantinos Beis, Jutta Nesper, Anne L. Brunkan-LaMontagne, Bradley R. Clarke, Chris Whitfield and James H. Naismith

A functional RNAi screen for regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase and ERK signalling pp. 230-234

Adam Friedman and Norbert Perrimon

Erratum: Atomic-resolution chemical analysis using a scanning transmission electron microscope pp. 235-235

N. D. Browning, M. F. Chisholm and S. J. Pennycook

Erratum: Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii pp. 235-235

Paul Segall, Emily K. Desmarais, David Shelly, Asta Miklius and Peter Cervelli

Erratum: Centrosome polarization delivers secretory granules to the immunological synapse pp. 236-236

Jane C. Stinchcombe, Endre Majorovits, Giovanna Bossi, Stephen Fuller and Gillian M. Griffiths

Prospects pp. 237-237

Paul Smaglik

Closing the deal pp. 238-239

Hannah Hoag

Georgina Mace, director, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, UK pp. 240-240

Virginia Gewin

The view from Russia pp. 240-240

Mikhail Gelfand

The path to a PhD pp. 240-240

Mhairi Dupré

Making the sale pp. 242-242

Fredric Heeren

2006, volume 444, articles 7115

Does U–Pb date Earth's core formation? pp. E1-E1

Qing-zhu Yin and Stein B. Jacobsen

How well can Pb isotopes date core formation? pp. E1-E2

Balz S. Kamber and Jan D. Kramers

Does U–Pb date Earth's core formation?; How well can Pb isotopes date core formation? (Reply) pp. E2-E3

B. J. Wood and A. N. Halliday

Ethiopian plan for Lucy tour splits museums pp. 8-8

Rex Dalton

A votre santé: now in pill form? pp. 11-11

Erika Check

Hwang takes the stand at fraud trial pp. 12-12

David Cyranoski

Safer embryo tests could boost IVF pregnancy rates pp. 12-13

Helen Pearson

Market watch pp. 17-17

Colin Macilwain

An Islamist revolution pp. 22-25

Ehsan Masood

The data gap pp. 26-27

Declan Butler

Oil rich, science poor pp. 28-28

Jim Giles

Q&A The reformer pp. 29-29

Declan Butler

Dishing a modern myth about microbes pp. 31-31

Tom Fenchel, Genoveva F. Esteban and Bland J. Finlay

The daunting process of MIAME pp. 31-31

David W. Galbraith

No room for complacency on drug resistance in Africa pp. 31-31

Ian M. Hastings, David G. Lalloo and Saye H. Khoo

Brief: goodbye to a quirky perspective on science pp. 31-31

Alex Small

Brief Communications (RIP) and the soul of wit pp. 31-31

Jeremy Wolfe

Islam and Science: Steps towards reform pp. 33-34

Nader Fergany

Islam and science: Where are the new patrons of science? pp. 35-36

Herwig Schopper

Beautiful models pp. 37-37

Sean Nee

The pork-barrel diet pp. 38-38

Tim Lang

Having faith pp. 39-39

Ann Cale Kruger and Melvin Konner

Science in culture: Creativity on the wings of a dove pp. 40-40

Horace Freeland Judson

A cooling light breeze pp. 41-42

Khaled Karrai

To work or not to work pp. 42-43

David C. Queller

Same old magnetism pp. 43-44

Edward Irving

Second step to retinal tumours pp. 45-46

Valerie A. Wallace

Porous solids get organized pp. 46-47

Rutger A. van Santen

Crossed circuits pp. 47-48

Andrew B. Schwartz

Qubits in the pink pp. 49-49

Pieter Kok and Brendon W. Lovett

Enforced altruism in insect societies pp. 50-50

Tom Wenseleers and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes pp. 51-55

David A. D. Evans

Long-term motor cortex plasticity induced by an electronic neural implant pp. 56-60

Andrew Jackson, Jaideep Mavoori and Eberhard E. Fetz

Inactivation of the p53 pathway in retinoblastoma pp. 61-66

Nikia A. Laurie, Stacy L. Donovan, Chie-Schin Shih, Jiakun Zhang, Nicholas Mills, Christine Fuller, Amina Teunisse, Suzanne Lam, Yolande Ramos, Adithi Mohan, Dianna Johnson, Matthew Wilson, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, Micaela Quarto, Sarah Francoz, Susan M. Mendrysa, R. Kiplin Guy, Jean-Christophe Marine, Aart G. Jochemsen and Michael A. Dyer

Self-cooling of a micromirror by radiation pressure pp. 67-70

S. Gigan, H. R. Böhm, M. Paternostro, F. Blaser, G. Langer, J. B. Hertzberg, K. C. Schwab, D. Bäuerle, M. Aspelmeyer and A. Zeilinger

Radiation-pressure cooling and optomechanical instability of a micromirror pp. 71-74

O. Arcizet, P.-F. Cohadon, T. Briant, M. Pinard and A. Heidmann

Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator pp. 75-78

Dustin Kleckner and Dirk Bouwmeester

Complex zeolite structure solved by combining powder diffraction and electron microscopy pp. 79-81

Fabian Gramm, Christian Baerlocher, Lynne B. McCusker, Stewart J. Warrender, Paul A. Wright, Bada Han, Suk Bong Hong, Zheng Liu, Tetsu Ohsuna and Osamu Terasaki

10Be evidence for the Matuyama–Brunhes geomagnetic reversal in the EPICA Dome C ice core pp. 82-84

G. M. Raisbeck, F. Yiou, O. Cattani and J. Jouzel

Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida pp. 85-88

Sarah J. Bourlat, Thorhildur Juliusdottir, Christopher J. Lowe, Robert Freeman, Jochanan Aronowicz, Mark Kirschner, Eric S. Lander, Michael Thorndyke, Hiroaki Nakano, Andrea B. Kohn, Andreas Heyland, Leonid L. Moroz, Richard R. Copley and Maximilian J. Telford

Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild pp. 89-92

Diana O. Fisher, Michael C. Double, Simon P. Blomberg, Michael D. Jennions and Andrew Cockburn

Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates pp. 93-96

Richard Grenyer, C. David L. Orme, Sarah F. Jackson, Gavin H. Thomas, Richard G. Davies, T. Jonathan Davies, Kate E. Jones, Valerie A. Olson, Robert S. Ridgely, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Tzung-Su Ding, Peter M. Bennett, Tim M. Blackburn, Kevin J. Gaston, John L. Gittleman and Ian P. F. Owens

Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis pp. 97-101

Jörg Kämper, Regine Kahmann, Michael Bölker, Li-Jun Ma, Thomas Brefort, Barry J. Saville, Flora Banuett, James W. Kronstad, Scott E. Gold, Olaf Müller, Michael H. Perlin, Han A. B. Wösten, Ronald de Vries, José Ruiz-Herrera, Cristina G. Reynaga-Peña, Karen Snetselaar, Michael McCann, José Pérez-Martín, Michael Feldbrügge, Christoph W. Basse, Gero Steinberg, Jose I. Ibeas, William Holloman, Plinio Guzman, Mark Farman, Jason E. Stajich, Rafael Sentandreu, Juan M. González-Prieto, John C. Kennell, Lazaro Molina, Jan Schirawski, Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza, Doris Greilinger, Karin Münch, Nicole Rössel, Mario Scherer, Miroslav Vraneš, Oliver Ladendorf, Volker Vincon, Uta Fuchs, Björn Sandrock, Shaowu Meng, Eric C. H. Ho, Matt J. Cahill, Kylie J. Boyce, Jana Klose, Steven J. Klosterman, Heine J. Deelstra, Lucila Ortiz-Castellanos, Weixi Li, Patricia Sanchez-Alonso, Peter H. Schreier, Isolde Häuser-Hahn, Martin Vaupel, Edda Koopmann, Gabi Friedrich, Hartmut Voss, Thomas Schlüter, Jonathan Margolis, Darren Platt, Candace Swimmer, Andreas Gnirke, Feng Chen, Valentina Vysotskaia, Gertrud Mannhaupt, Ulrich Güldener, Martin Münsterkötter, Dirk Haase, Matthias Oesterheld, Hans-Werner Mewes, Evan W. Mauceli, David DeCaprio, Claire M. Wade, Jonathan Butler, Sarah Young, David B. Jaffe, Sarah Calvo, Chad Nusbaum, James Galagan and Bruce W. Birren

Two modes of fusion pore opening revealed by cell-attached recordings at a synapse pp. 102-105

Liming He, Xin-Sheng Wu, Raja Mohan and Ling-Gang Wu

Movement of ‘gating charge’ is coupled to ligand binding in a G-protein-coupled receptor pp. 106-109

Yair Ben-Chaim, Baron Chanda, Nathan Dascal, Francisco Bezanilla, Itzchak Parnas and Hanna Parnas

XIAP deficiency in humans causes an X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome pp. 110-114

Stéphanie Rigaud, Marie-Claude Fondanèche, Nathalie Lambert, Benoit Pasquier, Véronique Mateo, Pauline Soulas, Lionel Galicier, Françoise Le Deist, Frédéric Rieux-Laucat, Patrick Revy, Alain Fischer, Geneviève de Saint Basile and Sylvain Latour

Surface expression of MHC class II in dendritic cells is controlled by regulated ubiquitination pp. 115-118

Jeoung-Sook Shin, Melanie Ebersold, Marc Pypaert, Lelia Delamarre, Adam Hartley and Ira Mellman

Young Japanese scientists must deal with career trends similar to those of their US counterparts pp. 119-119

Paul Smaglik

Hans-Olov Adami, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health pp. 120-120

Virginia Gewin

A bench to call your own pp. 120-120

Monya Baker

The joys of communication pp. 120-120

Katja Bargum

2006, volume 444, articles 1

Global health diagnostics pp. 1-2

Deborah C. Hay Burgess, Jeffrey Wasserman and Carol A. Dahl

Developing and interpreting models to improve diagnostics in developing countries pp. 3-8

Federico Girosi, Stuart S. Olmsted, Emmett Keeler, Deborah C. Hay Burgess, Yee-Wei Lim, Julia E. Aledort, Maria E. Rafael, Karen A. Ricci, Rob Boer, Lee Hilborne, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Molly V. Shea, Christopher M Beighley, Carol A. Dahl and Jeffrey Wasserman

Reducing the global burden of acute lower respiratory infections in children: the contribution of new diagnostics pp. 9-18

Yee-Wei Lim, Mark Steinhoff, Federico Girosi, Douglas Holtzman, Harry Campbell, Rob Boer, Robert Black and Kim Mulholland

Reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS in infants: the contribution of improved diagnostics pp. 19-28

Julia E. Aledort, Allan Ronald, Sylvie M. Le Blancq, Renee Ridzon, Alan Landay, Maria E. Rafael, Molly V. Shea, Jeff Safrit, Rosanna W. Peeling, Nicholas Hellmann, Peter Mwaba, King Holmes and Cathy Wilfert

Reducing stunting among children: the potential contribution of diagnostics pp. 29-38

Karen A. Ricci, Federico Girosi, Phillip I. Tarr, Yee-Wei Lim, Carl Mason, Mark Miller, James Hughes, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jan M. Agosti and Richard L. Guerrant

Reducing the burden of childhood malaria in Africa: the role of improved pp. 39-48

Maria E. Rafael, Terrie Taylor, Alan Magill, Yee-Wei Lim, Federico Girosi and Richard Allan

Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis: the contribution of improved diagnostics pp. 49-57

Emmett Keeler, Mark D. Perkins, Peter Small, Christy Hanson, Steven Reed, Jane Cunningham, Julia E. Aledort, Lee Hillborne, Maria E. Rafael, Federico Girosi and Christopher Dye

Reducing the burden of sexually transmitted infections in resource-limited settings: the role of improved diagnostics pp. 59-72

Julia E. Aledort, Allan Ronald, Maria E. Rafael, Federico Girosi, Peter Vickerman, Sylvie M. Le Blancq, Alan Landay, King Holmes, Renee Ridzon, Nicholas Hellmann, Molly V. Shea and Rosanna W. Peeling

Requirements for high impact diagnostics in the developing world pp. 73-79

Mickey Urdea, Laura A. Penny, Stuart S. Olmsted, Maria Y. Giovanni, Peter Kaspar, Andrew Shepherd, Penny Wilson, Carol A. Dahl, Steven Buchsbaum, Gerry Moeller and Deborah C. Hay Burgess