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2002, volume 417, articles 6892

The digital revolution pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Silicon dreams in the biology lab pp. 4-5

Diane Gershon

Cell biology gets plugged in pp. 6-6

Diane Gershon

Computerized role models pp. 7-7

Robert Triendl

Bush's advisers lean towards ban on research cloning pp. 885-885

Erika Check

Code of conduct for bioethics branded 'soft' on corporate ties pp. 885-886

Nell Boyce

Scientists jailed for alleged theft from Harvard laboratory pp. 886-886

Rex Dalton

Fight against terror 'needs science institute' pp. 887-887

Erika Check

Lack of funds puts 'bubble fusion' replication on hold pp. 887-887

Geoff Brumfiel

CERN puts research on hold to build collider pp. 888-888

Alison Abbott

Ocean carbon study to quit Hawaii pp. 888-888

Virginia Gewin

NASA launch heralds fresh wave of comet exploration pp. 889-889

Tony Reichhardt

Astronaut lands top research post in new French government pp. 889-889

Sally Goodman

Altered states pp. 892-893

Mark Haw

The society of proteins pp. 894-896

Alison Abbott

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops pp. 897-898

Matthew Metz and Johannes Fütterer

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops pp. 897-897

Andrew V. Suarez

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops pp. 897-897

Kenneth Worthy, Richard C. Strohman and Paul R. Billings

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops pp. 898-898

Nick Kaplinsky

Impact-factor rewards affect Spanish research pp. 898-898

Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Rafael Ruiz-Pérez and Víctor M. Fernández

Our molecular history pp. 899-900

Masatoshi Nei

A philosophical liberator pp. 900-901

Hans-Johann Glock

Winning the fight against liver disease pp. 900-900

Arie J. Zuckerman

Maxwell's demon: Slamming the door pp. 903-903

John Maddox

Through a lens brightly pp. 905-906

Edwin L. Turner

Lucky draw in the gene raffle pp. 906-907

Pamela M. Pollock and Paul S. Meltzer

Thin-film cliffhanger pp. 907-909

Max G. Lagally and Zhenyu Zhang

A receptor in symbiotic dialogue pp. 910-911

Herman P. Spaink

How old roots lose their bounce pp. 911-913

David James

Piece of cake pp. 913-914

Benjamin Tycko and Argiris Efstratiadis

Darkened light pp. 914-914

David Jones

Caffeine as a repellent for slugs and snails pp. 915-916

Robert G. Hollingsworth, John W. Armstrong and Earl Campbell

Early-pregnancy origins of low birth weight pp. 916-916

Gordon C. S. Smith, Emily J. Stenhouse, Jennifer A. Crossley, David A. Aitken, Alan D. Cameron and J. Michael Connor

Sub-laser-cycle electron pulses for probing molecular dynamics pp. 917-922

Hiromichi Niikura, F. Légaré, R. Hasbani, A. D. Bandrauk, Misha Yu. Ivanov, D. M. Villeneuve and P. B. Corkum

Magnification of light from many distant quasars by gravitational lenses pp. 923-925

J. Stuart B. Wyithe and Abraham Loeb

The nature and transport mechanism of hydrated hydroxide ions in aqueous solution pp. 925-929

Mark E. Tuckerman, Dominik Marx and Michele Parrinello

Nonlinear dynamics of ice-wedge networks and resulting sensitivity to severe cooling events pp. 929-933

L. J. Plug and B. T. Werner

Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains pp. 933-936

Karen M. Fischer

Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic pp. 936-938

Ricardo N. Melchor, Silvina de Valais and Jorge F. Genise

Overlap of internal models in motor cortex for mechanical loads during reaching pp. 938-941

Paul L. Gribble and Stephen H. Scott

Oligodendrocyte-myelin glycoprotein is a Nogo receptor ligand that inhibits neurite outgrowth pp. 941-944

Kevin C. Wang, Vuk Koprivica, Jieun A. Kim, Rajeev Sivasankaran, Yong Guo, Rachel L. Neve and Zhigang He

Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth pp. 945-948

Miguel Constância, Myriam Hemberger, Jennifer Hughes, Wendy Dean, Anne Ferguson-Smith, Reinald Fundele, Francesca Stewart, Gavin Kelsey, Abigail Fowden, Colin Sibley and Wolf Reik

Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer pp. 949-954

Helen Davies, Graham R. Bignell, Charles Cox, Philip Stephens, Sarah Edkins, Sheila Clegg, Jon Teague, Hayley Woffendin, Mathew J. Garnett, William Bottomley, Neil Davis, Ed Dicks, Rebecca Ewing, Yvonne Floyd, Kristian Gray, Sarah Hall, Rachel Hawes, Jaime Hughes, Vivian Kosmidou, Andrew Menzies, Catherine Mould, Adrian Parker, Claire Stevens, Stephen Watt, Steven Hooper, Rebecca Wilson, Hiran Jayatilake, Barry A. Gusterson, Colin Cooper, Janet Shipley, Darren Hargrave, Katherine Pritchard-Jones, Norman Maitland, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Gregory J. Riggins, Darell D. Bigner, Giuseppe Palmieri, Antonio Cossu, Adrienne Flanagan, Andrew Nicholson, Judy W. C. Ho, Suet Y. Leung, Siu T. Yuen, Barbara L. Weber, Hilliard F. Seigler, Timothy L. Darrow, Hugh Paterson, Richard Marais, Christopher J. Marshall, Richard Wooster, Michael R. Stratton and P. Andrew Futreal

VEGF regulates haematopoietic stem cell survival by an internal autocrine loop mechanism pp. 954-958

Hans-Peter Gerber, Ajay K. Malik, Gregg P. Solar, Daniel Sherman, Xiao Huan Liang, Gloria Meng, Kyu Hong, James C. Marsters and Napoleone Ferrara

A plant receptor-like kinase required for both bacterial and fungal symbiosis pp. 959-962

Silke Stracke, Catherine Kistner, Satoko Yoshida, Lonneke Mulder, Shusei Sato, Takakazu Kaneko, Satoshi Tabata, Niels Sandal, Jens Stougaard, Krzysztof Szczyglowski and Martin Parniske

A receptor kinase gene regulating symbiotic nodule development pp. 962-966

Gabriella Endre, Attila Kereszt, Zoltán Kevei, Sorina Mihacea, Péter Kaló and György B. Kiss

A large nucleolar U3 ribonucleoprotein required for 18S ribosomal RNA biogenesis pp. 967-970

François Dragon, Jennifer E. G. Gallagher, Patricia A. Compagnone-Post, Brianna M. Mitchell, Kara A. Porwancher, Karen A. Wehner, Steven Wormsley, Robert E. Settlage, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Yvonne Osheim, Ann L. Beyer, Donald F. Hunt and Susan J. Baserga

Structure of a bacterial quorum-sensing transcription factor complexed with pheromone and DNA pp. 971-974

Rong-guang Zhang, Katherine M. Pappas, Jennifer L. Brace, Paula C. Miller, Tim Oulmassov, John M. Molyneaux, John C. Anderson, James K. Bashkin, Stephen C. Winans and Andrzej Joachimiak

Structural basis for the recognition of hydroxyproline in HIF-1α by pVHL pp. 975-978

Wai-Ching Hon, Michael I. Wilson, Karl Harlos, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Christopher J. Schofield, Christopher W. Pugh, Patrick H. Maxwell, Peter J. Ratcliffe, David I. Stuart and E. Yvonne Jones

2002, volume 417, articles 6891

A sign of the times? pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Equal opportunities pp. 5-5

Jan Schmollinger

US urged to provide smallpox vaccines for emergency crews pp. 775-776

Erika Check

Senate adrift on cloning as talks break down pp. 775-775

Erika Check

'Dirty bomb' scare prompts clampdown on lab security pp. 776-776

Rex Dalton

Pentagon gets defensive over missile secrets pp. 777-777

Geoff Brumfiel

Astronomers give virtual observatory a real future pp. 777-777

Declan Butler

Drug researcher quits controversial cat study pp. 778-778

Virginia Gewin

Draft cow genome heads the field pp. 778-778

David Adam

Patent flurry casts cloud over gene silencing pp. 779-779

Erika Check

Squaring up over ancient life pp. 782-784

Rex Dalton

Full house pp. 785-786

Jonathan Knight and Alison Abbott

Online database could end taxonomic anarchy pp. 787-788

Michael S. Y. Lee

Learning from past mistakes about nuclear waste pp. 787-787

Chris Murray

To sell science, find out what people want to buy pp. 787-787

Till C. Jelitto

Macroecology: new, or biogeography revisited? pp. 787-787

Howard J. Fisher

Science's policy on access to private data pp. 788-788

Donald Kennedy

Curiosity and generosity of a great scientist pp. 788-788

Phillip J. Clapham

Health supercourse to end Arab isolation pp. 788-788

Abdullatif Husseini, Rania Saad and Ronald E. LaPorte

Is a bell tolling for Bell Labs? pp. 789-789

Paul Grant

Not waving but speaking pp. 791-792

Michael Tomasello

Life out of nowhere? pp. 792-793

Paolo Mazzarello

Gases get cool pp. 793-794

Keith Burnett

Science in culture pp. 794-794

Michael John Gorman

Genetic markers: Strength in numbers pp. 795-795

Austin L. Hughes

Teamed up for transcription pp. 797-798

Christian von Mering and Peer Bork

Nebulous explanation pp. 798-799

Mark Claussen

Two ACEs and a heart pp. 799-801

Kenneth E. Bernstein

New whale from old bones pp. 801-801

John E. Heyning

Imprints offer Moore pp. 802-803

R. Fabian Pease

Understanding the consequences pp. 803-805

Thomas J. Carew

Beyond the diffraction limit? pp. 806-807

Ernst H. K. Stelzer

A molecular propeller pp. 807-808

Dinshaw J. Patel

Cloud-chamber clouds pp. 808-808

David Jones

Dynamic instabilities in the inflating lung pp. 809-811

Adriano M. Alencar, Stephen P. Arold, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Arnab Majumdar, Dimitrije Stamenović, H. Eugene Stanley and Béla Suki

Only male fin whales sing loud songs pp. 809-809

Donald A. Croll, Christopher W. Clark, Alejandro Acevedo, Bernie Tershy, Sergio Flores, Jason Gedamke and Jorge Urban

Hedgehog crosses the snail's midline pp. 811-812

Alexander J. Nederbragt, André E. van Loon and Wim J. A. G. Dictus

Contact time of a bouncing drop pp. 811-811

Denis Richard, Christophe Clanet and David Quéré

Ordered porous materials for emerging applications pp. 813-821

Mark E. Davis

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is an essential regulator of heart function pp. 822-828

Michael A. Crackower, Renu Sarao, Gavin Y. Oudit, Chana Yagil, Ivona Kozieradzki, Sam E. Scanga, Antonio J. Oliveira-dos-Santos, Joan da Costa, Liyong Zhang, York Pei, James Scholey, Carlos M. Ferrario, Armen S. Manoukian, Mark C. Chappell, Peter H. Backx, Yoram Yagil and Josef M. Penninger

A collimated jet of molecular gas from a star on the asymptotic giant branch pp. 829-831

Hiroshi Imai, Kumiko Obara, Philip J. Diamond, Toshihiro Omodaka and Tetsuo Sasao

Hidden orbital order in the heavy fermion metal URu2Si2 pp. 831-834

P. Chandra, P. Coleman, J. A. Mydosh and V. Tripathi

Ultrafast and direct imprint of nanostructures in silicon pp. 835-837

Stephen Y. Chou, Chris Keimel and Jian Gu

Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones pp. 837-840

Stephen Foley, Massimo Tiepolo and Riccardo Vannucci

Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton pp. 841-844

Patrício Dominguez, Antone G. Jacobson and Richard P. S. Jefferies

Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress pp. 844-848

Ragan M. Callaway, R. W. Brooker, Philippe Choler, Zaal Kikvidze, Christopher J. Lortie, Richard Michalet, Leonardo Paolini, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Beth Newingham, Erik T. Aschehoug, Cristina Armas, David Kikodze and Bradley J. Cook

Consumer versus resource control of species diversity and ecosystem functioning pp. 848-851

Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, Helmut Hillebrand and Ulrich Sommer

A global analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans operons pp. 851-854

Thomas Blumenthal, Donald Evans, Christopher D. Link, Alessandro Guffanti, Daniel Lawson, Jean Thierry-Mieg, Danielle Thierry-Mieg, Wei Lu Chiu, Kyle Duke, Moni Kiraly and Stuart K. Kim

Feedback inhibition controls spike transfer in hybrid thalamic circuits pp. 854-858

Gwendal Le Masson, Sylvie Renaud-Le Masson, Damien Debay and Thierry Bal

Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor 2 directs parathyroid hormone 1 receptor signalling pp. 858-861

Matthew J. Mahon, Mark Donowitz, C. Chris Yun and Gino V. Segre

TNF-mediated inflammatory skin disease in mice with epidermis-specific deletion of IKK2 pp. 861-866

Manolis Pasparakis, Gilles Courtois, Martin Hafner, Marc Schmidt-Supprian, Arianna Nenci, Atiye Toksoy, Monika Krampert, Matthias Goebeler, Reinhard Gillitzer, Alain Israel, Thomas Krieg, Klaus Rajewsky and Ingo Haase

Mice deficient in the Rac activator Tiam1 are resistant to Ras-induced skin tumours pp. 867-871

Angeliki Malliri, Rob A. van der Kammen, Kristopher Clark, Maarten van der Valk, Frits Michiels and John G. Collard

Efp targets 14-3-3σ for proteolysis and promotes breast tumour growth pp. 871-875

Tomohiko Urano, Tomoyuki Saito, Tohru Tsukui, Masayo Fujita, Takayuki Hosoi, Masami Muramatsu, Yasuyoshi Ouchi and Satoshi Inoue

Crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA pp. 876-880

Gary N. Parkinson, Michael P. H. Lee and Stephen Neidle

Correction: Corrigendum: MEC-2 regulates C. elegans DEG/ENaC channels needed for mechanosensation pp. 880-880

M. B. Goodman, G. G. Ernstrom, D. S. Chelur, R. O'Hagan, C. A. Yao and M. Chalfie

2002, volume 417, articles 6890

A question of balance pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Science and business pp. 4-5

Steve Bunk

Homeland security plan sparks fears for fight against bioterror pp. 675-675

Geoff Brumfiel

US set to rejoin international fusion project pp. 676-676

Geoff Brumfiel

Detectors licked by gummy fingers pp. 676-676

David Cyranoski

France wires up to treat obsessive disorder pp. 677-677

Sally Goodman

Statistical error leaves pollution data up in the air pp. 677-677

Jonathan Knight

Science centres struggle as funds run out pp. 678-678

David Adam

Environment institute slammed over 'selective' results pp. 678-678

Johanna Schwarz and Alison Abbott

Argentine crisis rattles cosmic-ray hunters pp. 679-679

Carol Marzuola

Mummy's silence broken at last pp. 679-679

Rex Dalton

Plugging the brain drain pp. 683-683

David Cyranoski

The great primate debate pp. 684-687

Sally Goodman and Erika Check

Data security is crucial for Japanese science pp. 689-689

Eitaka Tsuboi, Norie Kawahara, Tadahiro Mitsuishi, Akira Oshima and Shohei Yonemoto

Collaboration can work if inequality is recognized pp. 689-689

Yehuda Tzfati

Scientific links support an unjust peace process pp. 689-690

Rita Giacaman

Did an academic boycott help to end apartheid? pp. 690-690

George Fink

Violence versus freedom pp. 690-690

Joel Bigman

In support of scientific exchange pp. 690-690

Arjuna Aluwihare, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Ayse Erzan, François Jacob, John Polanyi, Pieter van Dijk, Edoardo Vesentini, Torsten Wiesel and Carol Corillon

My synapses, myself pp. 691-692

William Calvin

A complete history of astronomy pp. 692-692

Giovanni F. Bignami

Portraits of our family tree pp. 692-693

Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi

Winning the numbers game pp. 693-693

W. Timothy Gowers

Global public goods: Health is wealth pp. 695-695

Richard G. A. Feachem and Carol A. Medlin

Rocks that go bump in the night pp. 697-698

Derek C. Richardson

Density and diversity pp. 698-699

Hans ter Steege and Roderick Zagt

A cholesterol tether pp. 699-701

Bart Staels

Electronics and the single atom pp. 701-702

Silvano De Franceschi and Leo Kouwenhoven

The attraction of lipids pp. 702-702

Amanda Tromans

Haemoglobin's chaperone pp. 703-705

Lucio Luzzatto and Rosario Notaro

Collimated gas pp. 705-705

David Jones

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) pp. 706-706

Derek E. G. Briggs

Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers pp. 707-707

Linley K. Jesson and Spencer C. H. Barrett

The value of bees to the coffee harvest pp. 708-708

David W. Roubik

Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer pp. 709-711

D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe and D. J. Wineland

Crystal structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 2.6 Å resolution pp. 712-719

Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Shun-ichi Sekine, Oleg Laptenko, Jookyung Lee, Marina N. Vassylyeva, Sergei Borukhov and Shigeyuki Yokoyama

The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region pp. 720-721

David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke, Luke Dones and Harold F. Levison

Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in single-atom transistors pp. 722-725

Jiwoong Park, Abhay N. Pasupathy, Jonas I. Goldsmith, Connie Chang, Yuval Yaish, Jason R. Petta, Marie Rinkoski, James P. Sethna, Héctor D. Abruña, Paul L. McEuen and Daniel C. Ralph

Kondo resonance in a single-molecule transistor pp. 725-729

Wenjie Liang, Matthew P. Shores, Marc Bockrath, Jeffrey R. Long and Hongkun Park

Mycorrhizal weathering of apatite as an important calcium source in base-poor forest ecosystems pp. 729-731

Joel D. Blum, Andrea Klaue, Carmen A. Nezat, Charles T. Driscoll, Chris E. Johnson, Thomas G. Siccama, Christopher Eagar, Timothy J. Fahey and Gene E. Likens

Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity pp. 732-735

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, James S. Clark and Brian Beckage

Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection pp. 735-738

John N. Thompson and Bradley M. Cunningham

Spike train dynamics predicts theta-related phase precession in hippocampal pyramidal cells pp. 738-741

Kenneth D. Harris, Darrell A. Henze, Hajime Hirase, Xavier Leinekugel, George Dragoi, Andras Czurkó and György Buzsáki

Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code pp. 741-746

M. R. Mehta, A. K. Lee and M. A. Wilson

Modulation of virulence within a pathogenicity island in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis pp. 746-750

Nathan Shankar, Arto S. Baghdayan and Michael S. Gilmore

Subendothelial retention of atherogenic lipoproteins in early atherosclerosis pp. 750-754

Kristina Skålén, Maria Gustafsson, Ellen Knutsen Rydberg, Lillemor Mattsson Hultén, Olov Wiklund, Thomas L. Innerarity and Jan Borén

T-box gene tbx5 is essential for formation of the pectoral limb bud pp. 754-758

Dae-gwon Ahn, Matthew J. Kourakis, Laurel A. Rohde, Lee M. Silver and Robert K. Ho

An abundant erythroid protein that stabilizes free α-haemoglobin pp. 758-763

Anthony J. Kihm, Yi Kong, Wei Hong, J. Eric Russell, Susan Rouda, Kazuhiko Adachi, M. Celeste Simon, Gerd A. Blobel and Mitchell J. Weiss

Regulation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 by blue-light-dependent phosphorylation pp. 763-767

Dror Shalitin, Hongyun Yang, Todd C. Mockler, Maskit Maymon, Hongwei Guo, Garry C. Whitelam and Chentao Lin

Structure of the SRP19–RNA complex and implications for signal recognition particle assembly pp. 767-771

Tobias Hainzl, Shenghua Huang and A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson

2002, volume 417, articles 6889

Landing the egos pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Seattle: The best of both worlds pp. 4-5

Paul Smaglik

Supreme Court closes loophole for copycat patents pp. 575-575

Jonathan Knight

Alpine detector fails to confirm Italian sighting of dark matter pp. 575-576

Alison Abbott

South African cabinet backs merger plan for universities pp. 576-576

Michael Cherry

Chinese researcher accused of stealing cell samples pp. 576-576

Rex Dalton

World Bank cracks down on cultural damage pp. 577-577

Rex Dalton

British science champion quits post pp. 577-577

David Adam

Uncertainty ends for US nuclear lab as new leader is named pp. 577-577

Rex Dalton

Ecologist sues over wrecked iguana study pp. 578-578

John Whitfield

Merger plans rattle bones in Berlin pp. 578-578

Johanna Schwarz

Joint projects see ocean science aiming high pp. 579-579

Mark Schrope

US postal service puts anthrax detectors to the test pp. 579-579

Jonathan Knight

Flying free pp. 582-583

Tom Clarke

Magic bullets hit the target pp. 584-586

Trisha Gura

Knowledge about animal suffering is too rarely used pp. 587-587

Andrew N. Rowan

Conceptual biology: a semantic issue and more pp. 587-588

Julie C. Barnes

Uncovering the complex mysteries of mosaicism pp. 588-588

Tayfun Özçelik

Bioinformatics code must enforce citation pp. 588-588

David J. States

The times they are a-changin' pp. 589-590

Ari Patrinos and Dan Drell

Lateral thinking pp. 591-592

William D. Hopkins

Controlling a generous host pp. 592-592

Paul Schmid-Hempel

Exploiting a hostile world pp. 593-593

Lynn J. Rothschild

Plant mathematics: Fibonacci's flowers pp. 595-595

Amar J. S. Klar

Iodine's air of importance pp. 597-598

Charles E. Kolb

Buffer zone pp. 598-599

Massimo Pigliucci

Indirect evidence pp. 599-601

Andrew Millis

Glutamate receptors on the move pp. 601-602

Morgan Sheng and Terunaga Nakagawa

African reflections pp. 603-603

Tim Lincoln

The Hoyle story pp. 603-605

John Maddox

Cortical liars pp. 605-606

Seong-Seng Tan

Toughened metal pp. 606-606

David Jones

Marine iguanas die from trace oil pollution pp. 607-608

Martin Wikelski, Vanessa Wong, Brett Chevalier, Niels Rattenborg and Howard L. Snell

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged pp. 608-609

Richard P. Duncan and Peter A. Williams

Calcification of early vertebrate cartilage pp. 609-609

Philippe Janvier and Marius Arsenault

Antitoxin vaccines and pathogen virulence pp. 609-610

Benoit Soubeyrand and Stanley A. Plotkin

Antitoxin vaccines and pathogen virulence pp. 610-610

Sylvain Gandon, Margaret J. Mackinnon, Sean Nee and Andrew F. Read

Computational and evolutionary aspects of language pp. 611-617

Martin A. Nowak, Natalia L. Komarova and Partha Niyogi

Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation pp. 618-624

Christine Queitsch, Todd A. Sangster and Susan Lindquist

Observational evidence for the accretion-disk origin for a radio jet in an active galaxy pp. 625-627

Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, José-Luis Gómez, Margo F. Aller, Harri Teräsranta, Matthew L. Lister and Alastair M. Stirling

Coherence–incoherence and dimensional crossover in layered strongly correlated metals pp. 627-630

T. Valla, P. D. Johnson, Z. Yusof, B. Wells, Q. Li, S. M. Loureiro, R. J. Cava, M. Mikami, Y. Mori, M. Yoshimura and T. Sasaki

Measurement of a confinement induced neutron phase pp. 630-632

H. Rauch, H. Lemmel, M. Baron and R. Loidl

Marine aerosol formation from biogenic iodine emissions pp. 632-636

Colin D. O'Dowd, Jose L. Jimenez, Roya Bahreini, Richard C. Flagan, John H. Seinfeld, Kaarle Hämeri, Liisa Pirjola, Markku Kulmala, S. Gerard Jennings and Thorsten Hoffmann

Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion pp. 636-638

Theodore A. Kennedy, Shahid Naeem, Katherine M. Howe, Johannes M. H. Knops, David Tilman and Peter Reich

Plant biomarkers in aerosols record isotopic discrimination of terrestrial photosynthesis pp. 639-641

Maureen H. Conte and John C. Weber

Host-induced epidemic spread of the cholera bacterium pp. 642-645

D. Scott Merrell, Susan M. Butler, Firdausi Qadri, Nadia A. Dolganov, Ahsfaqul Alam, Mitchell B. Cohen, Stephen B. Calderwood, Gary K. Schoolnik and Andrew Camilli

Origin of GABAergic neurons in the human neocortex pp. 645-649

Kresimir Letinic, Roberto Zoncu and Pasko Rakic

Regulation of AMPA receptor lateral movements pp. 649-653

Aren J. Borgdorff and Daniel Choquet

Annexin II light chain regulates sensory neuron-specific sodium channel expression pp. 653-656

Kenji Okuse, Misbah Malik-Hall, Mark D. Baker, W-Y. Louisa Poon, Haeyoung Kong, Moses V. Chao and John N. Wood

Filamentous phage integration requires the host recombinases XerC and XerD pp. 656-659

Kathryn E. Huber and Matthew K. Waldor

A conserved RNA-binding protein controls germline stem cells in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 660-663

Sarah L. Crittenden, David S. Bernstein, Jennifer L. Bachorik, Beth E. Thompson, Maria Gallegos, Andrei G. Petcherski, Gary Moulder, Robert Barstead, Marvin Wickens and Judith Kimble

Kremen proteins are Dickkopf receptors that regulate Wnt/β-catenin signalling pp. 664-667

Bingyu Mao, Wei Wu, Gary Davidson, Joachim Marhold, Mingfa Li, Bernard M. Mechler, Hajo Delius, Dana Hoppe, Peter Stannek, Carmen Walter, Andrei Glinka and Christof Niehrs

New components of the spliced leader RNP required for nematode trans-splicing pp. 667-670

John A. Denker, David M. Zuckerman, Patricia A. Maroney and Timothy W. Nilsen

2002, volume 417, articles 6888

Taking stock of biotech jobs pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Climate of care for a changing world pp. 4-6

Heike Langenberg

Chance to make a difference in Japan pp. 7-7

Robert Triendl

Priorities for genome sequencing leave macaques out in the cold pp. 473-474

Erika Check

Investigation into nanotechnology papers expands pp. 473-473

Geoff Brumfiel

Delays and cutbacks kill off Europe's mission to Venus pp. 474-474

Quirin Schiermeier

UN predicts long wait to repair environment pp. 475-475

Virginia Gewin

Scientists placated as US bill gets tough on bioterror pp. 475-475

Virginia Gewin

Clouds lift for turbulence-detector initiative pp. 476-476

Rex Dalton

Internecine rows threaten to sink whaling commission pp. 476-476

David Cyranoski

US zoos keep watch for cross-species killer pp. 477-477

Jonathan Knight

Superbugs reveal chink in armour pp. 477-477

Jonathan Knight

Neutrality versus the niche pp. 480-481

John Whitfield

To catch a wave pp. 482-484

Geoff Brumfiel

How affluence harms the environment in Europe pp. 485-485

Luc De Bruyn, Jan Scheirs and Hans Van Gossum

O no: opossums are not at risk in Tasmania pp. 485-485

Thomas L. Montague and Andrew T. D. Bennett

What can Venter teach students about ethics? pp. 485-485

Rod Ceredig

When the Earth moved pp. 487-488

Jason Phipps Morgan

With brains, minds and voices pp. 488-489

John C. Marshall

Views of a scientific American pp. 489-490

Zaheer Baber

Science in culture pp. 490-490

Martin Kemp

Hydrophobicity: Two faces of water pp. 491-491

David Chandler

Making it with molecules pp. 493-494

Peter Zoller

Sharks' teeth and dunes pp. 495-497

Laura M. Machesky

The slippery slope pp. 497-498

George Zandt

Crowning glories pp. 498-499

Jessica M. Theodor

Weighing up nuclear masses pp. 499-501

Sven Åberg

An open and shut case pp. 501-502

Maria Schumacher and John P. Adelman

Model hearing pp. 502-503

George D. Pollak

Spatial audio pp. 503-503

David Jones

Gordon Randolph Willey (1913–2002) pp. 504-504

Jeremy A. Sabloff

Parasitoid secretions provoke ant warfare pp. 505-506

J. A. Thomas, J. J. Knapp, T. Akino, S. Gerty, S. Wakamura, D. J. Simcox, J. C. Wardlaw and G. W. Elmes

Trends and random fluctuations in athletics pp. 506-506

Daniel Gembris, John G. Taylor and Dieter Suter

Understanding and exploiting C–H bond activation pp. 507-514

Jay A. Labinger and John E. Bercaw

Crystal structure and mechanism of a calcium-gated potassium channel pp. 515-522

Youxing Jiang, Alice Lee, Jiayun Chen, Martine Cadene, Brian T. Chait and Roderick MacKinnon

The open pore conformation of potassium channels pp. 523-526

Youxing Jiang, Alice Lee, Jiayun Chen, Martine Cadene, Brian T. Chait and Roderick MacKinnon

Optical pulsations from the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U0142+61 pp. 527-529

B. Kern and C. Martin

Atom–molecule coherence in a Bose–Einstein condensate pp. 529-533

Elizabeth A. Donley, Neil R. Claussen, Sarah T. Thompson and Carl E. Wieman

Quantum control of energy flow in light harvesting pp. 533-535

Jennifer L. Herek, Wendel Wohlleben, Richard J. Cogdell, Dirk Zeidler and Marcus Motzkus

An inverted continental Moho and serpentinization of the forearc mantle pp. 536-538

M. G. Bostock, R. D. Hyndman, S. Rondenay and S. M. Peacock

Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene pp. 538-540

Jukka Jernvall and Mikael Fortelius

Single-species models for many-species food webs pp. 541-543

W. W. Murdoch, B. E. Kendall, R. M. Nisbet, C. J. Briggs, E. McCauley and R. Bolser

Precise inhibition is essential for microsecond interaural time difference coding pp. 543-547

Antje Brand, Oliver Behrend, Torsten Marquardt, David McAlpine and Benedikt Grothe

Nogo-66 receptor antagonist peptide promotes axonal regeneration pp. 547-551

Tadzia GrandPré, Shuxin Li and Stephen M. Strittmatter

A component of innate immunity prevents bacterial biofilm development pp. 552-555

Pradeep K. Singh, Matthew R. Parsek, E. Peter Greenberg and Michael J. Welsh

Single and multiple vesicle fusion induce different rates of endocytosis at a central synapse pp. 555-559

Jian-Yuan Sun, Xin-Sheng Wu and Ling-Gang Wu

DMY is a Y-specific DM-domain gene required for male development in the medaka fish pp. 559-563

Masaru Matsuda, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Ai Shinomiya, Tadashi Sato, Chika Matsuda, Tohru Kobayashi, Craig E. Morrey, Naoki Shibata, Shuichi Asakawa, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Hiroshi Hori, Satoshi Hamaguchi and Mitsuru Sakaizumi

Transcription coactivator TRAP220 is required for PPARγ2-stimulated adipogenesis pp. 563-567

Kai Ge, Mohamed Guermah, Chao-Xing Yuan, Mitsuhiro Ito, Annika E. Wallberg, Bruce M. Spiegelman and Robert G. Roeder

Functional relationship of cytochrome c6 and plastocyanin in Arabidopsis pp. 567-571

Rajeev Gupta, Zengyong He and Sheng Luan

Correction: Corrigendum: Isochorismate synthase is required to synthesize salicylic acid for plant defence pp. 571-571

Mary C. Wildermuth, Julia Dewdney, Gang Wu and Frederick M. Ausubel

2002, volume 417, articles 6887

Talent tug-of-war pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Training programmes with vision pp. 5-5

Karen Kreeger

Bell Labs launches inquiry into allegations of data duplication pp. 367-368

Geoff Brumfiel

Public ponders biotech issues pp. 368-368

Quirin Schiermeier

US 'overspent' on collider project pp. 368-368

Geoff Brumfiel

Chemists synthesize a single naming system pp. 369-369

David Adam

NASA's critics demand a few more steps into space pp. 369-369

Tony Reichhardt

Think-tank calls for an end to DNA deception pp. 370-370

David Adam

Biotech firm's accounts scrutinized pp. 370-370

Erika Check

Canadian collaboration aims to protect tribes pp. 371-371

Rex Dalton

Harvard mourns loss of popular evolutionary thinker pp. 371-371

Erika Check

All genomes great and small pp. 374-376

Jonathan Knight

The rainbow academic nation pp. 377-378

Michael Cherry

Restricting genome data won't stop bioterrorism pp. 379-379

Timothy D. Read and Julian Parkhill

What's in a name? In the Middle East, everything pp. 379-379

Knut Rognes

Foundation's funding pp. 379-379

Heather E. Kowalski

Science is a computer program pp. 381-382

John L. Casti

Optics for the real world pp. 382-383

Chris Dainty

Swimming lessons pp. 383-383

Angus I. Lamond

Equilibrium: In the balance pp. 385-385

Ivar Ekeland

Anti-malarial mosquitoes? pp. 387-388

Gareth J. Lycett and Fotis C. Kafatos

Swell gels pp. 389-391

Jindřich Kopeček

A gut feeling for time pp. 391-392

Michael H. Hastings

Making sense of magnetic fields pp. 392-393

Yeong-Ah Soh and Gabriel Aeppli

Gateway to a long life? pp. 393-395

Matthias A. Hediger

Vegetarian meat pp. 395-395

David Jones

Victor F. Weisskopf (1908–2002) pp. 396-396

Kurt Gottfried

A Möbius strip of single crystals pp. 397-398

Satoshi Tanda, Taku Tsuneta, Yoshitoshi Okajima, Katsuhiko Inagaki, Kazuhiko Yamaya and Noriyuki Hatakenaka

GroEL buffers against deleterious mutations pp. 398-398

Mario A. Fares, Mario X. Ruiz-González, Andrés Moya, Santiago F. Elena and Eladio Barrio

Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein–protein interactions pp. 399-403

Christian von Mering, Roland Krause, Berend Snel, Michael Cornell, Stephen G. Oliver, Stanley Fields and Peer Bork

Prokineticin 2 transmits the behavioural circadian rhythm of the suprachiasmatic nucleus pp. 405-410

Michelle Y. Cheng, Clayton M. Bullock, Chuanyu Li, Alex G. Lee, Jason C. Bermak, James Belluzzi, David R. Weaver, Frances M. Leslie and Qun-Yong Zhou

Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones pp. 411-418

Guo-li Ming, Scott T. Wong, John Henley, Xiao-bing Yuan, Hong-jun Song, Nicholas C. Spitzer and Mu-ming Poo

Thickness constraints on the icy shells of the galilean satellites from a comparison of crater shapes pp. 419-421

Paul M. Schenk

Megagauss sensors pp. 421-424

A. Husmann, J. B. Betts, G. S. Boebinger, A. Migliori, T. F. Rosenbaum and M.-L. Saboungi

Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles pp. 424-428

Andrew P. Nowak, Victor Breedveld, Lisa Pakstis, Bulent Ozbas, David J. Pine, Darrin Pochan and Timothy J. Deming

Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia pp. 428-432

Ralf Hetzel, Samuel Niedermann, Mingxin Tao, Peter W. Kubik, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Bo Gao and Manfred R. Strecker

Recovery of 16S ribosomal RNA gene fragments from ancient halite pp. 432-436

Steven A. Fish, Thomas J. Shepherd, Terry J. McGenity and William D. Grant

Coexistence and relative abundance in forest trees pp. 437-440

Colleen K. Kelly and Michael G. Bowler

Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation pp. 440-443

Patrik Nosil, Bernard J. Crespi and Cristina P. Sandoval

Netrin-1-mediated axon outgrowth requires deleted in colorectal cancer-dependent MAPK activation pp. 443-447

Christelle Forcet, Elke Stein, Laurent Pays, Véronique Corset, Fabien Llambi, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Patrick Mehlen

Molecular identification of a renal urate–anion exchanger that regulates blood urate levels pp. 447-452

Atsushi Enomoto, Hiroaki Kimura, Arthit Chairoungdua, Yasuhiro Shigeta, Promsuk Jutabha, Seok Ho Cha, Makoto Hosoyamada, Michio Takeda, Takashi Sekine, Takashi Igarashi, Hirotaka Matsuo, Yuichi Kikuchi, Takashi Oda, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Tatsuo Hosoya, Kaoru Shimokata, Toshimitsu Niwa, Yoshikatsu Kanai and Hitoshi Endou

Transgenic anopheline mosquitoes impaired in transmission of a malaria parasite pp. 452-455

Junitsu Ito, Anil Ghosh, Luciano A. Moreira, Ernst A. Wimmer and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

HDAC6 is a microtubule-associated deacetylase pp. 455-458

Charlotte Hubbert, Amaris Guardiola, Rong Shao, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, Akihiro Ito, Andrew Nixon, Minoru Yoshida, Xiao-Fan Wang and Tso-Pang Yao

Comparison of the genomes of two Xanthomonas pathogens with differing host specificities pp. 459-463

A. C. R. da Silva, J. A. Ferro, F. C. Reinach, C. S. Farah, L. R. Furlan, R. B. Quaggio, C. B. Monteiro-Vitorello, M. A. Van Sluys, N. F. Almeida, L. M. C. Alves, A. M. do Amaral, M. C. Bertolini, L. E. A. Camargo, G. Camarotte, F. Cannavan, J. Cardozo, F. Chambergo, L. P. Ciapina, R. M. B. Cicarelli, L. L. Coutinho, J. R. Cursino-Santos, H. El-Dorry, J. B. Faria, A. J. S. Ferreira, R. C. C. Ferreira, M. I. T. Ferro, E. F. Formighieri, M. C. Franco, C. C. Greggio, A. Gruber, A. M. Katsuyama, L. T. Kishi, R. P. Leite, E. G. M. Lemos, M. V. F. Lemos, E. C. Locali, M. A. Machado, A. M. B. N. Madeira, N. M. Martinez-Rossi, E. C. Martins, J. Meidanis, C. F. M. Menck, C. Y. Miyaki, D. H. Moon, L. M. Moreira, M. T. M. Novo, V. K. Okura, M. C. Oliveira, V. R. Oliveira, H. A. Pereira, A. Rossi, J. A. D. Sena, C. Silva, R. F. de Souza, L. A. F. Spinola, M. A. Takita, R. E. Tamura, E. C. Teixeira, R. I. D. Tezza, M. Trindade dos Santos, D. Truffi, S. M. Tsai, F. F. White, J. C. Setubal and J. P. Kitajima

The catalytic pathway of horseradish peroxidase at high resolution pp. 463-468

Gunnar I. Berglund, Gunilla H. Carlsson, Andrew T. Smith, Hanna Szöke, Anette Henriksen and Janos Hajdu

Retraction Note: Directed evolution of new catalytic activity using the α/β-barrel scaffold pp. 468-468

M. M. Altamirano, J. M. Blackburn, C. Aguayo and A. R. Fersht

2002, volume 417, articles 6886

A basic problem pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Boston: A magnetic hub pp. 4-5

Paul Smaglik

Plan hatched to double NSF budget pp. 209-209

Geoff Brumfiel

Science collaboration stymied by relentless Middle East conflict pp. 209-210

Declan Butler

Warhead-saving arms pact gets lukewarm reception pp. 210-210

Geoff Brumfiel

Computer revives Bamiyan Buddha pp. 210-210

Quirin Schiermeier

Geneticists lay plans for rationalized rodents pp. 211-211

Alison Abbott

Unrest leads reformer to quit Seoul university's top job pp. 211-211

David Cyranoski

Utah law triggers university row over concealed weapons pp. 212-212

Rex Dalton

Deep-sea nuggets prove irresistible to Indian miners pp. 212-212

K. S. Jayaraman

Reality TV show recreates famed social study pp. 213-213

David Adam

Jefferson's descendants continue to deny slave link pp. 213-213

Erika Check

What kind of science is this? pp. 216-218

Jim Giles

St Luke's new coat pp. 219-220

Celeste Biever

Palestinian scientists are already restricted pp. 221-222

Ahmed Abbes, Mikhael Balabane, Emmanuel Farjoun, Michael Harris, Raphael Rouquier and Pierre Schapira

Better communication is in everyone's interests pp. 221-221

Elizabeth J. Tait

Boycott of Israel? It worked for South Africa pp. 221-221

Steven Rose and Hilary Rose

Efforts to build bridges in the Middle East pp. 222-222

Marc Mangel

Taxonomists need better access to published data pp. 222-222

Donat Agosti and Norman F. Johnson

Advocacy and analysis pp. 222-222

Carl Mitcham

Specimen collecting is still vital for research pp. 222-222

Angelo Capparella

A popular evolution pp. 223-224

Mark Ridley

Exactly the same but different pp. 224-225

Justine Burley

Tuning in to radio galaxies pp. 224-224

K. I. Kellermann

Science in culture pp. 225-225

Alison Abbott

Centromeres: Selfish drivers pp. 227-227

Steven Henikoff and Harmit S. Malik

Thinking big in ecology pp. 229-230

Sean Nee

Acids caught in the act pp. 230-231

Samuel Leutwyler

Small drugs lead the attack pp. 231-233

Leslie Iversen

A wet and altered Mars pp. 234-235

John F. Mustard

New-age tumour suppressors pp. 235-237

Allan Balmain

Cooking up tougher ceramics pp. 237-237

D. P. Thompson

How to be desensitized pp. 238-239

Christian Rosenmund and Michael Mansour

Signalling polarity pp. 239-240

Randall T. Moon and Kavita Shah

Augmented eggs pp. 240-240

David Jones

An ancient sensory organ in crocodilians pp. 241-242

Daphne Soares

Decline in mobilization of toxic aluminium pp. 242-243

Sheila M. Palmer and Charles T. Driscoll

Plague bacteria biofilm blocks food intake pp. 243-244

Creg Darby, Jennifer W. Hsu, Nafisa Ghori and Stanley Falkow

A non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for Bacteria pp. 244-244

Céline Brochier and Hervé Philippe

Mechanism of glutamate receptor desensitization pp. 245-253

Yu Sun, Rich Olson, Michelle Horning, Neali Armstrong, Mark Mayer and Eric Gouaux

Targeted pharmacological depletion of serum amyloid P component for treatment of human amyloidosis pp. 254-259

M. B. Pepys, J. Herbert, W. L. Hutchinson, G. A. Tennent, H. J. Lachmann, J. R. Gallimore, L. B. Lovat, T. Bartfai, A. Alanine, C. Hertel, T. Hoffmann, R. Jakob-Roetne, R. D. Norcross, J. A. Kemp, K. Yamamura, M. Suzuki, G. W. Taylor, S. Murray, D. Thompson, A. Purvis, S. Kolstoe, S. P. Wood and P. N. Hawkins

A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe by optimal mass transportation pp. 260-262

Uriel Frisch, Sabino Matarrese, Roya Mohayaee and Andrei Sobolevski

Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars pp. 263-266

Michael B. Wyatt and Harry Y. McSween

Formation of tough interlocking microstructures in silicon nitride ceramics by dynamic ripening pp. 266-269

Zhijian Shen, Zhe Zhao, Hong Peng and Mats Nygren

Discrete stages in the solvation and ionization of hydrogen chloride adsorbed on ice particles pp. 269-271

J. P. Devlin, N. Uras, J. Sadlej and V. Buch

A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem pp. 271-275

Graham E. Budd

Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage pp. 275-278

Martin J. Attrill and Michael Power

Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO2 pp. 279-282

Richard A. Gill, H. Wayne Polley, Hyrum B. Johnson, Laurel J. Anderson, Hafiz Maherali and Robert B. Jackson

Dopamine-mediated modulation of odour-evoked amygdala potentials during pavlovian conditioning pp. 282-287

J. Amiel Rosenkranz and Anthony A. Grace

Stress response genes protect against lethal effects of sleep deprivation in Drosophila pp. 287-291

Paul J. Shaw, Giulio Tononi, Ralph J. Greenspan and Donald F. Robinson

A common mechanism of action for three mood-stabilizing drugs pp. 292-295

Robin S. B. Williams, Lili Cheng, Anne W. Mudge and Adrian J. Harwood

The Wnt/calcium pathway activates NF-AT and promotes ventral cell fate in Xenopus embryos pp. 295-299

Takeo Saneyoshi, Shoen Kume, Yoshiharu Amasaki and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

Hedgehog regulates cell growth and proliferation by inducing Cyclin D and Cyclin E pp. 299-304

Molly Duman-Scheel, Li Weng, Shijie Xin and Wei Du

TREX is a conserved complex coupling transcription with messenger RNA export pp. 304-308

Katja Sträßer, Seiji Masuda, Paul Mason, Jens Pfannstiel, Marisa Oppizzi, Susana Rodriguez-Navarro, Ana G. Rondón, Andres Aguilera, Kevin Struhl, Robin Reed and Ed Hurt

The dynamics of actin-based motility depend on surface parameters pp. 308-311

Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Sebastian Wiesner, Roy M. Golsteyn, Marie-France Carlier and Cécile Sykes

Rotavirus protein involved in genome replication and packaging exhibits a HIT-like fold pp. 311-315

Hariharan Jayaram, Zenobia Taraporewala, John T. Patton and B. V. Venkataram Prasad

Neurobiological systems pp. 317-317

Hemai Parthasarathy

Non-mammalian models for studying neural development and function pp. 318-321

Eve Marder

Instructed learning in the auditory localization pathway of the barn owl pp. 322-328

Eric I. Knudsen

Circadian rhythms from flies to human pp. 329-335

Satchidananda Panda, John B. Hogenesch and Steve A. Kay

On the scents of smell in the salamander pp. 336-342

John S. Kauer

A small-systems approach to motor pattern generation pp. 343-350

Michael P. Nusbaum and Mark P. Beenhakker

What songbirds teach us about learning pp. 351-358

Michael S. Brainard and Allison J. Doupe

Robots in invertebrate neuroscience pp. 359-363

Barbara Webb

2002, volume 417, articles 6885

An industrial revolution pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

International postdocs pp. 4-5

Karen Kreeger

Academy protests as agriculture agency abandons visa renewals pp. 105-105

Virginia Gewin

Radiologist's confirmation ends NIH power vacuum pp. 105-105

Erika Check

Draft mouse genome makes public debut pp. 106-106

Erika Check

Climate panel to focus on regions pp. 106-106

Jim Giles

Welfare amendment omits lab animals pp. 106-106

Virginia Gewin

NIH ponders issues of scale in protein push pp. 107-107

Erika Check

Phoenix rises to genomic challenge pp. 107-107

Rex Dalton

Psychiatrist offered visiting post after Toronto drugs row pp. 108-108

David Spurgeon

Spying charges dropped as Japanese biologist cuts deal pp. 108-108

David Cyranoski

Neurologists strike gold in drug screen effort pp. 109-109

Alison Abbott

Badgers set for cull in resumed tuberculosis trial pp. 109-109

David Adam

The state of the planet pp. 112-113

Virginia Gewin

Magnetic mind games pp. 114-116

Marina Chicurel

Basic or applied, it's the interaction that counts pp. 117-117

Peter B. Farmer

Fundamentals are still relevant in toxicology pp. 117-117

David L. Eaton and William F. Greenlee

Creating a bioinformatics nation pp. 119-120

Lincoln Stein

Confirming a bold prediction pp. 121-122

Robert Olby

When ejaculates collide pp. 122-122

Michael T. Siva-Jothy

An increase in insanity pp. 123-123

Hugh Freeman

Astrophysical spouts: The jet set pp. 125-125

Mario Livio

A lowdown on oxygen pp. 127-128

John M. Hayes

Microtubules do the twist pp. 128-129

Patrick J. Hussey

A foot in the past pp. 129-129

Tom Clarke

The pitfalls of power laws pp. 131-132

Ewald R. Weibel

Bridge for the terahertz gap pp. 132-133

Carlo Sirtori

Climate records spruced up pp. 133-135

Peter D. Moore

Keeping the genome in shape pp. 135-136

Frank Uhlmann

Brighter clouds pp. 136-136

David Jones

Eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire pp. 137-137

Linda A. Amaral Zettler, Felipe Gómez, Erik Zettler, Brendan G. Keenan, Ricardo Amils and Mitchell L. Sogin

Neglect disrupts the mental number line pp. 138-139

Marco Zorzi, Konstantinos Priftis and Carlo Umiltà

Building on bubbles in metal electrodeposition pp. 139-139

W. L. Tsai, P. C. Hsu, Y. Hwu, C. H. Chen, L. W. Chang, J. H. Je, H. M. Lin, A. Groso and G. Margaritondo

Chemokine-receptor genes and AIDS risk pp. 140-140

Patricia A. Ramaley, Neil French, Pontiano Kaleebu, Charles Gilks, James Whitworth and Adrian V. S. Hill

Complete genome sequence of the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) pp. 141-147

S. D. Bentley, K. F. Chater, A.-M. Cerdeño-Tárraga, G. L. Challis, N. R. Thomson, K. D. James, D. E. Harris, M. A. Quail, H. Kieser, D. Harper, A. Bateman, S. Brown, G. Chandra, C. W. Chen, M. Collins, A. Cronin, A. Fraser, A. Goble, J. Hidalgo, T. Hornsby, S. Howarth, C.-H. Huang, T. Kieser, L. Larke, L. Murphy, K. Oliver, S. O'Neil, E. Rabbinowitsch, M.-A. Rajandream, K. Rutherford, S. Rutter, K. Seeger, D. Saunders, S. Sharp, R. Squares, S. Squares, K. Taylor, T. Warren, A. Wietzorrek, J. Woodward, B. G. Barrell, J. Parkhill and D. A. Hopwood

Identification of iron sulphide grains in protoplanetary disks pp. 148-150

L. P. Keller, S. Hony, J. P. Bradley, F. J. Molster, L. B. F. M. Waters, J. Bouwman, A. de Koter, D. E. Brownlee, G. J. Flynn, T. Henning and H. Mutschke

Formation and propagation of matter-wave soliton trains pp. 150-153

Kevin E. Strecker, Guthrie B. Partridge, Andrew G. Truscott and Randall G. Hulet

Spin-galvanic effect pp. 153-156

S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, V. V. Bel'kov, S. A. Tarasenko, M. Sollinger, D. Weiss, W. Wegscheider and W. Prettl

Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser pp. 156-159

Rüdeger Köhler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram, Harvey E. Beere, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, David A. Ritchie, Rita C. Iotti and Fausto Rossi

Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides pp. 159-162

Christian J. Bjerrum and Donald E. Canfield

Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans pp. 163-166

F. Spoor, S. Bajpai, S. T. Hussain, K. Kumar and J. G. M. Thewissen

Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism pp. 166-170

Charles-A. Darveau, Raul K. Suarez, Russel D. Andrews and Peter W. Hochachka

Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars pp. 170-173

J. T. Lill, R. J. Marquis and R. E. Ricklefs

Imperfect optics may be the eye's defence against chromatic blur pp. 174-176

James S. McLellan, Susana Marcos, Pedro M. Prieto and Stephen A. Burns

Transient aggregation of ubiquitinated proteins during dendritic cell maturation pp. 177-182

Hugues Lelouard, Evelina Gatti, Fanny Cappello, Olivia Gresser, Voahirana Camosseto and Philippe Pierre

Identification of a factor that links apoptotic cells to phagocytes pp. 182-187

Rikinari Hanayama, Masato Tanaka, Keiko Miwa, Azusa Shinohara, Akihiro Iwamatsu and Shigekazu Nagata

Dissection of COPI and Arf1 dynamics in vivo and role in Golgi membrane transport pp. 187-193

John F. Presley, Theresa H. Ward, Andrea C. Pfeifer, Eric D. Siggia, Robert D. Phair and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Microtubule basis for left-handed helical growth in Arabidopsis pp. 193-196

Siripong Thitamadee, Kazuko Tuchihara and Takashi Hashimoto

Cnd2 has dual roles in mitotic condensation and interphase pp. 197-202

Nobuki Aono, Takashi Sutani, Takeshi Tomonaga, Satoru Mochida and Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Bacteriophytochrome controls photosystem synthesis in anoxygenic bacteria pp. 202-205

Eric Giraud, Joël Fardoux, Nicolas Fourrier, Laure Hannibal, Bernard Genty, Pierre Bouyer, Bernard Dreyfus and André Verméglio

Correction: Corrigendum: Nuclear translocation and transcription regulation by the membrane-associated guanylate kinase CASK/LIN-2 pp. 205-205

Yi-Ping Hsueh, Ting-Fang Wang, Fu-Chia Yang and Morgan Sheng

Erratum: Origins and estimates of uncertainty in predictions of twenty-first century temperature rise pp. 205-205

Peter A. Stott and J. A. Kettleborough

2002, volume 417, articles 6884

Venter lays foundations for fresh career as ethical philanthropist pp. 3-3

Declan Butler

Weapons lab's top job left unfilled pp. 3-3

Rex Dalton

Compound disinterest pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Air-travel study struggles to get airborne pp. 4-4

Declan Butler

Canadian lab loses Amgen backing pp. 4-4

Jonathan Knight

Norway: Turning oil into science pp. 4-5

Paul Smaglik

NASA faces legal challenge over Hawaiian telescope plan pp. 5-5

Tony Reichhardt

Neutrino review will seek out 'scientific redundancy' pp. 5-5

Geoff Brumfiel

Satellite delay spells shortage of star data pp. 6-6

Alison Abbott

No end in sight for German misconduct probe pp. 6-6

Marion Kerstholt

Seed imports raise hopes of Afghan recovery pp. 7-7

Natasha McDowell

Dual identities pp. 10-11

Helen Pearson

Snowball fights pp. 12-13

Naomi Lubick

Information overload pp. 14-14

Carina Dennis

Don't punish scientists for government actions pp. 15-15

Mike Fainzilber

The challenge offered by X-ray lasers pp. 15-15

Janos Hajdu

Intensive farming, US-style, is not sustainable worldwide pp. 15-15

David S. Reay

Challenges for taxonomy pp. 17-19

H. Charles J. Godfray

Emi's fate, our fate pp. 21-22

Paul R. Ehrlich

From E. coli to elephants pp. 22-23

Kevin Struhl

Science in culture pp. 23-23

Martin Kemp

Brownian ratchets: Darwin's motors pp. 25-25

George Oster

Something new under the sea pp. 27-28

Yan Boucher and W. Ford Doolittle

Liquid crystal painting pp. 28-29

Peter Raynes

Old insects in new order pp. 29-29

John Whitfield

The amazing astrocyte pp. 29-31

Clive N. Svendsen

How to be invasive pp. 32-33

Wim H. Van der Putten

Exciton developments pp. 33-35

Ilias E. Perakis

Modular feedback pp. 35-36

Christof Niehrs and Hans Meinhardt

Irregular solution pp. 36-36

David Jones

Rat navigation guided by remote control pp. 37-38

Sanjiv K. Talwar, Shaohua Xu, Emerson S. Hawley, Shennan A. Weiss, Karen A. Moxon and John K. Chapin

Linguistic ability and early language exposure pp. 38-38

Rachel I. Mayberry, Elizabeth Lock and Hena Kazmi

Astroglia induce neurogenesis from adult neural stem cells pp. 39-44

Hongjun Song, Charles F. Stevens and Fred H. Gage

The confinement of Neptune's ring arcs by the moon Galatea pp. 45-47

Fathi Namouni and Carolyn Porco

Towards Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in potential traps pp. 47-52

L. V. Butov, C. W. Lai, A. L. Ivanov, A. C. Gossard and D. S. Chemla

All-metallic three-dimensional photonic crystals with a large infrared bandgap pp. 52-55

J. G. Fleming, S. Y. Lin, I. El-Kady, R. Biswas and K. M. Ho

Single-substrate liquid-crystal displays by photo-enforced stratification pp. 55-58

Roel Penterman, Stephen I. Klink, Henk de Koning, Giovanni Nisato and Dirk J. Broer

Distribution of breaking waves at the ocean surface pp. 58-63

W. Kendall Melville and Peter Matusov

A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont pp. 63-67

Harald Huber, Michael J. Hohn, Reinhard Rachel, Tanja Fuchs, Verena C. Wimmer and Karl O. Stetter

Feedback with soil biota contributes to plant rarity and invasiveness in communities pp. 67-70

John N. Klironomos

Effects of size and temperature on developmental time pp. 70-73

James. F. Gillooly, Eric L. Charnov, Geoffrey B. West, Savage Van M. and James H. Brown

Minocycline inhibits cytochrome c release and delays progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice pp. 74-78

Shan Zhu, Irina G. Stavrovskaya, Martin Drozda, Betty Y. S. Kim, Victor Ona, Mingwei Li, Satinder Sarang, Allen S. Liu, Dean M. Hartley, Du Chu Wu, Steven Gullans, Robert J. Ferrante, Serge Przedborski, Bruce S. Kristal and Robert M. Friedlander

Extensive and divergent circadian gene expression in liver and heart pp. 78-83

Kai-Florian Storch, Ovidiu Lipan, Igor Leykin, N. Viswanathan, Fred C. Davis, Wing H. Wong and Charles J. Weitz

Glutamate-receptor-interacting protein GRIP1 directly steers kinesin to dendrites pp. 83-87

Mitsutoshi Setou, Dae-Hyung Seog, Yosuke Tanaka, Yoshimitsu Kanai, Yosuke Takei, Masahiko Kawagishi and Nobutaka Hirokawa

Rapid regulation of steroidogenesis by mitochondrial protein import pp. 87-91

Himangshu S. Bose, Vishwanath R. Lingappa and Walter L. Miller

Neutrophil elastase targets virulence factors of enterobacteria pp. 91-94

Yvette Weinrauch, Doreen Drujan, Steven D. Shapiro, Jerrold Weiss and Arturo Zychlinsky

HIV preferentially infects HIV-specific CD4+ T cells pp. 95-98

Daniel C. Douek, Jason M. Brenchley, Michael R. Betts, David R. Ambrozak, Brenna J. Hill, Yukari Okamoto, Joseph P. Casazza, Janaki Kuruppu, Kevin Kunstman, Steven Wolinsky, Zvi Grossman, Mark Dybul, Annette Oxenius, David A. Price, Mark Connors and Richard A. Koup

Reduction of cytochrome c oxidase by a second electron leads to proton translocation pp. 99-102

Maarten Ruitenberg, Aimo Kannt, Ernst Bamberg, Klaus Fendler and Hartmut Michel

Erratum: A laboratory analogue of the event horizon using slow light in an atomic medium pp. 102-102

Ulf Leonhardt

Erratum: Cbl–CIN85–endophilin complex mediates ligand-induced downregulation of EGF receptors pp. 102-102

Phillippe Soubeyran, Katarzyna Kowanetz, Iwona Szymkiewicz, Wallace Y. Langdon and Ivan Dikic

Correction: Corrigendum: Crystal structure of DegP (HtrA) reveals a new protease-chaperone machine pp. 102-102

Tobias Krojer, Marta Garrido-Franco, Robert Huber, Michael Ehrmann and Tim Clausen