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2001, volume 414, articles 6866

Backing a meeting of minds pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Map data kept under wraps as Pentagon focuses on security pp. 831-832

Jonathan Knight

Spain sets sights on fusion facility pp. 831-831

Sally Goodman

Bush turns to Silicon Valley moguls for scientific advice pp. 832-832

Tony Reichhardt

Canadian budget cranks up investment in research pp. 832-832

David Spurgeon

EU ministers temper Framework reforms pp. 833-833

Quirin Schiermeier

Planned merger worries Japan's nuclear researchers pp. 833-833

David Cyranoski

British research audit may be last of its kind pp. 834-834

David Adam

Science in a changed world pp. 836-837

Colin Macilwain

Delivering death in the mail pp. 837-838

Jonathan Knight

A world of difference pp. 838-838

Peter Aldhous

Under new management pp. 839-839

Colin Macilwain

The killing fields pp. 839-840

Jim Giles

Data, data, everywhere pp. 840-841

Declan Butler

Down to Earth with a bump pp. 841-841

David Adam and Tony Reichhardt

Beware the baited hook of publicity pp. 843-843

Michele Pagano

Industry and evaluation pp. 843-843

Les Firbank

Dogs won more fame than female colleagues pp. 843-843

Caroline L. Herzenberg

The poetic mystery of dark matter pp. 845-846

Ingrid Fiske

The sorry story of drug prohibition pp. 846-847

Leslie Iversen

From clay to computer screen pp. 847-848

Maurice Pope

Golem schmolem pp. 848-849

Henry Gee

A celebration of science pp. 849-850

Fran Balkwill

A clever idea to swallow pp. 850-850

Michael Gillmer

Sines in terse verse pp. 851-851

Roddam Narasimha

Blinded by the light pp. 853-854

Stan Woosley

Part three in the book of genes pp. 854-855

Masahira Hattori and Todd D. Taylor

Damper for bad vibrations pp. 855-857

R. McNeill Alexander

Life's sweet beginnings? pp. 857-858

Mark A. Sephton

Specifying transcription pp. 859-861

Ian F. G. King and Robert E. Kingston

Deep down at Chicxulub pp. 861-862

Jay Melosh

Away with oxygen! pp. 862-862

David Jones

Endothelin-1 synthesis reduced by red wine pp. 863-864

Roger Corder, Julie A. Douthwaite, Delphine M. Lees, Noorafza Q. Khan, Ana Carolina Viseu dos Santos, Elizabeth G. Wood and Martin J. Carrier

Fractals in pixellated video feedback pp. 864-864

Johannes Courtial, Jonathan Leach and Miles J. Padgett

Structural basis of water-specific transport through the AQP1 water channel pp. 872-878

Haixin Sui, Bong-Gyoon Han, John K. Lee, Peter Walian and Bing K. Jap

Carbonaceous meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early Earth pp. 879-883

George Cooper, Novelle Kimmich, Warren Belisle, Josh Sarinana, Katrina Brabham and Laurence Garrel

Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance pp. 883-887

Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, Matthias Steffen, Gregory Breyta, Costantino S. Yannoni, Mark H. Sherwood and Isaac L. Chuang

A limit on spin–charge separation in high-Tc superconductors from the absence of a vortex-memory effect pp. 887-889

D. A. Bonn, Janice C. Wynn, Brian W. Gardner, Yu-Ju Lin, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, J. R. Kirtley and K. A. Moler

Folding-driven synthesis of oligomers pp. 889-893

Keunchan Oh, Kyu-Sung Jeong and Jeffrey S. Moore

Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites pp. 893-895

J. Ando, Y. Shibata, Y. Okajima, K. Kanagawa, M. Furusho and N. Tomioka

Horses damp the spring in their step pp. 895-899

Alan M. Wilson, M. Polly McGuigan, Anne Su and Anton J. van den Bogert

Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia pp. 899-901

Victor Alekseev and Winfried Lampert

The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species pp. 901-905

Catherine L. Peichel, Kirsten S. Nereng, Kenneth A. Ohgi, Bonnie L. E. Cole, Pamela F. Colosimo, C. Alex Buerkle, Dolph Schluter and David M. Kingsley

Dynamic properties of neurons in cortical area MT in alert and anaesthetized macaque monkeys pp. 905-908

Christopher C. Pack, Vladimir K. Berezovskii and Richard T. Born

Noggin and retinoic acid transform the identity of avian facial prominences pp. 909-912

S.-H. Lee, K. K. Fu, J. N. Hui and J. M. Richman

Gene defect in ectodermal dysplasia implicates a death domain adapter in development pp. 913-916

Denis J. Headon, Stephanie A. Emmal, Betsy M. Ferguson, Abigail S. Tucker, Monica J. Justice, Paul T. Sharpe, Jonathan Zonana and Paul A. Overbeek

Role of G-protein-coupled adenosine receptors in downregulation of inflammation and protection from tissue damage pp. 916-920

Akio Ohta and Michail Sitkovsky

MIF regulates innate immune responses through modulation of Toll-like receptor 4 pp. 920-924

Thierry Roger, John David, Michel P. Glauser and Thierry Calandra

Selectivity of chromatin-remodelling cofactors for ligand-activated transcription pp. 924-928

Bryan Lemon, Carla Inouye, David S. King and Robert Tjian

Stimulatory effect of splicing factors on transcriptional elongation pp. 929-933

Yick W. Fong and Qiang Zhou

Crystal structure of an Eph receptor–ephrin complex pp. 933-938

Juha-Pekka Himanen, Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar, Martin Lackmann, Chad A. Cowan, Mark Henkemeyer and Dimitar B. Nikolov

Correction: Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories pp. 938-938

Tracey J. Shors, George Miesegaes, Anna Beylin, Mingrui Zhao, Tracy Rydel and Elizabeth Gould

2001, volume 414, articles 6865

Take control of your destiny pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Changing fortunes Australia pp. 4-5

Peter Pockley

Bioweapons treaty in disarray as US blocks plans for verification pp. 675-675

Declan Butler

Nobel officials recoil from expenses offer pp. 676-676

David Cyranoski

Mathematicians poised for major funding boost pp. 676-676

Erica Klarreich

Trial halted after gene shows up in semen pp. 677-677

Nell Boyce

Need for vaccine stocks questioned pp. 677-677

Erika Check

Wellcome bid sees Crick archive return home pp. 678-678

Alison Abbott and Rex Dalton

Jodrell Bank survives shake-up of UK astronomy pp. 678-678

David Adam

Partners' anger mounts over NASA plans for space station pp. 679-679

Tony Reichhardt

Europe's Mars mission to pay out for Beagle lander pp. 679-679

Sally Goodman

Which way to energy utopia? pp. 682-684

Mark Schrope

The curtain falls pp. 685-685

Rex Dalton

Crops grown on set-aside land bring wild birds back to the fields pp. 687-687

Chris Stoate and Dave Parish

Schemes are monitored and effective in the UK pp. 687-687

Peter D. Carey

War: no time for dissent pp. 687-687

Arno Arrak

Church backing depends on ethical use of animals pp. 687-687

Archbishop Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, Don Maurizio Calipari and Marialuisa Lavitrano

Out of thin air pp. 689-690

Sue Jackson

Lifting the curtain on the Nobels pp. 690-691

Aant Elzinga

Sex appeal of a musical insect pp. 691-692

Marlene Zuk

Science in culture pp. 692-692

Martin Kemp

mRNA readout at 40 pp. 693-693

John F. Atkins and Raymond F. Gesteland

Waving goodbye to measles pp. 695-696

Peter M. Strebel and Stephen L. Cochi

Charged with smuggling heat pp. 696-697

Kamran Behnia

Sacrificial bonds heal bone pp. 699-699

John Currey

Rhythms of the auroral dance pp. 700-701

Patrick T. Newell

Bug detectors pp. 701-703

Tsuneyasu Kaisho and Shizuo Akira

An end to the protection racket pp. 703-705

David Gani

Short cut to disease genes pp. 705-706

Alan F. Wright and Veronica Van Heyningen

Reduced bandwidth pp. 706-706

David Jones

Laterality in tool manufacture by crows pp. 707-707

Gavin R. Hunt, Michael C. Corballis and Russell D. Gray

A temperature-tunable random laser pp. 708-709

Diederik S. Wiersma and Stefano Cavalieri

Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis pp. 709-710

Dolf Weijers, Niko Geldner, Remko Offringa and Gerd Jürgens

Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis pp. 710-710

Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, Ramamurthy Baskar and Ueli Grossniklaus

Breakdown of Fermi-liquid theory in a copper-oxide superconductor pp. 711-715

R. W. Hill, Cyril Proust, Louis Taillefer, P. Fournier and R. L. Greene

Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics pp. 716-723

B. T. Grenfell, O. N. Bjørnstad and J. Kappey

Temporal evolution of the electric field accelerating electrons away from the auroral ionosphere pp. 724-727

G. T. Marklund, N. Ivchenko, T. Karlsson, A. Fazakerley, M. Dunlop, P.-A. Lindqvist, S. Buchert, C. Owen, Mark Taylor, A. Vaivalds, P. Carter, M. André and A. Balogh

A one-dimensional chain state of vortex matter pp. 728-731

Alexander Grigorenko, Simon Bending, Tsuyoshi Tamegai, Shuuichi Ooi and Mohamed Henini

High-temperature ultrafast polariton parametric amplification in semiconductor microcavities pp. 731-735

M. Saba, C. Ciuti, J. Bloch, V. Thierry-Mieg, R. André, Le Si Dang, S. Kundermann, A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni, J. L. Staehli and B. Deveaud

Hierarchical self-assembly of metal nanostructures on diblock copolymer scaffolds pp. 735-738

Ward A. Lopes and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation pp. 738-742

C. Beaumont, R. A. Jamieson, Hoang Nguyen and B. Lee

Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats pp. 742-745

Raphaël Arlettaz, Gareth Jones and Paul A. Racey

Evidence for the evolution of multiple genomes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi pp. 745-748

Gerrit Kuhn, Mohamed Hijri and Ian R. Sanders

Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations pp. 748-751

Raymond Gani and Steve Leach

Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence pp. 751-756

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

Drosophila Toll is activated by Gram-positive bacteria through a circulating peptidoglycan recognition protein pp. 756-759

Tatiana Michel, Jean-Marc Reichhart, Jules A. Hoffmann and Julien Royet

A pol I transcriptional body associated with VSG mono-allelic expression in Trypanosoma brucei pp. 759-763

Miguel Navarro and Keith Gull

Thymus medulla consisting of epithelial islets each derived from a single progenitor pp. 763-768

Hans-Reimer Rodewald, Sabine Paul, Corinne Haller, Horst Bluethmann and Carmen Blum

c-Myc regulates mammalian body size by controlling cell number but not cell size pp. 768-773

Andreas Trumpp, Yosef Refaeli, Thordur Oskarsson, Stephan Gasser, Mark Murphy, Gail R. Martin and J. Michael Bishop

Bone indentation recovery time correlates with bond reforming time pp. 773-776

James B. Thompson, Johannes H. Kindt, Barney Drake, Helen G. Hansma, Daniel E. Morse and Paul K. Hansma

Bacteriophytochromes are photochromic histidine kinases using a biliverdin chromophore pp. 776-779

Seong-Hee Bhoo, Seth J. Davis, Joseph Walker, Baruch Karniol and Richard D. Vierstra

Erratum: The rhythm of microbial adaptation pp. 779-779

Philip Gerrish

Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic pp. 782-787

Paul Zimmet, K. G. M. M. Alberti and Jonathan Shaw

Diabetes mellitus and genetically programmed defects in β-cell function pp. 788-791

Graeme I. Bell and Kenneth S. Polonsky

β-Cell death during progression to diabetes pp. 792-798

Diane Mathis, Luis Vence and Christophe Benoist

Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism pp. 799-806

Alan R. Saltiel and C. Ronald Kahn

Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic β-cells pp. 807-812

Pierre Maechler and Claes B. Wollheim

Biochemistry and molecular cell biology of diabetic complications pp. 813-820

Michael Brownlee

New drug targets for type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome pp. 821-827

David E. Moller

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB AND DIABETES: Basic Science, Clinical Development, Global Surveillance pp. 828-828

Peter S. Ringrose

2001, volume 414, articles 6864

Lessons from literature pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Scope for improvement: Assisting astronomy's rising stars pp. 4-5

Leslie Sage

Poor practices led to BSE brains mix-up, say auditors pp. 569-569

Declan Butler

Gene therapy may be up to speed for cheats at 2008 Olympics pp. 569-570

David Adam

Cell biologist quits editorial board over cloning paper pp. 570-570

Jonathan Knight

Anthrax evidence implies US culprit pp. 570-570

David Adam

Wandering Chinese fossil turns up at museum pp. 571-571

Rex Dalton

NASA engages outside help for mission to Pluto pp. 571-571

Tony Reichhardt

European Parliament rejects move to restrict genetics pp. 572-572

Quirin Schiermeier

Rescuers of Europe's cultural heritage struggle for funding pp. 572-572

Alison Abbott

Researchers plan probe into Antarctic lakes pp. 573-573

Helen Gavaghan

France boosts funding for biotechnology start-ups pp. 573-573

Sally Goodman

A wolf in sheep's clothing pp. 576-577

Declan Butler

The budding amateurs pp. 578-579

John Whitfield

Patronage lies at the heart of Italy's academic problems pp. 581-581

Claudio Chiesa and Lucia Pacifico

CNR choices were made on the basis of capability pp. 581-581

Lucio Bianco

A challenge for research in Italy: to raise the dead pp. 581-581

Arturo Sala

Open debate is essential on conservation issues pp. 581-582

Anthony Trewavas

Belief in our dominion is a backward step pp. 582-582

Robert C. Fleck

It's Sulston all right — but not as we know him pp. 582-582

Jerry Lanchbury

Reality hits postdocs earlier in France pp. 582-582

P.-L. Chau

Retrieving the 'eu' from eugenics pp. 583-583

Nick Martin

The three ages of fire pp. 584-584

C. K. Brain

Navigating a delicate dilemma pp. 585-586

Justine Burley and Alan Colman

What if Mendel had studied sheep? pp. 586-586

William G. Hill

Weaving a social web pp. 587-587

David Dickson

Light work with water pp. 589-590

Nathan S. Lewis

How mice make their mark pp. 590-591

Peter Brennan

Gravitational microlens in motion pp. 591-593

Andrew P. Gould

Conservation signals location pp. 593-594

Alexandre Costa and Paul Schedl

Questions of growth pp. 595-597

Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi

High-performance fungal motors pp. 597-598

Susan P. Gilbert

Extra security pp. 598-598

David Jones

Plastic transistors in active-matrix displays pp. 599-599

H. E. A. Huitema, G. H. Gelinck, J. B. P. H. van der Putten, K. E. Kuijk, C. M. Hart, E. Cantatore, P. T. Herwig, A. J. J. M. van Breemen and D. M. de Leeuw

Female ducks can double their reproduction pp. 600-601

Matti Åhlund and Malte Andersson

False estimates of the advance of spring pp. 600-600

Raphael Sagarin

Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc? pp. 601-602

Gerhard Steiner and Luitfried Salvini-Plawen

Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc? pp. 602-602

Mark Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter and Derek J. Siveter

Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes pp. 603-609

Martin J. Siegert, J. Cynan Ellis-Evans, Martyn Tranter, Christoph Mayer, Jean-Robert Petit, Andrey Salamatin and John C. Priscu

Conserved signals and machinery for RNA transport in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis pp. 611-616

Simon L. Bullock and David Ish-Horowicz

Direct detection of a microlens in the Milky Way pp. 617-619

C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett, K. H. Cook, A. J. Drake, K. C. Freeman, M. Geha, K. Griest, S. C. Keller, M. J. Lehner, S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti, C. A. Nelson, B. A. Peterson, P. Popowski, M. R. Pratt, P. J. Quinn, C. W. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, A. B. Tomaney, T. Vandehei and D. Welch

Electrical control of spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures pp. 619-622

G. Salis, Y. Kato, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom

Breakdown of intermediate-range order in liquid GeSe2 at high pressure pp. 622-625

Wilson A. Crichton, Mohamed Mezouar, Tor Grande, Svein Stølen and Andrzej Grzechnik

Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst pp. 625-627

Zhigang Zou, Jinhua Ye, Kazuhiro Sayama and Hironori Arakawa

Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins pp. 628-631

Christopher Dean, Meave G. Leakey, Donald Reid, Friedemann Schrenk, Gary T. Schwartz, Christopher Stringer and Alan Walker

Individual recognition in mice mediated by major urinary proteins pp. 631-634

Jane L. Hurst, Caroline E. Payne, Charlotte M. Nevison, Amr D. Marie, Richard E. Humphries, Duncan H. L. Robertson, Andrea Cavaggioni and Robert J. Beynon

Drosophila Stardust interacts with Crumbs to control polarity of epithelia but not neuroblasts pp. 634-638

Yang Hong, Beth Stronach, Norbert Perrimon, Lily Yeh Jan and Yuh Nung Jan

Drosophila Stardust is a partner of Crumbs in the control of epithelial cell polarity pp. 638-643

André Bachmann, Martina Schneider, Eva Theilenberg, Ferdi Grawe and Elisabeth Knust

Kinesin-mediated axonal transport of a membrane compartment containing β-secretase and presenilin-1 requires APP pp. 643-648

Adeela Kamal, Angels Almenar-Queralt, James F. LeBlanc, Elizabeth A. Roberts and Lawrence S. B. Goldstein

Group A Streptococcus tissue invasion by CD44-mediated cell signalling pp. 648-652

Colette Cywes and Michael R. Wessels

The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol pp. 652-656

Yihong Ye, Hemmo H. Meyer and Tom A. Rapoport

phot1 and phot2 mediate blue light regulation of stomatal opening pp. 656-660

Toshinori Kinoshita, Michio Doi, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Takatoshi Kagawa, Masamitsu Wada and Ken-ichiro Shimazaki

AID is required to initiate Nbs1/γ-H2AX focus formation and mutations at sites of class switching pp. 660-665

Simone Petersen, Rafael Casellas, Bernardo Reina-San-Martin, Hua Tang Chen, Michael J. Difilippantonio, Patrick C. Wilson, Leif Hanitsch, Arkady Celeste, Masamichi Muramatsu, Duane R. Pilch, Christophe Redon, Thomas Ried, William M. Bonner, Tasuku Honjo, Michel C. Nussenzweig and André Nussenzweig

NEJ1 controls non-homologous end joining in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 666-669

Maria Valencia, Marc Bentele, Moreshwar B. Vaze, Gernot Herrmann, Eliayhu Kraus, Sang Eun Lee, Primo Schär and James E. Haber

2001, volume 414, articles 6863

A shift to the centre pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Proposed budget cuts threaten to short-circuit Grid network pp. 475-475

Declan Butler

Concern raised for missing biologist pp. 475-475

Alison Abbott

Cores set to unearth hole picture of evolution pp. 476-476

Rex Dalton

Students left cold by careers advice pp. 476-476

Paul Smaglik

First human clones get a cool response pp. 477-477

David Adam

China caught out as model shows net fall in fish pp. 477-477

Helen Pearson

Protests as terror law targets foreigners at universities pp. 478-478

Philipp Weis and Quirin Schiermeier

Election result leaves Australian scientists fearful over funding pp. 478-478

Peter Pockley

The crystal ball of chaos pp. 480-481

Robert Adler

Goliath befriends David pp. 482-483

Tom Clarke and Helen Pearson

An eye on the future pp. 484-484

Alison Abbott

Japan's funding cuts hit the future of science pp. 485-485

Eisuke Enoki

Could sale of fossils be the key to ending theft? pp. 485-485

Edward Krowitz

Messenger RNA: origins of a discovery pp. 485-485

Alvin M. Weinberg

Global energy prospects pp. 487-488

Stuart Young

Somewhere over the rainbow pp. 488-489

Philip Ball

A severed thread pp. 489-490

John Galloway

Phylogeny branches out pp. 490-490

Yves Van de Peer

Genetics of identity pp. 491-491

Günter Theißen

When one whale matters pp. 493-494

Peter Kareiva

Physics at the attosecond frontier pp. 494-495

Yaron Silberberg

Sea snow microcosms pp. 495-498

Farooq Azam and Richard A. Long

Six steps to destruction pp. 498-499

James E. Ferrell

A new spin on black-hole masses pp. 499-501

Charles Bailyn

Accessory to kidney disease pp. 502-503

Malcolm Hunter

A broader view of membranes pp. 503-504

Roderic Lakes

The art of copying pp. 504-504

David Jones

Asymmetric Broca's area in great apes pp. 505-505

Claudio Cantalupo and William D. Hopkins

Immune defence in bumble-bee offspring pp. 506-506

Yannick Moret and Paul Schmid-Hempel

Synthesis of carbon 'onions' in water pp. 506-507

N. Sano, H. Wang, M. Chhowalla, I. Alexandrou and G. A. J. Amaratunga

Fossils and avian evolution pp. 507-508

Alan Feduccia

Fossils and avian evolution pp. 508-508

Julia A. Clarke and Mark A. Norell

Attosecond metrology pp. 509-513

M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, Ch. Spielmann, G. A. Reider, N. Milosevic, T. Brabec, P. Corkum, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher and F. Krausz

Multisite phosphorylation of a CDK inhibitor sets a threshold for the onset of DNA replication pp. 514-521

Piers Nash, Xiaojing Tang, Stephen Orlicky, Qinghua Chen, Frank B. Gertler, Michael D. Mendenhall, Frank Sicheri, Tony Pawson and Mike Tyers

An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy pp. 522-525

J. Greiner, J. G. Cuby and M. J. McCaughrean

Atomic structure holography using thermal neutrons pp. 525-527

B. Sur, R. B. Rogge, R. P. Hammond, V. N. P. Anghel and J. Katsaras

Pressure-induced amorphization and an amorphous–amorphous transition in densified porous silicon pp. 528-530

Sudip K. Deb, Martin Wilding, Maddury Somayazulu and Paul F. McMillan

Real-time spectroscopy of transition states in bacteriorhodopsin during retinal isomerization pp. 531-534

Takayoshi Kobayashi, Takashi Saito and Hiroyuki Ohtani

Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends pp. 534-536

Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly

Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale pp. 537-541

Masami Fujiwara and Hal Caswell

Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 541-543

David Quist and Ignacio H. Chapela

Kranz anatomy is not essential for terrestrial C4 plant photosynthesis pp. 543-546

Elena V. Voznesenskaya, Vincent R. Franceschi, Olavi Kiirats, Helmut Freitag and Gerald E. Edwards

Interactive memory systems in the human brain pp. 546-550

R. A. Poldrack, J. Clark, E. J. Paré-Blagoev, D. Shohamy, J. Creso Moyano, C. Myers and M. A. Gluck

Inhibitory PAS domain protein is a negative regulator of hypoxia-inducible gene expression pp. 550-554

Yuichi Makino, Renhai Cao, Kristian Svensson, Göran Bertilsson, Mikael Asman, Hirotoshi Tanaka, Yihai Cao, Anders Berkenstam and Lorenz Poellinger

Extensive surface diversity of a commensal microorganism by multiple DNA inversions pp. 555-558

Corinna M. Krinos, Michael J. Coyne, Katja G. Weinacht, Arthur O. Tzianabos, Dennis L. Kasper and Laurie E. Comstock

Barttin is a Cl- channel β-subunit crucial for renal Cl- reabsorption and inner ear K+ secretion pp. 558-561

Raúl Estévez, Thomas Boettger, Valentin Stein, Ralf Birkenhäger, Edgar Otto, Friedhelm Hildebrandt and Thomas J. Jentsch

Isochorismate synthase is required to synthesize salicylic acid for plant defence pp. 562-565

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

2001, volume 414, articles 6862

Demographic shifts pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Beating the European brain drain pp. 4-5

Alexander Hellemans

Loophole legalizes human cloning pp. 381-381

David Adam

Imploding detectors shatter plans for Japan's neutrino experiments pp. 381-382

David Cyranoski

Genetics paper erased from journal over political content pp. 382-382

Erica Klarreich

Europe puts the squeeze on space projects pp. 383-383

Sally Goodman

Budgets come first as Bush chooses NASA head pp. 383-383

Mark Schrope

Sackings leave gene database floundering pp. 384-384

Laura Bonetta

Funding fears spark Italian protests pp. 384-384

Alison Abbott

Health priorities gain patent reprieve for developing countries pp. 385-385

Michael Cherry

Cycle studies see carbon sinks rise to prominence pp. 385-385

Quirin Schiermeier

The regeneration gap pp. 388-390

Helen Pearson

Pushing the physics envelope pp. 391-391

David Spurgeon

The perils of peer review pp. 393-394

Rustum Roy and James R. Ashburn

Scientific data must be made available to all pp. 393-393

Nicolas Dittert, Michael Diepenbroek and Hannes Grobe

Speak out against wrong done in your name pp. 393-393

Stephen E. Moss

Chimaeric mice on the road towards stem cells pp. 393-393

Richard Gardner

Carrots, not sticks, give best 'quality assurance' pp. 394-394

Roddie McKenzie

Motion and meaning pp. 394-394

Eric Jakobsson

Making it to the top pp. 395-396

David Bodanis

Costs and benefits of inflicting pain pp. 396-397

William H. Shaw

Biotechnology retrospective pp. 397-398

F. C. Botha

Science in culture pp. 398-398

Martin Kemp

Where might it lead? pp. 399-399

Gregory Benford

Parasites go the full monty pp. 401-402

Patrick J. Keeling

The matter with density pp. 402-403

Trevor Ponman

Tides of tolerance pp. 403-405

Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak

Catalysis frozen in time pp. 405-406

J. K. Nørskov

The guts of seed dispersal pp. 406-407

Peter D. Moore

On being vetulicolian pp. 407-409

Henry Gee

Copper oxides get charged up pp. 409-410

Allan Hugh MacDonald

Corrosive water pp. 410-410

David Jones

Pulmonary nitric oxide in mountain dwellers pp. 411-412

Cynthia M Beall, Daniel Laskowski, Kingman P. Strohl, Rudy Soria, Mercedes Villena, Enrique Vargas, Ana Maria Alarcon, Cristina Gonzales and Serpil C. Erzurum

Extending the lifespan of long-lived mice pp. 412-412

Andrzej Bartke, J. Chris Wright, Julie A. Mattison, Donald K. Ingram, Richard A. Miller and George S. Roth

Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics pp. 413-418

L.-M. Duan, M. D. Lukin, J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller

Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Lower Cambrian, China) pp. 419-424

D.-G. Shu, S. Conway Morris, J. Han, L. Chen, X.-L. Zhang, Z.-F. Zhang, H.-Q. Liu, Y. Li and J.-N. Liu

Regulation of the X-ray luminosity of clusters of galaxies by cooling and supernova feedback pp. 425-427

G. Mark Voit and Greg L. Bryan

Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets pp. 427-430

C. Pfleiderer, S. R. Julian and G. G. Lonzarich

Programmable and autonomous computing machine made of biomolecules pp. 430-434

Yaakov Benenson, Tamar Paz-Elizur, Rivka Adar, Ehud Keinan, Zvi Livneh and Ehud Shapiro

Superconductivity in CaCuO2 as a result of field-effect doping pp. 434-436

J. H. Schön, M. Dorget, F. C. Beuran, X. Z. Zu, E. Arushanov, C. Deville Cavellin and M. Laguës

Increased damage from fires in logged forests during droughts caused by El Niño pp. 437-440

F. Siegert, G. Ruecker, A. Hinrichs and A. A. Hoffmann

Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity pp. 441-443

Rick L. Riolo, Michael Cohen and Robert Axelrod

Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays pp. 443-446

N. J. Emery and N. S. Clayton

The central nervous system stabilizes unstable dynamics by learning optimal impedance pp. 446-449

Etienne Burdet, Rieko Osu, David W. Franklin, Theodore E. Milner and Mitsuo Kawato

Genome sequence and gene compaction of the eukaryote parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi pp. 450-453

Michaël D. Katinka, Simone Duprat, Emmanuel Cornillot, Guy Méténier, Fabienne Thomarat, Gérard Prensier, Valérie Barbe, Eric Peyretaillade, Philippe Brottier, Patrick Wincker, Frédéric Delbac, Hicham El Alaoui, Pierre Peyret, William Saurin, Manolo Gouy, Jean Weissenbach and Christian P. Vivarès

Innate antimicrobial peptide protects the skin from invasive bacterial infection pp. 454-457

Victor Nizet, Takaaki Ohtake, Xavier Lauth, Janet Trowbridge, Jennifer Rudisill, Robert A. Dorschner, Vasumati Pestonjamasp, Joseph Piraino, Kenneth Huttner and Richard L. Gallo

The E2F1–3 transcription factors are essential for cellular proliferation pp. 457-462

Lizhao Wu, Cynthia Timmers, Baidehi Maiti, Harold I. Saavedra, Ling Sang, Gabriel T. Chong, Faison Nuckolls, Paloma Giangrande, Fred A. Wright, Seth J. Field, Michael E. Greenberg, Stuart Orkin, Joseph R. Nevins, Michael L. Robinson and Gustavo Leone

A phosphate transporter expressed in arbuscule-containing cells in potato pp. 462-465

Christine Rausch, Pierre Daram, Silvia Brunner, Jan Jansa, Maryse Laloi, Georg Leggewie, Nikolaus Amrhein and Marcel Bucher

Crystal structure of the tricorn protease reveals a protein disassembly line pp. 466-470

Hans Brandstetter, Jeong-Sun Kim, Michael Groll and Robert Huber

addendum: An efficient room-temperature silicon-based light-emitting diode pp. 470-470

Wai Lek Ng, M. A. Lourenço, R. M. Gwilliam, S. Ledain, G. Shao and K. P. Homewood

Erratum: Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs pp. 470-470

Paul N. Pearson, Peter W. Ditchfield, Joyce Singano, Katherine G. Harcourt-Brown, Christopher J. Nicholas, Richard K. Olsson, Nicholas J. Shackleton and Mike A. Hall

Correction: Self-assembled monolayer organic field-effect transistors pp. 470-470

Jan Hendrik Schön, Hong Meng and Zhenan Bao

Correction: Ordered nanoporous arrays of carbon supporting high dispersions of platinum nanoparticles pp. 470-470

Sang Hoon Joo, Seong Jae Choi, Ilwhan Oh, Juhyoun Kwak, Zheng Liu, Osamu Terasaki and Ryong Ryoo

Correction: The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records pp. 470-470

Claire Waelbroeck, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Elisabeth Michel, Laurent Labeyrie, Didier Paillard and Josette Duprat

2001, volume 414, articles 6861

Radiating good will pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Biologists urged to address risk of data aiding bioweapon design pp. 237-238

Peter Aldhous

CERN opens finances up for review pp. 237-237

David Adam

Accord in Morocco breathes fresh life into Kyoto Protocol pp. 238-238

Quirin Schiermeier

Blow to German stem-cell prospects pp. 238-238

Alison Abbott

Proposal for vaccine lab gets a shot in the arm pp. 239-239

Jonathan Knight

French Nobel protest makes chemist a cause célèbre pp. 239-239

Sally Goodman

Chinese plan pins big hopes on small science pp. 240-240

David Cyranoski

Polar bears fuel row over Alaskan oil pp. 240-240

Mark Schrope

Russia establishes advisory council in bid to boost science pp. 241-241

Bryon MacWilliams

Academy backing bolsters shaky support for crust study pp. 241-241

Rex Dalton

Harvard squeaks through oncomouse patent appeal pp. 241-241

Alison Abbott

Playing by quantum rules pp. 244-245

Erica Klarreich

If they could talk to the animals pp. 246-247

Jonathan Knight

Science is universal, not part of any religion pp. 249-249

Edgar Pick

Don't use terrorism as an excuse for militarism pp. 249-249

Morton K. Brussel

BSE record set straight pp. 249-249

Richard Worswick

An unfinished quest pp. 251-252

Dennis R. Burton

Fungal fables pp. 252-253

Nicholas J. Talbot

Elements of galactic evolution pp. 253-253

Stuart Ross Taylor

The world of testable truths pp. 254-254

John Casti

Twice as natural pp. 255-255

Richard E. Lenski

Self-assembly lights up pp. 257-258

John D. Joannopoulos

Code of silence pp. 259-261

Judd C. Rice and C. David Allis

Dressing up bare particles pp. 261-262

Hartmut Haug

Counting on immunity pp. 262-263

Theo C. M. Bakker and Marc Zbinden

A departure from equilibrium pp. 263-265

David Ruelle

Life-or-death decisions pp. 265-266

John M. Kyriakis

Slippery light aircraft pp. 266-266

David Jones

Benefits of female mimicry in snakes pp. 267-267

R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster and R. T. Mason

Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish pp. 268-269

Umaporn Silphaduang and Edward J. Noga

HLA-DQ7 antigen and resistance to variant CJD pp. 269-270

Graham S. Jackson, Jonathan A. Beck, Cristina Navarrete, Juliette Brown, P. Margaret Sutton, Marcela Contreras and John Collinge

Size separation of granular particles pp. 270-270

Matthias E. Möbius, Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Sidney R. Nagel and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Auxin regulates SCFTIR1-dependent degradation of AUX/IAA proteins pp. 271-276

William M. Gray, Stefan Kepinski, Dean Rouse, Ottoline Leyser and Mark Estelle

A histone H3 methyltransferase controls DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa pp. 277-283

Hisashi Tamaru and Eric U. Selker

Water-maser emission from a planetary nebula with a magnetized torus pp. 284-286

L. F. Miranda, Y. Gómez, G. Anglada and J. M. Torrelles

How many-particle interactions develop after ultrafast excitation of an electron–hole plasma pp. 286-289

R. Huber, F. Tauser, A. Brodschelm, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter and A. Leitenstorfer

On-chip natural assembly of silicon photonic bandgap crystals pp. 289-293

Yurii A. Vlasov, Xiang-Zheng Bo, James C. Sturm and David J. Norris

Smart single-chip gas sensor microsystem pp. 293-296

C. Hagleitner, A. Hierlemann, D. Lange, A. Kummer, N. Kerness, O. Brand and H. Baltes

Formation of coastline features by large-scale instabilities induced by high-angle waves pp. 296-300

Andrew Ashton, A. Brad Murray and Olivier Arnoult

Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism pp. 300-302

Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Michael A. Häberli, Peter B. Aeschlimann and Manfred Milinski

Illusory perceptions of space and time preserve cross-saccadic perceptual continuity pp. 302-305

Kielan Yarrow, Patrick Haggard, Ron Heal, Peter Brown and John C. Rothwell

Haemoglobin C protects against clinical Plasmodium falciparum malaria pp. 305-308

David Modiano, Gaia Luoni, Bienvenu Sodiomon Sirima, Jacques Simporé, Federica Verra, Amadou Konaté, Elena Rastrelli, Anna Olivieri, Carlo Calissano, Giacomo Maria Paganotti, Leila D'Urbano, Issa Sanou, Alphonse Sawadogo, Guido Modiano and Mario Coluzzi

Induction of gadd45β by NF-κB downregulates pro-apoptotic JNK signalling pp. 308-313

Enrico De Smaele, Francesca Zazzeroni, Salvatore Papa, Dung U. Nguyen, Rongguan Jin, Joy Jones, Rong Cong and Guido Franzoso

Inhibition of JNK activation through NF-κB target genes pp. 313-317

Guilin Tang, Yuzuru Minemoto, Benjamin Dibling, Nicole H. Purcell, Zhiwei Li, Michael Karin and Anning Lin

The 7SK small nuclear RNA inhibits the CDK9/cyclin T1 kinase to control transcription pp. 317-322

Zhiyuan Yang, Qingwei Zhu, Kunxin Luo and Qiang Zhou

7SK small nuclear RNA binds to and inhibits the activity of CDK9/cyclin T complexes pp. 322-325

Nguyen Van Trung, Tamás Kiss, Annemieke A. Michels and Olivier Bensaude

Mechanism of ubiquitin activation revealed by the structure of a bacterial MoeB–MoaD complex pp. 325-329

Michael W. Lake, Margot M. Wuebbens, K. V. Rajagopalan and Hermann Schindelin

Correction: Antibacterial agents based on the cyclic d,l-α-peptide architecture pp. 329-329

Sara Fernandez-Lopez, Hui-Sun Kim, Ellen C. Choi, Mercedes Delgado, Juan R. Granja, Alisher Khasanov, Karin Kraehenbuehl, Georgina Long, Dana A. Weinberger, Keith M. Wilcoxen and M. Reza Ghadiri

Erratum: Transmission intensity and impact of control policies on the foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain pp. 329-329

Neil M. Ferguson, Christl A. Donnelly and Roy M. Anderson

Alternative energy technologies pp. 332-337

M. S. Dresselhaus and I. L. Thomas

Photoelectrochemical cells pp. 338-344

Michael Grätzel

Materials for fuel-cell technologies pp. 345-352

Brian C. H. Steele and Angelika Heinzel

Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications pp. 353-358

Louis Schlapbach and Andreas Züttel

Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries pp. 359-367

J.-M. Tarascon and M. Armand

High-Tc superconducting materials for electric power applications pp. 368-377

David Larbalestier, Alex Gurevich, D. Matthew Feldmann and Anatoly Polyanskii

2001, volume 414, articles 6860

Big or small neuroscience? pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

All systems go for neuroscience pp. 4-5

Diane Gershon

A grassroots revolution pp. 6-7

Helen Gavaghan

Limited opportunity pp. 8-8

Robert Triendl

Geneticists' work in disarray as DNA-chip producer pulls the plug pp. 135-136

Jonathan Knight

New Zealand says yes to GM trials pp. 135-135

Peter Pockley

Critical report leaves NASA's station strategy up in the air pp. 136-136

William Triplett

Universities address mail security as anthrax fears rise pp. 136-136

Jonathan Knight

Bush adviser vows to find science its voice pp. 137-137

Matthew Davis

Knowledge at stake in Australian poll pp. 137-137

Peter Pockley

Drug price deal spells windfall for researchers pp. 138-138

Xavier Bosch

Disputed diagnoses hamper claims of mercury poisoning pp. 138-138

David Cyranoski

Epidemiology set to get fast-track treatment pp. 139-139

Declan Butler

Museums choked by bone law pp. 139-139

Rex Dalton

Roll up for the revolution pp. 142-144

Philip Ball

Young, gifted...and spurned pp. 145-145

Sally Goodman

BSE fostered by cosinesss and lack of independent advice pp. 147-147

Mitsuo Tagaya

Meat and bone meal still used in animal feed pp. 147-147

Stephen Rossides

Tantalizing glimpse of a vanishing dinosaur pp. 147-147

Eric Buffetaut

Once again, insects worked it out first pp. 147-148

M. Inbar and J. C. Schultz

Disclosure of interests: there's a long way to go pp. 148-148

Tamsen Valoir

Sequenced strains must be saved from extinction pp. 148-148

Naomi Ward, Jonathan Eisen, Claire Fraser and Erko Stackebrandt

Taxonomists make a name for themselves pp. 148-148

Gerard van der Velde

No need to worry about the future pp. 149-150

Stuart Pimm and Jeff Harvey

Tragic outcome of extreme conditions pp. 150-151

Cornelia Lüdecke

Bumps on the brain pp. 151-152

John C. Marshall

Science in culture pp. 152-152

Heike Langenberg

The tracks of thought pp. 153-153

Douwe Draaisma

Looking down is looking up pp. 155-156

Jack M. Loomis

Water at the nanoscale pp. 157-159

Mark S. P. Sansom and Philip C. Biggin

An inflammatory drug prospect pp. 159-160

Bart De Strooper and Gerhard König

Tackling anthrax pp. 160-161

Arthur M. Friedlander

Green chemistry through the mill pp. 161-163

Terry Collins

Gridlock in the blood pp. 163-164

Gavin Thurston and George D. Yancopoulos

Vacuum in miniature pp. 164-164

David Jones

Sheep don't forget a face pp. 165-166

Keith M. Kendrick, Ana P. da Costa, Andrea E. Leigh, Michael R. Hinton and Jon W. Peirce

Nitrate flux in the Mississippi River pp. 166-167

Gregory F. McIsaac, Mark B. David, George Z. Gertner and Donald A. Goolsby

Predicting spontaneous recovery of memory pp. 167-168

James V. Stone, Nicola M. Hunkin and Angela Hornby

Hunger tolerance and Leishmania in sandflies pp. 168-168

Yosef Schlein and Raymond L. Jacobson

Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems pp. 169-172

D. S. Schimel, J. I. House, K. A. Hibbard, P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, P. Peylin, B. H. Braswell, M. J. Apps, D. Baker, A. Bondeau, J. Canadell, G. Churkina, W. Cramer, A. S. Denning, C. B. Field, P. Friedlingstein, C. Goodale, M. Heimann, R. A. Houghton, J. M. Melillo, B. Moore, D. Murdiyarso, I. Noble, S. W. Pacala, I. C. Prentice, M. R. Raupach, P. J. Rayner, R. J. Scholes, W. L. Steffen and C. Wirth

Genetic tracing reveals a stereotyped sensory map in the olfactory cortex pp. 173-179

Zhihua Zou, Lisa F. Horowitz, Jean-Pierre Montmayeur, Scott Snapper and Linda B. Buck

Correlated fast X-ray and optical variability in the black-hole candidate XTE J1118+480 pp. 180-182

G. Kanbach, C. Straubmeier, H. C. Spruit and T. Belloni

Absolute-phase phenomena in photoionization with few-cycle laser pulses pp. 182-184

G. G. Paulus, F. Grasbon, H. Walther, P. Villoresi, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, E. Priori and S. De Silvestri

Sharper images by focusing soft X-rays with photon sieves pp. 184-188

L. Kipp, M. Skibowski, R. L. Johnson, R. Berndt, R. Adelung, S. Harm and R. Seemann

Water conduction through the hydrophobic channel of a carbon nanotube pp. 188-190

G. Hummer, J. C. Rasaiah and J. P. Noworyta

Equilibrating metal-oxide cluster ensembles for oxidation reactions using oxygen in water pp. 191-195

Ira A. Weinstock, Elena M.G. Barbuzzi, Michael W. Wemple, Jennifer J. Cowan, Richard S. Reiner, Dan M. Sonnen, Robert A. Heintz, James S. Bond and Craig L. Hill

Determinants of establishment success in introduced birds pp. 195-197

Tim M. Blackburn and Richard P. Duncan

Distance determined by the angular declination below the horizon pp. 197-200

Teng Leng Ooi, Bing Wu and Zijiang J. He

Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex pp. 200-204

Jan W. H. Schnupp, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel and Andrew J. King

Target neuron prespecification in the olfactory map of Drosophila pp. 204-208

Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Elizabeth C. Marin, Reinhard F. Stocker and Liqun Luo

An anorexic lipid mediator regulated by feeding pp. 209-212

F. Rodríguez de Fonseca, M. Navarro, R. Gómez, L. Escuredo, F. Nava, J. Fu, E. Murillo-Rodríguez, A. Giuffrida, J. LoVerme, S. Gaetani, S. Kathuria, C. Gall and D. Piomelli

A subset of NSAIDs lower amyloidogenic Aβ42 independently of cyclooxygenase activity pp. 212-216

Sascha Weggen, Jason L. Eriksen, Pritam Das, Sarah A. Sagi, Rong Wang, Claus U. Pietrzik, Kirk A. Findlay, Tawnya E. Smith, Michael P. Murphy, Thomas Bulter, David E. Kang, Numa Marquez-Sterling, Todd E. Golde and Edward H. Koo

Gridlock signalling pathway fashions the first embryonic artery pp. 216-220

Tao P. Zhong, Sarah Childs, James P. Leu and Mark C. Fishman

Asynchronous replication and allelic exclusion in the immune system pp. 221-225

Raul Mostoslavsky, Nandita Singh, Toyoaki Tenzen, Maya Goldmit, Chana Gabay, Sharon Elizur, Peimin Qi, Benjamin E. Reubinoff, Andrew Chess, Howard Cedar and Yehudit Bergman

Identification of the cellular receptor for anthrax toxin pp. 225-229

Kenneth A. Bradley, Jeremy Mogridge, Michael Mourez, R. John Collier and John A. T. Young

Crystal structure of the anthrax lethal factor pp. 229-233

Andrew D. Pannifer, Thiang Yian Wong, Robert Schwarzenbacher, Martin Renatus, Carlo Petosa, Jadwiga Bienkowska, D. Borden Lacy, R. John Collier, Sukjoon Park, Stephen H. Leppla, Philip Hanna and Robert C. Liddington

2001, volume 414, articles 6859

Crackdown on hazardous agents raises concern for bona fide labs pp. 3-4

Jonathan Knight

A model establishment pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Atomic-bomb experts interrogated over Taliban links pp. 3-3

David Adam

Legal provision for electronic eavesdropping ignites debate pp. 4-4

David Adam

Managing mergers Cambridge pp. 4-5

Paul Smaglik

Science marshalled to cut bioterror confusion pp. 5-5

Rex Dalton

Germany warned over threat posed by nuclear reactor pp. 5-5

Quirin Schiermeier

Chance encounter hints at planetary origins pp. 6-6

Alison Abbott

UK changes policy on life insurance pp. 6-6

David Adam

Spotlight on scrapie in hunt for sheep BSE pp. 7-7

Declan Butler

Middle Eastern promise as synchrotron wins approval pp. 7-7

Quirin Schiermeier

The flu HQ pp. 10-11

Alison Abbott

Exploring a virtual universe pp. 12-14

Govert Schilling

Vanishing websites are the weakest link pp. 15-15

Joseph Cheung

Recognizing risks and potential promise of germline engineering pp. 15-15

Sharon E. Hesterlee

Give and take the lead pp. 15-15

Susan M. Fitzpatrick

Counting on science pp. 17-18

Robert M. May

Science and war pp. 18-19

John Ziman

The American dream personified? pp. 19-20

Richard A. Fortey

Elementary tales pp. 20-20

Andrea Sella

Nature's helping hand pp. 21-21

W. F. Bynum

See potassium run pp. 23-24

Christopher Miller

The atomic nanoscope pp. 24-25

Andrew Steane

How cells choose to die pp. 25-27

David Lane

The insulator uncovered pp. 27-28

John B. Pethica and Russ Egdell

Bacteria thread the needle pp. 29-31

Craig L. Smith and Scott J. Hultgren

In search of exact solutions pp. 31-32

Michel Héritier

Recycled oil pp. 32-32

David Jones

Water capture by a desert beetle pp. 33-34

Andrew R. Parker and Chris R. Lawrence

Partial leptin deficiency and human adiposity pp. 34-35

I. Sadaf Farooqi, Julia M. Keogh, Sri Kamath, Sarah Jones, William T. Gibson, Rebecca Trussell, Susan A. Jebb, Gregory Y. H. Lip and Stephen O'Rahilly

Magnetic cues trigger extensive refuelling pp. 35-36

Thord Fransson, Sven Jakobsson, Patrik Johansson, Cecilia Kullberg, Johan Lind and Adrian Vallin

Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex pp. 36-36

Foon Wu-Baer and Richard Baer

Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex pp. 36-36

Shang Li, Nicholas S. Y. Ting, Lei Zheng, Phang-Lang Chen and Wen-Hwa Lee

Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K+ selectivity filter pp. 37-42

João H. Morais-Cabral, Yufeng Zhou and Roderick MacKinnon

Chemistry of ion coordination and hydration revealed by a K+ channel–Fab complex at 2.0 Å resolution pp. 43-48

Yufeng Zhou, João H. Morais-Cabral, Amelia Kaufman and Roderick MacKinnon

A single ion as a nanoscopic probe of an optical field pp. 49-51

G. R. Guthöhrlein, M. Keller, K. Hayasaka, W. Lange and H. Walther

Ultrafast generation of magnetic fields in a Schottky diode pp. 51-54

Y. Acremann, M. Buess, C. H. Back, M. Dumm, G. Bayreuther and D. Pescia

Imaging the atomic arrangements on the high-temperature reconstructed α-Al2O3(0001) surface pp. 54-57

Clemens Barth and Michael Reichling

Photoselective adaptive femtosecond quantum control in the liquid phase pp. 57-60

T. Brixner, N. H. Damrauer, P. Niklaus and G. Gerber

Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years pp. 60-62

W. S. B. Paterson and Niels Reeh

Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals pp. 62-65

J. David Archibald, Alexander O. Averianov and Eric G. Ekdale

Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change pp. 65-69

M. S. Warren, J. K. Hill, J. A. Thomas, J. Asher, R. Fox, B. Huntley, D. B. Roy, M. G. Telfer, S. Jeffcoate, P. Harding, G. Jeffcoate, S. G. Willis, J. N. Greatorex-Davies, D. Moss and C. D. Thomas

Perceptual basis of bimanual coordination pp. 69-73

Franz Mechsner, Dirk Kerzel, Günther Knoblich and Wolfgang Prinz

Energetics of ion conduction through the K+ channel pp. 73-77

Simon Bernèche and Benoît Roux

Maintenance of an unfolded polypeptide by a cognate chaperone in bacterial type III secretion pp. 77-81

C. Erec Stebbins and Jorge E. Galán

In vitro evolution suggests multiple origins for the hammerhead ribozyme pp. 82-84

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani and Jack W. Szostak

Correction: Retrotransposition of a bacterial group II intron pp. 84-84

Benoit Cousineau, Stacey Lawrence, Dorie Smith and Marlene Belfort

Correction: Crystal structures of SarA, a pleiotropic regulator of virulence genes in S. aureus pp. 85-85

Maria A. Schumacher, Barry K. Hurlburt and Richard G. Brennan

Correction: Biodegradation of oil in uplifted basins prevented by deep-burial sterilization pp. 85-85

A. Wilhelms, S. R. Larter, I. Head, P. Farrimond, R. di-Primio and C. Zwach

The future for stem cell research pp. 88-91

Robin Lovell-Badge

The end of the beginning for pluripotent stem cells pp. 92-97

Peter J. Donovan and John Gearhart

Stem cells find their niche pp. 98-104

Allan Spradling, Daniela Drummond-Barbosa and Toshie Kai

Stem cells, cancer, and cancer stem cells pp. 105-111

Tannishtha Reya, Sean J. Morrison, Michael F. Clarke and Irving L. Weissman

The development of neural stem cells pp. 112-117

Sally Temple

Stem cells in tissue engineering pp. 118-121

Paolo Bianco and Pamela Gehron Robey

Reprogramming of genome function through epigenetic inheritance pp. 122-128

M. Azim Surani

Ethical and social considerations of stem cell research pp. 129-131

Anne McLaren

When The Body Can't Heal Itself pp. 132-132

Mark F. Pittenger