Researchers jockey for a piece of the US economic package.
Jeff Tollefson
doi:10.1038/457240a
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Volume 457 Number 7227 pp235-346
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Editorials
Science is not a spectator sport p235
As Barack Obama sets a fresh agenda for the US approach to climate change and energy, scientists must make sure that they do not merely watch from the sidelines.
doi:10.1038/457235a
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The biggest threat? p235
The Obama administration must help prevent terrorists from building a nuclear device.
doi:10.1038/457235b
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A lifesaving arrangement p236
George Bush's AIDS programme needs leadership and support from the Obama administration.
doi:10.1038/457236a
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Research Highlights
Geology: Old Faithful Erebus p238
doi:10.1038/457238a
Chemical biology: Fluorescent timers p238
doi:10.1038/457238b
Microscopy: Inside information p238
doi:10.1038/457238c
Animal behaviour: Caught red hydrocarboned p238
doi:10.1038/457238d
Molecular biology: A bilingual genetic code p238
doi:10.1038/457238e
Ecological acoustics: Love buzz p238
doi:10.1038/457238f
Chemical synthesis: Take that, flu p239
doi:10.1038/457239a
Cell biology: Lost nuclei p239
doi:10.1038/457239b
Evolutionary biology: Headstrong p239
doi:10.1038/457239c
Chemistry: An aromatic hybrid p239
doi:10.1038/457239d
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News
Science tipped to score in Obama cash stimulus p240
Steven Chu prepares for power p241
On the record p242
Barack Obama's nominees for top federal positions are not speaking to the press until their appointments are confirmed, but they have spoken out before.
doi:10.1038/457242a
Ocean study draws ire p243
Indo-German research cruise sets sail despite criticism.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/457243a
Brain imaging studies under fire p245
Social neuroscientists criticized for exaggerating links between brain activity and emotions.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/457245a
Where the rubber meets the garden p246
China's leading conservation centre is facing down an onslaught of rubber plantations. Jane Qiu reports from Jinghong.
Jane Qiu
doi:10.1038/457246a
Genome deal seeks to accelerate pore sequencing p248
doi:10.1038/457248a
Obama urged to make exports and visas a priority p248
doi:10.1038/457248b
Scheduling problems beset delayed Mars mission p248
doi:10.1038/457248c
Suspended urologist set to return to Austrian university p249
doi:10.1038/457249a
Coal conversion plant fires up in China p249
doi:10.1038/457249b
Italian universities lose freedom to appoint staff p249
doi:10.1038/457249c
Corrections p249
doi:10.1038/457249d
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News Features
Bush's legacy: The wasted years p250
In the first of three features on the legacy of the Bush administration, Declan Butler looks at the United States' failure to deal with the risks of nuclear proliferation.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/457250a
Bush's legacy: 43 by the numbers p252
Bush legacy: An unlikely champion p254
Was setting up PEPFAR — a massive HIV treatment programme — the best thing that President Bush ever did? Erika Check Hayden investigates.
Erika Check Hayden
doi:10.1038/457254a
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Correspondence
Choosing between batteries or biomass to stay on the road p257
Lucien F. Trueb
doi:10.1038/457257a
Genetic records threaten patients' privacy p257
Tom Goffman
doi:10.1038/457257b
Japan should intensify embryonic stem-cell investigations p257
Hisashi Moriguchi & Chifumi Sato
doi:10.1038/457257c
Research on primate brains is scrutinized and must be justified p257
Kevan A. C. Martin
doi:10.1038/457257d
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Commentary
Your inbox, Mr President p258
Rejuvenate the Environmental Protection Agency. End the stem-cell ban. Re-engage with the UN on climate change. Six leading voices tell Nature what the new US president needs to do to move beyond the Bush legacy.
doi:10.1038/457258a
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Essay
Fifty years of pheromones p262
Powerful chemical signals have been identified in moths, elephants and fish, recounts Tristram D. Wyatt. But, contrary to stories in the popular press, the race is still on to capture human scents.
Tristram D. Wyatt
doi:10.1038/457262a
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Books and Arts
How to end the copyright wars p264
A high-profile copyright activist is fighting for traditional publishers to stop criminalizing their own readers, explains Jonathan Zittrain.
Jonathan Zittrain reviews Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
doi:10.1038/457264a
Fusion history beyond the fiascos p265
Jean Jacquinot reviews Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife
doi:10.1038/457265a
Our culture of obsession p266
Ian Brooks reviews Obsession: A History by Lennard J. Davis
doi:10.1038/457266a
Q&A: Chemistry in the kitchen p267
Voted the world's best restaurant, Spain's elBulli near Barcelona offers an unusual culinary experience, from hot velvet-crab aspic with mini-corncob couscous to ice-cold liquorice nitro-dragon dessert. Innovative head chef Ferran Adrià explains how science and haute cuisine can work together.
Jascha Hoffman reviews A Day At elBulli by Ferran Adrià, Albert Adrià & Juli Soler
doi:10.1038/457267a
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News and Views
Stem cells: Tailor-made diseased neurons p269
How can we investigate a disease affecting neurons, which cannot be isolated from patients for analysis? As the study of one neurological disorder shows, a first step might be to make patient-specific neurons.
Michael Sendtner
doi:10.1038/457269a
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Fluid dynamics: Rotating convection on the edge p270
Turbulent convection in a rotating body is a common but poorly understood phenomenon in astrophysical and geophysical settings. Consideration of boundary effects offers a fresh angle on this thorny problem.
Peter L. Read
doi:10.1038/457270a
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Synthetic biology: The yin and yang of nature p271
Oscillations in gene expression regulate various cellular processes and so must be robust and tunable. Interactions between both negative and positive feedback loops seem to ensure these features.
Jeff Gore & Alexander van Oudenaarden
doi:10.1038/457271a
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Condensed-matter physics: Going with the flow p273
Observations of superfluid behaviour — flow without friction — of unusual character in a condensed-matter system pave the way to investigations of superfluidity in systems that are out of thermal equilibrium.
Jonathan Keeling & Natalia G. Berloff
doi:10.1038/457273a
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50 & 100 years ago p273
doi:10.1038/457273b
Materials science: Bend, fold and stretch p274
Liesbeth Venema
doi:10.1038/457274a
Obituary: Edwin Salpeter (1924–2008) p275
Multi-talented astrophysicist and public servant.
Saul A. Teukolsky & Ira Wasserman
doi:10.1038/457275a
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Articles
Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient p277
Allison D. Ebert, Junying Yu, Ferrill F. Rose, Jr, Virginia B. Mattis, Christian L. Lorson, James A. Thomson & Clive N. Svendsen
doi:10.1038/nature07677
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Photon capture and signalling by melanopsin retinal ganglion cells p281
Michael Tri H. Do, Shin H. Kang, Tian Xue, Haining Zhong, Hsi-Wen Liao, Dwight E. Bergles & King-Wai Yau
doi:10.1038/nature07682
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Letters
A binary origin for 'blue stragglers' in globular clusters p288
Christian Knigge, Nathan Leigh & Alison Sills
doi:10.1038/nature07635
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Collective fluid dynamics of a polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity p291
A. Amo, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy, D. Ballarini, E. del Valle, M. D. Martin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, C. Tejedor & L. Viña
doi:10.1038/nature07640
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Competition between the pseudogap and superconductivity in the high-Tc copper oxides p296
Takeshi Kondo, Rustem Khasanov, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Jörg Schmalian & Adam Kaminski
doi:10.1038/nature07644
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Boundary layer control of rotating convection systems p301
Eric M. King, Stephan Stellmach, Jerome Noir, Ulrich Hansen & Jonathan M. Aurnou
doi:10.1038/nature07647
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The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins p305
Martin D. Brazeau
doi:10.1038/nature07436
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A tunable synthetic mammalian oscillator p309
Marcel Tigges, Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago, Jörg Stelling & Martin Fussenegger
doi:10.1038/nature07616
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Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits p313
Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer & Mark Hübener
doi:10.1038/nature07487
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Role for Spi-C in the development of red pulp macrophages and splenic iron homeostasis p318
Masako Kohyama, Wataru Ise, Brian T. Edelson, Peter R. Wilker, Kai Hildner, Carlo Mejia, William A. Frazier, Theresa L. Murphy & Kenneth M. Murphy
doi:10.1038/nature07472
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The insect nephrocyte is a podocyte-like cell with a filtration slit diaphragm p322
Helen Weavers, Silvia Prieto-Sánchez, Ferdinand Grawe, Amparo Garcia-López, Ruben Artero, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Mar Ruiz-Gómez, Helen Skaer & Barry Denholm
doi:10.1038/nature07526
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Altered circadian rhythms regulate growth vigour in hybrids and allopolyploids p327
Zhongfu Ni, Eun-Deok Kim, Misook Ha, Erika Lackey, Jianxin Liu, Yirong Zhang, Qixin Sun & Z. Jeffrey Chen
doi:10.1038/nature07523
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Transcription inactivation through local refolding of the RNA polymerase structure p332
Georgiy A. Belogurov, Marina N. Vassylyeva, Anastasiya Sevostyanova, James R. Appleman, Alan X. Xiang, Ricardo Lira, Stephen E. Webber, Sergiy Klyuyev, Evgeny Nudler, Irina Artsimovitch & Dmitry G. Vassylyev
doi:10.1038/nature07510
PDB code
3D view
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Dynamics of DNA replication loops reveal temporal control of lagging-strand synthesis p336
Samir M. Hamdan, Joseph J. Loparo, Masateru Takahashi, Charles C. Richardson & Antoine M. van Oijen
doi:10.1038/nature07512
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Corrigendum
Microfibre–nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging p340
Yong Qin, Xudong Wang & Zhong Lin Wang
doi:10.1038/nature07628
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Postdocs and Students
Naturejobs
ProspectsA question of rank p341
Finding a job that satisfies.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7227-341a
Postdocs and Students
Fear factor p342
Job prospects are looking gloomy as the economic downturn runs its course, but there are bright spots for some. Genevive Bjorn reports on ways to shelter from the storm.
Genevive Bjorn
doi:10.1038/nj7227-342a
