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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Cyranoski; Paul Smaglik Tokyo & Washington [illus. 1] An international consortium led by the US-based Joint Genome Institute last week announced plans to sequence the genome of the puffer fish...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jun Yamashita (corresponding author) [1]; Hiroshi Itoh [1]; Masanori Hirashima [2]; Minetaro Ogawa [2]; Satomi Nishikawa [2]; Takami Yurugi [1]; Makoto Naito [3]; Kazuwa Nakao [1]; Shin-Ichi Nishikawa [2]...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mark Schrope Bali [illus. 1] The Marine Aquarium Council (MAC), an international non-profit consortium based in Honolulu, Hawaii, hopes to eliminate reef-threatening practices such as 'cyanide fishing', by...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Timothy A. McKinsey; Chun-Li Zhang; Jianrong Lu; Eric N. Olson (corresponding author) Members of the myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2) family of transcription factors associate with myogenic basic...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. Calignano [1]; I. Kátona [2]; F. Désarnaud [3]; A. Giuffrida [3]; G. La Rana [1]; K. Mackie [4]; T. F. Freund [2]; D. Piomelli (corresponding author) [3] Smoking marijuana or administration of its main...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Colin Macilwain Washington [illus. 1] The quality of fusion research in the United States is on a par with other areas of the physical sciences, according to an assessment by the National Academy of...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Gregory M. Ruiz (corresponding author) [1]; Tonya K. Rawlings [1, 2]; Fred C. Dobbs [3]; Lisa A. Drake [3]; Timothy Mullady [1]; Anwarul Huq [2]; Rita R. Colwell [2] Commercial ships have spread many species...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Amy E. Pasquinelli [1, 2]; Brenda J. Reinhart [1, 2]; Frank Slack [3]; Mark Q. Martindale [4]; Mitzi I. Kuroda [5]; Betsy Maller [3]; David C. Hayward [6]; Eldon E. Ball [6]; Bernard Degnan [7]; Peter Müller...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Dickson London [illus. 1] Individual scientists may have largely escaped criticism in Britain's BSE inquiry, chaired by Lord Phillips. But the inquiry's report sharply highlights critical weaknesses...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Niall Ferguson [1] Ubiquity: Why the World Is Simpler Than We Think by Mark Buchanan Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2000. 230 pp. £20 [illus. 1] A few years ago, historians belatedly caught up with the fact...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Richard D. Thompson (corresponding author) Which food supplies some 60% or more of the calories in the human diet? The answer is cereal plants -- specifically, the endosperm of cereal seeds. The endosperm is...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): G. Lecatsas [1] Sir Your News and Opinion articles [1, 2] about alleged contamination of vaccines should serve as a warning against over-optimism. These articles highlight the failure to show any...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Craig J. Hogan (corresponding author) The early Universe is a simple system composed of nearly uniform ordinary matter, radiation and dark matter. Cosmologists say that an early period of rapidly...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Philippe Janvier [1] Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey Knopf/HarperCollins: 2000. 288 pp. $26/ £15.99 [illus. 1] Palaeontology is one of the rare areas of science that teenagers can...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Gabby Dover [1] Sir There is a narrow inevitability about Partridge and Barton's response [1] to True and Lindquist's evolutionary interpretation of their remarkable finding: that the presence of the yeast...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): C. Neyt [1, 2]; K. Jagla [3]; C. Thisse [4]; B. Thisse [4]; L. Haines [1]; P. D. Currie (corresponding author) [1, 2] The evolution of terrestrial tetrapod species heralded a transition in locomotor...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Karen Birmingham London [illus. 1] Although food has been the overwhelming object of attention as the source of infection with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), there is a possibility that some of...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Irina Dezhina (corresponding author); Loren Graham (corresponding author) [illus. 1] After a precipitous decline following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Russian science may be on the slow road to...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Simon Singh [1] Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky Free Press/Viking: 2000. 448 pp. $27.50/£20 [illus. 1] For decades, the code-breakers at...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 408, Issue 6808) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Peter Pockley Bali Unusually for a specialist research conference, last week's ninth International Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia, has pushed scientists to the forefront of the public debate on...