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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Virginia Gewin [1] Virologist John Alderete made a flying start when he co-founded the biotech start-up Xenotope Diagnostics in 2001. Within 18 months, he and chief executive Paul Castella had raised US$1.2...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Adrianna Ianora (corresponding author) [1]; Antonio Miralto [1]; Serge A. Poulet [2]; Ylenia Carotenuto [1]; Isabella Buttino [1]; Giovanna Romano [1]; Raffaella Casotti [1]; Georg Pohnert [3]; Thomas Wichard...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alison Abbott Munich [illus. 1] A European patent that gave a company in Utah the exclusive right to perform diagnostic tests for a breast-cancer gene has been revoked. In a landmark ruling on 18 May,...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Cyranoski Tokyo Japan is launching the Genome Network, a five-year, ¥15-billion (US$130-million) initiative that will attempt to build on the human genome project and systematically study the...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paul J. Crutzen [1] [illus. 1] As a child, I dreamed of being a scientist, but when I left middle school this looked impossible. Because of illness during my final exams, my grades were too low to obtain a...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): P. Deloukas (corresponding author) [1]; M. E. Earthrowl [1]; D. V. Grafham [1]; M. Rubenfield [2, 3]; L. French [1]; C. A. Steward [1]; S. K. Sims [1]; M. C. Jones [1]; S. Searle [1]; C. Scott [1]; K. Howe...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Francis S. Collins [1] Identification of the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health, disease and response to treatment is essential for the reduction of illness. This, of course, is the...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Hiroshi Ohmoto (corresponding author) [1]; Yumiko Watanabe [1]; Kazumasa Kumazawa [2] It is generally thought that, in order to compensate for lower solar flux and maintain liquid oceans on the early Earth,...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedWe've been here before. Last December, Russian ministers and advisers were sending contradictory signals about whether they would ratify the Kyoto Protocol for climate change, in the end leaving the issue unresolved....
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jim Giles Newcastle upon Tyne [illus. 1] The Vitenskapskafeen in Oslo is so popular that people happily sit on the floor once the seats are taken. The same kind of event, when held in a forest in Poland,...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Oxford [1] The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the 1918 Pandemic by John M. Barry Viking: 2004. 546 pp. $29.95 [illus. 1] In the modern world where a newly discovered virus has been called...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Myles Allen [1] The Day After Tomorrow Directed by Roland Emmerich 20th Century Fox Worldwide release on 28 May 2004 [illus. 1] I have yet to meet a doctor who doesn't dismiss the TV drama...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jim Giles London [illus. 1] Britain's epidemic of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) could be worse than current death rates predict, a survey of a marker for the condition in body tissue suggests....
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Yoko Saikawa [1]; Kimiko Hashimoto (corresponding author) [1, 2]; Masaya Nakata [1]; Masato Yoshihara [3]; Kiyoshi Nagai [3]; Motoyasu Ida [3]; Teruyuki Komiya [3] [illus. 1] Within a few minutes of...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedHomeopathy group loses lawsuit against TV science show Munich An Italian court has declared homeopathy to be "not a serious therapy" and "substantially a medicine of emotions", at the end of a four-year legal battle...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Robert L. Strausberg [1]; Andrew J.G. Simpson [2]; Lloyd J. Old [2]; Gregory J. Riggins [3] Cancer can result from a multitude of genetic alterations. These range from point mutations to insertions and...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Kenneth R. Foster [1] Sir Scientists and engineers need to take action to minimize the collateral damage to science caused by the war on terrorism. At issue here are US prohibitions on providing goods and...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedEve Slater, board of directors, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts [illus. 1] Eve Slater's career, which includes high points in academia, industry and government, embodies the improvements that have...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alison Wright [illus. 1] In an organic molecule, how long can a chain of oxygen atoms be? No chain-like polyoxides are known that have more than three oxygen atoms in a row; only a few trioxides are known....
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 429, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): William E. Evans [1, 2]; Mary V. Relling [1, 2] The science of pharmacogenomics, which aims to define the genetic determinants of drug effects, has evolved over the past 50 years. The idea that genes control...