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Volume 434 Issue 7034, 7 April 2005

Volume 434 Issue 7034

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Editorial

  • A thorough investigation of German scientists' actions under the Nazi regime reveals a more complex and ambiguous story than that implanted in the public mind at the end of the Second World War.

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Deadly tropical infections that kill within 48 hours don't usually go unnoticed. But one killer has been largely ignored for decades. Now, thanks to worries about bioterror, it is being taken more seriously. Peter Aldhous reports.

    • Peter Aldhous
    News Feature

  • California's voters have authorized the spending of $3 billion over the next decade on stem-cell research. But will this bonanza bring threats as well as opportunities? Peter Aldhous weighs the hopes and fears.

    • Peter Aldhous
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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • The end is near but eradication will not be as simple as once thought.

    • David L. Heymann
    • Roland W. Sutter
    • R. Bruce Aylward
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Books & Arts

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Essay

  • RNA world: does changing the direction of replication make RNA life viable?

    • William R. Taylor
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News & Views

  • Infrared radiation from two extrasolar planets has been measured from the dip in total light as the planets pass behind their parent stars — a milestone on the road to the direct imaging of such planets.

    • Karl Stapelfeldt
    News & Views

  • Marijuana smoke can have harmful effects on the heart. But one of its active components may ease inflammation and slow the progression of coronary artery disease.

    • Michael D. Roth
    News & Views

  • Susceptibility to tuberculosis is known to be under complex genetic control in humans, but what are the genes involved? A mouse strain that is unusually prone to the disease shows the way.

    • Nada Jabado
    • Philippe Gros
    News & Views

  • It's a potentially explosive issue. How can hydrogen be stored cleanly, efficiently and, above all, safely? One answer would appear to be: take a cage made of water, and add just a little organic solvent.

    • Ferdi Schüth
    News & Views

  • Human activities damage coral reef ecosystems. Application of the ‘germ theory’, proposed more than a century ago for human diseases, could foster action on global environmental ailments such as this.

    • Stephen R. Palumbi
    News & Views

  • Homeobox genes have some quirky features: they huddle together and tend to be expressed in the order that they appear in their cluster. A new cluster, specific to reproductive development, has now been discovered.

    • François Spitz
    • Denis Duboule
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Brief Communication

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Article

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Letter

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Addendum

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Erratum

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Technology Feature

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Prospects

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Special Report

  • We all know a special person who has inspired us. Paul Smaglik learns from the winners of the first UK award for excellent mentoring in science.

    • Paul Smaglik
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Career View

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Futures

  • A place to call our own.

    • Bruce Sterling
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