Nature: International weekly journal of science

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  Año 2006, Vol. 444, Número 7122

  • Optics: A light touch

    Richard Webb

    pág. 1017

    

  • Mathematics: Proof at a roll of the dice

    Bernard Chazelle

    págs. 1018-1019

    

  • Structural biology: Dangerous liaisons on neurons

    Giampietro Schiavo

    págs. 1019-1020

    

  • 50 & 100 Years Ago

    pág. 1019

    

  • Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons

    Claudio Ciofi, Phillip C. Watts, Richard Gibson, Kevin R. Buley, Wayne Boardman, Stephanie Sanderson

    págs. 1021-1022

    

  • Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity

    Samuel Klein, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley

    págs. 1022-1023

    

  • Biomechanics: Rubber bands reduce the cost of carrying loads

    Lawrence C. Rome, Taeseung D. Yoo, Louis Flynn

    págs. 1023-1024

    

  • Olfaction: Underwater 'sniffing' by semi-aquatic mammals

    Kenneth C. Catania

    págs. 1024-1025

    

  • An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

    Peter J. Turnbaugh, Vincent Magrini, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Elaine R. Mardis, Ruth E. Ley, Michael A. Mahowald

    págs. 1027-1031

    

  • Blockade of Dll4 inhibits tumour growth by promoting non-productive angiogenesis

    Christopher Daly, Gavin Thurston, George D. Yancopoulos, Nicholas J. Papadopoulos, Irene Noguera-Troise, Hsin Chieh Lin, Nicholas W. Gale, Pat Boland, Sandra Coetzee

    págs. 1032-1037

    

  • A new progeroid syndrome reveals that genotoxic stress suppresses the somatotroph axis

    Wibeke van Leeuwen, Peter Meinecke, Astrid S. Lalai, Anwaar Ahmad, Andria Rasile Robinson, Anja Raams, Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst, Arjan F. Theil, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, Jan Vijg, Roos Oostendorp, Wim J. Kleijer, Esther Appeldoorn, Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers, Wim Vermeulen, Hanny Odijk, Laura J. Niedernhofer, George A. Garinis

    págs. 1038-1043

    

  • A new ¿-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614

    C. B. Markwardt, S. D. Barthelmy, S. E. Woosley, T. Sakamoto, M. Stamatikos, A. M. Parsons, J. Granot, P. Mészáros, C. Kouveliotou, Y. Kaneko, P. Schady, P. W. A. Roming, J. A. Nousek, E. Nakar, J. P. Norris, P. T. O'Brien, N. Gehrels, D. M. Palmer, C. L. Sarazin, M. Page

    págs. 1044-1046

    

  • No supernovae associated with two long-duration ¿-ray bursts

    Johan P. U. Fynbo, Tobias C. Hinse, David Bersier, Páll Jakobsson, Andrew S. Fruchter, John F. Graham, Jesper Sollerman, Brian L. Jensen, Keith D. Horne, Arnaud Cassan, Suzanne Foley, Javier Gorosabel, Joshua S. Bloom, José María Castro Cerón, Lisa Kewley, Tamara M. Davis, Darach Watson, Christina C. Thöne, Uffe G. Jørgensen, Jens Hjorth

    págs. 1047-1049

    

  • An enigmatic long-lasting ¿-ray burst not accompanied by a bright supernova

    L. J. Pellizza, L. Stella, I. Felix Mirabel, V. Mangano, V. Testa, L. A. Antonelli, D. Fugazza, S. Piranomonte, D. Malesani, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, P. D¿Avanzo, S. Covino, M. Della Valle, K. Hurley, G. Tagliaferri, N. Panagia

    págs. 1050-1052

    

  • A novel explosive process is required for the ¿-ray burst GRB 060614

    K. Sharon, P. J. Brown, D. Frail, E. Berger, E. O. Ofek, P. A. Price, K. M. Lewis, D.-S. Moon, D. C. Leonard, R. Sari, A. M. Soderberg, D. B. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, F. Harrison, A. Cucchiara, S. B. Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, B. P. Schmidt, B. A. Peterson, M. R. Davis

    págs. 1053-1055

    

  • A deep dynamo generating Mercury¿s magnetic field

    Ulrich R. Christensen

    págs. 1056-1058

    

  • Observation of the radiative decay mode of the free neutron

    Kristin G. Kiriluk, Robert L. Cooper, Elizabeth J. Beise, Timothy E. Chupp, Thomas R. Gentile, Alan K. Thompson, Kevin J. Coakley, Maynard S. Dewey, Isaac Kremsky, Brian M. Fisher, Jeffrey S. Nico, Fred E. Wietfeldt, James Byrne, H. Pieter Mumm

    págs. 1059-1062

    

  • Fortnightly variations in the flow velocity of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica

    G. Hilmar Gudmundsson

    págs. 1063-1064

    

  • Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals

    G. Spong, L. L. Sharpe, T. H. Clutton-Brock, M. B. Manser, N. R. Jordan, A. F. Russell, N. C. Bennett, S. J. Hodge

    págs. 1065-1068

    

  • Axonal site of spike initiation enhances auditory coincidence detection

    Harunori Ohmori, Takahiro M. Ishii, Hiroshi Kuba

    págs. 1069-1072

    

  • Early events in the thymus affect the balance of effector and regulatory T cells

    Adrian C. Hayday, Scott J. Roberts, Tobias Silberzahn, Martin J. Woodward, Bruno Silva Santos, P. Julian Dyson, Adrian L. Smith, Daniel J. Pennington, Mónica Escórcio-Correia

    págs. 1073-1077

    

  • The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA

    Yizhi Jane Tao, Robert M. Krug, Qiaozhen Ye

    págs. 1078-1082

    

  • Inhibition of Dll4 signalling inhibits tumour growth by deregulating angiogenesis

    May Chien, Yvan Chanthery, Christopher Callahan, Greg Plowman, Fred de Sauvage, Scott Stawicki, Minhong Yan, Christine Tan, Ryan J. Watts, Yan Wu, Jo-Anne S. Hongo, John Ridgway, Ian Kasman, Mallika Singh, Gu Zhang, Joe Kowalski, Wei-Ching Liang

    págs. 1083-1087

    

  • Essential role for collectrin in renal amino acid transport

    J. Andrew Pospisilik, Francois Verrey, Sudha Arya, Chahira Benabbas, Andreas Richter, Josef M. Penninger, Christine Remy, Carsten A. Wagner, Dustin Singer, Tamara Ramadan, Victoria Makrides, Gerti Stange, Renu Sarao, Simone M. R. Camargo, Ursula Danilczyk

    págs. 1088-1091

    

  • Botulinum neurotoxin B recognizes its protein receptor with high affinity and specificity

    Thomas Binz, Rongsheng Jin, Axel T. Brunger, Andreas Rummel

    págs. 1092-1095

    

  • Structural basis of cell surface receptor recognition by botulinum neurotoxin B

    Min Dong, Eric A. Johnson, Joseph W. Arndt, William H. Tepp, Raymond C. Stevens, Edwin R. Chapman, Qing Chai

    págs. 1096-1100

    

  • Hotdogs at the end of the world

    Jeff Crook

    pág. 1104