Post by Nguyen Dinh Hai on Nov 13, 2003 10:15:53 GMT 7
Drugs in sport: No dope 114
Don Catlin's lab has struck a major blow against drug abuse in athletics, by developing a test for a shadowy 'designer steroid'. Jonathan Knight visits the scientists who are striving to keep sport clean.
doi:10.1038/426114a
Full Text
Night club 116
Growing numbers of amateurs are getting serious about astronomy. The professionals applaud their enthusiasm and success in collecting data and building telescopes — as long as they don't start competing with them for funding. Geoff Brumfiel joins the graveyard shift.
doi:10.1038/426116a
Full Text
Correspondence
How genius can smooth the road to publication 119
If at first your paper doesn't succeed, try, try — and try to find a brilliant supporter.
doi:10.1038/426119a
Full Text
How genius can smooth the road to publication 119
doi:10.1038/426119b
Full Text
Phosphorus: time for us to oust bad spelling 119
doi:10.1038/426119c
Full Text
Drinking your health? It's too early to say 119
doi:10.1038/426119d
Full Text
Books and Arts
Web masters 121
FRITZ VOLLRATH reviews Spider Webs and Silks: Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes by Catherine L. Craig
Spiders' silky skills hold the key to their evolutionary success.
doi:10.1038/426121a
Full Text
From genes to biochemistry 122
BENNO MÜLLER-HILL reviews George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century by Paul Berg & MaxineSinger
doi:10.1038/426122a
Full Text
A recipe for success? 122
JOHN MANN reviews Organic Syntheses Database
doi:10.1038/426122b
Full Text
Installation: Making haze 123
COLIN MARTIN looks at the sun in a new installation at the Tate Modern in London.
doi:10.1038/426123a
Full Text
Concepts
Cancer robustness: Tumour tactics 125
HIROAKI KITANO
Viewing cancer as a robust system with potential points of fragility opens up new strategies for the development of drugs and therapies.
doi:10.1038/426125a
Full Text
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: Essence of mitochondria 127
KATRIN HENZE AND WILLIAM MARTIN
For years, a unicellular creature called Giardia has occupied a special place in biology because it was thought to lack mitochondria. But it does have them — though tiny, they pack a surprising anaerobic punch.
doi:10.1038/426127a
Full Text
Chemistry: Dendrimers set to self-destruct 128
E. W. MEIJER AND M. H. P. VAN GENDEREN
The versatility of the branched macromolecules known as dendrimers is being exploited in various ways — explosively so, in the context of their application as potential drug-delivery systems.
doi:10.1038/426128a
Full Text
Virology: Fresh assault on hepatitis C 129
CHARLES M. RICE
Hepatitis C virus causes severe liver disease. Initial trials of a newly developed agent that prevents the virus reproducing itself look promising. But what are the future prospects for this treatment?
doi:10.1038/nature02105
Full Text
Materials science: Close-up on cracks 131
JAY FINEBERG
How do things break? The fracture of materials is part of our everyday experience, and yet the process is not well understood. A study of crack propagation at microscopic scales shows the devil in the details.
doi:10.1038/426131a
Full Text
100 and 50 years ago 132
doi:10.1038/426132a
Full Text
Plant development: An axis of auxin 132
STEFAN KEPINSKI AND OTTOLINE LEYSER
Embryos have two distinct ends, which become apparent early on. Quite how this initial polarity is sustained in plant embryos has been unclear. Step forward the agent provocateur of plant development — auxin.
doi:10.1038/426132b
Full Text
Condensed-matter physics: The quest for imperfection 135
THOMAS F. ROSENBAUM
The electrical properties of silver chalcogenides are unusually affected by magnetic fields. A simulation suggests how this might arise from tiny imperfections and could facilitate the design of new materials.
doi:10.1038/426135a
Full Text
news and views in brief 136
doi:10.1038/426136a
Full Text