Crossing Membranes

Crossing the Bilayer

Stella M. Hurtley
Science 2 December 2005: 1451.
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Reviews

Protein Translocation Across Biological Membranes

William Wickner and Randy Schekman
Science 2 December 2005: 1452-1456.
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The Ins and Outs of DNA Transfer in Bacteria

Inês Chen, Peter J. Christie, and David Dubnau
Science 2 December 2005: 1456-1460.
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Principles of Selective Ion Transport in Channels and Pumps

Eric Gouaux and Roderick MacKinnon
Science 2 December 2005: 1461-1465.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Bullish on Particles

Michael S. Turner
Science 2 December 2005: 1389.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

STEM CELL RESEARCH: Korean Cloner Admits Lying About Oocyte Donations

Constance Holden
Science 2 December 2005: 1402-1403.
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: The Atlantic Conveyor May Have Slowed, But Don't Panic Yet

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 December 2005: 1403-1405.
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CANADA: Animal Rules Keep Grad Students Out of the Lab

Wayne Kondro
Science 2 December 2005: 1405.
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NUCLEAR POWER: Congress Tells DOE to Take Fresh Look at Recycling Spent Reactor Fuel

Eli Kintisch
Science 2 December 2005: 1406.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: NIEHS Journal Is on the Block

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 2 December 2005: 1407.
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U.S. GRADUATE EDUCATION: Universities Must Pay to Play in Ph.D. Program Rankings

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 2 December 2005: 1407.
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SPACE SCIENCE: Fuel Shortage Imperils Asteroid-Sampling Mission

Dennis Normile
Science 2 December 2005: 1409.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY: Talk on 'Underground' Bird Flu Deaths Rattles Experts

Martin Enserink
Science 2 December 2005: 1409.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ECOLOGY: Winning the War Against Island Invaders

Kevin Krajick
Science 2 December 2005: 1410-1413.
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ACOUSTIC ENGINEERING: String Theory Meets Practice as Violinmakers Rethink Their Craft

Adrian Cho
Science 2 December 2005: 1414-1415.
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FRANK WOLF PROFILE: The Congressman With His Hand on Science's Purse Strings

Jeffrey Mervis and Eli Kintisch
Science 2 December 2005: 1417-1418.
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PALEONTOLOGY: Best Archaeopteryx Fossil So Far Ruffles a Few Feathers

Erik Stokstad
Science 2 December 2005: 1418-1419.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 December 2005: 1425.
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 Issues in Bringing New Drugs to the Market

Rudi Ansbacher;, Arthur J. Ammann;, W. Ross Tracey;, and Jerry Avorn
Science 2 December 2005: 1425-1426.
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 Invariant Ratios Vs. Dimensionless Ratios

Marc Mangel
Science 2 December 2005: 1426-1427.
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 Worldwide Decline of Sturgeons

Dietrich E. Lorke and David T. Yew
Science 2 December 2005: 1427-1429.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 2 December 2005: 1429-1431.
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Books et al.

NATURAL HISTORY: Still Worthy of Our Land?

Joel Greenberg
Science 2 December 2005: 1432-1433.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY: Crowing About Culture

Joanna Dally
Science 2 December 2005: 1433.
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Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

GLOBAL VOICES OF SCIENCE: Following the Light: Opening Doors to Science in Tunisia

Zohra Ben Lakhdar
Science 2 December 2005: 1435-1437.
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125th Anniversary Series

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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE: The Changing Picture of Volatiles and Climate on Mars

Bruce M. Jakosky, Robert M. Haberle, and Raymond E. Arvidson
Science 2 December 2005: 1439-1440.
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GEOPHYSICS: Enhanced: The Ghost of an Earthquake

William C. Hammond
Science 2 December 2005: 1440-1442.
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IMMUNOLOGY: Tipping the Scales Toward More Effective Antibodies

Jenny M. Woof
Science 2 December 2005: 1442-1443.
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CELL BIOLOGY: Keeping Survivin Nimble at Centromeres in Mitosis

William C. Earnshaw
Science 2 December 2005: 1443-1444.
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Brevia

Evidence for a One-Allele Assortative Mating Locus

Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos and Mohamed A. F. Noor
Science 2 December 2005: 1467.
A single shared allele reduces mating between individuals in two diverging species, confirming a theoretically predicted mode of speciation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Radiocarbon Variability in the Western North Atlantic During the Last Deglaciation

Laura F. Robinson, Jess F. Adkins, Lloyd D. Keigwin, John Southon, Diego P. Fernandez, S-L Wang, and Daniel S. Scheirer
Science 2 December 2005: 1469-1473.
Published online 3 November 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1114832] (in Science Express Research Articles)
A record of the ¹⁴C content of deep water from the North Atlantic shows that warming during deglaciation in the Northern Hemisphere was indeed associated with vigorous deep-water formation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Postseismic Mantle Relaxation in the Central Nevada Seismic Belt

Noel Gourmelen and Falk Amelung
Science 2 December 2005: 1473-1476.
Radar interferometry data from a 10-year period shows that the crust in western Nevada is still relaxing from four large earthquakes that occurred between 1915 and 1954. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Active Microbial Sulfur Disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic

David T. Johnston, Boswell A. Wing, James Farquhar, Alan J. Kaufman, Harald Strauss, Timothy W. Lyons, Linda C. Kah, and Donald E. Canfield
Science 2 December 2005: 1477-1479.
Three sulfur isotopes show that microbes metabolized intermediate sulfur species by 1.3 billion years ago, implying that the atmosphere then was more oxidizing than had been supposed. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Electrowetting in Carbon Nanotubes

J. Y. Chen, A. Kutana, C. P. Collier, and K. P. Giapis
Science 2 December 2005: 1480-1483.
Inducing an electrical potential across single-walled carbon nanotubes can drive fluids, including mercury, into and through the tubes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features

Gerald Mayr, Burkhard Pohl, and D. Stefan Peters
Science 2 December 2005: 1483-1486.
A tenth Archaeopteryx specimen reveals that its first toe was not reversed as in later birds and that its second toe was extendable, as in proposed theropod ancestors. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Stem Cell Self-Renewal Controlled by Chromatin Remodeling Factors

Rongwen Xi and Ting Xie
Science 2 December 2005: 1487-1489.
Hormonal signals that maintain stem cells in a pluripotent state in the Drosophila ovary act by regulating proteins that control how much transcription occurs from chromatin. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Restoration of Auditory Nerve Synapses in Cats by Cochlear Implants

D. K. Ryugo, E. A. Kretzmer, and J. K. Niparko
Science 2 December 2005: 1490-1492.
In congenitally deaf cats, electrical stimulation of the cochlea for 6 months restored the abnormal synapse structure in the auditory nerve and their ability to hear. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Role for the Phagosome in Cytokine Secretion

Rachael Z. Murray, Jason G. Kay, Daniele G. Sangermani, and Jennifer L. Stow
Science 2 December 2005: 1492-1495.
Published online 10 November 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1120225] (in Science Express Reports)
The specialized segment of immune cell membrane that engulfs microbes and then destroys them is also dedicated to secreting factors that cause local inflammation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

ATP Signaling Is Crucial for Communication from Taste Buds to Gustatory Nerves

Thomas E. Finger, Vicktoria Danilova, Jennell Barrows, Dianna L. Bartel, Alison J. Vigers, Leslie Stone, Goran Hellekant, and Sue C. Kinnamon
Science 2 December 2005: 1495-1499.
The long-sought neurotransmitter that communicates taste information from tongue receptors to the gustatory nerve is ATP, also used in other sensory systems. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Chromosome Alignment and Segregation Regulated by Ubiquitination of Survivin

Queenie P. Vong, Kan Cao, Hoi Y. Li, Pablo A. Iglesias, and Yixian Zheng
Science 2 December 2005: 1499-1504.
Ubiquitin, a peptide tag that usually marks proteins for degradation, unexpectedly also controls the cellular location of a key cell cycle protein during mitosis. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Prostaglandin E₂ Promotes Colon Cancer Cell Growth Through a G_s-Axin-ß-Catenin Signaling Axis

Maria Domenica Castellone, Hidemi Teramoto, Bart O. Williams, Kirk M. Druey, and J. Silvio Gutkind
Science 2 December 2005: 1504-1510.
Published online 17 November 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1116221] (in Science Express Reports)
A factor that causes inflammation enhances colon-cancer growth through a newly described signaling pathway. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Divergent Immunoglobulin G Subclass Activity Through Selective Fc Receptor Binding

Falk Nimmerjahn and Jeffrey V. Ravetch
Science 2 December 2005: 1510-1512.
The ability of certain natural and manufactured antibodies to elicit different immune defenses can be predicted by their relative affinities for activating or inhibitory receptors. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Roles for Human Translation Factor eIF3 in Initiation of Protein Synthesis

Bunpote Siridechadilok, Christopher S. Fraser, Richard J. Hall, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Eva Nogales
Science 2 December 2005: 1513-1515.
A protein complex that binds to the ends of mRNAs to position them on the ribosome unexpectedly binds in the same way to internal ribosome entry sites within mRNAs. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004"

S. Neetu, I. Suresh, R. Shankar, D. Shankar, S. S. C. Shenoi, S.R. Shetye, D. Sundar, and B. Nagarajan
Science 2 December 2005: 1431.
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Response to Comment on "The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004"

Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Charles J. Ammon, Meredith Nettles, Steven N. Ward, Richard Aster, Susan L. Beck, Susan L. Bilek, Michael R. Brudzinski, Rhett Butler, Heather R. DeShon, Göran Ekström, Kenji Satake, and Stuart Sipkin
Science 2 December 2005: 1431.
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