Systems-Level Brain Development

Neuroscience: Systems-Level Brain Development

Peter Stern and Pamela J. Hines
Science 4 November 2005: 801.
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News

Friendly Faces and Unusual Minds

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 4 November 2005: 802-804.
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Viewpoints

Language Acquisition and Brain Development

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai
Science 4 November 2005: 815-819.
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Sex Differences in the Brain: Implications for Explaining Autism

Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, and Matthew K. Belmonte
Science 4 November 2005: 819-823.
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Review

Patterning and Plasticity of the Cerebral Cortex

Mriganka Sur and John L. R. Rubenstein
Science 4 November 2005: 805-810.
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Map Plasticity in Somatosensory Cortex

Daniel E. Feldman and Michael Brecht
Science 4 November 2005: 810-815.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Pedagogy Meets Neuroscience

Elsbeth Stern
Science 4 November 2005: 745.
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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

Science 4 November 2005: 873.
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News of the Week

EVOLUTION:
Groups Wield Copyright Power to Delay Kansas Standards

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 4 November 2005: 754.
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CHEMISTRY:
'Grandfather of Nanotech' Dies at 62

Robert F. Service
Science 4 November 2005: 754.
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BIODEFENSE:
Critics Question Proposed Countermeasures Agency

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 4 November 2005: 755.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Dueling Experiments Close In on Source of Proton's Spin

Adrian Cho
Science 4 November 2005: 757.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
MIT Terminates Researcher Over Data Fabrication

Jennifer Couzin
Science 4 November 2005: 758.
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SCIENCE AND THE LAW:
Thomas Butler Loses Appeal, Vows to Fight On

Martin Enserink
Science 4 November 2005: 758.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Genes That Guide Brain Development Linked to Dyslexia

Greg Miller
Science 4 November 2005: 759.
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PATENTS:
Antibody Drug Dispute Ends in $255 Million Cash Payout

Eli Kintisch
Science 4 November 2005: 761.
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ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES:
Government Wins Fight to Modernize Academic Appointments

Susan Biggin
Science 4 November 2005: 761.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GEOLOGY:
Tracking Myth to Geological Reality

Kevin Krajick
Science 4 November 2005: 762-764.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
P-Bodies Mark the Spot for Controlling Protein Production

Jean Marx
Science 4 November 2005: 764-765.
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CANCER BIOLOGY:
A New Cancer Player Takes the Stage

Jennifer Couzin
Science 4 November 2005: 766-767.
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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY:
Synthetic Biology Remakes Small Genomes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 4 November 2005: 769-770.
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EDUCATION:
Forging a Cosmic Connection Between Students and Science

Adrian Cho
Science 4 November 2005: 770-771.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 4 November 2005: 777.
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 University Investment in Drug Discovery

Adrian J. Ivinson
Science 4 November 2005: 777.
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 A Place at the Pharma Table for Women?

Linda Rhodes
Science 4 November 2005: 777.
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 Costs and Benefits of Regulating Mercury

Dirk Zeller, Shawn Booth;, Ted Gayer, and Robert W. Hahn
Science 4 November 2005: 777-779.
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 Landscape Corridors: Possible Dangers?

Serban Proches, John R. U. Wilson, Ruan Veldtman, Jesse M. Kalwij, David M. Richardson, Steven L. Chown;, Douglas J. Levey, Benjamin M. Bolker, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Sarah Sargent, and Nick M. Haddad
Science 4 November 2005: 779-783.
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Books et al.

OPERA: PHYSICS:
An Explosion in the Desert

Gregg Herken
Science 4 November 2005: 784-785.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Impressions of Our Solar System

Donald K. Yeomans
Science 4 November 2005: 785.
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Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

GLOBAL VOICES OF SCIENCE:
Teaching Evolution in Mexico: Preaching to the Choir

Antonio Lazcano
Science 4 November 2005: 787-789.
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125th Anniversary Series

Science 4 November 2005: 787.
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EPPENDORF 2005 WINNER:
A Drosophila OBP Required for Pheromone Signaling

Pingxi Xu
Science 4 November 2005: 798-799.
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ESSAY:
2005 Grand Prize Winner

Science 4 November 2005: 799.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
The Neuron Doctrine, Redux

Theodore H. Bullock, Michael V. L. Bennett, Daniel Johnston, Robert Josephson, Eve Marder, and R. Douglas Fields
Science 4 November 2005: 791-793.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
A Ribosomal Coup: E. coli at Last!

Peter B. Moore
Science 4 November 2005: 793-795.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Water Vapor Feedback in Climate Models

Robert D. Cess
Science 4 November 2005: 795-796.
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CHEMISTRY:
Building a Quintuple Bond

Gernot Frenking
Science 4 November 2005: 796-797.
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Brevia

Synthesis and Structure of Sila-Adamantane

Jelena Fischer, Judith Baumgartner, and Christoph Marschner
Science 4 November 2005: 825.

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Research Articles

Structures of the Bacterial Ribosome at 3.5 Å Resolution

Barbara S. Schuwirth, Maria A. Borovinskaya, Cathy W. Hau, Wen Zhang, Antón Vila-Sanjurjo, James M. Holton, and Jamie H. Doudna Cate
Science 4 November 2005: 827-834.
Structures of two forms of the E. coli ribosome reveal new atomic details and suggest how various parts of the molecule move during protein synthesis.
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Reports

The Onset of Planet Formation in Brown Dwarf Disks

Dániel Apai, Ilaria Pascucci, Jeroen Bouwman, Antonella Natta, Thomas Henning, and Cornelis P. Dullemond
Science 4 November 2005: 834-836.
Published online 20 October 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1118042] (in Science Express Reports)
Spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope show that dust grains around brown dwarfs grow, accumulate, and migrate toward the disk mid-plane, as does dust around larger stars.
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A Sporadic Third Layer in the Ionosphere of Mars

M. Pätzold, S. Tellmann, B. Häusler, D. Hinson, R. Schaa, and G. L. Tyler
Science 4 November 2005: 837-839.
Mars Express has detected evidence for a lower, third layer of Mars' ionosphere 70 to 100 kilometers abovethe surface, but it seems to be ephemeral rather than permanent as predicted.
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Meteorite Phosphates Show Constant ¹⁷⁶Lu Decay Rate Since 4557 Million Years Ago

Yuri Amelin
Science 4 November 2005: 839-841.
Isotopic data from phosphates in meteorites provide a reliable half-life for the Lu-Hf isotopic system, which is used to date and trace many geologic processes.
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The Radiative Signature of Upper Tropospheric Moistening

Brian J. Soden, Darren L. Jackson, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, and Xianglei Huang
Science 4 November 2005: 841-844.
Published online 6 October 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1115602] (in Science Express Reports)
The relative humidity of the upper troposphere has increased as the atmosphere has warmed over the past two decades, increasing the greenhouse effect as predicted.
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Synthesis of a Stable Compound with Fivefold Bonding Between Two Chromium(I) Centers

Tailuan Nguyen, Andrew D. Sutton, Marcin Brynda, James C. Fettinger, Gary J. Long, and Philip P. Power
Science 4 November 2005: 844-847.
Published online 22 September 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1116789] (in Science Express Reports)
A stable quintuple bond can be created in a chromium dimer supported by bulky triphenyl ligands.
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A Direct Role for Dual Oxidase in Drosophila Gut Immunity

Eun-Mi Ha, Chun-Taek Oh, Yun Soo Bae, and Won-Jae Lee
Science 4 November 2005: 847-850.
Reactive oxygen species in the lining of the Drosophila gut protect against microbial infection, just as they do in other cells of the innate immune system in many organisms.
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Treatment of Autoimmune Neuroinflammation with a Synthetic Tryptophan Metabolite

Michael Platten, Peggy P. Ho, Sawsan Youssef, Paulo Fontoura, Hideki Garren, Eun Mi Hur, Rohit Gupta, Lowen Y. Lee, Brian A. Kidd, William H. Robinson, Raymond A. Sobel, Michael L. Selley, and Lawrence Steinman
Science 4 November 2005: 850-855.
Breakdown products of the amino acid tryptophan inhibit immune responses and improve symptoms in an experimental form of multiple sclerosis in mice.
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Regulated Pole-to-Pole Oscillations of a Bacterial Gliding Motility Protein

Tâm Mignot, John P. Merlie, Jr., and David R. Zusman
Science 4 November 2005: 855-857.
Certain bacteria change their course by a protein that oscillates from one end to the other, directing the assembly of a pilus.
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Retrograde Signaling by Syt 4 Induces Presynaptic Release and Synapse-Specific Growth

Motojiro Yoshihara, Bill Adolfsen, Kathleen T. Galle, and J. Troy Littleton
Science 4 November 2005: 858-863.
Information can travel "backward" across a synapse by calcium-triggered vesicle fusion and release of signals that stimulate presynaptic activity and growth.
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Fast Readout of Object Identity from Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex

Chou P. Hung, Gabriel Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio, and James J. DiCarlo
Science 4 November 2005: 863-866.
Activity in as few as 100 cortical brain cells for 12.5 milliseconds is enough for a monkey to recognize the identity and general category of an object.
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Neuronal Activity Regulates Diffusion Across the Neck of Dendritic Spines

Brenda L. Bloodgood and Bernardo L. Sabatini
Science 4 November 2005: 866-869.
Neuronal activity regulates the diffusion of molecules between neuronal processes and their synapse supporting spines, suggesting a new form of synaptic regulation.
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Tissue-Specific TAFs Counteract Polycomb to Turn on Terminal Differentiation

Xin Chen, Mark Hiller, Yasemin Sancak, and Margaret T. Fuller
Science 4 November 2005: 869-872.
Transcription factors found only in the testes direct germ cell precursors to become mature sperm by displacing repressive proteins on the promoters of differentiation genes.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "A Brief History of Seed Size"

Peter J. Grubb, David A. Coomes, and Daniel J. Metcalfe
Science 4 November 2005: 783.
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 Response to Comment on "A Brief History of Seed Size"

Angela T. Moles, David D. Ackerly, Campbell O. Webb, John C. Tweddle, John B. Dickie, and Mark Westoby
Science 4 November 2005: 783.
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