This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Peace Through Vaccine Diplomacy

Peter J. Hotez
Science 12 March 2010: 1301.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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Science Podcast

Science 12 March 2010: 1395.
The show includes parent-offspring conflict in birds, peace through vaccine diplomacy, ocean versus land biodiversity, and more. Summary »|   Full Text »|   Transcript »|  

New Products

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A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

News of the Week

Latin America
Chile's Earthquake May Set Back Research for Years

Jocelyn Kaiser and Antonio Regalado
Science 12 March 2010: 1308-1309.
Scientists in Chile have lost years of research from last month's massive earthquake, which overturned microscopes, destroyed research labs, and took the life of a young marine biologist. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Pharmacology
The Puzzling Rise and Fall of a Dark-Horse Alzheimer's Drug

Greg Miller
Science 12 March 2010: 1309.
The announcement last week that a closely watched phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease had failed to show a significant effect deals yet another demoralizing blow to patients, families, and caregivers. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Ecology
Severe Drought Puts Spotlight on Chinese Dams

Richard Stone
Science 12 March 2010: 1311.
Environmental groups in Thailand and elsewhere are laying at least part of the blame for low levels of the Lancang-Mekong River on China's doorstep. They claim that China's management of a series of dams on the Lancang River has aggravated the unfolding crisis. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ScienceNOW.org
From Science's Online Daily News Site

Science 12 March 2010: 1312.
ScienceNOW reported this week on the results of our blogging contest at this year's AAAS meeting, a new hiding spot for HIV, genes for pain sensitivity, and a solution to the rangeland paradox, among other stories. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

North Korea
New Tuberculosis Lab Hailed as Breakthrough in Health Diplomacy

Richard Stone
Science 12 March 2010: 1312-1313.
Researchers from Stanford University and a consortium of nonprofit organizations have been working side by side with colleagues from the North Korean Ministry of Public Health to help set up the isolated nation's first laboratory capable of growing the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis and detecting drug-resistant strains. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ScienceInsider
From the Science Policy Blog

Science 12 March 2010: 1313.
ScienceInsider reported this week that the H1N1 virus may have had less impact this winter than expected, but a new report from Hong Kong suggests that the virus in pigs has picked up genes from the human version, among other stories. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Psychiatry
APA Seeks to Overhaul Personality Disorder Diagnoses

Constance Holden
Science 12 March 2010: 1314.
A work group of the American Psychiatric Association is proposing revisions for personality disorders in the forthcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often referred to as psychiatry's bible. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Newsmaker Interview
A Civil Conversation About Animals in Research

Greg Miller
Science 12 March 2010: 1315.
Last week, neuroscientist Dario Ringach of the University of California, Los Angeles, spoke with Science about a recent panel discussion he co-organized on animal research and the resulting renewed attention he's gotten from animal-rights extremists after having given up primate research in 2006. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Scientific Publishing
Elsevier to Editor: Change Controversial Journal or Resign

Martin Enserink
Science 12 March 2010: 1316.
The editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses—an oddity in the world of scientific publishing because it does not practice peer review—will apparently lose his job over the publication last summer of a paper that says HIV does not cause AIDS. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Energy Research
Matchmaking Is Part of the Party as ARPA-E Marks Its First Birthday

Eli Kintisch
Science 12 March 2010: 1317.
Last week, 1700 politicians, scientists, industrialists, and investors attended a 3-day summit in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to mark the first anniversary of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Random Samples

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News Focus

On Rarity and Richness

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 March 2010: 1318-1319.
Two researchers have taken a stab at explaining why oceans have far fewer species than terrestrial habitats. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Podcast Interview »|  

Physics
Ironing Out Consensus on the Iron-Based Superconductors

Adrian Cho
Science 12 March 2010: 1320-1321.
The emerging understanding of the 2-year-old materials could change physicists' views on the decades-old mystery of high-temperature superconductivity. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Space Science
NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data

Heather Pringle
Science 12 March 2010: 1322-1323.
Once forgotten or erased, 1960s-era satellite images are being salvaged from old equipment and proving valuable in climate and space science. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Letters

 Rebuilding Haiti Smarter

Tim Dixon, Falk Amelung, Chris Harrison, Shimon Wdowinksi, and Guoqing Lin
Science 12 March 2010: 1325.
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 The Hidden Face of Haiti's Tragedy

Menachem Ben-Ezra, Amit Shrira, and Yuval Palgi
Science 12 March 2010: 1325.
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 The Fate of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Jean-Marc Fromentin
Science 12 March 2010: 1325-1326.
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 Applying Privacy Guidelines

Shesen Guo, Ganzhou Zhang, and Run Zhai
Science 12 March 2010: 1326-1327.
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 Applying Privacy Guidelines—Response

Tom Mitchell
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Psychology
Bad Theories Can Harm Victims

Elizabeth F. Loftus and Steven J. Frenda
Science 12 March 2010: 1329-1330.
Clancy argues that children generally do not experience abuse as traumatic when it occurs but that often the trauma develops later, when "therapeutic culture dictates to victims how they should feel about their experience." Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Sociology
Putting Law into Practice in Personnel

Anna-Maria Marshall
Science 12 March 2010: 1330.
Examining the origins and evolution of affirmative action and equal opportunity, Dobbin argues that the crucial roles in shaping these transformative employment policies were played by human resources professionals rather than the law. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Books Received

Science 12 March 2010: 1330.
A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 05 March 2010. Summary »|  

Policy Forum

Conservation
Elephants, Ivory, and Trade

Samuel Wasser, Joyce Poole, Phyllis Lee, Keith Lindsay, Andrew Dobson, John Hart, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, George Wittemyer, Petter Granli, Bethan Morgan, Jody Gunn, Susan Alberts, Rene Beyers, Patrick Chiyo, Harvey Croze, Richard Estes, Kathleen Gobush, Ponjoli Joram, Alfred Kikoti, Jonathan Kingdon, Lucy King, David Macdonald, Cynthia Moss, Benezeth Mutayoba, Steve Njumbi, Patrick Omondi, and Katarzyna Nowak
Science 12 March 2010: 1331-1332.
Trade decisions made by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species must place science over politics. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Perspectives

Physics
Random Quantum Networks

Diederik S. Wiersma
Science 12 March 2010: 1333-1334.
The optical modes of disordered materials can couple with atomic emission and could create states that would be useful in quantum information processing. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Evolution
Trees, Fast and Accurate

Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes
Science 12 March 2010: 1334-1335.
A scalable and fast method for building very large evolutionary trees achieves greater accuracy than previously thought. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Biophysics
Enforcing Order on Signaling

Matthew Paszek and Valerie Weaver
Science 12 March 2010: 1335-1336.
Mechanical forces constrain the spatial organization of a cell surface receptor, thereby altering its signaling function and cell behavior. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Biochemistry
Remote Enzyme Microsurgery

J. Martin Bollinger, Jr. and Megan L. Matthews
Science 12 March 2010: 1337-1338.
Protein structures reveal a surprising mechanism for construction of a complex enzyme cofactor from standard amino acids. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Planetary Science
Revealing Titan's Interior

Frank Sohl
Science 12 March 2010: 1338-1339.
Gravity field measurements by the Cassini spacecraft suggest that Titan's interior was too cold for the primordial mixture of ice and rock to melt and fully separate. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Oceans
Interesting Times for Marine N₂O

Louis A. Codispoti
Science 12 March 2010: 1339-1340.
Changes in ocean chemistry could exacerbate global warming by raising the atmospheric concentration of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Review

Altruism, Spite, and Greenbeards

Stuart A. West and Andy Gardner
Science 12 March 2010: 1341-1344.
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Research Article

Identification of a Primary Target of Thalidomide Teratogenicity

Takumi Ito, Hideki Ando, Takayuki Suzuki, Toshihiko Ogura, Kentaro Hotta, Yoshimasa Imamura, Yuki Yamaguchi, and Hiroshi Handa
Science 12 March 2010: 1345-1350.
Thalidomide exerts its damaging effects by binding to cereblon and blocking its activity in limb development. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Variations in the Sun’s Meridional Flow over a Solar Cycle

David H. Hathaway and Lisa Rightmire
Science 12 March 2010: 1350-1352.
Observed variations in the Sun’s poleward flow have consequences for models and predictions of the solar cycle. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Anderson-Localized Modes

Luca Sapienza, Henri Thyrrestrup, Søren Stobbe, Pedro David Garcia, Stephan Smolka, and Peter Lodahl
Science 12 March 2010: 1352-1355.
Optical scattering is used to induce quantum coupling between light and an artificial atom. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoparticles into Twisted Ribbons

Sudhanshu Srivastava, Aaron Santos, Kevin Critchley, Ki-Sub Kim, Paul Podsiadlo, Kai Sun, Jaebeom Lee, Chuanlai Xu, G. Daniel Lilly, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Nicholas A. Kotov
Science 12 March 2010: 1355-1359.
Published online 11 February 2010 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1177218] (in Science Express Reports)
The photooxidation of cadmium sulfide nanoparticles within cadmium telluride nanoparticle ribbons causes surface stresses that lead to twisting. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Near-Tip Fields of Fast Cracks

Ariel Livne, Eran Bouchbinder, Ilya Svetlizky, and Jay Fineberg
Science 12 March 2010: 1359-1363.
The linear and nonlinear elastic responses near a growing crack tip can reveal how materials fail. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Imaging Local Electrochemical Current via Surface Plasmon Resonance

Xiaonan Shan, Urmez Patel, Shaopeng Wang, Rodrigo Iglesias, and Nongjian Tao
Science 12 March 2010: 1363-1366.
The concentration of electrochemically active species on a gold electrode provides a local measurement of current density. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Gravity Field, Shape, and Moment of Inertia of Titan

Luciano Iess, Nicole J. Rappaport, Robert A. Jacobson, Paolo Racioppa, David J. Stevenson, Paolo Tortora, John W. Armstrong, and Sami W. Asmar
Science 12 March 2010: 1367-1369.
Analysis of gravity data reveals that Saturn’s moon Titan has a partially differentiated internal structure. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

Quanguo Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Jakob Vinther, Matthew D. Shawkey, Julia A. Clarke, Liliana D’Alba, Qingjin Meng, Derek E. G. Briggs, and Richard O. Prum
Science 12 March 2010: 1369-1372.
Published online 4 February 2010 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1186290] (in Science Express Reports)
Comparison of melanosome shape and density between fossil feathers and modern ones reveals the appearance and color of a theropod. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation

Camilla A. Hinde, Rufus A. Johnstone, and Rebecca M. Kilner
Science 12 March 2010: 1373-1376.
Prenatal hormonal signaling can match a mother bird’s capacity to provide food with her offsprings’ expectations. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  Podcast Interview »|  

Toward Extracting All Phylogenetic Information from Matrices of Evolutionary Distances

Sebastien Roch
Science 12 March 2010: 1376-1379.
Methods recently developed for taxonomic analysis are fast and do not compromise accuracy. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Restriction of Receptor Movement Alters Cellular Response: Physical Force Sensing by EphA2

Khalid Salaita, Pradeep M. Nair, Rebecca S. Petit, Richard M. Neve, Debopriya Das, Joe W. Gray, and Jay T. Groves
Science 12 March 2010: 1380-1385.
Mechanical forces acting on a cell-surface receptor affect the activation of a signaling pathway involved in breast cancer. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Lgr6 Marks Stem Cells in the Hair Follicle That Generate All Cell Lineages of the Skin

Hugo J. Snippert, Andrea Haegebarth, Maria Kasper, Viljar Jaks, Johan H. van Es, Nick Barker, Marc van de Wetering, Maaike van den Born, Harry Begthel, Robert G. Vries, Daniel E. Stange, Rune Toftgård, and Hans Clevers
Science 12 March 2010: 1385-1389.
Skin wounds can be repaired by primitive stem cells into fully differentiated tissue, complete with hairs and sebaceous glands. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Sources of Robustness in Biochemical Reaction Networks

Guy Shinar and Martin Feinberg
Science 12 March 2010: 1389-1391.
Models of metabolic regulation show how the stability of specific components is maintained within a varying environment. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

In Crystallo Posttranslational Modification Within a MauG/Pre–Methylamine Dehydrogenase Complex

Lyndal M. R. Jensen, Ruslan Sanishvili, Victor L. Davidson, and Carrie M. Wilmot
Science 12 March 2010: 1392-1394.
Bacterial ammonia and formaldehyde production requires prior processing of a dehydrogenase to form a cofactor. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|