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[Image: NASA and USGS] DEPARTMENTS 665 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 639 SCIENCE ONLINE The Unexpected Brains Behind Blood Vessel Growth 641 THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE 668 U.K. UNIVERSITIES 645 EDITORIAL by Patrick Bateson Desirable Scientific Conduct ‘Darwinian’ Funding and the Demise of Physics and Chemistry 646 EDITORS’CHOICE 650 CONTACT SCIENCE 670 RANDOM SAMPLES 651 NETWATCH 745 NEW PRODUCTS LETTERS 746 GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES 673 Evolution Versus Invention D. Premack and A. Premack. 770 SCIENCE CAREERS Elephants, Ecology, and Nonequilibrium? C. Hambler et al.;A.W. Illius. Response L. Gillson et al. National Environmental Policy Act at 35 D. A. Bronstein et al. NEWS OF THE WEEK 660 652 BIOMEDICINE BOOKS ET AL. Move Provokes Bruising Fight Over 676 EVOLUTION U.K. Biomedical Institute The Ancestor’s Tale A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life; 653 SPACE SCIENCE The Ancestor’s Tale A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of NASA Probe to Examine Edge of Solar System Evolution R. Dawkins, reviewed by C. F. Delwiche 653 AIDS TREATMENT A Step Toward Cheaper Anti-HIV Therapy 677 EVOLUTION Assembling the Tree of Life 655 QUANTUM COMPUTING J. Cracraft and M. J. Donoghue, Eds., reviewed by Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for S. J. Steppan Enemies to Swap Messages 678 Browsings 655 SCIENCESCOPE 656 MICROBIOLOGY ESSAY Immortality Dies As Bacteria Show Their Age 679 GLOBAL VOICES OF SCIENCE It Takes a Village: Medical Research 656 U.K. UNIVERSITIES and Ethics in Mali Cash-Short Schools Aim to Raise Fees, 676 O. K. Doumbo Recruit Foreign Students 657 SOUTH ASIA TSUNAMI PERSPECTIVES Powerful Tsunami’s Impact on Coral Reefs 682 OCEAN SCIENCE Was Hit and Miss The Ocean’s Seismic Hum S. Kedar and F. H. Webb 659 TAIWAN University Spending Plan 683 GENETICS Triggers Heated Debate A Century of Corn Selection W. G. Hill 659 UNITED KINGDOM Proposed Law Targets 684 ECOLOGY Animal-Rights Activists Untangling an Entangled Bank D. Storch, P. A. Marquet, K. J. Gaston NEWS FOCUS 686 ASTRONOMY 660 CELL BIOLOGY At the Heart of the Milky Way Asia Jockeys for Stem Cell Lead T. J. W. Lazio and T. N. LaRosa U.S. States Offer Asia Stiff 679 Competition 687 SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION Asian Countries Permit Research, Signaling Specificity in Yeast With Safeguards E. A. Elion, M. Qi, W. Chen Contents continued www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 307 4 FEBRUARY 2005 633 Integrated Solutions — Gene Expression Analysis Real-time, multiplex PCR can be so simple —hit all targets in one tube! Up to 4plex PCR Detection of t(8;14) translocation sequenceinduplex PCR using the QuantiTect Multiplex PCR Kit Detection of CSBG sequencein triplex PCR using the QuantiTect Multiplex PCR NoROX Kit Success in quantitative, real-time, multiplex PCR at the first attempt! Get accurate results in quantitative, real-time, multiplex PCR of cDNA and genomic DNA targets without optimizing reaction and cycling conditions! 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PurchaseofQIAGEN products for PCR containing HotStarTaq DNA Polymeraseis accompanied by a limited license to use them in the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)process for research and development activities in conjunction with a thermal cycler whose usein the automated performanceof the PCR process is covered by the up-front license fee, either by payment to Applied Biosystems or as purchased, i.e. an authorized thermal cycler. The PCR process is covered by U.S. Patents 4,683,195 and 4,683,202 and foreign equivalents owned by Hoffmann-La Roche AG. The 5' nucleaseprocess is covered by patents owned by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Patents of thirdparties in certain countries may cover the process of multiplex PCR or of certain applications. GEXQTM1104S1WW 11/2004© 2004 QIAGEN, all rights reserved. WWW. QIAGEN. COM www.sciencedigital.org/subscribe For just US$130, you can join AAAS TODAY and start receiving Science Digital Edition immediately! www.sciencedigital.org/subscribe For just US$130, you can join AAAS TODAY and start receiving Science Digital Edition immediately! SCIENCE EXPRESS www.sciencexpress.org CHEMISTRY: Laser-Initiated Shuttling of a Water Molecule Between H-Bonding Sites J. R. Clarkson, E. Baquero, V. A. Shubert, E. M. Myshakin, K. D. Jordan, T. S. Zwier Light energy is used to move a single water molecule between two different binding sites on a single solute molecule, allowing detailed measurement of the binding energies. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: RNA Polymerase IV Directs Silencing of Endogenous DNA A. J. Herr, M. B. Jensen, T. Dalmay, D. C. Baulcombe A newly described polymerase found only in plants is required for small RNAs to silence transgenes and a retroelement in Arabidopsis. CELL BIOLOGY: Chaperone Activity of Protein O-Fucosyltransferase 1 Promotes Notch Receptor Folding T. Okajima, A. Xu, L. Lei, K. D. Irvine An enzyme thought to add glucose groups to a key receptor protein as it travels to the membrane unexpectedly also acts as a chaperone to ensure correct folding of the receptor. NEUROSCIENCE: Insect Sex-Pheromone Signals Mediated by Specific Combinations of Olfactory Receptors T. Nakagawa, T. Sakurai, T. Nishioka, K. Touhara Receptors for insect pheromones rely on coexpression of an olfactory receptor for proper membrane insertion and for pheromone-triggered current flow. TECHNICAL COMMENT ABSTRACTS 675 PHYSIOLOGY Comment on “Long-Lived Drosophila with Overexpressed dFOXO in Adult Fat Body” M. Tatar full text at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5710/675a Response to Comment on “Long-Lived Drosophila with Overexpressed dFOXO in Adult Fat Body” M. E. Giannakou, M. Goss, M. A. Jünger, E. Hafen, S. J. Leevers, L. Partridge full text at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5710/675b BREVIA 689 MICROBIOLOGY: Simple Foraminifera Flourish at the Ocean’s Deepest Point Y.