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CONTENTS

Volume 329 Issue 5987

EDITORIAL

13 Science Attachés in Embassies

Farouk El-Baz

FDA Regulations for Drug Development

R. E. Behrman and J. Woodcock

Response

A. D. Levinson

33 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

NEWS OF THE WEEK

18 Conﬂ icting Papers on Hold as XMRV

Frenzy Reaches New Heights

19 India Launches New Probe

of Cyanide Disaster

20 Evidence for Free-Flowing Supersolid

Slipping Away?

21 From Science ’s Online Daily News Site

21 From the Science Policy Blog

22 Hunting for Plumes, Learning to Live

in a Media Spotlight

23 How to Kill a Well So That It’s

Really Most Sincerely Dead

BOOKS ET AL.

34 Science Tourism:

Some Stops for Summer Trips

POLICY FORUM

38 Synthetic “Life,” Ethics, National Security,

and Public Discourse

M. K. Cho and D. A. Relman

>> Research Article p. 52; Science Podcast

page 24

PERSPECTIVES

40 Genes for High Altitudes

J. F. Storz

>> Reports pp. 72 and 75

41 Tropical Arthropod Species, More or Less?

R. M. May

42 Downsizing the Hydrated Electron’s Lair

K. D. Jordan and M. A. Johnson

>> Report p. 65

44 A Guardian of T Cell Fate

J. P. Di Santo

>> Reports pp. 85, 89, and 93

45 To Cool or Not to Cool

V. Bromm

>> Report p. 69

NEWS FOCUS

24 The Seductive Allure of

Behavioral Epigenetics

A Role for Epigenetics in Cognition

>> Science Podcast

28 In Archaeobotanist’s Hands,

Tiny Fossils Yield Big Answers

30 Righting a 65-Year-Old Wrong

LETTERS

32 Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Patterns

L. Shi

Cryptic Loss of India’s Native Forests

J.-P. Puyravaud et al.

Variability of Our Somatic (Epi)Genomes

V. Sgaramella

CONTENTS continued >>

page 34

COVER

Electron micrograph of Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 cells

(magniﬁ cation ~25,000×). These cells were produced following

transplantation of a 1.08–megabase pair synthetic M. mycoides

genome into M. capricolum recipient cells. The cells are controlled by

the synthetic genome, exhibit the expected phenotypic properties, and

are capable of self-replication, thus providing proof of principle for the

production of cells from digitized sequence information. See page 52.

Photo: Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, National Center for

Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California at San Diego

DEPARTMENTS

10 This Week in Science

14 Editors’ Choice

16 Science Staff

17 Random Samples

97 New Products

98 Science Careers

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