Contents
09 September 2016
Vol 353, Issue 6304
Vol 353, Issue 6304
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- Campaign sets out to find a hot limit to life
Deep-sea drilling expedition off Japan to probe microbial boundary beneath sea floor.
- Cannonball! China's megasplash in ocean research
Huge new national lab's research priorities remain sketchy.
- The atmosphere's pacemaker skips a beat
Hiccup bodes wet winter weather for Europe.
- No proof that predator culls save livestock, study claims
New analysis calls for more rigorous studies.
- Accusations fly after big Gates grant
Panel promises verdict on old dispute between WHO and the University of Oxford.
Feature
- Iranian sun
A fusion research program nurtured in isolation could blossom as Iran joins the ITER megaproject.
- A year after the deal, nuclear collaborations languish
Efforts to redesign a reactor to produce less plutonium, and to turn a uranium enrichment facility into an international science center, are slow off the blocks.
- The reactor that triggered a nuclear crisis
Standoff over refueling an aging research reactor paved way for key advance in Iran's uranium enrichment know-how.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
Policy Forum
- A U.S. “Cancer Moonshot” to accelerate cancer research
Patient engagement and data sharing must improve
Perspectives
- Zika vaccine trials
There are new and familiar challenges in the race for timely and effective vaccines
- Location, location, location
Tissue of origin is important in determining how tumors rewire their metabolism
- Visualizing evolution as it happens
A meter-scale growth plate allows the evolution of antibiotic resistance to be tracked
- Asymmetry in supramolecular assembly
Photoresponsive organic nanowires connect to gold nanomesh and silicon electrodes
- How dams can go with the flow
Small changes to water flow regimes from dams can help to restore river ecosystems
- Lentiviral vectors, two decades later
A deadly virus became an effective gene delivery tool
- Ahmed H. Zewail (1946–2016)
A Nobel laureate, who pioneered femtochemistry, promoted a scientific renaissance in the Middle East
- Donald A. Henderson (1928–2016)
A pragmatic and tireless epidemiologist led the international eradication of smallpox
Research Articles
Reviews
Reports
Technical Comments
About The Cover
COVER Schematic illustration showing three paths to a vaccine for Zika virus. The Zika epidemic has recently exploded in the Americas and has been shown to cause devastating birth defects, as well as neurological problems in adults. See page 1129 for a description of three separate vaccine platforms that provide complete protection against Zika infection in rhesus monkeys. These findings lay a clear path for Zika vaccine development in humans. For related coverage, see pages 1073 and 1094
Illustration: Davide Bonazzi