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11 July 2014 Volume 345, Issue 6193


In this week's issue:


Special Section


Introduction to Special Issue

Special Issue News
Australia

Australia's aggressive efforts to stop HIV's spread via injecting drugs averted a catastrophe.


Increasing prevalence in Australia's men who have sex with men raises questions about treatment as prevention.


Papua New Guinea

Data vacuum despite improved surveillance.


A community gathers to watch a video about HIV's impact on a local family and meet the star.


No clear mechanism explains how removing a foreskin protects men from HIV, but traditional penile cutting in Papua New Guinea may help clarify.


Indonesia

Sex and drugs rock Health Minister Mboi's reign.


Malaysia

A top researcher and advocate pushes for change.


Special Issue Review

Special Issue Perspective


Research Summaries


Editor summaries of this week's papers.

Highlights of the recent literature.


Editorial





In Brief


A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.



In Depth


Indigenous Peoples

Anthropologists worry about the threat from novel infections and conflicts with other tribes.


Nuclear Weapons

Gases from medical isotope plants can mimic the signature of a bomb, but makers say they will cut emissions.


Europe

Scientists threaten to boycott the Human Brain Project.


Water

Nationwide water transfer scheme could aid farming, but critics fear ecological havoc.


Paleoanthropology

Researchers consider killing off a claimed common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans.



Feature


The spread of an emerging disease from its forest stronghold is sounding alarm bells in India.



Working Life



Letters



Books et al.


Nuclear Physics

Neuroscience

A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 04 July 2014.



Perspectives


Microbiology

Gene expression patterns of open-ocean microbes are tightly coupled. [Also see Report by Ottesen et al.]


HIV/AIDS

A successful infection is determined in part by how close a viral genome is to an ideal sequence. [Also see Research Article by Carlson et al.]


Imaging Techniques

Thermally induced structural changes in a thin polymer film could be resolved with picosecond time resolution. [Also see Report by Gulde et al.]


Physics

Optical measurements may help reveal the secrets of exotic superconductivity and manipulate the pair condensate. [Also see Report by Schemm et al.]


Microbiology

How bacteria “flip” carbohydrate precursors across the cytoplasmic membrane. [Also see Report by Sham et al.]


Medicine

New drugs to cure hepatitis C should be made available at low costs in developing countries


Biochemistry

Where are the protons in heme protein catalysis? [Also see Report by Casadei et al.]


HIV/AIDS

Latently HIV-infected cells driven to proliferate may raise a further challenge for eradication strategies. [Also see Research Article by Maldarelli et al.]


Oceans

Concern is rising about widespread contamination of the marine environment by microplastics.

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Research Articles


An analysis of discordant couples reveals that transmitted HIV-1 viruses are typically the most evolutionarily fit. [Also see Perspective by Joseph and Swanstrom]


Where HIV integrates into the host genome contributes to viral persistence and the expansion of infected cells. [Also see Perspective by Margolis and Bushman]



Reports


Asymmetric plasma flows on the night side of Earth are regulated by magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.


Some of the phenomenology of cuprate superconductors is recreated in strontium iridate surface-doped with potassium.


Optical measurements elucidate the nature of superconductivity in an exotic compound. [Also see Perspective by van der Marel and Sawatzky]


The sensitivity of neutron scattering to proton locations clarifies the acid/base chemistry of a biochemical oxidation. [Also see Perspective by Groves and Boaz]


A method for estimating the uncertainty of calculated properties in density functional theory is introduced.


Time-resolved low-energy electron diffraction resolves picosecond structural dynamics in a polymer-graphene bilayer. [Also see Perspective by Nibbering]


Earthquakes that occur hundreds of kilometers below the surface may have more than one rupture mechanism.


Multispecies’ daily waves of gene transcription are observed in open ocean microplankton. [Also see Perspective by Armbrust]


How do theoretical predictions of individual fiscal behaviors match up against real-world, real-time data?


Mutational analysis of tumor cells isolated from the blood of cancer patients may help optimize treatment selection.


The identity of the final essential component of the bacterial peptidoglycan biogenesis pathway is elucidated. [Also see Perspective by Young]


Genetic oscillations, their changing spatial pattern, and tissue shortening direct the rhythm of sequential body segmentation.



Technical Comments



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New Products


A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.



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