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| | Fifty years on 623
doi:10.1038/261623a0
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| | News |  |
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| | Genetic manipulation to be patented? 624
A patent application governing commercial uses of recombinant DNA techniques has been filed in the United States. Colin Norman reports.
Colin Norman
doi:10.1038/261624a0
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| | Pakistan's ambitious nuclear power programme 625
Azim Kidwai
doi:10.1038/261625a0
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| | USSR's polar research 625
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/261625b0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | More on Paradisia 626
GEOFFREY R. PENZER
doi:10.1038/261626a0
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| | PhD in evolution 626
A. C. ROSE-INNES
doi:10.1038/261626b0
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| | The real AI 626
DARRELL H. THORPE
doi:10.1038/261626c0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Discovery of superheavy elements 627
Peter Hodgson
doi:10.1038/261627a0
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| | Antiquity of tropical rain forests 628
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/261628a0
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| | Red Sea: poles apart 628
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/261628b0
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| | A hundred years ago 628
doi:10.1038/261628c0
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| | Genetic function of mitochondrial DNA 629
D. Wilkie
doi:10.1038/261629a0
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| | A million memories? 630
Andrew Holmes-Siedle
doi:10.1038/261630a0
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| | CSIRO: fifty years of research 631
doi:10.1038/261631a0
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| | Looking to the future 631
Although research in CSIRO mil be determined by the significant advances in science as a whole, much emphasis will still be on the use of resources, the environment and consumer-oriented research. This is discussed against a background of increasing interaction between science and politics.
J. R. Price
doi:10.1038/261631b0
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| | A personal account of the historical development of CSIRO 633
F. W. G. White
doi:10.1038/261633a0
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| | Wildlife research 637
H. J. Frith
doi:10.1038/261637a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (706K)
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| | Animal nutrition to human nutrition: achievements and prospects 640
Basil S. Hetzel
doi:10.1038/261640a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (680K)
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| | Growth of CSIRO's interests in food research 644
Josephine M. Bastian & J. R. Vickery
doi:10.1038/261644a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (580K)
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| | Minerals research 647
I. E. Newnham
doi:10.1038/261647a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (370K)
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| | Wool structure and biosynthesis 650
R. D. B. Fraser & J. M. Gillespie
doi:10.1038/261650a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (726K)
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| | Fifty years of plant research 655
L. T. Evans
doi:10.1038/261655a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (456K)
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| | Synthetic polymer research in CSIRO 658
D. H. Solomon
doi:10.1038/261658a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (490K)
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| | Australian journals of scientific research 661
B. J. Walby
doi:10.1038/261661a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (424K)
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| | Articles |  |
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| | On the mechanisms of lunar regolith glass particle formation 664
Yu. B. Chernyak & M. D. Nussinov
doi:10.1038/261664a0
Abstract & References | PDF (284K)
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| | Volatilisation of elements from melts of lunar material 666
M. D. Nussinov & Yu. B. Chernyak
doi:10.1038/261666a0
Abstract & References | PDF (362K)
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| | Partial sequences of 16S rRNA and the phylogeny of blue-green algae and chloroplasts 669
L. Bonen & W. F. Doolittle
doi:10.1038/261669a0
Abstract & References | PDF (567K)
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Are supernova explosions driven by magnetic springs? 673
W. KUNDT
doi:10.1038/261673a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (211K)
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| | Effects of back warming in cocoon stars 674
J. R. DONNISON & I. P. WILLIAMS
doi:10.1038/261674a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (215K)
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| | Constraints on the nature of the ancient lunar magnetic field 675
J. N. GOSWAMI
doi:10.1038/261675a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (340K)
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| | Longitudinal dependence of ionospheric total electron content in the South Atlantic Geomagnetic Anomaly 677
PIERRE KAUFMANN, L. RIZZO PIAZZA, O. MASSAMBANI, V. N. DINIZ BORGES & E. H. KOPPE
doi:10.1038/261677a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (354K)
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| | Hudson Bay, Lake Zissaga and the growth of the Laurentide Ice Sheet 679
DAVID P. ADAM
doi:10.1038/261679a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (250K)
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| | Earth tides, volcanos and climatic change 680
ROBERT G. ROOSEN, ROBERT S. HARRINGTON, JAMES GILES & IBEN BROWNING
doi:10.1038/261680a0
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| | The Kaye effect revisited 682
A. A. COLLYER & P. J. FISHER
doi:10.1038/261682a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (308K)
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| | Development of a silicon carbide fibre with high tensile strength 683
S. YAJIMA, J. HAYASHI, M. OMORI & K. OKAMURA
doi:10.1038/261683a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (293K)
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| | Low level determinations of environmental cadmium 685
K. J. R. ROSMAN & J. R. DE LAETER
doi:10.1038/261685a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (223K)
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| | Correlations between concentrations of elements in plants 686
CHARLES T. GARTEN JR
doi:10.1038/261686a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (309K)
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| | Adjusting to the changes to and from Daylight Saving Time 688
TIMOTHY H. MONK & SIMON FOLKARD
doi:10.1038/261688a0
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| | Visibility of flicker in television pictures 689
J. M. CORBETT & T. A. WHITE
doi:10.1038/261689a0
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| | Differing emotional response from right and left hemispheres 690
STUART J. DIMOND, LINDA FARRINGTON & PETER JOHNSON
doi:10.1038/261690a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (346K)
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| | Significance of two frequency bands in long distance vocal communication in the green treefrog 692
H. CARL GERHARDT
doi:10.1038/261692a0
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| | Rates of size increase and of phyletic evolution 694
A. J. BOUCOT
doi:10.1038/261694a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (334K)
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| | Synergistic effect of a pheromone and a kairomone on host selection and colonisation by Ips avulsus
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ROY HEDDEN, J. P. VITE & KENJI MORI
doi:10.1038/261696a0
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| | Evidence that blackfly larvae can feed on particles of colloidal size 697
R. S. WOTTON
doi:10.1038/261697a0
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| | Prochlorophyta as a proposed new division of algae 697
RALPH A. LEWIN
doi:10.1038/261697b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (235K)
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| | Chemotherapy of Theileria parva infection 698
N. McHARDY, A. J. B. HAIGH & T. T. DOLAN
doi:10.1038/261698a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (225K)
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| | Drug-containing lipid vesicles render drug-resistant tumour cells sensitive to actinomycin D 699
GEORGE POSTE & DEMETRIOS PAPAHADJOPOULOS
doi:10.1038/261699a0
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| | Selective cytotoxicity for transformed 3T3 cells 701
ENRIQUE ROZENGURT & CHANG CHIN Po
doi:10.1038/261701a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (326K)
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| | Aerobic glycolysis during lymphocyte proliferation 702
TINGCHUNG WANG, CATHLEEN MARQUARDT & JOHN FOKER
doi:10.1038/261702a0
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| | Further evidence for derepression of H−2 and Ia-like specificities of foreign haplotypes in mouse tumour cell lines 705
FEDERICO GARRIDO, HILLIARD FESTENSTEIN & VOLKER SCHIRRMACHER
doi:10.1038/261705a0
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| | Release and synthesis of prolactin by rat pituitary cell strains are regulated independently by thyrotropin-releasing hormone 707
PRISCILLA S. DANNIES & ARMEN H. TASJIAN JR
doi:10.1038/261707a0
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| | Immunofluorescence labelling of gonadotropin receptors in enzyme-dispersed interstitial cells 710
A. J. W. HSUEH, M. L. DUFAU, S. I. KATZ & K. J. CATT
doi:10.1038/261710a0
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| | Effect of testosterone, sex and age on experimentally induced arterial thrombosis 712
ANELIA UZUNOVA, ESTELLE RAMEY & PETER W. RAMWELL
doi:10.1038/261712a0
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| | Cholecystokinin both stimulates and inhibits human food intake 713
RICHARD A. L. STURDEVANT & HEIDI GOETZ
doi:10.1038/261713a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (320K)
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| | Methanol poisoning in the folate-deficient rat 715
A. B. MAKAR & T. R. TEPHLY
doi:10.1038/261715a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (215K)
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| | Frequency dependence of cyclic AMP in mammalian myocardium 716
M. ENDOH, O. E. BRODDE, D. REINHARDT & H. J. SCHÜMANN
doi:10.1038/261716a0
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| | Antipsychotic drug doses and neuroleptic/dopamine receptors 717
P. SEEMAN, T. LEE, M. CHAU-WONG & K. WONG
doi:10.1038/261717a0
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| | Proposed structure for brain adenylate cyclase purified using blue dextran−Sepharose chromatography 719
EARLE STELLWAGEN & BARBARA BAKER
doi:10.1038/261719a0
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| | Synaptic transmission and effects of temperature at the squid giant synapse 720
FORREST F. WEIGHT & S. D. ERULKAR
doi:10.1038/261720a0
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| | Stimulation of active Na transport by phospholipase C 722
THOMAS YORIO & P. J. BENTLEY
doi:10.1038/261722a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (202K)
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| | Membrane retrieval at neurosecretory axon endings 723
J. J. NORDMANN & J. F. MORRIS
doi:10.1038/261723a0
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| | Crystallisation of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Thermus thermophilus HB 8 725
SHUICHI TSUJI, KOICHI SUZUKI & KAZUTOMO IMAHORI
doi:10.1038/261725a0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Forests and their genetics 727
Henry S. Horn reviews Tropical Rain Forests of the Far East
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T. C. Whitmore
doi:10.1038/261727a0
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| | Forests and their genetics 727
J. Burley reviews Introduction to Forest Genetics
By
Jonathan W. Wright
doi:10.1038/261727b0
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| | Nuclear magnetic resonance 727
J. Feeney reviews NMR in Biological Research: Peptides and Proteins
By
Kurt Wüthrich
doi:10.1038/261727c0
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| | Blood vessels in perspective 728
I. C. Roddie reviews Blood Vessels
(Biological Structure and Function.) By
W. J. Cliff
doi:10.1038/261728a0
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| | Water facets 728
Peter H. von Hippel reviews Water: A Comprehensive Treatise
Edited By
Felix Franks
doi:10.1038/261728b0
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| | Erratum 729
doi:10.1038/261729a0
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| | Crystallinity of macromolecules 729
A. Keller reviews Macromolecular Physics
Vol. 2: Crystal Nucleation, Growth, Annealing. By
Bernhard Wunderlich
doi:10.1038/261729b0
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| | Insect ecology 730
Michael C. Singer reviews Insect Ecology
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Peter W. Price
doi:10.1038/261730a0
PDF (113K)
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| | Effects of cold on man 730
O. G. Edholm reviews Man in the Cold
(A Monograph in the Bannerstone Division of American Lectures in Environmental Studies.) By
Jacques LeBlanc
doi:10.1038/261730b0
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