| | Opinion |  |
 |
| | Hiring and firing gets more complex 695
doi:10.1038/273695a0
PDF (92K)
|
|
| | News | |
|
| | Recombinant DNA is safe 696
Professor R. H. Pritchard argues that there are no real hazards in recombinant DNA research.
R. H. Pritchard
doi:10.1038/273696a0
PDF (129K)
|
|
| | Commonwealth Science Council coordinates approach to UNCSTD 697
Alastair Hay assesses the CSC effort to produce a commonwealth view on development
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/273697a0
PDF (333K)
|
|
| | Dutch recombinant DNA guidelines to be relaxed 698
Casper Schurring
doi:10.1038/273698a0
PDF (171K)
|
|
| | Ariane heads south 698
doi:10.1038/273698b0
PDF (171K)
|
|
| | Proposition 13 threatens US basic research 699
David Dickson describes fears expressed at a recent meeting of the AAAS on federal research and development
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/273699a0
PDF (126K)
|
|
| | Saudis warm to solar energy 700
Even Saudi Arabia is searching for new sources of energy. Here Ziauddin Sardar reports on the Saudi approach to the sun
Ziauddin Sardar
doi:10.1038/273700a0
PDF (235K)
|
|
| | Self-sufficiency on one-tenth of an acre 701
KENNETH MELLANBY
doi:10.1038/273701a0
PDF (117K)
|
|
| | What substitutes for oil? 702
David Spurgeon reports on a forthcoming conference on future sources of organic raw materials
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/273702a0
PDF (474K)
|
|
| | Correspondence | |
|
| | Western attitude in jeopardy 704
ALASTAIR HAY
doi:10.1038/273704a0
PDF (122K)
|
|
| | Lead levels in Birmingham 704
R. STEPHENS
doi:10.1038/273704b0
PDF (122K)
|
|
| | Saccharin: the risks and benefits 704
BERNARD L. COHEN
doi:10.1038/273704c0
PDF (122K)
|
|
| | Burying high level wastes 704
D. G. BROOKINS, J. K. REGISTER, M. E. REGISTER & S. J. LAMBERT
doi:10.1038/273704d0
PDF (122K)
|
|
| | News and Views |  |
|
| | UPSI-DESY 705
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/273705a0
PDF (99K)
|
|
| | Is prostacyclin a circulating anti-coagulant? 706
C. T. Dollery & C. N. Hensby
doi:10.1038/273706a0
PDF (127K)
|
|
| | A new interaction for leptons? 706
F. E. Close
doi:10.1038/273706b0
PDF (368K)
|
|
| | Virion RNA can be used to study nuclear processing of messenger RNA 707
R. Weiss
doi:10.1038/273707a0
PDF (126K)
|
|
| | DNA repair mechanisms 708
R. B. Painter
doi:10.1038/273708a0
PDF (249K)
|
|
| | Rings, MAPs and microtubules 709
Roy Burns
doi:10.1038/273709a0
PDF (264K)
|
|
| | Corrigendum 710
doi:10.1038/273710a0
PDF (137K)
|
|
| | A hundred years ago 710
doi:10.1038/273710b0
PDF (137K)
|
|
| | Articles |  |
|
| | Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and stratospheric ozone 711
K. S. Groves, S. R. Mattingly & A. F. Tuck
doi:10.1038/273711a0
Abstract & References | PDF (484K)
|
|
| | Transitional field configurations and geomagnetic reversal 715
K. A. Hoffman & M. Fuller
doi:10.1038/273715a0
Abstract & References | PDF (389K)
|
|
| | Alterations in the surface properties of cells responsive to nerve growth factor 718
D. Schubert, M. LaCorbiere, C. Whitlock & W. Stallcup
doi:10.1038/273718a0
Abstract & References | PDF (638K)
|
|
| | Sequence of chicken ovalbumin mRNA 723
L. McReynolds, B. W. O'Malley, A. D. Nisbet, J. E. Fothergill, D. Givol, S. Fields, M. Robertson & G. G. Brownlee
doi:10.1038/273723a0
Abstract & References | PDF (686K)
|
|
| | Letters | |
|
| | A Near-Eastern sighting of the supernova explosion of 1054 728
KENNETH BRECHER, ELINOR LIEBER & ALFRED E. LIEBER
doi:10.1038/273728a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (328K)
|
|
| | Primitive atmosphere and implications for the formation of channels on Mars 730
Y. L. YUNG & J. P. PINTO
doi:10.1038/273730a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (249K)
|
|
| | Meteor radar rates, geomagnetic activity and solar wind sector structure 732
B. A. LINDBLAD
doi:10.1038/273732a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (331K)
|
|
| | Kirkwood Gaps and stability of conservative periodic systems 734
T. KIANG
doi:10.1038/273734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (353K)
|
|
| | Evidence for leptonic colour? 736
J. C. PATI, S. RAJPOOT, ABDUS SALAM & J. STRATHDEE
doi:10.1038/273736a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (330K)
|
|
| | Anionic copolymerisation of elemental sulphur 738
STANIS AW PENCZEK, ROMUALD  LAZAK & ANDRZEJ DUDA
doi:10.1038/273738a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (195K)
|
|
| | Halokinesis and thermal convection 739
C. J. TALBOT
doi:10.1038/273739a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (309K)
|
|
| | Multiple spinel−garnet peridotite transitions in upper mantle: evidence from a harzburgite xenolith 741
J. B. DAWSON, J. V. SMITH & J. S. DELANEY
doi:10.1038/273741a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (322K)
|
|
| | Deep shelf and slope terraces off northern Labrador 743
RICHARD H. FILLON, R. ALLIN FOLINSBEE & RICHARD PALMER
doi:10.1038/273743a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (406K)
|
|
| | Off-ridge volcanism and seafloor spreading in the Shikoku Basin 746
G. DEV. KLEIN, K. KOBAYASHI, H. CHAMLEY, D. M. CURTIS, H. J. B. DICK, D. J. ECHOLS, D. M. FOUNTAIN, H. KINOSHITA, N. G. MARSH, A. MIZUNO, G. V. NISTERENKO, H. OKADA, J. R. SLOAN, D. M. WAPLES & S. M. WHITE
doi:10.1038/273746a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (272K)
|
|
| | Holocene eustatic sea level change 748
C. KIDSON & A. HEYWORTH
doi:10.1038/273748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (307K)
|
|
| | Stable carbon isotopes in human tissues 750
T. D. B. LYON & M. S. BAXTER
doi:10.1038/273750a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (190K)
|
|
| | Size-dependent dominance hierarchy in the anemone Actinia equina
752
R. C. BRACE & JANIS PAVEY
doi:10.1038/273752a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (257K)
|
|
| | Chromosome transfer in dikaryons of a smut fungus 753
ALAN W. DAY
doi:10.1038/273753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (271K)
|
|
| | Further evidence for a random transition in the cell cycle 755
ROBERT SHIELDS
doi:10.1038/273755a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (356K)
|
|
| | Activated macrophages kill tumour cells by releasing arginase 758
G. A. CURRIE
doi:10.1038/273758a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (224K)
|
|
| | Enhanced NK cell activity in mice injected with interferon and interferon inducers 759
MAGNUS GIDLUND, ANDERS ÖRN, HANS WIGZELL, ANNA SENIK & ION GRESSER
doi:10.1038/273759a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (321K)
|
|
| | Antisera to frog immunoglobulins cross-react with a periodate-sensitive cell surface determinant 761
M. JULES MATTES & LISA A. STEINER
doi:10.1038/273761a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (393K)
|
|
| |
V and C parts of immunoglobulin  -chain genes are separate in myeloma 763
GASTON MATTHYSSENS & SUSUMU TONEGAWA
doi:10.1038/273763a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (375K)
|
|
| | Generation of prostacyclin by lungs in vivo and its release into the arterial circulation 765
RYSZARD J. GRYGLEWSKI, RYSZARD KORBUT & ANNA OCETKIEWICZ
doi:10.1038/273765a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (330K)
|
|
| | Prostacyclin is a circulating hormone 767
SALVADOR MONCADA, RYSZARD KORBUT, STUART BUNTING & JOHN R. VANE
doi:10.1038/273767a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (236K)
|
|
| | Bombesin-like immunoreactivity in the lung 769
J. WHARTON, J. M. POLAK, S. R. BLOOM, M. A. GHATEI, E. SOLCIA, M. R. BROWN & A. G. E. PEARSE
doi:10.1038/273769a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (313K)
|
|
| | Biosynthetic relationships of big and little gastrins 770
G. J. DOCKRAY, CAMILLE VAILLANT & C. R. HOPKINS
doi:10.1038/273770a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (424K)
|
|
| | Desensitisation of peripheral photoreceptors shown by blue-induced decrease in transmittance of Drosophila rhabdomeres 772
MEI-VEN C. Lo & WILLIAM L. PAK
doi:10.1038/273772a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (425K)
|
|
| | Pineal eye and behaviour in Xenopus tadpoles 774
ALAN ROBERTS
doi:10.1038/273774a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (204K)
|
|
| | Evolutionary and dietary aspects of salivary basic (Pb) and post Pb (PPb) proteins in anthropoid primates 775
EDWIN A. AZEN, WALTER LEUTENEGGER & ERWIN H. PETERS
doi:10.1038/273775a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (584K)
|
|
| | Analysis of virion RNA segments and polypeptides of influenza A virus recombinants of defined virulence 778
J. S. OXFORD, D. J. MCGEOCH, G. C. SCHILD & A. S. BEARE
doi:10.1038/273778a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (295K)
|
|
| | Nuclear conversion of microinjected avian leukosis virion RNA into an envelope-glycoprotein messenger 779
DENNIS W. STACEY & HIDESABURO HANAFUSA
doi:10.1038/273779a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (504K)
|
|
| | Rapid transfer of non-histone chromosomal proteins to the nucleus of living cells 782
MASARU YAMAIZUMI, TSUYOSHI UCHIDA, YOSHIO OKADA, MITSURU FURUSAWA & HIROMI MITSUI
doi:10.1038/273782a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (318K)
|
|
| | Photochemical cis−trans isomerisation of bovine rhodopsin at liquid helium temperatures 784
B. ATON, R. H. CALLENDER & B. HONIG
doi:10.1038/273784a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (299K)
|
|
| | Erratum | |
|
| | Erratum 786
doi:10.1038/273786a0
PDF (118K)
|
|
| | Book Reviews |  |
|
| | How Nature works 787
Kenneth Mellanby reviews Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
By
Paul Colinvaux
doi:10.1038/273787a0
PDF (118K)
|
|
| | Characterisation of minerals 787
R. G. J. Strens reviews Physical Methods in Determinative Mineralogy
(Second edition.) Edited by
J. Zussman
doi:10.1038/273787b0
PDF (243K)
|
|
| | Plant molecular biology 788
Richard B. Flavell reviews Molecular Biology of Plant Cells
Edited by
H. Smith
doi:10.1038/273788a0
PDF (128K)
|
|
| | Corticospinal control of movement 789
Ragnar Granit reviews Corticospinal Neurones: Their Role in Movement
By
C. G. Phillips & R. Porter
doi:10.1038/273789a0
PDF (124K)
|
|
| | Physics of liquids 789
J. G. Powles reviews Progress in Liquid Physics
Edited by
C. A. Croxton
doi:10.1038/273789b0
PDF (124K)
|
|
| | Chromatographic fractionation of polymers 790
C. J. O. R. Morris reviews Chromatography of Synthetic and Biological Polymers
Vol. 1: Column Packings, GPC, GF and Gradient Elution. Edited by
Roger Epton
doi:10.1038/273790a0
PDF (127K)
|
|
| | Collision spectroscopy 790
W. C. Price reviews Collision Spectroscopy
Edited by
R.G. Cooks
doi:10.1038/273790b0
PDF (127K)
|
|
| | Recent Scientific and Technical Books | |
|
| | Recent scientific and technical books 791
doi:10.1038/273791a0
PDF (371K)
|
|
| | Obituaries | |
|
| | J. B. Conant, 1893-1978 793
G. B. Kistiakowsky
doi:10.1038/273793a0
PDF (491K)
|
|
| | G. J. Bramwell 795
P. B. Bradley
doi:10.1038/273795a0
PDF (139K)
|
|
| | Announcements | |
|
| | Announcements 796
doi:10.1038/273796a0
PDF (130K)
|
|
| | Reports and Publications | |
|
| | Reports and Publications 796
doi:10.1038/273796b0
PDF (130K)
|
|
