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| | Molecular biology: suffering from shock 587
doi:10.1038/278587a0
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| | California calls for nuclear shutdown 588
David Dickson reports from California on reactions to the accident at the Harrisburg nuclear power plant
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/278588a0
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| | Harrisburg: counting the cost 589
Joe Schwartz
doi:10.1038/278589a0
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| | 'We all live in Pennsylvania..' 589
Joe Schwarz monitors world wide reactions
Joe Schwarz
doi:10.1038/278589b0
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| | Guidelines should go, DNA meeting concludes 590
Eleanor Lawrence reports on a meeting where biologists scourged themselves for going public on conjectural risks
Eleanor Lawrence
doi:10.1038/278590a0
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| | 'Worst case' experiments show low risk 591
doi:10.1038/278591a0
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| | US regulators countenance abolishment of the guidelines 591
doi:10.1038/278591b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in Brief 592
Dilip M. Salwi
doi:10.1038/278592a0
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| | How safe is the fast reactor? 593
Fast breeder reactors are an essential part of a nuclear future—but in the light of the incident at Three Mile Island would they be safe? Professor F. R. Farmer, Safety Adviser to the UK Atomic Energy Authority, discusses how to assess their dangers
F. R. Farmer
doi:10.1038/278593a0
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| | What Harrisburg means for the Rasmussen report 593
doi:10.1038/278593b0
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| | How the West was scientifically explored 595
The US Geological Survey celebrates its centenary this year. Harold L. Burstyn, the agency's official historian, surveys the past 100 years
Harold L. Burstyn
doi:10.1038/278595a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Dismantling DNA regulations 597
ALAN R. WILLIAMSON
doi:10.1038/278597a0
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| | Mediterranean scientists stymied by bureaucrats 597
VELIMIR PRAVDIC
doi:10.1038/278597b0
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| | Cooperation in German health programme 597
HANS P. LORENZEN
doi:10.1038/278597c0
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| | Plant protection 598
A. H. STRICKLAND, G. MATHYS, P. JOURNET & JAC. FJELDDALEN
doi:10.1038/278598a0
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| | Safety in the news 598
J. R. RAVETZ
doi:10.1038/278598b0
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| | Detecting frozen lunar gases 598
J. H. FREMLIN
doi:10.1038/278598c0
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| | Acetylcholine receptor clusters 599
Eric Frank
doi:10.1038/278599a0
PDF (216K)
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| | Cell lineage in early development 600
Jonathan Slack
doi:10.1038/278600a0
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| | Specificity of DNA uptake in bacterial transformation 601
J. R. Saunders
doi:10.1038/278601a0
PDF (238K)
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| | Myofibrillar connection 602
Pauline Bennett
doi:10.1038/278602a0
PDF (256K)
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| | Enzyme therapy in genetic diseases 603
Gregory Gregoriadis & Michael F. Dean
doi:10.1038/278603a0
PDF (275K)
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| | A hundred years ago 604
doi:10.1038/278604a0
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| | The anthropic principle and the structure of the physical world 605
B. J. Carr & M. J. Rees
doi:10.1038/278605a0
Abstract & References | PDF (841K)
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| | The possibility of superheavy elements in iron meteorites 613
Leona Marshall Libby, W. F. Libby & S. Keith Runcorn
doi:10.1038/278613a0
Abstract & References | PDF (490K)
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| | Transfer of actinides from the English Channel into the southern North Sea 617
C. N. Murray, H. Kautsky & H. F. Eicke
doi:10.1038/278617a0
Abstract & References | PDF (432K)
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| | Nerve fibre topography in the retinal projection to the tectum 620
J. H. Scholes
doi:10.1038/278620a0
Abstract & References | PDF (812K)
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| | The accuracy of predicted radioastronomical frequencies and the spectrum of hydroxyl 624
D. L. COOPER & W. G. RICHARDS
doi:10.1038/278624a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (197K)
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| | A nonspherical thermal instability in young stars 625
Yu. V. VANDAKUROV
doi:10.1038/278625a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (225K)
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| | Drifting spikes—a new species of solar radio bursts 626
Ø. ELGARØY & O. P. SVEEN
doi:10.1038/278626a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (318K)
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| | Detection of circularly polarised light from noctilucent clouds 628
M. GADSDEN, P. ROTHWELL & M. J. TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/278628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (318K)
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| | Isotopically light carbon in diamonds from some kimberlite pipes in Lesotho 630
G. I. SMIRNOV, M. M. MOFOLO, P. M. LEROTHOLI, F. V. KAMINSKY, E. M. GALIMOV & I. N. IVANOVSKAYA
doi:10.1038/278630a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (105K)
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| | New data on natural todorokites 631
F. V. CHUKHROV, A. I. GORSHKOV, A. V. SIVTSOV & V. V. BERESOVSKAYA
doi:10.1038/278631a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (341K)
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| | Rates of Holocene folding in the coastal Zagros near Bandar Abbas, Iran 632
C. VITA-FINZI
doi:10.1038/278632a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (528K)
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| | Ordovician fish spines from Girvan, Scotland 634
D. A. T. HARPER
doi:10.1038/278634a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (549K)
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| | Growth rings in dinosaur teeth 635
PAUL A. JOHNSTON
doi:10.1038/278635a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (366K)
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| | Analogous motion illusion in man and fly 636
HEINRICH BÜLTHOFF & KARL G. GÖTZ
doi:10.1038/278636a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (434K)
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| | Activity of an identified wind interneurone in a flying locust 638
JON BACON & BERNHARD MÖHL
doi:10.1038/278638a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (257K)
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| | The segmentation of axons from the segmental nerve roots to the chick wing 640
R. VICTORIA STIRLING & DENNIS SUMMERBELL
doi:10.1038/278640a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (388K)
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| | Single glutamate-activated channels in locust muscle 643
J. B. PATLAK, K. A. F. GRATION & P. N. R. USHERWOOD
doi:10.1038/278643a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (316K)
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| | Effects of oxotremorine demonstrate presynaptic muscarinic and dopaminergic receptors on motor nerve terminals 645
D. K. GANGULY & M. DAS
doi:10.1038/278645a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (230K)
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| | Decreased content of immunoreactive enkephalin-like peptide in peripheral tissues of spontaneously hypertensive rats 646
A. M. DI GIULIO, H.-Y. T. YANG, W. FRATTA & E. COSTA
doi:10.1038/278646a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (225K)
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| | Histamine receptors on rabbit blastocyst and endometrial cell membranes 648
S. K. DEY, C. VILLANUEVA & N. I. ABDOU
doi:10.1038/278648a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (294K)
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| | Early pregnancy factor is immunosuppressive 649
F. P. NOONAN, W. J. HALLIDAY, H. MORTON & G. J. A. CLUNIE
doi:10.1038/278649a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (470K)
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| | Myosin as a constituent of the Drosophila egg cortex 651
RICHARD WARN, SHOHREH MALEKI & BELINDA BULLARD
doi:10.1038/278651a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (608K)
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| | The topography of the purple membrane 653
JOHN E. WALKER, ALEXANDER F. CARNE & HERBERT W. SCHMITT
doi:10.1038/278653a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (200K)
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| | Globin gene deletion in HPFH,  ° °
thalassaemia and Hb Lepore disease 654
S. OTTOLENGHI, B. GIGLIONI, P. COMI, A. M. GIANNI, E. POLLI, C. T. A. ACQUAYE, J. H. OLDHAM & G. MASERA
doi:10.1038/278654a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (518K)
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| | Common regulatory mechanism of expression and conjugative ability of a tetracycline resistance plasmid in Bacteroides fragilis
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GAETANO PRIVITERA, MADELEINE SEBALD & FRANÇOISE FAYOLLE
doi:10.1038/278657a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (339K)
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| | Cytochromes C
2 sequence variation among the recognised species of purple nonsulphur photosynthetic bacteria 659
R. P. AMBLER, MARGARET DANIEL, J. HERMOSO, T. E. MEYER, R. G. BARTSCH & M. D. KAMEN
doi:10.1038/278659a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (238K)
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| | Anomalies in amino acid sequences of small cytochromes c and cytochromes c' from two species of purple photosynthetic bacteria 661
R. P. AMBLER, T. E. MEYER & M. D. KAMEN
doi:10.1038/278661a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (238K)
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| | Processing of small subunit precursor of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase and its assembly into whole enzyme are stromal events 662
STEVEN M. SMITH & R. JOHN ELLIS
doi:10.1038/278662a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (440K)
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| | Sites of inhibition of in vitro DNA synthesis in carcinogen- and UV-treated  174 DNA 664
PETER MOORE & BERNARD S. STRAUSS
doi:10.1038/278664a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (538K)
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| | Metastable crystals of -cyclodextrin complexes and the membrane diffusion model 667
KURT H. JOGUN & JOHN J. STEZOWSKI
doi:10.1038/278667a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (213K)
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Injection events in ocean history 669
D. L. CLARK & J. A. KITCHELL
doi:10.1038/278669a0
References | PDF (108K)
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| | Injection events in ocean history (reply) 669
HANS R. THIERSTEIN & WOLFGANG H. BERGER
doi:10.1038/278669b0
References | PDF (108K)
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| | Shelf temperatures and reef growth on the south-east Florida coast 669
W. M. GOLDBERG
doi:10.1038/278669c0
References | PDF (243K)
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| | Shelf temperatures and reef growth on the south-east Florida coast (reply) 670
ROBIN G. LIGHTY, IAN G. MACINTYRE & ROBERT STUCKENRATH
doi:10.1038/278670a0
References | PDF (141K)
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Survival value of migration 671
John R. Krebs reviews The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration
By
R. R. Baker
doi:10.1038/278671a0
PDF (239K)
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| | Inherited behaviour and reactions to drugs 672
Richard A. Deitrich reviews Drugs and the Inheritance of Behavior: A Survey of Comparative Psychopharmacogenetics
By
P. L. Broadhurst
doi:10.1038/278672a0
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| | Aflatoxins 672
P. G. Mantle reviews Aflatoxins: Chemical and Biological Aspects
By
J. G. Heathcote & J. R. Hibbert
doi:10.1038/278672b0
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| | Chemisorption of gases on metals 673
J. Pritchard reviews Chemisorption of Gases on Metals
By
F. C. Tompkins
doi:10.1038/278673a0
PDF (118K)
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| | Account of the bumblebee 673
John B. Free reviews The Life of the Bumblebee
By
D. V. Alford
doi:10.1038/278673b0
PDF (118K)
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| | Biological identification methods 673
J. E. Smith reviews Biological Identification: The Principles and Practice of Identification Methods in Biology
By
R. J. Pankhurst
doi:10.1038/278673c0
PDF (228K)
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| | Ecological methods 674
D. J. Rogers reviews Ecological Methods, with Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations
Second edition. By
T. R. E. Southwood
doi:10.1038/278674a0
PDF (113K)
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| | Theoretical astrophysics 674
P. C. W. Davies reviews Theoretical Principles in Astrophysics and Relativity
Edited by
N. R. Lebovitz, W. H. Reid & P. O. Vandervoort
doi:10.1038/278674b0
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