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| | Curing Europe's biological death-wish 319
doi:10.1038/283319a0
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| | Regulators loosen up on carcinogen standards 320
Labour unions and the chemical industry have locked the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration in a dispute over translating carcinogenicity data into appropriate regulatory controls. David Dickson reports
doi:10.1038/283320a0
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| | US to announce $700 million ocean-drilling research programme 321
In a unique experiment in cooperation with private industry, writes David Dickson, the US government and leading oil companies are about to announce plans for sharing the costs of a 10-year research programme to investigate the Earth's continent margins
doi:10.1038/283321a0
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| | Soviet Union: Science planners and the Press tackle the 'two cultures' 322
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/283322a0
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| | Laser fusion project to be halted? 322
doi:10.1038/283322b0
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| | Switzerland: Engineered E. coli produce interferon 323
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/283323a0
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| | United States: Registration proposed for private DNA research 323
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/283323b0
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| | United Kingdom: Biotechnology report urges �10 million programme "to match competitors" 324
A MAJOR report on biotechnology in Britain — not yet published but made available to Nature — calls for a rapid increase in investment to build a competitive industry. It says the "customer-contractor" principle should be scrapped for biotechnology, where the border-lines between basic and applied research are grey. The report is a first draft — though unlikely to be substantially altered — from a seven-man working party set up early last year under Dr Alfred Spinks, a former research director of Imperial Chemical Industries. Robert Walgate reviews its hard-hitting and interventionist recommendations.
doi:10.1038/283324a0
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| | National Collection of Yeast Cultures threatened 325
doi:10.1038/283325a0
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| | Europe's biotechnology programme one step nearer 326
doi:10.1038/283326a0
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| | IAEA to hold closed nuclear safety conference 326
doi:10.1038/283326b0
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| | Academy report calls for orderly energy transition 326
doi:10.1038/283326c0
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| | New head for US Atmospheric Research Center 326
doi:10.1038/283326d0
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| | Defector details NATO first nuclear strike plans 326
doi:10.1038/283326e0
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| | French police break up researchers protest 326
doi:10.1038/283326f0
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doi:10.1038/283326g0
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The brain drain of scientists from the poorer countries of the Middle East has switched from the industrialised West to the oil-rich countries of the region. And some countries are running successful schemes to attract expatriate scientists back. Ziauddin Sardar reports
doi:10.1038/283327a0
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| | Institut Pasteur seeks out industrial support 328
François Jacob wants industry's money for fundamental biology — but not its control. A Nobel laureate for his work on the lac operon (he shared the prize with Jaques Monod), he is head of the cellular genetics unit in the department of molecular biology, Institut Pasteur in Paris. He spoke with Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/283328a0
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| | Clerk-Maxwell centenary 330
G. H. KESWANI
doi:10.1038/283330a0
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WARREN B. CRUMMETT
doi:10.1038/283330b0
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| | Closed universities better than "sophistry centres" 330
ROY BALLARD
doi:10.1038/283330c0
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| | Iranian terrorists 330
S.V. VAECK SC
doi:10.1038/283330d0
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| | Islamic science 330
J. M. GOLDSCHVARTZ
doi:10.1038/283330e0
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| | Dust grain orbits in the Solar System 331
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/283331a0
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| | The life of a B lymphocyte 332
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/283332a0
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| | 100 years ago 333
doi:10.1038/283333a0
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| | Exposure to lead in childhood: the persisting effects 334
M.R. Moore
doi:10.1038/283334a0
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| | Body temperature, activity and energy costs 335
R.D. Martin
doi:10.1038/283335a0
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| | Switchboards and folds 336
P.D. Calvert
doi:10.1038/283336a0
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| | Thermal X-ray emission from neutron stars 337
David J. Helfand, Gary A. Chanan & R. Novick
doi:10.1038/283337a0
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| | Reactivation of basement faults and crustal shortening in orogenic belts 343
J. A. Jackson
doi:10.1038/283343a0
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| | Lateral mobility in reconstituted membranes—comparisons with diffusion in polymers 346
Melvin Schindler, M. J. Osborn & Dennis E. Koppel
doi:10.1038/283346a0
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| | The role of gene deletion in the immunoglobulin heavy chain switch 351
T. H. Rabbitts, A. Forster, W. Dunnick & D. L. Bentley
doi:10.1038/283351a0
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| | Radio emission from radio-quiet quasars 357
J. J. Condon, S. L. O'Dell, J. J. Puschell & W. A. Stein
doi:10.1038/283357a0
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| | A new mode of X-ray bursts from MXB1730−335 358
H. Inoue, K. Koyama, K. Makishima, M. Matsuoka, T. Murakami, M. Oda, Y. Ogawara, T. Ohashi, N. Shibazaki, Y. Tanaka, Y. Tawara, I. Kondo, S. Hayakawa, H. Kunieda, F. Makino, K. Masai, F. Nagase, S. Miyamoto, H. Tsunemi & K. Yamashita
doi:10.1038/283358a0
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| | Neutral 14N in the interstellar medium 360
A. A. Konovalenko & L. G. Sodin
doi:10.1038/283360a0
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| | Catalytic combustion in a tube with electrical discharge: preliminary measurements of augmented reaction rates 362
F. A. Kulacki & S. Boriah
doi:10.1038/283362a0
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| | Seasonal change in the flux of organic carbon to the deep Sargasso Sea 364
W. G. Deuser & E. H. Ross
doi:10.1038/283364a0
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| | Direct measurement of the attenuation of ocean waves by pack ice 365
Vernon A. Squire & Stuart C. Moore
doi:10.1038/283365a0
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| | KBS Tuff dating and geochronology of tuffaceous sediments in the Koobi Fora and Shungura Formations, East Africa 368
R. E. Drake, G. H. Curtis, T. E. Cerling, B. W. Cerling & J. Hampel
doi:10.1038/283368a0
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| | Wind velocities determined from the surface textures of sand grains 372
David Krinsley & William Wellendorf
doi:10.1038/283372a0
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| | Why do Bedouins wear black robes in hot deserts? 373
Amiram Shkolnik, C. Richard Taylor, Virginia Finch & Arieh Borut
doi:10.1038/283373a0
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| | Data from kinships of monozygotic twins indicate maternal effects on verbal intelligence 375
Richard J. Rose, Joann A. Boughman, Linda A. Corey, Walter E. Nance, Joe C. Christian & Ke Won Kang
doi:10.1038/283375a0
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| | Distracting information, motor performance and sex differences 377
Judith I. Laszlo, Phillip J. Bairstow, Gary R. Ward & Hudson Bancroft
doi:10.1038/283377a0
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| | Origin of the mammal-like reptiles 378
T. S. Kemp
doi:10.1038/283378a0
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| | Juvenile ceratopsians from Mongolia—the smallest known dinosaur specimens 380
Walter P. Coombs Jr
doi:10.1038/283380a0
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| | Male and female visual neurones in dipterous insects 381
N. J. Strausfeld
doi:10.1038/283381a0
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| | Feeding behaviour of tsetse flies infected with salivarian trypanosomes 383
L. Jenni, D. H. Molyneux, J. L. Livesey & R. Galun
doi:10.1038/283383a0
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| | Larval hatching from vitellogenin-deficient eggs developed in male hosts of the silkworm 385
Okitsugu Yamashita & Ken Irie
doi:10.1038/283385a0
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| | Noradrenaline and cyclic AMP—independent growth stimulation in newt limb blastemata 387
Michel P. Rathbone, Jeannine Petri, Alfred F. Choo, David M. Logan, Robert L. Carlone & John E. Foret
doi:10.1038/283387a0
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| | Cigarette smoke-induced DNA damage and lung cancer risks 388
J. M. Hopkin & H. J. Evans
doi:10.1038/283388a0
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| | Peptide-containing neurones connect the two ganglionated plexuses of the enteric nervous system 391
Kristjan R. Jessen, Julia M. Polak, Susan Van Noorden, Stephen R. Bloom & Geoffrey Burnstock
doi:10.1038/283391a0
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| | Substance P increases membrane conductance in parotid acinar cells 393
D. V. Gallacher & O. H. Petersen
doi:10.1038/283393a0
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| | Dual action of ototoxic antibiotics on sensory hair cells 395
Alfons B. A. Kroese & Joep van den Bercken
doi:10.1038/283395a0
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| | Hypolipidaemic hepatic peroxisome proliferators form a novel class of chemical carcinogens 397
J. K. Reddy, D. L. Azarnoff & C. E. Hignite
doi:10.1038/283397a0
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| | Viroid synthesis: the question of inhibition by actinomycin D 399
L. K. Grill & J. S. Semancik
doi:10.1038/283399a0
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| | Immune and virus-induced interferons may activate cells by different derepressional mechanisms 400
F. Dianzani, M. Zucca, A. Scupham & J. A. Georgiades
doi:10.1038/283400a0
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| | Thymic nurse cells—Ia-bearing epithelium involved in T-lymphocyte differentiation? 402
Hartmut Wekerle & Uwe-Peter Ketelsen
doi:10.1038/283402a0
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| | Production of alloreactive T-cell lymphomas 404
C.G. Fathman & I.L. Weissman
doi:10.1038/283404a0
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| | Common pathways of interferon and hormonal action 406
J. Edwin Blalock & James D. Stanton
doi:10.1038/283406a0
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| | Corrigendum 408
doi:10.1038/283408a0
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doi:10.1038/283408b0
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| | Reevaluation of mitosis in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum
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KATHLEEN L. SCHORNSTEIN & JOE SCOTT
doi:10.1038/283409a0
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R. BRONCHART & V. DEMOULIN
doi:10.1038/283410a0
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| | Cancers and the immune system 410
A. M. SETWART & G. W. KNEALE
doi:10.1038/283410b0
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| | Cancers and the immune system (reply) 410
GUY DE-TÉ & ANTON GESER
doi:10.1038/283410c0
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| | Impact of microelectronics 411
Andrew Holmes-Siedle reviews The Future with Microelectronics
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Iann Barron & Ray Curnow
doi:10.1038/283411a0
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| | Ageing research 412
I. Davies reviews The Biology of Senescence
Third edition. By
A. Comfort
doi:10.1038/283412a0
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| | Basic physics of X-ray spectroscopy 412
D.S. Urch reviews X-Ray Spectroscopy: An Introduction
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B.K. Agarwal
doi:10.1038/283412b0
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| | Soluble cell products in the immune response 413
Anne S. Hamblin reviews Biology of the Lymphokines
Edited by
S. Cohen, E. Pick & J.J. Oppenheim
doi:10.1038/283413a0
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| | Simple qualitative molecular orbital theory 413
Anthony Stone reviews Molecular Structure and Bonding: The Qualitative Molecular Orbital Approach
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B. M. Gimarc
doi:10.1038/283413b0
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| | Blood-brain barrier 414
Stanley I. Rapoport reviews The Concept of a Blood-Brain Barrier
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Michael Bradbury
doi:10.1038/283414a0
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| | Birdwatching postscript 414
C.M. Perrins reviews The Mitchell-Beazley Birdwatchers' Pocket Guide
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Peter Hayman
doi:10.1038/283414b0
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