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| | A dearth of new drugs 609
doi:10.1038/283609a0
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| | Universities push for creation of advanced energy research centres 610
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/283610a0
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| | Fast breeder reactors delayed until after 2000 611
doi:10.1038/283611a0
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| | Election candidates asked for science funding commitments 611
Canadian scientists are mounting an active campaign to inform candidates in next week's general election of the need to increase support for university research.
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/283611b0
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| | Science planning praised — but improvements still needed 612
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/283612a0
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| | Study finds malnutrition in 7% of elderly 612
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/283612b0
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| | Recombinant DNA research thrives 612
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/283612c0
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| | Chemical company study shows no dioxin hazard 613
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/283613a0
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| | No cash to clean up pollution 613
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/283613b0
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| | US city bans nuclear waste shipments 614
doi:10.1038/283614a0
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| | Séveso director killed by political group 614
doi:10.1038/283614b0
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| | UK radiation study overestimates safety 614
doi:10.1038/283614c0
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| | More UK nuclear cracks 614
doi:10.1038/283614d0
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| | UK centre for analysis of technical change 614
doi:10.1038/283614e0
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| | Vietnam veteran records Agent Orange testimony 614
doi:10.1038/283614f0
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| | 20,000 demonstrate against Brittany reactor 614
doi:10.1038/283614g0
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| | Sussex physicist appeals to Queen over job 614
doi:10.1038/283614h0
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| | Low expectations for Swedish PhDs 615
In Sweden, as in most European countries, young scientists are facing problems finding work. Wendy Barnaby reports on the falling market in research positions for newly-qualified PhDs
doi:10.1038/283615a0
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| | How the popularisation of science narrows the polarisation of the people 616
In the last of three articles on science and technology in China, Tong B Tang, research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, UK, reports on scientific education and popularisation
doi:10.1038/283616a0
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| | Friends and foes of science debate in France 618
Jim Hitter records some observations on what was "effectively the first public debate on science and technology in France for more than a decade". It was staged last month, by Les Amis de la Terre.
doi:10.1038/283618a0
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| | Antarctic ice surges and theories of glaciation 619
D.Q. Bowen
doi:10.1038/283619a0
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| | Osteology and prehistoric society 620
Stephen Shennan
doi:10.1038/283620a0
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| | Sails set for the myosin active site 621
Peter Chantler
doi:10.1038/283621a0
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| | Human teratocarcinoma workshop 621
M. L.
doi:10.1038/283621b0
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| | Ribonuclease still under attack 622
Barry Robson
doi:10.1038/283622a0
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| | Correction 622
doi:10.1038/283622b0
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| | Post-receptoral processes in colour vision 623
J.D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/283623a0
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| | 100 years ago 624
doi:10.1038/283624a0
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| | Cellular site of opiate dependence 625
H. O. J. Collier
doi:10.1038/283625a0
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| | Climate and sea level in isotope stage 5: an East Antarctic ice surge at  95,000 BP? 629
John T. Hollin
doi:10.1038/283629a0
Abstract & References | PDF (647K)
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| | Enriched mantle: Nd and Sr isotopes in diopsides from kimberlite nodules 634
Martin Menzies & V. Rama Murthy
doi:10.1038/283634a0
Abstract & References | PDF (386K)
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L. H. T. Van der Ploeg, A. Konings, M. Oort, D. Roos, L. Bernini & R. A. Flavell
doi:10.1038/283637a0
Abstract & References | PDF (971K)
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| | Test of the inverse Compton model for Cygnus X-1 642
E. P. T. Liang
doi:10.1038/283642a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (291K)
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| | Solar oscillations, stellar oscillations and cosmology 644
G. R. Isaak
doi:10.1038/283644a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (235K)
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| | METEOSAT observations of diurnal variation of radiation budget parameters 645
R. W. Saunders & G. E. Hunt
doi:10.1038/283645a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (421K)
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| | Fossil charcoal as evidence of past atmospheric composition 647
M. J. Cope & W. G. Chaloner
doi:10.1038/283647a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (398K)
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| | Stable isotope and sea-level data from New Guinea supports Antarctic ice-surge theory of ice ages 649
Paul Aharon, John Chappell & William Compston
doi:10.1038/283649a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (364K)
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| | Isostatic equilibrium grounding line between the West Antarctic inland ice sheet and the Ross Ice Shelf 651
Larry L. Greischar & Charles R. Bentley
doi:10.1038/283651a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (519K)
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| | Widespread episodes of stream erosion during the Holocene and their climatic cause 655
G. Robert Brakenridge
doi:10.1038/283655a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (265K)
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| | Age of volcanism and rifting in southwestern Ethiopia 657
A. Davidson & D. C. Rex
doi:10.1038/283657a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (246K)
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| | Free calcium in Xenopus embryos measured with ion-selective microelectrodes 658
T. J. Rink, R. Y. Tsien & A. E. Warner
doi:10.1038/283658a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (398K)
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| | Host gene influences sensitivity to interferon action selectively for influenza virus 660
O. Haller, H. Arnheiter, J. Lindenmann & I. Gresser
doi:10.1038/283660a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (373K)
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| | Spontaneous stomach ulcer in genetically mast-cell depleted W/Wv
mice 662
M. Shimada, Y. Kitamura, M. Yokoyama, Y. Miyano, K. Maeyama, A. Yamatodani, Y. Takahashi & M. Tatsuta
doi:10.1038/283662a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (405K)
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| | Two distinct factors are required for induction of T-cell growth 664
Eva-Lotta Larsson, Norman N. Iscove & Antonio Coutinho
doi:10.1038/283664a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (365K)
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| | Immunisation against heterologous type II collagen induces arthritis in mice 666
J. S. Courtenay, Margaret J. Dallman, A. D. Dayan, Angela Martin & Betty Mosedale
doi:10.1038/283666a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (353K)
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| | Human antibody reacts with a B-cell subset in man to induce B-cell differentiation 668
Jean Claude Brouet, Catherine Grillot-Courvalin & Maxime Seligmann
doi:10.1038/283668a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (254K)
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| | Osteoclasts derived from haematopoietic stem cells 669
Patricia Ash, J. F. Loutit & K. M. S. Townsend
doi:10.1038/283669a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (243K)
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| | Pacemaker currents in chick embryonic heart cells change with development 670
Alvin Shrier & John R. Clay
doi:10.1038/283670a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (244K)
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| | PGE2 stimulates gastric chloride transport: possible key to cytoprotection 671
Rudolf Schiessel, Jeffrey Matthews, Ami Barzilai, Aryeh Merhav & William Silen
doi:10.1038/283671a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (336K)
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| | Muscarinic suppression of a novel voltage-sensitive K+ current in a vertebrate neurone 673
D. A. Brown & P. R. Adams
doi:10.1038/283673a0
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| | Somatostatin production by rat cerebral neurones in dissociated cell culture 676
J. Delfs, R. Robbins, J. L. Connolly, M. Dichter & S. Reichlin
doi:10.1038/283676a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (357K)
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| | Cholesterol levels inversely reflect the thermal sensitivity of mammalian cells in culture 677
Anne E. Cress & Eugene W. Gerner
doi:10.1038/283677a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (474K)
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| | The position of tropomyosin in muscle thin filaments 680
J. Seymour & E. J. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/283680a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (755K)
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| | Electron transfer reagent binding sites on plastocyanin 682
David J. Cookson, Mark T. Hayes & Peter E. Wright
doi:10.1038/283682a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (248K)
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| | The -globin gene is on the short arm of human chromosome 11 683
Linda Sanders-Haigh, W. French Anderson & Uta Francke
doi:10.1038/283683a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (588K)
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| | Satellite DNA is transcribed on lampbrush chromosomes 686
Jennifer M. Varley, Herbert C. Macgregor & Harry P. Erba
doi:10.1038/283686a0
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| | Oocytes in the testis 688
Anne McLaren
doi:10.1038/283688a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (932K)
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| | Sequence-dependent variations in the backbone geometry of a synthetic DNA fibre 690
Heisaburo Shindo & Steven B. Zimmerman
doi:10.1038/283690a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (770K)
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| | X-ray structure of the ternary complex Zn(II)-ATP-2,2'-bipyridyl and possible model for ATP transport 691
P. Orioli, R. Cini, D. Donati & S. Mangani
doi:10.1038/283691a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (341K)
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| | Sequence of a ribosomal RNA gene intron from Tetrahymena
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Martha A. Wild & Reinhold Sommer
doi:10.1038/283693a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (232K)
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Problems with mesospheric electric field measurements 695
E. A. BERING III, J. R. BENBROOK & W. R. SHELDON
doi:10.1038/283695a0
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| | Problems with mesospheric electric field measurements (reply) 695
LESLIE C. HALE
doi:10.1038/283695b0
References | PDF (265K)
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| | GABAergic mechanisms in the substantia nigra 696
JOHN L. WADDINGTON
doi:10.1038/283696a0
References | PDF (275K)
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| | GABAergic mechanisms in the substantia nigra (reply) 697
G. E. MARTIN & D. R. HAUBRICH
doi:10.1038/283697a0
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| | Is corticotropin releasing factor modulated vasopressin? 697
A. FRANCES PEARLMUTTER, LINDA DOKAS, ANN KONG, RALPH MILLER & MURRAY SAFFRAN
doi:10.1038/283697b0
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| | Is corticotropin releasing factor modulated vasopressin? (reply) 698
G. E. GILLIES & P. J. LOWRY
doi:10.1038/283698a0
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| | What the tortoise never said to Achilles 699
Oliver Penrose reviews Gödel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
— A Metaphorical Fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll. By
D. R. Hofstadter
doi:10.1038/283699a0
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| | Interferometric spectroscopy 700
E. R. Pike reviews The Principles of Interferometric Spectroscopy
By
John Chamberlain
doi:10.1038/283700a0
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| | Small mammal ecology 700
Ian Linn reviews Ecology of Small Mammals
Edited by
D.M. Stoddart
doi:10.1038/283700b0
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| | Realm of pericyclic reactions 701
C. W. Bird reviews Organic Reactions and Orbital Symmetry
By
T.L. Gilchrist & R.C. Storr
doi:10.1038/283701a0
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| | Laser speckle 701
T.S. McKechnie reviews Laser Speckle and Applications in Optics
By
M. Françon
doi:10.1038/283701b0
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| | Geophysics of Mars 702
Garry E. Hunt reviews Geophysics of Mars
Developments in Solar System and Space Science, Vol.4. By
R. A. Wells
doi:10.1038/283702a0
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| | Electron microscopical techniques 702
S.J. Kirchanski reviews Electron Microscopy and Cytochemistry of Plant Cells
By
J.L. Hall
doi:10.1038/283702b0
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| | L. P. Garrod 703
R.A. Shooter
doi:10.1038/283703a0
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| | John Raymont 703
A.P.M. Lockwood
doi:10.1038/283703b0
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| | Jack Tizard 704
Ann Clarke & Alan Clarke
doi:10.1038/283704a0
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| | Marcel Florkin 704
Elmer H. Stotz
doi:10.1038/283704b0
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