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| | Human guinea pigs have a choice 565
The British Medical Research Council is to carry out a five-year, controlled trial of vitamin supplements in the prevention of neural tube defects. But it should still adopt more open discussion of the trial.
doi:10.1038/300565a0
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| | Ocean bed law disaccord 566
Several countries have not signed the Law of the Sea. A compromise must eventually be found.
doi:10.1038/300566a0
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| | Unorthodox assessments 566
A recently published book provides an intriguing glimpse of peer-review in action.
doi:10.1038/300566b0
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| | Science to rescue EEC politics? 567
Davignon tackles the agricultural policy problem
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/300567a0
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| | Carter appointees leave NSF 567
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/300567b0
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| | West German nuclear power: Fast breeder escapes veto 568
J.S. Dunnett
doi:10.1038/300568a0
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| | European atom treaty: New rules 568
Jasper Becker
doi:10.1038/300568b0
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| | Stanford cuts comment on patent 568
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/300568c0
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| | Chemical warfare: Fight amongst Finnish 569
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/300569a0
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| | Japan plans DNA database 569
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/300569b0
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| | UK nuclear power: PWRs "safe" 569
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/300569c0
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| | US energy research: Cuts demand 570
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/300570a0
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| | Increasing abortion rate in Britain 570
doi:10.1038/300570b0
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| | Soviet economy: Size costs dear 570
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/300570c0
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| | UK engineering: Institutional scrap continues 571
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/300571a0
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| | US research: Basic physics in doldrums 571
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/300571b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Whose game? 572
P.G. MARTIN
doi:10.1038/300572a0
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On Time defended 572
V. ANN BUCKLE
doi:10.1038/300572b0
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| | Cometary Record 572
DAVID W. HUGHES
doi:10.1038/300572c0
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| | Grouping Darwin 572
A. W. F. EDWARDS
doi:10.1038/300572d0
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| | Acidity and alkalinity 572
PETER MEREDITH
doi:10.1038/300572e0
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| | A superfast new pulsar 573
David J. Helfand
doi:10.1038/300573a0
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| | 'Lucy' jilted? 574
M.H. Day
doi:10.1038/300574a0
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| | Mouse and supermouse 575
Jeffrey G. Williams
doi:10.1038/300575a0
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| | Hypertension and inhibition of the sodium pump: a strong link but in which chain? 576
Ian M. Glynn & T. J. Rink
doi:10.1038/300576a0
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| | The prehistoric salt trade in Europe 577
John Alexander
doi:10.1038/300577a0
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| | Ball lightning wild and wonderful 578
Martin A. Uman
doi:10.1038/300578a0
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| | Vive le replicon! 579
Ron Laskey & Marcel Mechali
doi:10.1038/300579a0
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| | Is polypeptide heterogeneity the key to neurofilament function? 580
Rosaleen Calvert
doi:10.1038/300580a0
References | PDF (290K)
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| | 100 years ago 580
doi:10.1038/300580b0
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| | Collagen genes 581
Paul Tolstoshev & Ellen Solomon
doi:10.1038/300581a0
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| | Onco Gen 582
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/300582a0
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| | The T lymphocyte antigen receptor—paradigm lost 583
Jens Chr. Jensenius & Alan F. Williams
doi:10.1038/300583a0
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| | DSDP Hole 504B, the first reference section over 1 km through Layer 2 of the oceanic crust 589
R. N. Anderson, J. Honnorez, K. Becker, A. C. Adamson, J. C. Alt, R. Emmermann, P. D. Kempton, H. Kinoshita, C. Laverne, M. J. Mottl & R. L. Newmark
doi:10.1038/300589a0
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In situ electrical resistivity and bulk porosity of the oceanic crust Costa Rica Rift 594
Keir Becker, R. P. Von Herzen, T. J. G. Francis, R. N. Anderson, J. Honnorez, A. C. Adamson, J. C. Alt, R. Emmermann, P. D. Kempton, H. Kinoshita, C. Laverne, M. J. Mottl & R. L. Newmark
doi:10.1038/300594a0
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| | Construction of influenza haemagglutinin genes that code for intracellular and secreted forms of the protein 598
Mary-Jane Gething & Joe Sambrook
doi:10.1038/300598a0
Abstract & References | PDF (779K)
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| | Asymmetric ligand binding by haemoglobin 603
Gregorio Weber
doi:10.1038/300603a0
Abstract & References | PDF (522K)
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| | Activation of a cellular oncogene by DNA rearrangement: possible involvement of an IS-like element 607
Gideon Rechavi, David Givol & Eli Canaani
doi:10.1038/300607a0
Abstract & References | PDF (591K)
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| | Dramatic growth of mice that develop from eggs microinjected with metallothionein−growth hormone fusion genes 611
Richard D. Palmiter, Ralph L. Brinster, Robert E. Hammer, Myrna E. Trumbauer, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Neal C. Birnberg & Ronald M. Evans
doi:10.1038/300611a0
Abstract & References | PDF (635K)
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| | A millisecond pulsar 615
D. C. Backer, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Carl Heiles, M. M. Davis & W. M. Goss
doi:10.1038/300615a0
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| | Optical identification of the millisecond pulsar 1937+214 618
S. Djorgovski
doi:10.1038/300618a0
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| | Twilight IR brightening over India due to EI Chichón's eruption in Mexico 620
N. M. Ashok, H. C. Bhatt, T. Chandrasekhar & J. N. Desai
doi:10.1038/300620a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (193K)
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| | Anti-phase domain boundary tubes in Ni3Al 621
C. T. Chou, P. B. Hirsch, M. McLean & E. Hondros
doi:10.1038/300621a0
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| | A lightning-associated phenomenon and related geomagnetic measurements 623
P. W. Burbidge & D. J. Robertson
doi:10.1038/300623a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (237K)
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| | Extensive underthrusting of undeformed sediment beneath the accretionary complex of the Lesser Antilles subduction zone 625
G. K. Westbrook, M. J. Smith, J. H. Peacock & M. J. Poulter
doi:10.1038/300625a0
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| | Rainfall over the Arabian Sea during the onset of the 1979 monsoon 628
David W. Martin & Michael R. Howland
doi:10.1038/300628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (492K)
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| | Marine snow: major site of primary production in coastal waters 630
G. A. Knauer, D. Hebel & F. Cipriano
doi:10.1038/300630a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (235K)
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| | Tulu Bor Tuff at Koobi Fora correlated with the Sidi Hakoma Tuff at Hadar 631
Francis H. Brown
doi:10.1038/300631a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (341K)
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| | Faunal age of the Usno, Shungura B and Hadar Formations, Ethiopia 633
N. T. Boaz, F. C. Howell & M. L. McCrossin
doi:10.1038/300633a0
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| | Evidence that seals may use echolocation 635
Deane Renouf & M. Benjamin Davis
doi:10.1038/300635a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (345K)
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| | Isolation of infective tomato bushy stunt virus after passage through the human alimentary tract 637
J. A. Tomlinson, Elizabeth Faithfull, T. H. Flewett & G. Beards
doi:10.1038/300637a0
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| | Specific inhibition of the morphogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi by a monoclonal antibody 639
Alan Sher & David Snary
doi:10.1038/300639a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (239K)
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| | Alteration in the penicillin-binding profile of Bacillus megaterium during sporulation 640
John A. Todd & David J. Ellar
doi:10.1038/300640a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (663K)
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| | Elucidation by FAB−MS of the structure of a new cardioactive peptide from Aplysia
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Howard R. Morris, Maria Panico, Andrew Karplus, Philip E. Lloyd & Bernhard Riniker
doi:10.1038/300643a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (331K)
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| | Lectin binding reveals a synapse-specific carbohydrate in skeletal muscle 646
Joshua R. Sanes & Jeanette M. Cheney
doi:10.1038/300646a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (410K)
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| | Sex differences in rat brain oestrogen and progestin receptors 648
Thomas C. Rainbow, Bruce Parsons & Bruce S. McEwen
doi:10.1038/300648a0
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| | A circulating inhibitor of (Na+ + K+) ATPase associated with essential hypertension 650
John M. Hamlyn, Richard Ringel, Juergen Schaeffer, Paul D. Levinson, Bruce P. Hamilton, A. Avinoam Kowarski & Mordecai P. Blaustein
doi:10.1038/300650a0
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| | Nonspecific inhibitor released by T acceptor cells reduces the production of interleukin-2 652
Miroslav Malkovsky, Geoffrey L. Asherson, Brigitte Stockinger & Madeleine C. Watkins
doi:10.1038/300652a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (462K)
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| | Influenza A specific cytotoxic T-cell clones that do not recognize viral glycoproteins 655
A. R. M. Townsend & J. J. Skehel
doi:10.1038/300655a0
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| | Haemagglutinin of influenza virus expressed from a cloned gene promotes membrane fusion 658
Judy White, Ari Helenius & Mary-Jane Gething
doi:10.1038/300658a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (386K)
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| | Activation of a cellular transforming gene in tumours induced by Abelson murine leukaemia virus 659
Mary-Ann Lane, Dorothy Neary & Geoffrey M. Cooper
doi:10.1038/300659a0
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| | Cooperative deoxygenation of haemoglobin: asymmetry of binding and subunit differences 661
Leonard Peller
doi:10.1038/300661a0
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| | A philosopher among the physicists 663
Donald MacKay reviews Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery, Vols II and III
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Karl Popper & W.W. Bartley III and The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism and Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics and Realism and the Aim of Science
doi:10.1038/300663a0
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| | Digging deep into plasma physics 664
T.J.M. Boyd reviews The Interaction of Strong Electromagnetic Fields with Plasmas.
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I.R. Gekker
doi:10.1038/300664a0
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| | Abscission since Newton 665
Roy Sexton reviews Abscission.
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Fredrick T. Addicott & Alice B. Addicott
doi:10.1038/300665a0
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| | Variety in singular behaviour 665
N.B. Davies reviews The Shelduck: A Study in Behavioural Ecology.
By
I. J. Patterson
doi:10.1038/300665b0
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| | The planets exposed 666
Dennis L. Hartmann reviews The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of the Planets.
By
Geoffrey Briggs & Frederick W. Taylor
doi:10.1038/300666a0
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| | Wooden characters brought to book 667
Peter D. Moore reviews Identification of Modern and Tertiary Woods.
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A.C. Barefoot & Frank W. Hankins
doi:10.1038/300667a0
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| | The noise of music 667
H.C. Longuet-Higgins reviews Music, Mind, and Brain: The Neuro-psychology of Music.
Edited by
Manfred Clynes
doi:10.1038/300667b0
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| | Pascal's mind and Pascal's science 668
A.W.F. Edwards reviews Pascal: Adversary and Advocate.
By
Robert J. Nelson
doi:10.1038/300668a0
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| | Books Received | |
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| | BOOKS RECEIVED 669
doi:10.1038/300669a0
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