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| | Our best friends are Republicans 465
That the Republican National Committee has had a hand in choosing members of a scientific advisory committee of the US Department of the Interior threatens the effectiveness of the administration.
doi:10.1038/302465a0
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| | Freeing the manipulators 465
The committees set up to regulate genetic manipulation should be stopped.
doi:10.1038/302465b0
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| | Licence for cooperation 466
May's economic summit may provide a licence for technical collaboration. High time.
doi:10.1038/302466a0
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| | Us advisory committees: Party officials accused of screening Interior advisers 467
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302467a0
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| | Genetic manipulation: Watchdog to bark less often 467
doi:10.1038/302467b0
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| | US bioethics: Panel dies a natural death 468
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302468a0
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| | [News 'picture story'] 468
doi:10.1038/302468b0
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| | Leprosy vaccine: Clinical trials begin in Norway 469
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/302469a0
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| | Nucleotide sequences: Who's banker? 469
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/302469b0
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| | ESA settles for astrophysics 469
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/302469c0
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| | Polish universities: A legacy of repression 470
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/302470a0
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| | Windscale 1957 accident: Forgotten polonium is traced 470
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/302470b0
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| | US space research: Crying for the Moon 471
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/302471a0
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| | Ambitious plans for the Solar System 471
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/302471b0
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| | Spanish "toxic-oil" syndrome 472
L. VALENCIANO, E. MUNOZ, V. LARRAGA & A. PESTANA
doi:10.1038/302472a0
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| | Soviet scientists under pressure 472
MICHAEL MELNICK & IRWIN C. LIEB
doi:10.1038/302472b0
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| | Intersexual selection 472
JERRAM L. BROWN
doi:10.1038/302472c0
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| | What chance a malaria vaccine? 473
As hopes recede that traditional means of controlling malaria will succeed, the promise and problems, both scientific and political, of malaria vaccines are coming into focus.
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/302473a0
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| | Tumours of lymphocytes: What happens when cellular oncogenes collide with immunoglobulin genes 474
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/302474a0
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| | Astronomy: Quasars: bridging the radio to infrared gap 475
Alan P. Marscher
doi:10.1038/302475a0
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| | Vaccine development: Hybrid vaccinia virus for mass hepatitis immunization? 476
A.J. Beale
doi:10.1038/302476a0
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| | Oncogenic Intelligence: Oncogene, not polymorphism 476
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/302476b0
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| | Latent herpes simplex virus: The state of the herpes genome 477
A.C. Minson
doi:10.1038/302477a0
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| | Particle physics: After the W boson ... the Z? 478
Frank Close
doi:10.1038/302478a0
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| | Cosmology: Quadrupole fades away 478
Phillip Campbell
doi:10.1038/302478b0
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| | Population genetics: Adaptive evolution in the laboratory 479
Brian Charlesworth
doi:10.1038/302479a0
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| | Mimicry: Beetles disguised as ants 480
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/302480a0
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| | Biological applications of picosecond spectroscopy 481
E. F. Hilinski & P. M. Rentzepis
doi:10.1038/302481a0
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| | Low-frequency variability and predicted superluminal motion in 3C147 487
R. S. Simon, A. C. S. Readhead, A. T. Moffet, P. N. Wilkinson, B. Allen & B. F. Burke
doi:10.1038/302487a0
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| | Infectious vaccinia virus recombinants that express hepatitis B virus surface antigen 490
Geoffrey L. Smith, Michael Mackett & Bernard Moss
doi:10.1038/302490a0
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| | Frequency of fixation of adaptive mutations is higher in evolving diploid than haploid yeast populations 495
Charlotte Paquin & Julian Adams
doi:10.1038/302495a0
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| | Transmission of conformational change in insulin 500
Cyrus Chothia, Arthur M. Lesk, Guy G. Dodson & Dorothy C. Hodgkin
doi:10.1038/302500a0
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| | The impossibility of a bouncing universe 505
Alan H. Guth & Marc Sher
doi:10.1038/302505a0
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| | The impossibility of a bouncing universe: Reply by Vahé Petrosian 506
Vahé Petrosian
doi:10.1038/302506a0
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| | How stable is our vacuum? 508
Piet Hut & Martin J. Rees
doi:10.1038/302508a0
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| | Comparison of Earth rotation as inferred from radio interferometric, laser ranging and astrometric observations 509
D. S. Robertson, W. E. Carter, R. J. Eanes, B. E. Schutz, B. D. Tapley, R. W. King, R. B. Langley, P. J. Morgan & I. I. Shapiro
doi:10.1038/302509a0
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| | Condensation nuclei events at 30 km and possible influences of solar cosmic rays 511
D. J. Hofmann & J. M. Rosen
doi:10.1038/302511a0
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| | The M2 oceanic tide recovered from Seasat altimetry in the Indian Ocean 514
Pierre Mazzega
doi:10.1038/302514a0
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| | Origin of sedimentary francolite from its sulphur and carbon isotope composition 516
Richard A. Benmore, Max L. Coleman & John M. McArthur
doi:10.1038/302516a0
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| | Possible limits on the composition of the Archaean ocean 518
James C. G. Walker
doi:10.1038/302518a0
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| | Seasonal sedimentation of phytoplankton to the deep-sea benthos 520
D. S. M. Billett, R. S. Lampitt, A. L. Rice & R. F. C. Mantoura
doi:10.1038/302520a0
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| | A new method of scanning electron microscopy for imaging biological tissues 522
A. Boyde & S. A. Reid
doi:10.1038/302522a0
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| | Detection of HSV-1 genome in central nervous system of latently infected mice 523
Daniel L. Rock & Nigel W. Fraser
doi:10.1038/302523a0
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| | Activation of acetylcholine receptors causes the partition of hydrophobic cations into postsynaptic membrane vesicles 525
C. Geoffrey Davis, Shaul Hestrin, Herbert Landahl, Adrienne S. Gordon, Ivan Diamond & Juan I. Korenbrot
doi:10.1038/302525a0
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| | Structural homology of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor subunits 528
Masaharu Noda, Hideo Takahashi, Tsutomu Tanabe, Mitsuyoshi Toyosato, Sho Kikyotani, Yasuji Furutani, Tadaaki Hirose, Hideaki Takashima, Seiichi Inayama, Takashi Miyata & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/302528a0
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| | Direct evidence for microfilament-mediated capping of surface receptors on crawling fibroblasts 532
Julian P. Heath
doi:10.1038/302532a0
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| | Class I-like HLA genes map telomeric to the HLA-A2 locus in human cells 534
Harry T. Orr & Robert DeMars
doi:10.1038/302534a0
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| | Cloning and expression in E. coli of the malarial sporozoite surface antigen gene from Plasmodium knowlesi
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Joan Ellis, Luiz S. Ozaki, Robert W. Gwadz, Alan H. Cochrane, Victor Nussenzweig, Ruth S. Nussenzweig & G. Nigel Godson
doi:10.1038/302536a0
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| | Isolation and nucleotide sequence of a cDNA encoding the precursor of mouse nerve growth factor 538
James Scott, Mark Selby, Mickey Urdea, Margarita Quiroga, Graeme I. Bell & William J. Rutter
doi:10.1038/302538a0
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| | Three mutant insulins in man 540
S. Shoelson, M. Haneda, P. Blix, A. Nanjo, T. Sanke, K. Inouye, D. Steiner, A. Rubenstein & H. Tager
doi:10.1038/302540a0
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| | Formation of proinsulin by immobilized Bacillus subtilis
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Klaus Mosbach, Staffan Birnbaum, Kim Hardy, Julian Davies & Leif Bülow
doi:10.1038/302543a0
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| | Inhibition of adenovirus early region IV transcription in vitro by a purified viral DNA binding protein 545
Hiroshi Handa, Robert E. Kingston & Phillip A. Sharp
doi:10.1038/302545a0
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| | Homology between an endogenous viral LTR and sequences inserted in an activated cellular oncogene 547
Edward L. Kuff, Anita Feenstra, Kira Lueders, Gideon Rechavi, David Givol & Eli Canaani
doi:10.1038/302547a0
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| | Histone H5 can correctly align randomly arranged nucleosomes in a defined in vitro system 548
A. Stein & P. Künzler
doi:10.1038/302548a0
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| | Provoking thoughts on agriculture 551
J.C. Bowman reviews Agricultural Research Policy
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Vernon W. Ruttan
doi:10.1038/302551a0
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| | From fantasy to fact 551
Fred Rosen reviews Monoclonal Antibodies in Clinical Medicine.
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Andrew J. McMichael & John W. Fabre
doi:10.1038/302551b0
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| | Some novel truths of medicine 552
Douglas Black reviews Magic Shots: A Human and Scientific Account of the Long and Continuing Struggle to Eradicate Infectious Diseases by Vaccination
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Allan Chase
doi:10.1038/302552a0
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| | Contrast of resource frontiers 553
G. de Q. Robin reviews Arctic and Antarctic: A Modern Geographical Synthesis
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David Sugden
doi:10.1038/302553a0
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| | William Fowler and the elements 553
M. G. Edmunds reviews Essays in Nuclear Astrophysics.
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C.A. Barnes, D.D. Clayton & D.N. Schramm
doi:10.1038/302553b0
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| | Vision from the womb 554
F.W. Campbell reviews A Biography of the Eye: Development, Growth, Age
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R.A. Weale
doi:10.1038/302554a0
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| | Plants and scholars 554
Peter D. Moore reviews History of Botanical Science
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A.G. Morton
doi:10.1038/302554b0
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| | Books Received | |
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| | Books Received 555
doi:10.1038/302555a0
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