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| | Thirty years of DNA — and after 557
Molecular biology, and the genetic material called DNA that it made fashionable, is only thirty years old
Most people will be tempted to believe that time has slipped. But that is the sense that true discoveries create.
doi:10.1038/302557a0
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| | Who should test drugs? 558
The latest case of scientific fraud in the United States presents FDA with a challenge
doi:10.1038/302558a0
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| | Medicine in France: Students, interns in protest about examinations 559
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/302559a0
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| | French research: Fabius promises no change 559
Isabelle Trocheris
doi:10.1038/302559b0
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| | Data falsification: Food and drag data fudged 560
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302560a0
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| | Environmental lead: British studies stress social factors 561
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/302561a0
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| | Arms control: Last week's developments 561
As a service to readers interested in arms control, and in the hope of not boring others with oever-long articles on the subject, Nature will in the months ahead publish occasional summaries of the previous week's developments. The first follows.
doi:10.1038/302561b0
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| | Technological trade: Congress cool on new restrictions 562
Peter David
doi:10.1038/302562a0
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| | Professional chemists beat inflation 562
doi:10.1038/302562b0
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| | Sizewell inquiry: Funds for objectors growing well 563
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/302563a0
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| | Tasmanian dam: State and government conflict 563
Vimala Sarma
doi:10.1038/302563b0
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| | Romanian emigrants: Ceaucescu's claw-back 563
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/302563c0
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| | US nuclear power: Reactor dispute near Brookhaven 564
Peter David
doi:10.1038/302564a0
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| | British telecommunications: Call collect 564
doi:10.1038/302564b0
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| | Sci-tech investment: New mutual funds signal healthy state of high technology stocks 565
Peter David
doi:10.1038/302565a0
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Nature index of biotechnology stocks 565
doi:10.1038/302565b0
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| | Darwin's finches worth a mention 566
MARK WILLIAMSON
doi:10.1038/302566a0
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| | Lethergy derived 566
IAN FELLS
doi:10.1038/302566b0
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| | Dodson's choice 566
D. H. LEWIS
doi:10.1038/302566c0
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| | Worries about infectious cancer 567
The discovery in the past two years that a specific virus may be responsible for many T-cell malignancies raises awkward questions for blood banks — and the rest of us.
doi:10.1038/302567a0
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| | Archaeology: Tectonic movement and agrarian collapse in prehispanic Peru 568
David L. Browman
doi:10.1038/302568a0
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| | The Burgess shale: Strange animals from the Cambrian seas 570
Richard A. Fortey
doi:10.1038/302570a0
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| | Archaeology: A palaeolithic treasure house in the Pyrenees 571
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/302571a0
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| | Transport mechanisms: The biology of the wheel 572
Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/302572a0
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| | Nucleic acid structure: New twists to left-handed DNA 574
Stephen Neidle
doi:10.1038/302574a0
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| | Somatic generation of antibody diversity 575
Susumu Tonegawa
doi:10.1038/302575a0
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| | Regime of the Filchner−Ronne ice shelves, Antarctica 582
G. de Q. Robin, C. S. M. Doake, H. Kohnen, R. D. Crabtree, S. R. Jordan & D. Möller
doi:10.1038/302582a0
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Hinf family: a novel repeated DNA family of the human genome 587
Yasuaki Shimizu, Kouichi Yoshida, Chang-Shan Ren, Kei Fujinaga, S. Rajagopalan & G. Chinnadurai
doi:10.1038/302587a0
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| | Specific transcription and RNA splicing defects in five cloned  -thalassaemia genes 591
Richard Treisman, Stuart H. Orkin & Tom Maniatis
doi:10.1038/302591a0
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| | Runaway instability in accretion disks orbiting black holes 597
Marek A. Abramowicz, Massimo Calvani & Luciano Nobili
doi:10.1038/302597a0
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| | Equatorial confinement of thermal plasma near the rings of Saturn 599
W.-H. Ip
doi:10.1038/302599a0
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| | Pleistocene phosphorites off the west coast of South Africa 601
G. F. Birch, J. Thomson, J. M. McArthur & W. C. Burnett
doi:10.1038/302601a0
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| | Uranium disequilibrium dating of phosphate deposits from the Lau Group, Fiji 603
Kevin K. Roe, William C. Burnett & Annabelle I. N. Lee
doi:10.1038/302603a0
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| | Late Proterozoic Brioverian microfossils from France: taxonomic affinity and implications of plankton productivity 606
Catherine Mansuy & Gonzalo Vidal
doi:10.1038/302606a0
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| | Wild potato repels aphids by release of aphid alarm pheromone 608
R. W. Gibson & J. A. Pickett
doi:10.1038/302608a0
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| | Denervation increases a neurite-promoting activity in extracts of skeletal muscle 609
Christopher E. Henderson, Monique Huchet & Jean-Pierre Changeux
doi:10.1038/302609a0
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| | Generation of cat retinal ganglion cells in relation to central pathways 611
C. Walsh, E. H. Polley, T. L. Hickey & R. W. Guillery
doi:10.1038/302611a0
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| | Synapse elimination in neonatal rat muscle is sensitive to pattern of muscle use 614
Wesley Thompson
doi:10.1038/302614a0
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| | A neuronal clone derived from a Rous sarcoma virus-transformed quail embryo neuroretina established culture 616
Bernard Pessac, Arlette Girard, Georges Romey, Patricia Crisanti, Anne-Marie Lorinet & Georges Calothy
doi:10.1038/302616a0
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| | Novel form of drug-dependence—on adenosine in guinea pig ileum 618
Harry O. J. Collier & John F. Tucker
doi:10.1038/302618a0
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| | Role of de novo DNA methylation in the glucocorticoid resistance of a T-lymphoid cell line 621
Judith C. Gasson, Thomas Ryden & Suzanne Bourgeois
doi:10.1038/302621a0
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| | Enhanced expression of H−2K and H−2D antigens on reticulocytes infected with Plasmodium yoelii
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A. N. Jayawardena, R. Mogil, D. B. Murphy, D. Burger & R. K. Gershon
doi:10.1038/302623a0
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| | A survey of human leukaemias for sequences of a human retrovirus 626
Flossie Wong-Staal, Beatrice Hahn, Vittorio Manzari, Sandra Colombini, Genoveffa Franchini, Edward P. Gelmann & Robert C. Gallo
doi:10.1038/302626a0
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| | Entrapment of animal cells for production of monoclonal antibodies and other biomolecules 629
K. Nilsson, W. Scheirer, O. W. Merten, L. Östberg, E. Liehl, H. W. D. Katinger & K. Mosbach
doi:10.1038/302629a0
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Caulobacter flagellin mRNA segregates asymmetrically at cell division 630
Michael Milhausen & Nina Agabian
doi:10.1038/302630a0
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| | Facile transition of poly[d(TG) d(CA)] into a left-handed helix in physiological conditions 632
David B. Haniford & David E. Pulleyblank
doi:10.1038/302632a0
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| | Drought without water 635
Jean Palutikof reviews Drought and Man: The 1972 Case History. Vol. 1 Nature Pleads Not Guilty; Vol.2 The Constant Catastrophe: Malnutrition, Famines and Drought.
Vol.1 by
Rolando V. Garcia, Vol.2 by R.V. Garcia & Jose C. Escudero
doi:10.1038/302635a0
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| | Space for the physics of plasmas 636
C.T. Russell reviews Magnetospheric Plasma Physics.
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Atsuhiro Nishida
doi:10.1038/302636a0
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| | Computer anecdotes 636
Simon Lavington reviews Breakthrough to the Computer Age.
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Harry Wulforst
doi:10.1038/302636b0
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| | Teaching mechanisms 637
Joseph G. Gall reviews Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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Bruce Alberts et al.
doi:10.1038/302637a0
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| | Wanted: a new view of mountains 637
Janet V. Watson reviews Orogeny.
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Akiho Miyashiro, Keiiti Aki & A. M. Celâl  engör.
doi:10.1038/302637b0
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| | The succession of ecologiste in North America 638
William Coleman reviews Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895−1955.
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Ronald C. Tobey
doi:10.1038/302638a0
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| | Books Received 639
doi:10.1038/302639a0
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