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| | A council ripe for abolition 493
The British research council with responsibility for the natural environment could with profit be dismembered into smaller pieces.
doi:10.1038/311493a0
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| | Australia's problem 494
Mr Bob Hawke's government must be positive about its support for research.
doi:10.1038/311494a0
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| | Conservation cheers 494
The tide is running in favour of British conservation.
doi:10.1038/311494b0
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| | Genetic manipulation: Rifkin strikes against gene transfer experiments 495
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/311495a0
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| | Dutch universities: Small print conceals more cuts 495
Robert Walgate & Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/311495b0
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| | French medical institutes: Twelve-year rule begins to bite 496
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/311496a0
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| | Soviet geology: Deep boreholes yield data-harvest 496
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/311496b0
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| | Polish universities: Autonomy beyond reach 497
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/311497a0
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| | US-Japanese education: One man's meat, another's poison 497
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/311497b0
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| | Japanese universities: Broadcasting for degrees 498
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/311498a0
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| | US basic research: Cheer and gloom at war 498
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/311498b0
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| | British geology: Strategic survey grinding to halt 499
Philip Campbell & Peter Gambles
doi:10.1038/311499a0
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| | UK atomic energy: Putting research out to contract 500
doi:10.1038/311500a0
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| | UNESCO: One friend for M'Bow 500
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/311500b0
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| | Australian array 500
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/311500c0
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| | Italy: New hope for research council 501
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/311501a0
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| | US Army research: Expelled think-tank finds Rand 501
Sandra Blakeslee
doi:10.1038/311501b0
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Nature index of biotechnology stocks 501
doi:10.1038/311501c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Persistence of miracles 502
DONALD M. MACKAY
doi:10.1038/311502a0
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| | Persistence of miracles 502
P. G. H. CLARKE
doi:10.1038/311502b0
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| | Persistence of miracles 502
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/311502c0
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| | BioNet and GenBank 502
GREG H. HAMM
doi:10.1038/311502d0
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| | Nuclear power 502
R. H. FLOWERS
doi:10.1038/311502e0
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| | Ethics, ethical committees and animal experimentation 503
Will the establishment of local review committees for animal experiments in Britain modify attitudes of researchers and the public?
David Britt
doi:10.1038/311503a0
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| | Thunder and electric storms 507
A neat measurement of the stratospheric electrostatic fields throws light on the link between solar activity and terrestrial climate.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/311507a0
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| | Cosmology: Cosmologists in the dark 508
Joseph Silk
doi:10.1038/311508a0
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| | Astrophysics: Oscillations of degenerate stars 509
Arthur N. Cox
doi:10.1038/311509a0
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| | Vaccines: In search of novel immunogens 510
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/311510a0
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| | Biological aerodynamics: Flight of fancy planned for the largest pterosaur 511
Kevin Padian
doi:10.1038/311511a0
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| | Geophysics: Continental interior in view 512
Roger N. Anderson
doi:10.1038/311512a0
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| | Archaeology: Kin-groups in Megalithic burials 512
C. J. Scarre
doi:10.1038/311512b0
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| | 100 years ago 513
doi:10.1038/311513a0
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| | Parkinson's disease: Clues to aetiology from a toxin 514
Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/311514a0
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| | Similarity between p15E of murine and feline leukaemia viruses and p21 of HTLV 515
GEORGE J. CIANCIOLO, ROBERT J. KIPNIS & RALPH SNYDERMAN
doi:10.1038/311515a0
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| | Islet activating protein analogous to p21 ras? 515
R. K. RALPH
doi:10.1038/311515b0
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| | Heritable IQ — a reason to bother 515
JOHN HARTUNG
doi:10.1038/311515c0
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| | Raising the tone of DNA sequences 516
MARCUS PEMBREY & DAVID HART
doi:10.1038/311516a0
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| | Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter 517
George R. Blumenthal, S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack & Martin J. Rees
doi:10.1038/311517a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,158K)
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| | Ultrahigh gradient particle acceleration by intense laser-driven plasma density waves 525
C. Joshi, W. B. Mori, T. Katsouleas, J. M. Dawson, J. M. Kindel & D. W. Forslund
doi:10.1038/311525a0
Abstract & References | PDF (530K)
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| | Is there a climatic attractor? 529
C. Nicolis & G. Nicolis
doi:10.1038/311529a0
Abstract & References | PDF (401K)
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| | Structure of the nucleosome core particle at 7 Å resolution 532
T. J. Richmond, J. T. Finch, B. Rushton, D. Rhodes & A. Klug
doi:10.1038/311532a0
Abstract & References | PDF (892K)
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| | Different modes of Ca channel gating behaviour favoured by dihydropyridine Ca agonists and antagonists 538
Peter Hess, Jeffry B. Lansman & Richard W. Tsien
doi:10.1038/311538a0
Abstract & References | PDF (759K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Relic interstellar grains in Murchison meteorite 544
Jongmann Yang & Samuel Epstein
doi:10.1038/311544a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (382K)
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| | Improved positive-ion composition measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and the detection of acetone 547
G. Hauck & F. Arnold
doi:10.1038/311547a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (498K)
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| | Microdomains observed at the ferroelectric/paraelectric phase transition of barium titanate 550
L. A. Bursill & Peng Ju Lin
doi:10.1038/311550a0
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| | Invariant and changing transitional field configurations in a sequence of geomagnetic reversals 552
Jean-Pierre Valet & Carlo Laj
doi:10.1038/311552a0
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| | Density of the ocean crust 555
R. L. Carlson & G. S. Raskin
doi:10.1038/311555a0
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| | Growing season precipitation from D/H ratios of Eastern White Pine 558
J. R. Lawrence & J. W. C. White
doi:10.1038/311558a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (634K)
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| | Induction of hair growth by implantation of cultured dermal papilla cells 560
C. A. B. Jahoda, K. A. Horne & R. F. Oliver
doi:10.1038/311560a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (551K)
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| | Monoclonal antibodies define differential ras gene expression in malignant and benign colonic diseases 562
A. Thor, P. Horan Hand, D. Wunderlich, A. Caruso, R. Muraro & J. Schlom
doi:10.1038/311562a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (668K)
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| | T3-Ti receptor triggering of T8+ suppressor T cells leads to unresponsiveness to interleukin-2 565
Armand Bensussan, Oreste Acuto, Rebecca E. Hussey, Claudio Milanese & Ellis L. Reinherz
doi:10.1038/311565a0
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| | A Ca-dependent Cl- conductance in cultured mouse spinal neurones 567
David G. Owen, Menahem Segal & Jeffery L. Barker
doi:10.1038/311567a0
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| | The agonist effect of dihydropyridines on Ca channels 570
A. M. Brown, D L. Kunze & A. Yatani
doi:10.1038/311570a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (334K)
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| | Immunochemical tests of acetylcholine receptor subunit models 573
Jon Lindstrom, Manuel Criado, Susan Hochschwender, J. Lawrence Fox & Virender Sarin
doi:10.1038/311573a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (364K)
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| | Photoreceptor-specific degeneration caused by tunicamycin 575
Steven J. Fliesler, Laurence M. Rapp & Joe G. Hollyfield
doi:10.1038/311575a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (515K)
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| | Recombinant vaccinia virus primes and stimulates influenza haemagglutinin-specific cytotoxic T cells 578
J. R. Bennink, J. W. Yewdell, G. L. Smith, C. Moller & B. Moss
doi:10.1038/311578a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (203K)
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| | Transposition without duplication of infecting bacteriophage Mu DNA 580
Rasika M. Harshey
doi:10.1038/311580a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (281K)
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| | Effect of protein packing structure on side-chain methyl rotor conformations 582
A. A. Kossiakoff & S. Shteyn
doi:10.1038/311582a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (219K)
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| | 'Z-RNA'—a left-handed RNA double helix 584
Kathleen Hall, Phillip Cruz, Ignacio Tinoco Jr, Thomas M. Jovin & Johan H. van de Sande
doi:10.1038/311584a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (272K)
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| | Erratum: Dynamics of meltwater discharge from Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last deglaciation 586
R. H. Fillon & D. F. Williams
doi:10.1038/311586a0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Preformation to punctuation 587
Colin Patterson reviews Evolution: The History of an Idea.
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Peter J. Bowler
doi:10.1038/311587a0
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| | Records of the early metazoans 587
Steven M. Stanley reviews The Dawn of Animal Life: A Biohistorical Study.
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Martin F. Glaessner
doi:10.1038/311587b0
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| | Gauge theories with a difference 588
Graham G. Ross reviews Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
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Francis Halzen & Alan D. Martin and Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions. Frontiers in Physics
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Chris Quigg and Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics
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Ta-Pei Cheng & Ling-Fong Li and Gauge Theories of Strong and Electroweak Interactions.
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P. Becher, M. Böhm & H. Joos
doi:10.1038/311588a0
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| | Pastures of muscle physiology 589
D.R. Wilkie reviews Muscles, Reflexes, and Locomotion.
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Thomas A. McMahon
doi:10.1038/311589a0
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| | Job prospects in the United States 590
With the United States' economic boom continuing, and the rate of job generation far outstripping that of other Western economies, what are the job prospects for life scientists and engineers?
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/311590a0
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