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The British House of Commons has had a muddled debate about the regulation of in vitro fertilization. The British government should devise more liberal legislation than was urged last week.
doi:10.1038/312389a0
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| | Bettering farm support 389
The Reagan administration should give agricultural research its due.
doi:10.1038/312389b0
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| | European initiatives 390
The European Science Foundation has had ten modest years. Now it needs to be more daring.
doi:10.1038/312390a0
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| | Italian research: New president's ambitions firm and unclouded 391
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312391a0
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| | NIH research: Reducing grant-writing burden 391
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/312391b0
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| | European air pollution: Commission's directive in balance 392
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/312392a0
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| | New climate unit 392
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/312392b0
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| | Gene therapy: US clinical trials imminent 393
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/312393a0
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| | Japanese telecommunications: Future goes up in flames 393
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/312393b0
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| | Informatics: Olivetti bids to rival IBM 394
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312394a0
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| | European commission: Golden parachutes at Ispra 394
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312394b0
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| | Australian nuclear policy: Non-nuclear election party 395
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/312395a0
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| | European all-change 395
doi:10.1038/312395b0
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| | Yugoslavia: Brain drain 395
Vera Rich
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| | Acid outback rain 395
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/312395d0
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| | Creationism in confusion? 396
E.H. ANDREWS
doi:10.1038/312396a0
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| | Riposte on CERN 396
BEN MARTIN & JOHN IRVINE
doi:10.1038/312396b0
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| | Irish students 396
I.D. STRAHAN
doi:10.1038/312396c0
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| | Mind, body and intelligence 397
This year's BBC Reith lectures are arresting and provocative but also representative of the kind of argument that gives philosophers a poor reputation in research laboratories.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/312397a0
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| | Burkitt's lymphoma: Clues to the role of malaria 398
M.A. Epstein
doi:10.1038/312398a0
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| | Mathematics: Five bodies to infinity 398
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/312398b0
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| | Radiocarbon dating: New World colonized in Holocene 399
Richard Burleigh
doi:10.1038/312399a0
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| | Geology: Death of an ancient ocean 400
Peter Gambles
doi:10.1038/312400a0
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| | Geology: Death of an ancient ocean 400
David L. Bruton
doi:10.1038/312400b0
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| | Drosophila development: Smell taste and rhythm 402
Michael Ashburner
doi:10.1038/312402a0
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| | Cell biology: Actin-binding protein evolution 403
Thomas D. Pollard
doi:10.1038/312403a0
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| | Particle physics: Computer simulations of quark and gluon interactions 404
D. J. Wallace
doi:10.1038/312404a0
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| | Enzyme therapy: Treatment of inborn errors of metabolism by transplantation 405
Reed E. Pyeritz
doi:10.1038/312405a0
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| | Immunology: T-cell receptor companions 406
M. J. Owen
doi:10.1038/312406a0
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| | 100 years ago 406
doi:10.1038/312406b0
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| | Haematopoietic growth factors 407
LEO SACHS & JOSEPH LOTEM
doi:10.1038/312407a0
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| | Calibrations for nuclear winter 407
SHERWOOD B. IDSO
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| | DNA methylation and G + C rich DNA 407
R. L. P. ADAMS & R. EASON
doi:10.1038/312407c0
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| | Germ-line gene therapy a misnomer? 408
JACQUES BECKMANN
doi:10.1038/312408a0
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| | Three-dimensional chemical waves in metals 408
D.H. EVANS
doi:10.1038/312408b0
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| | Multiple specific contacts between a mammalian transcription factor and its cognate promoters 409
David Gidoni, William S. Dynan & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/312409a0
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| | Isolation of cDNA clones encoding the 20K T3 glycoprotein of human T-cell receptor complex 413
Peter van den Elsen, Beth-Ann Shepley, Jannie Borst, John E. Coligan, Alexander F. Markham, Stuart Orkin & Cox Terhorst
doi:10.1038/312413a0
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| | Novel immunoglobulin heavy chains are produced from DJ
H gene segment rearrangements in lymphoid cells 418
Michael G. Reth & Frederick W. Alt
doi:10.1038/312418a0
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| | Regulation of actin polymerization by non-polymerizable actin-like proteins 424
Hiroshi Maruta, Wiebke Knoerzer, Horst Hinssen & Gerhard Isenberg
doi:10.1038/312424a0
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| | Improved limits on small-scale anisotropy in cosmic microwave background 427
Juan M. Uson & David T. Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/312427a0
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| | Effects of pulsation and mass loss on stellar evolution 429
L. A. Willson & G. H. Bowen
doi:10.1038/312429a0
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| | Observations and theory of the solar semidiurnal tide in the mesosphere of Venus 431
Stephen B. Fels, J. T. Schofield & David Crisp
doi:10.1038/312431a0
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| | Comparative utility of microwave and shortwave satellite data for all-weather charting of snow cover 434
David Robinson, Klaus Kunzi, George Kukla & Helmut Rott
doi:10.1038/312434a0
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| | Surface faulting in the southern Italian Campania-Basilicata earthquake of 23 November 1980 436
Rob Westaway & James Jackson
doi:10.1038/312436a0
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| | A Grenville Sm−Nd age for the Glenelg eclogite in north-west Scotland 439
I. S. Sanders, P. W. C. van Calsteren & C. J. Hawkesworth
doi:10.1038/312439a0
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| | Tocopherols as likely precursors of pristane in ancient sediments and crude oils 440
H. Goossens, J. W. de Leeuw, P. A. Schenck & S. C. Brassell
doi:10.1038/312440a0
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| | Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages of amino acid extracts from Californian palaeoindian skeletons 442
J. L. Bada, R. Gillespie, J. A. J. Gowlett & R. E. M. Hedges
doi:10.1038/312442a0
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| | Aequorin measurements of free calcium in single heart cells 444
P. H. Cobbold & P. K. Bourne
doi:10.1038/312444a0
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| | Glucose induces closure of single potassium channels in isolated rat pancreatic  -cells 446
Frances M. Ashcroft, Donna E. Harrison & Stephen J. H. Ashcroft
doi:10.1038/312446a0
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| | T-cell control of Epstein−Barr virus-infected B cells is lost during P. falciparum malaria 449
Hilton C. Whittle, Jim Brown, Kevin Marsh, Brian M. Greenwood, Peter Seidelin, Helen Tighe & Lucy Wedderburn
doi:10.1038/312449a0
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| | Mucosal mast cells are functionally active during spontaneous expulsion of intestinal nematode infections in rat 450
R. G. Woodbury, H. R. P. Miller, J. F. Huntley, G. F. J. Newlands, A. C. Palliser & D. Wakelin
doi:10.1038/312450a0
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| | Capacitance measurements reveal stepwise fusion events in degranulating mast cells 453
J. M. Fernandez, E. Neher & B. D. Gomperts
doi:10.1038/312453a0
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| | The  - and  -chains of the human T3/T-cell receptor complex are distinct polypeptides 455
Jannie Borst, John E. Coligan, Hans Oettgen, Silvana Pessano, Robert Malin & Cox Terhorst
doi:10.1038/312455a0
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Peter T. Lomedico, Ueli Gubler, Christopher P. Hellmann, Mitchell Dukovich, Judith G. Giri, Yu-Ching E. Pan, Kenneth Collier, Raina Semionow, Anne O. Chua & Steven B. Mizel
doi:10.1038/312458a0
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| | Mitogens increase phosphorylation of phosphoinositides in thymocytes 462
Michael V. Taylor, James C. Metcalfe, T. Robin Hesketh, Gerry A. Smith & John P. Moore
doi:10.1038/312462a0
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| | Two steroid 21-hydroxylase genes are located in the murine S region 465
Perrin C. White, David D. Chaplin, John H. Weis, Bo Dupont, Maria I. New & J. G. Seidman
doi:10.1038/312465a0
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| | Correction of feline arylsulphatase B deficiency (mucopolysaccharidosis VI) by bone marrow transplantation 467
P. W. Gasper, M. A. Thrall, D. A. Wenger, D. W. Macy, L. Ham, R. E. Dornsife, K. McBiles, S. L. Quackenbush, M. L. Kesel, E. L. Gillette & E. A. Hoover
doi:10.1038/312467a0
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| | Unusual abundance of vertebrate 3-phosphate dehydrogenase pseudogenes 469
M. Piechaczyk, J. M. Blanchard, S. Riaad-El Sabouty, C. Dani, L. Marty & P. Jeanteur
doi:10.1038/312469a0
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| | Intensification of the 5.9-nm actin layer line in contracting muscle 471
I. Matsubara, N. Yagi, H. Miura, M. Ozeki & T. Izumi
doi:10.1038/312471a0
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| | A sequence downstream of AAUAAA is required for rabbit -globin mRNA 3'-end formation 473
A. Gil & N. J. Proudfoot
doi:10.1038/312473a0
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| | Lines of investigation 475
J.T. Bonner reviews Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important?
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Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and Size, Function, and Life History
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William A. Calder III
doi:10.1038/312475a0
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| | Science digested 476
Bryan Silcock reviews Sci-Tech Report.
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Jon Turney
doi:10.1038/312476a0
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| | Russian tidings 476
K.F. Bowden reviews Ocean Tides: Mathematical Models and Numerical Experiments.
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G.I. Marchuk & B.A. Kagan
doi:10.1038/312476b0
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| | Community questions 477
C.R. Townsend reviews Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence.
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Donald R. Strong Jr, Daniel Simberloff, Lawrence G. Abele & Anne B. Thistle
doi:10.1038/312477a0
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| | Counsel for chemists 478
Robert M. Joyce reviews Guide to the Chemical Industry: Technology, R & D, Marketing, and Employment
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William S. Emerson and Problem Solving in the Chemical Industry
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R. J. Casey & M. J. Frazer
doi:10.1038/312478a0
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doi:10.1038/312479a0
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This week's product review concentrates on monoclonal antibodies, their production and their applications. New products include a novel gel entrapment technique as an alternative to conventional mass culture.
doi:10.1038/312481a0
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