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| | Helping out in Bhopal 579
It would be easy to draw the wrong conclusions from last week's harrowing events at Bhopal's Union Carbide plant.
doi:10.1038/312579a0
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| | Research charade 580
The UK research community should respond forecfully to the latest disappointments.
doi:10.1038/312580a0
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| | News | |
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| | Toxic gas: Pesticide plant leak wreaks disaster in India 581
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/312581a0
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| | Ways of death 581
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/312581b0
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| | UK government review: More bad news for science 581
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312581c0
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| | UK science: Now you see it, now you don't 582
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312582a0
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| | Students granted a reprieve 582
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/312582b0
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| | AIDS screening: False test results raise doubts 583
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/312583a0
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| | British AIDS: Paper prophylaxis backfires 583
Hugh Barnes
doi:10.1038/312583b0
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| | Polish universities: Setback for liberalization 584
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/312584a0
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| | European cooperation: All-optical computer in sight 584
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/312584b0
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| | Fast reactors: Britain falling behind? 585
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312585a0
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| | Space station: Budget cuts spell delay 585
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/312585b0
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| | Nature Conservancy: Chief geologist resigns 585
Hugh Barnes
doi:10.1038/312585c0
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| | Soviet space programme: Halley mission on course 586
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312586a0
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| | Comparison of biotechnology stock indexes 586
doi:10.1038/312586b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Teller's cold comfort 587
A.D. BROWN
doi:10.1038/312587a0
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| | Bedlam at banquets 587
RALPH A. LEWIN
doi:10.1038/312587b0
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| | Plight of UK scientists 587
PETER FELLGETT
doi:10.1038/312587c0
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| | Peer review 587
D.R. FORSDYKE
doi:10.1038/312587d0
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| | Opportunities in particle physics 588
While a British committee is considering the question whether the United Kingdom can afford to remain a member of the European high-energy physics consortium CERN, particle physics itself is at an exciting stage. Here a British theorist describes the prospects for the coming decade.
C.H. Llewellyn Smith
doi:10.1038/312588a0
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| | Nuclear winter and carbon dioxide 593
The National Academy of Sciences has at last reported on the nuclear winter. It clarifies the scientific uncertainties that affect other important climatic models.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/312593a0
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| | Magnetosphere: First success for a space mission and a comet for Christmas 594
D.J. Southwood & D.A. Bryant
doi:10.1038/312594a0
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| | Gene regulation: Repression of activators 594
Anna Velcich & Edward Ziff
doi:10.1038/312594b0
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| | Low-temperature physics: Do cosmic rays account for superfluid 3He transition? 595
P.V.E. McClintock
doi:10.1038/312595a0
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| | Oncogenic intelligence: Cell immortalization and transformation by the p53 gene 596
D.P. Lane
doi:10.1038/312596a0
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| | Immunology: Uses of chimaeric antibodies 597
Alan Munro
doi:10.1038/312597a0
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| | Cosmology: Strings and the origins of galaxies 598
Neil Turok & David N. Schramm
doi:10.1038/312598a0
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| | Palaeontology: Consensus on archosaurs 599
Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/312599a0
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| | Geology: So you thought mountain ranges were complicated 600
Myrl F. Beck
doi:10.1038/312600a0
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| | 100 years ago 600
doi:10.1038/312600b0
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| | Direct observations of the dopant environment in fluorites using EXAFS 601
C. R. A. Catlow, A. V. Chadwick, G. N. Greaves & L. M. Moroney
doi:10.1038/312601a0
Abstract & References | PDF (399K)
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| | Recombinant antibodies possessing novel effector functions 604
Michael S. Neuberger, Gareth T. Williams & Robert O. Fox
doi:10.1038/312604a0
Abstract & References | PDF (650K)
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| | Adenovirus-2 E1A products repress enhancer-induced stimulation of transcription 608
Emiliana Borrelli, René Hen & Pierre Chambon
doi:10.1038/312608a0
Abstract & References | PDF (689K)
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| | A bacterial repressor protein or a yeast transcriptional terminator can block upstream activation of a yeast gene 612
Roger Brent & Mark Ptashne
doi:10.1038/312612a0
Abstract & References | PDF (512K)
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| | Primary structure and genomic organization of the histidine-rich protein of the malaria parasite Plasmodium lophurae
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Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Roslyn Feder, Amalia Pavlovec & Gunter Blobel
doi:10.1038/312616a0
Abstract & References | PDF (687K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | A runaway instability in thick accretion disks? 620
D. B. Wilson
doi:10.1038/312620a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (222K)
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| | Possible detection of a ring system in Saturn's magnetosphere 621
R. Vasundhara, J. C. Bhattacharyya, P. Santhanam, A. K. Pande, Vijay Mohan & H. S. Mahra
doi:10.1038/312621a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (630K)
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| | A 154-day periodicity in the occurrence of hard solar flares? 623
E. Rieger, G. H. Share, D. J. Forrest, G. Kanbach, C. Reppin & E. L. Chupp
doi:10.1038/312623a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (335K)
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| | Magnetic field amplification in the solar nebula through interaction with the T-Tauri wind 625
W.-H. Ip
doi:10.1038/312625a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (243K)
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| | Observation of a thin layer of material in the upper stratosphere 627
L. Thomas, D. P. Wareing & D. B. Jenkins
doi:10.1038/312627a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (249K)
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| | Displacement of the Moho by the Outer Isles thrust shown by seismic modelling 628
Carolyn P. Peddy
doi:10.1038/312628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (767K)
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| | Palaeoclimate of Baffin Bay from 300,000-year record of foraminifera, dinoflagellates and pollen 630
P. J. Mudie & A. E. Aksu
doi:10.1038/312630a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (664K)
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| | Inheritance of stereotyped gibbon calls 634
W. Y. Brockelman & D. Schilling
doi:10.1038/312634a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (340K)
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| | Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate microinjection activates sea urchin eggs 636
Michael Whitaker & R. F. Irvine
doi:10.1038/312636a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (717K)
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| | Epithelial cells expressing aberrant MHC class II determinants can present antigen to cloned human T cells 639
Marco Londei, Jonathan R. Lamb, Gian Franco Bottazzo & Marc Feldmann
doi:10.1038/312639a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (345K)
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| | Human interleukin-2 promotes proliferation of activated B cells via surface receptors similar to those of activated T cells 641
M. C. Mingari, F. Gerosa, G. Carra, R. S. Accolla, A. Moretta, R. H. Zubler, T. A. Waldmann & L. Moretta
doi:10.1038/312641a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (445K)
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| | Production of functional chimaeric mouse/human antibody 643
Gabrielle L. Boulianne, Nobumichi Hozumi & Marc J. Shulman
doi:10.1038/312643a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (544K)
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| | Participation of p53 cellular tumour antigen in transformation of normal embryonic cells 646
Daniel Eliyahu, Avraham Raz, Peter Gruss, David Givol & Moshe Oren
doi:10.1038/312646a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,700K)
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| | Cooperation between gene encoding p53 tumour antigen and ras in cellular transformation 649
Luis F. Parada, Hartmut Land, Robert A. Weinberg, David Wolf & Varda Rotter
doi:10.1038/312649a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (981K)
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| | Cellular immortalization by a cDNA clone encoding the transformation-associated phosphoprotein p53 651
J. R. Jenkins, K. Rudge & G. A. Currie
doi:10.1038/312651a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,126K)
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| | Gene structure of human cardiac hormone precursor, pronatriodilatin 654
Mona Nemer, Michel Chamberland, Diane Sirois, Stephania Argentin, Jacques Drouin, Richard A. F. Dixon, Robert A. Zivin & Jon H. Condra
doi:10.1038/312654a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (487K)
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| | Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding human atrial natriuretic factor precursor 656
Barry D. Greenberg, Gerard H. Bencen, Jeffrey J. Seilhamer, John A. Lewicki & John C. Fiddes
doi:10.1038/312656a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (352K)
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| | Identification of the coding sequence for a reverse transcriptase-like enzyme in a transposable genetic element in Drosophila melanogaster
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Kaoru Saigo, Wataru Kugimiya, Yoshinori Matsuo, Satoshi Inouye, Katsuji Yoshioka & Shunji Yuki
doi:10.1038/312659a0
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| | Nicotinic receptor stimulation activates enkephalin release and biosynthesis in adrenal chromaffin cells 661
Lee E. Eiden, Pierre Giraud, Jitendra R. Dave, Adair J. Hotchkiss & Hans-Urs Affolter
doi:10.1038/312661a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (373K)
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| | The yeast ubiquitin gene: head-to-tail repeats encoding a polyubiquitin precursor protein 663
Engin Özkaynak, Daniel Finley & Alexander Varshavsky
doi:10.1038/312663a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (666K)
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| | Biotechnology bookshelf 667
Anita Crafts-Lighty's choice of the best biotechnology reference books published in 1984.
Anita Crafts-Lighty
doi:10.1038/312667a0
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| | Who does what, and where? 668
John Galloway
doi:10.1038/312668a0
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| | China: the promise and the problems 669
Gregory Blue
doi:10.1038/312669a0
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| | Rolling and pitching in Russian 670
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/312670a0
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| | Words, words, words 670
Michael Spencer
doi:10.1038/312670b0
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| | Pups and groundhogs 671
Alan Hendry
doi:10.1038/312671a0
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| | Business in science 671
W.F. Clocksin
doi:10.1038/312671b0
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| | In terms of computer graphics 671
Julian Gallop
doi:10.1038/312671c0
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| | Learning of the gods 672
P.W. Atkins
doi:10.1038/312672a0
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| | Eminent lives 672
Christopher Spencer
doi:10.1038/312672b0
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| | Pieces of mind: more for the clinician than the academic 673
Stuart Sutherland
doi:10.1038/312673a0
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| | Environmental issues 673
Timothy O'Riordan
doi:10.1038/312673b0
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| | Green and pleasant 674
Richard Mabey
doi:10.1038/312674a0
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| | Poisoned principles 674
J. D. Phillipson
doi:10.1038/312674b0
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| | Talk of plants 675
C.A. Stace
doi:10.1038/312675a0
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| | Order in mammals 675
Malcolm C. McKenna
doi:10.1038/312675b0
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| | Primate profiles 676
R.D. Martin
doi:10.1038/312676a0
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| | A view of life 676
A.J. Cain
doi:10.1038/312676b0
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| | [Reference Books 'picture story'] 676
doi:10.1038/312676c0
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| | Feel for vertebrates 677
D.R. Newth
doi:10.1038/312677a0
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| | Down under standard 677
G.B. Corbet
doi:10.1038/312677b0
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| | Everyone's stunning animals 677
Carolyn M. Crockett
doi:10.1038/312677c0
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| | Mammoth appeal 678
Brian Bertram
doi:10.1038/312678a0
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| | Up in the air over the nation 678
John Andrews
doi:10.1038/312678b0
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| | Fish: relations and compositions 679
D. H. Cushing
doi:10.1038/312679a0
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| | Books Received 680
doi:10.1038/312680a0
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