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| | Changing the objectives of research 1
The pressures on the British research enterprise, perhaps models of troubles that could arise elsewhere, are made worse by the government's lack of policy. But things may be changing.
doi:10.1038/314001a0
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| | News | |
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| | British higher education: Modest increase planned in student numbers 3
doi:10.1038/314003a0
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| | Space budget fixed 3
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314003b0
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| | US supercomputers: Four research centres named 3
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314003c0
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| | US-Australian defence: Hawke fights on second front 4
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/314004a0
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| | US defence facilities in Australia 4
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/314004b0
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| | Polish universities: Government legislation unwanted 5
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/314005a0
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| | UK research: Joseph warns of trouble ahead 5
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/314005b0
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| | British AIDS: New cases cause alarm 5
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/314005c0
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| | Genetic manipulation: Rifkin battle lost, war undecided 6
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314006a0
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| | Court wishes plague on both sides 6
doi:10.1038/314006b0
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| | Star wars: Quarrel over congressional study 7
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/314007a0
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| | British cooperation 7
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/314007b0
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| | Agricultural research: British council under new threat 8
doi:10.1038/314008a0
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| | Schopper to stay 8
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314008b0
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| | Planned contraction 8
doi:10.1038/314008c0
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| | European research: Commission's new broom 9
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314009a0
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| | European cooperation in the air 9
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314009b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | NERC's corporate plan 10
RICHARD SCOTT
doi:10.1038/314010a0
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| | NERC's corporate plan 10
BARRIE PEARSON
doi:10.1038/314010b0
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| | Embryo research 10
ROGER WATSON
doi:10.1038/314010c0
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| | An appeal to embryologists 11
The British House of Commons seems bent on passing a bill to prevent some kinds of research. Here is a way in which embryologists and geneticists can help themselves and even help defeat the bill.
doi:10.1038/314011a0
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| | Condensed matter and planetary science: First-order phase transitions between amorphous ices 12
J.P. Poirier
doi:10.1038/314012a0
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| | Riddle of reflections in the water 12
Thomas Gold
doi:10.1038/314012b0
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| | Evolutionary biology: A new phylogeny for Darwin's Galapagos finches 13
Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/314013a0
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| | Stellar structure: Beginnings of asteroseismology 14
Douglas Gough
doi:10.1038/314014a0
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| | Scrapie: Perspectives on prions 15
Colin Masters
doi:10.1038/314015a0
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| | Immunology: Control of T-cell development 16
Roland Scollay
doi:10.1038/314016a0
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| | Periodic extinctions: Cratering theories bombarded 17
Paul Weissman
doi:10.1038/314017a0
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| | [News and Views 'picture story'] 17
doi:10.1038/314017b0
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| | Biogeology: Sulphur-eating tube worms take to the Oregon breaches 18
Roger N. Anderson
doi:10.1038/314018a0
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| | Genetics: New aid to human gene mapping 19
C. Thomas Caskey
doi:10.1038/314019a0
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| | 100 Years Ago 19
doi:10.1038/314019b0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Lysosomes and prohormone activation 20
C.N. HALES
doi:10.1038/314020a0
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| | Agreement between optical and radiocarbon dating 20
NORMAN E. HOLDEN
doi:10.1038/314020b0
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| | Right-handed flagella in tumbling Caulobacter
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SHIGEO KOYASU & YASUO SHIRAKIHARA
doi:10.1038/314020c0
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| | A tax not for imposition 21
On Budget day, 19 March, the British government may announce it is to impose value added tax on publications. The proposal might be economically rational but should be resisted.
doi:10.1038/314021a0
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| | Matters of gravity 22
John D. Barrow
doi:10.1038/314022a0
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| | Physical reasoning 23
Colin Upstill
doi:10.1038/314023a0
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| | Round the mechanics course 23
J.W. Humberston
doi:10.1038/314023b0
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| | Good companions 24
Robert Connon Smith
doi:10.1038/314024a0
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| | Out of this world 24
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/314024b0
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| | From eye to CCD 25
Michael Rowan-Robinson
doi:10.1038/314025a0
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| | Inside the planets 25
D.C. Tozer
doi:10.1038/314025b0
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| | Eumorphous amorphs 26
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/314026a0
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| | On the ground 26
C. Kidson
doi:10.1038/314026b0
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| | Devonian review 27
Bruce Sellwood
doi:10.1038/314027a0
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| | Earth through time 27
A. Hallam
doi:10.1038/314027b0
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| | Student pollution 28
Peter S. Liss
doi:10.1038/314028a0
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| | Archaeology anew 28
Colin Renfrew
doi:10.1038/314028b0
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| | Fossil selection 29
W.S. McKerrow
doi:10.1038/314029a0
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| | A view of solids 29
R. Rudham
doi:10.1038/314029b0
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| | Different elements to chemistry 30
Jon McCleverty
doi:10.1038/314030a0
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| | Organic affairs 30
John Mann
doi:10.1038/314030b0
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| | Metabolic change 31
M.L. Sinnott
doi:10.1038/314031a0
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| | Animals illustrated 32
D.R. Newth
doi:10.1038/314032a0
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| | Aspects of insects 32
M.E.G. Evans
doi:10.1038/314032b0
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| | Introducing biology 33
E.C. Cox & R.M. May
doi:10.1038/314033a0
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| | Vertebrates as a whole 34
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/314034a0
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| | After Darwin 34
R.J. Berry
doi:10.1038/314034b0
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| | An idea of primates 34
Michael Simpson
doi:10.1038/314034c0
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| | Telling tales 35
Geoffrey Hall
doi:10.1038/314035a0
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| | Psychometrics at the trot 35
Steve Blinkhorn
doi:10.1038/314035b0
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| | Different behaviour 36
Richard J. Cowie
doi:10.1038/314036a0
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| | Anything is possible 36
P.N.R. Usherwood
doi:10.1038/314036b0
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| | Fresh selection 37
T.R. Birkhead
doi:10.1038/314037a0
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| | Wholesome ecology 37
Robert H. Smith
doi:10.1038/314037b0
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| | Living in salt waters 38
Michael M. Mullin
doi:10.1038/314038a0
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| | Ecological thoughts 39
John Lawton
doi:10.1038/314039a0
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| | Southern histories 39
Barry Cox
doi:10.1038/314039b0
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| | Biotas in space and time 40
Carolyn M. Harrison
doi:10.1038/314040a0
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| | Change in population 40
Michael B. Usher
doi:10.1038/314040b0
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| | Parts of phycology 41
Howard Pearson
doi:10.1038/314041a0
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| | Eye to revolution 41
C.J. Leaver & S.M. Smith
doi:10.1038/314041b0
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| | Chloroplasts, new and improved 42
R.P.F. Gregory
doi:10.1038/314042a0
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| | Green workings 42
J.D. Ross
doi:10.1038/314042b0
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| | Membrane biology moves on 43
M.J. Selwyn
doi:10.1038/314043a0
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| | To start with ... 43
Roger Hill
doi:10.1038/314043b0
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| | Our own inheritance 44
Ben Carritt
doi:10.1038/314044a0
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| | Genetic similarities 44
D.J. Cove
doi:10.1038/314044b0
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| | Cells and the single author 45
J.G. Edwards
doi:10.1038/314045a0
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| | DNA in sound and vision 45
E.J. Wood
doi:10.1038/314045b0
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| | Recombinant limits 46
S.D.M. Brown
doi:10.1038/314046a0
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| | Molecular defence 47
Andrew McMichael
doi:10.1038/314047a0
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| | Tackling immunity 47
Brian Solomon
doi:10.1038/314047b0
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| | Enzymology in the golden ages 48
Keith Tipton
doi:10.1038/314048a0
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| | Modern microbes 49
G.P.C. Salmond & R. Whittenbury
doi:10.1038/314049a0
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| | Bodily functions 49
Ole H. Petersen
doi:10.1038/314049b0
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| | The developing side of biology 50
Mary Bownes
doi:10.1038/314050a0
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| | Nervous connections 51
Julian Lewis
doi:10.1038/314051a0
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| | Index to textbooks reviewed 52
doi:10.1038/314052a0
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| | Demonstration by monoclonal antibodies that carbohydrate structures of glycoproteins and glycolipids are onco-developmental antigens 53
Ten Feizi
doi:10.1038/314053a0
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| | Importance of the 'shape' of the melting regime during partial melting of the mantle 58
M. J. O'Hara
doi:10.1038/314058a0
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| | Upper mantle heterogeneities and dynamics 62
J.-G. Schilling
doi:10.1038/314062a0
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| | Hypervariable 'minisatellite' regions in human DNA 67
Alec J. Jeffreys, Victoria Wilson & Swee Lay Thein
doi:10.1038/314067a0
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| | Cometary impacts, molecular clouds, and the motion of the Sun perpendicular to the galactic plane 73
Patrick Thaddeus & Gary A. Chanan
doi:10.1038/314073a0
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| | A composite bolometer as a charged-particle spectrometer 75
N. Coron, G. Dambier, G. J. Focker, P. G. Hansen, G. Jegoudez, B. Jonson, J. Leblanc, J. P. Moalic, H. L. Ravn, H. H. Stroke & O. Testard
doi:10.1038/314075a0
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| | An apparently first-order transition between two amorphous phases of ice induced by pressure 76
O. Mishima, L. D. Calvert & E. Whalley
doi:10.1038/314076a0
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| | Al3+ coordination changes in liquid aluminosilicates under pressure 78
Eiji Ohtani, Francis Taulelle & C. Austen Angell
doi:10.1038/314078a0
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| | ESR dating of volcanic ash 81
Noboru Imai, Koichi Shimokawa & Michio Hirota
doi:10.1038/314081a0
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| | Oxygen isotope fractionation between amorphous silica and water at 34−93°C 83
Itsuro Kita, Sachihiro Taguchi & Osamu Matsubaya
doi:10.1038/314083a0
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| | Major Asian aeolian inputs indicated by the mineralogy of aerosols and sediments in the western North Pacific 84
Marsha Blank, Margaret Leinen & Joseph M. Prospero
doi:10.1038/314084a0
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| | Thermogenic hydrocarbons in surface sediments of the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula 87
M. J. Whiticar, E. Suess & H. Wehner
doi:10.1038/314087a0
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| | Somatostatin immunoreactivity in neuritic plaques of Alzheimer's patients 90
John H. Morrison, Joseph Rogers, Stephen Scherr, Robert Benoit & Floyd E. Bloom
doi:10.1038/314090a0
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| | Location of neuronal tangles in somatostatin neurones in Alzheimer's disease 92
G. W. Roberts, T. J. Crow & J. M. Polak
doi:10.1038/314092a0
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| | A functional correlate for the dihydropyridine binding site in rat brain 94
D. N. Middlemiss & M. Spedding
doi:10.1038/314094a0
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| | Identification of a distinct synaptic glutamate receptor on horizontal cells in mudpuppy retina 96
Malcolm M. Slaughter & Robert F. Miller
doi:10.1038/314096a0
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| | Expression of interleukin-2 receptors as a differentiation marker on intrathymic stem cells 98
Rhodri Ceredig, John W. Lowenthal, Markus Nabholz & H. Robson MacDonald
doi:10.1038/314098a0
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| | Expression and function of interleukin-2 receptors on immature thymocytes 101
David H. Raulet
doi:10.1038/314101a0
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| | Developmental regulation of T-cell receptor gene expression 103
David H. Raulet, Richard D. Garman, Haruo Saito & Susumu Tonegawa
doi:10.1038/314103a0
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| | Identification of antigen receptor-associated structures on murine T cells 107
James P. Allison & Lewis L. Lanier
doi:10.1038/314107a0
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| | Direct evidence that reverse cholesterol transport is mediated by high-density lipoprotein in rabbit 109
N. E. Miller, A. La Ville & D. Crook
doi:10.1038/314109a0
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| | Structure and transcription of human papillomavirus sequences in cervical carcinoma cells 111
Elisabeth Schwarz, Ulrich Karl Freese, Lutz Gissmann, Wolfgang Mayer, Birgit Roggenbuck, Armin Stremlau & Harald zur Hausen
doi:10.1038/314111a0
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| | Human genes for U2 small nuclear RNA map to a major adenovirus 12 modification site on chromosome 17 115
Valerie Lindgren, Manuel Ares Jr, Alan M. Weiner & Uta Francke
doi:10.1038/314115a0
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| | Cyclic GMP to nicked DNA 117
This month's New on the Market selection includes a new cyclic GMP assay and a DNA nick-translation kit.
doi:10.1038/314117a0
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The involvement of prospective employers in sponsoring students in higher education can lead to improvement in courses in general, as well as benefiting individuals.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/314118a0
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