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| | Negotiating a test-ban treaty 471
The new-found excitement about a comprehensive test-ban treaty is premature. There are technical and military difficulties still to be surmounted.
doi:10.1038/316471a0
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| | Vaccine-damage damage 472
A scheme to compensate for vaccine-damage in the United States must be delayed no further.
doi:10.1038/316472a0
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| | Growing charitable 472
Charitable foundations in the United States and Europe are learning how to flex their muscles.
doi:10.1038/316472b0
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| | Supercomputers: US seeks restrictions on foreign access 473
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316473a0
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| | Space cooperation: Summit speeds US/Soviet goals 473
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316473b0
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| | AIDS: Two British blood tests launched 474
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/316474a0
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| | AIDS: US blood-bank tests established 474
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316474b0
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| | British forests: Tax breaks for broadleaved trees 475
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316475a0
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| | Deep-sea clams: New find near Japan's coast 475
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/316475b0
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| | US vaccination: Statutory compensation urged 476
doi:10.1038/316476a0
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| | A check-list of vaccine hazards 476
doi:10.1038/316476b0
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| | Australian space: Never too late to change 477
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/316477a0
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| | Whaling: Inaccuracies in numbers 478
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316478a0
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| | French research: Southern festival of science 478
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/316478b0
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| | Nuclear winter: Canadian forest burn as model 479
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316479a0
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| | Aleksandrov still not found 479
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316479b0
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| | Athletic doping: Hungarian owns up 479
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316479c0
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| | The meaning of "human life" 480
R. L. HOULT
doi:10.1038/316480a0
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| | Down with metric 480
DAVID C. JOLLY
doi:10.1038/316480b0
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| | NERC and unions 480
A. N. CUTLER
doi:10.1038/316480c0
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| | Ferroelasticity comes of age 481
Crystals that can be made to twin under the influence of mechanical stress have been known for some time; neodymium pentaphosphate may become the basis of novel optical and acoustic devices.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/316481a0
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| | Ecology: Water temperature and fleas correlated in Lake Windermere 482
John H. Steele
doi:10.1038/316482a0
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| | Cosmology: How did the Universe begin? 482
I. G. Moss
doi:10.1038/316482b0
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| | Proto-oncogenes: Clues to the puzzle of purpose 483
J. Michael Bishop
doi:10.1038/316483a0
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| | Tropical diseases: Progress on Theileria vaccine 484
Peter C. Doherty & Ruth Nussenzweig
doi:10.1038/316484a0
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| | Archaeology: Early man as complex hunter 485
Clive Gamble
doi:10.1038/316485a0
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| | Drilling technology: Well - loggers and scientists 486
Roger N. Anderson
doi:10.1038/316486a0
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| | Endocrinology: Has the prolactin inhibiting peptide at last been found? 487
George Fink
doi:10.1038/316487a0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
H. J. DUNSTER
doi:10.1038/316489a0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
LIONEL WILSON
doi:10.1038/316489b0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
L. W. MARTINELLI
doi:10.1038/316489c0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
DONALD P. NIERLICH
doi:10.1038/316489d0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
EDWIN LE FÉVRE
doi:10.1038/316489e0
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| | Labelling the axes of graphs ... 489
S. R. LOGAN
doi:10.1038/316489f0
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| | More help required on T and B cells 490
JAMES SHIFFLETT
doi:10.1038/316490a0
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| | Hormone receptor−effector complex evolution 490
DAVID B. KABACK
doi:10.1038/316490b0
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| | Geologists in conflict 491
Gordon L. Herries Davies reviews The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
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Martin J. S. Rudwick
doi:10.1038/316491a0
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| | The trouble with book making 492
Colin Patterson reviews Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology. Volume 1: 1984
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R. Dawkins & M. Ridley
doi:10.1038/316492a0
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| | On scale 492
E. J. Aiton reviews Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley
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Albert Van Helden
doi:10.1038/316492b0
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| | Business of biology 493
Renton Righelato reviews Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering
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G. J. V. Nossal and Setting Genes to Work: The Industrial Era of Biotechnology
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Stephanie Yanchinski and The Gene Factory: Inside the Biotechnology Business
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John Elkington
doi:10.1038/316493a0
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| | Never ending circuits 494
Peter Beverley & Andrew McMichael reviews The Biology of Idiotypes
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Mark I. Greene & Alfred Nisonoff and Idiotypy in Biology and Medicine
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Heinz Köhler, Jacques Urbain & Pierre-André Cazenave
doi:10.1038/316494a0
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| | Limiting and realizable efficiencies of solar photolysis of water 495
James R. Bolton, Stewart J. Strickler & John S. Connolly
doi:10.1038/316495a0
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| | Response of global deep-water circulation to Earth's climatic change 135,000−107,000 years ago 500
Jean-Claude Duplessy & Nicholas J. Shackleton
doi:10.1038/316500a0
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| | Palaeotectonic implications of increased late Eocene—early Oligocene volcanism from South Pacific DSDP sites 507
J. P. Kennett, C. von der Borch, P. A. Baker, C. E. Barton, A. Boersma, J. P. Cauler, W. C. Dudley Jr, J. V. Gardner, D. G. Jenkins, W. H. Lohman, E. Martini, R. B. Merrill, R. Morin, C. S. Nelson, C. Robert, M. S. Srinivasan, R. Stein, A. Takeuchi & M. G. Murphy
doi:10.1038/316507a0
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| | A prolactin-inhibiting factor within the precursor for human gonadotropin-releasing hormone 511
Károly Nikolics, Anthony J. Mason, Éva Sz nyi, J. Ramachandran & Peter H. Seeburg
doi:10.1038/316511a0
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| | The murine T-cell receptor uses a limited repertoire of expressed V gene segments 517
Richard K. Barth, Byung S. Kim, Nancy C. Lan, Tim Hunkapiller, Nancy Sobieck, Astar Winoto, Howard Gershenfeld, Craig Okada, Dan Hansburg, Irving L. Weissman & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/316517a0
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| | Ultraviolet continuum variability of the quasar 3C273 524
T. J.-L. Courvoisier & M. H. Ulrich
doi:10.1038/316524a0
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| | Discovery of Jupiter's 'gossamer' ring 526
Mark R. Showalter, Joseph A. Burns, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi & James B. Pollack
doi:10.1038/316526a0
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| | High time-resolution observations of periodic frictional heating associated with a Pc5 micropulsation 528
G. Crowley, N. Wade, J. A. Waldock, T. R. Robinson & T. B. Jones
doi:10.1038/316528a0
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| | A 450-year drought reconstruction for Arkansas, United States 530
D. W. Stahle, M. K. Cleaveland & J. G. Hehr
doi:10.1038/316530a0
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| | Dioxin radical formation and polymerization on Cu(II)-smectite 532
Stephen A. Boyd & Max M. Mortland
doi:10.1038/316532a0
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| | Hydroxymethyl hydroperoxide and bis(hydroxymethyl) peroxide from gas-phase ozonolysis of naturally occurring alkenes 535
S. Gäb, E. Hellpointner, W. V. Turner & F. Ko te
doi:10.1038/316535a0
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| | The effect of climate on long-term changes in the crustacean zooplankton biomass of Lake Windermere, UK 536
D. G. George & G. P. Harris
doi:10.1038/316536a0
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| | Taxonomic affinities of the immature hominid crania from Hadar and Taung 539
Todd R. Olson
doi:10.1038/316539a0
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K. S. Roy Cuthbertson & P. H. Cobbold
doi:10.1038/316541a0
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| | Immunocytochemical localization in rat brain of a prolactin release-inhibiting sequence of gonadotropin-releasing hormone prohormone 542
Heidi S. Phillips, Károly Nikolics, Dale Branton & Peter H. Seeburg
doi:10.1038/316542a0
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| | Antigen-dependent increase in cytosolic free calcium in specific human T-lymphocyte clones 545
E. Nisbet-Brown, R. K. Cheung, J. W. W. Lee & E. W. Gelfand
doi:10.1038/316545a0
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| | Stimulated neutrophils from patients with autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease fail to phosphorylate a M
r-44,000 protein 547
Anthony W. Segal, Paul G. Heyworth, Shamshad Cockcroft & Margaret M. Barrowman
doi:10.1038/316547a0
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| | Human  -chain genes are rearranged in leukaemic T cells and map to the short arm of chromosome 7 549
Cornelis Murre, Richard A. Waldmann, Cynthia C. Morton, Kathleen F. Bongiovanni, Thomas A. Waldmann, Thomas B. Shows & J. G. Seidman
doi:10.1038/316549a0
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| | Identity of tumour necrosis factor and the macrophage-secreted factor cachectin 552
B. Beutler, D. Greenwald, J. D. Hulmes, M. Chang, Y.-C. E. Pan, J. Mathison, R. Ulevitch & A. Cerami
doi:10.1038/316552a0
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| | Neurones express high levels of a structurally modified, activated form of pp60c-src
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Joan S. Brugge, Patricia C. Cotton, A. E. Queral, John N. Barrett, Doris Nonner & Robert W. Keane
doi:10.1038/316554a0
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| | Differentiation of PC12 phaeochromocytoma cells induced by v-src oncogene 557
Stefano Alemà, Patrizia Casalbore, Elisabetta Agostini & Franco Tatò
doi:10.1038/316557a0
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| | Induction of proliferation or transformation of neuroretina cells by the mil and myc viral oncogenes 559
C. Bechade, G. Calothy, B. Pessac, P. Martin, J. Coll, F. Denhez, S. Saule, J. Ghysdael & D. Stéhelin
doi:10.1038/316559a0
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| | Telomeric reciprocal recombination as a possible mechanism for antigenic variation in trypanosomes 562
E. Pays, M. Guyaux, D. Aerts, N. Van Meirvenne & M. Steinert
doi:10.1038/316562a0
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