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| | No more NPT rows, please 663
The third review conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens next week at Geneva. Old discontents are bound to surface. Can the participants think forward too?
doi:10.1038/316663a0
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| | What hope for AIDS? 663
The temptation to legislate to protect society from the spread of AIDS should be resisted.
doi:10.1038/316663b0
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| | Academic independence 664
The British government's inquiry into the University Grants Committee could be useful.
doi:10.1038/316664a0
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| | Justice by bankruptcy 665
The Manville solution for the settlement of claims by asbestos victims could become a precedent.
doi:10.1038/316665a0
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| | Radiation exposure: British nuclear workforce assessed for risks 666
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/316666a0
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| | Japanese economy: The future is even brighter 666
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/316666b0
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| | More money for NIH 666
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316666c0
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| | US engineering: Backing for long shots 667
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316667a0
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| | US gene cloning: Academics barred from P4 lab 667
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316667b0
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| | Indian guided missile nearly ready 667
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/316667c0
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| | UK research councils: The selling of NERC research 668
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316668a0
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| | US troops and AIDS 668
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316668b0
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| | British Association: Scottish meeting 668
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316668c0
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| | Correction: New Zealand science 668
doi:10.1038/316668d0
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| | Japan to Halley: Second comet probe launched 669
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/316669a0
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| | University committee review begins 669
doi:10.1038/316669b0
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| | Soviet science: In the steps of the Ukraine 669
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316669c0
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| | French nuclear tests: Mystery of Rainbow Warrior
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Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/316670a0
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| | French mistrusted on Mururoa 670
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/316670b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Mt Wilson Observatory 671
R. & R. GRIFFIN
doi:10.1038/316671a0
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| | Soviet tests 671
ALLAN G. LINDH
doi:10.1038/316671b0
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| | Prehistoric calendar 671
E. W. MACKIE & A. E. ROY
doi:10.1038/316671c0
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| | The science of sea dumping 672
M. D. HILL & R. J. PENTREATH
doi:10.1038/316672a0
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| | Pain and animals 672
P. D. WALL
doi:10.1038/316672b0
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| | Improving crops 672
CAYO MARIO TAVELLA
doi:10.1038/316672c0
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| | Selenium not for dumping 673
California is up in arms because of selenium in some drinking water. Does it not know that selenium is also an essential dietary supplement?
Thomas Jukes
doi:10.1038/316673a0
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| | Sodium pump: Birthday present for digitalis 674
D. G. Allen, D. A. Eisner & S. C. Wray
doi:10.1038/316674a0
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| | Astrochemistry: Chemistry in dynamically evolving interstellar clouds 675
David A. Williams
doi:10.1038/316675a0
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| | Cellular immunology: Suppressor T cells in the network 676
N. A. Mitchison
doi:10.1038/316676a0
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| | A Cambrian enigma 677
Simon Conway Morris
doi:10.1038/316677a0
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| | Cell biology: Yeast as the universal cell 678
Ira Herskowitz
doi:10.1038/316678a0
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| | Ichthyology: Filter-feeding on a grand scale 679
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/316679a0
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| | Atherosclerosis: Scavenger cell receptor shared 680
Michael S. Brown & Joseph L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/316680a0
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| | Oncogenic intelligence: Another link in the chain 681
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/316681a0
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| | Particle physics: Naked beauty seen at last 681
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/316681b0
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| | Ocean Drilling Program: Looking down an old hole 682
M.H. Salisbury
doi:10.1038/316682a0
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| | What was all the fuss about? 683
Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria.
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doi:10.1038/316683a0
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| | [Book Review 'picture story'] 683
doi:10.1038/316683b0
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| | Unseen horizons: the future of astronomy 684
The Invisible Universe: Probing the Frontiers of Astrophysics.
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doi:10.1038/316684a0
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| | Coming devices 684
Free-Electron Lasers.
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doi:10.1038/316684b0
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| | Thinking about the ways of science 685
Popper Selections.*
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doi:10.1038/316685a0
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| | Speechless in Java 685
Ancestral Voices: Language and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.
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doi:10.1038/316685b0
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| | Temporal questions 686
The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico.
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doi:10.1038/316686a0
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| | Oblateness of the Sun in 1983 and relativity 687
R. H. Dicke, J. R. Kuhn & K. G. Libbrecht
doi:10.1038/316687a0
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| | Amino-acid sequence of the catalytic subunit of the (Na+ + K+)ATPase deduced from a complementary DNA 691
Gary E. Shull, Arnold Schwartz & Jerry B. Lingrel
doi:10.1038/316691a0
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| | Amino-acid sequence of a Ca2+ + Mg2+ -dependent ATPase from rabbit muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum, deduced from its complementary DNA sequence 696
David H. MacLennan, Christopher J. Brandl, Bozena Korczak & N. Michael Green
doi:10.1038/316696a0
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| | Human transforming growth factor- complementary DNA sequence and expression in normal and transformed cells 701
Rik Derynck, Julie A. Jarrett, Ellson Y. Chen, Dennis H. Eaton, John R. Bell, Richard K. Assoian, Anita B. Roberts, Michael B. Sporn & David V. Goeddel
doi:10.1038/316701a0
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| | Evidence for H emission associated with the HI bridge connecting the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds 705
Michel Marcelin, Jacques Boulesteix & Yvon Georgelin
doi:10.1038/316705a0
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| | The Sun's motion perpendicular to the galactic plane 706
John N. Bahcall & Safi Bahcall
doi:10.1038/316706a0
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| | Increased concentration and vertical distribution of carbon dioxide in the stratosphere 708
W. Bischof, R. Borchers, P. Fabian & B. C. Krüger
doi:10.1038/316708a0
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| | Rate of sulphur dioxide emission from Erebus volcano, Antarctica, December 1983 710
William I. Rose, Raymond L. Chuan & Philip R. Kyle
doi:10.1038/316710a0
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| | Direct measurement of air and precipitation particle motion by very high frequency Doppler radar 712
S. Fukao, K. Wakasugi, T. Sato, S. Morimoto, T. Tsuda, I. Hirota, I. Kimura & S. Kato
doi:10.1038/316712a0
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| | Indirect electrochemical degradation and dissolution of coal by means of persulphate 714
G. Kreysa & W. Kochanek
doi:10.1038/316714a0
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| | Noble gases from oceanic island basalts do not require an undepleted mantle source 716
David E. Fisher
doi:10.1038/316716a0
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| | Thorium-232 in the eastern Caribbean Sea 718
C.-A. Huh & M. P. Bacon
doi:10.1038/316718a0
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| | Regressive events in the postnatal development of association projections in the visual cortex 721
David J. Price & Colin Blakemore
doi:10.1038/316721a0
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| | Ultrastructural localization of choline acetyltransferase in vascular endothelial cells in rat brain 724
J. G. Parnavelas, W. Kelly & G. Burnstock
doi:10.1038/316724a0
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| | Glial cells express N-CAM/D2-CAM-like polypeptides in vitro
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Mark Noble, Merete Albrechtsen, Claus Møllert, Joan Lyles, Elisabeth Bock, Christo Goridis, Michiko Watanabe & Urs Rutishauser
doi:10.1038/316725a0
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| | Differential inhibition of neurone−neurone, neurone−astrocyte and astrocyte−astrocyte adhesion by L1, L2 and N-CAM antibodies 728
Gerhard Keilhauer, Andreas Faissner & Melitta Schachner
doi:10.1038/316728a0
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| | Functional reconstitution of purified muscarinic receptors and inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein 731
Kazuko Haga, Tatsuya Haga, Arata Ichiyama, Toshiaki Katada, Hitoshi Kurose & Michio Ui
doi:10.1038/316731a0
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| | Primary structure of the  -subunit of Torpedo californica (Na+ + K+)ATPase deduced from cDNA sequence 733
Kiyoshi Kawakami, Shunsuke Noguchi, Masaharu Noda, Hideo Takahashi, Toshiko Ohta, Masaru Kawamura, Hiroshi Nojima, Kei Nagano, Tadaaki Hirose, Seiichi Inayama, Hidenori Hayashida, Takashi Miyata & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/316733a0
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| | Voltage-dependent ATP-sensitive potassium channels of skeletal muscle membrane 736
A. E. Spruce, N. B. Standen & P. R. Stanfield
doi:10.1038/316736a0
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| | I−J as an idiotype of the recognition component of antigen-specific suppressor T-cell factor 738
Takayuki Sumida, Toshihiko Sado, Masaharu Kojima, Kumeo Ono, Hitoko Kamisaku & Masaru Taniguchi
doi:10.1038/316738a0
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| | I−J epitopes are adaptively acquired by T cells differentiated in the chimaeric condition 741
Wojciech Uracz, Yoshihiro Asano, Ryo Abe & Tomio Tada
doi:10.1038/316741a0
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| | T cells with receptors for IgD 744
R. F. Coico, B. Xue, D. Wallace, B. Pernis, G. W. Siskind & G. J. Thorbecke
doi:10.1038/316744a0
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| | Platelet secretory products inhibit lipoprotein metabolism in macrophages 746
David R. Phillips, Kay Arnold & Thomas L. Innerarity
doi:10.1038/316746a0
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| | Cultured human endothelial cells express platelet-derived growth factor B chain: cDNA cloning and structural analysis 748
Tucker Collins, David Ginsburg, Jeremy M. Boss, Stuart H. Orkin & Jordan S. Pober
doi:10.1038/316748a0
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| | Light-regulated and organ-specific expression of a wheat Cab gene in transgenic tobacco 750
Gayle Lamppa, Ferenc Nagy & Nam-Hai Chua
doi:10.1038/316750a0
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