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| | What must be done about AIDS 1
Governments can no longer hope that AIDS will simply go away. Time could yet show that AIDS is as great a threat as nuclear war. And the time has come to act. But how?
doi:10.1038/324001a0
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| | AIDS: Academies demand urgent public education 3
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/324003a0
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| | AIDS drug test 3
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/324003b0
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| | Test-ban seismology: Soviet visit to US cut short 4
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/324004a0
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| | British seek funds 4
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/324004b0
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| | Strategic Defense Initiative: Academicians doubt efficacy 4
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/324004c0
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| | Robots: Britain tries to catch up 5
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/324005a0
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| | Alaska glacier seals fate of fiord wildlife 5
doi:10.1038/324005b0
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| | US education: Plan to license teachers 5
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/324005c0
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| | US oceanography: Research centre born in storm 6
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/324006a0
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| | Soviet Union: Russian criticism begins at home 6
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/324006b0
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| | Japanese physics: Accelerator swings into action 7
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/324007a0
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| | One-way crossing 7
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/324007b0
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| | What anniversary? 7
doi:10.1038/324007c0
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| | Distant Electric Vision 7
A. A. CAMPBELL SWINTON
doi:10.1038/324007d0
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| | European research: Applicants galore, but few grants 8
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/324008a0
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| | British research: Postdocs over the hill at thirty? 8
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/324008b0
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| | US cancer: Can NCI cut deaths in half? 9
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/324009a0
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| | French research: Teetering on the brink 9
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/324009b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | A cosmic rod in pickle 10
R.E. DAVIES
doi:10.1038/324010a0
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| | Indian collaboration 10
G. PADMANABAN
doi:10.1038/324010b0
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| | Faraway quasars 10
IRWIN SHAPIRO
doi:10.1038/324010c0
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| | Physicists about to hi-jack DNA? 11
Unless molecular biologists are careful and energetic, they will find that the mechanical and thermo-dynamic properties of DNA have been taken over by physicists.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/324011a0
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| | Five-fold symmetry: Millimetre-sized quasicrystals grown from aluminium alloy 12
Kevin Knowles
doi:10.1038/324012a0
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| | Molecular biology: Manipulation just off target 13
R. Michael Liskay
doi:10.1038/324013a0
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| | Elementary particles: Colour theory in a spin 14
Harry J. Lipkin
doi:10.1038/324014a0
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| | [News & Views 'picture story'] 15
Rebecca Ward
doi:10.1038/324015a0
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| | Immunology: Unravelling the control of B cells 16
Gerry G. B. Klaus
doi:10.1038/324016a0
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| | Neurobiology: Questions of taste and smell 17
Gordon M. Shepherd, Thomas V. Getchell & Charlotte M. Mistretta
doi:10.1038/324017a0
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| | Geophysics: New radiocarbon dating system 18
Roy Switsur
doi:10.1038/324018a0
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| | Archaeology: The environmentalist myth 19
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/324019a0
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| | 100 years ago 20
doi:10.1038/324020a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Where does the message begin? 21
THOMAS E. CREIGHTON
doi:10.1038/324021a0
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| | Where does the message begin? 21
STUART H. ORKIN
doi:10.1038/324021b0
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| | Occam and mankind's genetic bottleneck 21
JEREMY J.D. GREENWOOD
doi:10.1038/324021c0
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| | Chernobyl fallout in size-fractionated aerosol 22
D.T. JOST, H.W. GäGGELER, U. BALTENSPERGER, B. ZINDER & P. HALLER
doi:10.1038/324022a0
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| | Alimentary restrictions and 131I in human thyroids 23
P. ORLANDO, G. GALLELLI, F. PERDELLI, S. DE FLORA & R. MALCONTENTI
doi:10.1038/324023a0
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| | Radioactive fallout swipe samples from Chernobyl 23
S. SADASIVAN & U.C. MISHRA
doi:10.1038/324023b0
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| | Pragmatism in public health 25
Alan Glynn reviews Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887−1937.
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Victoria A. Harden
doi:10.1038/324025a0
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| | Signal studies in psychology 26
D. Aled Jeffreys reviews Human Brainwaves: The Psychological Significance of the Electroencephalogram.
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Jacob Empson
doi:10.1038/324026a0
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| | Material success 26
Charles Newey & Charles & Mark & Peter & Nick & Graham & George & John NeweyEndeanLewisReidWeaverWeidmannWood reviews Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Michael B. Bever
doi:10.1038/324026b0
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| | The Earth Moved 27
doi:10.1038/324027a0
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| | Living for physics 27
Michael Holwill reviews Introductory Biophysics.
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M. Cerdonio & R.W. Noble
doi:10.1038/324027b0
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| | That certain time in history 28
W.H. Brock reviews The Age of Science.
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David Knight
doi:10.1038/324028a0
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| | Cold comforts 28
Beverly Halstead reviews How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth.
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Björn Kurtén
doi:10.1038/324028b0
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| | Cost-effectiveness of short-term tests for carcinogenicity 29
Most chemicals to which we are exposed are not properly tested for carcinogenicity. The latest methods of in vitro testing provide a way of screening with sufficient accuracy to remedy this situation.
Lester B. Lave & Gilbert S. Omenn
doi:10.1038/324029a0
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| | Introduction of homologous DNA sequences into mammalian cells induces mutations in the cognate gene 34
Kirk R. Thomas & Mario R. Capecchi
doi:10.1038/324034a0
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| | Outbursts of Cygnus X-3 observed at 1.3 and 3.3 mm wavelengths 39
J. W. M. Baars, W. J. Altenhoff, H. Hein & H. Steppe
doi:10.1038/324039a0
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| | Io plasma torus and the source of jovian kilometric radiation (bKOM) 40
Dyfrig Jones
doi:10.1038/324040a0
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| | An icy-glue model of cometary nuclei 43
Tamas I. Gombosi & Harry L. F. Houpis
doi:10.1038/324043a0
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| | Distribution of energetic particles near interplanetary shocks 44
A. Hewish & S. Bravo
doi:10.1038/324044a0
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| | Searching potential energy surfaces by simulated annealing 46
L. T. Wille
doi:10.1038/324046a0
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| | Large AlCuLi single quasicrystals with triacontahedral solidification morphology 48
B. Dubost, J-M. Lang, M. Tanaka, P. Sainfort & M. Audier
doi:10.1038/324048a0
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| | Evidence for carbonate in the mantle 50
G. W. Berg
doi:10.1038/324050a0
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| | Lahars initiated by the 13 November 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia 51
Donald R. Lowe, Stanley N. Williams, Henry Leigh, Charles B. Connort, J. Bruce Gemmell & Richard E. Stoiber
doi:10.1038/324051a0
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| | Sporadic shutdown of North Atlantic deep water production during the Glacial−Holocene transition? 53
W. H. Berger & E. Vincent
doi:10.1038/324053a0
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| | Giant subtidal stromatolites forming in normal salinity waters 55
Robert F. Dill, Eugene A. Shinn, Anthony T. Jones, Kevin Kelly & Randolph P. Steinen
doi:10.1038/324055a0
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| | Sex-ratio manipulation in the common opossum 58
Steven N. Austad & Mel E. Sunquist
doi:10.1038/324058a0
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| | Wormy mice in a hybrid zone 60
Richard D. Sage, Donald Heyneman, Kee-Chong Lim & Allan C. Wilson
doi:10.1038/324060a0
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| | A single micromanipulated stem cell gives rise to multiple T-cell receptor gene rearrangements in the thymus in vitro
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Gwyn T. Williams, Rosetta Kingston, Mike J. Owen, Eric J. Jenkinson & John J. T. Owen
doi:10.1038/324063a0
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| | Extensive proliferation of mature connective-tissue type mast cells in vitro
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Tatsutoshi Nakahata, Toshimi Kobayashi, Akira Ishiguro, Kohichiro Tsuji, Kuniaki Naganuma, Osaaki Ando, Yoshio Yagi, Kenji Tadokoro & Taro Akabane
doi:10.1038/324065a0
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| | A chimaeric receptor allows insulin to stimulate tyrosine kinase activity of epidermal growth factor receptor 68
Heimo Riedel, Thomas J. Dull, Joseph Schlessinger & Axel Ullrich
doi:10.1038/324068a0
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| | Cloning of complementary DNA encoding T-cell replacing factor and identity with B-cell growth factor II 70
Tatsuo Kinashi, Nobuyuki Harada, Eva Severinson, Toshizumi Tanabe, Paschalis Sideras, Mikio Konishi, Chihiro Azuma, Akira Tominaga, Susanne Bergstedt-Lindqvist, Masazumi Takahashi, Fumihiko Matsuda, Yoshio Yaoita, Kiyoshi Takatsu & Tasuku Honjo
doi:10.1038/324070a0
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| | Complementary DNA for a novel human interleukin (BSF-2) that induces B lymphocytes to produce immunoglobulin 73
Toshio Hirano, Kiyoshi Yasukawa, Hisashi Harada, Tetsuya Taga, Yasuo Watanabe, Tadashi Matsuda, Shin-ichiro Kashiwamura, Koichi Nakajima, Koichi Koyama, Akihiro Iwamatsu, Susumu Tsunasawa, Fumio Sakiyama, Hiroshi Matsui, Yoshiyuki Takahara, Tadatsugu Taniguchi & Tadamitsu Kishimoto
doi:10.1038/324073a0
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| | Intracellularly injected tetanus toxin inhibits exocytosis in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells 76
Reinhold Penner, Erwin Neher & Florian Dreyer
doi:10.1038/324076a0
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| | The essential light chains constitute part of the active site of smooth muscle myosin 78
Yoh Okamoto, Takamitsu Sekine, Jean Grammer & Ralph G. Yount
doi:10.1038/324078a0
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| | Convergent and divergent evolution of regulatory sites in eukaryotic phosphorylases 80
Peter K. Hwang & Robert J. Fletterick
doi:10.1038/324080a0
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| |  -Lactalbumin possesses a novel calcium binding loop 84
D. I. Stuart, K. R. Acharya, N. P. C. Walker, S. G. Smith, M. Lewis & D. C. Phillips
doi:10.1038/324084a0
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| | Bent DNA at a yeast autonomously replicating sequence 87
Michael Snyder, Andrew R. Buchman & Ronald W. Davis
doi:10.1038/324087a0
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| | Flavonoid activation of nodulation genes in Rhizobium reversed by other compounds present in plants 90
J. L. Firmin, K. E. Wilson, L. Rossen & A. W. B. Johnston
doi:10.1038/324090a0
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | Notes for the laboratory 93
From cell culture products to an expert program, this week highlights innovative and useful ideas.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/324093a0
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| | The changing graduate labour market 94
Competition between employers for the best UK graduates is becoming intense.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/324094a0
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