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| | Nature's new venture in Japan 97
Nature will now be printed in Japan as well as in Britain and the United States. One objective is to give readers a better service. Another is to draw the scientific community of Japan more into the general swim.
doi:10.1038/328097a0
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| | Going back to GO 97
The plight of the Geological Survey shows what is wrong with British research administration.
doi:10.1038/328097b0
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| | Storm brewing over Toshiba's illegal exports 98
Alun Anderson & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/328098a0
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| | Superconductor success for Japanese 98
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/328098b0
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| | UK charities pick up the tab left by government shortfall 99
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/328099a0
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| | Soviet research "swamped by bureaucracy" 99
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/328099b0
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| | Japan's Human Frontiers project stays in the doldrums 100
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/328100a0
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| | Sodium leak threatens French nuclear power programme 100
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/328100b0
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| | Sakharov criticizes Soviet academy 101
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/328101a0
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| | Europeans lose in superconductivity 101
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/328101b0
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| | European research programme at heart of budget row 101
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/328101c0
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| | UK Geological Survey offered alternative for a new future 102
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/328102a0
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| | French commission 102
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/328102b0
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| | India off in parallel 102
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/328102c0
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| | AIDS workers back on speaking terms 102
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/328102d0
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| | Costs prompt West German second thoughts on space programme 103
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/328103a0
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| | Lakes on the way to recovery from long-term acidification abuse 103
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/328103b0
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| | Aborigines halt Woomera teams' supernova observations 104
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/328104a0
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| | UK advanced information technology further delayed 104
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/328104b0
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| | No amnesty for Chernobyl operators 104
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/328104c0
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| | Doctors vote to test for AIDS without consent 105
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/328105a0
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| | Japanese scientists to begin dialling for seismic signals? 105
David Swinbanks & Harry Glicken
doi:10.1038/328105b0
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| | University of Edinburgh's woes 106
H. S. MICKLEM & J. M. MITCHISON
doi:10.1038/328106a0
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| | Primitive myth 106
N. V. C. POLUNIN
doi:10.1038/328106b0
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| | Problems of Indian science 106
M. R. DAREKAR
doi:10.1038/328106c0
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| | A celebration of connectionism 107
New developments in neural network theory have excited both psychologists and neurobiologists. Practitioners of the new art displayed their wares last week.
Geoffrey North
doi:10.1038/328107a0
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| | Physicists retreat again 108
Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii
doi:10.1038/328108a0
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| | Bacteria conjugate with plants 108
Conrad Lichtenstein
doi:10.1038/328108b0
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| | How sudden is sudden? 109
Stephen K. Donovan
doi:10.1038/328109a0
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| | Bryter still and bryter? 110
Chris Brand
doi:10.1038/328110a0
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| | 100 Years ago 110
doi:10.1038/328110b0
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| | Radio-dating the Galaxy 111
Gerry Gilmore
doi:10.1038/328111a0
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| | Control of exocytosis 112
Robert D. Burgoyne
doi:10.1038/328112a0
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| | Anaesthetics on the mind 113
N. P. Franks & W. R. Lieb
doi:10.1038/328113a0
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| | Uncertainties in the retina 114
J. H. Scholes
doi:10.1038/328114a0
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| | Glacial history of Antarctica 115
doi:10.1038/328115a0
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| | Organic dust in comet Halley 117
F. HOYLE & N. C. WICKRAMASINGHE
doi:10.1038/328117a0
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| | Organic dust in comet Halley 117
J. KISSEL & F. R. KRUEGER
doi:10.1038/328117b0
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| | Body size, energy use and ecological dominance 117
DAVID GRIFFITHS
doi:10.1038/328117c0
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| | Body size, energy use and ecological dominance 118
JAMES H. BROWN & BRIAN A. MAURER
doi:10.1038/328118a0
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| | Rewards and fairies 119
S. A. Barnett reviews Upon Further Reflection
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B. F. Skinner
doi:10.1038/328119a0
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| | Testing times in Australia 120
John Simpson reviews A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapon Trials in Australia
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Lorna Arnold
doi:10.1038/328120a0
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| | Not lurid virology 120
Beverly E. Griffin reviews DNA Tumor Viruses: Control of Gene Expression and Replication
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Michael Botchan, Terri Grodzicker & Philip A. Sharp
doi:10.1038/328120b0
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| | Putting humanity in context 121
Ian Tattersall reviews Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology
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Robert Foley
doi:10.1038/328121a0
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| | Before Bakewell 122
Julian Wiseman reviews Like Engendering Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England
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Nicholas Russell
doi:10.1038/328122a0
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| | Mixed messages 122
Peter Brimblecombe reviews Arctic Air Pollution
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B. Stonehouse
doi:10.1038/328122b0
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| | Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse? 123
There is now clear evidence that changes in the Earth's climate may be sudden rather than gradual. It is time to put research into the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on a better footing.
Wallace S. Broecker
doi:10.1038/328123a0
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| | Thorium in G-dwarf stars as a chronometer for the Galaxy 127
H. R. Butcher
doi:10.1038/328127a0
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| | A common progenitor for neurons and glia persists in rat retina late in development 131
David L. Turner & Constance L. Cepko
doi:10.1038/328131a0
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| | Possible explanation of the  -ray light curve and time variability in Cygnus X-3 136
R. J. Protheroe & T. Stanev
doi:10.1038/328136a0
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| | Cosmogenic 10Be in Zaire alluvial diamonds: implications for 3He contents of diamonds 139
D. Lal, K. Nishiizumi, J. Klein, R. Middleton & H. Craig
doi:10.1038/328139a0
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| | Noble-gas enrichment in vapour-growth diamonds and the origin of diamonds in ureilites 141
Kazuya Fukunaga, Jun-ichi Matsuda, Keisuke Nagao, Masamichi Miyamoto & Keisuke Ito
doi:10.1038/328141a0
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| | Planar OH-bearing defects in mantle olivine 143
Masao Kitamura, Shinji Kondoh, Nobuo Morimoto, Gregory H. Miller, George R. Rossman & Andrew Putnis
doi:10.1038/328143a0
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| | Microwave absorption in aqueous solutions of DNA 145
C. Gabriel, E. H. Grant, R. Tata, P. R. Brown, B. Gestblom & E. Noreland
doi:10.1038/328145a0
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| | Biogenic etching of microfractures in amorphous and crystalline silicates 147
G. Callot, M. Maurette, L. Pottier & A. Dubois
doi:10.1038/328147a0
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| | Changes in the tooth enamel of early Paleocene mammals allowing increased diet diversity 150
W. v. Koenigswald, J. M. Rensberger & H. U. Pretzschner
doi:10.1038/328150a0
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| | Morphogenesis of a tiered principal retina and the evolution of jumping spiders 152
A. D. Blest & Margrit Carter
doi:10.1038/328152a0
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| | Evidence for migration of oligodendrocyte–type-2 astrocyte progenitor cells into the developing rat optic nerve 155
R. K. Small, P. Riddle & M. Noble
doi:10.1038/328155a0
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| | Correlation between the anaesthetic effect of halothane and saturable binding in brain 157
Alex S. Evers, Bruce A. Berkowitz & D. André d'Avignon
doi:10.1038/328157a0
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| | Correlation between the ATPase and microtubule translocating activities of sea urchin egg kinesin 160
Stanley A. Cohn, Amie L. Ingold & Jonathan M. Scholey
doi:10.1038/328160a0
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| | Evidence for the involvement of ATP in co-translational protein translocation 164
Lingling Chen & Phang C. Tai
doi:10.1038/328164a0
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| | The mapping of a cDNA from the human X-linked Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene to the mouse X chromosome 166
N. Brockdorff, G. S. Cross, J. S. Cavanna, E. M. C. Fisher, M. F. Lyon, K. E. Davies & S. D. M. Brown
doi:10.1038/328166a0
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| | Localization of the region homologous to the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus on the mouse X chromosome 168
Roland Heilig, Catherine Lemaire, Jean-Louis Mandel, Luisa Dandolo, Laurence Amar & Philip Avner
doi:10.1038/328168a0
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| | A new oncogene in human thyroid papillary carcinomas and their lymph-nodal metastases 170
A. Fusco, M. Grieco, M. Santoro, M. T. Berlingieri, S. Pilotti, M. A. Pierotti, G. Della Porta & G. Vecchio
doi:10.1038/328170a0
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| | The mob and oriT mobilization functions of a bacterial plasmid promote its transfer to plants 172
Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Joan E. Passiatore & Frank Cannon
doi:10.1038/328172a0
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| | Binding of a nuclear protein to the cyclic-AMP response element of the somatostatin gene 175
Marc R. Montminy & Louise M. Bilezikjian
doi:10.1038/328175a0
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| | DNA bend direction by phase sensitive detection 178
Sandra S. Zinkel & Donald M. Crothers
doi:10.1038/328178a0
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| | Guide to Authors 182
doi:10.1038/328182a0
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| | Confocal microscopy comes of age 183
Scanning confocal optical microscopy offers increased resolution and superior rejection of out-of-focus signals for epifluorescence imaging of biological material.
J. G. White & W. B. Amos
doi:10.1038/328183a0
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| | Focusing on microscopy 184
Tools for a wide variety of microscopical techniques are described this week, including a high-power SEM, a laser scanning microscope, and image processing systems to suit a range of applications.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/328184a0
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