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| | When to believe the unbelievable 787
An article in this week's issue describes observations for which there is no present physical basis. There are good and particular reasons why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgement.
doi:10.1038/333787a0
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| | Criminalizing research 787
West Germany seems bent on a restrictive law on embryo research.
doi:10.1038/333787b0
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| | News | |
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| | NIH speeds to resolve charges of scientific error 788
Joseph Palca & Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/333788a0
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| | Scientist for president 788
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333788b0
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| | NSF unwilling to count its chickens after last year's cuts 789
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333789a0
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| | Ministers encouraged by EUREKA success 789
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333789b0
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| | Superconductor pessimism in US 789
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/333789c0
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| | Romania takes a firm line on chemical waste 790
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333790a0
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| | Genentech gets patent protection for tissue plasminogen activator 790
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333790b0
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| | Human Frontiers gets a mention in Toronto 790
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333790c0
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| | Embryo research ban causes ructions in West Germany 791
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333791a0
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| | International outlook for embryo research 791
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333791b0
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| | Struggle ahead over abolition of academic tenure in Britain 792
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/333792a0
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| | AIDS vaccine trials to begin in Geneva 792
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333792b0
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| | German education takes up a lifetime 792
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333792c0
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| | Postal ban proposed on exchange of dangerous microbes 793
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333793a0
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| | NASA panel seeks more life in space 793
Lisa L. Lyles
doi:10.1038/333793b0
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| | DFG re-elects Markl 793
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333793c0
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| | Network for Europe 793
Jennifer Altman
doi:10.1038/333793d0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Effects of global change 794
ROBERT G. FLEAGLE
doi:10.1038/333794a0
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| | Who exploits whom? 794
J. R. HARRIS
doi:10.1038/333794b0
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| | Inconsistency 794
ROGER BRADBURY
doi:10.1038/333794c0
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| | Can a Greek tragedy be avoided? 795
Now under way is the third formal investigation within two years of a paper from the Whitehead Institute. In the fever of investigationy scientific reputations may be damaged.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/333795a0
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| | Localizing the gene product 798
Kurt G. Beam
doi:10.1038/333798a0
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| | Symmetry violated in kaon decay 799
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/333799a0
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| | Bauxites gathering dust 800
K. Pye
doi:10.1038/333800a0
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| | Anti-sense RNA as a tool to study plant gene expression 801
Conrad Lichtenstein
doi:10.1038/333801a0
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| | Gradual volcanic catastrophes? 802
K. G. Cox
doi:10.1038/333802a0
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| | Contours revealed by concealment 803
Oliver Braddick
doi:10.1038/333803a0
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| | Frontiers of the immune system 804
Charles A. Janeway Jr
doi:10.1038/333804a0
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| | Dreams for sale 806
David Jones
doi:10.1038/333806a0
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| | Advantages of heat-stable vaccines 807
JOSEPH L. MELNICK
doi:10.1038/333807a0
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| | Myosin heads in muscle thick filament assembly 807
JULIEN S. DAVIS
doi:10.1038/333807b0
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| | Designing antibodies for human therapies 807
ROSE G. MAGE
doi:10.1038/333807c0
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| | The nature of Taung dental maturation continued 808
GLENN C. CONROY & MICHAEL W. VANNIER
doi:10.1038/333808a0
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| | Sir Joseph in the round 809
David E. Alien reviews Sir Joseph Banks 1743−1820
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Harold B. Carter
doi:10.1038/333809a0
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| | Twist in the tale 809
doi:10.1038/333809b0
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| | Gloom −or boom? 810
Norman Myers reviews The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament
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Paul R. Ehrlich & John P. Holdren
doi:10.1038/333810a0
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| | Stopping short of history 811
John Dunster reviews Chernobyl: The Real Story
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Richard F. Mould
doi:10.1038/333811a0
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| | Pushing beyond the frontiers 812
David Lindley reviews Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World
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Sheldon Glashow & Ben Bova
doi:10.1038/333812a0
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| | Surface areas 812
Robin Williams reviews Physics at Surfaces
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Andrew Zangwill
doi:10.1038/333812b0
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| | What price space-based interceptors? 813
The Marshall Institute advocates that the United States should deploy space-based missile interceptors in the near future. At best such weapons would not be cost effective, at worst they would be useless.
David N. Spergel & George B. Field
doi:10.1038/333813a0
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| | Human basophil degranulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE 816
E. Davenas, F. Beauvais, J. Amara, M. Oberbaum, B. Robinzon, A. Miadonnai, A. Tedeschi, B. Pomeranz, P. Fortner, P. Belon, J. Sainte-Laudy, B. Poitevin & J. Benveniste
doi:10.1038/333816a0
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| | Metal enrichment in bauxites by deposition of chemically mature aeolian dust 819
George H Brimhall, Christopher J. Lewis, Jay J. Ague, William E. Dietrich, Joachim Hampel, Tim Teague & Peter Rix
doi:10.1038/333819a0
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| | DNA sequence determinants of CAP-induced bending and protein binding affinity 824
Marc R. Gartenberg & Donald M. Crothers
doi:10.1038/333824a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Do massive black holes reside in elliptical galaxies? 829
A. C. Fabian & C. R. Canizares
doi:10.1038/333829a0
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| | Ablating dwarf model for eclipsing millisecond pulsar 1957 + 20 832
E. S. Phinney, C. R. Evans, R. D. Blandford & S. R. Kulkarni
doi:10.1038/333832a0
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| | Has comet Halley retained its primordial angular momentum? 834
Ignacio Ferrin
doi:10.1038/333834a0
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| | Synthesis, structure and superconductivity in the Ba1-x
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D. G. Hinks, B. Dabrowski, J. D. Jorgensen, A. W. Mitchell, D. R. Richards, Shiyou Pei & Donglu Shi
doi:10.1038/333836a0
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| | Efficiency of hydrothermal ore formation and the Panasqueira W−Cu(Ag)−Sn vein deposit 838
David A. Polya
doi:10.1038/333838a0
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| | Rapid eruption of the Deccan flood basalts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary 841
R. A. Duncan & D. G. Pyle
doi:10.1038/333841a0
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| | Deccan flood basalts and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary 843
V. Courtillot, G. Féraud, H. Maluski, D. Vandamme, M. G. Moreau & J. Besse
doi:10.1038/333843a0
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| | Post-feeding thermotaxis and daily vertical migration in a larval fish 846
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh & Darcy Neverman
doi:10.1038/333846a0
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| | Chronic ethanol causes heterologous desensitization of receptors by reducing 
smessenger RNA 848
Daria Mochly-Rosen, Fu-Hsiung Chang, Laura Cheever, Mark Kim, Ivan Diamond & Adrienne S. Gordon
doi:10.1038/333848a0
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| | Regulatory properties of LFA-1 and  chains in human T-lymphocyte activation 850
Carel van Noesel, Frank Miedema, Miranda Brouwer, Menno A. de Rie, Lucien A. Aarden & René A. W. van Lier
doi:10.1038/333850a0
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| | Transgenes as probes for active chromosomal domains in mouse development 852
Nicholas D. Alien, David G. Cran, Sheila C. Barton, Simon Hettle, Wolf Reik & M. Azim Surani
doi:10.1038/333852a0
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| | Expression of the  - T-cell receptor on intestinal CD8+ intraepithelial lymphocytes 855
Thomas Goodman & Leo Lefrançois
doi:10.1038/333855a0
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| | Transcription of the dystrophin gene in human muscle and non-muscle tissues 858
Jamel Chelly, Jean-Claude Kaplan, Pascal Maire, Sophie Gautron & Axel Kahn
doi:10.1038/333858a0
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| | Immunostaining of skeletal and cardiac muscle surface membrane with antibody against Duchenne muscular dystrophy peptide 861
Kiichi Arahata, Shoichi Ishiura, Tsuneo Ishiguro, Toshifumi Tsukahara, Yoshihiro Suhara, Chikahiko Eguchi, Tadayuki Ishiharat, Ikuya Nonaka, Eijiro Ozawa & Hideo Sugita
doi:10.1038/333861a0
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| | Immunoelectron microscopic localization of dystrophin in myofibres 863
Simon C. Watkins, Eric P. Hoffman, Henry S. Slayter & Louis M. Kunkel
doi:10.1038/333863a0
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| | An anti-sense chalcone synthase gene in transgenic plants inhibits flower pigmentation 866
Alexander R. van der Krol, Peter E. Lenting, Jetty Veenstra, Ingrid M. van der Meer, Ronald E. Koes, Anton G. M. Gerats, Joseph N. M. Mol & Antoine R. Stuitje
doi:10.1038/333866a0
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| | The structure of trp pseudorepressor at 1.65Å shows why indole propionate acts as a trp 'inducer' 869
Catherine L. Lawson & Paul B. Siglert
doi:10.1038/333869a0
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doi:10.1038/333872a0
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