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The Academy of Sciences of the USSR has suddenly been declared free from external influence. This is a welcome development, but one full of danger.
doi:10.1038/347107a0
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| | Counting candle-ends 108
The British Treasury, habitually parsimonious, sacrifices sovereignty in getting its pound of flesh from Brussels.
doi:10.1038/347108a0
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| | Fusion delayed 108
The joke that budgets for fusion research are inversely correlated with oil prices (see page 114) is not funny.
doi:10.1038/347108b0
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| | Draft of conflict rules angers Congress 109
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/347109a0
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| | Piggy-back ride for an interim Hotel? 109
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347109b0
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| | Asking for the Moon ... 110
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/347110a0
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| | Budget brings a little cheer 110
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/347110b0
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| | Correction: Animal Welfare Institute 110
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/347110c0
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| | Academy to stand alone 111
Yuri Kanin
doi:10.1038/347111a0
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| | Death strip becomes nature preserve 111
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/347111b0
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| | A one per cent solution? 112
Elizabeth Schaefer
doi:10.1038/347112a0
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| | ICL deal threatens research links 112
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347112b0
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| | The long and winding road 112
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347112c0
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| | Stripped for action 113
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/347113a0
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| | Room for improvement on emissions 113
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347113b0
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| | Fusion's turn again? 114
Christopher Anderson & Peter Aidhous
doi:10.1038/347114a0
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| | Third Hinkley reactor in limbo 114
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347114b0
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| | Satellite television faces a break 114
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/347114c0
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| | Moths provide a model 115
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/347115a0
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| | Green science thinks bigger 115
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/347115b0
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| | Due process protection 116
JULES V. HALLUM & SUZANNE W. HADLEY
doi:10.1038/347116a0
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| | Grant-making 116
D. A. REES
doi:10.1038/347116b0
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| | Tenure in Japan 116
ATUHIRO SIBATANI
doi:10.1038/347116c0
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| | Clinicians wanted 116
J. D. SINCLAIR
doi:10.1038/347116d0
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| | Disputes over monoclonal antibodies 117
Will increasingly bitter patent disputes stifle scientific medical research? A recent Commentary article about a sandwich immunoassay has provoked this exchange.
Howard E. Greene Jr, Bradford J. Duft & Roger Ekins
doi:10.1038/347117a0
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| | Time to make friends of chemists 119
The contemporary chemistry journals deserve to be more widely read, not just for what chemists have to say about the natural world, but for the daring of the empirical generalizations in which chemists seem to specialize.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/347119a0
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M. Fukugita & C. Hogan
doi:10.1038/347120a0
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| | The dopamine connection 121
Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/347121a0
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| | Bombs and ocean carbon cycles 122
J. R. Toggweiler
doi:10.1038/347122a0
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| | Superconducting boost for goldfish 123
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/347123a0
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| | Dominant susceptibility genes 124
G. M. Martin, G. D. Schellenberg, E. M. Wijsman & T. D. Bird
doi:10.1038/347124a0
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| | Diamonds are for everywhere 125
Joe Nuth
doi:10.1038/347125a0
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| | Searching for stem cells 126
Norman Iscove
doi:10.1038/347126a0
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| | Multiphoton laser cooling 127
Andrew Steane & Christopher Foot
doi:10.1038/347127a0
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| | Experiment confronts theory 128
Michael J. Drake
doi:10.1038/347128a0
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| | Taxonomy as destiny 129
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/347129a0
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| | Tame twisters 130
David Jones
doi:10.1038/347130a0
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| | An unusual long-delay echo 131
A. K. GOODACRE
doi:10.1038/347131a0
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| | Neurotransmitter identity doubt 131
L. J. IGNARRO, P. A. BUSH, G. M. BUGA & J. RAJFER
doi:10.1038/347131b0
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| | Orientation test 132
SHIGEYOSHI OSAKI
doi:10.1038/347132a0
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| | High-temperature granulites 132
SIMON L. HARLEY
doi:10.1038/347132b0
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| | High-temperature granulites 133
BEN HARTE & ANDREW BARNICOAT
doi:10.1038/347133a0
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J. L. HAYOB, E. J. ESSENE & J. RUIZ
doi:10.1038/347133b0
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| | A tale of two cultures 135
Robert Kuttner reviews America's Struggle for Leadership In Technology
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Jean-Claude Derian
doi:10.1038/347135a0
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| | Mountain melody 135
doi:10.1038/347135b0
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| | Rich material 136
B. F. Schutz reviews A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime
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John Archibald Wheeler W.H. Freeman
doi:10.1038/347136a0
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| | Sugared pill 137
Leslie Crombie reviews Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry.The Rational Design, Mechanistic Study and Therapeutic Application of Chemical Compounds
Editor-in-chief
Corwin Hansch
doi:10.1038/347137a0
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| | Ancient paradox 138
Lawrence Guy Straus reviews Thoughtful Foragers.
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Steven J. Mithen
doi:10.1038/347138a0
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| | Father and son 138
doi:10.1038/347138b0
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| | The ice-core record: climate sensitivity and future greenhouse warming 139
C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, J. Hansen & H. Le Treut
doi:10.1038/347139a0
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| | Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel dopamine receptor (D3) as a target for neuroleptics 146
Pierre Sokoloff, Bruno Giros, Marie-Pascale Martres, Marie-Louise Bouthenet & Jean-Charles Schwartz
doi:10.1038/347146a0
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| | Identification of the 64K autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes as the GABA-synthesizing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase 151
Steinunn Baekkeskov, Henk-Jan Aanstoot, Stephan Christgai, Annette Reetz, Michele Solimena, Marilia Cascalho, Franco Folli, Hanne Richter-Olesen & Pietro-De Camilli
doi:10.1038/347151a0
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| | Unusual radio arcs discovered in the radio source G318.9+0.4 157
J. B. Z. Whiteoak
doi:10.1038/347157a0
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| | Ubiquitous interstellar diamond and SiC in primitive chondrites: abundances reflect metamorphism 159
Gary R. Huss
doi:10.1038/347159a0
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| | Backscattering from frost on icy satellites in the outer Solar System 162
Anne Verbiscer, Paul Helfenstein & Joseph Veverka
doi:10.1038/347162a0
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| | Use of 10Be in polar ice to trace the 11-year cycle of solar activity 164
J. Beer, A. Blinov, G. Bonani, R. C. Finkel, H. J. Hofmann, B. Lehmann, H. Oeschger, A. Sigg, J. Schwander, T. Staffelbach, B. Stauffer, M. Suter & W. Wötfli
doi:10.1038/347164a0
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| | Weak-link-free behaviour of high-angle YBa2Cu3O7− grain boundaries in high magnetic fields 167
S. E. Babcock, X. Y. Cai, D. L. Kaiser & D. C. Larbalestier
doi:10.1038/347167a0
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| | Assessment of urbanization effects in time series of surface air temperature over land 169
P. D. Jones, P. Ya. Groisman, M. Coughlan, N. Plummer, W-C. Wang & T. R. Karl
doi:10.1038/347169a0
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| | Identification of a deep marine source of particulate organic carbon using bomb 14C 172
Ellen R. M. Druffel & Peter M. Williams
doi:10.1038/347172a0
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| | High-pressure geochemistry of Cr, V and Mn and implications for the origin of the Moon 174
A. E. Ringwood, T. Kato, W. Hibberson & N. Ware
doi:10.1038/347174a0
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| | Neglected taxonomy and continuing extinctions of tuatara (Sphenodon) 177
C. H. Daugherty, A. Cree, J. M. Hay & M. B. Thompson
doi:10.1038/347177a0
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| | Requirement for subplate neurons in the formation of thalamocortical connections 179
Anirvan Ghosh, Antonella Antonini, Susan K. McConnell & Carla J. Shatz
doi:10.1038/347179a0
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| | Arachidonic acid released from striatal neurons by joint stimulation of ionotropic and metabotropic quisqualate receptors 182
Aline Dumuis, Jean Philippe Pin, Kiyoshi Oomagari, Michèle Sebben & Joël Bockaert
doi:10.1038/347182a0
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| | Primary structure and functional expression of a cyclic nucleotide-activated channel from olfactory neurons 184
Ravinder S. Dhallan, King-Wai Yau, Karen A. Schrader & Randall R. Reed
doi:10.1038/347184a0
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| | Separation of pluripotent haematopoietic stem cells from spleen colony-forming cells 188
Richard J. Jones, John E. Wagner, Paul Celano, Milada S. Zicha & Saul J. Sharkis
doi:10.1038/347188a0
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| | Family of disulphide-linked dimers containing the  and  chains of the T-cell receptor and the  chain of Fc receptors 189
David G. Orloff, Chisei Ra, Stuart J. Frank, Richard D. Klausner & Jean-Pierre Kinet
doi:10.1038/347189a0
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| | Microconversion between murine H-2 genes integrated into yeast 192
Christopher J. Wheeler, Daniel Maloney, Seymour Fogel & Robert S. Goodenow
doi:10.1038/347192a0
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| | Genetic linkage studies suggest that Alzheimer's disease is not a single homogeneous disorder 194
P. H. St George-Hyslop, J. L. Haines, L. A. Farrer, R. Polinsky, C. Van Broeckhoven, A. Goate, D. R. Crapper McLachlan, H. Orr, A. C. Bruni, S. Sorbi, I. Rainero, J.-F. Foncin, D. Pollen, J-M. Cantu, R. Tupler, N. Voskresenskaya, R. Mayeux, J. Growdon, V. A. Fried, R. H. Myers, L. Nee, H. Backhovens, J-J. Martin, M. Rossor, M. J. Owen, M. Mullan, M. E. Percy, H. Karlinsky, S. Rich, L. Heston, M. Montesi, M. Mortilla, N. Nacmias, J. F. Gusella, J. A. Hardy
doi:10.1038/347194a0
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| | Activation of muscle genes without myogenesis by ectopic expression of MyoD in frog embryo cells 197
N. D. Hopwood & J. B. Gurdon
doi:10.1038/347197a0
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| | Enhancement of chilling tolerance of a cyanobacterium by genetic manipulation of fatty acid desaturation 200
Hajime Wada, Zoltan Combos & Norio Murata
doi:10.1038/347200a0
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| | Partition of tRNA synthetases into two classes based on mutually exclusive sets of sequence motifs 203
Gilbert Eriani, Marc Delarue, Olivier Poch, Jean Gangloff & Dino Moras
doi:10.1038/347203a0
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| | Requirement for GTP hydrolysis in the formation of secretory vesicles 207
Sharon A. Tooze, Ursula Weiss & Wieland B. Huttner
doi:10.1038/347207a0
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| | Lipid cell culture supplements 209
Essential lipid mixtures can substitute for vertebrate serum in the culture of invertebrate — and some vertebrate — cells, tissues, parasites and pathogens. The resulting membrane lipid modifications promote hormonal signalling.
R. H. Goodwill
doi:10.1038/347209a0
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| | Coming up at Biotechnica '90 211
Over 500 exhibitors will be represented at next week's Biotechnica '90 to be held in Hannover, West Germany. Featured exhibits will include a primer analysis software package and a hollow-fibre bioreactor for monoclonal antibody production.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/347211a0
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