| | Opinion |  |
 |
| | Too much caution on global warming 541
The much awaited Evans report in the United States is a disappointment chiefly because it says too little about the prospect of global warming caused by the greenhouse effect. And because it says too little generally.
doi:10.1038/350541a0
PDF (128K)
|
|
| | Closing Europe's farms 541
The latest impending crisis in European agriculture argues for getting people off the land, and quickly.
doi:10.1038/350541b0
PDF (253K)
|
|
| | The Russian academy 542
A new venture in Moscow deserves support for what it may become, not what it is.
doi:10.1038/350542a0
PDF (143K)
|
|
| | News | |
|
| | Storm clouds gather over research costs 543
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350543a0
PDF (153K)
|
|
| | Tissue ban under fire 543
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350543b0
PDF (153K)
|
|
| | Survey pans university labs 544
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/350544a0
PDF (160K)
|
|
| | New channel is lost in space 544
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/350544b0
PDF (160K)
|
|
| | Can lefties study be right? 545
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/350545a0
PDF (189K)
|
|
| | Spotting famine from space 545
Diana Steele
doi:10.1038/350545b0
PDF (189K)
|
|
| | Medicine becomes a liability 546
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350546a0
PDF (156K)
|
|
| | French minister clears Zagury 546
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/350546b0
PDF (156K)
|
|
| | London's ark runs aground 546
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/350546c0
PDF (156K)
|
|
| | "For science and Russia" 547
Yuri Kanin
doi:10.1038/350547a0
PDF (143K)
|
|
| | Riviera under threat 547
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350547b0
PDF (143K)
|
|
| | Times getting tough for an ex-giant 548
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/350548a0
PDF (403K)
|
|
| | Tough times in South Africa 549
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/350549a0
PDF (211K)
|
|
| | Challenge on testing 549
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350549b0
PDF (211K)
|
|
| | The end for monkeys 549
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350549c0
PDF (211K)
|
|
| | Correspondence | |
|
| | No growth for British science 550
D. H. ROBERTS
doi:10.1038/350550a0
PDF (146K)
|
|
| | No growth for British science 550
FRANK ASHALL & ALISON M. GOATE
doi:10.1038/350550b0
PDF (146K)
|
|
| | Vitamins and IQ 550
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/350550c0
PDF (146K)
|
|
| | Patent confusion 550
MICHAEL P. JACKSON
doi:10.1038/350550d0
PDF (146K)
|
|
| | Too many noughts 550
JAMES D. WATSON
doi:10.1038/350550e0
PDF (146K)
|
|
| | Commentary |  |
|
| | Science and secrecy 551
Centrifugation techniques developed for uranium enrichment have been widely available for commercial exploitation and military use, but biologists have not been permitted to use them.
Walter Ormerod
doi:10.1038/350551a0
References | PDF (298K)
|
|
| | News and Views |  |
|
| | Secret Service as ultimate referee 553
Statistical tests applied to Dr Thereza Imanishi-Kari's data are a vivid measure of the intrusiveness of external investigations and a proof of the need for caution in making use of material such as this.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/350553a0
PDF (157K)
|
|
| | An agent of suppression 554
Winship Herr
doi:10.1038/350554a0
References | PDF (286K)
|
|
| | Testing times for the tests 555
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/350555a0
References | PDF (394K)
|
|
| | A way-out 'asteroid' 556
Clark R. Chapman
doi:10.1038/350556a0
PDF (258K)
|
|
| | All together now ... 557
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/350557a0
PDF (137K)
|
|
| | Sooty superconductors 557
Arthur W. Sleight
doi:10.1038/350557b0
References | PDF (310K)
|
|
| | In step 558
doi:10.1038/350558a0
PDF (189K)
|
|
| | More from less 558
doi:10.1038/350558b0
PDF (189K)
|
|
| | No two ways 558
doi:10.1038/350558c0
PDF (189K)
|
|
| | X-rays from  -ray bursts 559
Charles D. Dermer
doi:10.1038/350559a0
PDF (292K)
|
|
| | A whale of a new species 560
Katharine Ralls & Robert L. Brownell Jr
doi:10.1038/350560a0
References | PDF (157K)
|
|
| | Two-layered awakening 561
R. S. K. Barnes
doi:10.1038/350561a0
References | PDF (144K)
|
|
| | Dawn of the diamond chip 561
L. M. Brown
doi:10.1038/350561b0
PDF (284K)
|
|
| | Still sound 562
David Jones
doi:10.1038/350562a0
PDF (159K)
|
|
| | Scientific Correspondence | |
|
| | Stronger recycled plastics 563
T. J. NOSKER, D. R. MORROW, R. W. RENFREE, K. E. VAN NESS & J. J. DONAGHY
doi:10.1038/350563a0
References | PDF (222K)
|
|
| | Stretching a point 563
SHELDON I. FEINSTEIN
doi:10.1038/350563b0
PDF (222K)
|
|
| | Alzheimer's mutation 564
RUDOLPH E. TANZI & BRADLEY T. HYMAN
doi:10.1038/350564a0
References | PDF (130K)
|
|
| | Homeostatic muffling 564
ROGER C. THOMAS, JONATHAN A. COLES & JOCHEN W. DEITMER
doi:10.1038/350564b0
References | PDF (130K)
|
|
| | Book Reviews | |
|
| | Primate perceptions 565
W. C. McGrew reviews How Monkeys See the World
By
Dorothy L Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth
doi:10.1038/350565a0
PDF (179K)
|
|
| | Diverse functions 566
M. D. Waterfield reviews Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors. Volumes 1 and 2
By
M. B. Sporn & A. B. Roberts
doi:10.1038/350566a0
PDF (158K)
|
|
| | Up where the eagles fly 567
Rory Howlett reviews Bird Life of Mountain and Upland
By
Derek Ratcliffe
doi:10.1038/350567a0
PDF (195K)
|
|
| | Techno farming 568
Sheldon Krimsky reviews Plants, Power and Profit
By
Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt & Laura R. Lacy
doi:10.1038/350568a0
PDF (177K)
|
|
| | Review Article | |
|
| | Structure and function of telomeres 569
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
doi:10.1038/350569a0
Abstract & References | PDF (587K)
|
|
| | Articles |  |
|
| | Inadequacy of effective CO2 as a proxy in simulating the greenhouse effect of other radiatively active gases 573
Wei-Chyung Wang, Michael P. Dudek, Xin-Zhong Liang & J. T. Kiehl
doi:10.1038/350573a0
Abstract & References | PDF (763K)
|
|
| | I-POU: a POU-domain protein that inhibits neuron-specific gene activation 577
Maurice N. Treacy, Xi He & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/350577a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,192K)
|
|
| | Expression of the homeobox Hox-4 genes and the specification of position in chick wing development 585
J-C. Izpisúa-Belmonte, C. Tickle, P. Dollé, L. Wolpert & D. Duboule
doi:10.1038/350585a0
Abstract & References | PDF (716K)
|
|
| | Letters | |
|
| | A rapid energetic X-ray flare in the quasar PKS0558−504 589
R. A. Remillard, B. Grossan, H. V. Bradt, T. Ohashi, K. Hayashida, F. Makino & Y. Tanaka
doi:10.1038/350589a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (509K)
|
|
| | A -ray burst preceded by X-ray activity 592
T. Murakami, H. Inoue, J. Nishimura, J. van Paradijs, E. E. Fenimore, A. Ulmer & A. Yoshida
doi:10.1038/350592a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (336K)
|
|
| | Observation of the optical analogue of quantized conductance of a point contact 594
E. A. Montie, E. C. Cosman, G. W. 't Hooft, M. B. van der Mark & C. W. J. Beenakker
doi:10.1038/350594a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (227K)
|
|
| | Normal-state conductivity between CuO2 planes in copper oxide superconductors 596
T. Ito, H. Takagi, S. Ishibashi, T. Ido & S. Uchida
doi:10.1038/350596a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (373K)
|
|
| | Antiferromagnetism and metallic conductivity in Nb12O29
598
R. J. Cava, B. Batlogg, J. J. Krajewski, P. Gammel, H. F. Poulsen, W. F. Peck Jr & L. W. Rupp Jr
doi:10.1038/350598a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (342K)
|
|
| | Superconductivity at 18 K in potassium-doped C60
600
A. F. Hebard, M. J. Rosseinsky, R. C. Haddon, D. W. Murphy, S. H. Glarum, T. T. M. Palstra, A. P. Ramirez & A. R. Kortan
doi:10.1038/350600a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (219K)
|
|
| | Sedimentation rates, residence times and radionuclide inventories in Lake Baikal from 137Cs and 210Pb in sediment cores 601
David N. Edgington, J. Val Klump, John A. Robbins, Yuri S. Kusner, Victor D. Pampura & Igor V. Sandimirov
doi:10.1038/350601a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (393K)
|
|
| | Late Palaeozoic deformation in central Africa: a result of distant collision? 605
M. C. Daly, S. R. Lawrence, D. Kimun'a & M. Binga
doi:10.1038/350605a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (677K)
|
|
| | Equal mating success among male reproductive strategies in a marine isopod 608
Stephen M. Shuster & Michael J. Wade
doi:10.1038/350608a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (478K)
|
|
| | Cloning of the gene for a human dopamine D4 receptor with high affinity for the antipsychotic clozapine 610
Hubert H. M. Van Tol, James R. Bunzow, Hong-Chang Guan, Roger K. Sunahara, Philip Seeman, Hyman B. Niznik & Olivier Civelli
doi:10.1038/350610a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (598K)
|
|
| | Cloning of the gene for a human dopamine D5 receptor with higher affinity for dopamine than D1
614
Roger K. Sunahara, Hong-Chang Guan, Brian F. O'Dowd, Philip Seeman, Lisanne G. Laurier, Gordon Ng, Susan R. George, Joeseph Torchia, Hubert H. M. Van Tol & Hyman B. Niznik
doi:10.1038/350614a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (912K)
|
|
| | Reconstitution by MHC-restricted peptides of HLA-A2 heavy chain with  2-microglobulin, in vitro
619
Michael L. Silver, Kenneth C. Parker & Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/350619a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (579K)
|
|
| | Somatotroph hypoplasia and dwarfism in transgenic mice expressing a non-phosphorylatable CREB mutant 622
R. Scott Struthers, Wylie W. Vale, Carlos Arias, Paul E. Sawchenko & Marc R. Montminy
doi:10.1038/350622a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (892K)
|
|
| | Processing of the precursor of NF- B by the HIV-1 protease during acute infection 625
Yves Rivière, Volker Blank, Philippe Kourilsky & Alain Israël
doi:10.1038/350625a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (451K)
|
|
| | Microbial degradation of methanesulphonic acid: a missing link in the biogeochemical sulphur cycle 627
Simon C. Baker, Don P. Kelly & J. Colin Murrell
doi:10.1038/350627a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (255K)
|
|
| | Ribozyme recognition of RNA by tertiary interactions with specific ribose 2'-OH groups 628
Anna Marie Pyle & Thomas R. Cech
doi:10.1038/350628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (474K)
|
|
| | Synthesis from DNA of a molecule with the connectivity of a cube 631
Junghuei Chen & Nadrian C. Seeman
doi:10.1038/350631a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (604K)
|
|
| | Product Reviews | |
|
| | Perfusion chromatography 634
Perfusion chromatography is a technique based on fluid dynamics for reducing stagnant mobile phase mass transfer in liquid chromatography. This is achieved by using supports with large pores that allow mobile phase to flow through particles.
Fred E. Regnier
doi:10.1038/350634a0
References | PDF (265K)
|
|
| | FASEB on my mind 636
Over 500 exhibitors will be attending next week's FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
doi:10.1038/350636a0
PDF (556K)
|
|
