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| | Two successful weeks at Rio 523
Rumours that the UN conference that finished last Sunday in Rio was a failure are false. The urgent matters were dealt with adequately, while the global character of other problems has been more widely acknowledged.
doi:10.1038/357523a0
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| | Moratorium ending 524
The impending Washington summit has a daunting list of nuclear issues that must be tackled.
doi:10.1038/357524a0
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| | Genome propaganda 524
Concealing the truth without lying is an old art, now spreading in the US human genome project.
doi:10.1038/357524b0
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| | European Patent Office rejects bid to revoke first plant patent 525
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357525a0
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| | US to seek gene patents in Europe 525
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357525b0
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| | New French genome centre aims to prove that bigger really is better 526
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357526a0
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| | Will MIT be home to next big centre? 526
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357526b0
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| | Industrial in more than name 527
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357527a0
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| | Serbs oppose leader 527
Allson Abbott
doi:10.1038/357527b0
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| | Computer network rumours prove hard to kill 528
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357528a0
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| | EXPO site to become science park 528
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357528b0
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| | Max Planck stays put 528
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357528c0
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| | NTT to unhook mobile phones 529
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/357529a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357529b0
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Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357529c0
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Alison Abbot
doi:10.1038/357529d0
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| | Russian research may be put on lean diet 530
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/357530a0
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| | Debate over animals is given a personal touch 530
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/357530b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Science popularity stakes 531
J. M. Kaper
doi:10.1038/357531a0
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| | Counting on taxonomy 531
Elisa Bello, Jose M. Becerra & Antonio G.-Valdecasas
doi:10.1038/357531b0
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| | A new kind of orphan drug? 531
F. Allerberger & M. P. Dierich
doi:10.1038/357531c0
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| | Science and sentimentality 532
After years of research, the scientific committee of the
International Whaling Commission is about to put forward a sound method for
setting catch limits for whaling. But will other considerations undermine the
science?
D. S. Butterworth
doi:10.1038/357532a0
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| | Save the beaches, not the buildings 535
Canute, the eleventh-century king of England, is best known for his
demonstration that even he could not hold back the tides. Can the US Congress
learn this lesson?
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/357535a0
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| | Devious devices of Salmonella
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Daniel A. Portnoy & Gregory A. Smith
doi:10.1038/357536a0
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| | New spectroscopic frontiers 537
Stephen M. Barnett
doi:10.1038/357537a0
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| | The box and the rod 538
Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/357538a0
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| | Ecdysone and the onion 539
Greg Guild & Geoff Richards
doi:10.1038/357539a0
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| | Looking inside quantum dots 540
L. Eaves
doi:10.1038/357540a0
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| | Z and the insoluble answer 541
Richard N. Sifers
doi:10.1038/357541a0
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| | Out of the frying pan 541
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/357541b0
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| | Wandering on a leash 542
Carl D. Murray
doi:10.1038/357542a0
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| | One thousand families for the molecular biologist 543
Cyrus Chothia
doi:10.1038/357543a0
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| | Pure tones 544
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357544a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Tumours and Coley's toxins 545
Graham Rook
doi:10.1038/357545a0
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| | Protein crystallization cont. . . 545
R. Leberman
doi:10.1038/357545b0
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| | Regeneration in sea lilies 546
Shonan Amemiya & Tatsuo Oji
doi:10.1038/357546a0
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| | Disposal of S02 in sea water 547
Helge Drange & Peter M. Haugan
doi:10.1038/357547a0
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| | Disposal of S02 in sea water 547
J. J. Colls
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| | Disposal of S02 in sea water 547
Miroslav R. Radojevi
doi:10.1038/357547c0
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| | Chromosomal instability 548
Laure Sabatier, Bernard Dutrillaux & Maria Berta Martin
doi:10.1038/357548a0
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| | Computing beliefs 549
Igor Aleksander reviews Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief
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Afzal Ballim & Yorick Wilks
doi:10.1038/357549a0
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| | Old World disease 549
doi:10.1038/357549b0
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| | Getting an ought from an is? 550
Stuart Sutherland reviews Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning
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Mary Midgley
doi:10.1038/357550a0
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| | Under the net 551
Christopher W. Petersen reviews The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs
Edited by
Peter F. Sale
doi:10.1038/357551a0
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| | The anatomy of the Sun 552
J. B. Zirker reviews Solar Interior and Atmosphere
Edited by
A. N. Cox, W. C. Livingston & M. S. Matthews
doi:10.1038/357552a0
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| | Difficult superconductivity 552
A. C. Rose-Innes reviews High-Temperature Superconductivity: An Introduction
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Gerald Burns
doi:10.1038/357552b0
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| | Formation of an Archaean continent 553
Maarten J. de Wit, Cornel E. J. de Ronde, Marian Tredoux, Chris Roering, Rodger J. Hart, Richard A. Armstrong, Rod W. E. Green, Ellie Peberdy & Roger A. Hart
doi:10.1038/357553a0
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| | Gustducin is a taste-cell-specific G protein closely related to the transducins 563
Susan K. McLaughlin & Peter J. & Robert F. McKinnonMargolskee
doi:10.1038/357563a0
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| | An example of stable chaos in the Solar System 569
Andrea Milani & Anna M. Nobili
doi:10.1038/357569a0
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| | Bulk synthesis and selective exchange of strontium ions in Na4Mg6Al4Si4O20F4 mica 571
William J. Paulus, Sridhar Komarneni & Rustum Roy
doi:10.1038/357571a0
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| | Alteration of tektite to form weathering products 573
J. J. Mazer, J. K. Bates, J. P. Bradley, C. R. Bradley & C. M. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/357573a0
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| | Increased production of cosmogenic 10Be during the Last Glacial Maximum 576
Yong Lao, R. F. Anderson, W. S. Broecker, S. E. Trumbore, H. J. Hofmann & W. Wolfli
doi:10.1038/357576a0
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| | Enhanced Cenozoic chemical weathering and the subduction of pelagic carbonate 578
Ken Caldeira
doi:10.1038/357578a0
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| | Helium/heat ratios and deposition temperatures of sulphides from the ocean floor 581
Grenville Turner & Finlay Stuart
doi:10.1038/357581a0
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| | Crustal control of ridge segmentation inferred from observations of the Reykjanes Ridge 583
R. E. Bell & W. R. Buck
doi:10.1038/357583a0
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| | Desert ants on a thermal tightrope 586
R. Wehner, A. C. Marsh & S. Wehner
doi:10.1038/357586a0
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| | Involvement of the epidermal growth factor receptor in the invasion of cultured mammalian cells by Salmonella typhimurium
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Jorge E. Galán, John Pace & Michael J. Hayman
doi:10.1038/357588a0
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| | Complementarity between sperm surface  -l,4-galactosyl-transferase and egg-coat ZP3 mediates sperm−egg binding 589
David J. Miller, Mary B. Macek & Barry D. Shur
doi:10.1038/357589a0
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| | An endoplasmic reticulum retention signal in the CD3 chain of the T-cell receptor 593
Arrate Mallabiabarrena, Manuel Fresno & Balbino Alarcón
doi:10.1038/357593a0
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| | Antigen presentation enhanced by the alternatively spliced invariant chain gene
product p41 596
Mary Peterson & Jim Miller
doi:10.1038/357596a0
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| | Ca2+ release induced by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate is a steady-state phenomenon controlled by luminal Ca2+ in permeabilized cells 599
Ludwig Missiaen, Humbert De Smedt, Guy Droogmans & Rik Casteels
doi:10.1038/357599a0
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| | Involvement of p21
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in activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 602
Alida M. M. de Vries-Smits, Boudewijn M. Th. Burgering, Sally J. Leevers, Christopher J. Mar shall & Johannes L. Bos
doi:10.1038/357602a0
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| | The mechanism of Z 
1-antitrypsin accumulation in the liver 605
David A. Lomas, Dyfed LI-Evans, John T. Finch & Robin W. Carrell
doi:10.1038/357605a0
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| | Were small galaxies once the dominant cosmological population? 607
L. L. Cowie, A. Songaila & E. M. Hu
doi:10.1038/357607a0
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| | Indirect chemical effects of methane on climate warming 607
Jos Lelieveld & Paul J. Crutzen
doi:10.1038/357607b0
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| | Close linkage of glucokinase locus on chromosome 7p to early-onset non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus 607
Ph. Froguel, M. Vaxillaire, F. Sun, G. Velho, H. Zouali, M. O. Butel, S. Lesage, N. Vionnet, K. Clément, F. Fougerousse, Y. Tanizawa, J. Weissenbach, J. S. Beckmann, G. M. Lathrop, Ph. Passa, M. A. Permutt & D. Cohen
doi:10.1038/357607c0
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| | Genetically engineered alteration in the chilling sensitivity of plants 607
N. Murata, O. Ishizaki-NishizawaHigashi, S. , H. Hayashi, Y. Tasaka & I. Nishida
doi:10.1038/357607d0
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| | Beyond silver staining 608
Proteins separated on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gels can
be detected in subpicogram quantities by radioactivation of silver-treated
protein molecules.
Andrew Wallace & Hanspeter Saluz
doi:10.1038/357608a0
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| | Types of tags 609
Featured this week—tritium-labelled taxol, probes, conjugated
monoclonal antibodies, and a system for the direct detection of
beta-particles.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357609a0
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