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| | High time for the circuses to stop 609
Basic understanding of the Solar System is the poor relation in most space programmes, but the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration should promptly redress the balance by scrapping its planned space station.
doi:10.1038/358609a0
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| | Slump in seed-corn 610
British enrolments in science courses are responding to market forces — and falling.
doi:10.1038/358610a0
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| | Managing Rio's treaties 610
The Carnegie Commission would like to see better management of international environmental research.
doi:10.1038/358610b0
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| | African National Congress drafts blueprint for South African science 611
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/358611a0
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| | NSF opens up long-range plan to public comments 611
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358611b0
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| | Superconductivity devices are headed into space 612
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/358612a0
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| | NSF unmoved by politics of relocation 612
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358612b0
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| | Korea begins funding projects to catch up with rest of world 613
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/358613a0
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| | G-7 is wake-up call for KIST 613
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/358613b0
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| | Defence scientist quits Indian post for US academic job 613
K. S. Jayaraman & Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358613c0
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| | Bovine growth hormone meets new safety concerns 614
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/358614a0
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| | Dutch flower may be too safe to test new biotechnology laws 614
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/358614b0
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| | University scientists to be investigated for conflicts of interest 614
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358614c0
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| | US government asked to fund more industrial research 615
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358615a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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doi:10.1038/358615b0
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| | Frustrated by regulatory delays at FDA, biotech companies warm to user fees 616
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/358616a0
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| | Scientists deny alleged support of company's 'new nuclear science' 616
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358616b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Offspring of scientists 617
R. A. Beck
doi:10.1038/358617a0
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| | Offspring of scientists 617
R. C. Connolly
doi:10.1038/358617b0
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| | NIH patent rights 617
Thoru Pederson
doi:10.1038/358617c0
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| | Leeds inquiry 617
Chris Chapman
doi:10.1038/358617d0
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| | Defining consciousness 618
Brian D. Josephson, Beverly A. Rubik, David Fontana & David Lorimer
doi:10.1038/358618a0
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| | Defining consciousness 618
Oliver Sacks
doi:10.1038/358618b0
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| | Frontiers future 618
Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini
doi:10.1038/358618c0
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| | Motes and beams 618
John B. Carter
doi:10.1038/358618d0
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| | Dam facts 618
Bryant Mather
doi:10.1038/358618e0
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| | The mysterious virus called "isn't" 619
The first close scrutiny of reports of a new virus supposed to cause symptoms of AIDS in people with neither HIV-1 nor HIV-2 suggests that there is no new virus.
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/358619a0
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| | The tell-tail trigger 620
Michael Gregory Peterson & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/358620a0
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| | Towards energy storage 621
Prabir Dutta
doi:10.1038/358621a0
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| | Airblast scars on Venus 622
H. J. Melosh
doi:10.1038/358622a0
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| | NO release for good measure 623
Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/358623a0
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| | Spectral breaks for theorists 624
Matthew G. Baring
doi:10.1038/358624a0
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| | Fishing in Src-infested waters 625
Gregory A. Petsko
doi:10.1038/358625a0
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| | Knocking out memory's door 626
Daniel V. Madison
doi:10.1038/358626a0
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| | Mice and flies head to head 627
Peter Holland, Philip Ingham & Stefan Krauss
doi:10.1038/358627a0
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| | Billing Big Brother 628
David Jones
doi:10.1038/358628a0
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| | Hydrothermal supermounds 629
B. J. Murton & C. R. German
doi:10.1038/358629a0
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| | CH+ in the Red Rectangle 629
David I. Hall, Janet R. Miles & Peter J. Sarre
doi:10.1038/358629b0
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| | Coley's vaccine and TNF therapy 630
P. G. G. Brouckaert & W. Fiers
doi:10.1038/358630a0
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| | Moving with the times 631
J. R. S. Fincham reviews The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics
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Nina Fedoroff & David Botstein
doi:10.1038/358631a0
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| | Defending the immune system 632
David W. Scott reviews Immunology
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Janis Kuby, W. H Freeman, David Male, Brian Champion, Anne Cooke & Michael Owen
doi:10.1038/358632a0
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| | An ideal Universe? 633
A. Rupert Hall reviews Descartes' Metaphysical Physics
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Daniel Garber
doi:10.1038/358633a0
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| | Growing pains 634
P. E. Bryant reviews Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up
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Joel N. Shurkin
doi:10.1038/358634a0
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| | Formation of harzburgite by pervasive melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle 635
Peter B. Kelemen, Henry J. B. Dick & James E. Quick
doi:10.1038/358635a0
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| | Human general transcription factor IIH phosphorylates the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II 641
Hua Lu, Leigh Zawel, Laurent Fisher, Jean-Marc Egly & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/358641a0
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| | Crystal structure of the phosphotyrosine recognition domain SH2 of v-src complexed with tyrosine-phosphorylated peptides 646
Gabriel Waksman, Dorothea Kominos, Scott C. Robertson, Nalin Pant, David Baltimore, Raymond B. Birge, David Cowburn, Hidesaburo Hanafusa, Bruce J. Mayer, Michael Overduin, Marilyn D. Resh, Carlos B. Rios, Lauren Silverman & John Kuriyan
doi:10.1038/358646a0
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| | Evidence for single-temperature dust in the Crab nebula from a reanalysis of its infrared spectrum 654
Richard G. Strom & Harm Greidanus
doi:10.1038/358654a0
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| | Stable photoinduced charge separation in layered viologen compounds 656
Lori A. Vermeulen & Mark E. Thompson
doi:10.1038/358656a0
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| | Spectroscopic observation of a catalyst surface in a reactive atmosphere at high pressure 658
Geoffrey D. Moggridge, Trevor Rayment, R. Mark Ormerod, Michael A. Morris & Richard M. Lambert
doi:10.1038/358658a0
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| | Bromoform emission from Arctic ice algae 660
W. T. Sturges, G. F. Cota & P. T. Buckley
doi:10.1038/358660a0
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| | Oil and combustion-product contamination of the Gulf marine environment following the war 662
J. W. Readman, S. W. Fowler, J.-P. Villeneuve, C. Cattini, B. Oregioni & L. D. Mee
doi:10.1038/358662a0
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| | Enhanced ventilation of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre thermocline during the last glaciation 665
Niall C. Slowey & William B. Curry
doi:10.1038/358665a0
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| | Optical imaging of epileptiform and functional activity in human cerebral cortex 668
Michael M. Haglund, George A. Ojemann & Daryl W. Hochman
doi:10.1038/358668a0
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Bicalyx is a natural homeotic floral variant 671
V. S. Ford & L. D. Gottlieb
doi:10.1038/358671a0
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| | Identification by mutagenesis of a Mg2+ -block site of the NMDA receptor channel 673
Hisashi Mori, Hisashi Masaki, Tomohiro Yamakura & Masayoshi Mishina
doi:10.1038/358673a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (309K)
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| | Nitric oxide release from a single cell measured in situ by a porphyrinic-based microsensor 676
Tadeusz Malinski & Ziad Taha
doi:10.1038/358676a0
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| | Point mutation of an FGF receptor abolishes phosphatidylinositol turnover and Ca2+ flux but not mitogenesis 678
Kevin G. Peters, Jacky Marie, Emily Wilson, Harlan E. Ives, Jaime Escobedo, Mercedita Del Rosario, Daniel Mirda & Lewis T. Williams
doi:10.1038/358678a0
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| | Point mutation in FGF receptor eliminates phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis without affecting mitogenesis 681
M. Mohammadi, C. A. Dionne, W. Li, N. Li, T. Spivak, A. M. Honegger, M. Jaye & J. Schlessinger
doi:10.1038/358681a0
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| | Structure of an SH2 domain of the p85 subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase 684
Grant W. Booker, Alexander L. Breeze, A. Kristina Downing, George Panayotou, Ivan Gout, Michael D. Waterfield & Iain D. Campbell
doi:10.1038/358684a0
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| | Nested expression domains of four homeobox genes in developing rostral brain 687
Antonio Simeone, Dario Acampora, Massimo Gulisano, Anna Stornaiuolo & Edoardo Boncinelli
doi:10.1038/358687a0
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| | Regulation of focal adhesion-associated protein tyrosine kinase by both cellular adhesion and oncogenic transformation 690
Jun-Lin Guan & David Shalloway
doi:10.1038/358690a0
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| | Fast sequencing of oligosaccharides using arrays of enzymes 693
A new strategy for sequencing oligosaccharides involves generating fragments at 'stop points' along the molecule using enzyme matrices.
Christopher Edge, Raj Parekh, Thomas Rademacher, Mark Wormald & Raymond Dwek
doi:10.1038/358693a0
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| | What's hot and what's not in Washington 695
Next week's American Chemical Society meeting to be held in Washington, DC, USA will feature a collection of US patents on CD-ROM, a protein sequencer and software for the analysis of mass spectral data of proteins and peptides.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/358695a0
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