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| | Winning a nuclear test-ban by stealth? 465
The US Congress has been teasing the administration by tagging a nuclear test-ban onto a domestic spending bill. The trick will help to advertise an important question, but the need now is for serious and energetic diplomacy.
doi:10.1038/359465a0
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| | Megaprojects galore 466
Europe seems keen on construction projects with benefits for the environment: will environmentalists agree?
doi:10.1038/359466a0
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| | Gene wars escalate as US official battles NIH over pursuit of patent 467
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359467a0
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| | Reshuffling of funding councils jeopardizes plans for UK academic computer network 468
Lan Mundell
doi:10.1038/359468a0
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| | Japanese moth collection lands in London 468
Lan Mundell
doi:10.1038/359468b0
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| | Russians reject plan for elite research centres 468
Vladimir Pokrowsky
doi:10.1038/359468c0
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| | Europe tightens rules that govern homeopathic products 469
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/359469a0
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| | Royal Society wants extra powers for science office 469
Lan Mundell
doi:10.1038/359469b0
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| | UK moves closer to free market for research funding 470
Lan Mundell
doi:10.1038/359470a0
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| | Ludwig estate to support research 470
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/359470b0
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| | Small businesses to get bigger slice of US research pie 470
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359470c0
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| | Congress supports breast cancer research by taking $210 million from military 471
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/359471a0
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| | Doubts grow faster than budget in new Framework plan 471
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/359471b0
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| | Apologies to Bianconi 472
Rustum Roy
doi:10.1038/359472a0
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| | Animal welfare 472
Barry O. Hughes
doi:10.1038/359472b0
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| | NASA on a tether 472
W. M. Colles
doi:10.1038/359472c0
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| | Myths of the German atom bomb 473
The persistent controversy surrounding the role of the German scientists in developing an atomic bomb during the Second World War can be laid to rest by the release of the Farm Hall transcripts.
Mark Walker
doi:10.1038/359473a0
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| | Language for a polyglot readership 475
What are the reasons why the English-language literature of science is understood only with difficulty elsewhere? And what might make it more accessible?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/359475a0
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| | DNA recognition, warts and all 476
John Kuriyan & Stephen K. Burley
doi:10.1038/359476a0
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| | End of the 'Uniramia' taxon 477
William A. Shear
doi:10.1038/359477a0
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| | Beastly yeast 478
doi:10.1038/359478a0
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| | Puritans and Cavaliers 478
Charles Bailyn
doi:10.1038/359478b0
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| | Make or break with fullerenes 479
Steve Duclos
doi:10.1038/359479a0
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| | Every motion has its motor 480
Vladimir I. Gelfand & Jonathan M. Scholey
doi:10.1038/359480a0
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| | Venus night lights 481
R. P.
doi:10.1038/359481a0
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| | The quest for immortality 482
Anne McLaren
doi:10.1038/359482a0
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| | Characteristic size of relief 483
Douglas W. Burbank
doi:10.1038/359483a0
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| | Active rigidity 484
David Jones
doi:10.1038/359484a0
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| | Bubbles in volcanic systems 485
D. L. Sahagian & A. A. Proussevitch
doi:10.1038/359485a0
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| | Chaperones classified 485
Robert Webb & Louis A. Sherman
doi:10.1038/359485b0
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| | Checkpoint policing by p53 486
Antony M. Carr, Michael H. L. Green & Alan R. Lehmann
doi:10.1038/359486a0
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| | Checkpoint policing by p53 486
D. P. Lane
doi:10.1038/359486b0
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| | Swallowing ornamental asymmetry 487
Andrew Balmford & Adrian Thomas
doi:10.1038/359487a0
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Gerald Borgia & Gerald Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/359487b0
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| | Swallowing ornamental asymmetry 488
A. P. Meller
doi:10.1038/359488a0
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| | Confusion of kingdoms 488
Nancy Knowlton
doi:10.1038/359488b0
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| | The roots of nature 489
Robert Temple reviews History of Animals (3 volumes)*; Parts of Animals, Movement of Animals, Progression of Animals (1 volume)†; Generation of Animals (1 volume)‡
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Aristotle , Theophrastus , William Fortenbaugh, William Fortenbaugh & Dimitri Gutas
doi:10.1038/359489a0
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| | Foundations of cosmology 490
Joseph Silk reviews My Universe: Selected Reviews.
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Ya. B. Zel'dovich
doi:10.1038/359490a0
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doi:10.1038/359491a0
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| | Accidental tourist guides 491
Richard G. Vile reviews AIDS 91 Summary: A Practical Synopsis of the VII International Conference
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J. R. Berger & F. Wong-Staal
doi:10.1038/359491b0
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| | Love potions 492
David Crews reviews Chemical Communication: The Language of Pheromones
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William G. Agosta. & W. H. Freeman
doi:10.1038/359492a0
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| | Spatial and temporal variability in the geochemistry of basalts from the East Pacific Rise 493
Jennifer R. Reynolds, Charles H. Langmuir, John F. Bender, Kirn A. Kastens & William B. F. Ryan
doi:10.1038/359493a0
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| | Mutations in the channel domain of a neuronal nicotinic receptor convert ion selectivity from cationic to anionic 500
Jean-Luc Galzi, Anne Devillers-Thiery, Nicolas Hussy, Sonia Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Changeux & Daniel Bertrand
doi:10.1038/359500a0
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| | Crystal structure at 1.7 Å of the bovine papillomavirus-1 E2 DMA-binding domain bound to its DNA target 505
Rashmi S. Hegde, Steven R. Grossman, Laimonis A. Laimins & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/359505a0
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| | A cluster of protogalaxies at redshift 3.4? 512
Kandaswamy Subramanian & Govind Swarup
doi:10.1038/359512a0
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| | Gamma-ray bursts from high-velocity neutron stars 514
Hui Li & Charles D. Dermer
doi:10.1038/359514a0
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| | Variable oxygen airglow on Venus as a probe of atmospheric dynamics 516
David Alien, David Crisp & Vikki Meadows
doi:10.1038/359516a0
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| | Determination of complex structures by combined neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction 519
Russell E. Morris, William T. A. Harrison, Jacqueline M. Nicol, Angus P. Wilkinson & Anthony K. Cheetham
doi:10.1038/359519a0
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| | Surface ozone depletion in Arctic spring sustained by bromine reactions on aerosols 522
Song-Miao Fan & Daniel J. Jacob
doi:10.1038/359522a0
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| | Flattening of the sea-floor depth-age curve as a response to asthenospheric flow 524
Jason Phipps Morgan & Walter H. F. Smith
doi:10.1038/359524a0
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| | Marsupial Y chromosome encodes a homologue of the mouse Y-linked candidate spermatogenesis gene Ube1y
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Michael J. Mitchell, Diane R. Woods, Steven A. Wilcox, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves & Colin E. Bishop
doi:10.1038/359528a0
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| | Evolution of sex determination and the Y chromosome: SRY-related sequences in marsupials 531
Jamie W. Foster, Francine E. Brennan, Gregory K. Hampikian, Peter N. Goodfellow, Andrew H. Sinclair, Robin Lovell-Badge, Lynne Selwood, Marilyn B. Renfree, Desmond W. Cooper & Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
doi:10.1038/359531a0
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| | Microtubule-motor activity of a yeast centromere-binding protein complex 533
A. A. Hyman, K. Middleton, M. Centola, T. J. Mitchison & J. Carbon
doi:10.1038/359533a0
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| | CENP-E is a putative kinetochore motor that accumulates just before mitosis 536
Tim J. Yen, Gang Li, Bruce T. Schaar, Illya Szilak & Don W. Cleveland
doi:10.1038/359536a0
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| | Mitotic spindle organization by a plus-end-directed microtubule motor 540
Kenneth E. Sawin, Katherine LeGuellec, Michel Philippe & Timothy J. Mitchison
doi:10.1038/359540a0
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| | A plus-end-directed motor enzyme that moves antiparallel microtubules in vitro localizes to the interzone of mitotic spindles 543
Corey Nislow, Vivian A. Lombillo, Ryoko Kuriyama & J. Richard Mclntosh
doi:10.1038/359543a0
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| | Autoimmune diabetes as a consequence of locally produced interleukin-2 547
William R. Heath, Janette Allison, Matthias W. Hoffmann, Günther Schönrich, Günter Hämmerling, Bernd Arnold & Jacques F. A. P. Miller
doi:10.1038/359547a0
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| | Long-term proliferation of mouse primordial germ cells in culture 550
James L. Resnick, Lynn S. Bixler, Linzhao Cheng & Peter J. Donovan
doi:10.1038/359550a0
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| | Apoptotic cell death induced by c-myc is inhibited by bcl-2 552
Reid P. Bissonnette, Fernando Echeverri, Artin Mahboubi & Douglas R. Green
doi:10.1038/359552a0
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| | Cooperative interaction between c-myc and bcl-2 proto-oncogenes 554
Abdallah Fanidi, Elizabeth A. Harrington & Gerard I. Evan
doi:10.1038/359554a0
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| | Competitive PCR 557
Competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) can be used to obtain quantitative information of mRNA levels comparable to traditional RNA blot techniques, with the added advantages of PCR.
Paul D. Siebert & James W. Larrick
doi:10.1038/359557a0
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| | Scientific gadgetry 559
Scientific graphing calculators that make light work of problem solving, a pulse controller to provide enhanced resolution of DNA samples and an imaging system for low-cost photography are featured this week.
doi:10.1038/359559a0
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