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| | Genes, patents and sex determination 283
A British regulatory committee has made a fool of itself by elevating a service for sex determination offered by a London clinic to an occasion for a debate on novel "serious ethical questions".
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| | Policy by default 283
The British government will soon have an energy policy thrust upon it.
doi:10.1038/361283b0
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| | Education for refugees 284
The University of Warsaw has made imaginative provision for students in the former Yugoslavia.
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| | Mixed reaction greets new gene patent proposals from Brussels 285
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361285a0
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| | UK gene therapy gets go-ahead 285
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361285b0
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| | New EC commissioner is seen as friend Of basic research 286
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361286a0
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| | Lawyer named minister for German research 286
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361286b0
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| | Clinton lifts ban on fetal research 286
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/361286c0
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| | Inquiry into misconduct excoriates Michigan State 287
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/361287a0
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| | Meetings on British science 287
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| | Montagnier and Mayor create AIDS foundation 287
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/361287c0
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| | Japan is cool to request to help pay to run CERN 288
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/361288a0
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| | B-factory gets a boost 288
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/361288b0
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| | NSF weighs value of supercomputer centres 289
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/361289a0
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| | Institute is centre of political war in ex-Soviet republic 289
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/361289b0
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| | Centocor staggered by poor clinical results 290
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/361290a0
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| | WHO vote upsets Western nations 290
David Swinbanks, Jeffrey Mervis & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361290b0
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| | Licences sought from PCR users in Britain 291
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361291b0
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| | Popper, Wolpert and critics 292
S. C. Francis
doi:10.1038/361292a0
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| | Popper, Wolpert and critics 292
Robert Eisenberg
doi:10.1038/361292b0
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| | Popper, Wolpert and critics 292
Stuart Sutherland
doi:10.1038/361292c0
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Donn D. Lobdell
doi:10.1038/361292d0
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| | Why were Scud casualties so low? 293
Patriot missiles were returned to the Gulf last week. But they were not the reason for the unexpectedly low casualty rate when Saddam attacked Israel with Scud missiles in 1991.
Steve Fetter, George N. Lewis & Lisbeth Gronlund
doi:10.1038/361293a0
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| | New horizons in inner space 297
The voids inside fullerene molecules and their larger relatives offer a cosseted environment in which unusual physics and chemistry may be possible. Fundamental science, as well as applied research, should benefit.
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/361297a0
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| | Genes tell a new whale tale 298
Michael Novacek
doi:10.1038/361298a0
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| | Making the right connections 299
Haig Keshishian
doi:10.1038/361299a0
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| | The elusive Arctic warming 300
John E. Walsh
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| | Fading vision 301
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| | Big blows 301
doi:10.1038/361301b0
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| | Take five 301
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| | GABA receptors, granule cells and genes 302
Mark Farrant & Stuart Cull-Candy
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| | A natural mineral filter 303
Ulrich Christensen
doi:10.1038/361303a0
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| | How to get carried away 304
Peter D. Moore
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| | About turn for reversals 305
Catherine Constable
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| | Blood and tears 306
David Jones
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| | Earliest Homo not proven 307
Phillip V. Tobias
doi:10.1038/361307a0
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| | Animal—animal parasitism 307
George O. Poinar Jr, E. M. Pike & G. W. Krantz
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| | Size segregation in powders 308
G. C. Barker & Anita Mehta
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| | More bubbles in volcanic systems 308
D. L. Sahagian
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| | Globin fold in a bacterial toxin 309
Liisa Holm & Chris Sander
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| | HIV tropism 309
John Moore & David Ho
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| | HIV tropism 310
Hanneke Schuitemaker, Martijn Groenink, Matthijs Tersmette & Frank Miedema
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| | Neurotransmitter role for ATP? 310
Elspeth M. McLachlan & Janet R. Keast
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| | Prophet for the Earth 311
Stephen Jay Gould reviews The Diversity of Life
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Edward 0. Wilson
doi:10.1038/361311a0
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| | Saffron Gatherers 312
doi:10.1038/361312a0
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| | Ancient roots 313
Desmond King-Hele reviews The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History
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Owen Gingerich
doi:10.1038/361313a0
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| | Light exercise 313
R. McNeill Alexander reviews Advanced Materials for Sports Equip-ment
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K. E. Easterling
doi:10.1038/361313b0
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| | Treatise on man 314
lan Tattersall reviews The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
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Steve Jones, Robert D. Martin & David R. Pilbeam
doi:10.1038/361314a0
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| | Goodbye to Gutenberg? 314
Graham Dunn reviews Light Microscopy: An Electronic Text-book
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D. J. Rawlins
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| | Inositol trisphosphate and calcium signalling 315
Michael J. Berridge
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| | Detection of supersoft X-ray emission from GQ Muscae nine years after a nova outburst 331
Hakki Ögelman, Marina Orio, Joachim Krautter & Sumner Starrfield
doi:10.1038/361331a0
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| | Capillarity-induced filling of carbon nanotubes 333
P. M. Ajayan & Sumio lijima
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| | Absence of evidence for greenhouse warming over the Arctic Ocean in the past 40 years 335
Jonathan D. Kahl, Donna J. Charlevoix, Nina A. Zaftseva, Russell C. Schnell & Mark C. Serreze
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| | Detection of crustal deformation from the Landers earthquake sequence using continuous geodetic measurements 337
Yehuda Bock, Duncan C. Agnew, Peng Fang, Joachim F. Genrich, Bradford H. Hager, Thomas A. Herring, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Robert W. King, Shawn Larsen, J.-Bernard Minster, Keith Stark, Shimon Wdowinski & Frank K. Wyatt
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| | Do virtual geomagnetic poles follow preferred paths during geomagnetic reversals? 342
P. L. McFadden, C. E. Barton & R. T. Merrill
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| | Revised phylogeny of whales suggested by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences 346
Michel C. Milinkovitch, Guillermo Orti & Axel Meyer
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| | Colour is what the eye sees best 348
A. Chaparro, C. F. Stromeyer lll, E. P. Huang, R. E. Kronauer & Rhea T. Eskew
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| | Innervation directs receptor synthesis and localization in Drosophila embryo synaptogenesis 350
Kendal Broadie & Michael Bate
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| | Cloning and expression of odorant receptors 353
K. Raming, J. Krieger, J. Strotmann, I. Boekhoff, S. Kubick, C. Baumstark & H. Breer
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| | Benzodiazepine-induced motor impairment linked to point mutation in cerebeilar GABAA receptor 356
Esa R. Korpi, Claudia Kleingoor, Helmut Kettenmann & Peter H. Seeburg
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| | Phagocytic processing of bacterial antigens for class I MHC presentation to T cells 359
John D. Pfeifer, Mary Jo Wick, Richard L. Roberts, Kirk Findlay, Staffan J. Normark & Clifford V. Harding
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| | Pancreatic beta-cells are rendered glucose-competent by the insulinotropic hormone glucagon-like peptide-1(7-37) 362
George G. Holz IV IV, Willem M. Kiihtreiber & Joel F. Habener
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| | Bcl-2 blocks apoptosis in cells lacking mitochondrial DNA 365
Michael D. Jacobson, Julia F. Burne, Michael P. King, Toshiyuki Miyashrta, John C. Reed & Martin C. Raff
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| | Resistance to cadmium mediated by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis 369
Joern Jungmann, Hans-Albert Reins, Christian Schobert & Stefan Jentsch
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| | A new photoreactivating enzyme that specifically repairs ultraviolet light-induced (6-4)photoproducts 371
Takeshi Todo, Hiroshi Takemori, Haruko Ryo, Makoto lhara, Tsukasa Matsunaga, Osamu Nikaido, Kenji Sato & Taisei Nomura
doi:10.1038/361371a0
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| | Addition and subtraction by human infants 374
Karen Wynn
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| | IPCC strategies unfair to the South 374
J. K. Parikh
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| | Arsenical-resistant trypanosomes lack an unusual adenosine transporter 374
Nicola S. Carter & Alan H. Fairlamb
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| | An automated approach to generating expressed sequence catalogues 375
An automated approach for partial sequence analysis of entire cDNA libraries is described with the immediate aim of generating an expressed sequence catalogue and the long-term goal of sequencing by hybridization.
Sebastian Meier-Ewert, Elmar Maler, All Ahmadl, Jon Curtis & Hans Lehrach
doi:10.1038/361375a0
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| | Mechanized means 377
Featured this week are products designed to automate laboratory tasks, including an instrument for processing western blots, an infrared fluorescence-based sequencer and robotic liquid handling systems.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/361377a0
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