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| | Europe's research after Maastricht 1
Whenever the European enterprise takes another step forward, its leaders say there will be no change. The European Communities' research policy is just one illustration that such a doctrine does not make sense.
doi:10.1038/363001a0
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| | Sob tale of the rich 2
The decline of a London insurance market is a warning and a threatened cost to everybody.
doi:10.1038/363002a0
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| | News | |
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| | International gamma-ray project favoured for ESA launch in 2001 3
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363003a0
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| | Study proves Iraq used nerve gas 3
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363003b0
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| | Wolfson Foundation's policy on animals angers other British medical charities 4
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363004a0
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| | Glowing report may not avert closure of Dutch primate centre 4
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363004b0
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| | Research ministers approve Framework 5
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/363005a0
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| | Japan adds supercomputers in one-time boost to budget 5
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363005b0
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| | Stolen report alleging discrimination and favouritism in NIH office raises furore 6
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/363006a0
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| | Russia gets first batch of emergency grants 6
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/363006b0
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| | Clinton's plan for 'green car' faces bumpy research road 7
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363007a0
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| | Research councils want more control of European projects 7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363007b0
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| | International facilities said to boost national economy 8
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363008a0
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| | Swiss look for ways to reap benefits of next Framework 8
Oliver Klaffke
doi:10.1038/363008b0
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| | Germany revamps system to fund medical research 9
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363009a0
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| | Montagnier to assess French AIDS effort 9
D. B.
doi:10.1038/363009b0
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| | Whaling meeting expected to leave issue unresolved 9
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363009c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Problems in Ireland ... 10
Richard O'Kennedy
doi:10.1038/363010a0
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| | ... and Spain 10
Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi
doi:10.1038/363010b0
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| | ... and Italy 10
Lucio Gullo
doi:10.1038/363010c0
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| | Progress with inventories 11
Frank A. Bisby
doi:10.1038/363011a0
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| | Progress with inventories 11
Stephen Blackmore
doi:10.1038/363011b0
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| | Progress with inventories 11
E. A. Jarzembowski
doi:10.1038/363011c0
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| | A revived opportunity for fetal research 12
One of President Bill Clinton's early decisions was to lift the ban on federally supported research on human fetal tissue. Under what circumstances can research on this material be justified?
Diana W. Bianchi, Merton Bernfield & David G. Nathan
doi:10.1038/363012a0
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| | The dark side of molecular biology 13
The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/363013a0
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| | Collapse and growth 14
Robert F. Curl
doi:10.1038/363014a0
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| | How receptors turn Ras on 15
Frank McCormick
doi:10.1038/363015a0
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| | Dark matter strikes again 16
Bernard Carr
doi:10.1038/363016a0
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| | Life and times 18
doi:10.1038/363018a0
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| | Waste disposal 18
doi:10.1038/363018a0
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| | Slit decision 18
doi:10.1038/363018a0
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| | Planet X: a myth exposed 18
Gerald D. Quinlan
doi:10.1038/363018b0
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| | Proselytizing with immunity 19
Edward J. Pearce
doi:10.1038/363019a0
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| | Max in a complex affair 20
Paul Freemont
doi:10.1038/363020a0
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| | Shocking behaviour of young stars in Orion 21
John Dyson
doi:10.1038/363021a0
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| | Monopoly money 22
David Jones
doi:10.1038/363022a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Amorphous polymer granules 23
Daniel M. Horowitz, Joachim Clauss, Brian K. Hunter & Jeremy K. M. Sanders
doi:10.1038/363023a0
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| | Spring blooms and stratification 24
Hans Chr. Ellertsen
doi:10.1038/363024a0
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| | Cerebellar flocculus hypothesis 24
Masao Ito
doi:10.1038/363024b0
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| | Cerebellar flocculus hypothesis 25
S. G. Lisberger & T. J. Sejnowski
doi:10.1038/363025a0
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| | Palaeoclimate sensitivity 25
Richard S. Lindzen
doi:10.1038/363025b0
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| | Palaeoclimate sensitivity 26
Martin I. Hoffert & Curt Covey
doi:10.1038/363026a0
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| | In the name of genetics 27
Dorothy Nelkin reviews Exploding the Gene Myth
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Ruth Hubbard & Elijah Wald and Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
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Richard C. Lewontin
doi:10.1038/363027a0
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| | Against megabuck science 28
Arnold Pacey reviews Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
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Norbert Wiener
doi:10.1038/363028a0
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| | Facts and fables 29
P. M. Rattansi reviews Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought
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A. Rupert Hall
doi:10.1038/363029a0
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| | Born free 30
Roger F. Searle reviews The Immunology of Human Pregnancy
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Henry N. Claman
doi:10.1038/363030a0
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| | Molecular receptors in the round 30
Leonard F. Lindoy reviews Macrocyclic Chemistry: Aspects of Organic and Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry
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B. Dietrich, P. Viout & J.-M. Lehn
doi:10.1038/363030b0
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| | Strange kinetics 31
Michael F. Shlesinger, George M. Zaslavsky & Joseph Klafter
doi:10.1038/363031a0
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| | Recognition by Max of its cognate DNA through a dimeric b/HLH/Z domain 38
Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, George C. Prendergast, Edward B. Ziff & Stephen K. Burley
doi:10.1038/363038a0
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| | Association of Sos Ras exchange protein with Grb2 is implicated in tyrosine kinase signal transduction and transformation 45
Sean E. Egan, Barton W. Giddings, Mary W. Brooks, László Buday, Andrew M. Sizeland & Robert A. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/363045a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Hot gas and dark matter in a compact galaxy group 51
T. J. Ponman & D. Bertram
doi:10.1038/363051a0
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| | Explosive ejection of matter associated with star formation in the Orion nebula 54
David A. Allen & Michael G. Burton
doi:10.1038/363054a0
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| | Superconductivity above 130 K in the Hg−Ba−Ca−Cu−O system 56
A. Schilling, M. Cantoni, J. D. Guo & H. R. Ott
doi:10.1038/363056a0
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| | Large second-order optical polarizabilities in mixed-valency metal complexes 58
W. M. Laidlaw, R. G. Denning, T. Verbiest, E. Chauchard & A. Persoons
doi:10.1038/363058a0
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| | Experimental evidence for the formation of fullerenes by collisional heating of carbon rings in the gas phase 60
Gert von Helden, Nigel G. Gotts & Michael T. Bowers
doi:10.1038/363060a0
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| | Uranium−thorium disequilibria and partitioning on melting of garnet peridotite 63
Paul Beattie
doi:10.1038/363063a0
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| | Exploitation of cold temperature as defence against parasitoids in bumblebees 65
Christine B. Müller & Paul Schmid-Hempel
doi:10.1038/363065a0
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| | Origin and diversification of endomycorrhizal fungi and coincidence with vascular land plants 67
Luc Simon, Jean Bousquet, Roger C. Lévesque & Maurice Lalonde
doi:10.1038/363067a0
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| | Transgenic N. glauca plants expressing bacterial virulence gene virF are converted into hosts for nopaline strains of A. tumefaciens
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A. J. G. Regensburg-Tuïnk & P. J. J. Hooykaas
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| | Co-existence of cationic and chloride components in odorant-induced current of vertebrate olfactory receptor cells 71
Takashi Kurahashi & King-Wai Yau
doi:10.1038/363071a0
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| | Spatial calcium buffering in saccular hair cells 74
William M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/363074a0
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| | Calcitonin gene-related peptide potentiates synaptic responses at developing neuromuscular junction 76
Bai Lu, Wen-mei Fu, Paul Greengard & Mu-ming Poo
doi:10.1038/363076a0
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| | Repression of c-fos promoter by MyoD on muscle cell differentiation 79
Didier Trouche, Mikhaïl Grigoriev, Jean-Luc Lenormand, Philippe Robin, Serge Alexandre Leibovitch, Paolo Sassone-Corsi & Annick Harel-Bellan
doi:10.1038/363079a0
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| | The SH2 and SH3 domains of mammalian Grb2 couple the EGF receptor to the Ras activator mSos1 83
Maria Rozakis-Adcock, Ross Fernley, John Wade, Tony Pawson & David Bowtell
doi:10.1038/363083a0
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| | Guanine-nucleotide-releasing factor hSos1 binds to Grb2 and links receptor tyrosine kinases to Ras signalling 85
N. Li, A. Batzer, R. Daly, V. Yajnik, E. Skolnik, P. Chardin, D. Bar-Sagi, B. Margolis & J. Schlessinger
doi:10.1038/363085a0
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| | Grb2 mediates the EGF-dependent activation of guanine nucleotide exchange on Ras 88
Nicholas W. Gale, Susan Kaplan, Eve J. Lowenstein, Joseph Schlessinger & Dafna Bar-Sagi
doi:10.1038/363088a0
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| | Imprinting makes its mark 94
Work published over the past month provides insight into the mechanism of genomic imprinting in mice and the possible phenotypic consequences of imprinting in humans.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/363094a0
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| | Modes of chromatography 95
Featured this week — antibody purification kits, a diode-array detector for liquid chromatography, software for chromatography applications, columns, media and a collection of catalogues for one-stop shopping.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/363095a0
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