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| | The smack of firm government 381
Last week's government paper on British research has the air of finality proper in a policy statement. The discussion, after all, is long since over. The question now is whether the new policy is wise.
doi:10.1038/363381a0
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| | Pay no dues yet 382
Lapsed members should ask for better terms before agreeing to rejoin UNESCO.
doi:10.1038/363382a0
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| | Conference unwanted 382
The annual AIDS conferences should be replaced by more effective channels of communication.
doi:10.1038/363382b0
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| | Biomedical trust fund is proposed to support basic research at NIH 383
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/363383a0
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| | Life sciences take a dive 383
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/363383b0
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| | ESO negotiates with Chile over agreement on telescopes 384
Jeffrey Mervis & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363384a0
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| | US asked to help in reunification of German science 384
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363384b0
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| | Historic vote 384
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/363384c0
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| | Britain cheers and jeers at a status quo White Paper 385
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363385a0
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| | Waldegrave gets help 385
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363385b0
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| | A global search 385
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363385c0
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| | Soccer boom may score for Japanese science 386
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363386a0
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| | Races grease the wheels of science 387
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363387a0
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| | SmithKline backs sequencing company 387
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/363387b0
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| | German state challenges faculty reappointments 387
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363387c0
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| | AIDS activists says basic research is underfunded 388
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363388a0
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| | Australian state wants claim to native plants 388
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/363388b0
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| | Rumoured good news raises share price of vaccine company 388
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363388c0
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| | Science and religion 389
Michael Houlder
doi:10.1038/363389a0
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| | Science and religion 389
D. H. Evans
doi:10.1038/363389b0
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| | Science and religion 389
Graham L. Mathieson
doi:10.1038/363389c0
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Hugh Fletcher
doi:10.1038/363389d0
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David Granot
doi:10.1038/363390a0
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Christopher J. Lote
doi:10.1038/363390b0
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Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/363390c0
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| | AIDS: striking the happy media 391
The past year has seen many controversies about AIDS research and researchers. What productive events have occurred, and what is likely to happen in the next year?
John Moore
doi:10.1038/363391a0
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| | AIDS: trends, predictions, controversy 393
One of the persistent controversies that surfaces in the media about AIDS is whether the heterosexual population is at risk. The latest projections provide an emphatic affirmative.
Roy Anderson
doi:10.1038/363393a0
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| | Calculating the energy of fullerenes 395
So far, the experimentalists have had the most fun from fullerenes, but now the theorists are catching up. Not before time, for they have to live down the shame of not having predicted them.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/363395a0
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| | Siberian mice upset Mendel 396
Andrew Pomiankowski & Laurence D. Hurst
doi:10.1038/363396a0
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| | Black holes and information 397
William A. Hiscock
doi:10.1038/363397a0
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| | Reconstructed from skin and bone 398
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/363398a0
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| | Heavy carbon dioxide 399
Ralph F. Keeling
doi:10.1038/363399a0
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| | John Tuzo Wilson (1908−1993) 400
Fred Vine
doi:10.1038/363400a0
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| | A rational attack on influenza 401
Garry Taylor
doi:10.1038/363401a0
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| | Rise of the Nile delta 402
D. L. Holmes
doi:10.1038/363402a0
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| | Cold answers to hot issues 403
David A. Peel
doi:10.1038/363403a0
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| | Negative response 403
doi:10.1038/363403b0
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| | Wrapped up 403
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| | Waxing Moon 404
David Jones
doi:10.1038/363404a0
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| | Which home for coelacanth? 405
U. Schliewen, H. Fricke, M. Schartl, J. T. Epplen & S. Pääbo
doi:10.1038/363405a0
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| | Signalling in planktonic larvae 406
Daniel E. Morse
doi:10.1038/363406a0
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| | Not the earliest solar eclipse 406
D. Pardee & N. Swerdlow
doi:10.1038/363406b0
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| | Culture shock 407
David DeVorkin reviews Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the American Space Program
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Howard E. McCurdy
doi:10.1038/363407a0
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| | Problems in evolution 408
Mark Ridley reviews Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges
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George C. Williams
doi:10.1038/363408a0
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| | Growth and form 409
Jane Maienschein reviews Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900−1933
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J. Harwood
doi:10.1038/363409a0
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| | Ancient oceans 410
E. Irving reviews Paleomagnetism of the Atlantic, Tethys and lapetus Oceans
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Rob Van der Voo
doi:10.1038/363410a0
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| | Overstuffed 410
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood reviews Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function
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Noble S. Proctor & Patrick J. Lynch
doi:10.1038/363410b0
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| | Using small perturbations to control chaos 411
Troy Shinbrot, Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke & Edward Ott
doi:10.1038/363411a0
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| | Rational design of potent sialidase-based inhibitors of influenza virus replication 418
Mark von Itzstein, Wen-Yang Wu, Gaik B. Kok, Michael S. Pegg, Jeffrey C. Dyason, Betty Jin, Tho Van Phan, Mark L. Smythe, Hume F. White, Stuart W. Oliver, Peter M. Colman, Joseph N. Varghese, D. Michael Ryan, Jacqueline M. Woods, Richard C. Bethell, Vanessa J. Hotham, Janet M. Cameron & Charles R. Penn
doi:10.1038/363418a0
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| | Radio observations of the classical nova Cygni 92 eighty days after outburst 424
P. E. Pavelin, R. J. Davis, L. V. Morrison, M. F. Bode & R. J. Ivison
doi:10.1038/363424a0
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| | Narrow lanes of transverse magnetic field in sunspots 426
H. Zirin & H. Wang
doi:10.1038/363426a0
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| | Implications of the high D/H ratio for the sources of water in Venus' atmosphere 428
David Harry Grinspoon
doi:10.1038/363428a0
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| | Nanometre-scale recording and erasing with the scanning tunnelling microscope 431
Akinobu Sato & Yuji Tsukamoto
doi:10.1038/363431a0
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| | An atom probe for three-dimensional tomography 432
D. Blavette, A. Bostel, J. M. Sarrau, B. Deconihout & A. Menand
doi:10.1038/363432a0
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Graham D. Farquhar, Jon Lloyd, John A. Taylor, Lawrence B. Flanagan, James P. Syvertsen, Kerry T. Hubick, S. Chin Wong & James R. Ehleringer
doi:10.1038/363439a0
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| | A new species of living bovid from Vietnam 443
Vu Van Dung, Pham Mong Giao, Nguyen Ngoc Chinh, Do Tuoc, Peter Arctander & John MacKinnon
doi:10.1038/363443a0
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| | A point mutation in a Drosophila GABA receptor confers insecticide resistance 449
Richard H. ffrench-Constant, Thomas A. Rocheleau, Jessica C. Steichen & Alison E. Chalmers
doi:10.1038/363449a0
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| | Endogenous dynorphins inhibit excitatory neurotransmission and block LTP induction in the hippocampus 451
John J. Wagner, Gregory W. Terman & Charles Chavkin
doi:10.1038/363451a0
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| | Functional expression of a rapidly inactivating neuronal calcium channel 455
Patrick T. Ellinor, Ji-Fang Zhang, Andrew D. Randall, Mei Zhou, Thomas L. Schwarz, Richard W. Tsien & William A. Horne
doi:10.1038/363455a0
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| | Germ-line mutations of the RET proto-oncogene in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A 458
Lois M. Mulligan, John B. J. Kwok, Catherine S. Healey, Mark J. Elsdon, Charis Eng, Emily Gardner, Donald R. Love, Sara E. Mole, Julie K. Moore, Laura Papi, Margaret A. Ponder, Hakan Telenius, Alan Tunnacliffe & Bruce A. J. Ponder
doi:10.1038/363458a0
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| | MAdCAM-1 has homology to immunoglobulin and mucin-like adhesion receptors and to IgA1 461
Michael J. Briskin, Leslie M. McEvoy & Eugene C. Butcher
doi:10.1038/363461a0
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| | Membrane tumour necrosis factor- is involved in the polyclonal B-cell activation induced by HIV-infected human T cells 464
Donatella Macchia, Fabio Almerigogna, Paola Parronchi, Adriana Ravina, Enrico Maggi & Sergio Romagnani
doi:10.1038/363464a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of photosystem II 470
Andreas Holzenburg, Maria C. Bewley, Fiona H. Wilson, William V. Nicholson & Robert C. Ford
doi:10.1038/363470a0
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| | Taking the bull by the horns 473
Genetic analysis of domestic animals demonstrates the feasibility of marker-assisted selection of economically important traits and may foreshadow good things to come (other than better bacon) for human geneticists.
Adrian J. Ivinson
doi:10.1038/363473a0
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| | Sequence-specific scission of DNA by RNAs linked to a chemical nuclease 474
RNAs linked to the chemical nuclease 1,10-phenanthroline-copper cut double-stranded DNA of complementary sequence. This cleavage reaction is applicable to all sequences and can be used to measure the distance between marker genes in base pairs, map the size of a transcription unit and define positions of chromosomal breakpoints.
David S. Sigman, Chi-hong B. Chen & Michael B. Gorin
doi:10.1038/363474a0
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| | Peptide and oligonucleotide profile 476
Featured this week — an epitope mapping system, an instrument for the purification of proteins, peptides and glycoproteins from complex mixtures by continuous elution electrophoresis and a radiolabelled ligand for brain research.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/363476a0
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