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| | Can Europe ever be made to function? 467
The money crisis has (or should have) given the
managers of the European Communities a nasty fright. The best
hope now is that they will embark on a more balanced development
of European institutions.
doi:10.1038/364467a0
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| | Saying sorry quickly 468
An article on AIDS therapy published earlier this year
turns out not to sustain its hopeful conclusion.
doi:10.1038/364468a0
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| | UK faces controversy over plans to reform PhD 469
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/364469a0
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| | US agencies urged to tighten up peer review 470
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364470a0
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| | McBride struck off 470
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/364470b0
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| | Satellite research 'needs more money' 470
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364470c0
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| | Irish geneticist takes over the helm at EMBO 471
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/364471a0
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| | Policy goals 'colour choice' of centres of excellence 471
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/364471b0
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| | Is pressure off Japan to contribute to SSC? 471
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/364471c0
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| | British voters force rethink global Warming Strategy 472
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/364472a0
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| | UK health authority suspends Allain 472
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/364472b0
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| | Constitution torpedoes French
reform
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Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/364472c0
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| | Italian universities 'must be more efficient' 473
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/364473a0
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| | Time runs out in space research dispute 473
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/364473b0
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| | China in brief 474
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/364474a0
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| | Election focuses concern on future of science in S. Africa 474
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/364474b0
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| | Belfast university reverses record on discrimination 475
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/364475a0
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| | Russia to identify key centres 475
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/364475b0
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| | Allain's warnings unheeded 476
Keith Peters
doi:10.1038/364476a0
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| | Lorenzo's oil 476
Ian D. Duncan
doi:10.1038/364476b0
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| | Love or money? 477
Philip Slekevltz
doi:10.1038/364477a0
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| | Mammoth task 477
John M. Kissane
doi:10.1038/364477b0
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| | Physics of life 477
Douglas Braaten
doi:10.1038/364477c0
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| | Architecture of the invisible 478
From the structure of sodium chloride to that of a human rhinovirus complexed with its receptor — X-ray crystal analysis has taken an extraordinarily fruitful path since its inception 80 years ago.
John Meurig Thomas
doi:10.1038/364478a0
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| | Paper crystals of molecular hydrogen and ice 483
The complexity of solid structures containing hydrogen bonds should be a salutary reminder that there is a long way to go before some of the simplest solid structures are understood.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/364483a0
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| | Polymer tubules prepared 484
Angel E. Kaifer
doi:10.1038/364484a0
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| | Running out of control 485
Simon M. Hughes
doi:10.1038/364485a0
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| | Size segregation mechanisms 486
G. C. Barker & A. Mehta
doi:10.1038/364486a0
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| | Windows open onto Titan's surface 486
Gabrielle Walker
doi:10.1038/364486b0
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| | A question of endosomes 487
Regis B. Kelly
doi:10.1038/364487a0
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| | Towards phase III trials for candidate vaccines 489
Gordon Ada
doi:10.1038/364489a0
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| | Acting on actin 490
doi:10.1038/364490a0
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| | Friend or foe? 490
doi:10.1038/364490b0
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| | Fishy business 490
doi:10.1038/364490c0
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| | Birds lost in the red 491
James L. Gould
doi:10.1038/364491a0
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| | Infra-green plants 492
David Jones
doi:10.1038/364492a0
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| | Nose stars and brain stripes 493
Kenneth C. Catania, R. Glenn Northcutt, Jon H. Kaas & Pam D. Beck
doi:10.1038/364493a0
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| | Cytokine−antigen vaccines 493
A. W. Heath & J. H. L. Playfair
doi:10.1038/364493b0
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| | Hammerhead shark origins 494
Andrew Martin
doi:10.1038/364494a0
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| | Estimating extinction rates 494
Fraser. D. M. Smith, Robert M. May, Robin Pellew, Timothy H. Johnson & Kerry S. Walter
doi:10.1038/364494b0
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| | Triplex model of chromosome ends 496
Alexel G. Veselkov, Vladislav A. Malkov, Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskll & Vladimir N. Dobrynin
doi:10.1038/364496a0
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| | The good, bad and ugly 497
Nicholas Wade reviews Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion
By
Gary Taubes
doi:10.1038/364497a0
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Marasmius oreades, the 'fairy ring' fungus 497
doi:10.1038/364497b0
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| | Usage and abusage 498
John Alien Paulos reviews 200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy
By
A. K. Dewdney
doi:10.1038/364498a0
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| | Principles of modern volcanology 498
Lionel Wilson reviews Volcanoes: A Planetary Perspective
By
Peter Francis
doi:10.1038/364498b0
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| | In the renowned Campi Phlegraei
498
doi:10.1038/364498c0
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| | Power and paper 499
A. Rupert Hall reviews Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626
By
B. H. G. Wormald
doi:10.1038/364499a0
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| | Ways of seeing 500
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic reviews A Vision of the Brain
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Semir Zeki
doi:10.1038/364500a0
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| | Muscle deficiency and neonatal death in mice with a targeted mutation in
the myogenin gene 501
Paul Hasty, Allan Bradley, Julia H. Morris, Diane G. Edmondson, Judith M. Venuti, Eric N. Olson & William H. Klein
doi:10.1038/364501a0
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| | The progenitor of supernova 1993J: a stripped supergiant in a binary system? 509
Ph. Podsiadlowski, J. J. L. Hsu, P. C. Joss & R. R. Ross
doi:10.1038/364509a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (450K)
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| | Evidence for surface heterogeneity on Titan 511
Caitlin A. Griffith
doi:10.1038/364511a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (684K)
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| | Radial deformation of carbon nanotubes by van der Waals forces 514
Rodney S. Ruoff, J. Tersoff, Donald C. Lorents, Shekhar Subramoney & Bryan Chan
doi:10.1038/364514a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (464K)
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| | Synthesis of a tubular polymer from threaded cyclodextrins 516
Akira Harada, Jun Li & Mikiharu Kamachi
doi:10.1038/364516a0
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| | Annual growth banding in a cave stalagmite 518
Andy Baker, Peter L. Smart, R. Lawrence Edwards & David A. Richards
doi:10.1038/364518a0
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| | Blueschist metamorphism in an active subduction zone 520
Hliokazu Maekawa, Masaya Shozul, Teruaki Ishll, Patricia Fryer & Jullan A. Pearce
doi:10.1038/364520a0
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| | Daytime calibration of magnetic orientation in a migratory bird requires a view of skylight polarization 523
Kenneth P. Able & Mary A. Able
doi:10.1038/364523a0
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| | Red light disrupts magnetic orientation of migratory birds 525
Wolfgang Wiltschko, Ursula Munro, Hugh Ford & Roswitha Wiltschko
doi:10.1038/364525a0
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| | Auditory illusions and the single hair cell 527
F. Jaramillo, V. S. Markin & A. J. Hudspeth
doi:10.1038/364527a0
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| | Galanin regulates basal and oestrogen-stimulated lactotroph function 529
David Wynick, Peter J. Hammond, Karen O. Akinsanya & Stephen R. Bloom
doi:10.1038/364529a0
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Myogenin gene disruption results in perinatal lethality because of severe muscle defect 532
Yoko Nabeshima, Kazunori Hanaoka, Michiko Hayasaka, Eisaku Esuml, Shaowei Li, Ikuya Nonaka & Yo-ichi Nabeshima
doi:10.1038/364532a0
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| | NMDA-dependent superoxide production and neurotoxicity 535
Mireille Lafon-Cazal, Sylvia Pietri, Marcel Culcasi & Joel Bockaert
doi:10.1038/364535a0
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| | The synaptic vesicle protein synaptotagmin promotes formation of filopodia in fibroblasts 537
Mel B. Feany & Kathleen M. Buckley
doi:10.1038/364537a0
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| | Inhibition of RabSB expression attenuates Ca2+-dependent exocytosis in rat anterior pituitary cells 540
Pierre-Marie Lledo, Philippe Verniert, Jean-Didier Vincent, William T. Mason & Robert Zorec
doi:10.1038/364540a0
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| | Transactivation by NF-IL6/LAP is enhanced by phosphorylation of its activation domain 544
Christian Trautwein, Carme Caelles, Peter van der Geer, Tony Hunter, Michael Karin & Mario Chojkier
doi:10.1038/364544a0
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| | CAP interacts with RNA polymerase in solution in the absence of promoter DNA 548
Tomasz Heyduk, James C. Lee, Yon W. Ebright, Erich E. Blatter, Yuhong Zhou & Richard H. Ebright
doi:10.1038/364548a0
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| | An RNA motif that binds ATP 550
Mandana Sassanfar & Jack W. Szostak
doi:10.1038/364550a0
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doi:10.1038/364553a0
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| | The EST express gathers speed 554
Thousands of human genes are being characterized by analysing complementary DNA sequences. But the job of making full use of this wealth of information is just beginning.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/364554a0
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| | Multiplexed biochemical assays with biological chips 555
High density peptide and oligonucleotide chips are fabricated using
semiconductor-based technologies. These chips have a variety of biological
applications.
Stephen P. A. Fodor, Richard P. Rava, Xiaohua C. Huang, Ann C. Pease, Christopher P. Holmes & Cynthia L. Adams
doi:10.1038/364555a0
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| | Biotech's best buys 557
Featured this week — a new transfection reagent, a quantitative PCR system, new vector systems, fluorescent ion indicators, ionophores and probes for cell signalling, and two new fluorescence-based imaging instruments.
doi:10.1038/364557a0
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