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| | Europe's HIV-contaminated blood 95
The origin of the blood and blood-products contaminated with HIV sold on the European market is more probably a mark of incompetence than of cupidity, but is none the less culpable on that account.
doi:10.1038/366095a0
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| | An end to fraud? 95
The responsibilities of the US Office of Research Integrity should be returned to the research community.
doi:10.1038/366095b0
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| | A date with Darwin 96
Britain is getting good value for money from its overseas
biodiversity programme.
doi:10.1038/366096a0
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| | Recession forces R&D cuts in Japanese industry 97
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366097a0
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| | Australian minister clashes with CSIRO on marine research 97
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/366097b0
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| | Creutzfeldt-Jakob verdict may prompt new claims 98
Kimberly Carr
doi:10.1038/366098a0
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Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366098b0
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| | Concern grows over impact of German blood scandal 98
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366098c0
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| | Varmus deft with Senate on NIH strategy 99
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/366099a0
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| | Popovic wins appeal against ORI charges 99
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/366099b0
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| | Research funds grow 99
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/366099c0
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| | Royal Society urges rethink on degrees 100
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/366100a0
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| | Future of Rutherford under debate 100
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/366100b0
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| | Darwin funds to back biodiversity 100
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/366100c0
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| | X-ray satellite faces its final showdown 101
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366101a0
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| | Dutch favour applied research for natural gas dividend 102
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366102a0
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| | Russia heads for CERN membership 102
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366102b0
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| | French debate cools over nuclear waste storage 102
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366102c0
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| | Shanghai takes steps to boost scientific skills 103
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/366103a0
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| | Genetic testing under scrutiny in US 103
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/366103b0
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| | Recipe for innovation 104
Gerard Fairtlough
doi:10.1038/366104a0
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| | Slide viewer 104
Michael Gross
doi:10.1038/366104b0
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| | Understanding of science 104
P. R. Cooper
doi:10.1038/366104c0
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| | Compulsory read? 104
Forrest M. Mims III
doi:10.1038/366104d0
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| | Did Popper solve Hume's problem? 105
How do we know the Sun will rise tomorrow? Hume's concern raises two questions: the problem of empirical inference was solved in this century by Popper; an approach to the stability of nature in time is outlined here.
Allan Goddard Lindh
doi:10.1038/366105a0
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| | Has nature overwhelmed nurture? 107
There is a danger that too zealous and uncritical advocacy of the importance of human genome studies to the exclusion of others may provoke disbelief, distrust and resentment.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/366107a0
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| | Down under the volcano 108
Jonathan Fink
doi:10.1038/366108a0
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| | Structure and selectivity 109
Gary Yellen
doi:10.1038/366109a0
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| | New light on stem growth 110
Winslow R. Briggs
doi:10.1038/366110a0
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| | Building regulations 111
Horia Metiu
doi:10.1038/366111a0
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| | A question of reduction 112
Chris Ballhaus
doi:10.1038/366112a0
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| | The invertebrate enigma 113
Roger C. Hardie
doi:10.1038/366113a0
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| | Bread and water 113
G. W.
doi:10.1038/366113b0
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| | Cytokine connections 114
Tony Hunter
doi:10.1038/366114a0
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| | Potent plastic 115
doi:10.1038/366115a0
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| | Killer trees 115
doi:10.1038/366115b0
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| | Head starts 115
doi:10.1038/366115c0
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| | Plastic memories 116
David Jones
doi:10.1038/366116a0
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| | Bright flash on Jupiter in 1983 117
H. B. Hammel & R. M. Nelson
doi:10.1038/366117a0
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| | X larger than Y 117
Ke-hui Cui & Colin D. Matthews
doi:10.1038/366117b0
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| | Extinction rate estimates 118
Alfredo D. Cuarón
doi:10.1038/366118a0
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| | What mercury pollution? 118
M. J. Gardner & A. M. Gunn
doi:10.1038/366118b0
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| | Worse than the malady 119
Roy Porter reviews Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India.
By
David Arnold
doi:10.1038/366119a0
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| | Light in motion 120
Richard N. Dixon reviews Photodissociation Dynamics.
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doi:10.1038/366120a0
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| | Cold snap 120
doi:10.1038/366120b0
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| | Local flavours 121
R. D. Martin reviews Topics in Primatology. Volume 1: Human Origins
Edited by
Toshisada Nishida, William C. McGrew, Peter Marler, Martin Pickford, Frans B. M. de Waal, Naosuke Itoigawa, Yukimaru Sugiyama, Gene
P. SackettRoger K. R.Thompson., Shozo Matano, Russell
H. Tuttle, Hidemi Ishida & Morris Goodman.
doi:10.1038/366121a0
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| | Memory and molecules 122
John Collinge reviews Hannah's Heirs: The Quest for the Genetic Origins of
Alzheimer's Disease
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Daniel A. Pollen.
doi:10.1038/366122a0
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| | Atoms in carbon cages: the structure and properties of endohedral fullerenes 123
D. S. Bethune, R. D. Johnson, J. R. Salem, M. S. de Vries & C. S. Yannoni
doi:10.1038/366123a0
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| | The protein tyrosine kinase JAK1 complements defects in
interferon- / and - signal transduction 129
Mathias Müller, James Briscoe, Carl Laxton, Dmitry Guschin, Andrew Ziemiecki, Olli Silvennoinen, Ailsa G. Harpur, Giovanna Barbieri, Bruce A. Witthuhn, Chris Schindler, Sandra Pellegrini, Andrew F. Wilks, James N. Ihle, George R. Stark & lan M. Kerr
doi:10.1038/366129a0
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| | Structure of the radio remnant of supernova 1987A 136
L. Staveley-Smith, D. S. Briggs, A. C. H. Rowe, R. N. Manchester, J. E. Reynolds, A. K. Tzioumis & M. J. Kesteven
doi:10.1038/366136a0
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| | Highly anisotropic light emission from laser breakdown of
microparticles in water 138
Masato Nakamura, Takehiko Kitamori & Tsuguo Sawada
doi:10.1038/366138a0
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| | Building one- and two-dimensional nanostructures by
diffusion-controlled aggregation at surfaces 141
Holger Röder, Elmar Hahn, Harald Brune, Jean-Pierre Bucher & Klaus Kern
doi:10.1038/366141a0
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| | Atomic-resolution chemical analysis using a scanning transmission electron microscope 143
N. D. Browning, M. F. Chisholm & S. J. Pennycook
doi:10.1038/366143a0
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| | Timing of the Younger Dryas event in East Africa from
lake-level changes 146
Nell Roberts, Maurice Taieb, Philip Barker, Brahlm Damnati, Michel Icole & David Williamson
doi:10.1038/366146a0
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| | Very high rates of bedload
sediment transport
by ephemeral desert rivers 148
Jonathan B. Laronne & lan Reid
doi:10.1038/366148a0
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| | Trade-offs among dispersal strategies in British plants 150
Mark Rees
doi:10.1038/366150a0
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| | Episodic multiregional cortical coherence at multiple frequencies during
visual task performance 153
Steven L. Bressler, Richard Coppola & Richard Nakamura
doi:10.1038/366153a0
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| | Different types of calcium channels mediate central synaptic transmission 156
Tomoyuki Takahashi & Akiko Momiyama
doi:10.1038/366156a0
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| | Molecular determinants of Ca2+ selectivity and ion
permeation in L-type Ca2+ channels 158
Jian Yang, Patrick T. Elllnor, William A. Sather, JI-Fang Zhang & Richard W. Tsien
doi:10.1038/366158a0
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HY4 gene of A. thaliana encodes a protein with characteristics of a blue-light photoreceptor 162
Margaret Ahmad & Anthony R. Cashmore
doi:10.1038/366162a0
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| | Complementation by the protein tyrosine kinase JAK2 of a mutant cell
line defective in the interferon-& gamma; signal transduction pathway 166
Diane Watling, Dmitry Guschin, Mathias Müller, Olli Silvennoinen, Bruce A. Witthuhn, Frederick W. Quelle, Neil C. Rogers, Chris Schindler, George R. Stark, James N. Ihle & lan M. Kerr
doi:10.1038/366166a0
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| | BRG1 contains a conserved domain of the SWI2/SNF2 family necessary for normal mitotic growth and transcription 170
Paul A. Khavari, Craig L. Peterson, John W. Tamkun, Dirk B. Mendel & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/366170a0
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| | Transposition of group II intron al1 in yeast and invasion of mitochondrial genes at new locations 174
Manfred W. Mueller, Martina Allmaier, Robert Eskes & Rudolf J. Schweyen
doi:10.1038/366174a0
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| | Transposition of a group II intron 176
Carole H. Sellem, Ga& euml;l Lecellier & L& eacute;on Belcour
doi:10.1038/366176a0
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| | Tandem binding in crystals of a trp represser/operator half-site complex 178
Catherine L. Lawson & Jannette Carey
doi:10.1038/366178a0
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doi:10.1038/366182a0
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| | New ideas for personal library maintenance software 183
Rapidly expanding personal libraries benefit greatly from bibliographic software; new programs try to take into account each researcher's individual needs.
Herwig Leirs & Luc De Bruyn
doi:10.1038/366183a0
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| | Bits and bytes 185
Event-recording software, a molecular modelling package, graphics toolkits, image processing and analysis packages, and a collection of high-tech hardware options are featured.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/366185a0
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