Volume 366 Issue 6454, 2 December 1993

Opinion

Clinton's horizon beyond the Pacific

Last week's folksy gathering off Seattle should not be mistaken for the country fair it has been represented as. Clinton's immediate goals (and success) notwithstanding, it marks the beginning of an historic process.

Opinion 02 Dec 1993

Advertisement
Tea-leaves tell nothing

The Council for Science and Technology is not likely to meet the needs of the British science community.

Opinion 02 Dec 1993
White House science

Reinventing science advisory apparatus in the White House should be good for science.

Opinion 02 Dec 1993

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News

UK clinical geneticists ask for ban on the patenting of human genes

David Dickson
News 02 Dec 1993
CERN head pushes claim for 'safe' reactor

Declan Butler
News 02 Dec 1993
EC pays up for Human Frontiers Program

Alison Abbott
News 02 Dec 1993
Clinton sets up science and technology council

Colin Macilwain
News 02 Dec 1993
Saxony rejects appeals court verdict

Alison Abbott
News 02 Dec 1993
Mathematics inspires office of the future

Fiona Gammie
News 02 Dec 1993
Catalonia wants greater control of institutes

Luis Angel Fernández Hermana
News 02 Dec 1993
Europe takes its science out to the people

Declan Butler
News 02 Dec 1993
Top US panel will map out fresh attack on AIDS

Colin Macilwain
News 02 Dec 1993
NSF chief urges support in selling science to the public

Colin Macilwain
News 02 Dec 1993
Science publishing in Russia 'on verge of catastrophe'

Vladimir Pokrovsky
News 02 Dec 1993
Brussels gives bigger role to European Science Foundation

Alison Abbott
News 02 Dec 1993
Taiwan beckons researchers back from US

David Swinbanks
News 02 Dec 1993
Synchrotron goes in search of users

D. S.
News 02 Dec 1993
Chinese institute appoints new director

You Qin Li
News 02 Dec 1993

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Correspondence

Effects on health of mustard gas

Alastair Hay
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Effects on health of mustard gas

David P. Rail
Constance M. Pechura
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Fidia and neuroscience

Karen Gale
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Fidia and neuroscience

Stefano Casalotti
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Fidia and neuroscience

Giorgio Bernardi
Giovani Biggio
Giancarlo Pepeu
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
No need to write

Mark Cantley
Correspondence 02 Dec 1993

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Commentary

Clash of the titans of space policy

What does the future hold for space research? Wrangles between groups of people with different interests must b resolved if a prescription is to be found.

Joan Johnson-Freese
George Moore
Commentary 02 Dec 1993

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News & Views

Social science and the new world order

The Fourth Indira Gandhi symposium last week may not have redefined the good society with precision, but it did succeed in showing that the path into the future is beset with contradictions to be resolved.

John Maddox
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Methuselah among nematodes

Linda Partridge
Paul H. Harvey
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Quantitative design of life

Jared M. Diamond
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Slaying the sacred cows

James Binney
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Trail of the mystery bands

Theodore P. Snow
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Severo Ochoa (1905–93)

Arthur Kornberg
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
The chimaeras speak again

Marc G. Caron
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Fits and starts

News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Top-down convection

Norman H. Sleep
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Ancient tropical methane

F. A. Street-Perron
News & Views 02 Dec 1993
Soularmass

David Jones
News & Views 02 Dec 1993

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Scientific Correspondence

Amino/aromatic interactions

John B. O. Mitchell
C. Lilian Nandi
Juswinder Singh
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
X-rays from a gamma-ray repeater?

B. A. Cooke
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Fatal attraction

Wenyuan Shi
David R. Zusman
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Dating hominid remains

Ofer Bar-Yosef
David Pilbeam
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Dating hominid remains

F. McDermott
C.J. Hawkesworth
C. B. Stringer
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Chemocline of the Black Sea

Daniel Repeta
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Chemocline of the Black Sea

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jan W. de Leeuw
Math E. L. Kohnen
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993
Quantitative PCR

Rudolf J. Wiesner
Bea Beinbrech
J. Caspar Rüegg
Scientific Correspondence 02 Dec 1993

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Book Review

Master of metabolic cycles

John T. Edsall
Book Review 02 Dec 1993
Time and time again

Felicity Mellor

Collection:

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
Book Review 02 Dec 1993
Tapping into water tables

Norman Myers
Book Review 02 Dec 1993
Branching out into computers

Book Review 02 Dec 1993
Fringe physics

Peter Holland
Book Review 02 Dec 1993

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Review Article

The human IgE network

B. J. Sutton
H. J. Gould
Review Article 02 Dec 1993

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Article

The baryon content of galaxy clusters: a challenge to cosmological orthodoxy

Simon D. M. White
Julio F. Navarro
Carlos S. Frenk

Collection:

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
Article 02 Dec 1993
Mode-switching of a voltage-gated cation channel is mediated by a protein kinase A-regulated tyrosine phosphatase

Gisela F. Wilson
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Article 02 Dec 1993

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Letter

Laboratory evidence for highly unsaturated hydrocarbons as carriers of some of the diffuse interstellar bands

J. Fulara
D. Lessen
J. P. Maier
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Contact electrification induced by monolayer modification of a surface and relation to acid–base interactions

R. G. Horn
D. T. Smith
A. Grabbe
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Synchronous changes in atmospheric CH4 and Greenland climate between 40 and 8 kyr BP

J. Chappellaz
T. Bluniert
B. Stauffert
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Marine barite as a monitor of seawater strontium isotope composition

A. Paytan
M. Kastner
T. Herbert
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Recovery of strain rate variation from inversion of subsidence data

Nicky White
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Electrical conductivity of the Earth's lower mantle

T. J. Shankland
J. Peyronneau
J.-P. Poirier
Letter 02 Dec 1993
A siderophore from a marine bacterium with an exceptional ferric ion affinity constant

Richard T. Reid
David H. Livet
Alison Butler
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Cod spawning on a migration highway in the north-west Atlantic

George A. Rose
Letter 02 Dec 1993
A C. elegans mutant that lives twice as long as wild type

Cynthia Kenyon
Jean Chang
Ramon Tabtiang
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Modulation of the cell cycle contributes to the parcellation of the primate visual cortex

Colette Dehay
Pascale Giroud
Henry Kennedy
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Neural basis of saccade target selection in frontal eye field during visual search

Jeffrey D. Schall
Doug P. Hanes
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Transgenic plants expressing a functional single-chain Fv antibody are specifically protected from virus attack

Paraskevi Tavladoraki
Eugenio Benvenuto
Patrizia Galeffi
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Heregulin induces tyrosine phosphorylation of HER4/p180^erbB4

Gregory D. Plowman
Janell M. Green
Sharon Buckley
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Functional ecdysone receptor is the product of EcR and Ultraspiracle genes

Tso-Pang Yao
Barry Marc Forman
Ronald M. Evans
Letter 02 Dec 1993
Chimaeric nicotinic–serotonergic receptor combines distinct ligand binding and channel specificities

Jean-Luc Eiselé
Sonia Bertrand
Daniel Bertrand
Letter 02 Dec 1993
The crystal structure of a two zinc-finger peptide reveals an extension to the rules for zinc-finger/DNA recognition

Louise Fairall
John W. R. Schwabe
Daniela Rhodes
Letter 02 Dec 1993

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Nature Genetics

Inhibition and over-reaction

Familial startle disease is among the oddest of disorders. The demonstration of a mutation in the inhibitory glycine receptor points towards a cause of this and similar perturbations.

Adrian J. Ivinson
Nature Genetics 02 Dec 1993

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Jobs In Computers

Taking a calculated opportunity

The natural familiarity of graduate science students with computers and software opens up new opportunities in areas both related to science and well away from it, in the financial world.

Douglas McCormick
Jobs In Computers 02 Dec 1993

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Guide to Authors

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Guide to Authors 02 Dec 1993

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