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A British newspaper, The Sunday Times, has so consistently misrepresented the role of HIV in the causation of AIDS that Nature plans to monitor its future treatment of this issue, if only to save readers the trouble of buying it.
doi:10.1038/366493a0
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| | Yeltsin loses scientists' support in swing to opponent Yavlinsky 495
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/366495a0
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| | NIH acts to reduce discrimination 495
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366495b0
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| | Funding problems loom for new German institutes 496
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366496a0
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| | Survey shows concern about biotechnology continues to grow 496
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366496b0
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| | Eastern Europe media accused of 'Ignoring science' 496
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366496c0
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| | Montagnier's AIDS report covers all angles 497
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366497a0
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| | Czech academics get temporary contracts 497
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366497b0
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| | US science education reforms 'still lack proper evaluation' 498
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/366498a0
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| | Genetics test report urges moratorium on disclosure 498
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/366498b0
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| | Royal Society calls for electronic archive 498
doi:10.1038/366498c0
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| | Heads of state to decide on EU research funds 499
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366499a0
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| | China learns cautionary tale from Mongolian 'fossils' 499
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/366499b0
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| | Taiwan to boost biomedical research 500
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366500a0
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| | Chemist tipped for top academy post 500
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366500b0
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| | WHO plans guidelines for genetics research 500
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366500c0
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| | UK protects science base, but cuts overall spending 501
doi:10.1038/366501a0
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| | Fermat's theorem proves elusive to the last 501
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/366501b0
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| | Polish Academy defends itself 502
Leszek Ku
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doi:10.1038/366502a0
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| | Testing for Alzheimer's 502
James Scott
doi:10.1038/366502b0
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| | Canopy network 502
Nalini M. Nadkarni & Geoffrey Parker
doi:10.1038/366502c0
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| | Modest proposal 502
Charles W. McCutchen
doi:10.1038/366502d0
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| | Science and religion (contd) 503
Ian Goldby
doi:10.1038/366503a0
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Colin A. Russell
doi:10.1038/366503b0
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| | Science and religion (contd) 503
Denis R. Alexander
doi:10.1038/366503c0
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| | Science and religion (contd) 503
Thomas P. Scott
doi:10.1038/366503d0
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| | Science and religion (contd) 503
John Noble
doi:10.1038/366503e0
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| | Electronic publishing 504
Dennis F. Shaw
doi:10.1038/366504a0
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| | Military students 504
Peter Cobbold
doi:10.1038/366504b0
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| | Mathematics yes, physics no 504
David Penny
doi:10.1038/366504c0
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| | Negative impact 504
L. R. Murmu
doi:10.1038/366504d0
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| | A dose of molecular medicine 505
Participants at Nature's conference "From DNA to Drugs" in Amsterdam (2−3 December) found that applying molecular biology to medical problems combines daunting challenges with revolutionary possibilities.
Nicholas Short
doi:10.1038/366505a0
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| | Replicator renaissance 506
Bruce Stillman
doi:10.1038/366506a0
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| | Two cores are better than one 507
G. S. Boulton
doi:10.1038/366507a0
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| | Debugging tomatoes 508
Robert Shields & Rebecca Stratford
doi:10.1038/366508a0
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| | OBITUARY: A. E. (Ted) Ringwood (1930−93) 509
David Green
doi:10.1038/366509a0
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doi:10.1038/366510a0
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| | The binding issue 510
D. Colquhoun & M. Farrant
doi:10.1038/366510b0
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| | Extinctions at the antipodes 511
Kirk R. Johnson
doi:10.1038/366511a0
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Gustavo E. Scuseria
doi:10.1038/366512a0
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| | Less cause for grave concern 513
Bryan Sykes
doi:10.1038/366513a0
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| | Ruthenium route to reaction 514
Alan S. Goldman
doi:10.1038/366514a0
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| | For richer, for poorer 515
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/366515a0
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| | The mutable carbon sink 515
John Taylor
doi:10.1038/366515b0
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| | Spiritual journey 516
David Jones
doi:10.1038/366516a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Atavistic reaction centre 517
William J. Coleman & Douglas C. Youvan
doi:10.1038/366517a0
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| | Naming names 518
Mark Norell, James Clark & Luis Chiappe
doi:10.1038/366518a0
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| | Naming names 518
Colin Patterson
doi:10.1038/366518b0
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| | Smart collagen in sea lilies 519
Iain C. Wilkie, Roland H. Emson & Craig M. Young
doi:10.1038/366519a0
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| | Music and spatial task performance 520
John C. McLachlan
doi:10.1038/366520a0
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| | Risks of alternative mating tactics 520
Kenneth E. Clifton & D. Ross Robertson
doi:10.1038/366520b0
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| | Using artistic licence 521
Ian McClure reviews Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal
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James Beck & Michael Daley
doi:10.1038/366521a0
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| | History is also about maps 522
D. H. Maling reviews Flattening the Earth
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John P. Snyder
doi:10.1038/366522a0
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| | Dawning of agriculture 523
Jared M. Diamond reviews Domestication of Plants in the Old World
Second Edition. By
Daniel Zohary & Maria Hopf
doi:10.1038/366523a0
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| | The technological rainbow 524
Daniel S. Greenberg reviews Empowering Technology: Implementing a US Strategy
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Lewis M. Branscomb
doi:10.1038/366524a0
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| | Human basophil degranulation is not triggered by very dilute antiserum against human IgE 525
S. J. Hirst, N. A. Hayes, J. Burridge, F. L. Pearce & J. C. Foreman
doi:10.1038/366525a0
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| | GUIDE TO AUTHORS 528
doi:10.1038/366528a0
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| | Efficient catalytic addition of aromatic carbon-hydrogen bonds to olefins 529
Shinji Murai, Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, Shinya Sekine, Yasuo Tanaka, Asayuki Kamatani, Motohiro Sonoda & Naoto Chatani
doi:10.1038/366529a0
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| | Eukaryotic activators function during multiple steps of preinitiation complex assembly 531
Bob Choy & Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/366531a0
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| | Crystal structure of a bacterial non-haem iron hydroxylase that
catalyses the biological oxidation of methane 537
Amy C. Rosenzweig, Christin A. Frederick, Stephen J. Lippard & P&
auml;r Nordlund
doi:10.1038/366537a0
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| | Large-scale solar-wind structure near the Sun detected by Doppler
scintillation 543
Richard Woo & Paul Gazis
doi:10.1038/366543a0
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| | Sequence segregation in molten liquid-crystalline random
copolymers 546
S. Hanna, A. Romo-Uribe & A. H. Windle
doi:10.1038/366546a0
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| | Electrical conductivity measurements from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland
ice cores 549
K. C. Taylor, C. U. Hammer, R. B. Alley, H. B. Clausen, D. Dahl-Jensen, A. J. Gow, N. S. Gundestrup, J. Kipfstuh, J. C. Moore & E. D. Waddington
doi:10.1038/366549a0
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| | Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland
ice cores 552
P. M. Grootes, M. Stuiver, J. W. C. White, S. Johnsen & J. Jouzel
doi:10.1038/366552a0
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| | Endogenous growth of persistently active volcanoes 554
Peter Francis, Clive Oppenheimer & David Stevenson
doi:10.1038/366554a0
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| | Deep seismic reflection evidence for continental underthrusting
beneath southern Tibet 557
Wenjin Zhao, K. D. Nelson, J. Che, J. Quo, D. Lu, C. Wu & X. Liu
doi:10.1038/366557a0
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| | Localized hedgehog activity controls spatial limits of
wingless transcription in the Drosophila embryo 560
P. W. Ingham
doi:10.1038/366560a0
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| | Neuronal growth cone collapse and inhibition of protein fatty acylation by nitric oxide 562
Douglas T. Hess, Sean I. Patterson, Deanna S. Smith & J. H. Pate Skene
doi:10.1038/366562a0
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| | GABAA receptor needs two homologous domains of the &
beta;-subunit for activation by GABA but not by pentobarbital 565
Jahanshah Amin & David S. Weiss
doi:10.1038/366565a0
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| | The probability of transmitter release at a mammalian central synapse 569
Neal A. Hessler, Aneil M. Shirke & Roberto Malinow
doi:10.1038/366569a0
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| | Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein required for ATP-dependent priming of Ca2+-activated secretion 572
Jesse C. Hay & Thomas F. J. Martin
doi:10.1038/366572a0
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| | Cloning and characterization of an extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor from bovine parathyroid 575
Edward M. Brown, Gerardo Gamba, Daniela Riccardi, Michael Lombardi, Robert Butters, Olga Kifor, Adam Sun, Matthias A. Hediger, Jonathan Lytton & Steven C. Hebert
doi:10.1038/366575a0
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| | Polypeptide signalling to the nucleus through tyrosine phosphorylation
of Jak and Stat proteins 580
Ke Shuai, Andrew Ziemiecki, Andrew F. Wilks, Ailsa G. Harpur, Henry B. Sadowski, Michael Z. Gilman & James E. Darnell
doi:10.1038/366580a0
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| | Interferon-induced nuclear signalling by Jak protein tyrosine kinases 583
Olli Silvennoinen, James N. Ihle, Joseph Schlessinger & David E. Levy
doi:10.1038/366583a0
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| | Characterization of proteins that interact with the cell-cycle regulatory protein Ran/TC4 585
Elias Coutavas, Mindong Ren, Joel D. Oppenheim, Peter D'Eustachio & Mark G. Rush
doi:10.1038/366585a0
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| | Replication structure of the human & beta;-globin gene
domain 588
D. Kitsberg, S. Selig, I. Keshet & H. Cedar
doi:10.1038/366588a0
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| | A morphological biosensor for mammalian cells 591
An electrical biosensor is described that can continuously track morphological changes of adherent cells providing quantitative data from both sparse and confluent cultures. The method is capable of detecting vertical motion of cells of the order of 1 nm, much below the resolution of an optical microscope.
Ivar Giaever & Charles R. Keese
doi:10.1038/366591a0
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| | News you can use 593
New products for the cell biologist worth noting this week include a
nonradioactive method for detecting cell culture contamination, a medium for the
production and maintenance of B-cell hybridomas and a high-pressure
homogenizer.
D. Kitsberg, S. Selig, I. Keshet & H. Cedar
doi:10.1038/366593a0
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