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| | End of the line for smallpox virus 711
An article on page 748 of this issue raises the question whether
remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be physically destroyed. That option,
chiefly symbolic, should not be followed — just yet.
doi:10.1038/366711a0
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| | Congress sees instability in Russia as threat to space station deal 712
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366712a0
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| | Canadian science gets Nobel gift 712
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/366712b0
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| | EU states back biotech patent reforms 713
David Dickson & Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366713a0
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| | Reprocessing plant gets green light 713
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/366713b0
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| | CERN seeks an extra $330 million for LHC 714
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366714a0
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| | Old AIDS news dressed up as new 714
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/366714b0
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| | Survey battle leads to plagiarism verdict 715
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366715a0
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| | AIDS, HIV and the Sunday Times
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Geoff Garnett & Roy Anderson
doi:10.1038/366716a0
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| | Calendar reform 716
Cesare Emiliani
doi:10.1038/366716b0
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| | Recipe for a good research laboratory 717
A Japanese laboratory illustrates the benefits of autonomy (and the responsibility that goes with it) and budgetary predictability in creating a framework for productive research.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/366717a0
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| | Zircon can take the heat 718
Joel D. Blum
doi:10.1038/366718a0
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| | Anchoring glycine receptors 719
Stanley C. Froehner
doi:10.1038/366719a0
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| | Brown fat and yellow mice 720
Jeffrey M. Friedman
doi:10.1038/366720a0
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| | The ultimate analysis 721
L. M. Brown
doi:10.1038/366721a0
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| | Missing mismatch repair 722
Miroslav Radman & Robert Wagner
doi:10.1038/366722a0
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| | Geolubrlcation 722
David Jones
doi:10.1038/366722b0
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| | Is NASA an expensive failure? 723
The debacle of the US space programme is the consequence of the insecure, publicity-seeking policies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Thomas Gold
doi:10.1038/366723a0
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| | Physics in brief 724
N. David Mermin reviews What Makes Nature Tick
? By
Roger
G. Newton
doi:10.1038/366724a0
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| | What a gas 724
doi:10.1038/366724b0
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| | Mapping sp2 and sp3 states of carbon at sub-nanometre
spatial resolution 725
David A. Muller, Yujiun Tzou, Rishi Raj & John Silcox
doi:10.1038/366725a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (399K)
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| | Simultaneous STEM imaging and electron energy-loss spectroscopy with
atomic-column sensitivity 727
P. E. Batson
doi:10.1038/366727a0
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| | Formation of C60 by pyrolysis of naphthalene 728
Roger Taylor, G. John Langley, Harold W. Kroto & David R. M. Walton
doi:10.1038/366728a0
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| | U−Pb ages of single shocked zircons linking distal K/T ejecta to the Chicxulub crater 731
Thomas E. Krogh, Sandra L. Kamo, Virgil L. Sharpton, Luis E. Marin & Alan R. Hildebrands
doi:10.1038/366731a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (497K)
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| | A model for disequilibrium mantle melting incorporating melt transport by porous and channel flows 734
Hikaru Iwamori
doi:10.1038/366734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (528K)
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| | Modelling territoriality and wolf−deer interactions 738
M. A. Lewis & J. D. Murray
doi:10.1038/366738a0
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| | Development of obesity in transgenic mice after genetic ablation of brown adipose tissue 740
Bradford B. Lowell, Vedrana S-Susulic, Andreas Hamann, Joel A. Lawitts, Jean Himms-Hagen, Bert B. Boyer, Leslie P. Kozak & Jeffrey S. Flier
doi:10.1038/366740a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (396K)
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| | A role for Fyn tyrosine kinase in the suckling behaviour of neonatal mice 742
Takeshi Yagi, Shinichi Aizawa, Tomoyuki Tokunaga, Yasuyo Shigetani, Naoki Takeda & Yoji Ikawa
doi:10.1038/366742a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (635K)
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| | Gephyrin antisense oligonucleotides prevent glycine receptor clustering in spinal neurons 745
J. Kirsch, I. Wolters, A. Triller & H. Betz
doi:10.1038/366745a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (525K)
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| | Potential virulence determinants in terminal regions of variola smallpox virus genome 748
Robert F. Massung, Joseph J. Esposito, Li-ing Liu, Jin Qi, Theresa R. Utterback, Janice C. Knight, Lisa Aubin, Thomas E. Yuran, Joseph M. Parsons, Vladimir N. Loparev, Nickolay A. Selivanov, Kathleen F. Cavallaro, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Brian W. J. Mahy & J. Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/366748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (471K)
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| | Crystal structure of porcine ribonuclease inhibitor, a protein with leucine-rich repeats 751
Bostjan Kobe & Johann Deisenhofer
doi:10.1038/366751a0
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| | A protein kinase homologue controls phosphorylation of ganciclovir in human cytomegalovirus-infected cells 756
V. Sullivan, C. L. Talarico, S. C. Stanat, M. Davis, D. M. Coen & K. K. Biron
doi:10.1038/366756a0
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