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| | Britain's very own Brundtland strategy 395
Good intentions on sustainable development have plainly captivated
the British government's heart, but its now published strategy should not be
mistaken as a basis for public policy.
doi:10.1038/367395a0
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| | Hearing for basic science 396
US leaders of all disciplines have met to ponder the importance of
fundamental science.
doi:10.1038/367396a0
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| | Clinton administration blows cool on US involvement in Europe's LHC 397
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367397a0
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| | Academy hotel deal reaps hidden rewards 397
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/367397b0
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| | Italians demand a radical reform of grant evaluation 398
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367398a0
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| | Ariane still riding high despite launch failure 398
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367398b0
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| | Gene therapy gets double dose of screening 399
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/367399a0
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| | Nuclear relics are finally junked 399
doi:10.1038/367399b0
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| | US abandons planned AIDS vaccine trial 399
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367399c0
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| | US ecological survey runs political gauntlet 400
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/367400a0
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| | Audit confirms big is not always beautiful 400
doi:10.1038/367400b0
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| | Boston cardiologist faces charges of embezzlement 401
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/367401a0
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| | Conflict-of-interest debate stirs mixed reaction at NIH 401
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367401b0
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| | Glaxo goes back to basics in bid to meet new goals 402
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/367402a0
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| | Weak evidence for human link to BSE infected meat 402
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/367402b0
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| | Charges fly over rival leprosy vaccines 403
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/367403a0
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| | South Korea launches Biotech-2000 403
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/367403b0
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| | Women's health and diet 404
Ross Prentice, Maureen Henderson, Curt Furberg & Lewis Kuller
doi:10.1038/367404a0
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| | Women's health and diet 404
J. H. P. Jonxis
doi:10.1038/367404b0
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| | More global treaties 405
Nazli Choucri, Jan Sundgren & Peter M. Haas
doi:10.1038/367405a0
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| | Adrenocentenary 405
B. D. Gomperts
doi:10.1038/367405b0
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| | HIV and AIDS 405
David Aikman
doi:10.1038/367405c0
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| | Benefits from SAX 406
L. Scarsi
doi:10.1038/367406a0
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| | Benefits from SAX 406
J. Trumper
doi:10.1038/367406b0
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| | 'Wrong' ideas 406
Vladimir Koliadin
doi:10.1038/367406c0
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| | A new forerunner for continental drift 407
Abraham Ortelius suggested the basic elements of the continental
drift theory in 1596, thus antedating by more than 150 years other writers
credited with early fomulations of the theory.
James Romm
doi:10.1038/367407a0
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| | Origin of life by careful reading 409
A small meeting last week on the origin of life pinned down some
important questions and showed how many more remain unanswered; a more
systematic search of the literature for clues would help.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/367409a0
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| | Is pairing the rule? 410
Michael Akam
doi:10.1038/367410a0
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| | Bursts of controversy 411
Bradley E. Schaefer
doi:10.1038/367411a0
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| | Trinity of cation channels 412
Thomas J. Jentsch
doi:10.1038/367412a0
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| | An unstable superconveyor 414
Wallace S. Broecker
doi:10.1038/367414a0
References | PDF (350K)
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| | A particular mystery 414
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/367414b0
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| | Sodium springs a surprise 415
Edwin C. Constable
doi:10.1038/367415a0
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| | Warning twinges 416
David Jones
doi:10.1038/367416a0
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| | Mismatch repair and cancer 417
Fabio Palombo, Melya Hughes, Josef Jiricny, Oanh Truong & Justin Hsuan
doi:10.1038/367417a0
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| | Ecological chaos 418
Ricard V. Solé & Jordi Bascompte
doi:10.1038/367418a0
References | PDF (148K)
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| | Ecological chaos 418
Lewi Stone
doi:10.1038/367418b0
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| | C02 and glacial cycles 419
Barry Saltzman & Mikhail Verbitsky
doi:10.1038/367419a0
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| | Urothelial carcinogenesis 419
Alban J. Linnenbach, Shira L. Robbins, Beth A. Seng, John E. Tomaszewski, Lee B. Pressler & S. Bruce Malkowicz
doi:10.1038/367419b0
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| | Unknown agent 421
Eric Hall reviews Childhood Cancer and Nuclear Installations
Edited
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Valerie Beral, Eve Roman & Martin Bobrow
doi:10.1038/367421a0
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| | Was Crookes a crook? 422
William Brock reviews The Sorcerer of Kings: The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and
William Crookes
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Gordon Stein
doi:10.1038/367422a0
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| | Observational cosmologist 423
Donald E. Osterbrock reviews Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe
By
Alexander S. Sharov & Igor D. Novikov
doi:10.1038/367423a0
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| | Healthy antidote 424
Harold Morowitz reviews Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science
By
Alan Cromer
doi:10.1038/367424a0
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| | History of Rocketry and Astronautic 424
doi:10.1038/367424b0
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| | Progress | |
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| | How B and T cells talk to each other 425
Edward A. Clark & Jeffrey A. Ledbetter
doi:10.1038/367425a0
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| | Pair-rule expression patterns of even-skipped are found in both
short- and long-germ beetles 429
Nipam H. Patel, Barry G. Condron & Kai Zinn
doi:10.1038/367429a0
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| | Mechanism of a morphology transition in ramified electrochemical
growth 435
V. Fleury, J. H. Kaufman & D. B. Hibbert
doi:10.1038/367435a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (684K)
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| | Formation of a mesh-like electrodeposit induced by electroconvection 438
Mu Wang, Willem J. P. van Enckevort, Nai-ben Ming & Piet Bennema
doi:10.1038/367438a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (570K)
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| | Self-assembly of a double-helical complex of sodium 441
Thomas W. Bell & Hélène Jousselin
doi:10.1038/367441a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (391K)
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| | Reassessing the dependence of cloud condensation nucleus concentration on
formation rate 445
Andrew S. Ackerman, Owen B. Toon & Peter V. Hobbs
doi:10.1038/367445a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (358K)
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| | Rapid interglacial climate fluctuations driven by North Atlantic ocean
circulation 447
Andrew J. Weaver & Tertia M. C. Hughes
doi:10.1038/367447a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (452K)
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| | The instability of a vaporization front in hot porous rock 450
Shaun D. Fitzgerald & Andrew W. Woods
doi:10.1038/367450a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (570K)
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| | Replacement of the natural Wolbachia symbiont of Drosophila
simulans with a mosquito counterpart 453
Henk R. Braig, Hilda Guzman, Robert B. Tesh & Scott L. O'Neill
doi:10.1038/367453a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (404K)
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| | Inactivation of the N-CAM gene in mice results in size reduction of the
olfactory bulb and deficits in spatial learning 455
Harold Cremer, Rita Lange, Annette Christoph, Markus Plomann, Gaby Vopper, Jürgen Roes, Russell Brown, Stanley Baldwin, Philipp Kraemer, Stephen Scheff, Dagmar Barthels, Klaus Rajewsky & Wolfgang Wille
doi:10.1038/367455a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (716K)
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| | Conservation of wingless patterning functions in the short-germ embryos of Tribolium castaneum
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Lisa M. Nagy & Sean Carroll
doi:10.1038/367460a0
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| | Amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na+ channel is made of three
homologous subunits 463
Cecilia M. Canessa, Laurent Schild, Gary Buell, Bernard Thorens, Ivan Gautschi, Jean-Daniel Horisberger & Bernard C. Rossier
doi:10.1038/367463a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (601K)
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| | Gene interactions affecting mechanosensory transduction in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Mingxia Huang & Martin Chalfie
doi:10.1038/367467a0
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| | A transmembrane domain of the putative channel subunit MEC-4 influences
mechanotransduction and neurodegeneration in C. elegans
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Kyonsoo Hong & Monica Driscoll
doi:10.1038/367470a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (586K)
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| | Regulation of chemotaxis by the platelet-derived growth factor
receptor- 474
Vikas Kundra, Jaime A. Escobedo, Andrius Kazlauskas, Ha Kun Kim, Sue Goo Rhee, Lewis T. Williams & Bruce R. Zetter
doi:10.1038/367474a0
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| | Modulation of gene expression by calreticulin binding to the
glucocorticoid receptor 476
Kimberly Burns, Brenda Duggan, Eric A. Atkinson, Konrad S. Famulski, Mona Nemer, R. Chris Bleackley & Marek Michalak
doi:10.1038/367476a0
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| | Inhibition of nuclear hormone receptor activity by calreticulin 480
Shoukat Dedhar, Paul S. Rennie, Mary Shago, Chung-Yee Leung Hagesteijn, Huiling Yang, Jorge Filmus, Robert G. Hawley, Nicholas Bruchovsky, Helen Cheng, Robert J. Matusik & Vincent Giguère
doi:10.1038/367480a0
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| | Molecular cloning of Drosophila TFIID subunits 484
Tetsuro Kokubo, Da-Wei Gong, John C. Wootton, Masami Horikoshi, Robert G. Roeder & Yoshihiro Nakatani
doi:10.1038/367484a0
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| | The art of intercalation 488
The biological relevance of the i-motif comes under examination with
the structural characterization of oligonucleotides formed of repeats of the
human telomeric C-strand sequence d(CCCTAA)n.
Guy Riddihough
doi:10.1038/367488a0
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| | Product Reviews | |
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| | The Reference Library System — sharing biological material and
experimental data 489
Cosmid, yeast artificial chromosome (YAC), P1 and complementary DNA (cDNA) libraries are distributed on high-density filters to the scientific community and experimental results are stored in a common object-based database
accessible through the Internet.
Günther Zehetner & Hans Lehrach
doi:10.1038/367489a0
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| | Biotech briefs 491
Sequence similarity search software and hardware, a new program for chemists working with peptides, peptidomimetics and proteins, and instrumentation for synthesis and sequencing — new product news for molecular biologists.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/367491a0
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