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| | US−Japan trade talks in trouble 581
The Clinton administration is talking tough on the US trade imbalance with Japan, but should use existing multilateral mechanisms for solving trade disputes if it does not want an historical upheaval in the Far East.
doi:10.1038/367581a0
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| | Dust settles on SSC 582
High-energy physics in the United States did not come to an end with the cancellation of the SSC last year.
doi:10.1038/367582a0
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| | Scared of milk 582
The US Food and Drug Administration warns milk producers that the label "hormone-free" may be illegal.
doi:10.1038/367582b0
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| | News | |
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| | US and British researchers agree not to seek gene fragment patents 583
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/367583a0
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| | Funding cuts favour industry links 583
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367583b0
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| | Japan faces new questions on HIV in blood... 584
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/367584a0
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| | ...as German executives are charged 584
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367584b0
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| | ...and Le Monde points a finger at the US 584
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367584c0
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| | Spectre of AIDS haunts reports of sick cows 585
Julie Clayton
doi:10.1038/367585a0
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| | BST enters battle for consumers 585
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/367585b0
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| | Ireland appoints group to draft science white paper 586
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367586a0
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| | Parliament seeks further changes in EU Framework 586
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367586b0
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| | Immunologist takes AIDS hot-seat at NIH 587
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367587a0
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| | France warned of laboratory 'spies' 587
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367587b0
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| | Hungary to rationalize its university system 588
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367588a0
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| | Russian newspaper yields to the lure of pseudoscience 588
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/367588b0
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| | Charities win and lose on hospital mergers 589
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/367589a0
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| | Accounting rules meet with relief 589
doi:10.1038/367589b0
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| | China and Taiwan build science links 589
David Swinbanks & You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/367589c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Impediments to Italian science 590
Fernando Aiuti
doi:10.1038/367590a0
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| | Impediments to Italian science 590
Renato Bruni & Rosario Leopardi
doi:10.1038/367590b0
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| | Warm brown fat 590
Jack A. Kornblatt & M. J. Kornblatt
doi:10.1038/367590c0
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Nature, nurture and psychodarwinism 591
Christopher Badcock
doi:10.1038/367591a0
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Nature, nurture and psychodarwinism 591
Thomas Vorup Jensen
doi:10.1038/367591b0
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Nature, nurture and psychodarwinism 591
J. A. Gray
doi:10.1038/367591c0
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| | Helping Russia 591
Natalia Engelhardt
doi:10.1038/367591d0
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| | A fresh start for European science 592
Instead of becoming embroiled in bureaucracy and the misplaced support of 'network' projects, the European Commission could provide an exciting, long-term science policy.
I. Barry Holland
doi:10.1038/367592a0
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| | How to make taxol from scratch 593
Devising a total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug taxol has engaged the attention of chemists for more than 20 years. But their ingenuity — and perseverance — has been rewarded.
Susan Band Horwitz
doi:10.1038/367593a0
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| | Steps to a successful synthesis 594
John Mann
doi:10.1038/367594a0
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| | Replacing the solar flare myth 595
Nancy Crooker
doi:10.1038/367595a0
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| | Star of the small screen 596
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/367596a0
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| | No crossing at the crossing 597
R. W. Guillery
doi:10.1038/367597a0
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| | Parsimonious polyhedra 598
Jeremy Gray
doi:10.1038/367598a0
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| | On the beaten pathway 599
Bernhard Dobberstein
doi:10.1038/367599a0
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| | Deep insight 600
David Jones
doi:10.1038/367600a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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Allomyces in the Devonian 601
T. N. Taylor, W. Remy & H. Hass
doi:10.1038/367601a0
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| | Fast pulsations in Wolf−Rayet stars 601
Peter Martinez, Don Kurtz, Richard Ashley & Peter Tripe
doi:10.1038/367601b0
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| | More on tea scum 602
Jacinta Enzweiler & Marcelo G. de Oliveira
doi:10.1038/367602a0
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| | Closing Pandora's box 603
Laurence Martin reviews A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Desirable? Feasible?
Edited by
Joseph Rotblat, Jack Steinberger & Bhalchandra Udgaonkar
doi:10.1038/367603a0
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| | It's a gas 604
David Archer reviews Methanogenesis: Ecology, Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics
Edited by
James G. Ferry
doi:10.1038/367604a0
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| | Episode of human evolution 605
Ian Tattersall reviews The Origin of Modern Humans.
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Roger Lewin
doi:10.1038/367605a0
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| | Ghost in the machine 606
Harry Collins reviews The Fourth Discontinuity: The Coevolution of Humans and Machines
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Bruce Mazlish
doi:10.1038/367606a0
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| | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of general anaesthesia 607
N. P. Franks & W. R. Lieb
doi:10.1038/367607a0
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| | Atomic model of plant light-harvesting complex by electron crystallography 614
Werner Kühlbrandt, Da Neng Wang & Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
doi:10.1038/367614a0
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| | Detection of soft X-rays from supernova 1993J six days after outburst 621
H.-U. Zimmermann, W. Lewin, P. Predehl, B. Aschenbach, G. Fabbiano, G. Hasinger, L. Lubin, E. Magnier, J. van Paradijs, R. Petre, W. Pietsch & J. Trümper
doi:10.1038/367621a0
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| | The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records 624
P. Brown, Z. Ceplecha, R. L. Hawkes, G. Wetherill, M. Beech & K. Mossman
doi:10.1038/367624a0
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| | Path detection and the uncertainty principle 626
Pippa Storey, Sze Tan, Matthew Collett & Daniel Walls
doi:10.1038/367626a0
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| | Formation of carbon films on carbides under hydrothermal conditions 628
Yu. G. Gogotsi & M. Yoshimura
doi:10.1038/367628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (376K)
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| | Total synthesis of taxol 630
K. C. Nicolaou, Z. Yang, J. J. Liu, H. Ueno, P. G. Nantermet, R. K. Guy, C. F. Claiborne, J. Renaud, E. A. Couladouros, K. Paulvannan & E. J. Sorensen
doi:10.1038/367630a0
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| | Model assessment of the role of natural variability in recent global warming 634
R. J. Stouffer, S. Manabe & K. Ya. Vinnikov
doi:10.1038/367634a0
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| | Target recognition and visual maps in the thalamus of achiasmatic dogs 637
Robert W. Williams, Dale Hogan & Preston E. Garraghty
doi:10.1038/367637a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (476K)
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| | Rhodopsin mutation G90D and a molecular mechanism for congenital night blindness 639
Vikram R. Rao, George B. Cohen & Daniel D. Oprian
doi:10.1038/367639a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (421K)
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| | Cloning of a pH-sensitive K+ channel possessing two transmembrane segments 642
Makoto Suzuki, Keiko Takahashi, Masato Ikeda, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Aiichirou Ogawa, Yoshindo Kawaguchi & Osamu Sakai
doi:10.1038/367642a0
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| | A cell initiating human acute myeloid leukaemia after transplantation into SCID mice 645
Tsvee Lapidot, Christian Sirard, Josef Vormoor, Barbara Murdoch, Trang Hoang, Julio Caceres-Cortes, Mark Minden, Bruce Paterson, Michael A. Caligiuri & John E. Dick
doi:10.1038/367645a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (566K)
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| | Selectivity of MHC-encoded peptide transporters from human, mouse and rat 648
Frank Momburg, Joost Roelse, Jonathan C. Howard, Geoffrey W. Butcher, Günter J. Hämmerling & Jacques J. Neefjes
doi:10.1038/367648a0
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| | Control of MAP kinase activation by the mitogen-induced threonine/tyrosine phosphatase PAC1 651
Yvona Ward, Shashi Gupta, Peter Jensen, Markus Wartmann, Roger J. Davis & Kathleen Kelly
doi:10.1038/367651a0
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| | Evolutionary conservation of components of the protein translocation complex 654
Enno Hartmann, Thomas Sommer, Siegfried Prehn, Dirk Görlich, Stefan Jentsch & Tom A. Rapoport
doi:10.1038/367654a0
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| | Interaction of E. coli Ffh/4.5S ribonucleoprotein and FtsY mimics that of mammalian signal recognition particle and its receptor 657
Joshua D. Miller, Harris D. Bernstein & Peter Walter
doi:10.1038/367657a0
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| | Measurement of the  -sheet-forming propensities of amino acids 660
Daniel L. Minor Jr & Peter S. Kim
doi:10.1038/367660a0
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doi:10.1038/367663a0
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| | Separation protocols 664
This week's line-up includes a blood cell agglutination reagent, a kit for isolating immunoglobulin from egg yolk, a capillary electrophoresis system and a gas chromatography system that provides qualitative structural information.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/367664a0
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