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| | What future for postwar Bosnia? 673
It is not too soon for the rest of Europe to begin preparing for the aftermath of the tragic warfare in ex-Yugoslavia; on the contrary, doing nothing now is a recipe for permanent calamity.
doi:10.1038/368673a0
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| | Instant legislation 673
A British Cabinet minister has been helping to highjack legislation for populist purposes.
doi:10.1038/368673b0
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| | How to lose confidence 674
The scandal over fraudulent data in a breast-cancer study undermines trust in the research establishment.
doi:10.1038/368674a0
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| | News | |
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| | France backs down on radical reform after resistance from researchers 675
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/368675a0
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| | Genome research consortium backed 675
doi:10.1038/368675b0
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| | Land feud holds up work on ESO's telescope in Chile 676
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/368676a0
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| | UK parliament passes surprise ban on fetal embryos in IVF 676
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/368676b0
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| | Biologists out of Africa over rhino dispute 677
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/368677a0
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| | US and China resume talks on cooperation 677
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/368677b0
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| | Hand-telephones face US radiotelescope ban 678
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/368678a0
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| | CERN seeks firm commitment to LHC 678
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/368678b0
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| | Cancer institute to tighten control of trials 679
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/368679a0
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| | BASF opens biotech laboratory in the US 679
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/368679b0
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| | Haemophiliacs seek charges in AIDS scandal 680
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/368680a0
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| | Physicists' group split on Stasi case 680
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/368680b0
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| | Shake-up urged for UK public research labs 681
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/368681a0
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| | Jobs to go as the private sector moves in 681
doi:10.1038/368681b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Science versus anti-science 682
D. A. A. Fagandini
doi:10.1038/368682a0
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| | Science versus anti-science 682
Werner Sieber
doi:10.1038/368682b0
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| | Science versus anti-science 682
Forrest M. Mims III
doi:10.1038/368682c0
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| | Science versus anti-science 682
Peter Vibert
doi:10.1038/368682d0
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| | Science versus anti-science 682
Frank W. Cousins
doi:10.1038/368682e0
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| | Mystery of the poisoned expedition 683
The Burke and Wills expedition through the interior of Australia in the nineteenth century ended in calamity. But the cause of death was more pernicious than anyone at the time had imagined: beriberi due to thiaminase poisoning.
John W. Earl & Barry V. McCleary
doi:10.1038/368683a0
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| | Triplet repeat genes raise questions 685
The novel mechanism for genetic mutation in Huntington's disease offers no comfort for neo-Lamarckians, but raises many other questions likely to prove difficult as well as intriguing.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/368685a0
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| | Diversity begets productivity 686
Peter Kareiva
doi:10.1038/368686a0
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| | Celestial body-building 687
Paul Weissman
doi:10.1038/368687a0
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| | Nanostructure by nucleation 688
A. Lindsay Greer
doi:10.1038/368688a0
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| | Curling in the heat 689
David A. King
doi:10.1038/368689a0
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| | The eye in a twinkling 690
Richard Dawkins
doi:10.1038/368690a0
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| | Fragments of history preserved 691
Alan E. Rubin
doi:10.1038/368691a0
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| | Reflections on a peptide 692
Leo Brady & Guy Dodson
doi:10.1038/368692a0
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| | A matter of life and breath 693
Paul M. Vanhoutte
doi:10.1038/368693a0
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| | Hidden motives 694
David Jones
doi:10.1038/368694a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Iron at the Galactic Centre 695
N. C. Wickramasinghe & H. Okuda
doi:10.1038/368695a0
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| | GelatinaseA and APP 695
Kaoru Miyazaki, Kayano Funahashi, Makoto Umeda & Atsuhisa Nakano
doi:10.1038/368695b0
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| | Insect homeotic transformation 696
Michael F. Whiting & Ward C. Wheeler
doi:10.1038/368696a0
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| | Radiation and coral bleaching 697
Richard P. Dunne
doi:10.1038/368697a0
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| | Radiation and coral bleaching 697
Daniel F. Gleason & Gerard M. Wellington
doi:10.1038/368697b0
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| | Longest read? 697
Guy Hewlett
doi:10.1038/368697c0
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| | Earth occultation or coded mask? 698
Bertrand Cordier, Jacques Paul, Pierre Mandrou & Jean-Pierre Roques
doi:10.1038/368698a0
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| | Earth occultation or coded mask? 698
Shuang-Nan Zhang, Gerald J. Fishman, B. Alan Harmon & William S. Paciesas
doi:10.1038/368698b0
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| | Writing up the past 699
John Cairns reviews The Strands of Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education
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Robert L. Sinsheimer
doi:10.1038/368699a0
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| | A Smoke on the porch 700
doi:10.1038/368700a0
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| | Global supermetaphors 700
David Edge reviews Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism.
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Gregory Stock
doi:10.1038/368700b0
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| | Darwin here, there and everywhere 701
Nicholas Mackintosh reviews The Nature of Knowledge: Concerning Adaptations, Instinct and the Evolution of Intelligence.
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Henry Plotkin
doi:10.1038/368701a0
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doi:10.1038/368701b0
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| | Models and molecules 702
Barbara Baird reviews Receptors: Models for Binding, Trafficking and Signalling
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Douglas A. Lauf-fenburger & Jennifer J. Linderman
doi:10.1038/368702a0
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| | Elevated blood pressure and craniofaclal abnormalities in mice deficient in endothelin-1 703
Yukiko Kurihara, Hiroki Kurihara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Koji Maemura, Ryozo Nagai, Hideaki Oda, Tomoyuki Kuwaki, Wei-Hua Cao, Nobuo Kamada, Kouichi Jishage, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Sadahiro Azuma, Yutaka Toyoda, Takatoshi Ishikawa, Mamoru Kumada & Yoshio Yazaki
doi:10.1038/368703a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of a human class II histocompatibility molecule complexed with superantigen 711
Theodore S. Jardetzky, Jerry H. Brown, Joan C. Gorga, Lawrence J. Stern, Robert G. Urban, Young-in Chi, Cynthia Stauffacher, Jack L. Strominger & Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/368711a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,160K)
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| | Molecular cloud condensation as a tracer of low-mass star formation 719
Akira Mizuno, Toshikazu Onishi, Masahiko Hayashi, Nagoyashi Ohashi, Kazuyoshi Sunada, Tetsuo Hasegawa & Yasuo Fukui
doi:10.1038/368719a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (361K)
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| | Origin of cometary nuclei as 'rubble piles' 721
S. J. Weidenschilling
doi:10.1038/368721a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (390K)
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| | A relict refractory inclusion in a ferromagnesian chondrule from the Allende meteorite 723
Keiji Misawa & Takashl Fujita
doi:10.1038/368723a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (607K)
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| | An electride with a large six-electron ring 726
Michael J. Wagner, Rui H. Huang, Judith L. Eglin & James L. Dye
doi:10.1038/368726a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (616K)
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| | A lower critical ordering transition in a diblock copolymer melt 729
T. P. Russell, T. E. Karis, Y. Gallot & A. M. Mayes
doi:10.1038/368729a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (340K)
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| | Production and transport of methane in oceanic particulate organic matter 732
David M. Karl & Bronte D. Tilbrook
doi:10.1038/368732a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (349K)
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| | Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems 734
Shahid Naeem, Lindsey J. Thompson, Sharon P. Lawler, John H. Lawton & Richard M. Woodfin
doi:10.1038/368734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (438K)
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| | Axonal sprouting accompanies functional reorganization in adult cat striate cortex 737
Corinna Darian-Smith & Charles D. Gilbert
doi:10.1038/368737a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (537K)
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| | A molecular switch activated by metabotropic glutamate receptors regulates induction of long-term potentiation 740
Z. A. Bortolotto, Z. I. Bashir, C. H. Davies & G. L. Collingridge
doi:10.1038/368740a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (403K)
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| | A rationally designed CD4 analogue inhibits experimental allergic encephalomyelitis 744
Bradford A. Jameson, James M. McDonnell, Joseph C. Marini & Robert Korngold
doi:10.1038/368744a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (314K)
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Hox11 controls the genesis of the spleen 747
Charles W. M. Roberts, John R. Shutter & Stanley J. Korsmeyer
doi:10.1038/368747a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (528K)
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| | Taxol inhibits progression of congenital polycystic kidney disease 750
David D. L. Woo, Steven Y. P. Miao, Juan C. Pelayo & Adrian S. Woolf
doi:10.1038/368750a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (831K)
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| | Deletions of the cyclin-dependent kinase-4 inhibitor gene in multiple human cancers 753
Tsutomu Nobori, Kaoru Miura, David J. Wu, Augusto Lois, Kenji Takabayashi & Dennis A. Carson
doi:10.1038/368753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (531K)
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| | Pancreatic islet cell toxicity of amylin associated with type-2 diabetes mellitus 756
Alfredo Lorenzo, Bronwyn Razzaboni, Gordon C. Weir & Bruce A. Yankner
doi:10.1038/368756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (729K)
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| | Calcium/calmodulin inhibition of basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor domains 760
Brit Corneliussen, Magnus Holm, Yvonne Waltersson, Jacqueline Onions, Bengt Hallberg, Anders Thornell & Thomas Grundström
doi:10.1038/368760a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (777K)
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| | Structure of the regulatory domains of the Src-family tyrosine kinase Lck 764
Michael J. Eck, Shane K. Atwell, Steven E. Shoelson & Stephen C. Harrison
doi:10.1038/368764a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,314K)
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| | Dual role of TFIIH in DNA excision repair and in transcription by RNA polymerase II 769
Ronny Drapkin, Joyce T. Reardon, Athar Ansari, Juch-Chin Huang, Leigh Zawel, KyuJeong Ahn, Aziz Sancar & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/368769a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (643K)
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| | Product Review | |
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| | FASEB focus 773
Featured this week—a red blood cell agglutination reagent, an agar substitute, antibodies to markers of metastasis and a scanning probe microscope for imaging cells and tissues in situ with nanometre resolution.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/368773a0
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| | Your future in your hands 777
While the traditional career ladder may remain, for many the career pathway—the means of achieving one's career objectives—has altered significantly.
David P. Collingham
doi:10.1038/368777a0
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