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| | What future for Japan's universities? 711
Japan's universities are still urgently in need of the autonomy that
would enable them to reform themselves; the ministry in charge of them should
embrace that as its goal.
doi:10.1038/372711a0
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| | Chance makes good? 711
Britain's national lottery is a bad business, but research should make good use of it while it can.
doi:10.1038/372711b0
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| | Britain leads bid to cut costs of Europe's space science projects 712
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/372712a0
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| | Australia hails a prehistoric pine 712
doi:10.1038/372712b0
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| | Relief and euphoria greet decision on LHC 713
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/372713a0
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| | Japan and US explore collaboration 713
David Swinbanks & Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/372713b0
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| | Cautious welcome for new head of Euro-patent office 714
Toni Feder & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/372714a0
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| | Promega files court challenge to Roche's Taq enzyme patent 714
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/372714b0
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| | Geological programmes come under threat ... 715
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/372715a0
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| | ... as Walker picks out new targets 715
doi:10.1038/372715b0
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| | Call for risk/benefit study of gene therapy 716
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/372716a0
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| | US to cut applied energy research 716
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/372716b0
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| | Soros foundation offers its help free to other agencies 717
Vladimir Pokrovsky & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/372717a0
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| | US and Russia agree joint projects, but not funding agency 717
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/372717b0
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| | UK scrutiny of public labs under fire from Parliament 718
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/372718a0
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| | Research body revives 'Faraday' concept 718
doi:10.1038/372718b0
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| | Research council to require plan of proposed projects 718
doi:10.1038/372718c0
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| | Italian space scientists face more upheaval 719
Alison Abbort
doi:10.1038/372719a0
PDF (131K)
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| | Italy drops decision to quit EMBL 719
doi:10.1038/372719b0
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| | 'Fossil tree' reveals full splendour 719
doi:10.1038/372719c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | One step forward, two back? 720
Mary Osborn
doi:10.1038/372720a0
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| | ...still no silence? 720
Th. Klimkait
doi:10.1038/372720b0
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| | How to pursue academic excellence 721
The last of Nature's celebrations of its 125th anniversary, a conference in Japan last week, uncovered Japan's discontent with the condition of the national universities.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/372721a0
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| | The other China 722
doi:10.1038/372722a0
PDF (287K)
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| | Conditions for excellence 723
doi:10.1038/372723a0
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| | Deep quakes shake up debate 724
Heidi Houston
doi:10.1038/372724a0
References | PDF (302K)
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| | Stable isotopes, unstable forest 725
Lars O. Hedin
doi:10.1038/372725a0
References | PDF (310K)
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| | Look at a tyrosine kinase 726
Tony Pawson
doi:10.1038/372726a0
References | PDF (273K)
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| | Splicing in space 727
Iain W. Matta
doi:10.1038/372727a0
References | PDF (272K)
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| | Venus after the flood 729
James W. Head III
doi:10.1038/372729a0
References | PDF (308K)
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| | Sun protection factor p53 730
Alexander Kamb
doi:10.1038/372730a0
References | PDF (299K)
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| | The continuing saga 731
Rodney S. Ruoff
doi:10.1038/372731a0
References | PDF (274K)
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| | Celestial graffiti 732
David Jones
doi:10.1038/372732a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Regulation of BRCAl 733
Melissa A. Brown, Hans Nicolai, Chun-Fang Xu, Beatrice L. Griffiths, Karen A. Jones, Ellen Solomon, Louise Hosking, John Trowsdale, Donald M. Black & Robert McFarlane
doi:10.1038/372733a0
References | PDF (245K)
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| | Mind control 734
Kenneth Stevens
doi:10.1038/372734a0
References | PDF (126K)
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| | Visceral leishmaniasis and AIDS 734
Miguel de Gorgolas & Michael A. Miles
doi:10.1038/372734b0
References | PDF (126K)
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| | A line in the sea 734
Daniel Schlaifer & François Siorat
doi:10.1038/372734c0
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| | Mortgaging the Earth 735
Scott Barrett reviews Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular
Empire
By
Susan George & Fabrizio Sabelli
doi:10.1038/372735a0
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doi:10.1038/372735b0
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| | Science in fiction 736
Bernard Knight reviews The Bourbaki Gambit
By
Carl Djerassi
doi:10.1038/372736a0
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doi:10.1038/372736b0
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| | The middle landscape 737
John de la Mothe reviews Regional Advantage: Culture and Com-petition in Silicon
Valley and Route 128
By
AnnaLee Saxenian, Alien J. Scott, David P. Angel & Howard W. Segal
doi:10.1038/372737a0
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| | A protein kinase involved in the regulation of inflammatory cytokine biosynthesis 739
John C. Lee, Jeffrey T. Laydon, Peter C. McDonnell, Timothy F. Gallagher, Sanjay Kumar, David Green, Dean McNulty, Mary Jane Blumenthal, J. Richard Keys, Scott W. Land vatter, James E. Strickler, Megan M. McLaughlin, Ivo R. Siemens, Seth M. Fisher, George P. Livi, John R. White, Jerry L. Adams & Peter R. Young
doi:10.1038/372739a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,071K)
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| | Crystal structure of the tyrosine kinase domain of the human insulin receptor 746
Stevan R. Hubbard, Lei Wei & Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/372746a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,441K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Evidence for magnetic-field-induced anisotropy of the interstellar medium 754
K. M. Desai, C. R. Gwinn & P. J. Diamond
doi:10.1038/372754a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (463K)
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| | Mean age of rifting and volcanism on Venus deduced from impact crater densities 756
Maribeth Price & John Suppe
doi:10.1038/372756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (860K)
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| | Structure of the 13-K superconductor La3Ni2B2N3 and the related phase LaNiBN 759
H. W. Zandbergen, J. Jansen, R. J. Cavai, J. J. Krajewskii & W. F. Peck Jr
doi:10.1038/372759a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (428K)
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| | Relation between metal electronic structure and morphology of metal compounds inside carbon nanotubes 761
C. Guerret-Piécourt, Y. Le Bouar, A. Lolseau & H. Pascard
doi:10.1038/372761a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (717K)
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| | Effects of forest decline on uptake and leaching of deposited nitrate determined from 15N and 18O measurements 765
Walter Durka, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Gerhard Gebauer & Susanne Voerkeliust
doi:10.1038/372765a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (326K)
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| | Mineral chemistry and density of subducted basaltic crust at lower-mantle pressures 767
S. E. Kesson, J. D. Fitz Gerald & J. M. G. Shelley
doi:10.1038/372767a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (482K)
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| | A thalamic nucleus specific for pain and temperature sensation 770
A. D. Craig, M. C. Bushnell, E.-T. Zhang & A. Blomqvist
doi:10.1038/372770a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (619K)
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| | Sunburn and p53 in the onset of skin cancer 773
Annemarie Ziegler, Alan S. Jonason, David J. Leffellt, Jeffrey A. Simon, Harsh W. Sharma, Jonathan Kimmelman, Lee Remington, Tyler Jacks & Douglas E. Brash
doi:10.1038/372773a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (469K)
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| | Hippocampal long-term potentiation and neural cell adhesion molecules L1 and NCAM 777
Andreas Lüthi, Jean-Paul Laurent, Alexander Figurovt, Dominique Mullert & Melitta Schachnert
doi:10.1038/372777a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (305K)
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| | Control of type-D GABAergic neuron differentiation by C.
elegans UNC-30 homeodomain protein 780
Yishi Jin, Roger Hoskins & H. Robert Horvitz
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dpp induces mesodermal gene expression in Drosophila
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Karen Staehling-Hampton, F. Michael Hoffmann, Mary K. Baylies, Emma Rushtont & Michael Bate
doi:10.1038/372783a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (575K)
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| | Integrin-mediated signal transduction linked to Ras pathway by GRB2 binding to focal adhesion kinase 786
David D. Schlaepfer, Steven K. Hanks, Tony Hunter & Peter van der Geer
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First paragraph & References | PDF (812K)
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| | Heterogeneity of channel density in inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive Ca2+ stores 791
Kenzo Hirose & Masamitsu lino
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| | Role of SAPK/ERK kinase-1 in the stress-activated pathway regulating transcription factor c-Jun 794
Irma Sánchez, Rowland T. Hughes, Bruce J. Mayer, Karen Yee, James R. Woodgett, Joseph Avruch, John M. Kyriakls & Leonard I. Zon
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| | Activation of stress-activated protein kinase by MEKK1 phosphorylation of its activator SEK1 798
Mlnhong Yan, Tianang Dai, Joseph C. Deak, John M. Kyriakis, Leonard I. Zon, James R. Woodgett & Dennis J. Templeton
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| | Involvement of microtubule motors in basolateral and apical transport in kidney cells 801
Frank Lafont, Janis K. Burkhardt & Kai Simons
doi:
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| | XL s is a new type of G protein 804
Ralph H. Kehlenbach, Julia Matthey & Wieland B. Huttner
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First paragraph & References | PDF (1,698K)
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| | Localization of pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian nuclei 809
Guohong Zhang, Krishan L. Taneja, Robert H. Singer & Michael R. Green
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| | Signal transduction and regulation in smooth muscle 812
Andrew P. Somlyo & Avril V. Somlyo
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| | Patents in the public interest 814
Gary Moss & Simon Cohen
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