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| | Europe's parliament loses reputation 101
The decision of the Strasbourg parliament to throw out a draft
directive on genetic manipulation will do less harm to biotechnology than to
the parliament itself.
doi:10.1038/374101a0
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| | Unbalanced US budgets 101
There should be relief that the new US Congress has failed to
pass its talismanic constitutional amendment.
doi:10.1038/374101b0
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| | Too-modest ambitions 102
The British government should not be content that 30 per cent of
young people enter higher education.
doi:10.1038/374102a0
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| | European Parliament rejects bid to stem confusion over gene
patents 103
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/374103a0
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| | CERN asks Japan for support to build LHC 103
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/374103b0
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| | France re-focuses nuclear research body ... 104
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/374104a0
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| | Research reactors may give Scottish reprocessing plant new lease of
life 104
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/374104b0
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| | ... as UK agency cuts staff to prepare for privatization 105
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/374105a0
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| | Russia links higher science funding to structural reforms 105
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/374105b0
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| | Concern raised over US plan for A-bomb survivor studies 106
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/374106a0
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| | House passes bill on cost analysis of new regulations 106
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374106b0
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| | Blood warning 'urgent' says Canadian judge 106
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/374106c0
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| | NASA debates 'privatizing' its space centres 107
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/374107a0
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| | White House aide to quit policy office 107
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374107b0
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| | Clinton team trims laboratory reform plans 108
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374108a0
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| | Roche asked for more Taq patent evidence 108
doi:10.1038/374108b0
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| | Breakaway iceberg 'due to warming' 108
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/374108c0
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| | Minister's visit gives boost to UK/South Africa science links 109
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/374109a0
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| | University blocks efforts to reveal researchers' identity 109
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/374109b0
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| | Molecular studies centre planned for Bonn 109
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/374109c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | UK withdrawal from INTEGRAL 110
Glovanni F. Blgnami
doi:10.1038/374110a0
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| | UK withdrawal from INTEGRAL 110
J. L. Culhane, A. J. Dean & A.
P. Willmore
doi:10.1038/374110b0
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| | Common noun 110
Hermann Swalve
doi:10.1038/374110c0
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| | Keep off politics 110
George Fulford
doi:10.1038/374110d0
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| | Impact of behavioural ecology 111
Robert Montgomerie
doi:10.1038/374111a0
References | PDF (114K)
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| | Quote/misquote? 111
Bill R. Appleton
doi:10.1038/374111b0
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| | Advice to contributors 111
doi:10.1038/374111c0
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| | Universities waste science funds 112
Universities in Britain are unable to cope with the demands of
the modern research enterprise. But who will ensure that the necessary changes
to the system are made?
Peter Williams
doi:10.1038/374112a0
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| | The top quark found at long last 113
The announcement from Fermilab last week is neither a mere
formality nor the capstone of a theoretical edifice, but another landmark in
the long road to telling how matter is constructed.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/374113a0
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| | Poll gets repressed 114
Brian D. Dynlacht
doi:10.1038/374114a0
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| | Slab burial grounds 115
Thorne Lay
doi:10.1038/374115a0
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| | Ringing necks with dynamin 116
Regis B. Kelly
doi:10.1038/374116a0
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| | Too much of a good thing 117
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/374117a0
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| | New wrinkles in retinoids 118
Bogi Anderson & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/374118a0
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| | Metallic rubber bounces back 120
Robbert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/374120a0
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| | Cyclins in initiation 121
Elizabeth M. O'Neill & Erin K. O'Shea
doi:10.1038/374121a0
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| | Protein portfolio 122
David Jones
doi:10.1038/374122a0
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| | Ferromagnetism and EMFs 123
Atsuko K. Kobayashi, Joseph L. Kirschvink & Michael
H. Nesson
doi:10.1038/374123a0
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| | Extant fauna of ancient carbon 123
M. Grachev, V.
Fialkov, T. Nakamura, T. Ohta & T. Kawai
doi:10.1038/374123b0
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| | Another obese gene function 124
Manabu T. Nakamura
doi:10.1038/374124a0
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| | Recombination in HIV-1 124
David L. Robertson, Paul M. Sharp, Francine E. McCutchan & Beatrice H. Hahn
doi:10.1038/374124b0
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| | Altered stress response in testis 126
Kevin D. Sarge, Ashley E. Bray & Michael L. Goodson
doi:10.1038/374126a0
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| | Chicken and egg 126
Ruth A. Reck
doi:10.1038/374126b0
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| | Social irresponsibility 127
Daniel S. Greenberg reviews Molecular Politics: Developing American and British
Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982
By
Susan Wright
doi:10.1038/374127a0
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| | Olympian achievements 128
Jürgen Mittelstra reviews Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition,
3 Volumes
By
A. C. Crombie
doi:10.1038/374128a0
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| | The joy of sex 129
Alexander H. Harcourt reviews Human Sperm Competition: Copulation, Masturbation and
Infidelity
By
R. Robin Mark A. BakerBellis & R. V. & E. ShortBalaban
doi:10.1038/374129a0
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| | Some gentlemen prefer bonds 130
Wilfred Niels Arnold reviews Blondes in Venetian Paintings, the Nine-Banded Armadillo,
and Other Essays in Biochemistry
By
Konrad Bloch
doi:10.1038/374130a0
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| | Progress | |
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| | Principles of CDK regulation 131
David O. Morgan
doi:10.1038/374131a0
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| | The G-protein-gated atrial K+ channel IKAch
is a heteromultimer of two inwardly rectifying K+-channel
proteins 135
G. Krapivinsky, E. A. Gordon, K. Wickman, B. Velimirovi , L. Krapivinsky & D.
E. Clapham
doi:10.1038/374135a0
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| | Relativistic motion in a nearby bright X-ray source 141
S. J. Tingay, D.
L. Jauncey, R.
A. Preston, J.
E. Reynolds, D. L.
Meier, D.
W. Murphy, A.
K. Tzioumis, D.
J. McKay, M.
J. Kesteven, J. E.
J. Lovell, D. Campbell-Wilson, S. P. Elllngsen, R. Gough, R.
W. Hunstead, D.
L. Jonos, P.
M. McCulloch, V. Migenes, J. Quick, M.
W. Sinclair & D. Smits
doi:10.1038/374141a0
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| | Antibody catalysis of a reaction otherwise strongly disfavoured in
water 143
Doron Shabat, Harel Itzhaky, Jean-Louis Reymond†
& Ehud Keinan
doi:10.1038/374143a0
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| | Increase in lower-stratospheric water vapour at a mid-latitude
Northern Hemisphere site from 1981 to 1994 146
S. J. Oltmans & D. J. Hofmann
doi:10.1038/374146a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (421K)
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| | Circulation in the glacial North Atlantic inferred from grain-size
measurements 149
I. N. McCave, B. Manighetti & N. A. S. Beveridge
doi:10.1038/374149a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (472K)
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| | Continental crust composition constrained by measurements of crustal
Poisson's ratio 152
George Zandt & Charles
J. Ammon
doi:10.1038/374152a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (445K)
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| | Complex morphology of subducted lithosphere in the mantle beneath the
Tonga trench 154
Ron van der Hilst
doi:10.1038/374154a0
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| | Heritability of a sexually selected character expressed in both
sexes 158
R. W. Wilcockson, C. S. Crean & T. H. Day
doi:10.1038/374158a0
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| | Inhibition of skin development by targeted expression of a
dominant-negative retinoic acid receptor 159
Mitinori Saitou, Satoshi Sugai, Toshihiro Tanaka, Koji Shimouchi, Elaine Fuchs, Shuh Narumiya & Akira Kakizuka
doi:10.1038/374159a0
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| | Protection against Fas-dependent Thl-mediated apoptosis by antigen
receptor engagement in B cells 163
Thomas L. Rothstein, Julia K.
M. Wang, David J.
Panka, Linda
C. Foote, Zihua
Wang, Ben
Stanger, Haili Cui, Shyr-Te Ju & Ann Marshak-Rothstein†‡
doi:10.1038/374163a0
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| | Fasciclin III as a synaptic target recognition molecule in
Drosophila
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Akira Chiba, Peter Snow, Haig Keshishian & Yoshik Hotta
doi:10.1038/374166a0
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| | A new antigen receptor gene family that undergoes rearrangement and
extensive somatic diversification in sharks 168
Andrew S.
Greenberg, David
Avila, Marianne
Hughes, Austin Hughes, E.
Churchill McKinney & Martin F.
Flajnik
doi:10.1038/374168a0
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| | ATP-dependent inositide phosphorylation required for
Ca2+-activated secretion 173
Jesse
C. Hay, Phillip
L Fisette, Glenn
H Jenkins, Kiyoko Fukami, Tadaomi Takenawa, Richard
A. Anderson & Thomas F. J. Martin
doi:10.1038/374173a0
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| | Activity of RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF blocked by Rb
gene product 177
Alice H. Cavanaugh, William M. Hempel, Laura J. Taylor, Vitaly Rogalsky, German Todorov*
& Lawrence I. Rothblum
doi:10.1038/374177a0
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| | RNA degradation in Escherichia coli regulated by 3' adenylation and 5'
phosphorylation 180
Fengfeng Xu & Stanley
N. Cohen
doi:10.1038/374180a0
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| | A structural basis of the interactions between leucine-rich repeats
and protein ligands 183
Bostjan Kobe & Johann Deisenhofer
doi:10.1038/374183a0
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| | Tubular membrane invaginations coated by dynamin rings are induced by
GTP- S in nerve terminals 186
Kohji Takei, Peter
S. McPherson*
, Sandra L. Schmid & Pietro
De Camilli
doi:10.1038/374186a0
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| | Dynamin self-assembles into rings suggesting a mechanism for coated vesicle budding 190
Jenny E. Hinshaw & Sandra L. Schmid
doi:10.1038/374190a0
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| | A kinase−cyclin pair in the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme 193
Sha-Mei Liao, Jianhua Zhang, Douglas A. Jeffery, Anthony J. Koleske, Craig M. Thompson, David M. Chao, Marinda Viljoen, Hendrik J. J. van Vuuren & Richard A. Young
doi:10.1038/374193a0
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| | Dimercaptan−polyaniline composite electrodes for lithium batteries
with high energy density 196
N. Oyama, T. Tatsuma, T. Sato & T. Sotomura
doi:10.1038/374196a0
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| | Incorporation of subgenomic amounts of DNA as compensation for
mutational load in a gynogenetic fish 196
Manfred Schartl, Indrajit Nanda, Ingo Schlupp, Brigitta Wilde, Jörg
T. Epplen, Michael Schmid & Jakob Parzefall
doi:10.1038/374196b0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Making waves with liquid handling 197
For your liquid handling consideration — a series of robotic
sample processors, a rheological characterization instrument, a multichannel
pump system and solvent-safe pipettes.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/374197a0
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