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| | Technology transfer by stock exchanges 521
Takeover battles for technically orientated companies are all the
rage, but they will embody an element of shadow-boxing until stock exchanges
become technically more expert than they are.
doi:10.1038/375521a0
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| | Honorary authorship 522
A case of fraud at a London hospital points to the need for a ban on honorary co-authorship in the literature.
doi:10.1038/375522a0
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| | Masculinity at risk 522
The discovery that the major metabolite of DOT may damage male reproduction deserves attention.
doi:10.1038/375522b0
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| | Physics caught in fight over future plans for US energy department 523
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/375523a0
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| | MIT nuclear laboratory feels chill wind 523
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/375523b0
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| | Tax problems threaten cuts in young scientist grants 524
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/375524a0
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| | Germany minister backs genome research 525
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/375525a0
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| | Physicist will sue Internet providers over 'libellous' remarks 525
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/375525b0
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| | Uproar greets new blood scandal indictment 526
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/375526a0
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| | Physicist-turned-ecologist to take top UK advisory post 527
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/375527a0
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| | ESA science head warns of threat to future missions 527
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/375527b0
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| | Indian appointments 527
doi:10.1038/375527c0
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| | Space station survives test of Congress' political will 528
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/375528a0
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| | Two satellites prove better than one 528
doi:10.1038/375528b0
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| | Scripps agrees to revised plan for ocean experiment 528
Joel Shurkin
doi:10.1038/375528c0
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| | UK fraud verdict prompts moves on ethics... 529
Sara Abdulla
doi:10.1038/375529a0
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| | ... as US reviewer resigns over slur 529
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/375529b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Paradox of placebo effect 530
Beatrice A. Golomb
doi:10.1038/375530a0
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| | Vatican confusion 530
Ian Elliott & Cesare Emiliani
doi:10.1038/375530b0
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| | Side by side 530
Marta Monteleoni
doi:10.1038/375530c0
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| | Towards traps for cold molecules 531
A scheme for trapping molecules in strong infrared laser beams
has been described theoretically by two chemists. Experimental proof awaits.
When it comes, molecular spectroscopy will be transformed.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/375531a0
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| | Applying a genetic cantilever 532
Marco E. Bianchi & David M. J. Lilley
doi:10.1038/375532a0
References | PDF (134K)
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| | Rules for the manipulation of polyketides 533
John Mann
doi:10.1038/375533a0
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| | Lines drawn in epitope wars 534
John M. Coffin
doi:10.1038/375534a0
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| | Sublime Solar System ices 535
William B. McKinnon
doi:10.1038/375535a0
References | PDF (278K)
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| | Oldest terrestrial landscape 537
Paul F. Hoffman
doi:10.1038/375537a0
References | PDF (261K)
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| | Another DOT connection 538
Richard M. Sharpe
doi:10.1038/375538a0
References | PDF (259K)
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| | Endothelin versatility 539
Katsutoshi Goto & Timothy D. Warner
doi:10.1038/375539a0
References | PDF (262K)
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| | Internal resistance 540
David Jones
doi:10.1038/375540a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | When batterer turns murderer 541
I. J. Good
doi:10.1038/375541a0
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| | A human BRCA1 gene knockout 541
Marie Boyd, Fiona Harris, Robert McFarlane, H. Rosemarie Davidson & Donald M. Black
doi:10.1038/375541b0
References | PDF (239K)
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| | Origins of cacao cultivation 542
Marlene de la Cruz, Richard Whitkus, Arturo Gómez-Pompa & Luis Mota-Bravo
doi:10.1038/375542a0
References | PDF (123K)
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| | Tuatara sex determination 543
Alison Cree, Michael B. Thompson & Charles H. Daugherty
doi:10.1038/375543a0
References | PDF (134K)
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| | Mouse knockouts rule OK 543
U. Hochgeschwender & M. B. Brennan
doi:10.1038/375543b0
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| | Native AI and Si formation 544
M. A. Korzhinsky, S. I. Tkachenko, K.
I. Shmulovich & G. S. Steinberg
doi:10.1038/375544a0
References | PDF (165K)
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| | Rousing the sleeping genes 545
David Weatherall reviews Altered Fates: Gene Therapy and the Re-tooling of Human
Life
By
Jeff Lyon & Peter Corner
doi:10.1038/375545a0
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| | The ULTRA-ELIXIR of YOUTH 545
A. Hyatt Verrill
doi:10.1038/375545b0
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| | Going places 546
Desmond King-Hele reviews A Travel Guide to Scientific Sites of the British
Isles
By
Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds
doi:10.1038/375546a0
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| | What mad pursuit 547
Stuart Sutherland reviews Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and
Psychology
By
Alan C. Elms & Arnold M. Ludwig
doi:10.1038/375547a0
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| | NiNETEENTH-century..... 547
doi:10.1038/375547b0
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| | Much about time in little space 548
Peter Landsberg reviews About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By
Paul Davies
doi:10.1038/375548a0
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| | Rational design of aromatic polyketide natural products by recombinant
assembly of enzymatic subunits 549
Robert McDaniel, Susanne Ebert-Khosla, David
A. Hopwood & Chaitan Khosla
doi:10.1038/375549a0
Abstract & References | PDF (616K)
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| | The 2.2 Å crystal structure of the Ras-binding domain of the
serine/threonine kinase c-Raf1 in complex with RaplA and a GTP analogue 554
Nicolas Nassar, Gudrun Horn, Christian
A. Herrmann, Anna Scherer, Frank McCormick & Alfred Wittinghofer
doi:10.1038/375554a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,001K)
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| | Evidence for stripe correlations of spins and holes in copper oxide
superconductors 561
J. M. Tranquada, B. J. Sternlieb, J. D. Axe, Y. Nakamura & S. Uchida
doi:10.1038/375561a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (362K)
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| | Carbon nanotubes as removable templates for metal oxide nanocomposites
and nanostructures 564
P. M. Ajayan, O. Stephan, Ph. Redlich & C. Colliex
doi:10.1038/375564a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (592K)
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| | Deflation of Mount Etna monitored by spaceborne radar
interferometry 567
Didier Massonnet, Pierre Briole & Alain Arnaud
doi:10.1038/375567a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (659K)
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| | Seismic anisotropy as an indicator of mantle flow beneath the Himalayas
and Tibet 571
A. Hirn, M. Jiang, M. Sapin, J. Diaz, A. Nercessian, Q.
T. Lu, J. C. Lépine, D. N. Shi, M. Sachpazi, M. R. Pandey, K. Ma & J. Gallart
doi:10.1038/375571a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (449K)
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| | Record of emergent continental crust  3.5 billion years ago in the
Pilbara craton of Australia 574
Roger Buick, J. R. Thornett, N.
J. McNaughton, J. B. Smith, M. E. Barley & M. Savage
doi:10.1038/375574a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (521K)
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| | Hypoxic induction of human vascular endothelial growth factor expression
through c-Src activation 577
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Leonidas Tsiokas, Xiao-Mai Zhou, David Foster, Joan
S. Brugge & Vikas P. Sukhatme
doi:10.1038/375577a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (582K)
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| | Persistent DDT metabolite p,p'–DDE is a potent androgen receptor
antagonist 581
William R. Kelce, Christy R. Stone, Susan C. Laws, L.
Earl Gray, Jon A. Kemppainen & Elizabeth M. Wilson
doi:10.1038/375581a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (488K)
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| | Elevation of auditory thresholds by spontaneous cochlear
oscillations 585
Nicholas L. Powers, Richard J. Salvi*
, Jian Wang, Vlasta Spongr & Chun
Xiao Qiu
doi:10.1038/375585a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (365K)
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| | Mediation of PACAP–like neuropeptide transmission by coactivation
of Ras/Raf and cAMP signal transduction pathways in Drosophila 588
Yi Zhong
doi:10.1038/375588a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (487K)
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| | Preferential addition of newly synthesized membrane protein at axonal
growth cones 592
Ann Marie Craig, Russell J. Wyborski & Gary Banker
doi:10.1038/375592a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (363K)
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| | Ca2+-dependent and -independent activities of neural
and non-neural synaptotagmins 594
Cai Li, Beate Ullrich, Jimmy Z. Zhang, Richard G. W. Anderson, Nils Brose & Thomas C. Südhof
doi:10.1038/375594a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (648K)
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| | An excitatory amino-acid transporter with properties of a ligand-gated
chloride channel 599
W. A. Fairman, R. J. Vandenberg, J. L. Arriza, M.
P. Kavanaught & S. G. Amara
doi:10.1038/375599a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (589K)
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| | Antigen presentation mediated by recycling of surface HLA-DR
molecules 603
Valérie Pinet, Marco Vergelli, Roland Martini, Oddmund Bakke & Eric
O. Long
doi:10.1038/375603a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (399K)
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| | Antigenic oscillations and shifting immunodominance in HIV-1
infections 606
Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May, Rodney E. Phillips, Sarah Rowland-Jones, David G. Lalloo, Steven McAdam, Paul Klenerman, Britta Köppe, Karl Sigmund, Charles R. M. Bangham & Andrew J. McMichael
doi:10.1038/375606a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (575K)
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| | A DNA metalloenzyme with DNA ligase activity 611
Bernard Cuenoud & Jack W. Szostak
doi:10.1038/375611a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (410K)
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