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| | British science sent back to dog-house 101
Not for the first time, a British government has revealed its lack of
understanding of its scientific enterprise by means of an insensitive reorganization
forced by reasons having nothing to do with research.
doi:10.1038/376101a0
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| | Physics not guilty 101
The 50th anniversary next week of the first nuclear test impells
anticipation of the outcome of innovation.
doi:10.1038/376101b0
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| | News | |
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| | Concern and anger greet shift of UK science unit into industry agency 103
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376103a0
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| | Parliamentary scrutiny set to fall 103
doi:10.1038/376103b0
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| | US may drop federal support for families of researchers 104
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376104a0
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| | France urged to set up genetics network 104
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376104b0
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| | German students to pay for funding boost... 105
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376105a0
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| | ...as scientists hope for the best 105
doi:10.1038/376105b0
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| | US weapons labs face curb on civilian role 106
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376106a0
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| | 50 years on, success has bitter taste 106
doi:10.1038/376106b0
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| | MRC rejects call for radiation tests inquiry 107
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376107a0
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| | French ethics panel warns of 'crisis' in science reporting 108
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376108a0
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| | India's R & D agency is directed to get down to business 108
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/376108b0
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| | Delaney clause heads for the history books 109
Adrianne Appel
doi:10.1038/376109a0
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| | Finn tipped for top Brussels research post 109
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376109b0
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| | MITI clears new path for Japan's universities 110
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376110a0
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| | Report claims that United States is producing too many PhDs 110
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376110b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Einstein and Lorentz 111
William Steinsmith
doi:10.1038/376111a0
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| | Einstein and Lorentz 111
Sachi Sri Kantha
doi:10.1038/376111b0
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| | Lucifer principle 111
Horace Barlow
doi:10.1038/376111c0
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| | Free exchange 111
Bob Waterston & John Sulston
doi:10.1038/376111d0
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| | Remarkable delay 111
M. H. Day
doi:10.1038/376111e0
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| | Aquinas and the embryonic life 112
John Godfrey
doi:10.1038/376112a0
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| | Politically correct 112
Renato Baserga
doi:10.1038/376112b0
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| | Friedmann models 112
Hartmut Schulz
doi:10.1038/376112c0
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| | One 'f' in trophic 112
Stephen Nussey
doi:10.1038/376112d0
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| | Mayflies in May 112
W. B. Stawell
doi:10.1038/376112e0
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| | Restoring good manners in research 113
The need for good manners arises from a conflict in the foundations of the
research enterprise. Journals have much to do to put things right, but the chief
responsibility rests with academic institutions.*
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376113a0
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| | Changes in the Zodiacal Cloud 114
George J. Flynn
doi:10.1038/376114a0
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| | Back to primary school 115
John P. Moore
doi:10.1038/376115a0
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| | A crustal life preserver 116
Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/376116a0
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| | How to be physiological 117
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/376117a0
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| | Hosts of possibilities 118
J. B. Hatchings
doi:10.1038/376118a0
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| | Broken halo reveals all 119
W. Gelletly
doi:10.1038/376119a0
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| | Waves in the wind 120
Douglas Gough
doi:10.1038/376120a0
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| | Mutualism on the move 121
Peter Hammerstein & Rolf F. Hoekstra
doi:10.1038/376121a0
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| | Taking up GABA again 122
Brian Meldrum
doi:10.1038/376122a0
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| | Demise of the Atelocerata? 123
Maximilian J. Telford & Richard H. Thomas
doi:10.1038/376123a0
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| | The sap also rises 124
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376124a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Causes of HIV diversity 125
Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Edward
C. Holmes & Martin
A. Nowak
doi:10.1038/376125a0
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| | The Arctic's shrinking sea ice 126
Ola M. Johannessen, Martin Miles & Einar Bjørgo
doi:10.1038/376126a0
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| | What do colour-blind people see? 127
F. Viénot, H. Brettel, L. Ott, A.
Ben M'Barek & J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/376127a0
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| | How 'bad genes' survive 128
Timothy Prout & Norman Eaton
doi:10.1038/376128a0
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| | How 'bad genes' survive 128
Ray Wilcockson, Caroline Crean & Tom Day
doi:10.1038/376128b0
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| | Pixelating the populace 129
Lewis M. Branscomb reviews Being Digital.Nicholas Negroponte
doi:10.1038/376129a0
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| | Brute forces 130
Roy Porter reviews A History of Medicine in the Early US Navy. Harold D. Langley
doi:10.1038/376130a0
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| | Being and becoming 131
H. M. Collins reviews The Construction of Social Reality.John
R. Searle
doi:10.1038/376131a0
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| | Science evolving 131
Ray Percival reviews Evolutionary Naturalism.Michael Ruse
doi:10.1038/376131b0
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| | Relative values 132
Sean Nee reviews Macroecology.James H. Brown
doi:10.1038/376132a0
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| | Evolutionary theory of parent–offspring conflict 133
H. C. J. Godfray
doi:10.1038/376133a0
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| | Propagation of solar oscillations through the interplanetary medium 139
David J. Thomson, Carol G. Maclennan & Louis J. Lanzerotti
doi:10.1038/376139a0
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| | Association of a chromosome deletion syndrome with a fragile site within the
proto-oncogene CBL2
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C. Jones, L. Penny, T. Mattina, S. Yu
, E. Baker, L. Voullaire, W.
Y. Langdon, G.
R. Sutherland, R. I. Richards & A. Tunnacliffe
doi:10.1038/376145a0
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| | Interacting elliptical galaxies as hosts of intermediate-redshift quasars 150
M. J. Disney, P. J. Boyce, J. C. Blades, A. Boksenberg, P. Crane, J.
M. Deharveng, F. Macchetto, C.
D. Mackay, W.
B. Sparks & S. Phillipps
doi:10.1038/376150a0
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| | Cenozoic variations in the flux of interplanetary dust recorded
by3He in a deep-sea sediment 153
K. A. Farley
doi:10.1038/376153a0
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| | Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from
Siberia 156
Keith R. Briffa, Philip D. Jones, Fritz
H. Schweingruber, Stepan
G. Shiyatov & Edward
R. Cook
doi:10.1038/376156a0
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| | Longevity of sub-continental mantle lithosphere from osmium isotope systematics
in orogenic peridotite massifs 159
L. Reisberg & J.-P. Lorand
doi:10.1038/376159a0
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| | Deducing the pattern of arthropod phytogeny from mitochondrial DNA
rearrangements 163
Jeffrey L. Boore, Timothy
M. Collins, David Stanton, L.
Lynne Daehler & Wesley
M. Brown
doi:10.1038/376163a0
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| | Ribosomal DNA phylogeny of the major extant arthropod classes and the evolution
of myriapods 165
Markus Friedrich & Diethard Tautz
doi:10.1038/376165a0
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| | Embryonic lethality and liver degeneration in mice lacking the RelA component
of NF- B 167
Amer A. Beg, William C. Sha, Roderick
T. Bronson, Sankar Ghosh & David Baltimore
doi:10.1038/376167a0
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| | Control of neuronal pathway selection by a Drosophila receptor
protein-tyrosine kinase family member 171
Christopher A. Callahan, M.
G. Muralidhar, Scott
E. Lundgren, Audra L. Scully & John B. Thomas
doi:10.1038/376171a0
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| | Hippocampal GABA transporter function in temporal-lobe epilepsy 174
Matthew J. During, Kathryn M Ryder & Dennis D. Spencer
doi:10.1038/376174a0
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| | Peripheral deletion of antigen-reactive T cells in oral tolerance 177
Youhai Chen, Jun-ichi Inobe, Reinhard Marks, Patricia Gonnella, Vijay
K. Kuchroo & Howard
L. Weiner
doi:10.1038/376177a0
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| | CD95 (Fas)-dependent elimination of self-reactive B cells upon interaction with
CD4+T cells 181
Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Michael
P. Cooke, William
Y. Ho, Jeff Grein, Sarah
E. Townsend, Mark
M. Davis & Christopher
C. Goodnow
doi:10.1038/376181a0
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| | A giant nucleopore protein that binds Ran/TC4 184
N. Yokoyama, N. Hayashi, T. Seki, N. Panté, T. Ohba, K. Nishii, K. Kuma, T. Hayashida, T. Miyata, U. Aebi, M. Fukui & T. Nishimoto
doi:10.1038/376184a0
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| | Structure of a 14-3-3 protein and implications for coordination of multiple
signalling pathways 188
Bing Xiao, Stephen
J. Smerdon, David H. Jones, Guy G. Dodson, Yasmina Soneji, Alastair Aitken & Steven
J. Gamblin
doi:10.1038/376188a0
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| | Crystal structure of the zeta isoform of the 14-3-3 protein 191
Dong Liu, Jadwiga Bienkowska, Carlo Petosa, R.
John Collier, Halan Fu & Robert Liddington
doi:10.1038/376191a0
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| | A column on chromatography 195
This week's review checks in with a gradient delivery system, an HPLC detector,
protein separation columns, a tentacle-gel medium for affinity chromatography and a
variety of data handling systems.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/376195a0
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