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| | Thin excuses for French nuclear tests 199
The government of France has given thin excuses for its weapons tests; the greatest danger lies in the precedents these tests will provide for the other black sheep who may want to join the planned Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty.
doi:10.1038/376199a0
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| | Genetics brought to book 199
The British House of Commons has produced a telling document on the future of genetics.
doi:10.1038/376199b0
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| | Spare the messenger! 200
Demands for censorship of the Internet are both impracticable and unwise.
doi:10.1038/376200a0
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| | Accelerator-based tritium facility to win out over rival US proposals... 201
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376201a0
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| | ...as German reactor faces concerns 201
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376201b0
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| | FDA approval allows gene therapy in Japan 202
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376202a0
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| | UK Parliamentary panel calls for human genetics authority 202
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376202b0
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| | Saturn mission feels Congress' frustration 203
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376203a0
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| | ESA warns of blow to cooperation 203
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376203b0
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| | EU may help fund sarcophagus over Chernobyl remains 204
Pete O'Neill
doi:10.1038/376204a0
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| | Nuclear waste programme under fire for 'Incoherence' 204
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376204b0
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| | Baboon/man transplant backed for HIV victim 204
doi:10.1038/376204c0
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| | Future of AIDS research office threatened 205
Adrianne Appel
doi:10.1038/376205a0
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| | Lawyers 'built tobacco smokescreen' 205
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376205b0
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| | Serco wins physics laboratory contract 206
doi:10.1038/376206a0
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| | Major claims policy changes will 'strengthen' UK science 206
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376206b0
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| | Japan tackles downturn in science funding 207
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376207a0
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| | Vote on growth hormones in meat sparks row with FAO 207
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376207b0
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| | Brent Spar or Broken Spur? 208
Harry Elderfield, Adam Schultz, Rachael James, Penny Dickson, Mervyn Greaves, Rachel Mills, Don Cowan & Bob Nesbitt
doi:10.1038/376208a0
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| | Brent Spar or Broken Spur? 208
Helen Wallace & Paul Johnston
doi:10.1038/376208b0
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| | Brent Spar or Broken Spur? 208
W.M. Colles
doi:10.1038/376208c0
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| | Genetics helping molecular dynamics 209
Analogy with natural evolution is the guiding principle of an essay in molecular dynamics that successfully predicts the structure of C60, or buckminsterfullerene.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376209a0
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| | Upside-down ideas vindicated 210
Brigid L. M. Hogan
doi:10.1038/376210a0
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| | Neurons in parallel 211
Frank Moss & Xing Pel
doi:10.1038/376211a0
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| | Cooling the tropics 212
W. S. Broecker
doi:10.1038/376212a0
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| | Gregarious atoms 213
Christopher J. Foot & Andrew M. Steane
doi:10.1038/376213a0
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| | Polar explorations 215
David D. Hackney
doi:10.1038/376215a0
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| | Jonas Salk (1914-95) 216
Renato Dulbecco
doi:10.1038/376216a0
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| | Postmodern complexes 217
J. Fernando Bazan
doi:10.1038/376217a0
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| | Silent intervals 218
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376218a0
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| | Shape memory in hydrogels 219
Yoshihito Osada & Atsushi Matsuda
doi:10.1038/376219a0
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| | Costs of conception in baboons 219
Samuel K. Wasser
doi:10.1038/376219b0
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| | Hot PUMPing plants ? 220
Jim Whelan
doi:10.1038/376220a0
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| | Deep sea thrills 221
Charles H. Langmuir reviews Explorations: My Quest for Adventure and Discovery Under the Sea.Robert D. Ballard & Malcolm McConnell
doi:10.1038/376221a0
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| | Optimistic mumblings 222
Stuart Sutherland reviews Speaking Minds.Peter Baumgartner & Sabine Payr
doi:10.1038/376222a0
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| | Thought transference 223
Ray Monk reviews Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious.
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Jacques Bouveresse
doi:10.1038/376223a0
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| | Expert advice 224
Giovanni F. Bignami reviews Idee per il governo: La ricerca scientifica.
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C. Bernardini
doi:10.1038/376224a0
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| | Targeting of non-lg sequences in place of the V segment by somatic hyper mutation 225
J. Yélamos, N. Klix, B. Goyenechea, F. Lozano, Y. L. Chui, A. GonzÃlez FernÃndez, R. Pannell, M. S. Neuberger & C. Milstein
doi:10.1038/376225a0
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| | Crystal structure of a complex between interferon- and its soluble high-affinity receptor 230
Mark R. Walter, William T. Windsor, Tattanahalli L. Nagabhushan, Daniel J. Lundell, Charles A. Lunn, Paul J. Zauodny & Satwant K. Narula
doi:10.1038/376230a0
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| | Stochastic resonance without tuning 236
J. J. Collins, Carson C. Chow & Thomas T. Imhoff
doi:10.1038/376236a0
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| | Why gold is the noblest of all the metals 238
B. Hammer & J. K. Norskov
doi:10.1038/376238a0
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| | Latitudinal gradient of atmospheric CO2 due to seasonal exchange with land biota 240
A. Scott Denning, Inez Y. Fung & David Randall
doi:10.1038/376240a0
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| | Atmospheric inputs of dissolved organic nitrogen to the oceans 243
S. Cornell, A. Randell & T. Jickells
doi:10.1038/376243a0
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| | Natural selection of hemi- and heterozygotes for G6PD deficiency in Africa by resistance to severe malaria 246
C. Ruwende, S. C. Khoo, R. W. Snow, S. N. R. Yates, D. Kwiatkowski, S. Gupta, P. Warn, C. E. M. Allsopp, S. C. Gilbert, N. Peschu, C. I. Newbold, B. M. Greenwood, K. Marsh & A. V. S. Hill
doi:10.1038/376246a0
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| | A conserved system for dorsal-ventral patterning in insects and vertebrates involving sog and chordin
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Scott A. Holley, P. David Jackson, Yoshiki Sasai, Bin Lu, Eddy M. De Robertis, F. Michael Hoffmann & Edwin L. Ferguson
doi:10.1038/376249a0
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| | Activation of posterior gap gene expression in the Drosophila blastoderm 253
Rolando Rivera-Pomar, Xiangyi Lu, Norbert Perrimon, Heike Taubert & Herbert Jäckle
doi:10.1038/376253a0
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| | Presynaptic changes during mossy fibre LTP revealed by NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic responses 256
Marc G. Weisskopf & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/376256a0
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| | A novel receptor involved in T-cell activation 260
Benjamin G. Cocks, Chia-Chun J. Chang, José M. Carballido, Hans Yssel, Jan E. de Vries & Gregorio Aversa
doi:10.1038/376260a0
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| | Failure of B-cell differentiation in mice lacking the transcription factor EBF 263
Haishan Lin & Rudolf Grosschedl
doi:10.1038/376263a0
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| | Specific and redundant roles of Src and Fyn in organizing the cytoskeleton 267
Sheila M. Thomas, Philippe Soriano & Akira Imamoto
doi:10.1038/376267a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of a tubulin-motor-protein complex 271
Andreas Hoenger, Elena P. Sablin, Ronald D. Vale, Robert J. Fletterick & Ronald A. Milligan
doi:10.1038/376271a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of the kinesin headá¤-microtubule complex 274
Masahide Kikkawa, Takashi Ishikawa, Takeyuki Wakabayashi & Nobutaka Hirokawa
doi:10.1038/376274a0
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| | Nucleotide-dependent angular change in kinesin motor domain bound to tubulin 277
Keiko Hirose, Andrew Lockhart, Robert A. Cross & Linda A. Amos
doi:10.1038/376277a0
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| | Structure of a new nucleic-acid-binding motif in eukaryotic transcriptional elongation factor TFIIS 279
Xiuqu Qian, ChoonJu Jeon, HoSup Yoon, Kan Agarwal & Michael A. Weiss
doi:10.1038/376279a0
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| | Primary production required to sustain global fisheries 279
D. Pauly & V. Christensen
doi:10.1038/376279b0
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doi:10.1038/376280a0
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