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| | Should courts decide on euthanasia? 451
By making a sick and malformed child a ward of court, three
British judges have drawn attention to the need for a judicial procedure in
cases where sick people seek euthanasia voluntarily.
doi:10.1038/376451a0
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| | Privatization goes wrong 451
Britain, with a recent rich record of denationalization, has
error as well as success to boast of.
doi:10.1038/376451b0
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| | Festival of chips? 452
The British Association's visit to Newcastle next week could be
good for both.
doi:10.1038/376452a0
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| | Clinton's science adviser embroiled in á¤~book-burningᤙ row over
risk bill 453
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376453a0
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| | Grants continue despite planned closure 453
doi:10.1038/376453b0
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| | Brazil examines claim that research is losing out in science
funding 454
Ricardo Bonalume
Neto
doi:10.1038/376454a0
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| | Synchrotron proposals spark high-energy debate in Japan 454
David
Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376454b0
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| | Go-ahead for tree salvage angers US Greens 455
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376455a0
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| | Medical research charities á¤~can rely on peer reviewᤙ 455
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376455b0
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| | Fertility pioneers face á¤~misconductᤙ charges 456
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/376456a0
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| | Report criticizes costly industry LINK scheme 456
doi:10.1038/376456b0
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| | Cash limits curb Max Planck Society's plans in the east 457
Alison
Abbott
doi:10.1038/376457a0
PDF (273K)
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| | Panel clears professor involved in studies of á¤~close
encountersᤙ 457
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/376457b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | International collaboration 458
Enriqueta Bond
doi:10.1038/376458a0
PDF (279K)
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| | Popov and Marconi 458
Ralph Barrett & Margaret
L. Godley
doi:10.1038/376458b0
References | PDF (279K)
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| | Polio vaccines 458
Virendra Kumar Bhasin & Nair Lathika
doi:10.1038/376458c0
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| | Directory to the human genome 459
Nature plans to publish in the next few weeks a Genome Directory
containing the latest catalogue of expressed sequence tags and refined versions
of the physical map of the human genome.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376459a0
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| | American ecology at the crossroads 461
Faced with a hostile Congress, US ecologists must distance
themselves from environmental activism, and perhaps adopt lessons learned in
Britain.
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/376461a0
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| | Keeping enhancers under control 462
Victor G. Corces
doi:10.1038/376462a0
References | PDF (598K)
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| | A successful prediction? 463
Tom M. L. Wigley
doi:10.1038/376463a0
References | PDF (514K)
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| | DM exchange mechanism 464
Paula R. Wolf & Hidde L. Ploegh
doi:10.1038/376464a0
References | PDF (652K)
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| | An absorbing mystery 466
Warren J. Wiscombe
doi:10.1038/376466a0
References | PDF (523K)
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| | Missing link in angiogenesis 467
Napoleone Ferrara
doi:10.1038/376467a0
References | PDF (254K)
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| | Inside the MADS box 468
Richard Treisman
doi:10.1038/376468a0
References | PDF (582K)
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| | Methyl bromide under scrutiny 469
James H. Butler
doi:10.1038/376469a0
References | PDF (529K)
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| | St Elmo's phone 470
David
Jones
doi:10.1038/376470a0
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| | Measuring sexual selection 471
Aulay Mackenzie, John D. Reynolds & William J. Sutherland
doi:10.1038/376471a0
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| | Measuring sexual selection 471
Fredrik Widemo & Ian P. F. Owens
doi:10.1038/376471b0
References | PDF (481K)
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| | Pasture soils as carbon sink 472
Eric A. Davidson, Daniel C. Nepstad, Carlos Klink & Susan
E. Trumbore
doi:10.1038/376472a0
References | PDF (539K)
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| | Pasture soils as carbon sink 473
M. J. Fisher, I. M. Rao, C. E. Lascano, J. I. Sanz, R. J. Thomas, R. R. Vera & M. A. Ayarza
doi:10.1038/376473a0
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| | Conserved cell and organelle division 473
Katherine W. Osteryoung & Elizabeth Vierling
doi:10.1038/376473b0
References | PDF (522K)
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| | Scorpions in a bottle 475
Lorna Arnold reviews Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
By
Richard Rhodes
doi:10.1038/376475a0
PDF (533K)
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| | Remembering the dawn of the nuclear age 476
Peter Tallack
doi:10.1038/376476a0
PDF (281K)
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| | The science of politics 477
Jacqueline Reynolds reviews Science and the Founding Fathers.
By
I. Bernard Cohen
doi:10.1038/376477a0
PDF (357K)
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| | Playing with fire 478
Stanley N. Williams reviews Monitoring Active Volcanoes: Strategies, Procedures and
Techniques.
By
Bill McGuire, Christopher Kilburn & John Murray
doi:10.1038/376478a0
PDF (310K)
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| | Fossil fish 478
Keith Stewart Thomson reviews The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of
Evolution.
By
John A. Long
doi:10.1038/376478b0
PDF (310K)
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| | Review | |
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| | Homeotic genes and the evolution of arthropods and chordates 479
Sean B. Carroll
doi:10.1038/376479a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,024K)
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| | The variable effect of clouds on atmospheric absorption of solar
radiation 486
Zhanqing Li, Howard W. Barker & Louis Moreau
doi:10.1038/376486a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,147K)
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| | Structure of serum response factor core bound to DNA 490
Luca Pellegrini, Song Tan & Timothy J. Richmond
doi:10.1038/376490a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,799K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Efficient photodiodes from interpenetrating polymer networks 498
J. J. M. Halls, C. A. Walsh, N.
C. Greenham, E. A. Marseglia, R.
H. Friend, S. C. Moratti & A.
B. Holmes
doi:10.1038/376498a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (695K)
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| | Climate response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and sulphate
aerosols 501
J. F. B. Mitchell, T. C. Johns, J. M. Gregory & S. F. B. Tett
doi:10.1038/376501a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (988K)
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| | Glacial climate instability in the Northeast Pacific Ocean 504
Robert C. Thunell & P. Graham
Mortyn
doi:10.1038/376504a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (678K)
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| | Two stages of visual processing for radial and circular motion 507
M. C. Morrone, David C. Burr & Lucia M. Vaina
doi:10.1038/376507a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (814K)
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| | Collapsin-induced growth cone collapse mediated by an intracellular
protein related to UNC-33 509
Yoshio Goshima, Fumio Nakamura, Philipp Strittmatter & Stephen M. Strittmatter
doi:10.1038/376509a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,560K)
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| | Channel gating governed symmetrically by conserved leucine residues in
the M2 domain of nicotinic receptors 514
Cesar Labarca, Mark W. Nowak, Haiyun Zhang, Lixin Tang, Purnima Deshpande & Henry A. Lester
doi:10.1038/376514a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (631K)
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| | Angiogenesis mediated by soluble forms of E-selectin and vascular cell
adhesion molecule-1 517
Alisa E. Koch, Margaret M. Halloran, Catherine J. Haskell, Manisha
R. Shah & Peter
J. Polverini
doi:10.1038/376517a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (614K)
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| | Direct and continuous assessment by cells of their position in a
morphogen gradient 520
J. B. Gurdon, A. Mitchell & D. Mahony
doi:10.1038/376520a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (735K)
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| | Autocrine mitogenic activity of pheromones produced by the protozoan
ciliate Euplotes raikovi
522
Adriana Vallesi, Giovanna Giuli, Ralph
A. Bradshaw & Pierangelo Luporini
doi:10.1038/376522a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (626K)
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| | Calcium activation of Ras mediated by neuronal exchange factor
Ras-GRF 524
Charles L. Farnsworth, Norman W. Freshney, Laura
B. Rosen, Anirvan Ghosh, Michael
E. Greenberg & Larry A. Feig
doi:10.1038/376524a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (933K)
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| | Identification of a specific lns(l,3,4,5)P4-binding protein as a
member of the GAP1 family 527
Peter J. Cullen, J. Justin
Hsuan, Oanh Truong, Andrew
J. Letcher, Trevor R. Jackson, Alan
P. Dawson & Robin F. Irvine
doi:10.1038/376527a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,077K)
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| | A human nucleoporin-like protein that specifically interacts with HIV
Rev 530
Christian C. Fritz, Maria L. Zapp & Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/376530a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (866K)
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| | Modulation of enhancerá¤-promoter interactions by insulators in the
Drosophilaembryo 533
Haini Cai & Michael Levine
doi:10.1038/376533a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,043K)
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| | Product Review | |
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| | In the stockroom 537
It's time to clear shelf space for some new biochemical
reagents that are now available — synthetic peptide nucleic acids, reagents for
nitric oxide synthase research, a fetal bovine serum alternative and
freeze-dried guinea pig complement.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/376537a0
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