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| | End of the line in sight for PDA? 713
The new Republican Congress is naturally antipathetic to the US Food and Drug Administration, but radical change will not be easily accomplished, which is just as well.
doi:10.1038/376713a0
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| | Care in the community 714
There will be no quick answer to the British government's call for better care for the psychiatrically ill.
doi:10.1038/376714a0
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| | News | |
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| | Lords' report criticizes 'underclass' status of UK contract researchers 715
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376715a0
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| | Germans divert spent fuel to Dounreay 716
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376716a0
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| | Tokyo students organize Internet protest 716
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376716b0
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| | Launch woes ground NASA science spacecraft 717
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376717a0
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| | Superphénix consortium seeks compensation 717
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376717b0
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| | Japanese plutonium suspected in French tests 718
Declan Butler & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376718a0
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| | Leaked letter confirms UK budget cuts 718
doi:10.1038/376718b0
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| | Crick's resignation heralds new era for Salk 719
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/376719a0
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| | More delays at Mount Graham 719
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/376719b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Journal impact factors 720
Giovanni Motta
doi:10.1038/376720a0
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| | Journal impact factors 720
Neil
B. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/376720b0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Plagiarism is worse than mere theft 721
A long-delayed report of a meeting on plagiarism in Washington
two years ago is none the worse for the delay, but should be a reminder that
most institutions are still poorly equipped to deal with it.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376721a0
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| | Dynamics of stripe formation 722
Hans Meinhardt
doi:10.1038/376722a0
References | PDF (598K)
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| | The scattered jigsaw 723
Richard Warn
doi:10.1038/376723a0
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| | Is the ocean losing nitrate? 724
Louis A. Codispoti
doi:10.1038/376724a0
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| | Living with bad architecture 725
Robin Lovell-Badge
doi:10.1038/376725a0
References | PDF (516K)
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| | The HMG family of proteins 725
doi:10.1038/376725b0
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| | Speciation in monkeyflowers 726
Jerry A. Coyne
doi:10.1038/376726a0
References | PDF (530K)
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| | Team blue sees red 727
Henry
R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/376727a0
References | PDF (943K)
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| | Flux lattice makes a hesitant breakaway 729
P. H. Kes
doi:10.1038/376729a0
References | PDF (563K)
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| | Chemical skills 730
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376730a0
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| | Dinosaur nests at the sea shore 731
J. L. Sanz, J. J. Moratalla, M. Díaz-Molina, N.
López-Martínez, O. Kälin & M. Vianey-Liaud
doi:10.1038/376731a0
References | PDF (778K)
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| | Codon bias targets mutation 732
Simon D. Wagner, César Milstein & Michael S. Neuberger
doi:10.1038/376732a0
References | PDF (408K)
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Informed by nature's light 733
Arthur Zajonc reviews Color and Light in NatureDavid
K. Lynch, William Livingston & Casper Hakfoort
doi:10.1038/376733a0
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| | World of vision at a glance 733
doi:10.1038/376733b0
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| | Chemical cosmography 734
Stephen Mason reviews The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the
Chemical
Elements.Peter Atkins
doi:10.1038/376734a0
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| | More than a seafood platter 735
Robert A. McCall & Robert M. May reviews Fishbase: A Biological Database on Fish (CD-ROM and
User's
Manual).R. Froese & D. Pauly
doi:10.1038/376735a0
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| | Making sense of bodies 736
Simon Conway Morris reviews Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living
Phyla.
By
Claus Nielsen
doi:10.1038/376736a0
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| | Articles |  |
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| | Protein tyrosine kinase PYK2 involved in Ca2+-induced
regulation of ion channel and MAP kinase functions 737
S. Lev, H. Moreno, R. Martinez, P. Canoll, E. Peles, J.
M. Musacchio, G.
D. Plowman, B. Rudy & J. Schlessinger
doi:10.1038/376737a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,978K)
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| | Three-dimensional structure of the catalytic subunit of protein
serine/threonine phosphatase-1 745
Jonathan Goldberg, Hsien-bin Huang, Young-guen Kwon, Paul Greengard, Angus
C. Nairn & John Kuriyan
doi:10.1038/376745a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,848K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Structural evidence for a two-step process in the depinning of the
superconducting flux-line lattice 753
U. Yaron, P.
L. Gammel, D. A. Huse, R.
N. Kleiman, C.
S. Oglesby, E. Bucher, B. Batlogg, D.
J. Bishop, K. Mortensen & K.
N. Clausen
doi:10.1038/376753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (652K)
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| | Large changes in oceanic nutrient inventories from glacial to
interglacial periods 755
Raja S. Ganeshram, Thomas
F. Pedersen, Stephen
E. Calvert & James
W. Murray
doi:10.1038/376755a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,166K)
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| | Laboratory investigation of the interaction of off-axis mantle plumes
and spreading centres 758
C. Kincaid, G. Ito & C. Gable
doi:10.1038/376758a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (895K)
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| | Genetic mapping of floral traits associated with reproductive
isolation in monkeyflowers (Mimulus)
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H. D. Bradshaw Jr, S. M. Wilbert, K. G. Otto & D. W. Schemske
doi:10.1038/376762a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (797K)
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| | A reaction–diffusion wave on the skin of the marine angelfish
Pomacanthus
765
Shigeru Kondo & Rihito Asai
doi:10.1038/376765a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,089K)
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| | Essential role for the c-met receptor in the migration of
myogenic precursor cells into the limb bud 768
Friedhelm Bladt, Dieter Riethmacher, Stefan Isenmann, Adriano Aguzzi & Carmen Birchmeier
doi:10.1038/376768a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (831K)
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| | Mutation responsible for the mouse pygmy phenotype in the
developmentally regulated factor HMGI-C 771
Xianjin Zhou, Kathleen
F. Benson, Hena
R. Ashar & Kiran Chada
doi:10.1038/376771a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (946K)
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| | Familial Alzheimer's disease in kindreds with missense mutations in a
gene on chromosome 1 related to the Alzheimer's disease type 3 gene 775
E. I. Rogaev, R. Sherrington, E.
A. Rogaeva, G. Levesque, M. Ikeda, Y. Liang, H. Chi, C. Lin, K. Holman, T. Tsuda, L. Mar, S. Sorbi, B. Nacmias, S. Piacentini, L. Amaducci, I. Chumakov, D. Cohen, L. Lannfelt, P.
E. Fraser, J.
M. Rommens & P. H.
St George-Hyslop
doi:10.1038/376775a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (908K)
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| | Modulation of conscious experience by peripheral sensory stimuli 778
G. Bottini, E. Paulesu, R. Sterzi, E. Warburton, R.
J. S. Wise, G. Vallar, R. S.
J. Frackowiak & C.
D. Frith
doi:10.1038/376778a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (984K)
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| | Receptor-tyrosine-kinase- and G  -mediated MAP kinase
activation by a common signalling pathway 781
Tim
van Blesen, Brian
E. Hawes, Deirdre
K. Luttrell, Kathleen
M. Krueger, Kazushige Touhara, Emilio Porfflri, Motoyoshi Sakaue, Louis
M. Luttrell & Robert
J. Lefkowitz
doi:10.1038/376781a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (940K)
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| | Activation of the c-Abl tyrosine kinase in the stress response to
DMA-damaging agents 785
Surender Kharbanda, Ruibao Ren, Pramod Pandey, Timothy
D. Shafman, Stephen
M. Feller, Ralph
R. Weichselbaum & Donald
W. Kufe
doi:10.1038/376785a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (862K)
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| | Structure of guanine-nucleotide-exchange factor human Mss4 and
identification of its Rab-interacting surface 788
Hongtao Yu & Stuart
L. Schreiber
doi:10.1038/376788a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,089K)
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| | Structural basis for DNA bending by the architectural transcription
factor LEF-1 791
John J. Love, Xiang Li, David
A. Case, Klaus Giese, Rudolf Crosschedl & Peter
E. Wright
doi:10.1038/376791a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,284K)
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| | Product Reviews | |
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| | A novel thermostable polymerase for DNA sequencing 796
Using recent findings by Tabor and Richardson, a novel
thermostable DNA polymerase that generates sequence data comparable with T7
Sequenase DNA polymerase has been developed for improved base calling and
longer reads.
Michael A. Reeve & Carl
W. Fuller
doi:10.1038/376796a0
References | PDF (885K)
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| | Ribonucleic recap 798
Featuring molecular biology, this week's edition offers concise information on new tools for the laboratory, such as a new thermostable reverse transcriptase and gene-identification and point mutation screening kits.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/376798a0
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