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The World Medical Association is planning to fashion a statement on the ethical principles of genetic screening from a draft that is altogether over-cautious.
doi:10.1038/377273a0
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| | More central control 274
British universities, which award degrees by examining their students, are now to be examined themselves.
doi:10.1038/377274a0
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| | Technophobia and shares 274
The London Stock Exchange, which thinks itself a citadel of capitalism, is behaving badly towards the Internet.
doi:10.1038/377274b0
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Jerome Thorel
doi:10.1038/377275a0
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doi:10.1038/377275b0
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Laurie Goodman
doi:10.1038/377276a0
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Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/377276b0
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doi:10.1038/377276c0
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| | Spermatid injection fertilizes ethics debate 277
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/377277a0
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doi:10.1038/377277b0
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| | Forensic team digs up Haiti's deadly past 278
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/377278a0
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doi:10.1038/377278b0
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| | Physicians prepare guidelines on use of human genome data 279
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/377279a0
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| | Call for partnership projects to join �80 million scheme 279
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/377279b0
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Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/377279c0
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| | French research budget wins increase, but few new posts 280
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/377280a0
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| | India's 'milk miracle' is hard to swallow 280
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/377280b0
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Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/377281a0
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| | Astronomers view 'tolerance' satellite with iaundiced eye 281
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/377281b0
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Andrew E. Dizon, Phillip J. Clapham, William F. Perrin & Robert L. Brownell Jr
doi:10.1038/377282a0
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| | ORI s unhappy lot 282
Charles W. McCutchen
doi:10.1038/377282b0
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John Cadogan
doi:10.1038/377282c0
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Arnold M. Ludwig
doi:10.1038/377282d0
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Nature's Genome Directory, the largest compilation yet of published data about the human genome, appears today. Here Peter Goodfellow discusses the first paper, which deals with the information to be gleaned from almost 300,000 partial sequences of complementary DNA (expressed sequence tags or ESTs). Overleaf, Peter Little assesses the mapping studies presented in the other five papers in the directory.
Peter Goodfellow
doi:10.1038/377285a0
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Peter Little
doi:10.1038/377286a0
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| | Bullets or fragmenting shells? 287
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
doi:10.1038/377287a0
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Stephen Goodbourn
doi:10.1038/377288a0
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| | Neighbourhood watch 289
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/377289a0
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| | Blindsight in real sight 290
Alan Cowey
doi:10.1038/377290a0
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Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/377290b0
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Wayne M. Itano
doi:10.1038/377291a0
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David Jones
doi:10.1038/377292a0
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Makoto Kato
doi:10.1038/377293a0
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Daniel A. Pollen
doi:10.1038/377293b0
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Francis Crick & Christof Koch
doi:10.1038/377294a0
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Larry Cahill, Ralf Babinsky, Hans J. Markowitsch & James L. McGaugh
doi:10.1038/377295a0
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Jean Vacelet, Nicole Boury-Esnault, Aline Fiala-Medioni & C. R. Fisher
doi:10.1038/377296a0
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| | The killing fields 297
J. R. S. Fincham reviews The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble that Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture
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Paul Raeburn
doi:10.1038/377297a0
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Roy Gibson reviews Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science
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Stacia E. Zabusky, Roger M. Bonnet & Vittorio Manno
doi:10.1038/377298a0
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Anthony Storr reviews Cultures of Healing: Correcting the Image of American Mental Health Care
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Robert T. Fancher & W. H. Freeman
doi:10.1038/377298b0
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Mike Stratton reviews Breakthrough: The Quest to Isolate the Gene for Hereditary Breast Cancer
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Kevin Davies & Michael White
doi:10.1038/377299a0
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John Buckleton reviews Science and the Detective: Selected Reading in Forensic Science
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Brian H. Kaye, Bernard Robertson & G. A. Vignaux
doi:10.1038/377300a0
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| | The role of mantle plumes in continental breakup: case histories from Gondwanaland 301
Bryan C. Storey
doi:10.1038/377301a0
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| | A base pair between tRNA and 23S rRNA in the peptidyl transferase centre of the ribosome 309
Raymond R. Samaha, Rachel Green & Harry F. Noller
doi:10.1038/377309a0
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| | Formation of 'bullets' by hydrodynamical instabilities in stellar outflows 315
James M. Stone, Jianjun Xu & Lee G. Mundy
doi:10.1038/377315a0
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David J. Erskine & Neil C. Holmes
doi:10.1038/377317a0
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Dominic Walsh & Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/377320a0
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| | Rapid climate variability in the North Pacific Ocean during the past 95,000 years 323
A. T. Kotilainen & N. J. Shackleton
doi:10.1038/377323a0
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| | Nitrogen content of the mantle inferred from N2−Ar correlation in oceanic basalts 326
Bernard Marty
doi:10.1038/377326a0
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| | Coprolites as evidence for plant−animal interaction in Siluro−Devonian terrestrial ecosystems 329
Dianne Edwards, Paul A. Selden, John B. Richardson & Lindsey Axe
doi:10.1038/377329a0
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James H. Marden & Melissa G. Kramer
doi:10.1038/377332a0
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| | Unusual thermal defence by a honeybee against mass attack by hornets
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Masato Ono, Takeshi Igarashi, Eishi Ohno & Masami Sasaki
doi:10.1038/377334a0
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| | Blindsight in normal observers 336
F. Christopher Kolb & Jochen Braun
doi:10.1038/377336a0
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| | Which parts of the road guide steering? 339
Michael Land & Julia Horwood
doi:10.1038/377339a0
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Stella E. Tsirka, Anna Gualandris, David G. Amaral & Sidney Strickland
doi:10.1038/377340a0
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Stephen J. Moss, George H. Gorrie, Alessandra Amato & Trevor G. Smart
doi:10.1038/377344a0
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Lixin Zheng, Galen Fisher, Robert E. Miller, Jacques Peschon, David H. Lynch & Michael J. Lenardo
doi:10.1038/377348a0
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| | Facilitation of lin-12-mediated signalling by sel-12, a Caenorhabditis elegans S182 Alzheimer's disease gene 351
Diane Levitan & Iva Greenwald
doi:10.1038/377351a0
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| | Signalling downstream of activated mammalian Notch 355
Sophie Jarriault, Christel Brou, Frédérique Logeat, Eric H. Schroeter, Raphael Kopan & Alain Israel
doi:10.1038/377355a0
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| | Growth-dependent translation of IGF-II mRNA by a rapamycin-sensitive pathway 358
Finn C. Nielsen, Lars Østergaard, Jacob Nielsen & Jan Christiansen
doi:10.1038/377358a0
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Patricia S. Vaughan, Farah Aziz, André J. van Wijnen, Shujian Wu, Hisashi Harada, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Kenneth J. Soprano, Janet L. Stein & Gary S. Stein
doi:10.1038/377362a0
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Product review your indoor laboratory outfitter, supplies information on automated liquid systems, new benchtop autoclaves and centrifuges, an ultraviolet transluminator, and a automatic gas-supply switching system.
doi:10.1038/377366a0
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