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| | Perceptions of Germany unveiled 755
Surveys have revealed the unpopularity of Germany as a place for young foreign scientists. In response, Germans need to improve conditions suffered by academics; foreigners need to think more realistically about the country and its inhabitants.
doi:10.1038/378755a0
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| | Bad day at Yucca 755
The delay in deciding on a site for permanent nuclear waste storage puts feeble politics ahead of decisive management.
doi:10.1038/378755b0
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| | European proposal reopens debate over patenting of human genes 756
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378756a0
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| | AIDS patient given baboon bone marrow 756
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/378756b0
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| | NIH denies biame for radiation poisoning but tightens rules 757
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378757a0
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| | Science champion perplexes allies with news of departure 757
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378757b0
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| | Monterey woos biotech firms by relaxing field trial rules its staffing costs 758
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/378758a0
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| | CERN urged to keep closer control over its staffing costs. 758
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378758b0
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| | Climate report cuts call for strong policies 759
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/378759a0
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| | BSE results 'may quell panic', but caution still needed 759
doi:10.1038/378759b0
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| | More on citation analysis 760
Dan H. Yaalon
doi:10.1038/378760a0
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| | More on citation analysis 760
Nicola Maffulli
doi:10.1038/378760b0
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| | Spanish practices 760
Miguel Perez-Enciso
doi:10.1038/378760c0
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| | Still there 760
Luke O'C. Drury
doi:10.1038/378760d0
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| | Mice and beef and brain diseases 761
Can people contract neurodegenerative disease by eating beef products contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Experiments with transgenic mice give cause to think that the answer may be 'no'.
James Hope
doi:10.1038/378761a0
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| | A short history of prions 761
J. H.
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| | Further enigmatic variations 762
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/378762a0
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| | Light from tungsten on core construction 763
David J. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/378763a0
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| | Brooding with the best 764
David B. Weishampel
doi:10.1038/378764a0
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| | Blood and iron 765
David Jones
doi:10.1038/378765a0
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| | Explosive New Zealand mistletoe 766
Jenny J. Ladley & Dave Kelly
doi:10.1038/378766a0
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| | Asymmetric autocatalysis and amplification of enantiomeric excess of a chiral molecule 767
Kenso Soai, Takanori Shibata, Hiroshi Morioka & Kaori Choji
doi:10.1038/378767a0
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| | Continental climate response to orbital forcing from biogenic silica records in Lake Baikal 769
S. M. Colman, J. A. Peck, E. B. Karabanov, S. J. Carter, J. P. Bradbury, J. W. King & D. F. Williams
doi:10.1038/378769a0
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| | Hafnium–tungsten chronometry and the timing of terrestrial core formation 771
Der-Chuen Lee & Alex N. Halliday
doi:10.1038/378771a0
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| | A nesting dinosaur 774
Mark A. Norell, James M. Clark, Luis M. Chiappe & Demberelyin Dashzeveg
doi:10.1038/378774a0
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| | Apoptosis and increased generation of reactive oxygen species in Down's syndrome neurons in vitro
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Jorge Busciglio & Bruce A. Yankner
doi:10.1038/378776a0
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| | Unaltered susceptibility to BSE in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein 779
John Collinge, Mark S. Palmer, Katie C. L. Sidle, Andrew F. Hill, Ian Gowland, Julie Meads, Emmanuel Asante, Ray Bradley, Lawrence J. Doey & Peter L. Lantos
doi:10.1038/378779a0
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| | Diurnal variation in mRNA encoding serotonin N-acetyltransferase in pineal gland 783
Jimo Borjigin, Michael M. Wang & Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/378783a0
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| | Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by insulin mediated by protein kinase B 785
Darren A. E. Cross, Dario R. Alessi, Philip Cohen, Mirjana Andjelkovich & Brian A. Hemmings
doi:10.1038/378785a0
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| | Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2
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Richard Wooster, Graham Bignell, Jonathan Lancaster, Sally Swift, Sheila Seal, Jonathan Mangion, Nadine Collins, Simon Gregory, Curtis Gumbs, Gos Micklem, Rita Barfoot, Rifat Hamoudi, Sandeep Patel, Catherine Rices, Patrick Biggs, Yasmin Hashim, Amanda Smith, Frances Connor, Adalgeir Arason, Julius Gudmundsson, David Ficenec, David Kelsell, Deborah , Patricia FordTonin, D. Timothy Bishop, Nigel K. Spurr, Bruce A. J. Ponder, Rosalind Eeles, Julian Peto, Peter Devilee, Cees Cornelisse, Henry Lynch, Steven Narod, Gilbert Lenoir, Valdgardur Egilsson, Rosa Bjork Barkadottir, Douglas F. Easton, David R. Bentley, P. Andrew Futreal, Alan Ashworth & Michael R. Stratton
doi:10.1038/378789a0
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| | Cloning and functional expression of a rat heart KATP channel 792
M. L. J. Ashford, C. T. Bond, T. A. Blair & J. P. Adelman
doi:10.1038/378792a0
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