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| | Whose right to genetic knowledge? 379
A new section in this issue of Nature highlights the growing demands of insurers for access to genetic information, the diversity of legislative responses, and the many scientific uncertainties. The history of genetics suggests a controversial way forward.
doi:10.1038/379379a0
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| | Indian researchers press for stricter rules to regulate 'gene-hunting' 381
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/379381a0
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| | Scientists challenged over 'unauthorized' export of data 381
K. S. Jayaraman & Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379381b0
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| | Internet struggles to connect around the Asia-Pacific rim 382
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/379382a0
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| | Bleak prospects for physics research council 383
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379383a0
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| | Leviathan telescope set to rise again 383
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379383b0
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| | Poor data hampers East-West cooperation 384
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379384a0
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| | Russia approves gene therapy research grants 384
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/379384b0
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| | Materials advice for German research 384
doi:10.1038/379384c0
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| | Cancer charity installs former critic as head 385
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379385a0
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| | US court challenge may limit use of data in DNA banks 385
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/379385b0
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| | Embryo research barred from federal funds 386
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379386a0
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| | Shot in the arm for medical policy body 386
doi:10.1038/379386b0
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| | Panel backs closure of US fusion machine 387
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379387a0
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| | News in brief 388
doi:10.1038/379388a0
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| | Gene tests: who benefits from risk? 389
The insurance industry is likely to find it more difficult to use genetic data on disease susceptibility than some of its critics claim. But it is already contesting demands for strict controls on the way this data is used.
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379389a0
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| | Complexity limits the powers of prediction 390
doi:10.1038/379390a0
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| | Privacy preferred, but what will it cost? 391
doi:10.1038/379391a0
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| | DNA chips intensify the sequence search 392
doi:10.1038/379392a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | RGS, Shell and Nigeria 393
John Hemming
doi:10.1038/379393a0
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| | Not so black 393
Athanassios Giannis
doi:10.1038/379393b0
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| | Clinical trials 393
David Shapiro
doi:10.1038/379393c0
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| | No way back? 393
Yolanda S. Lopez-Boado & Fernando Segade
doi:10.1038/379393d0
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| | Birth dates in Florence... 394
Vieri Boddi, Enzo Brizzi, Antonio Conti & Gian FrancoGensini
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| | ...meanwhile, elsewhere in Italy 395
F. Gloria-Bottini, N. Lucarini & M. La Torre
doi:10.1038/379395a0
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| | Inexpressible trinucleotides 396
James McClellan & Sarah Newbury
doi:10.1038/379396a0
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| | First flight 396
Graham Kemp
doi:10.1038/379396b0
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| | Not there yet 396
Harmon Craig
doi:10.1038/379396c0
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| | Not there yet 396
R. B. Elliott
doi:10.1038/379396d0
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| | Please write legibly 396
James Bottomley
doi:10.1038/379396e0
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| | Giants and dwarfs meet in the middle 397
The discovery of two remarkable new objects by astronomers has blurred the distinction between stars and planets. It also raises hopes of finding planetary systems like our own in the near future.
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/379397a0
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| | Crystal-clear chloride channels 398
Steven C. Hebert
doi:10.1038/379398a0
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| | Provlncial primary production 399
Philip Newton
doi:10.1038/379399a0
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| | Dangerous liaisons and disease 400
David W. Macdonald
doi:10.1038/379400a0
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| | X-rays reveal heart of darkness 401
Michael J. West
doi:10.1038/379401a0
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| | When the junk isn't junk 402
Melissa J. Moore
doi:10.1038/379402a0
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| | Illuminating entanglement 403
Tony Sudbery
doi:10.1038/379403a0
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| | Smooth reactions 404
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379404a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | The ins and outs of fertilization 405
Timothy L. Karr & Scott Pitnick
doi:10.1038/379405a0
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| | Multituberculate phylogeny 406
Guillermo W. Rougler, John R. Wible & Michael J. Novacek
doi:10.1038/379406a0
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| | Multituberculate phylogeny 406
Paul C. Sereno & Malcolm C. McKenna
doi:10.1038/379406b0
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| | Multituberculate phylogeny 407
Jin Meng & Andre R. Wyss
doi:10.1038/379407a0
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| | Taxonomy of the Iberian lynx 407
Juan F. Beltrán, John E. Rice & Rodney L. Honeycutt
doi:10.1038/379407b0
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| | Right-pawedness in toads 408
Angelo Bisazza, Claudio Cantalupo, Andrew Robins, Lesley J. Rogers & Giorgio Vallortigara
doi:10.1038/379408a0
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| | A paean to living things 409
Christian de Duve reviews What is Life?
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Lynn Dorion MargulisSagan
doi:10.1038/379409a0
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| | Entombed in stone 409
doi:10.1038/379409b0
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| | Social complexities 410
W. C. McGrew reviews In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journey Hans Kummer & M. Ann Biederman-Thorson
doi:10.1038/379410a0
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| | Bending perception 410
Irving M. Klotz reviews Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb
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Mark Walker
doi:10.1038/379410b0
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| | Who enforces the law? 412
Giovanni F. Bignami reviews Idee per il governo: L'Universita
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Raffaele Simone et al and II peso della qualita accademica
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S. Garbisa & L. Calza
doi:10.1038/379412a0
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| | Electrons in artificial atoms 413
R. C. Ashoori
doi:10.1038/379413a0
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| | Protein folding in the central cavity of the GroEL–GroES chaperonin complex 420
Mark Mayhew, Ana C. R. da Silva, Jörg Martin, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst & F. Ulrich Hartl
doi:10.1038/379420a0
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| | Discovery of a hierarchical distribution of dark matter in the Fornax cluster of galaxies 427
Y. Ikebe, H. Ezawa, Y. Fukazawa, M. Hirayama, Y. Ishisaki, K. Kikuchi, H. Kubo, K. Makishima, K. Matsushita, T. Ohashi, T. Takahashi & T. Tamura
doi:10.1038/379427a0
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| | Rapid acceleration of the polar solar wind 429
R. R. Grail, W. A. Coles, M. T. Klinglesmith, A. R. Breen, P. J. S. Williams, Jussi Markkanen & Ruth Esser
doi:10.1038/379429a0
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| | Viscoelastic effects in the spreading of liquids 432
Alain Carré, Jean-Claude Gastel & Martin E. R. Shanahan
doi:10.1038/379432a0
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| | Large-scale mapping of ocean surface currents with dual over-the-horizon radars 434
T. M. Georges , J. A. Harlan & R. A. Lematta
doi:10.1038/379434a0
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| | Effect of depth-dependent viscosity on the planform of mantle convection 436
Hans-Peter Bunge, Mark A. Richards & John R. Baumgardner
doi:10.1038/379436a0
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| | Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents 439
G. Storch, B. Engesser & M. Wuttke
doi:10.1038/379439a0
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| | A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo) 441
Melody E. Roelke-Parker, Linda Munson, Craig Packer, Richard Kock, Sarah Cleaveland, Margaret Carpenter, Stephen J. O'Brien, Andreas Pospischil, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann, Hans Lutz, George L. M. Mwamengele, M. N. Mgasa, G. A. Machange, Brian A. Summers & Max J. G. Appel
doi:10.1038/379441a0
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| | A common molecular basis for three inherited kidney stone diseases 445
Sarah E. Lloyd, Simon H. S. Pearce, Simon E. Fisher, Klaus Steinmeyer, Blanche Schwappach, Steven J. Scheinman, Brian Harding, Alessandra Bolino, Marcella Devoto, Paul Goodyer, Susan P. A. Rigden, Oliver Wrong, Thomas J. Jentsch, Ian W. Craig & Rajesh V. Thakker
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| | Preferential activation of midbrain dopamine neurons by appetitive rather than aversive stimuli 449
Jacques Mirenowicz & Wolfram Schultz
doi:10.1038/379449a0
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| | Calcium-dependent interaction of N-type calcium channels with the synaptic core complex 451
Zu-Hang Sheng, Jens Rettig, Terry Cook & William A. Catterall
doi:10.1038/379451a0
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| | Two mechanisms of quantized calcium release in skeletal muscle 455
M. G. Klein, H. Cheng, L. F. Santana, Y.-H. Jiang, W. J. Lederer & M. F. Schneider
doi:10.1038/379455a0
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| | Cloning and characterization of the thyroid iodide transporter 458
Ge Dai, Orlie Levy & Nancy Carrasco
doi:10.1038/379458a0
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| | A mammalian RNA editing enzyme 460
Thorsten Melcher, Stefan Maas, Anne Herb, Rolf Sprengel, Peter H. Seeburg & Miyoko Higuchi
doi:10.1038/379460a0
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| | A mammalian gene with introns instead of exons generating stable RNA products 464
Kazimierz T. Tycowski, Mei-Di Shu & Joan A. Steitz
doi:10.1038/379464a0
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| | Femtomole sequencing of proteins from polyacrylamide gels by nano-electrospray mass spectrometry 466
Matthias Wilm, Andrej Shevchenko, Tony Houthaeve, Stephen Breit, Lothar Schweigerer, Theodore Fotsis & Matthias Mann
doi:10.1038/379466a0
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| | The particulars on peptides 471
The peptide platter serves up a variety of goodies including antimicrobial peptides, a deamidation detection kit, a molecular-sizing instrument and a new line of separation products for peptides, polypeptides and proteins.
BRENDAN HORTON>
doi:10.1038/379471a0
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