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| | Fusion on shifting foundations 473
Creating affordable energy by fusing deuterium and tritium is still only a dream, while costs of fusion research continue to climb. The community's plans still command political support, but need bolstering by a fundamental review of activities.
doi:10.1038/379473a0
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| | Heed chemical warnings 473
The UK government should consult independent researchers on chemical weapons.
doi:10.1038/379473b0
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| | NIH agrees to temporary by-pass of AIDS office in allocation of grants 475
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379475a0
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| | Rockefeller biologist tipped for the top at Salk 475
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379475b0
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| | European space science braces for mission cuts 476
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379476a0
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| | Heads roll at French space agency 476
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379476b0
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| | US deal buys into 476
doi:10.1038/379476c0
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| | Italy 'cannot afford' space station role 477
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379477a0
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| | Mir to keep Russia on board international station project 477
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379477b0
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| | Japan reviews cose of nuclear reprocessing 478
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/379478a0
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| | French genome pioneer goes private 478
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379478b0
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| | UK chemists seek a greater role in policing arms ban 479
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379479a0
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| | Legal action 'may end search for truth' in Canada's HIV inquiry 479
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/379479b0
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| | Biotech shares fall as company halts asthma drug trials 480
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/379480a0
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| | 'Fraud police' face dilemma over warning medical boards 480
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/379480b0
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| | Congress urged to end budget uncertainty 481
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379481a0
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| | Scientific caution 'blunts efforts' to conserve fish stocks 481
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379481b0
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| | UK defence ministry plans renewed assault on Gulf War syndrome 482
doi:10.1038/379482a0
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| | US-Russian projects announced 482
doi:10.1038/379482b0
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| | Cell biologists celebrate prize 482
doi:10.1038/379482c0
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| | Top-up funds for EU research 482
doi:10.1038/379482d0
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| | Japan tracks infected blood supply 483
doi:10.1038/379483a0
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| | US 'will honour' uranium pledge 483
doi:10.1038/379483b0
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| | Ocean research sounds fine 483
doi:10.1038/379483c0
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| | Travel costs under fire at NOAA 483
doi:10.1038/379483d0
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| | Why genes can be patented 484
Norman H. Carey
doi:10.1038/379484a0
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| | Chance remarks 484
Bill Amos
doi:10.1038/379484b0
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| | Well reviewed 484
Keith P. Shine
doi:10.1038/379484c0
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| | Visual perception: rivalry and consciousness 485
As a paper elsewhere in this issue attests, the problem of the neural basis of consciousness looks ever more tractable as neurobiologists delve into the process of visual perception.
Francis Crick
doi:10.1038/379485a0
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| | There's safety in numbers 486
William Brune
doi:10.1038/379486a0
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| | Clair C. Patterson (1922-95) 487
A. Russell Regal
doi:10.1038/379487a0
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| | The ephemeral mountains 488
Alan Howard
doi:10.1038/379488a0
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| | Meet your cosmic neighbour 489
Amos Yahil
doi:10.1038/379489a0
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| | An elongation factor turn-on 491
Knud H. Nierhaus
doi:10.1038/379491a0
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| | Vent fauna and plate tectonics 492
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/379492a0
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| | Fertilization without sperm 493
R. John Aitken & D. Stewart Irvine
doi:10.1038/379493a0
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| | The subtle taste of Jupiter 495
David J. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/379495a0
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| | Small and slippery 496
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379496a0
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| | Recognizing facial emotion 497
Stephan B. Hamann, Lisa Stefanacci, Larry R. Squire, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Hanna Damasio & Antonio Damasio
doi:10.1038/379497a0
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| | Kin recognition in honeybees 498
Gérard Arnold, Brigitte Quenet, Jean-Marie Cornuet, Claudine Masson, Benoît De Schepper, Arnaud Estoup & Patrick Gasqui
doi:10.1038/379498a0
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| | Fossil mesothele spiders 498
Paul A. Selden
doi:10.1038/379498b0
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| | A plant oncogene as a phosphatase 499
Francesco Filippini, Valeria Rossi, Oriano Marin, Maurizio Trovato, Paolo Costantino, Patrick Mark Downey, Fiorella Lo Schiavo & Mario Terzi
doi:10.1038/379499a0
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| | Chaos in the classroom 500
Justin Marston
doi:10.1038/379500a0
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| | Nothing but the truth? 501
George J. Annas reviews Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America
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Sheila Jasanoff
doi:10.1038/379501a0
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| | Cultivating knowledge 502
Peter H. Raven reviews Kew: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens
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Ray Desmond
doi:10.1038/379502a0
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| | Mycophobia and mycophilia 503
David L. Hawksworth reviews Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas - A Handbook for Naturalists, Mycologists, and Physicians
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Denis R. Benjamin
doi:10.1038/379503a0
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| | Landscapes in transition 504
David R. Montgomery reviews The Changing Earth: Rates of Geo-morphological Processes
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Andrew Goudie
doi:10.1038/379504a0
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| | Under cold stone 504
J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson reviews A Natural History of AmphibiansRobert C. Sebbins & Nathan W. Cohen
doi:10.1038/379504b0
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| | New in paperback 504
doi:10.1038/379504c0
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| | Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas 505
Douglas W. Burbank, John Leland, Eric Fielding, Robert S. Anderson, Nicholas Brozovic, Mary R. Reid & Christopher Duncan
doi:10.1038/379505a0
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| | The structure of the Escherichia coli EF-Tu EF-Ts complex at 2.5 Å resolution 511
Takemasa Kawashima, Carmen Berthet-Colominas, Michael Wulff, Stephen Cusack & Reuben Leberman
doi:10.1038/379511a0
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| | A nearby massive galaxy cluster behind the Milky Way 519
R. C. Kraan-Korteweg, P. A. Woudt, V. Cayatte, A. P. Fairall, C. Balkowski & P. A. Henning
doi:10.1038/379519a0
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| | Equivalence of the sound velocity in water and ice at mesoscopic wavelengths 521
G. Ruocco, F. Sette, U. Bergmann, M. Krisch, C. Masciovecchlo, V. Mazzacurati, G. Signorelli & R. Verbeni
doi:10.1038/379521a0
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| | A microscopic model for surface-induced diamond-to-graphite transitions 523
Alessandro De Vita, Giulia Galli, Andrew Canning & Roberto Car
doi:10.1038/379523a0
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| | Satellite confirmation of the dominance of chlorofluorocarbons in the global stratospheric chlorine budget 526
James M. Russell III, Mingzhao Luo, Ralph J. Cicerone & Lance E. Deaver
doi:10.1038/379526a0
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| | Magma mixing by convective entrainment 529
Don Snyder & Stephen Tait
doi:10.1038/379529a0
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| | Influence of sea-floor spreading on the global hydrothermal vent fauna 531
Verena Tunnicliffe & C. Mary R. Fowler
doi:10.1038/379531a0
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| | Down's syndrome-like skeletal abnormalities in Ets2 transgenic mice 534
Sony Heru Sumarsono, Trevor J. Wilson, Martin J. Tymms, Deon J. Venter, Catherine M. Corrick, Rihanna Kola, Mireille H. Lahoud, Takis S. Papas, Arun Seth & Ismail Kola
doi:10.1038/379534a0
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| | Diet and snake venom evolution 537
Jennifer C. Daltry, Wolfgang Wüster & Roger S. Thorpe
doi:10.1038/379537a0
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| | Dose-response relationships for resetting of human circadian clock by light 540
Diane B. Boivin, Jeanne F. Duffy, Richard E. Kronauer & Charles A. Czeisler
doi:10.1038/379540a0
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| | Resetting of the circadian clock by a conditioned stimulus 542
Shimon Amir & Jane Stewart
doi:10.1038/379542a0
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| | Promiscuous coupling between the sulphonylurea receptor and inwardly rectifying potassium channels 545
Carlna Ämmälä, Andrew Moorhouse, Fiona Gribble, Rebecca Ashfleld, Peter Proks, Paul A. Smith, Hiroshl Sakura, Barbara Coles, Stephen J. H. Ashcroft & Frances M. Ashcroft
doi:10.1038/379545a0
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| | Activity changes in early visual cortex reflect monkeys' percepts during binocular rivalry 549
David A. Leopold & Nikos K. Logothetis
doi:10.1038/379549a0
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Emily H.-Y. Cheng, Beth Levine, Lawrence H. Boise, Craig B. Thompson & J. Marie Hardwick
doi:10.1038/379554a0
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| | Role of transactivation of the EGF receptor in signalling by G-protein-coupled receptors 557
Henrik Daub, F. Ulrich Weiss, Christian Wallasch & Axel Ullrich
doi:10.1038/379557a0
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| | A Grb2-associated docking protein in EGF- and insulin-receptor signalling 560
Marina Holgado-Madruga, David R. Emlet, David K. Moscatello, Andrew K. Godwin & Albert J. Wong
doi:10.1038/379560a0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Biotechnology bulletin 565
For scaling-up bioprocess operations and ensuring quality control there are a number of new products described below including a chromatography control system, an on-line biochemical analyser and a non-invasive animal testing service.
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doi:10.1038/379565a0
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