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| | Japan's researchers merit further reforms 567
The new batch of changes to procedures for selecting competitive grants is one of many recent welcome improvements to Japan's university research system. But it is by no means adequate.
doi:10.1038/379567a0
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| | Values poisoned by commerce 567
A survey and a 'leak' are symptoms of a corruption of traditional science.
doi:10.1038/379567b0
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| | Small telescopes may be auctioned off under US 'privatization' plan 569
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379569a0
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| | New funds bring Magellan project into focus 569
doi:10.1038/379569b0
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| | Republicans want 'junk science', says Gore 570
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379570a0
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| | Health secretary backs AIDS office's budget authority 570
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379570b0
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| | No resuscitation for US technology office, closed by congress 571
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379571a0
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| | Cancer link to power cables exaggerated, say critics 571
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379571b0
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| | INTAS plans improved grant systems after claims of 'patronage' 572
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379572a0
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| | Nuclear watchdog tightens incident reporting rules 572
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379572b0
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| | Ministry 'knew high risk' of AIDS transmission 572
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/379572c0
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| | Japan sharpens selection of grant winners 573
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/379573a0
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| | Pacific gulf limits US–Japanese projects 573
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379573b0
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| | 'Leak' rumours fuel debate on gene patent 574
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379574a0
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| | Commercial interests delay publication 574
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379574b0
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| | University renames faculty after row over eugenics advocate 575
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379575a0
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| | French citations forge ahead but Europe still loses ground 575
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379575b0
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| | News in brief 576
doi:10.1038/379576a0
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| | Cost-cutting at CERN? 578
K. J. Peach
doi:10.1038/379578a0
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| | Warped view 578
Roger Macy
doi:10.1038/379578b0
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| | Organ transplants 578
David K. C. Cooper
doi:10.1038/379578c0
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| | Why Japan ought to legalize the Pill 579
The Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare is again considering legalization of steroid oral contraceptives. Approval could greatly reduce the incidence of abortion in Japan, which is at least twice that officially reported.
Hiromi Maruyama, James H. Raphael & Carl Djerassi
doi:10.1038/379579a0
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| | Where has all the old crust gone? 581
Geophysicists have come to believe that the Earth was covered with a thick crust more than four billion years ago. New measurements challenge that theory, indicating the importance of crustal destruction in Earth's early history.
Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/379581a0
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| | Doctors watch the forecasts 582
William A. Sprigg
doi:10.1038/379582a0
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| | Soldier production under threat 583
Deborah M. Gordon
doi:10.1038/379583a0
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| | The information superflyway 584
Rodney J. Douglas & Kevan A. C. Martin
doi:10.1038/379584a0
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| | Iron grip on export production 585
Alan Longhurst
doi:10.1038/379585a0
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| | Harassed galaxies blush 586
Bob Joseph
doi:10.1038/379586a0
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| | Digging up the roots of life 587
Arne Ø. Mooers & Rosemary J. Redfield
doi:10.1038/379587a0
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| | Wind and sand 588
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379588a0
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| | Yeast genes and human disease 589
Douglas E. Bassett, Mark S. Boguski & Philip Hieter
doi:10.1038/379589a0
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| | How Euglena tells up from down 590
Michael Lebert & Donat-Peter Häder
doi:10.1038/379590a0
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| | A new type of glacial deposit 590
Peter W. Uitterdijk Appel
doi:10.1038/379590b0
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| | A newly defined interleukin-1? 591
J. Fernando Bazan, Jackie C. Timans & Robert A. Kastelein
doi:10.1038/379591a0
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| | An Early Silurian vascular plant 592
Chongyang Cai, Shu Ouyang, Yi Wang, Zongjie Fang, Jiayu Rong, Liangyu Geng & Xingxue Li
doi:10.1038/379592a0
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| | Book of numbers 593
Vaclav Smil reviews How Many People Can the Earth Support?
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Joel E. Cohen
doi:10.1038/379593a0
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| | Book of numbers 593
Vaclav Smil reviews How Many People Can the Earth Support?
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Joel E. Cohen
doi:10.1038/379593b0
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| | Linguistic leaps and bounds 594
Paul Fletcher reviews Language and Human Behaviour
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Derek Bickerton
doi:10.1038/379594a0
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| | The price of greatness 595
Peter Bryant reviews Bruno Bettelheim: The Other Side of Madness
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Nina Sutton
doi:10.1038/379595a0
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| | Astrochemistry revealed 596
Stephen Lepp reviews The Chemically Controlled Cosmos: Astronomical Molecules from the Big Bang to Exploding Stars
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T. W Hartquist & D. A. Williams
doi:10.1038/379596a0
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| | Wide illumination 596
Frank McCapra reviews Photobiology
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E. Kohen, R. Santus & J. G. Hirschberg
doi:10.1038/379596b0
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| | Progress | |
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| | From DNA sequence to biological function 597
Genome sequencing is leading to the discovery of new genes at a rate 50–100 times greater than that achieved by classical genetics, but the biological function of almost half of these genes is completely unknown. In order fully to exploit genome sequence data, a systematic approach to the discovery of gene function is required. Possible strategies are
discussed here in the context of functional analysis in the yeast Saccfiaromyces cerevisiae, a model eukaryote whose genome sequence will soon be completed.
Stephen G. Oliver
doi:10.1038/379597a0
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| | Dynamical weakening of faults by acoustic fluidization 601
H. J. Melosh
doi:10.1038/379601a0
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| | Hyperlocomotion and indifference to cocaine and amphetamine in mice lacking the dopamine transporter 606
Bruno Giros, Mohamed Jaber, Sara R. Jones, R. Mark Wightman & Marc G. Caron
doi:10.1038/379606a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Galaxy harassment and the evolution of clusters of galaxies 613
Ben Moore, Neal Katz, George Lake, Alan Dressler & Augustus Oemler
doi:10.1038/379613a0
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| | Microscopic origins of superfluidity in confined geometries 616
P. E. Sokol, M. R. Gibbs, W. G. Stirling, R. T. Azuah & M. A. Adams
doi:10.1038/379616a0
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| | Characterization of low-dimensional dynamics in the crayfish caudal photoreceptor 618
Xing Pei & Frank Moss
doi:10.1038/379618a0
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| | Control of community growth and export production by upwelled iron in the equatorial Pacific Ocean 621
Kenneth H. Coale, Steve E. Fitzwater, R. Michael Gordon, Kenneth S. Johnson & Richard T. Barber
doi:10.1038/379621a0
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| | Constraints on early Earth differentiation from hafnium and neodymium isotopes 624
J. D. Vervoort, P. J. Patchett, G. E. Gehrels & A. P. Nutman
doi:10.1038/379624a0
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| | Scales of thelodont and shark-like fishes from the Ordovician of Colorado 628
Ivan J. Sansom, Moya M. Smith & M. Paul Smith
doi:10.1038/379628a0
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| | Increased soldier production in ant colonies exposed to intraspecific competition 630
Luc Passera, Eric Roncin, Bernard Kaufmann & Laurent Keller
doi:10.1038/379630a0
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| | Abnormal splicing of the leptin receptor in diabetic mice 632
Gwo-Hwa Lee, R. Proenca, J. M. Montez, K. M. Carroll, J. G. Darvishzadeh, J. I. Lee & J. M. Friedman
doi:10.1038/379632a0
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| | Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel 635
Ute Krämer, Janet D. Cotter-Howells, John M. Charnock, Alan J. M. Baker & J. Andrew C. Smith
doi:10.1038/379635a0
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| | Amplification of high-frequency synaptic inputs by active dendritic membrane processes 639
Juergen Haag & Alexander Borst
doi:10.1038/379639a0
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| | The rate of information transfer at graded-potential synapses 642
R. R. de Ruyter van Steveninck & S. B. Laughlin
doi:10.1038/379642a0
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| | Inhibition of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by a Jak-2 inhibitor 645
Naftaly Meydan, Tom Grunberger, Harjit Dadi, Michal Shahar, Enrico Arpaia, Zvi Lapidot, J. Steven Leeder, Melvin Freedman, Amos Cohen, Aviv Gazit, Alexander Levitzki & Chaim M. Roifman
doi:10.1038/379645a0
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| | Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge 649
Alex Martin, Cheri L. Wiggs, Leslie G. Ungerleider & James V. Haxby
doi:10.1038/379649a0
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| | Creation of a biologically active interleukin-5 monomer 652
Richard R. Dickason & David P. Huston
doi:10.1038/379652a0
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| | Identification of the gal4 suppressor Sug1 as a subunit of the yeast 26S proteasome 655
David M. Rubin, Olivier Coux, Inge Wefes, Christoph Hengartner, Richard A. Young, Alfred L. Goldberg & Daniel Daniel Finley
doi:10.1038/379655a0
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| | Erratum | |
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| | Syk tyrosine kinase required for mouse viability and B-cell development 657
Alec M. Bruce William Adrian Joseph B. Tony ChengRowleyPaoHaydayBolenPawson
doi:10.1038/379657a0
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Jonathan C. Karsten Stephen Albert SwaffieldMelcherJohnston
doi:10.1038/379658a0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Chromatography column 659
Manufacturers show their true colours with new separation products, such as an HPLC solvent recycler, new HIC columns, a capillary GC injector, a microflow-HPLC system and a selection of Chromatography data control systems.
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doi:10.1038/379659a0
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