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| | Two cheers for small space missions 661
Europe's achievements in space combine excellent science with responsible management. New measures to increase cost-effectiveness can only be welcome, while the United States can recover its shaky reputation by taking the lead in small missions.
doi:10.1038/379661a0
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| | South Africa's progress 661
After long delays, government initiatives give tangible cause for hope in South Africa.
doi:10.1038/379661b0
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| | Health ministry accepts liability in Japanese HIV-infected blood row 663
Stephen Barker & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/379663a0
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| | Canadian inquiry points the finger 663
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/379663b0
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| | Scientists urged to turn their attentions to nuclear waste 664
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379664a0
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| | HIV vaccine strategy seeks to woo industry 665
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379665a0
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| | Yeltsin promises to pay government's debts to scientists 665
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/379665b0
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| | South Africa boosts funding for universities 666
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/379666a0
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| | Funding agency names new president 666
MICHAEL CHERRY
doi:10.1038/379666b0
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| | Infrared images map Invisible' matter 667
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379667a0
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| | French biomedical research 'needs more coordination' 667
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379667b0
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| | Montagnier sets up AIDS research centre 667
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379667c0
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| | Votes nudge Australia closer to joining telescope project 668
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/379668a0
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| | Review panel cancels meeting as gene therapy proposals fall 668
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379668b0
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| | German institutes face closure after review 669
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/379669a0
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| | Combined beams bring stars into focus 669
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379669b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 670
doi:10.1038/379670a0
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| | Genes, patents and insurance 672
David J. Aston
doi:10.1038/379672a0
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| | Genes, patents and insurance 672
Peter Stevenson
doi:10.1038/379672b0
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| | Genes, patents and insurance 672
Giles Shaw
doi:10.1038/379672c0
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| | Art for science's sake 672
Karl Poralla
doi:10.1038/379672d0
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| | Diversity and sustainability on the prairie 673
The idea that higher biological diversity begets more robust and more productive ecosystems is an old one. Only now are convincing experimental tests of the principle emerging.
Peter Kareiva
doi:10.1038/379673a0
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doi:10.1038/379674a0
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| | A glimpse of the antiworld 674
John Eades
doi:10.1038/379674b0
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| | Signs of an early spring 676
Ian D. Hutcheon
doi:10.1038/379676a0
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| | RNA bound to silence 676
Kimberly Carr
doi:10.1038/379676b0
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| | Psychoactive smoke 677
Alexander H. Glassman & George F. Koob
doi:10.1038/379677a0
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| | A distant but absorbing youth 678
Antoinette Songaila Cowie
doi:10.1038/379678a0
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| | Deep water distillation 679
Ed Boyle
doi:10.1038/379679a0
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| | Romantic airs 680
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379680a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Why old fiddles sound sweeter 681
D. G. Hunt & E. Balsan
doi:10.1038/379681a0
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| | Similar bacteria in remote oil fields 681
Michel Magot
doi:10.1038/379681b0
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| | CD95 ligand in graft rejection 682
Hideo Yagita, Ken-ichiro Seino, Nobuhiko Kayagaki & Ko Okumura
doi:10.1038/379682a0
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| | CD95 ligand in graft rejection 682
R. C. Duke, A. Franzusoff & D. Bellgrau
doi:10.1038/379682b0
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| | Drought tolerance in tobacco 683
Kjell-Ove Holmström, Einar Mäntylä, Björn Welin, Abul Mandal, E. Tapio Palva, Outi E. Tunnela & John Londesborough
doi:10.1038/379683a0
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| | Insect pheromone in elephants 684
L. E. L. Rasmussen, Terry D. Lee, Wendell L. Roelofs, Aijun Zhang & G. Doyle Daves Jr
doi:10.1038/379684a0
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| | Beyond reasonable doubt 685
Tim Crane reviews Soul-Searching: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief
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Nicholas Humphrey
doi:10.1038/379685a0
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| | Flower power 685
doi:10.1038/379685b0
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| | Decisions spared 686
R. V. Jones reviews Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall
Edited by
Jeremy Bernstein
doi:10.1038/379686a0
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| | A Bedside Nature 686
doi:10.1038/379686b0
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| | Apocalypse of our own making 687
Bernard Wood reviews The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History
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Colin Judge and Dominion: Can Nature and Culture Co-Exist
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Niles Eldredge
doi:10.1038/379687a0
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doi:10.1038/379688a0
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| | To coldly go 688
John Haslett reviews Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences
Edited by
F. S. Chapin III & C. Körner
doi:10.1038/379688b0
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| | Similar rates of modern and last-glacial ocean thermohaline circulation inferred from radiochemical data 689
Ein-Fen Yu, Roger Francois & Michael P. Bacon
doi:10.1038/379689a0
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| | RNA recognition and translational regulation by a homeodomain protein 694
Josh Dubnau & Gary Struhl
doi:10.1038/379694a0
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| | Early aqueous activity on primitive meteorite parent bodies 701
Magnus Endress, Ernst Zinner & Adolf Bischoff
doi:10.1038/379701a0
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| | Synthesis of oriented films of mesoporous silica on mica 703
Hong Yang, Alex Kuperman, Neil Coombs, Suzan Mamiche-Afara & Geoffrey A. Ozin
doi:10.1038/379703a0
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| | Consequences of climate warming and lake acidification for UV-B penetration in North American boreal lakes 705
David W. Schindler, P. Jefferson Curtis, Brian R. Parker & Michael P. Stainton
doi:10.1038/379705a0
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| | The origin of harmonic tremor at Old Faithful geyser 708
Sharon Kedar, Bradford Sturtevant & Hiroo Kanamori
doi:10.1038/379708a0
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| | Non-chondritic platinum-group element ratios in the Earth's mantle 712
L. Pattou, J. P. Lorand & M. Gros
doi:10.1038/379712a0
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| | Fossil evidence for the origin of the marsupial pattern of tooth replacement 715
Richard L. Cifelli, Timothy B. Rowe, W. Patrick Luckett, James Banta, Reuben Reyes & Robert I. Howes
doi:10.1038/379715a0
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| | Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems 718
David Tilman, David Wedin & Johannes Knops
doi:10.1038/379718a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (617K)
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| | Allometry and simple epidemic models for microparasites 720
Giulio A. De Leo & Andy P. Dobson
doi:10.1038/379720a0
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| | Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans reduced by mating but not gamete production 723
David Gems & Donald L. Riddle
doi:10.1038/379723a0
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| | A systematic map of direction preference in primary visual cortex 725
Michael Weliky, William H. Bosking & David Fitzpatrick
doi:10.1038/379725a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,371K)
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| | Long-range synchronization of oscillatory light responses in the cat retina and lateral geniculate nucleus 728
Sergio Neuenschwander & Wolf Singer
doi:10.1038/379728a0
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| | Inhibition of monoamine oxidase B in the brains of smokers 733
J. S. Fowler, N. D. Volkow, G.-J. Wang, N. Pappas, J. Logan, R. MacGregor, D. Alexoff, C. Shea, D. Schlyer, A. P. Wolf, D. Warner, I. Zezulkova & R. Cilento
doi:10.1038/379733a0
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| | Disruption of the nuclear hormone receptor ROR in staggerer mice 736
Bruce A. Hamilton, Wayne N. Frankel, Anne W. Kerrebrock, Trevor L. Hawkins, William FitzHugh, Kenro Kusumi, Liane B. Russell, Ken L. Mueller, Victor van Berkel, Bruce W. Birren, Leonid Kruglyak & Eric S. Lander
doi:10.1038/379736a0
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| | Characterization of a cancer cachectic factor 739
Penio Todorov, Peter Cariuk, Trudi McDevitt, Brian Coles, Kenneth Fearon & Michael Tisdale
doi:10.1038/379739a0
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| | Inhibition of G-protein-mediated MAP kinase activation by a new mammalian gene family 742
Kirk M. Druey, Kendall J. Blumer, Veronica H. Kang & John H. Kehrl
doi:10.1038/379742a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,303K)
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| | RNA binding and translational suppression by bicoid 746
Rolando Rivera-Pomar, Dierk Niessing, Urs Schmidt-Ott, Walter J. Gehring & Herbert Jacklë
doi:10.1038/379746a0
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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 Michlem, Rita Barfoot, Rifat Hamoudi, Sandeep Patel, Catherine Rice, Patrick Biggs, Yasmin Hashim, Amanda Smith, Frances Connor, Adelgeir Arason, Julius Gudmundsson, David Ficenec, David Kelsell, Deborah Ford, Patricia Tonin, 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:10.1038/379749a0
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| | Erratum | |
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| | Mechanosensory signalling in C. elegans mediated by the GLR-1 glutamate receptor 749
Andres V. Maricq, Erin Peckol, Monica Driscoll & Cornelia I. Bargmann
doi:10.1038/379749b0
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| | Digital dialogue 751
This is where cyber-buffs can do their digging for information, such as on-line access to chemical viewing software and biological review journals, as well as statistical and graphing software.
BRENDAN HORTON
doi:10.1038/379751a0
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