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| | An agency that is flexible but flawed 753
Since its foundation in 1995, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been radical and innovative in developing its relationships with the communities that it funds. Researchers' distrust of the changes is justified.
doi:10.1038/379753a0
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| | Nature's related journals 753
The launch of Nature Biotechnology makes some clarification appropriate.
doi:10.1038/379753b0
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| | Physics bears the brunt of research council's accountability demands 755
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379755a0
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| | Einstein paper on the path to riches 755
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379755b0
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| | Researchers 'duped' over use of embryos without consent 756
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/379756a0
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| | US and Europe face gap over money for CERN 757
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379757a0
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| | HIV vaccine: sell-out or vote of confidence by Genentech? 757
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379757b0
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| | Peer review 'still essential', say researchers 758
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379758a0
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| | German regions compete for biotech funds 759
Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeir
doi:10.1038/379759a0
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| | Fish industry backs seal of approval 759
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379759b0
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| | Documents confirm delays in Japanese HIV blood scandal 760
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/379760a0
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| | European deal under fire from US critics over reactor fuel 760
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379760b0
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| | Engineering president is stripped of duties 761
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379761a0
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| | Genome laboratory makes its mark 761
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/379761b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 762
doi:10.1038/379762a0
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| | Carbon dioxide emissions 764
A. J. McMichael
doi:10.1038/379764a0
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| | Prescribing oral contraceptives 764
Ian F. Godsland, David Crook & Victor Wynn
doi:10.1038/379764b0
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| | Not so public 764
Charles W. McCutchen
doi:10.1038/379764c0
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| | Mt Graham and the environment 765
Peter A. Strittmatter
doi:10.1038/379765a0
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| | Using placebos 765
Beatrice A. Golomb
doi:10.1038/379765b0
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| | Size matters 765
Eric P. Cohen & Steven E. Mutsaers
doi:10.1038/379765c0
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| | Merely noise? 765
Christopher Bulstrode
doi:10.1038/379765d0
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| | Ocean Drilling rules OK? 766
David A. Falvey
doi:10.1038/379766a0
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| | The great wave 766
Laurence A. Lasky
doi:10.1038/379766b0
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| | On his own head be it 766
James Murray
doi:10.1038/379766c0
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| | Reasons to write 766
Wibjörn Karlén
doi:10.1038/379766d0
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| | The great game 766
Rob Paul
doi:10.1038/379766e0
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| | The inconstancy of the human heart 767
The improper timing of the human heartbeat can now be connected to the arcana of potassium channel gating. What is more, it turns out that a bizarre kind of ion-channel behaviour is in fact quite conformist.
Christopher Miller
doi:10.1038/379767a0
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doi:10.1038/379767b0
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| | Being struck by a balance 768
Ross S. Stein
doi:10.1038/379768a0
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| | A case for trans translation 769
John F. Atkins & Raymond F. Gesteland
doi:10.1038/379769a0
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| | From mountains to basin 771
Gregory Houseman
doi:10.1038/379771a0
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| | Complex traits on the map 772
Jurg Ott
doi:10.1038/379772a0
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| | On the points of melting 773
David G. Grier
doi:10.1038/379773a0
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| | A new rapid X-ray repeater 775
Christopher Thompson
doi:10.1038/379775a0
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David Jones
doi:10.1038/379776a0
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| | Pulling the trigger on psoriasis 777
W.-H. Boehncke, D. Dressel, T. M. Zollner & R. Kaufmann
doi:10.1038/379777a0
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| | RIP for viruses 777
Tomás Girbés, Carlos de Torre, Rosario Iglesias, José Miguel Ferreras & Enrique Méndez
doi:10.1038/379777b0
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| | Dinosaur nesting or preying? 778
David M. Martill, Michael J. Barker & Chris G. Dacke
doi:10.1038/379778a0
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| | The load of the Taung child 778
Lee R. Berger & Ronald J. Clarke
doi:10.1038/379778b0
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| | Flower lifespan and disease risk 779
Jacqui A. Shykoff, Erika Bucheli & Oliver Kaltz
doi:10.1038/379779a0
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| | Flower lifespan and disease risk 779
Wouter G. van Doorn
doi:10.1038/379779b0
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| | Flower lifespan and disease risk 780
Tia-Lynn Ashman & Daniel Schoen
doi:10.1038/379780a0
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| | From durable to disposable 781
Howard P. Segal reviews American Plastic: A Cultural History
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Jeffrey L. Meikle
doi:10.1038/379781a0
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| | It's no go Blavatsky 782
Walter Gratzer reviews An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.
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James Randi
doi:10.1038/379782a0
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| | Techniques of extraction 783
Robert W. Cahn reviews Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb
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Nikolaus Riehl & Frederick Seitz
doi:10.1038/379783a0
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doi:10.1038/379783b0
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| | Betrayers of trust? 784
John Galloway reviews The Power of Life or Death: A Critique of Medical Tyranny
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Fabian Tassano and Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment
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Lawrence I. Schneiderman & Nancy S. Jecker
doi:10.1038/379784a0
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| | Dictionary digest 784
doi:10.1038/379784b0
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| | Geophysical evidence for lithospheric delamination beneath the Alboran Sea and Rif–Betic mountains 785
Dogan Seber, Muawia Barazangi, Aomar Ibenbrahim & Ahmed Demnati
doi:10.1038/379785a0
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| | Control of inflorescence architecture in Antirrhinum
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Desmond Bradley, Rosemary Carpenter, Lucy Copsey, Coral Vincent, Steven Rothstein & Enrico Coen
doi:10.1038/379791a0
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| | A new type of transient high-energy source in the direction of the Galactic Centre 799
C. Kouveliotou, J. van Paradijs, G. J. Fishman, M. S. Briggs, J. Kommers, B. A. Harmon, C. A. Meegan & W. H. G. Lewin
doi:10.1038/379799a0
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| | Re-entry and ablation of cometary dust in the impact plumes of Shoemaker–Levy 9 801
A. Fitzsimmons, P. J. Andrews, R. Catchpole, J. E. Little, N. Walton & I. P. Williams
doi:10.1038/379801a0
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| | Scaling behaviour in the growth of companies 804
Michael H. R. Stanley, Luís A. N. Amaral, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Heiko Leschhorn, Philipp Maass, Michael A. Salinger & H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/379804a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (706K)
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| | Melting dynamics of a plasma crystal 806
Hubertus M. Thomas & Gregor E. Morfill
doi:10.1038/379806a0
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| | Contrasting atmospheric and climate dynamics of the last-glacial and Holocene periods 810
Peter D. Ditlevsen, Henrik Svensmark & Sigfus Johnsen
doi:10.1038/379810a0
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| | Correlated progression and the origin of turtles 812
Michael S. Y. Lee
doi:10.1038/379812a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (937K)
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| | Rapid adaptive camouflage in tropical flounders 815
V. S. Ramachandran, C. W. Tyler, R. L. Gregory, D. Rogers-Ramachandran, S. Duensing, C. Pillsbury & C. Ramachandran
doi:10.1038/379815a0
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| | Vasoactive effects of fibrinogen on saphenous vein 818
Robert C. J. Hicks, Jonathan Golledge, Rachid Mir-Hasseine & Janet T. Powell
doi:10.1038/379818a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (776K)
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| | Mapping of a susceptibility locus for Crohn's disease on chromosome 16 821
Jean-Pierre Hugot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Corine Gower-Rousseau, Jane M. Olson, John C. Lee, Laurent Beaugerie, Isam Naom, Jean-Louis Dupas, André Van Gossum, Marianne Orholm, Catherine Bonaiti-Pellie, Jean Weissenbach, Christopher G. Mathew, John E. Lennard-Jones, Antoine Cortot, Jean-Frédéric Colombel & Gilles Thomas
doi:10.1038/379821a0
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| | Functional redundancy of the muscle-specific transcription factors Myf5 and myogenin 823
Yukang Wang, Patrick N. J. Schnegelsberg, Jessica Dausman & Rudolf Jaenisch
doi:10.1038/379823a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (697K)
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| | Normal spatial learning despite regional inhibition of LTP in mice lacking Thy-1 826
M. Nosten-Bertrand, M. L. Errington, K. P. S. J. Murphy, Y. Tokugawa, E. Barboni, E. Kozlova, D. Michalovich, R. G. M. Morris, J. Silver, C. L. Stewart, T. V. P. Bliss & R. J. Morris
doi:10.1038/379826a0
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| | Anterograde transport of neurotrophins and axodendritic transfer in the developing visual system 830
Christopher S. von Bartheld, Margaret R. Byers, Reg Williams & Mark Bothwell
doi:10.1038/379830a0
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| | The inward rectification mechanism of the HERG cardiac potassium channel 833
Paula L. Smith, Thomas Baukrowitz & Gary Yellen
doi:10.1038/379833a0
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| | Differential effects of the Rac GTPase on Purkinje cell axons and dendritic trunks and spines 837
Liqun Luo, Takao K. Hensch, Larry Ackerman, Sandra Barbel, Lily Y. Jan & Yuh Nung Jan
doi:10.1038/379837a0
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| | Insulin action impaired by deficiency of the G-protein subunit Gi 2
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Christopher M. Moxham & Craig C. Malbon
doi:10.1038/379840a0
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| | DNA-binding properties of the yeast SWI/SNF complex 844
Janet Quinn, Amy M. Fyrberg, Raymond W. Ganster, Martin C. Schmidt & Craig L. Peterson
doi:10.1038/379844a0
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| | Crystal structure of a G-protein   dimer at 2.1 Å resolution 847
John Sondek, Andrew Bohm, David G. Lambright, Heidi E. Hamm & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/379847a0
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| | Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle 847
Stefan Rahmstorf
doi:10.1038/379847b0
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| | Glacial isostatic adjustment and the anomalous tide gauge record of eastern North America 848
James L. Davis & Jerry X. Mitrovica
doi:10.1038/379848a0
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| | Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase- in base-excision repair 848
Robert W. Sobol, Julie K. Norton, Ralf Kühn, Hua Gu, Rakesh K. Singhal, Rajendra Prasad, Klaus Rajewsky & Samuel H. Wilson
doi:10.1038/379848b0
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| | Correction | |
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| | Dorsal cell fate specified by chick Lmx1 during vertebrate limb development 848
Astrid Vogel, Concepción Rodriguez, Wayne Warnken & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
doi:10.1038/379848c0
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