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| | Gene donors' rights at risk 1
Even those who treat other people's genomes as intellectual property concede that sample donors deserve some share of their genes' financial value. But those rights are already threatened in several ways – a situation that requires urgent attention.
doi:10.1038/381001a0
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| | Budget clouds lift a little 1
Last week's US budget settlement leaves science in a stronger position than was feared, but this is no time to relax.
doi:10.1038/381001b0
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| | Plans for Russian uranium payments stir fears of nuclear proliferation 3
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381003a0
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| | UK observatories look to private sector 3
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381003b0
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| | Austrian academics fight teaching fee review 4
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/381004a0
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| | Drug company 'suppressed' publication of research 4
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381004b0
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| | Savings drive unsettles Australian science 5
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/381005a0
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| | AIDS office opposes outside planning 5
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381005b0
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| | Japanese plan for doubling of public science spending 6
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/381006a0
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| | US budget deal frees money for agencies 6
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381006b0
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| | Republicans outline 1997 priorities 6
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/381006c0
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| | Mount Graham telescope gets green light from Washington 7
Colin Macilwain & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381007a0
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| | NASA head gets lean and mean 7
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/381007b0
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| | Europe chooses cosmic radiation project 8
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381008a0
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| | Pentagon delay on asteroid mission 8
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/381008b0
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| | German research loses immunity to cuts 9
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/381009a0
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| | Geneticist leaves Cambridge for industrial research post 9
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/381009b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 10
doi:10.1038/381010a0
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| | Whose genes are they anyway? 11
The increasing interest of pharmaceutical companies in the results of genetic studies of human population groups is already raising intense debate over the 'ownership' of genetic information. Few expect to find easy solutions.
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/381011a0
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| | Population groups can hold critical clues 12
Barbara Cohen
doi:10.1038/381012a0
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| | Gene-hunters home in on India 13
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/381013a0
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| | Diversity project: Cavalii-Sforza answers his critics 14
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/381014a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Moving the British cattle herd 15
Pete Smith, Jo U. Smith & David S. Powlson
doi:10.1038/381015a0
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| | Plateau reached 15
David A. Pendlebury
doi:10.1038/381015b0
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| | International collaboration 16
J. Sylvan Katz, Diana Hicks, Francis Narin & Kimberly Hamilton
doi:10.1038/381016a0
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| | Access to data on humans 17
J. H. Edwards
doi:10.1038/381017a0
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| | William Woodville and vaccination 18
G. C. Cook
doi:10.1038/381018a0
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| | Overdue changes 18
Eugene Potapov
doi:10.1038/381018b0
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| | Revealing the patterns of macroevolution 19
The evolution of amphibians from fish shows that major evolutionary transitions can occur through a step-by-step addition of novel characters over several million years.
Robert L. Carroll
doi:10.1038/381019a0
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| | Primordial soup or crêpes? 20
Günter von Kiedrowski
doi:10.1038/381020a0
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| | The two faces of the mast cell 21
Stephen J. Galli & Barry K. Wershil
doi:10.1038/381021a0
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| | The mountains will flow 23
Philip England
doi:10.1038/381023a0
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| | Colin S. Pittendrigh (1918–96) 24
Michael Menaker
doi:10.1038/381024a0
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| | Proton decay at the drip-line 25
Philip Woods
doi:10.1038/381025a0
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| | Protease inhibitor implicated 26
James O. McNamara & Ram S. Puranam
doi:10.1038/381026a0
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| | Country doctor and speckled monster 26
John Empson
doi:10.1038/381026b0
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| | Light bent by magnets 27
G. W. 't Hooft & M. B. van der Mark
doi:10.1038/381027a0
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| | Good neighbours 28
David Jones
doi:10.1038/381028a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Interleukin-16 or not? 29
J. Fernando Bazan & Thomas J. Schall
doi:10.1038/381029a0
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| | Interleukin-16 or not? 30
Norbert Bannert, Michael Baier, Albrecht Werner & Reinhard Kurth
doi:10.1038/381030a0
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| | Three-dimensionally preserved insects 30
I. J. Duncan & D. E. G. Briggs
doi:10.1038/381030b0
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| | The nature of the solar wind 31
D. Aaron Roberts, K. W. Ogilvie & M. L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/381031a0
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| | The nature of the solar wind 32
David J. Thomson, Carol G. Maclennan & Louis J. Lanzerotti
doi:10.1038/381032a0
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| | Science struck dumb 33
N. J. Mackintosh
doi:10.1038/381033a0
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| | Cyborg discourse 34
William Clocksin
doi:10.1038/381034a0
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| | Alternative histories 35
S. Nomanul Haq
doi:10.1038/381035a0
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| | Interrogation and interpretation 36
Donald J. DePaolo
doi:10.1038/381036a0
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| | The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States 37
Craig H. Jones, Jeffrey R. Unruh & Leslie J. Sonder
doi:10.1038/381037a0
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| | Structure and mutational analysis of Rab GDP-dissociation inhibitor 42
Isabella Schalk, Ke Zeng, Shih-Kwang Wu, Enrico A. Stura, Jeanne Matteson, Mingdong Huang, Anurag Tandon, Ian A. Wilson & William E. Balch
doi:10.1038/381042a0
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| | Dependence of the spectral evolution of  -ray bursts on their photon fluence 49
Edison Liang & Vincent Kargatis
doi:10.1038/381049a0
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| | Formation of asteroid satellites and doublet craters by planetary tidal forces 51
William F. Bottke Jr & H. Jay Melosh
doi:10.1038/381051a0
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| | Observation of magnetically induced transverse diffusion of light 54
G. L. J. A. Rikken & B. A. van Tiggelen
doi:10.1038/381054a0
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| | Control of crystal phase switching and orientation by soluble mollusc-shell proteins 56
A. M. Belcher, X. H. Wu, R. J. Christensen, P. K. Hansma, G. D. Stucky & D. E. Morse
doi:10.1038/381056a0
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| | Synthesis of long prebiotic oligomers on mineral surfaces 59
James P. Ferris, Aubrey R. Hill Jr, Rihe Liu & Leslie E. Orgel
doi:10.1038/381059a0
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| | Rapid braincase evolution between Panderichthys and the earliest tetrapods 61
Per E. Ahlberg, Jennifer A. Clack & Erv ns Luk evi s
doi:10.1038/381061a0
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| | Role for heavy metals in forest decline indicated by phytochelatin measurements 64
James E. Gawel, Beth A. Ahner, Andrew J. Friedland & François M. M. Morel
doi:10.1038/381064a0
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| | Enhancement of selective listening by illusory mislocation of speech sounds due to lip-reading 66
Jon Driver
doi:10.1038/381066a0
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| | Central reorganization of sensory pathways following peripheral nerve regeneration in fetal monkeys 69
Sherre L. Florence, Neeraj Jain, Marcie W. Pospichal, Pam D. Beck, D. Lewis Sly & Jon H. Kaas
doi:10.1038/381069a0
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| | Long-term potentiation and functional synapse induction in developing hippocampus 71
Guylaine M. Durand, Yury Kovalchuk & Arthur Konnerth
doi:10.1038/381071a0
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| | Critical protective role of mast cells in a model of acute septic peritonitis 75
Bernd Echtenacher, Daniela N. Männel & Lothar Hültner
doi:10.1038/381075a0
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| | Mast cell modulation of neutrophil influx and bacterial clearance at sites of infection through TNF- 77
Ravi Malaviya, Teruo Ikeda, Elaine Ross & Soman N. Abraham
doi:10.1038/381077a0
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| | Specific phosphorylation of SR proteins by mammalian DNA topoisomerase I 80
Ferdinand Rossi, Emmanuel Labourier, Thierry Forné, Gilles Divita, Jean Derancourt, Jean François Riou, Etienne Antoine, Guy Cathala, Claude Brunel & Jamal Tazi
doi:10.1038/381080a0
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| | Adaptive inducibility of CREM as transcriptional memory of circadian rhythms 83
Nicholas S. Foulkes, Gilles Duval & Paolo Sassone-Corsi
doi:10.1038/381083a0
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| | A human RNA polymerase II complex associated with SRB and DNA-repair proteins 86
Edio Maldonado, Ramin Shiekhattar, Michael Sheldon, Helen Cho, Ronny Drapkin, Paula Rickert, Emma Lees, Carl W. Anderson, Stuart Linn & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/381086a0
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| | Structure of Bordetella pertussis virulence factor P.69 pertactin 90
Paul Emsley, Ian G. Charles, Neil F. Fairweather & Neil W. Isaacs
doi:10.1038/381090a0
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| | An immunology inventory 93
BRENDAN HORTON
doi:10.1038/381093a0
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