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| | One way out of a patent quagmire 175
The European Patent Office is caught in a taxonomic trap unintentionally set by its constitution. The only sensible way out that favours supporters of biotechnology comes with its own set of problems.
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| | Defend studies of science 175
Stanford should be developing programmes that bring together science and the humanities, not closing them down
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| | Student 'targets' may give boost to strategic planning in South Africa 177
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/381177a0
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| | Republicans seek freeze on health research 177
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381177b0
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| | Withdrawal of patent claim leaves position of plants unclarified 178
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381178a0
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| | Death of molecular biologist stuns San Diego science 178
Rex Dalton
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| | NIH institute limits scope of 'AIDS research' 179
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381179a0
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| | Darwin's house bought for restoration 179
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381179b0
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| | Brussels urged to back more basic science 180
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381180a0
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| | German research spending stays low 180
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/381180b0
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| | Once upon a smoggy day in London town... 181
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381181a0
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| | Advisers deny pressure over Japan's 'first' AIDS case 181
David Swinbanks
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| | US environment projects may merge efforts 182
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/381182a0
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| | 'Indian ginseng' brings royalties for tribe 182
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/381182b0
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| | 'Science and society' course is under threat at Stanford 183
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381183a0
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| | French cancer charity introduces new rules to restore probity 183
Declan Butler
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| | News in brief 184
doi:10.1038/381184a0
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| | Impact factors can mislead 186
H. F. Moed & Th. N. van Leeuwen
doi:10.1038/381186a0
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| | Failed professor 186
José I. Saiz-Salinas
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| | Slow, slow ... 186
Ben Laurie
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| | An economic case for basic research 187
Eugene Wong
doi:10.1038/381187a0
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| | Sexual conflict as fuel for evolution 189
An experiment with fruitflies, in which females were not allowed to adapt genetically to male change, has unmasked the rapid evolutionary dynamics underlying an ostensibly static sexual system.
Tracey Chapman & Linda Partridge
doi:10.1038/381189a0
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| | Liquid crystals tilted by light 190
Jos van Haaren
doi:10.1038/381190a0
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| | The ribosome talks back 191
Ted Powers & Peter Walter
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| | Deuteronomy and numbers 193
David N. Schramm & Michael S. Turner
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| | Blindness and the X 194
Sean E. Egan & Roderick R. McInnes
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| | Retinitis pigmentosa: the Ran connection 194
Sean E. EGAN & RODERICK R. McInnes
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| | A quickening on the uptake? 195
Michael Bender
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| | Snow growing 196
David Jones
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| | PCR identification of black caviar 197
Rob DeSalle & Vadim J. Birstein
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| | Red/blue chaotic power spectra 198
Andrew White, Roger G. Bowers & Michael Begon
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| | Red/blue chaotic power spectra 198
Veijo Kaitala & Esa Ranta
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| | Red/blue chaotic power spectra 199
George Sugihara
doi:10.1038/381199a0
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| | Radiation doses from Ural region 199
A. A. Romanyukha, E. A. Ignatiev, M. O. Degteva, V. P. Kozheurov, A. Wieser & P. Jacob
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| | Aerial plankton detected by radar 200
Robert W. Russell & James W. Wilson
doi:10.1038/381200a0
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| | Whose teeth? 201
Jeffrey H. Schwartz & Ian Tattersall
doi:10.1038/381201a0
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| | Whose teeth? 202
Huang Wanpo, Gu Yumin Russell Ciochon, Roy Larick Fang Qiren, John de Vos Henry Schwarcz & William Rink Charles Yonge
doi:10.1038/381202a0
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| | No place to hide 203
John Massey Stewart
doi:10.1038/381203a0
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| | Spectacular explosions 204
A. G. W. Cameron reviews Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang to the Present
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David Arnett
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| | Islands of peril and pleasure 205
Lawrence B. Slobodkin
doi:10.1038/381205a0
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| | Balancing act 206
Miles Padgett
doi:10.1038/381206a0
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| | Easy learning 206
Patrick Naylor
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| | Cosmological baryon density derived from the deuterium abundance at redshift z = 3.57 207
David Tytler, Xiao-Ming Fan & Scott Burles
doi:10.1038/381207a0
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| | Abundance of 3He in the local interstellar cloud 210
George Gloeckler & Johannes Geiss
doi:10.1038/381210a0
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| | Optical patterning of multi-domain liquid-crystal displays with wide viewing angles 212
Martin Schadt, Hubert Seiberle & Andreas Schuster
doi:10.1038/381212a0
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| | Detection of nonlinear dynamics in short, noisy time series 215
Mauricio Barahona & Chi-Sang Poon
doi:10.1038/381215a0
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| | Global and hemispheric CO2 sinks deduced from changes in atmospheric O2 concentration 218
Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen C. Piper & Martin Heimann
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| | Two mantle-plume components in Hawaiian picrites inferred from correlated Os–Pb isotopes 221
V. C. Bennett, T. M. Esat & M. D. Norman
doi:10.1038/381221a0
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| | A late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts 224
Jean-Jacques Hublin, Fred Spoor, Marc Braun, Frans Zonneveld & Silvana Condemi
doi:10.1038/381224a0
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| | Continental breakup and the ordinal diversification of birds and mammals 226
S. Blair Hedges, Patrick H. Parker, Charles G. Sibley & Sudhir Kumar
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| | Correlation between male song repertoire, extra-pair paternity and offspring survival in the great reed warbler 229
Dennis Hasselquist, Staffan Bensch & Torbjörn von Schantz
doi:10.1038/381229a0
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| | Sexually antagonistic male adaptation triggered by experimental arrest of female evolution 232
William R. Rice
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| | Transcription factor AP-2 essential for cranial closure and craniofacial development 235
Hubert Schorle, Pascal Meier, Michael Buchert, Rudolf Jaenisch & Pamela J. Mitchell
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| | Neural tube, skeletal and body wall defects in mice lacking transcription factor AP-2 238
Jian Zhang, Stephanie Hagopian-Donaldson, George Serbedzija, Jennifer Elsemore, Debora Plehn-Dujowich, Andrew P. McMahon, Richard A. Flavell & Trevor Williams
doi:10.1038/381238a0
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| | A cortical neuropeptide with neuronal depressant and sleep-modulating properties 242
Luis de Lecea, José R. Criado, Óscar Prospero-Garcia, Kaare M. Gautvik, Paul Schweitzer, Patria E. Danielson, Charles L. M. Dunlop, George R. Siggins, Steven J. Henriksen & J. Gregor Sutcliffe
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| | Localization of dopamine D4 receptors in GABAergic neurons of the primate brain 245
L. Mrzljak, C. Bergson, M. Pappy, R. Huff, R. Levenson & P. S. Goldman-Rakic
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| | Regulation by the ribosome of the GTPase of the signal-recognition particle during protein targeting 248
Gerald Bacher, Henrich Lütcke, Berit Jungnickel, Tom A. Rapoport & Bernhard Dobberstein
doi:10.1038/381248a0
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| | Role of interactions between the origin recognition complex and SIR1 in transcriptional silencing 251
Thomas Triolo & Rolf Sternglanz
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| | Structural evidence for a two-step process in the depinning of the superconducting flux-line lattice 253
U. Yaron, P. L. Gammel, D. A. Huse, R. N. Kleiman, C. S. Oglesby, E. Bucher, B. Batlogg, D. J. Bishop, K. Mortensen & K. N. Clausen
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| | Guide to authors of contributions to Nature
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BRENDAN HORTON
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