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| | How not to act on good advice 351
As European countries engage in diplomatic battle over the banned exports of British beef and its products, lessons can be drawn from the sorry history of the British government's selective responses to expert advice.
doi:10.1038/381351a0
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| | Britain caught out by 'unscientific' reactions to Europe's beef crisis 353
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381353a0
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| | Space agency warned on restructuring 353
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381353b0
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| | Jefferson accelerator will seek to pin down quark theory 354
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381354a0
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| | Nuclear stockpile controls under fire in US 355
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381355a0
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| | Public faith in science stays high 355
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/381355b0
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| | French report seeks to slow fusion project 356
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381356a0
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| | Freshwater research struggles to keep head above water 356
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/381356b0
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| | Genome ethics panel comes under the microscope at NIH 357
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/381357a0
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| | New Max Planck chief may face a baptism of fire 357
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381357b0
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| | Report stays neutral on deep-sea disposal 358
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381358a0
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| | When in Rome — watch out for asteroids 358
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/381358b0
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| | News in brief 359
doi:10.1038/381359a0
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| | Merck, SmithKline and patents 360
C. Thomas Caskey & Alan R. Williamson
doi:10.1038/381360a0
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| | BSE a specific bovine disease? 360
Claude E. Chastel
doi:10.1038/381360b0
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| | Complementary medicine 361
N. C. Abbot, A. R. White & E. Ernst
doi:10.1038/381361a0
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| | Feynman faux pas
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Irwin Tessman
doi:10.1038/381361b0
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| | Hard evidence 361
Per Sødersten
doi:10.1038/381361c0
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| | Biotechnology and Brown Shirts 362
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/381362a0
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| | Mild conversion? 362
John Evans
doi:10.1038/381362b0
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| | Smoke them out 363
William H. James
doi:10.1038/381363a0
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| | A new strategy for genome sequencing 364
Existing approaches to sequencing the human genome are based on the assumption that each region to be sequenced must first be mapped. But there is a simpler strategy in which any number of laboratories can cooperate.
J. Craig Venter, Hamilton O. Smith & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/381364a0
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| | How to tell a cell where it is 367
In the embryo, cells have to be aware of where they are so that they can differentiate into the right tissue. In part, long-range signalling is involved, but it is not yet clear how diffusible morphogens specify cell type.
Jim Smith
doi:10.1038/381367a0
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| | Cognitive cartography 368
Bruce McNaughton
doi:10.1038/381368a0
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| | Seamounts make earthquakes 371
Larry J. Ruff
doi:10.1038/381371a0
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| | Invertebrates and mycophagy 372
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/381372a0
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| | Continents of the core 373
Michael E. Wysession
doi:10.1038/381373a0
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| | A la recherche du temps perdu 375
Phil Jones
doi:10.1038/381375a0
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| | Thinly veiled promise 376
Stephen D. Kevan
doi:10.1038/381376a0
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| | Life without neuropeptide Y 377
Thomas W. Stephens
doi:10.1038/381377a0
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| | Film for ever! 378
David Jones
doi:10.1038/381378a0
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| | Dioxins in diesel exhaust 379
C. Clunies-Ross, B. R. Stanmore & G. J. Millar
doi:10.1038/381379a0
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| | Evolution of cetacean osmoregulation 379
J. G. M. Thewissen, L. J. Roe, J. R. O'Neil, S. T. Hussain, A. Sahni & S. Bajpai
doi:10.1038/381379b0
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| | Redox regulation of cell signalling 380
Harry M. Lander, Aaron J. Milbank, James M. Tauras, David P. Hajjar, Barbara L. Hempstead, Gregory D. Schwartz, Rosemary T. Kraemer, Urooj A. Mirza, Brian T. Chait, Sharon Campbell Burk & Lawrence A. Quilliam
doi:10.1038/381380a0
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| | 'Roots' in mixotrophic algae 382
J. R. M. Chisholm, C. Dauga, E. Ageron, P. A. D. Grimont & J. M. Jaubert
doi:10.1038/381382a0
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| | Science and its discontents 383
A. J. Meadows
doi:10.1038/381383a0
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| | The academic sphere 384
David E. H. Jones
doi:10.1038/381384a0
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| | Climate reversal 384
Stephen H. Schneider
doi:10.1038/381384b0
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doi:10.1038/381385a0
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| | Prediction game 386
Andrew Watson
doi:10.1038/381386a0
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| | Two distinct mechanisms for long-range patterning by Decapentaplegic in the Drosophila wing 387
Thomas Lecuit, William J. Brook, Medard Ng, Manuel Calleja, Henry Sun & Stephen M. Cohen
doi:10.1038/381387a0
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| | Guide to authors of contributions to Nature 394
doi:10.1038/381394a0
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| | Constraints from Galileo observations on the origin of jovian dust streams 395
E. Grün, M. Baguhl, D. P. Hamilton, R. Riemann, H. A. Zook, S. Dermott, H. Fechtig, B. A. Gustafson, M. S. Hanner, M. Horányi, K. K. Khurana, J. Kissel, M. Kivelson, B. A. Lindblad, D. Linkert, G. Linkert, I. Mann, J. A. M. McDonnell, G. E. Morfill, C. Polanskey, G. Schwehm & R. Srama
doi:10.1038/381395a0
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| | Direct observation of a surface charge density wave 398
Joseph M. Carpinelli, Hanno H. Weitering, E. Ward Plummer & Roland Stumpf
doi:10.1038/381398a0
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| | Synthesis and structure of a layered titanosilicate catalyst with five-coordinate titanium 401
M. A. Roberts, G. Sankar, J. M. Thomas, R. H. Jones, H. Du, J. Chen, W. Pang & R. Xu
doi:10.1038/381401a0
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| | Photochemical release of biologically available nitrogen from aquatic dissolved organic matter 404
Karen L. Bushaw, Richard G. Zepp, Matthew A. Tarr, Daniel Schulz-Jander, Richard A. Bourbonniere, Robert E. Hodson, William L. Miller, Deborah A. Bronk & Mary Ann Moran
doi:10.1038/381404a0
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| | Determination of olivine cooling rates from metal-cation ordering 407
S. A. T. Redfern, C. M. B. Henderson, B. J. Wood, R. J. Harrison & K. S. Knight
doi:10.1038/381407a0
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| | Constraints from seismic anisotropy on the nature of the lowermost mantle 409
J.-M. Kendall & P. G. Silver
doi:10.1038/381409a0
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| | Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses 413
G. M. Viswanathan, V. Afanasyev, S. V. Buldyrev, E. J. Murphy, P. A. Prince & H. E. Stanley
doi:10.1038/381413a0
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| | Sensitivity to leptin and susceptibility to seizures of mice lacking neuropeptide Y 415
Jay C. Erickson, Kathy E. Clegg & Richard D. Palmiter
doi:10.1038/381415a0
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| | Rat spermatogenesis in mouse testis 418
David E. Clouthier, Mary R. Avarbock, Shanna D. Maika, Robert E. Hammer & Ralph L. Brinster
doi:10.1038/381418a0
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| | A gene complex acting downstream of dpp in Drosophila wing morphogenesis 421
Jose F. de Celis, Rosa Barrio & Fotis C. Kafatos
doi:10.1038/381421a0
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| | Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons 425
John O'Keefe & Neil Burgess
doi:10.1038/381425a0
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| | Associative, bidirectional modifications at the hippocampal mossy fibre–CA3 synapse 429
Brian E. Derrick & Joe L. Martinez Jr
doi:10.1038/381429a0
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| | Long-term acceptance of skin and cardiac allografts after blocking CD40 and CD28 pathways 434
Christian P. Larsen, Eric T. Elwood, Diane Z. Alexander, Shannon C. Ritchie, Rose Hendrix, Carol Tucker-Burden, Hong Rae Cho, Alejandro Aruffo, Diane Hollenbaugh, Peter S. Linsley, Kevin J. Winn & Thomas C. Pearson
doi:10.1038/381434a0
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| | Cut2 proteolysis required for sister-chromatid separation in fission yeast 438
Hironori Funabiki, Hiroyuki Yamano, Kazuki Kumada, Koji Nagao, Tim Hunt & Mitsuhiro Yanagida
doi:10.1038/381438a0
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| | Ribozyme-catalysed amino-acid transfer reactions 442
Peter A. Lohse & Jack W. Szostak
doi:10.1038/381442a0
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| | Simplified hot start PCR 445
The use of a thermally activated DNA polymerase PCR gives improved specificity, sensitivity and product yield without additives or extra process steps.
David E. Birch, L. Kolmodin, J. Wong, G. A. Zangenberg, M. A. Zoccoli, N. McKinney & K. K. Y. Young
doi:10.1038/381445a0
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| | Molecules and modalities 447
Product review has the goods and wares for studying the molecular mechanisms of the cell — items include an automated membrane developing system, a mutation detection system and high-efficiency cloning kits.
BRENDAN HORTON
doi:10.1038/381447a0
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