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| | A bid for scientific greatness 97
The historic dependence of Japan on other people's ideas has served it well, but cannot continue. The government's determination to boost fundamental research seems likely to encourage a cultural shift, despite the obstacles.
doi:10.1038/382097a0
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| | Crisis not yet over 97
Boris Yeltsin's election victory gives Russians a chance, eventually, to believe what they are told.
doi:10.1038/382097b0
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| | US company comes under fire over patent on umbilical cord cells 99
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/382099a0
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| | 'Relief' in Russia 99
doi:10.1038/382099b0
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| | Roche fails to get European patent on Taq polymerase 100
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/382100a0
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| | US panel established to coordinate work on endocrine disrupters 100
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382100b0
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| | 'Beware of hype,' AIDS conference told 101
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382101a0
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| | Double push for new vaccine candidates 101
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/382101b0
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| | Cluster relaunch looks to minisatellites 102
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/382102a0
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| | India appoints 'part-time' science minister 102
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/382102b0
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| | Onshore dismantling 'the best option' for most oil platforms 103
doi:10.1038/382103a0
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| | Industrial world is unlikely to meet promised carbon cuts 103
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382103b0
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| | NASA aims high for reusable spacecraft 104
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/382104a0
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| | German university withdraws doctorate after fraud charge 104
Jeanne Rubner
doi:10.1038/382104b0
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| | Brain science benefits from budget plan 105
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/382105a0
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| | Finland urges increase in EU research funds 105
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/382105b0
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| | News in brief 106
doi:10.1038/382106a0
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| | Patents versus transplants 108
E. Gluckman, R. O'Reilly, J. Wagner & P. Rubinstein
doi:10.1038/382108a0
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| | Passive voice 108
Alan M. Perlman
doi:10.1038/382108b0
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| | Public confidence 108
Mary Woolley
doi:10.1038/382108c0
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| | Mad cows, bats and baby milk 109
The intrinsic conflict between the mandated need to inform the public of potential health hazards and the need of the media for sensational headlines is threatening to compromise the scientific process.
John Ashby
doi:10.1038/382109a0
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| | Breathing room for early animals 111
Did an increase in atmospheric oxygen concentration some time during the Neoproterozoic era, 1,000 to 543 million years ago, make possible the diversification of multicellular animals?
Andrew H. Knoll
doi:10.1038/382111a0
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| | Aptly named aptamers display their aptitude 112
James R. Williamson
doi:10.1038/382112a0
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| | Prime time for neuropeptide Y 113
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/382113a0
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| | Filaments in creation's heart 114
John Bally
doi:10.1038/382114a0
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| | Dispatches from patched
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Ben-Zion Shilo
doi:10.1038/382115a0
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| | Turbulent excursions 116
Leo P. Kadanoff
doi:10.1038/382116a0
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| | Ion channels get the message 117
Joseph S. Takahashi
doi:10.1038/382117a0
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| | Loaded crystal 118
David Jones
doi:10.1038/382118a0
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| | Light on butterfly mating 119
K. Arikawa, D. Suyama & T. Fujii
doi:10.1038/382119a0
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| | Positive effects of pollution? 120
Andreas Friebe, Jürgen Malkewitz, Günter Schultz & Doris Koesling
doi:10.1038/382120a0
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| | Oxidative damage in Alzheimer's 120
M. A. Smith, G. Perry, P. L. Richey, L. M. Sayrec, V. E. Anderson, M. F. Beal & N. Kowall
doi:10.1038/382120b0
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| | Submarine groundwater discharge 121
Paul L. Younger
doi:10.1038/382121a0
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| | Submarine groundwater discharge 122
Willard S. Moore & Thomas M. Church
doi:10.1038/382122a0
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| | Corrupted by money? 123
Michael V. Posner reviews The Economic Laws of Scientific Research
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Terence Kealey
doi:10.1038/382123a0
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| | New shapes from old genes 124
Jonathan Slack reviews The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form
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Rudolf A. Raff
doi:10.1038/382124a0
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| | For whom the net tolls 125
Steve Fuller reviews Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier
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Robin Peek & Gregory Newby
doi:10.1038/382125a0
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doi:10.1038/382125b0
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doi:10.1038/382126a0
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| | Mature offerings 126
Michael Proctor reviews The Anther: Form, Function and Phylogeny
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William G. D'Arcy & Richard C. Keating
doi:10.1038/382126b0
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| | Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies 127
Donald E. Canfield & Andreas Teske
doi:10.1038/382127a0
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| | Integration of positional signals and regulation of wing formation and identity by Drosophila vestigial gene 133
Jaeseob Kim, Angela Sebring, Jeffrey J. Esch, Mary Ellen Kraus, Kathy Vorwerk, Jeffrey Magee & Sean B. Carroll
doi:10.1038/382133a0
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| | Heated gaseous streamers and star formation in the Orion molecular cloud 139
Jennifer J. Wiseman & Paul T. P. Ho
doi:10.1038/382139a0
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| | A strongly magnetic neutron star in a nearly face-on binary system 141
Pascal Daumerie, Vassiliki Kalogera, Frederick K. Lamb & Dimitrios Psaltis
doi:10.1038/382141a0
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| | A crystal structure determined with 0.02 Å accuracy by electron microscopy 144
Thomas E. Weirich, Reiner Ramlau, Arndt Simon, Sven Hovmöller & Xiaodong Zou
doi:10.1038/382144a0
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| | Increased activity of northern vegetation inferred from atmospheric CO2 measurements 146
C. D. Keeling, J. F. S. Chin & T. P. Whorf
doi:10.1038/382146a0
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| | Structural control on sea-floor hydrothermal activity at the TAG active mound 149
Martin C. Kleinrock & Susan E. Humphris
doi:10.1038/382149a0
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| | Effects of gamete traits on fertilization in the sea and the evolution of sexual dimorphism 153
Don R. Levitan
doi:10.1038/382153a0
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| | Trichromatic colour vision in New World monkeys 156
Gerald H. Jacobs, Maureen Neitz, Jess F. Deegan & Jay Neitz
doi:10.1038/382156a0
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| | A PET study of the neural systems of stuttering 158
Peter T. Fox, Roger J. Ingham, Janis C. Ingham, Traci B. Hirsch, J. Hunter Downs, Charles Martin, Paul Jerabek, Thomas Glass & Jack L. Lancaster
doi:10.1038/382158a0
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| | Decapentaplegic restricts the domain of wingless during Drosophila limb patterning 162
Andrea Penton & F. Michael Hoffmann
doi:10.1038/382162a0
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| | A cationic channel regulated by a vertebrate intrinsic circadian oscillator 165
Theresa D'Souza & Stuart E. Dryer
doi:10.1038/382165a0
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| | A receptor subtype involved in neuropeptide-Y-induced food intake 168
Christophe Gerald, Mary W. Walker, Leoluca Criscione, Eric L. Gustafson, Christine Batzl-Hartmann, Kelli E. Smith, Pierre Vaysse, Margaret M. Durkin, Thomas M. Laz, David L. Linemeyer, Andrea O. Schaffhauser, Steven Whitebread, Karl G. Hofbauer, Robert I. Taber, Theresa A. Branchek & Richard L. Weinshank
doi:10.1038/382168a0
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| | Requirement for Stat4 in interleukin-12-mediated responses of natural killer and T cells 171
William E. Thierfelder, Jan M. van Deursen, Koh Yamamoto, Ralph A. Tripp, Sally R. Sarawar, Richard T. Carson, Mark Y. Sangster, Dario A. A. Vignali, Peter C. Doherty, Gerard C. Grosveld & James N. Ihle
doi:10.1038/382171a0
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| | Impaired IL-12 responses and enhanced development of Th2 cells in Stat4-deficient mice 174
Mark H. Kaplan, Ya-Lin Sun, Timothy Hoey & Michael J. Grusby
doi:10.1038/382174a0
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| | Regulation of receptor-mediated endocytosis by Rho and Rac 177
Christophe Lamaze, Tsung-Hsein Chuang, Laura J. Terlecky, Gary M. Bokoch & Sandra L. Schmid
doi:10.1038/382177a0
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| | NMR structure of the mouse prion protein domain PrP(121−231) 180
Roland Riek, Simone Hornemann, Gerhard Wider, Martin Billeter, Rudi Glockshuber & Kurt Wüthrich
doi:10.1038/382180a0
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| | Structural basis of RNA folding and recognition in an AMP−RNA aptamer complex 183
Feng Jiang, R. Ajay Kumar, Roger A. Jones & Dinshaw J. Patel
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Time to think ahead to the new academic year and items that may be needed, such as a system for cultivating hybridoma cells, a mass detector for liquid chromatographs and a accounting program to keep track of expenses.
doi:10.1038/382187a0
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