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| | How not to compete with tigers 655
Australia should take a lesson from its Asia−Pacific neighbours before it undermines its research and higher education infrastructure by slashing budgets for its universities and cutting incentives for industrial research.
doi:10.1038/382655a0
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| | It's the platform, stupid 655
The Republican party in the United States has made the Democrats look strong in science policy.
doi:10.1038/382655b0
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| | Ethics worries over execution twist to Internet's 'visible man' 657
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/382657a0
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| | US Geological Survey picks up the NBS pieces 658
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382658a0
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| | US superconductor research is good value — so far 658
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/382658b0
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| | Budget cuts hit Australian industry R & D 659
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/382659a0
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| | Threat of ban hangs over Israeli archaeology 659
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/382659b0
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| | Roche faces charges over Taq patent claim 660
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/382660a0
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| | Free speech a thing of the past? 660
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382660b0
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| | Europe opens high-tech stockmarket... 661
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/382661a0
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| | ... as biotech deal sets record 661
MIKE WARD
doi:10.1038/382661b0
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| | Environment game gives taste of treaties 661
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/382661c0
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| | Nuclear blast from the past? 662
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382662a0
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| | Panel proposes disarmament guide 663
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/382663a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 664
doi:10.1038/382664a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Justification of Chapter 8 665
John Houghton
doi:10.1038/382665a0
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| | Hushed tones of the whistleblower 665
Charles W. McCutchen
doi:10.1038/382665b0
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| | The gentle touch 665
A. G. Gordon
doi:10.1038/382665c0
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| | Significance of birth-dates 666
John F. Bell & Alf Massey
doi:10.1038/382666a0
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| | Universal spelling 666
Koreaki Ito
doi:10.1038/382666b0
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| | Optical patterning 666
Norman Hairston
doi:10.1038/382666c0
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| | Faith, hope and taxation 666
David Davies
doi:10.1038/382666d0
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| | Unpalatable evolutionary principles 667
Experiments involving rye straws and almonds as prey, and great tits as predators, unveil forces operating on the origin of warning signals in nature.
Tim Guilford & Candy Rowe
doi:10.1038/382667a0
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| | Natural resistance to HIV? 668
C. Mark Hill & Dan R. Littman
doi:10.1038/382668a0
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| | Freely communicating 669
Charles Bennett
doi:10.1038/382669a0
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| | A triumph for common scents 670
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/382670a0
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| | Plastic lasers shine brightly 671
Donal Bradley
doi:10.1038/382671a0
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| | What's mice got to do with it? 672
Kenneth W. Kinzler & Bert Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/382672a0
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| | Beauty stays as charm wilts 673
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/382673a0
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| | Amyloid ox−tox transducers 674
Mark P. Mattson & Russell E. Rydel
doi:10.1038/382674a0
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| | Hunting ground for farmers 675
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/382675a0
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| | Clearing the air 676
David Jones
doi:10.1038/382676a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Brain cannabinoids in chocolate 677
Emmanuelle di Tomaso, Massimiliano Beltramo & Daniele Piomelli
doi:10.1038/382677a0
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| | Transcriptional activation by BRCA1 678
Mark S. Chapman & Inder M. Verma
doi:10.1038/382678a0
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| | Insect vibrational defence signals 679
Reginald B. Cocroft
doi:10.1038/382679a0
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| | Classic clues to NSF function 680
Alan Morgan
doi:10.1038/382680a0
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| | Film Review | |
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| | Surfing with the aliens 681
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/382681a0
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| | Desirable biology 682
Dick F. Swaab reviews Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality
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Simon LeVay
doi:10.1038/382682a0
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| | When botany became no work for a lady 683
Londa Schiebinger reviews Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England 1760 to 1860
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Ann B. Shteir
doi:10.1038/382683a0
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doi:10.1038/382683b0
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| | Imitating nature's designs 684
Robert W. Cahn reviews Biomimetic Materials Chemistry
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Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/382684a0
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| | RAGE and amyloid- peptide neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease 685
Shi Du Yan, Xi Chen, Jin Fu, Ming Chen, Huaijie Zhu, Alex Roher, Timothy Slattery, Lei Zhao, Mariko Nagashima, John Morser, Antonio Migheli, Peter Nawroth, David Stern & Ann Marie Schmidt
doi:10.1038/382685a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | A lower limit of 9.5 Gyr on the age of the Galactic disk from the oldest white dwarf stars 692
Terry D. Oswalt, J. Allyn Smith, Matt A. Wood & Paul Hintzen
doi:10.1038/382692a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (673K)
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| | Lasing from conjugated-polymer microcavities 695
N. Tessler, G. J. Denton & R. H. Friend
doi:10.1038/382695a0
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| | A chemical-detecting system based on a cross-reactive optical sensor array 697
Todd A. Dickinson, Joel White, John S. Kauer & David R. Walt
doi:10.1038/382697a0
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| | Widespread increases in low-frequency variability of precipitation over the past century 700
A. A. Tsonis
doi:10.1038/382700a0
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| | Re−Os isotopic evidence for genesis of Archaean nickel ores from uncontaminated komatiites 703
Jeffrey G. Foster, David D. Lambert, Louise R. Frick & Roland Maas
doi:10.1038/382703a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,046K)
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| | Bite-force estimation for Tyrannosaurus rex from tooth-marked bones 706
Gregory M. Erickson, Samuel D. Van Kirk, Jinntung Su, Marc E. Levenston, William E. Caler & Dennis R. Carter
doi:10.1038/382706a0
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| | Tracking the evolution of warning signals 708
Rauno V. Alatalo & Johanna Mappes
doi:10.1038/382708a0
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| | The PIE-1 protein and germline specification in C. elegans embryos 710
Craig C. Mello, Charlotte Schubert, Bruce Draper, Wei Zhang, Robert Lobel & James R. Priess
doi:10.1038/382710a0
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| | Repression of gene expression in the embryonic germ lineage of C. elegans
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Geraldine Seydoux, Craig C. Mello, Jonathan Pettitt, William B. Wood, James R. Priess & Andrew Fire
doi:10.1038/382713a0
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| | Scavenger receptor-mediated adhesion of microglia to -amyloid fibrils 716
Joseph El Khoury, Suzanne E. Hickman, Christian A. Thomas, Long Cao, Samuel C. Silverstein & John D. Loike
doi:10.1038/382716a0
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| | Functional coupling between ryanodine receptors and L-type calcium channels in neurons 719
P. Chavis, L. Fagni, J. B. Lansman & J. Bockaert
doi:10.1038/382719a0
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| | Resistance to HIV-1 infection in Caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene 722
Michel Samson, Frédérick Libert, Benjamin J. Doranz, Joseph Rucker, Corinne Liesnard, Claire-Michèle Farber, Sentob Saragosti, Claudine Lapouméroulie, Jacqueline Cognaux, Christine Forceille, Gaetan Muyldermans, Chris Verhofstede, Guy Burtonboy, Michel Georges, Tsuneo Imai, Shalini Rana, Yanji Yi, Robert J. Smyth, Ronald G. Collman, Robert W. Doms, Gilbert Vassart & Marc Parmentier
doi:10.1038/382722a0
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| | Specific cytotoxic T cells eliminate cells producing neutralizing antibodies 726
Oliver Planz, Peter Seiler, Hans Hengartner & Rolf M. Zinkernagel
doi:10.1038/382726a0
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| | Deoxycytidyl transferase activity of yeast REV1 protein 729
John R. Nelson, Christopher W. Lawrence & David C. Hinkle
doi:10.1038/382729a0
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| | Oxidative DNA damage through long-range electron transfer 731
Daniel B. Hall, R. Erik Holmlin & Jacqueline K. Barton
doi:10.1038/382731a0
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| | Topology and reorganization of a human TFIID−promoter complex 735
Thomas Oelgeschläger,, Cheng-Ming Chiang & Robert G. Roeder
doi:10.1038/382735a0
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| | A selection for the physical sciences 739
Today's special — product review offers problem solving software, information about nanotechnology funding, a diode-pumped solid-state laser and circuit simulation software.
doi:10.1038/382739a0
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