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| | Tobacco and researchers' rights 1
Scientists have been wrongly condemned for accepting research sponsorship from the tobacco industry. But there are plenty of ways in which the academic community can be harmed or led astray by cigarette manufacturers.
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| | Conservationists seek compromise over new threat to Galapagos 3
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383003a0
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| | African biology federation takes shape 3
Michael Cherry
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| | Swedish institute sued for software piracy 4
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383004a0
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| | Ex-minister ready to share blood blame 4
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/383004b0
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| | Drug and cigarette company donations favour Republicans 5
Meredith Wadman
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| | Scientists split over tobacco industry research funding
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Ehsan Masood
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| | Drug company links test journal's policy 6
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383006a0
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| | 'Superman' argues for more NIH money 6
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/383006b0
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| | Japan hints at a shift to the life sciences 7
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/383007a0
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| | Gloom deepens for Australian researchers 8
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/383008a0
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| | Space centrifuge deal may mean job losses at NASA 8
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/383008b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 9
doi:10.1038/383009a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | Chinese scientists drawn back to Asia 11
The remarkable increase in the number of overseas Chinese scientists returning to the booming economies of Asia is already having an impact on the region. Scientists are also going back to take up key posts in China itself.
David Swinbanks & Elisabeth Tacey
doi:10.1038/383011a0
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| | Taiwan's technocrats stoke the economy 12
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/383012a0
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| | Academia Sinica pulls back scientists 12
RICHARD NATHAN
doi:10.1038/383012b0
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| | Collaboration with mainland China 13
DAVID SWINBANKS
doi:10.1038/383013a0
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| | Is it worth leaving the US science base? 14
Charles Jennings
doi:10.1038/383014a0
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| | Briefing | |
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| | Singapore taps into Chinese talent and resources 14
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383014b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Application for patent opposed 17
S. Asano, T. Nakahata & T. A. Takahashi
doi:10.1038/383017a0
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| | Sham review 17
Desmond Donovan
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| | By any other name... 17
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/383017c0
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| | Pseuds' corner 17
Caroline L. Herzenberg
doi:10.1038/383017d0
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| | Storing diffraction data 18
T. Alwyn Jones, Gerard J. Kleywegt & Axel T. Brünger
doi:10.1038/383018a0
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| | Fate of conference abstracts 20
Lynda Liu & Robert S. Danziger
doi:10.1038/383020a0
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| | Strassmann in the shadow 20
Günter Herrmann & Gerhart Friedlander
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| | Exodus enigma 20
Rupert Lee
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| | Earthquakes: slow down for safety 21
In December 1992, part of the San Andreas fault ruptured. No damage was caused, because instead of lasting for a few seconds, this earthquake sequence took a week. So why are other earthquakes fast?
Paul Segall
doi:10.1038/383021a0
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| | A growing coactivator network 22
Ralf Janknecht & Tony Hunter
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| | The key is in the pocket 23
Stephen J. Benkovic
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| | Awakening the brain 24
Mircea Steriade
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| | A complement to host defence 25
Peter Henson
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| | Frank Whittle (1907−96) 27
Kenneth Fulton
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| | Dangers hang over dependency 28
Peter Francis
doi:10.1038/383028a0
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| | Surprising damp 28
David Jones
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Perception of music by infants 29
Marcel R. Zentner & Jerome Kagan
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| | Protrusible eyes; retractable noses 29
Ronald Chase
doi:10.1038/383029b0
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| | Transposable element in fish 30
Akihiko Koga, Miho Suzuki, Hidehito Inagaki, Yoshitaka Bessho & Hiroshi Hori
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| | Dynamics of haemoglobin 30
Valerian E. Kagan, Billy W. Day, Nabil M. Elsayed & Nikolai V. Gorbunov
doi:10.1038/383030b0
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| | Ball lightning an electromagnetic knot? 32
Antonio F. Rañada & José L. Trueba
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| | New Journals | |
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| | Nervous dispositions 33
William Milberg
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| | Listening post 34
Christoph E. Schreiner
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| | New Journals 1996 34
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| | Neuro-specialist 34
Sten Grillner
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| | Dementia's demise 35
Mark P. Mattson
doi:10.1038/383035a0
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| | Happy reunion 35
Leonard I. Zon
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| | Brains, cytokines and nightmares 36
Carlos Martínez-A
doi:10.1038/383036a0
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| | Superdrug or superbug? 36
Curtis Gemmell
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| | Translation manual 36
Fran Balkwill
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| | Origami anyone? 37
Neville Kallenbach
doi:10.1038/383037a0
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| | Molecules for a living 37
Jacques R. Fresco
doi:10.1038/383037b0
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| | Good for vibrations 37
Anthony Lee
doi:10.1038/383037c0
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| | Easy does it 38
Jon Turney
doi:10.1038/383038a0
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| | Global welfare 38
George Gellert
doi:10.1038/383038b0
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| | Drug data 38
Anis Mir
doi:10.1038/383038c0
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| | Non-appliance of science 39
Robert Koebner
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| | Map reading 39
Peter Little
doi:10.1038/383039b0
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| | Bernoulli: Official Journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability 40
A. W. R. Edwards
doi:10.1038/383040a0
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| | Local attitudes 40
Euan G. Nisbet
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| | Airless life 40
John Postgate
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| | Candid chemistry 41
Harold Kroto
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| | Rising to the top 41
David A. King
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| | On the beam 42
Watson Fuller
doi:10.1038/383042a0
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| | Flagship journal for a field at sea 42
William H. Casey
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| | Open channels 42
Brian Martin
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| | Beyond the molecule 43
Harry L. Anderson
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| | For freewheelers and wannabees 43
Ian Stewart
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| | Independence play 43
Dave Cliff
doi:10.1038/383043c0
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| | Young pretender 44
Laura Garwin
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| | International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization 44
Randal W. Richards
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| | International Journal of Forensic Document Examiners 44
Lee Loevinger
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| | Sub-galactic clumps at a redshift of 2.39 and implications for galaxy formation 45
S. M. Pascarelle, R. A. Windhorst, W. C. Keel & S. C. Odewahn
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| | Role of inscuteable in orienting asymmetric cell divisions in Drosophila
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Rachel Kraut, William Chia, Lily Yeh Jan, Yuh Nung Jan & Jürgen A. Knoblich
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| | Self-gravity as an explanation of the fractal structure of the interstellar medium 56
H. J. de Vega, N. Sánchez & F. Combes
doi:10.1038/383056a0
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| | A polymeric optical pattern-recognition system for security verification 58
B. L. Volodin, B. Kippelen, K. Meerholz, B. Javidi & N. Peyghambarian
doi:10.1038/383058a0
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| | Off-the-shelf proteins that rival tailor-made antibodies as catalysts 60
Florian Hollfelder, Anthony J. Kirby & Dan S. Tawfik
doi:10.1038/383060a0
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| | Chlorin accumulation rate as a proxy for Quaternary marine primary productivity 63
P. G. Harris, M. Zhao, A. Rosell-Melé, R. Tiedemann, M. Sarnthein & J. R. Maxwell
doi:10.1038/383063a0
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| | A slow earthquake sequence on the San Andreas fault 65
Alan T. Linde, Michael T. Gladwin, Malcolm J. S. Johnston, Ross L. Gwyther & Roger G. Bilham
doi:10.1038/383065a0
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| | A Palaeocene proboscidean from Morocco 68
Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Jean Sudre & Henri Cappetta
doi:10.1038/383068a0
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| | Minimal cost per twitch in rattlesnake tail muscle 71
Kevin E. Conley & Stan L. Lindstedt
doi:10.1038/383071a0
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| | Role of tissue factor in embryonic blood vessel development 73
Peter Carmeliet, Nigel Mackman, Lieve Moons, Thomas Luther, Pierre Gressens, Lise Van Vlaenderen, Hilde Demunck, Michael Kasper, Georg Breier, Philippe Evrard, Martin Müller, Werner Risau, Thomas Edgington & Désiré Collen
doi:10.1038/383073a0
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| | A neuronal learning rule for sub-millisecond temporal coding 76
Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Kempter, J. Leo van Hemmen & Hermann Wagner
doi:10.1038/383076a0
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| | Thalamic modulation of high-frequency oscillating potentials in auditory cortex 78
Daniel S. Barth & Kurt D. MacDonald
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| | Unopposed positive selection and autoreactivity in mice expressing class II MHC only on thymic cortex 81
Terri M. Laufer, Jenefer DeKoning, Jay S. Markowitz, David Lo & Laurie H. Glimcher
doi:10.1038/383081a0
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| | The C5a chemoattractant receptor mediates mucosal defence to infection 86
Uta E. Höpken, Bao Lu, Norma P. Gerard & Craig Gerard
doi:10.1038/383086a0
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| | Control of calcium oscillations by phosphorylation of metabotropic glutamate receptors 89
Shigeki Kawabata, Rie Tsutsumi, Atsuyuki Kohara, Tokio Yamaguchi, Shigetada Nakanishi & Masamichi Okada
doi:10.1038/383089a0
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| | Spreading of transcriptional represser SIR3 from telomeric heterochromatin 92
Andreas Hecht, Sabine Strahl-Bolsinger & Michael Grunstein
doi:10.1038/383092a0
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| | Release of both native and non-native proteins from a cis-only GroEL ternary complex 96
Steven G. Burston, Jonathan S. Weissman, George W. Farr, Wayne A. Fenton & Arthur L. Norwich
doi:10.1038/383096a0
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| | Role of CBP/P300 in nuclear receptor signalling 99
Debabrata Chakravarti, Vickie J. LaMorte, Michael C. Nelson, Toshihiro Nakajima, Ira G. Schulman, Henry Juguilon, Marc Montminy & Ronald M. Evans
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| | Activation of complement by an IgG molecule without a genetic hinge 103
Ole Henrik Brekke, Terje E. Michaelsen, Randi Sandlin & Inger Sandlie
doi:10.1038/383103a0
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| | A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs 103
J. R. Horner & D. B. Weishampel
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| | Inhibition of an inwardly rectifying K+ channel by G-protein  -subunits 103
Wolfgang Schreibmayer, Carmen W. Dessauer, Dmitry Vorobiov, Alfred G. Gilman, Henry A. Lester, Norman Davidson & Nathan Dascal
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