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| | How not to protect databases 293
A battle is raging between opponents and supporters of a proposed new treaty on database protection. A period of consultation is essential so that information users can properly assess the impact of the treaty.
doi:10.1038/384293a0
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| | Russian roulette 293
The fate of Russian science has recently turned from drama to tragedy. Imaginative help from the West is much needed.
doi:10.1038/384293b0
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| | Russian weapons labs become the top priority for Western funding 295
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384295a0
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| | Institute boss murders five, kills self 295
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/384295b0
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| | Friends and believers bid farewell to Nobel laureate 296
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/384296a0
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| | Gene panel reprieved after public outcry... 297
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/384297a0
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| | ...as concern grows over screening 297
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/384297b0
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| | Regions picked as biotech 'winners' 298
Quirin Schiermeier & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/384298a0
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| | European convention allows use of human embryos 298
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/384298b0
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| | US science lobby intensifies attack on database pact... 299
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384299a0
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| | ...as opposition makes delay likely 299
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/384299b0
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| | Transatlantic merger creates potent hybrid in bioscience research 299
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/384299c0
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| | Romanian scientist elected president 300
Constantin Roman
doi:10.1038/384300a0
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| | Aeronomics institute leads protests against closures 300
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/384300b0
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| | Dual role for Australian research chief 300
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/384300c0
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| | Trade war looms over gene-altered foods 301
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/384301a0
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| | News in brief 302
doi:10.1038/384302a0
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| | The real threat from antibiotics 304
Abigail Salyers
doi:10.1038/384304a0
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| | Act now on co2
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Michael Jefferson
doi:10.1038/384304b0
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| | Hooked on Nature
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Per Södersten
doi:10.1038/384304c0
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| | Tradition stands in the way of promotion 305
Germany's outdated system for promoting postdocs frustrates the career ambitions of many promising researchers. Worse still, it is preventing universities from competing as well as they should in the international science race.
Gerhard Neuweiler
doi:10.1038/384305a0
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| | Silicon integrated circuits shine 307
Mixing light-emitting diodes and ordinary electronics on the same silicon chip could create new possibilities for cheap, smart optoelectronics, and inspire new applications.
David A. B. Miller
doi:10.1038/384307a0
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| | Utrophin to the rescue 308
Kevin P. Campbell & Rachelle H. Crosbie
doi:10.1038/384308a0
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| | Missing link found in space 309
Stephen Lepp
doi:10.1038/384309a0
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| | Making molecules 311
doi:10.1038/384311a0
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| | When a thick film is thin 311
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/384311b0
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| | Fire damage soils our forests 312
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/384312a0
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| | Recipes for cleaner air 313
William J. Cooper & L. Anita Holloway
doi:10.1038/384313a0
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| | The changing sizes of genes 315
Brian Charlesworth
doi:10.1038/384315a0
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| | DNA helicases get physical 316
Stephen C. West
doi:10.1038/384316a0
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| | Genomic revolutionaries rise up 317
Laurence D. Hurst & Gregory D. D. Hurst
doi:10.1038/384317a0
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| | Second sight 318
David Jones
doi:10.1038/384318a0
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| | Migration corridor for sea turtles 319
Stephen J. Morreale, Edward A. Standora, James R. Spotila & Frank V. Paladino
doi:10.1038/384319a0
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| | Even−odd carbon atom disparity 320
Jagarlapudi A. R. P. Sarma, Ashwini Nangia, Gautam R. Desiraju, Engelbert Zass & Jack D. Dunitz
doi:10.1038/384320a0
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| | Laterality defects in conjoined twins 321
Michael Levin, Drucilla J. Roberts, Lewis B. Holmes & Cliff Tabin
doi:10.1038/384321a0
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| | DNA binding by the ETS domain 322
Barbara J. Graves, Marc E. Gillespie & Lawrence P. Mclntosh
doi:10.1038/384322a0
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| | Cosmological wars 323
Hermann Bondi reviews Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
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Helge Kragh
doi:10.1038/384323a0
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| | Spineless debates 324
Philippe Janvier reviews Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates
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Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/384324a0
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| | Measuring science revolutions 325
Mark Buchanan reviews Conversations with the Sphinx: Paradoxes in Physics
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Etienne Klein
doi:10.1038/384325a0
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| | The dangers of Green dogma 325
Julian Morris reviews Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement
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Andrew Rowell
doi:10.1038/384325b0
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doi:10.1038/384326a0
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| | Pituitary lineage determination by the Prophet of Pit-1 homeodomain factor defective in Ames dwarfism 327
Mark W. Sornson, Wei Wu, Jeremy S. Dasen, Sarah E. Flynn, Deborah J. Norman, Shawn M. O'Connell, Ilya Gukovsky, Catherine Carrière, Aimee K. Ryan, Andrew P. Miller, Lin Zuo, Anatoli S. Gleiberman, Bogi Andersen, Wes G. Beamer & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/384327a0
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| | Detection of H+
3 in interstellar space 334
T. R. Geballe & T. Oka
doi:10.1038/384334a0
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| | Phase-contrast imaging using polychromatic hard X-rays 335
S. W. Wilkins, T. E. Gureyev, D. Gao, A. Pogany & A. W. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/384335a0
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| | Silicon-based visible light-emitting devices integrated into microelectronic circuits 338
K. D. Hirschman, L. Tsybeskov, S. P. Duttagupta & P. M. Fauchet
doi:10.1038/384338a0
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| | Uranium-oxide-based catalysts for the destruction of volatile chloro-organic compounds 341
Graham J. Hutchings, Catherine S. Heneghan, Ian D. Hudson & Stuart H. Taylor
doi:10.1038/384341a0
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| | Highly concentrated seismicity caused by deformation of Kilauea's deep magma system 343
Dominique Gillard, Allan M. Rubin & Paul Okubo
doi:10.1038/384343a0
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| | High intrinsic rate of DNA loss in Drosophila
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Dmitri A. Petrov, Elena R. Lozovskaya & Daniel L. Hartl
doi:10.1038/384346a0
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| | Amelioration of the dystrophic phenotype of mdx mice using a truncated utrophin transgene 349
Jonathon M. Tinsley, Allyson C. Potter, Steven R. Phelps, Rosie Fisher, Jeffrey I. Trickett & Kay E. Davies
doi:10.1038/384349a0
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| | Inhibition of myocardial endothelin pathway improves long-term survival in heart failure 353
Satoshi Sakai, Takashi Miyauchi, Masahiko Kobayashi, Iwao Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Goto & Yasuro Sugishita
doi:10.1038/384353a0
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| | Genetic and environmental contributions to the acquisition of a motor skill 356
Paul W. Fox, Scott L. Hershberger & Thomas J. Bouchard Jr
doi:10.1038/384356a0
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| | Orthogonal motion after-effect illusion predicted by a model of cortical motion processing 358
Alexander Grunewald & Martin J. M. Lankheet
doi:10.1038/384358a0
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| | Inflammatory pain hypersensitivity mediated by phenotypic switch in myelinated primary sensory neurons 360
Simona Neumann, Tim P. Doubell, Tabi Leslie & Clifford J. Woolf
doi:10.1038/384360a0
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| | Dendritic cells capable of stimulating T cells in germinal centres 364
Géraldine Grouard, Isabella Durand, Luis Filgueira, Jacques Banchereau & Yong-Jun Liu
doi:10.1038/384364a0
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| | Decreased apoptosis in the brain and premature lethality in CPP32-deficient mice 368
Keisuke Kuida, Timothy S. Zheng, Songqing Na, Chia-Yi Kuan, Di Yang, Hajime Karasuyama, Pasko Rakic & Richard A. Flavell
doi:10.1038/384368a0
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| | A death-domain-containing receptor that mediates apoptosis 372
Jeremy Kitson, Thomas Raven, Ying-Ping Jiang, David V. Goeddel, Katharine M. Giles, Kwok-Tao Pun, Christine J. Grinham, Robin Brown & Stuart N. Farrow
doi:10.1038/384372a0
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| | Enhanced processivity of RNA polymerase II triggered by Tat-induced phosphorylation of its carboxy-terminal domain 375
Camilo A. Parada & Robert G. Roeder
doi:10.1038/384375a0
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| | Crystal structure of a DExx box DNA helicase 379
Hosahalli S. Subramanya, Louise E. Bird, James A. Brannigan & Dale B. Wigley
doi:10.1038/384379a0
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| | A human RNA polymerase II complex associated with SRB and DNA-repair proteins 384
Edio Maldonado, Ramin Shiekhattar, Michael Sheldon, Helen Cho, Ronny Drapkin, Paula Rickert, Emma Lees, Carl W. Anderson, Stuart Linn & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/384384a0
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This week Product Review covers items such as reagents for cell detachment and tissue dissociation, reverse transcription and liposomal transfection, as well as custom-synthesized oligonucleotide tubes and microplates.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/384385a0
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