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| | Don't leave it to the market-place 389
The collapse of the British government's attempts to privatize its observatories should not be the end of the story. But any future government must take heed of the lessons of a severe, and costly, embarrassment.
doi:10.1038/384389a0
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| | News story that wasn't 389
A biotechnology company is developing the non-informative press release into a fine art.
doi:10.1038/384389b0
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| | 'Extra costs' force UK to terminate bid to privatize astronomy facilities 391
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/384391a0
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| | British science to stay in steady state 391
DAVID DICKSON
doi:10.1038/384391b0
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| | Did UK scientist give France vital clues about H-bomb? 392
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/384392a0
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| | Panel asked to rule on US−Indian patent row 392
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/384392b0
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| | New US air pollution regulations are set for a bumpy ride 392
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/384392c0
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| | Societies join forces to lobby Congress 393
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384393a0
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| | UK human genetics panel established 393
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/384393b0
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| | Costs cloud Korea's synchrotron expansion 394
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/384394a0
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| | India approves genetic diversity study 394
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/384394b0
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| | Warning of 'research crisis' at German universities 395
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/384395a0
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| | Illegal sale of research ship prompts review 395
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/384395b0
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| | Engineering academy agrees compensation for deposed president 395
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384395c0
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| | French cash pull-out puts Cluster in doubt 396
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/384396a0
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| | Policy differences 'threaten Israel's biotech potential' 396
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/384396b0
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| | Novel pathogens beat food safety checks 397
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/384397a0
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| | German lab ordered to tighten monitoring 398
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/384398a0
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| | Oxford and Cambridge still dominate UK citations list 398
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/384398b0
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| | News in brief 399
doi:10.1038/384399a0
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| | A case for instant peer review? 401
C. T. Pillinger
doi:10.1038/384401a0
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| | A case for instant peer review? 401
Maciej Henneberg
doi:10.1038/384401b0
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| | Cistron has guts 401
Bruce C. Gallon
doi:10.1038/384401c0
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| | Prior publication 401
Ralph A. Lewin
doi:10.1038/384401d0
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| | Japanese grant system is a lottery 402
Shinji Yokoyama
doi:10.1038/384402a0
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| | Cultural credits 403
Tim Taylor
doi:10.1038/384403a0
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| | I think I know that face... 404
Pawan Sinha & Tomaso Poggio
doi:10.1038/384404a0
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| | Chinese ethics 404
Xin Mao
doi:10.1038/384404b0
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| | Power games in Austrian science 404
Peter Holzer
doi:10.1038/384404c0
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| | Reversal of fortune for nascent proteins 405
The demonstration of a way in which cytomegalovirus can evade immune surveillance also points to a mechanism by which abnormal proteins, once synthesized, can be degraded.
Juan S. Bonifacino
doi:10.1038/384405a0
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| | Do two photons make a band? 406
Theodore P. Snow
doi:10.1038/384406a0
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| | Transcribing diabetes 407
John A. Todd
doi:10.1038/384407a0
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| | How Earth created heaven 409
James H. Knapp
doi:10.1038/384409a0
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| | Flies go with the flow 411
Mandyam V. Srinivasan
doi:10.1038/384411a0
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| | Programmed to stay together 412
Sharyn A. Endow
doi:10.1038/384412a0
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| | Attack on a convoy of nucleons 413
P. G. Hansen
doi:10.1038/384413a0
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| | The sharp end of quasars 415
Patrick S. Osmer
doi:10.1038/384415a0
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| | Netrins find their receptor 416
Uwe Drescher
doi:10.1038/384416a0
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| | Life inside out 417
David Jones
doi:10.1038/384417a0
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| | Hans Kosterlitz (1903−96) 418
John Hughes
doi:10.1038/384418a0
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| | Spider silk as mechanical lifeline 419
Shigeyoshi Osaki
doi:10.1038/384419a0
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| | Wide diversity of Crenarchaeota 420
Karen L. Hershberger, Susan M. Barns, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Scott C. Dawson & Norman R. Pace
doi:10.1038/384420a0
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| | A compact radiological X-ray source 421
M. Bacal, C. Gaudin, A. Bourdier, J. Bruneteau, J. M. Buzzi, K. S. Golovanivsky, L. Hay, C. Rouillé & L. Schwartz.
doi:10.1038/384421a0
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| | Deep-breathing cephalopods? 421
Brad A. Seibel & James J. Childress
doi:10.1038/384421b0
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| | 'Distorted' RNA helix recognition 422
Paul Schimmel & Karin Musier-Forsyth
doi:10.1038/384422a0
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| | 'Distorted' RNA helix recognition 422
Michael Ibba & Dieter Söll
doi:10.1038/384422b0
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| | Stealing science's clothes 423
Dorothy Nelkin reviews Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life
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Christopher P. Tourney
doi:10.1038/384423a0
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doi:10.1038/384423b0
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| | How allies shared radar secrets 424
Frederick Seitz reviews The Invention that Changed the World*
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Robert Simon Schuster Buderi
doi:10.1038/384424a0
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| | Rubbing shoulders with giants 425
Graham Farmelo reviews A Theory for Everything
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Jeremy Bernstein
doi:10.1038/384425a0
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doi:10.1038/384425b0
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| | Fossil parks 426
Angela Milner reviews Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs
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Michael Novacek, David , Luther WeishampelYoung & Peter Dodson
doi:10.1038/384426a0
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| | New in paperback 426
doi:10.1038/384426b0
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| | Endosome dynamics regulated by a Rho protein 427
Carol Murphy, Rainer Saffrich, Maika Grummt, Hélèna Gournier, Vladimir Rybin, Mariantonietta Rubino, Petri Auvinen, Anne Lütcke, Robert G. Parton & Marino Zerial
doi:10.1038/384427a0
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| | Sec6l-mediated transfer of a membrane protein from the endoplasmic reticulum to the proteasome for destruction 432
Emmanuel J. H. J. Wiertz, Domenico Tortorella, Matthew Bogyo, Joyce Yu, Walther Mothes, Thomas R. Jones, Tom A. Rapoport & Hidde L. Ploegh
doi:10.1038/384432a0
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| | Decrease in the space density of quasars at high redshift 439
P. A. Shaver, J. V. Wall, K. I. Kellermann, C. A. Jackson & M. R. S. Hawkins
doi:10.1038/384439a0
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| | Structural characterization of pentacoordinate silicon in a calcium silicate 441
R. J. Angel, N. L. Ross, F. Seifert & T. F. Fliervoet
doi:10.1038/384441a0
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| | The effect of small-scale inhomogeneities on ozone depletion in the Arctic 444
S. Edouard, B. Legras, F. Lefèvre & R. Eymard
doi:10.1038/384444a0
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| | Possible role of dust-induced regional warming in abrupt climate change during the last glacial period 447
Jonathan Overpeck, David Rind, Andrew Lacis & Richard Healy
doi:10.1038/384447a0
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| | Relatively recent construction of the Tien Shan inferred from GPS measurements of present-day crustal deformation rates 450
K. Ye. Abdrakhmatov, S. A. Aldazhanov, B. H. Hager, M. W. Hamburger, T. A. Herring, K. B. Kalabaev, V. I. Makarov, P. Molnar, S. V. Panasyuk, M. T. Prilepin, R. E. Reilinger, I. S. Sadybakasov, B. J. Souter, Yu. A. Trapeznikov, V. Ye. Tsurkov & A. V. Zubovich
doi:10.1038/384450a0
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| | Turtles as diapsid reptiles 453
O. Rieppel & M. deBraga
doi:10.1038/384453a0
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| | Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 gene in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY3) 455
Kazuya Yamagata, Naohisa Oda, Pamela J. Kaisaki, Stephan Menzel, Hiroto Furuta, Martine Vaxillaire, Lorraine Southam, Roger D. Cox, G. Mark Lathrop, V. Vicky Boriraj, Xiangna Chen, Nancy J. Cox, Yukie Oda, Hideki Yano, Michelle M. Le Beau, Shirou Yamada, Hidekazu Nishigori, Jun Takeda, Stefan S. Fajans, Andrew T. Hattersley, Naoko Iwasaki, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Kenneth S. Polonsky, Robert C. Turner, Gilberto Velho, Jean-Claude Chèvre, Philippe Froguel & Graeme I. Bell
doi:10.1038/384455a0
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| | Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 gene in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY1) 458
Kazuya Yamagata, Hiroto Furuta, Naohisa Oda, Pamela J. Kaisaki, Stephan Menzel, Nancy J. Cox, Stefan S. Fajans, Stefano Signorini, Markus Stoffel & Graeme I. Bell
doi:10.1038/384458a0
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| | Role of learning in three-dimensional form perception 460
Pawan Sinha & Tomaso Poggio
doi:10.1038/384460a0
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| | Estimation of self-motion by optic flow processing in single visual interneurons 463
Holger G. Krapp & Roland Hengstenberg
doi:10.1038/384463a0
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| | Neurturin, a relative of glial-cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor 467
Paul T. Kotzbauer, Patricia A. Lampe, Robert O. Heuckeroth, Judith P. Golden, Douglas J. Creedon, Eugene M. Johnson Jr & Jeffrey Milbrandt
doi:10.1038/384467a0
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| | Cyclin D2 is an FSH-responsive gene involved in gonadal cell proliferation and oncogenesis 470
Piotr Sicinski, Joana Liu Donaher, Yan Geng, Susan B. Parker, Humphrey Gardner, Mary Y. Park, Rebecca L Robker, JoAnne S. Richards, Lynda K. McGinnis, John D. Biggers, John J. Eppig, Roderick T. Bronson, Stephen J. Elledge & Robert A. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/384470a0
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| | Transcription factor GATA-3 is required for development of the T-cell lineage 474
Chao-Nan Ting, Marilyn C. Olson, Kevin P. Barton & Jeffrey M. Leiden
doi:10.1038/384474a0
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| | Nucleotide exchange on ARF mediated by yeast Geal protein 479
Anne Peyroche, Sonia Paris & Catherine L. Jackson
doi:10.1038/384479a0
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| | A human exchange factor for ARF contains Sec7- and pleckstrin-homology domains 481
Pierre Chardin, Sonia Paris, Bruno Antonny, Sylviane Robineau, Sophie Béraud-Dufour, Catherine L. Jackson & Marc Chabre
doi:10.1038/384481a0
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| | Structural basis for activation of human lymphocyte kinase Lck upon tyrosine phosphorylation 484
Hiroto Yamaguchi & Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/384484a0
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| | Antibody characterization by isothermal titration calorimetry 491
Isothermal titration calorimetry is a useful tool for the characterization of antibodies and antibody-related products, which uses heat as a detection medium, circumventing the problems associated with other analytical methods.
Jeff R. Livingstone
doi:10.1038/384491a0
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| | An open market for cell biology 493
Cell biologists gather for an annual international meeting in San Francisco this week and items on display may include a non-radioactive assay for cell proliferation, a personal confocal microscopy system or a mammalian expression system.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/384493a0
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doi:10.1038/384496a0
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