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Volume 385 Issue 6613, 16 January 1997

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  • Nature has been redesigned. It is to be hoped that this development, and others introduced in this issue, will enhance not only the publication's value but also its capacity to divert.

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  • No amount of purely scientific argument seems likely to dispel public concern about Gulf War syndrome.

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Commentary

  • Fourteen cases of new-variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease have so far been confirmed in the United Kingdom. Are they the start of an epidemic? If so, how informative will cases in the next few years be in predicting its course?

    • S. N. Cousens
    • E. Vynnycky
    • P. G. Smith
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News and Views Feature

  • Neurons and their networks underlie our perceptions, actions and memories. The latest work on information processing and storage at the single-cell level reveals previously unimagined complexity and dynamism.

    • Christof Koch
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Scientific Correspondence

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Book Review

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