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| | Bringing enlightenment to the pursuit of justice 563
Advances in modern science and medicine have introduced unprecedented dilemmas for both courts and legislators. A ruling in a British case on artificial insemination gives hope that good sense can be made to prevail.
doi:10.1038/385563a0
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| | Heavenly prospects and glad tidings 563
President Clinton has accepted that science should not suffer from his efforts to balance the budget.
doi:10.1038/385563b0
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| | Outlook brightens for science in US budget proposals for 1998 565
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/385565a0
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| | Japanese increases include support for CERN's Large Hadron Collider 565
Richard Nathan & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/385565b0
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| | Heat rises over UCSD 'misconduct' charge 566
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/385566a0
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| | Rifts found as Antarctic ice breaks apart 566
doi:10.1038/385566b0
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| | UK universities urged to join forces to boost research 567
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/385567a0
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| | Congress turns the microscope on science spending 567
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/385567b0
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| | news US budget | |
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| | Congress vows to contest 'unacceptable' NIH plans 568
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/385568a0
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| | Despite cutbacks, NASA pulls out of a threatened long-term nosedive 568
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/385568b0
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| | NSF greets 'a good budget' 569
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/385569a0
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| | Green light sought for laser fusion and LHC 569
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/385569b0
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| | EPA seeks money for chemical clean-up 569
doi:10.1038/385569c0
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| | Biologists buck trend in Geological Survey 569
doi:10.1038/385569d0
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| | Basic research wins boost in defence 569
doi:10.1038/385569e0
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| | Technology programme cuts back ambitions 569
doi:10.1038/385569f0
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| | 'Medicinal plants threatened by over-use' 570
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/385570a0
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| | Breach of embryo ban leads to resignation 570
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/385570b0
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| | France takes gentler approach to reforms 571
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/385571a0
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| | News in brief 572
doi:10.1038/385572a0
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| | Canadian Red Cross seeks to reform itself 574
Antonio Giulivi
doi:10.1038/385574a0
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| | Freedom of choice 574
Colin Berry
doi:10.1038/385574b0
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| | Patronomy and conservation 574
Thomas Brooks
doi:10.1038/385574c0
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| | Parity and chivalry in nuclear physics 575
Forty years ago, the world of physics was stunned by the discovery that nuclear beta-decay does not respect symmetry between left and right. But the credit for this conclusion has not been properly attributed.
Nicholas Kurti & Christine Sutton
doi:10.1038/385575a0
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| | An oblique slant on deep-sea biodiversity 577
Organisms at the bottom of the deep seas might seem to be immune from large-scale shifts in climate. Not so, according to a study which reveals links between benthic biodiversity, glaciation and the Earth's obliquity.
Michael A. Rex
doi:10.1038/385577a0
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| | An emerging pathophysiology 578
Eric J. Nestler
doi:10.1038/385578a0
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| | How far can sequences diverge? 579
Cyrus Chothia & Mark Gerstein
doi:10.1038/385579a0
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doi:10.1038/385582a0
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| | New impressions of Src and Hck 582
Tony Pawson
doi:10.1038/385582b0
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| | A safer hiding hole 583
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/385583a0
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| | A problem dissolved 585
David Jones
doi:10.1038/385585a0
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| | Melvin Calvin (1911−97) Chemist who elucidated the biochemical basis of photosynthesis 586
Vivian Moses
doi:10.1038/385586a0
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| | Common mechanism of infection by lentiviruses 587
Brian J. Willett, Margaret J. Hosie, James C. Neil, Julie D. Turner & James A. Hoxie
doi:10.1038/385587a0
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| | Volcanic iron, CO2, ocean productivity and climate 587
Andrew J. Watson
doi:10.1038/385587b0
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Hox genes misled by local environments 588
Ralf Schnabel & Heinke Schnabel
doi:10.1038/385588a0
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| | The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod 589
Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill
doi:10.1038/385589a0
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| | D2 dopamine receptors and personality traits 590
Lars Farde, J. Petter Gustavsson & Erik Jönsson
doi:10.1038/385590a0
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| | The campaign for biodiversity 591
Paul Colinvaux reviews The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise
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David Takacs
doi:10.1038/385591a0
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| | Islands of wilderness on a crowded planet 591
doi:10.1038/385591b0
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| | Complex physics 592
Chris Philippidis reviews Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
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F. David Peat
doi:10.1038/385592a0
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| | Seeing is believing 592
Stephen G. Brush reviews The Biological Universe: The Twentieth-Century Extraterrstrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science
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Steven J. Dick
doi:10.1038/385592b0
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| | Face to face with a close relative 593
doi:10.1038/385593a0
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| | The health of nations 594
John Galloway reviews The People's Health: A Memoir of Public Health and Its Evolution at Harvard
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Robin Marantz Henig
doi:10.1038/385594a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of the tyrosine kinase c-Src 595
Wenqing Xu, Stephen C. Harrison & Michael J. Eck
doi:10.1038/385595a0
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| | Crystal structure of the Src family tyrosine kinase Hck 602
Frank Sicheri, Ismail Moarefi & John Kuriyan
doi:10.1038/385602a0
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| | A massive black hole at the centre of the quiescent galaxy M32 610
Roeland P. van der Marel, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Hans-Walter Rix & Gerald D. Quinlan
doi:10.1038/385610a0
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| | Asymmetric synthesis by enantiomer-selective activation of racemic catalysts 613
Koichi Mikami & Satoru Matsukawa
doi:10.1038/385613a0
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| | Acoustic observations of heat content across the Mediterranean Sea 615
U. Send, G. Krahmann, D. Mauuary, Y. Desaubies, F. Gaillard, T. Terre, J. Papadakis, M. Taroudakis, E. Skarsoulis & C. Millot
doi:10.1038/385615a0
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| | Basin-scale ocean circulation from combined altimetric, tomographic and model data 618
Dimitris Menemenlis, Tony Webb, Carl Wunsch, Uwe Send & Chris Hill
doi:10.1038/385618a0
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| | Rheology of the continental lithosphere inferred from sedimentary basins 621
Robert Newman & Nicky White
doi:10.1038/385621a0
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| | Orbital forcing of deep-sea benthic species diversity 624
T. M. Cronin & M. E. Raymo
doi:10.1038/385624a0
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| | Evolutionary origin of insect wings from ancestral gills 627
Michalis Averof & Stephen M. Cohen
doi:10.1038/385627a0
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| | Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors 630
Massimo Scanziani, Paul A. Salin, Kaspar E. Vogt, Robert C. Malenka & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/385630a0
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| | Decreased prefrontal dopamine D1 receptors in schizophrenia revealed by PET 634
Yoshiro Okubo, Tetsuya Suhara, Kazutoshi Suzuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Osamu Inoue, Omi Terasaki, Yasuhiro Someya, Takeshi Sassa, Yasuhiko Sudo, Eisuke Matsushima, Masaomi Iyo, Yukio Tateno & Michio Toru
doi:10.1038/385634a0
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| | Bax suppresses tumorigenesis and stimulates apoptosis in vivo
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Chaoying Yin, C. Michael Knudson, Stanley J. Korsmeyer & Terry Van Dyke
doi:10.1038/385637a0
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| | A new class of membrane-bound chemokine with a CX3C motif 640
J. Fernando Bazan, Kevin B. Bacon, Gary Hardiman, Wei Wang, Ken Soo, Devora Rossi, David R. Greaves, Albert Zlotnik & Thomas J. Schall
doi:10.1038/385640a0
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| | CCR3 and CCR5 are co-receptors for HIV-1 infection of microglia 645
Jianglin He, Youzhi Chen, Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe, Asa Ohagen, Suzanne Gartner, Jorge Busciglio, Xiaoyu Yang, Wolfgang Hofmann, Walter Newman, Charles R. Mackay, Joseph Sodroski & Dana Gabuzda
doi:10.1038/385645a0
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| | Activation of the Sire-family tyrosine kinase Hck by SH3 domain displacement 650
Ismail Moarefi, Michelle LaFevre-Bernt, Frank Sicheri, Morgan Huse, Chi-Hon Lee, John Kuriyan & W. Todd Miller
doi:10.1038/385650a0
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| | Interaction between the C. elegans cell-death regulators CED-9 and CED-4 653
Mona S. Spector, Serge Desnoyers, Daniel J. Hoeppner & Michael O. Hengartner
doi:10.1038/385653a0
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| | Diverse opportunities for immunologists 657
Close links between courses and senior scientists are one key to career development in immunological fields. And better organization of careers advice is on the way.
Brendan Horton & Orla Smith
doi:10.1038/385657a0
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| | Watch the Internet for careers update 657
BRENDAN HOLTON
doi:10.1038/385657b0
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| | The dos and don'ts of grant writing 658
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/385658a0
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| | Molecular biology skills in demand in Europe 659
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/385659a0
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| | Bright prospects for British biotech 660
Gabor Steigler
doi:10.1038/385660a0
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