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| | Science and technology deserve better from Brussels 661
Delayed proposals for Europe's fifth Framework programme reflect political infighting. Research is likely to suffer as a result of poor leadership within the European Commission.
doi:10.1038/385661a0
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| | Japan's successful launch paves way for interplanetary missions 663
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/385663a0
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| | Insurers agree moratorium on gene data 663
doi:10.1038/385663b0
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| | Europe reshuffles its scientific committees following BSE crisis 664
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/385664a0
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| | Chemists urge US to ratify weapons pact 664
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/385664b0
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| | EU research plan fails to charm critics 665
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/385665a0
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| | EMBO panel gives biology in Finland a pat on the back ... 666
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/385666a0
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| | ... as privatization windfall fills research coffers 666
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/385666b0
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| | Chair of GMO panel resigns over maize 667
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/385667a0
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| | Three share Australian prize for telecoms 667
doi:10.1038/385667b0
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| | Sceptics and salmon challenge scientists 668
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/385668a0
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| | 'Whistleblowers face blast of hostility' 669
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/385669a0
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| | Marconi's daughter sends out distress call about collection 669
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/385669b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 670
doi:10.1038/385670a0
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| | Patent threat to research 672
Howard Dalton, Brian Goodwin, Mae-Wan Ho, Jacqueline McGlade, Ghillean Prance, Peter Saunders, David Sherratt, John Maynard Smith & Roger Whittenbury
doi:10.1038/385672a0
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| | Not such a bad book 672
David M.J. Lilley
doi:10.1038/385672b0
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| | Improvement welcome 672
Peter Morley
doi:10.1038/385672c0
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| | Improvement welcome 672
Philip W. Anderson
doi:10.1038/385672d0
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| | A crisis in scientific morale 673
Scientists who work in biomedical fields cannot be objective observers of processes that go on in their own bodies. What is the rational solution to this dilemma?
Robert Pollack
doi:10.1038/385673a0
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| | A new age for type-II superconductors? 675
Many superconductors are rendered almost useless by the motion of string-like magnetic vortices. But because these vortices are hard to cut, it may be possible to pin them down using some very old techniques.
David R. Nelson
doi:10.1038/385675a0
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| | Different means to common ends 676
David Shore
doi:10.1038/385676a0
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| | The nose leads the eye 677
Geoffrey H. Gold & Edward N. Pugh Jr
doi:10.1038/385677a0
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| | Plus c'est le même chews 679
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/385679a0
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| | Memory floxed 680
Richard G. M. Morris & Roger J. Morris
doi:10.1038/385680a0
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| | Restricting gene inactivation to a subset of neurons 680
RICHARD G. M. MORRIS & ROGER J. MORRIS
doi:10.1038/385680b0
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| | Cool tropical punch of the ice ages 681
Christopher Charles
doi:10.1038/385681a0
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| | 100 YEARS AGO 684
doi:10.1038/385684a0
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| | Blocking adenoslne with antisense 684
Peter J. Richardson
doi:10.1038/385684b0
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| | The amazing atom laser*
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Keith Burnett
doi:10.1038/385685a0
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| | Sheets of light 686
David Jones
doi:10.1038/385686a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Giant female or dwarf male spiders? 687
Jonathan A. Coddington, Gustavo Hormiga & Nikolaj Scharff
doi:10.1038/385687a0
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| | Giant female or dwarf male spiders? 688
Fritz Vollrath & Geoff A. Parker
doi:10.1038/385688a0
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| | A gene family of silicon transporters 688
Mark Hildebrand, Benjamin E. Volcani, Walter Gassmann & Julian I. Schroeder
doi:10.1038/385688b0
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| | Hydration in electrical double layers 689
S. Mar elja
doi:10.1038/385689a0
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| | Hydration in electrical double layers 690
J. N. Israelachvili & H. Wennerström
doi:10.1038/385690a0
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| | Genius triumphs over jealousy 691
Joseph Silk reviews The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe
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John C. Mather & John Boslough
doi:10.1038/385691a0
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| | Flying yellow kangaroos 692
Jared M. Diamond reviews Tree Kangaroos: A Curious Natural History
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T. F. Flannery, R. Martin & A. Szalay
doi:10.1038/385692a0
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| | Out of the shadow of the guillotine 693
David Cahan reviews André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics
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James R. Hofmann
doi:10.1038/385693a0
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| | The framework of feelings 694
Raymond J. Dolan reviews The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
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Joseph LeDoux
doi:10.1038/385694a0
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| | Influence of ocean heat transport on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum 695
Robert S. Webb, David H. Rind, Scott J. Lehman, Richard J. Healy & Daniel Sigman
doi:10.1038/385695a0
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| | Visibility of scattered broad-line emission in Seyfert 2 galaxies 700
Charlene A. Heisler, Stuart L. Lumsden & Jeremy A. Bailey
doi:10.1038/385700a0
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| | Magneto-optical observation of twisted vortices in type-II superconductors 702
M. V. Indenbom, C. J. van der Beek, V. Berseth, W. Benoit, G. D'Anna, A. Erb, E. Walker & R. Flükiger
doi:10.1038/385702a0
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| | Abrupt changes in early Holocene tropical sea surface temperature derived from coral records 705
J. Warren Beck, Jacques Récy, Fred Taylor, R. Lawrence Edwards & Guy Cabioch
doi:10.1038/385705a0
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| | Interhemispheric synchrony of the last deglaciation inferred from alkenone palaeothermometry 707
Edouard Bard, Frauke Rostek & Corinne Sonzogni
doi:10.1038/385707a0
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| | Direct observation of complete miscibility in the albite−H2O system 710
Andy H. Shen & Hans Keppler
doi:10.1038/385710a0
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| | Multituberculate and other mammal hair recovered from Palaeogene excreta 712
Jin Meng & André R. Wyss
doi:10.1038/385712a0
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| | Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution 715
Farish A. Jenkins Jr, Stephen M. Gatesy, Neil H. Shubin & William W. Amaral
doi:10.1038/385715a0
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| | Airborne signalling by methyl salicylate in plant pathogen resistance 718
Vladimir Shulaev, Paul Silverman & Ilya Raskin
doi:10.1038/385718a0
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| | DNA antisense therapy for asthma in an animal model 721
Jonathan W. Nyce & W. James Metzger
doi:10.1038/385721a0
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| | Mechanism of odorant adaptation in the olfactory receptor cell 725
Takashi Kurahashi & Anna Menini
doi:10.1038/385725a0
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| | A metalloproteinase disintegrin that releases tumour-necrosis factor- from cells 729
Roy A. Black, Charles T. Rauch, Carl J. Kozlosky, Jacques J. Peschon, Jennifer L. Slack, Martin F. Wolfson, Beverly J. Castner, Kim L. Stocking, Pranitha Reddy, Subhashini Srinivasan, Nicole Nelson, Norman Boiani, Kenneth A. Schooley, Mary Gerhart, Raymond Davis, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Richard S. Johnson, Raymond J. Paxton, Carl J. March & Douglas Pat Cerretti
doi:10.1038/385729a0
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| | Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor- 733
Marcia L. Moss, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marcos E. Milla, William Burkhart, H. Luke Carter, Wen-Ji Chen, William C. Clay, John R. Didsbury, Daniel Hassler, Christine R. Hoffman, Thomas A. Kost, Millard H. Lambert, M. Anthony Leesnitzer, Philip McCauley, Gerard McGeehan, Justin Mitchell, Mary Moyer, Gregory Pahel, Warren Rocque, Laurie K. Overton, Frank Schoenen, Theresa Seaton, Jui-Lan Su, Janet Warner, Derril Willard & J. David Becherer
doi:10.1038/385733a0
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| | Editing of ubiquitin conjugates by an isopeptidase in the 26S proteasome 737
Y. Amy Lam, Wei Xu, George N. DeMartino & Robert E. Cohen
doi:10.1038/385737a0
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| | Control of telomere length by the human telomeric protein TRF1 740
Bas van Steensel & Titia de Lange
doi:10.1038/385740a0
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| | Regulation of telomere length and function by a Myb-domain protein in fission yeast 744
Julia Promisel Cooper, Elaine R. Nimmo, Robin C. Allshire & Thomas R. Cech
doi:10.1038/385744a0
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| | Notes for contributors 748
doi:10.1038/385748a0
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | According to the code 749
New programs and updates for this software roundup include those that can simulate clinical drug trials, perform computational chemistry functions, image analysis and processing, as well as check scientific spelling.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/385749a0
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