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| | Can the West contribute more to Human Frontiers? 95
Japan is urging Western countries to contribute more to the Human Frontier Science Program which supports international research on the brain and molecular biology. But whether they can and should comply is debatable.
doi:10.1038/386095a0
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| | Joining hands in stormy seas 95
The health of global fish stocks requires new linkages between fishermen and scientists.
doi:10.1038/386095b0
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| | Politicians accused of 'shooting from the hip' on human cloning 97
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386097a0
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| | Texan goes gunning for US role in LHC 97
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386097b0
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| | UK embryo research law 'may need changes' 98
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/386098a0
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| | ESA pulls back from 'fair shares' funding 99
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386099a0
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| | Mars risks are low but not zero, says NRC 99
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/386099b0
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| | Japan bids to widen brain research funds 100
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/386100a0
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| | Task force will review US science policy 100
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386100b0
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| | BSE surveillance and safety measures still found wanting 101
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/386101a0
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| | 'Poor security' blamed for loss of Russian fossils 101
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/386101b0
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| | Physicist takes top Korean science post 102
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/386102a0
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| | California agency charged with delaying toxin reports 102
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/386102b0
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| | CERN raises funds for antimatter detector 102
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386102c0
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| | Economic impact of MIT spin-offs larger than Thailand's GDP 103
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/386103a0
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| | US seeks greenhouse gas cuts from the Third World 103
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386103b0
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| | News in brief 104
doi:10.1038/386104a0
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| | Fisheries science: all at sea when it comes to politics? 105
Despite continued warnings by scientists of the disastrous impact of fishing practices, stocks continue to disappear. While some say that scientists should shout more loudly, others suggest it is time for them to change their tactics.
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386105a0
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| | Scientists set sail in search of influence 106
EHSAN MASOOD
doi:10.1038/386106a0
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| | Canada's cod leaves science in hot water 107
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/386107a0
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| | Overfishing is a global threat, warns FAO 107
doi:10.1038/386107b0
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| | Researchers bring fishermen on board 108
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/386108a0
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| | Too hot for a homecoming? 108
doi:10.1038/386108b0
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| | Aquaculture: a solution, or source of new problems? 109
EHSAN MASOOD
doi:10.1038/386109a0
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| | Fishing by numbers reveals its limits 110
EHSAN MASOOD
doi:10.1038/386110a0
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| | Plant modification needs more discussion 111
John R. Porter
doi:10.1038/386111a0
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| | Plutonium disposal 111
Maurizio Martellini
doi:10.1038/386111b0
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| | Japanese grant system needs more resources 112
Fumimaro Takaku
doi:10.1038/386112a0
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| | Alphabets and citations 112
Jan Alexander & Julian Andrews
doi:10.1038/386112b0
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| | No knife needed 113
L. D. Hyslop
doi:10.1038/386113a0
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| | Public support for medical research 114
Mary Woolley
doi:10.1038/386114a0
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| | Passing the buck 114
Ambuj Sagar & Paul de Sa
doi:10.1038/386114b0
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| | Novel paper titles 114
Jeremy Sanders
doi:10.1038/386114c0
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| | The earliest Americans 114
Frederick Hadleigh West
doi:10.1038/386114d0
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| | Woodstock of physics revisited 115
Ten years have passed since the now famous American Physical Society meeting that heard the first breathless accounts of high-temperature superconductivity. Now, in calmer times, practical applications are emerging.
Paul M. Grant
doi:10.1038/386115a0
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| | Clone mammals... clone man? 119
What are the implications for humankind of the astounding report two weeks ago of the production of viable sheep from adult cells? The moral imperative of preserving human dignity must remain paramount.
Axel Kahn
doi:10.1038/386119a0
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| | True vision of a quantum state 121
Information about a quantum system is encoded in its quantum state, a quantity whose meaning is vigorously debated. But direct insight should be gained into quantum states now that they can be mapped out.
Matthias Freyberger & Wolfgang P. Schleich
doi:10.1038/386121a0
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| | Look but don't touch, or vice versa 122
Michael Shadlen
doi:10.1038/386122a0
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| | Fractal resistance in a transistor 123
Mark Fromhold
doi:10.1038/386123a0
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| | 100 years ago 126
Arthur Keith
doi:10.1038/386126a0
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| | Proviruses pose potential problems 126
Jonathan P. Stoye
doi:10.1038/386126b0
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| | The negative side of crystal growth 127
Paul Calvert & Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/386127a0
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| | Lipids beyond the bilayer 129
Ben de Kruijff
doi:10.1038/386129a0
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| | Think the good thought! 130
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386130a0
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| | The use and abuse of climate models 131
Projections of future climate change depend largely on the results of computer models. Such models are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but they do not offer the certainties that policy-makers would like.
Kevin E. Trenberth
doi:10.1038/386131a0
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| | Electroluminescence in polymer films 135
David G. Lidzey, Donal D. C. Bradley, Santos F. Alvarado & Paul F. Seidler
doi:10.1038/386135a0
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| | Adaptation of colour vision to sunlight 135
G. Jordan & J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/386135b0
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| | Is scrapie solely a genetic disease? 137
N. Hunter, D. Cairns, J. D. Foster, G. Smith, W. Goldmann & K. Donnelly
doi:10.1038/386137a0
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| | Assembly of Borromean rings from DNA 137
Chengde Mao, Weiqiong Sun & Nadrian C. Seeman
doi:10.1038/386137b0
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| | The war against cancer 139
John Cairns reviews Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing, and lnterleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward
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Ilana Löwy & Joan H. Fujimura
doi:10.1038/386139a0
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| | How to get a head in archaeology 139
doi:10.1038/386139b0
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| | The comet cometh 140
Alan Fitzsimmons reviews Comet of the Century: From Halley to Hale—Bopp
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Fred Schaaf
doi:10.1038/386140a0
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| | Through a glass, historically 141
G.L'E. Turner reviews The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery
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Edward G. Ruestow
doi:10.1038/386141a0
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| | Ribozymes to the fore 141
Bob Symons reviews Catalytic RNA
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Fritz Eckstein & David M.J. Lilley
doi:10.1038/386141b0
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| | Specialist books 142
doi:10.1038/386142a0
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| | Photonic crystals: putting a new twist on light 143
J. D. Joannopoulos, Pierre R. Villeneuve & Shanhui Fan
doi:10.1038/386143a0
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| | Measurement of the Wigner function of an ensemble of helium atoms 150
Ch. Kurtsiefer, T. Pfau & J. Mlynek
doi:10.1038/386150a0
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| | Origin of asteroid rotation rates in catastrophic impacts 154
Stanley G. Love & Thomas J. Ahrens
doi:10.1038/386154a0
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| | Colossal magnetoresistance in Cr-based chalcogenide spinels 156
A. P. Ramirez, R. J. Cava & J. Krajewski
doi:10.1038/386156a0
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| | Clocking transient chemical changes by ultrafast electron diffraction 159
J. Charles Williamson, Jianming Cao, Hyotcherl Ihee, Hans Frey & Ahmed H. Zewail
doi:10.1038/386159a0
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| | Three-dimensional self-assembly of millimetre-scale components 162
Andreas Terfort, Ned Bowden & George M. Whitesides
doi:10.1038/386162a0
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| | Spurious trends in satellite MSU temperatures from merging different satellite records 164
James W. Hurrell & Kevin E. Trenberth
doi:10.1038/386164a0
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| | Coding of intention in the posterior parietal cortex 167
L. H. Snyder, A. P. Batista & R. A. Andersen
doi:10.1038/386167a0
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| | Self-centring activity of cytoplasm 170
Vladimir I. Rodionov & Gary G. Borisy
doi:10.1038/386170a0
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| | A proton-gated cation channel involved in acid-sensing 173
Rainer Waldmann, Guy Champigny, Frédéric Bassilana, Catherine Heurteaux & Michel Lazdunski
doi:10.1038/386173a0
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| | Ras signalling linked to the cell-cycle machinery by the retinoblastoma protein 177
Daniel S. Peeper, Todd M. Upton, Mohamed H. Ladha, Elizabeth Neuman, Juan Zalvide, René Bernards, James A. DeCaprio & Mark E. Ewen
doi:10.1038/386177a0
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| | A family of proteins that inhibit signalling through tyrosine kinase receptors 181
Alexei Kharitonenkov, Zhengjun Chen, Irmi Sures, Hongyang Wang, James Schilling & Axel Ullrich
doi:10.1038/386181a0
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| | Phosphorylation of RNA-binding protein controls cell cycle switch from mitotic to meiotic in fission yeast 187
Yoshinori Watanabe, Satoko Shinozaki-Yabana, Yuji Chikashige, Yasushi Hiraoka & Masayuki Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/386187a0
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| | Crystal structure of the type-I interleukin-1 receptor complexed with interleukin-1 190
Guy P. A. Vigers, Lana J. Anderson, Patricia Caffes & Barbara J. Brandhuber
doi:10.1038/386190a0
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| | A new cytokine-receptor binding mode revealed by the crystal structure of the IL-1 receptor with an antagonist 194
Herman Schreuder, Chantal Tardif, Susanne Trump-Kallmeyer, Adolfo Soffientini, Edoardo Sarubbi, Ann Akeson, Terry Bowlin, Stephen Yanofsky & Ronald W. Barrett
doi:10.1038/386194a0
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I. Wilmut, A. E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A. J. Kind & K. H. S. Campbell
doi:10.1038/386200a0
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