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| | A belated agreement that requires faster progress 201
The treatment of contract and postdoctoral researchers by employers is notoriously casual. A year-old initiative to improve matters in Britain may provide an example to others, but has a long way to go.
doi:10.1038/386201a0
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| | Discovery delocalized 201
The timing of celebrations of J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron is necessarily arbitrary.
doi:10.1038/386201b0
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| | Panel seeks 'fundamental' shift in handling of observation data 203
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/386203a0
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| | Senate bill seeks controls on genetic data 203
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386203b0
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| | US senators urge caution on cloning ban 204
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386204a0
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| | WHO chief defends use of animal models 204
doi:10.1038/386204b0
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| | EU research ministers lean on Brussels 205
David Dickson & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386205a0
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| | Political constraints restrict moves to conserve fish stocks 205
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386205b0
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| | Harvard faces questions on missing data 206
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/386206a0
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| | Reform follows discontent at Tata institute 206
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/386206b0
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| | Protests and promises grow in Russia as science spending falls 207
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/386207a0
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| | Lab director exits bloody but unbowed 207
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386207b0
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| | A window of opportunity is opened for Italian reforms 208
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386208a0
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| | Nuclear debate goes critical in Japan 209
The apparent incompetence of Japanese authorities in dealing with last week's fire at a nuclear plant is taking its toll of public confidence.
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/386209a0
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| | News in brief 210
doi:10.1038/386210a0
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| | Smaller grants for more Canadians? 212
Alexander A. Berezin & Richard Gordon
doi:10.1038/386212a0
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| | Brussels backs research 212
Antonio Ruberti
doi:10.1038/386212b0
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| | The first elementary particle 213
The electron is 100 years old this year. Of all the elementary particles, it is by far the most familiar, useful and venerable. But is it elementary? And what other particles are elementary?
Steven Weinberg
doi:10.1038/386213a0
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| | Real engines of creation 217
Some enzyme complexes function literally as machines, and come equipped with springs, levers and even rotary joints. Clever biophysical techniques allow new approaches to macromolecular mechanics.
Steven M. Block
doi:10.1038/386217a0
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doi:10.1038/386218a0
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| | Breaking in computers 219
Michael Marder
doi:10.1038/386219a0
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| | Cooperative bonding affords a holesome story 220
Michael J. Zaworotko
doi:10.1038/386220a0
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| | Glutamate receptors put in their place 221
Morgan Sheng
doi:10.1038/386221a0
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| | The cloning of GABAB receptors 223
Norman G. Bowery & David A. Brown
doi:10.1038/386223a0
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| | Time to trap an ytterbium ion 225
Pauline Rigby
doi:10.1038/386225a0
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| | An ice age in the tropics 227
Alan J. Kaufman
doi:10.1038/386227a0
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| | Remodelling chromatin with RNA 228
Huntington F. Willard & Helen K. Salz
doi:10.1038/386228a0
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| | New forms of phase segregation 229
John B. Goodenough & J.-S. Zhou
doi:10.1038/386229a0
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| | Superficial relaxation 230
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386230a0
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| | A hormonal mechanism for parental favouritism 231
Hubert Schwabl, Douglas W. Mock & Jennifer A. Gieg
doi:10.1038/386231a0
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| | Self-recognition by proteoglycans 231
Octavian Popescu & Gradimir N. Misevic
doi:10.1038/386231b0
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| | Typing prion isoforms 232
P. Parchi, S. Capellari, S. G. Chen, R. B. Petersen, P. Gambetti, N. Kopp, P. Brown, T. Kitamoto, J. Tateishi, A. Giese & H. Kretzschmar
doi:10.1038/386232a0
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| | Typing prion isoforms 233
John Collinge, Andrew F. Hill, Katie C. L. Sidle & James Ironside
doi:10.1038/386233a0
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| | Medaka fish for mutant screens 234
Y. Ishikawa, Y. Hyodo-Taguchi & K. Tatsumi
doi:10.1038/386234a0
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| | Natural selection bias? 234
Tom Tregenza & Nina Wedell
doi:10.1038/386234b0
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| | A night at the operon 235
Sydney Brenner reviews The Iac Operon: A Short History of a Genetic Paradigm
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Benno Müller-Hill
doi:10.1038/386235a0
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| | A force in physical chemistry 236
Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds reviews Van der Waals and Molecular Science
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A. Ya. Kipnis, B. E. Yavelov & J. S. Rowlinson
doi:10.1038/386236a0
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| | Plagues past and present 236
Valerius Geist reviews Yellow Fever Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues
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Christopher Wills & Frank Ryan
doi:10.1038/386236b0
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doi:10.1038/386237a0
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| | Bodies in mind 237
Margaret A. Boden reviews Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
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Andy Clark
doi:10.1038/386237b0
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| | In deep water 238
Tony Rice reviews Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss
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Richard Ellis
doi:10.1038/386238a0
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| | Expression cloning of GABAB receptors uncovers similarity to metabotropic glutamate receptors 239
Klemens Kaupmann, Katharina Huggel, Jakob Heid, Peter J. Flor, Serge Bischoff, Stuart J. Mickel, Gary McMaster, Christof Angst, Helmut Bittiger, Wolfgang Froestl & Bernhard Bettler
doi:10.1038/386239a0
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| | Structure of the adenylyl cyclase catalytic core 247
Gongyi Zhang, Yu Liu, Arnold E. Ruoho & James H. Hurley
doi:10.1038/386247a0
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| | Chaotic variations in the eccentricity of the planet orbiting 16 Cygni B 254
Matthew Holman, Jihad Touma & Scott Tremaine
doi:10.1038/386254a0
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| | Evidence for magnetic polarons in the magnetoresistive perovskites 256
J. M. De Teresa, M. R. Ibarra, P. A. Algarabel, C. Ritter, C. Marquina, J. Blasco, J. García, A. del Moral & Z. Arnold
doi:10.1038/386256a0
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| | Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric  -sheet tapes 259
A. Aggeli, M. Bell, N. Boden, J. N. Keen, P. F. Knowles, T. C. B. McLeish, M. Pitkeathly & S. E. Radford
doi:10.1038/386259a0
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| | Low-latitude glaciation in the Palaeoproterozoic era 262
D. A. Evans, N. J. Beukes & J. L. Kirschvink
doi:10.1038/386262a0
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| | Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate 266
Suzan van der Lee & Guust Nolet
doi:10.1038/386266a0
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| | Hydrostatic locomotion in a limbless tetrapod 269
James C. O'Reilly, Dale A. Ritter & David R. Carrier
doi:10.1038/386269a0
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Xist has properties of the X-chromosome inactivation centre 272
Laura B. K. Herzing, Justyna T. Romer, Jacqueline M. Horn & Alan Ashworth
doi:10.1038/386272a0
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| | Long-range cis effects of ectopic X-inactivation centres on a mouse autosome 275
Jeannie T. Lee & Rudolf Jaenisch
doi:10.1038/386275a0
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| | GRIP: a synaptic PDZ domain-containing protein that interacts with AMPA receptors 279
Hualing Dong, Richard J. O'Brien, Eric T. Fung, Anthony A. Lanahan, Paul F. Worley & Richard L. Huganir
doi:10.1038/386279a0
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| | Homer: a protein that selectively binds metabotropic glutamate receptors 284
P. R. Brakeman, A. A. Lanahan, Richard O'Brien, K. Roche, C. A. Barnes, R. L. Huganir & P. F. Worley
doi:10.1038/386284a0
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| | Activation of Statl by mutant fibroblast growth-factor receptor in thanatophoric dysplasia type II dwarfism 288
Wu-Chou S. Su, Motoo Kitagawa, Ninrong Xue, Bing Xie, Silvio Garofalo, Jay Cho, Chuxia Deng, William A. Horton & Xin-Yuan Fu
doi:10.1038/386288a0
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| | A role for macrophage scavenger receptors in atherosclerosis and susceptibility to infection 292
Hiroshi Suzuki, Yukiko Kurihara, Motohiro Takeya, Nobuo Kamada, Motoyukl Kataoka, Kouichi Jishage, Otoya Ueda, Hisashl Sakaguchi, Takayuki Higashi, Tsukasa Suzuki, Yoshiaki Takashima, Yoshiki Kawabe, Osamu Cynshi, Youichiro Wada, Makoto Honda, Hiroki Kurihara, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Takefumi Doi, Akiyo Matsumoto, Sadahiro Azuma, Tetsuo Noda, Yutaka Toyoda, Hiroshige Itakura, Yoshio Yazaki, Seikoh Horiuchi, Kiyoshi Takahashi, J. Kar Kruijt, Theo J. C. van Berkel, Urs P. Steinbrecher, Shun Ishibashi, Nobuyo Maeda, Siamon Gordon & Tatsuhiko Kodama
doi:10.1038/386292a0
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| | Activation of the transcription factor MEF2C by the MAP kinase p38 in inflammation 296
J. Han, Y. Jiang, Z. Li, V. V. Kravchenko & R. J. Ulevitch
doi:10.1038/386296a0
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| | Direct observation of the rotation of F1-ATPase 299
Hiroyuki Noji, Ryohei Yasuda, Masasuke Yoshida & Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr
doi:10.1038/386299a0
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| | Spatio−temporal frequency domains and their relation to cytochrome oxidase staining in cat visual cortex 302
Doron Shoham, Mark Hübener, Silke Schulze, Amiram Grinvald & Tobias Bonhoeffer
doi:10.1038/386302a0
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| | Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle 302
R. M. Anderson, C. A. Donnelly, N. M. Ferguson, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. J. Watt, H. J. Udy, S. MaWhinney, S. P. Dunstan, T. R. E. Southwood, J. W. Wilesmith, J. B. M. Ryan, L. J. Hoinville, J. E. Hillerton, A. R. Austin & G. A. H. Wells
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| | Shed new light on cell biology 303
Fluorescence systems that allow cells in living organisms to be studied are among the products featured in this roundup. There's also a compact centrifuge that fits into a drawer, and the latest reagents, kits and instruments.
doi:10.1038/386303a0
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