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| | The moment of truth for high-energy physics 1
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic seem
under-prepared to defend the Large Hadron Collider from its
critics in the US Congress
doi:10.1038/387001a0
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| | Telegrams abused 1
Circulars intended to notify astronomers of new detections should not be used to stake researchers' claims.
doi:10.1038/387001b0
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| | News | |
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| | Key legislator collides with US officials on
backing for CERN 3
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/387003a0
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| | House limits reforms to patent laws 3
TonyReichhardt
doi:10.1038/387003b0
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| | Spaceflight monkey's death 'raises new safety
issues' 4
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/387004a0
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| | CJD link prompts ban on brain tissue use 5
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/387005a0
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| | Japan takes step towards organ transplants 5
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/387005b0
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| | Structural biology gets UK funding boost 6
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/387006a0
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| | Korea leaps before it looks over gene therapy
guidelines 6
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/387006b0
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| | Gene researchers promised relief from regulatory
burden 7
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/387007a0
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| | Conservatives undermine Italy's university
reforms 7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/387007b0
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| | 'Britain must tackle lack trust on funding' 7
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/387007c0
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| | Help lies around the corner for internet's frustrated users 8
A flood of initiatives promises to relieve some
of the current difficulties experienced with the Internet,
particularly slow international links. In the process,
faith in public systems at communication has been
confirmed.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/387008a0
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| | 'Europe must do more to promote networks' 9
doi:10.1038/387009a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 10
doi:10.1038/387010a0
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| | Star-gazing funds should come down to Earth 12
David Leverington
doi:10.1038/387012a0
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| | No colour slides please 12
Ricardo Borges
doi:10.1038/387012a0
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| | The one true faith 12
Mark R. Baker
doi:10.1038/387012b0
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| | Are patents and research arch compatible? 13
At a time when the number of
biotechnology-based patent applications is soaring, it is
essential that the law allows a significant
'experimental-use' exemption. The United States urgently
needs to modify its legislation in this area.
Philippe Ducor
doi:10.1038/387013a0
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| | Natural selection out on a limb 15
Patience is a virtue for the evolutionary biologist.
Long-term experiments on populations of lizards introduced onto
islands in the Bahamas show the forces of adaptation to environment
at work.
Ted J. Case
doi:10.1038/387015a0
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| | Sinful repression 16
Alan P. Wolffe
doi:10.1038/387016a0
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| | Superconductivity's cousin 18
Eduardo Fradkin
doi:10.1038/387018a0
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| | Physicists learn to tie a knot 19
Warren Perkins
doi:10.1038/387019a0
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| | Greasing the Golgi budding machine 21
Thomas F. J. Martin
doi:10.1038/387021a0
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| | Violent hiccup from a newborn star 22
Stephen L. Skinner
doi:10.1038/387022a0
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| | Hale-Bopp's atomic tail 23
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/387023a0
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| | The ancestry of segmentation 25
E. M. De Robertis
doi:10.1038/387025a0
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| | Evolving protostomes and deuterostomes 25
E. M. De Robertis
doi:10.1038/387025b0
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| | Liposomes within liposomes 26
Danilo D. Lasic
doi:10.1038/387026a0
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| | Some heat but not enough light 27
Jules Hirsch
doi:10.1038/387027a0
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| | The kindest cut of all 28
David Jones
doi:10.1038/387028a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | A sun compass in monarch butterflies 29
Sandra M. Perez, Orley R. Taylor & Rudolf Jander
doi:10.1038/387029a0
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| | Electrical recording from a glass sponge 29
Sally P. Leys & George O. Mackie
doi:10.1038/387029b0
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| | Inferring seal populations from lake sediments 30
Dominic A. Hodgson & Nadine M. Johnston
doi:10.1038/387030a0
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| | Salty brines on the Mediterranean sea floor 31
Klaus Wallmann, Erwin Suess, Graham H. Westbrook, Gisela Winckler & Maria B. Cita
doi:10.1038/387031a0
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| | When the sky fell in on the dinosaurs 33
Clark R. Chapman reviews
T. rex and the Crater of
Doom by
Walter Alvarez
doi:10.1038/387033a0
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| | A physicist's portrait gallery 34
Nicholas Kurti reviews
Atomic Histories by
Rudolf E. Peierls
doi:10.1038/387034a0
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| | Book of man 35
Clark Howell reviews
History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia edited
by
Frank Spencer
doi:10.1038/387035a0
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| | Hard Currency 35
doi:10.1038/387035b0
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| | Travels with diseases 36
Len Goodwin reviews
Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? Tropical Diseases in a
Temperate Climate by
Robert S. Desowitz
doi:10.1038/387036a0
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| | New in Paperback 36
doi:10.1038/387036b0
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| | Implications of crustal property variations for
models of Tibetan plateau evolution 37
Thomas J. Owens & George Zandt
doi:10.1038/387037a0
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| | A complex containing N-CoR, mSln3 and histone
deacetylase mediates transcriptional repression 43
Thorsten Heinzel, Robert M. Lavinsky, Tina-Marie Mullen, Mats Söderström, Carol D. Laherty, Joseph Torchia, Wen-Ming Yang, Gyan Brard, Sally
D. Ngo, James R. Davie, Edward Seto, Robert N. Eisenman, David W. Rose, Christopher K. Glass & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/387043a0
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| | Role for N-CoR and histone deacetylase in Sin3-mediated
transcriptional repression 49
Lelia Alland, Rebecca Muhle, Harry Hou Jr, Jason Potes, Lynda Chin, Nicole Schreiber-Agus & Ronald A. DePinho
doi:10.1038/387049a0
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| | An X-ray superflare are from an infrared protostar 56
N. Grosso, T. Montmerle, E.D. Feigelson, P. André, S. Casanova & J. Gregorio-Hetem
doi:10.1038/387056a0
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| | Stable knot-like structures in classical field theory 58
L. Faddeev & Antti J. Niemi
doi:10.1038/387058a0
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| | Encapsulation of bilayer vesicles by self-assembly 61
Scott A. Walker, Michael T. Kennedy & Joseph A. Zasadzinski
doi:10.1038/387061a0
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| | Temperature effects on the acidity of remote alpine
lakes 64
Sabine Sommaruga-WÖgrath, Karin A. Koinig, Roland Schmidt, Ruben Sommaruga, Richard Tessadri & Roland Psenner
doi:10.1038/387064a0
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| | Structural features in a brittle–ductile wax model of continental
extension 67
James N. Brune & Michael A. Ellis
doi:10.1038/387067a0
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| | Adaptive differentiation following experimental island
colonization in Anolis lizards 70
Jonathan B. Losos, Kenneth I. Warheitt & Thomas W. Schoener
doi:10.1038/387070a0
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| | Contrast dependence of contextual effects in primate visual
cortex 73
Jonathan B. Levitt & Jennifer S. Lund
doi:10.1038/387073a0
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| | Neuronal release of soluble nucleotidases and their role in
neurotransmitter inactivation 76
Latchezar D. Todorov, Svetlana Mihaylova-Todorova, Timothy D. Westfall, Peter Sneddon, Charles Kennedy, Richard A. Bjur & David P. Westfall
doi:10.1038/387076a0
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| | Connexin 26 mutations in hereditary non-syndromic
sensorineural deafness 80
D. P. Kelsell, J. Dunlop, H. P. Stevens, N. J. Lench, J. N. Liang, G. Parry, R. F. Mueller & I. M. Leigh
doi:10.1038/387080a0
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| | Regulation of skeletal muscle mass in mice by a new TGF-p
superfamily member 83
Alexandra C. McPherron, Ann M. Lawler & Se-Jin Lee
doi:10.1038/387083a0
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| | Mice lacking mitochondrial uncoupling protein are
cold-sensitive but not obese 90
Sven Enerbäck, Anders Jacobsson, Elizabeth M. Simpson, Carmen Guerra, Hitoshi Yamashita, Mary-Ellen Harper & Leslie P. Kozak
doi:10.1038/387090a0
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| | Thermoregulatory and metabolic phenotypes of mice lacking
noradrenaline and adrenaline 94
Steven A. Thomas & Richard D. Palmiter
doi:10.1038/387094a0
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| | Hox9 genes and vertebrate limb specification 97
Martin J. Cohn, Ketan Patel, Robb Krumlauf, David G.
Wilkinsont, Jonathan D. W.
Clarke & Cheryll Tickle
doi:10.1038/387097a0
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| | Essential role for diacylglycerol in protein transport from the yeast Golgi complex 101
Brian G. Kearns, Todd P. McGee, Peter Mayinger, Alma Gedvilaite, Scott E. Phillips, Satoshi Kagiwada & Vytas A. Bankaitis
doi:10.1038/387101a0
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| | Prediction of bone density from vitamin D raceptor alleles 106
Nigel A. Morrison, Jian Cheng Qi, Akifumi Tokita, Paul J. Kelly, Linda Crofts, Tuan V. Nguyen, Philip N. Sambrook & John A. Eisman
doi:10.1038/387106a0
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| | Diverse sources of hippocampal unitary inhibitory postsynaptic potentials and the number of synaptic release sites 106
Eberhard H. Buhl, Katalin Halasy & Peter Somogyi
doi:10.1038/387106b0
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| | Cultivating a cure for blindness 449
Damaged corneas can often be repaired using donor grafts, but if the damage is too great the graft will be rejected. This may change with the development of a method to inhibit rejection which uses cultivated cells.
Stuart Hodson
doi:10.1038/387449a0
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| | A sense-abl response? 450
Lamorna Brown & Nicola McCarthy
doi:10.1038/387450a0
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| | One step to Earth 453
Michael J. Walter
doi:10.1038/387453a0
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| | The mitochondrion that time forgot 454
Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/387454a0
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| | Short precursor shortens memory 457
Mark P. Mattson & Katsutoshi Furukawa
doi:10.1038/387457a0
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| | The first genome from the third domain of life 459
The main domains into which life-forms can be divided are the Eubacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. Complete genomic sequences of examples of the first two were published in 1995 and 19961,2. Now we have an example of the third.
Rebecca A. Clayton, Owen White, Karen A. Ketchum & J. Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/387459a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Lichens, air pollution and lung cancer 463
Cesare Cislaghi & Pier Luigi Nimis
doi:10.1038/387463a0
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| | Vervet monkeys as travelling salesmen 464
Audrey E. Cramer & C. R. Gallistel
doi:10.1038/387464a0
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| | Rhodopsin guides fungal phototaxis 465
Jureepan Saranak & Kenneth W. Foster
doi:10.1038/387465a0
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| | Uncertain turtle relationships 466
Mark Wilkinson, Joe Thorley & Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/387466a0
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| | Measurement of the quantum states of squeezed light 471
G. Breitenbach, S. Schiller & J. Mlynek
doi:10.1038/387471a0
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| | The optical counterpart to  -ray burst GRB970228 observed using the Hubble Space Telescope 476
Kailash C. Sahu, Mario Livio, Larry Petro, F. Duccio Macchetto, Jan van Paradijs, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Gerald J. Fishman, Charles A. Meegan, Paul J. Groot & Titus Galama
doi:10.1038/387476a0
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| | The decay of optical emission from the -ray burst GRB970228 479
T. Galama, P. J. Groot, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, C. Robinson, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Meegan, K. C. Sahu, M. Livio, L. Petro, F. D. Macchetto, J. Heise, J. in't Zand, R. G. Strom, J. Telting, R. G. M. Rutten, M. Pettini, N. Tanvir & J. Bloom
doi:10.1038/387479a0
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| | Pure dx2 – y2
order-parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor TI2Ba2CuO6+
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C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley , Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy & Z. Z. Li
doi:10.1038/387481a0
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| | Increased Australian wheat yield due to recent climate trends 484
Neville Nicholls
doi:10.1038/387484a0
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| | A new tetragonal silicate mineral occurring as inclusions in lower-mantle diamonds 486
Jeff Harris, Mark T. Hutchison, Mike Hursthouse, Mark Light & Ben Harte
doi:10.1038/387486a0
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| | Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals 489
Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo, James M. Turbeville, Lawrence S. Linford, Maria C. Rivera, James R. Garey, Rudolf A. Raff & James A. Lake
doi:10.1038/387489a0
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| | An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature 493
B. Franz Lang, Gertraud Burger, Charles J. O'Kelly, Robert Cedergren, G. Brian Golding , Claude Lemieux, David Sankoff, Monique Turmel & Michael W. Gray
doi:10.1038/387493a0
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| | Behavioural stress facilitates the induction of long-term depression in the hippocampus 497
Lin Xu, Roger Anwyl & Michael J. Rowan
doi:10.1038/387497a0
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| | Impaired learning and LTP in mice expressing the carboxy terminus of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein 500
J. Nalbantoglu, G. Tirado-Santiago, A. Lahsaïni, J. Poirier, O. Goncalves, G. Verge, F. Momoli, S. A. Welner, G. Massicotte, J.-P. Julien & M. L. Shapiro
doi:10.1038/387500a0
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| | Distinct ATP receptors on pain-sensing and stretch-sensing neurons 505
Sean P. Cook, Lucy Vulchanova, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Robert Elde & Edwin W. McCleskey
doi:10.1038/387505a0
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| | Ligands for ErbB-family receptors encoded by a neuregulin-like gene 509
Han Chang, David J. Riese II, Walter Gilbert, David F. Stern & U. J. McMahan
doi:10.1038/387509a0
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| | Neuregulin-2, a new ligand of ErbB3/ErbB4-receptor tyrosine kinases 512
Kermit L. Carraway III, Janet L. Weber, Michelle J. Unger, Jessica Ledesma, Naichen Yu, Martin Gassmann & Cary Lai
doi:10.1038/387512a0
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| | Ataxia telangiectasia mutant protein activates c-Abl tyrosine kinase in response to ionizing radiation 516
R. Baskaran, L. D. Wood, L. L. Whitaker, C. E. Canman, S. E. Morgan, Y. Xu, C. Barlow, D. Baltimore, A. Wynshaw-Boris, M. B. Kastan & J. Y. J. Wang
doi:10.1038/387516a0
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| | Interaction between ATM protein and c-Abl in response to DNA damage 520
Timothy Shafman, Kum Kum Khanna, Padmini Kedar, Kevin Spring, Sergei Kozlov, Tim Yen, Karen Hobson, Magtouf Gatei, Ning Zhang, Dianne Watters, Mark Egerton, Yosef Shiloh, Surender Kharbanda, Donald Kufe & Martin F. Laving
doi:10.1038/387520a0
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| | The dynamics of a pre-mRNA splicing factor in living cells 523
Tom Misteli, Javier F. Cáceres & David L. Spector
doi:10.1038/387523a0
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| | Dimeric association and segmental variability in the structure of human CD4 527
Hao Wu, Peter D. Kwong & Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/387527a0
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