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| | A clear case for closer European union 107
Britain's Labour government has given notice of its opposition to a
new European 'superstate'. But the dangers should not obscure the advantages of
mutual support in building up Europe's scientific infrastructure.
doi:10.1038/387107a0
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| | Red tape must not strangle good science 107
The reaction to a tritium leak on Long Island threatens US government
laboratories with the last thing they need.
doi:10.1038/387107b0
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| | Researchers warned: 'systems could crash on 1 January 2000' 109
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/387109a0
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| | Art and science shape up for awards 109
doi:10.1038/387109b0
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| | Space Shuttle launch holds key to asteroid mission 110
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/387110a0
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| | Germany gets warning on access to sequence data 111
Robert Unterhuber
doi:10.1038/387111a0
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| | Ruttgers and Chirac seek cloning ban 111
Declan Butler & Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/387111b0
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| | ESA economies may allow Mars mission 112
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/387112a0
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| | US science adviser's exit 'may herald new White House strategy' 112
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/387112b0
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| | Europe sets out plans for solving neutron drought... 113
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/387113a0
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| | ...as US looks again at Oak Ridge site 113
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/387113b0
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| | Labour's science appointment lifts hopes for reform 114
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/387114a0
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| | Brookhaven contractor is sacked over tritium leak 114
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/387114b0
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| | Science in Portugal joins the mainstream 115
The purposeful use of funds from the European Union has provided a
much-needed fillip to the research enterprise in Portugal. But with progress
comes a range of problems familiar elsewhere in Europe.
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/387115a0
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| | News in brief 116
doi:10.1038/387116a0
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| | Mining waste poisons river basin 118
Javier Garcia-Guinea & Maria Huascar
doi:10.1038/387118a0
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| | Explanation for singing sands 118
Charles G. Higgins
doi:10.1038/387118b0
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| | The dog did nothing in the night-time 119
Alan Thomas, Andrew Waters, Pierre Druilhe, Michael Lanzer & Mario Coluzzi
doi:10.1038/387119a0
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| | The dog did nothing in the night-time 119
Mike
S. Marriott
doi:10.1038/387119b0
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| | The dog did nothing in the night-time 119
F. Ellis McKenzie & William H. Bossert
doi:10.1038/387119c0
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| | Cloning humans 119
Nikolaus Nestle
doi:10.1038/387119d0
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| | Cloning humans 119
Mark R. Baker
doi:10.1038/387119e0
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| | Not quite the same 119
J. J. Cohen
doi:10.1038/387119f0
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| | Oil back on the global agenda 121
A permanent decline in global oil production rate is virtually certain to begin within 20 years. Serious planning is needed to deal with the economic consequences.
Craig Bond Hatfield
doi:10.1038/387121a0
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| | Down or out in blood and lymph? 123
New studies indicate that relatively few infected cells can sustain an HIV infection. Combining this knowledge with powerful multi-drug therapy, it may now be possible to eradicate HIV in a patient within two to three years. Time will tell.
Simon Wain-Hobson
doi:10.1038/387123a0
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| | Strange colours peek from dark halo 124
Penny
D. Sackett
doi:10.1038/387124a0
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| | A chilling tale from the ends of the Earth 125
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/387125a0
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| | They might be giants 126
John Kappelman
doi:10.1038/387126a0
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| | Angling for an anapole 127
Patrick Sandars & Kendrick Zetie
doi:10.1038/387127a0
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| | Listening out for subtle deficits 129
D. V. M. Bishop
doi:10.1038/387129a0
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| | Acoustic cues used in speech perception 130
D. V. M. BISHOP
doi:10.1038/387130a0
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| | Wandering why 131
Richard G. Gordon
doi:10.1038/387131a0
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doi:10.1038/387131b0
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| | A fusion of new ideas 133
Jason B. Bock & Richard H. Scheller
doi:10.1038/387133a0
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| | Mammalian SNAREs 134
JASON B. BOCK & RICHARD. H. SCHELLER.
doi:10.1038/387134a0
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| | The muddle about mutations 135
Joel R. Peck & Adam Eyre-Walker
doi:10.1038/387135a0
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| | Tall ships 136
David
doi:10.1038/387136a0
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| | Coral polyp expulsion 137
E. Kramarsky-Winter, M. Fine & Y. Loya
doi:10.1038/387137a0
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| | Neutrality or selection? 138
Philip Hedrick
doi:10.1038/387138a0
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| | DNA answers the call of pipistrelle bat species 138
E. M. Barratt, R. Deaville, T. M. Burland, M. W. Bruford, G. Jones, P. A. Racey & R. K. Wayne
doi:10.1038/387138b0
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| | How good a model is the Fugu genome? 140
Samuel Aparicio & Sydney Brenner
doi:10.1038/387140a0
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| | How good a model is the Fugu genome? 140
Greg Elgar, Melody Clark, Andrew Green & Richard Sandford
doi:10.1038/387140b0
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| | Aaaargh, no! – in lights 140
Peter J. Herring
doi:10.1038/387140c0
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| | From Plato to Penrose 141
John Mollon reviews Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
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Arthur I. Miller
doi:10.1038/387141a0
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| | Star-gazing giant 142
Jack Meadows reviews Yerkes Observatory, 1892–1950: The Birth, Near Death, and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution
by
Donald E. Osterbrock
doi:10.1038/387142a0
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| | The erotic ape 142
William McGrew reviews Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
by
Frans de Waal & Frans Lanting
doi:10.1038/387142b0
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| | The reality of relativity 143
Frank Close reviews Einstein's Mirror
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Tony Hey & Patrick Walters
doi:10.1038/387143a0
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| | Exploring Earth's last frontier 144
doi:10.1038/387144a0
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| | Seismic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity throughout the Earth's mantle 145
Michael A. H. Hedlin, Peter M. Shearer & Paul S. Earle
doi:10.1038/387145a0
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| | Altered cell differentiation and proliferation in mice lacking p57KIP2 indicates a role in Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome 151
Pumin Zhang, Nanette J. Liégeois, Calvin Wong, Milton Finegold, Harry Hou, Janet C. Thompson, Adam Silverman, J. Wade Harper, Ronald A. DePinho & Stephen J. Elledge
doi:10.1038/387151a0
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| | The peculiar colours of the halo light in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC5907 159
Richard J. Rudy, Charles E. Woodward, Tracy Hodge, Stephen W. Fairfield & David E. Harker
doi:10.1038/387159a0
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| | Photochemical energy storage in a spatially organized zeolite-based
photoredox system 162
Milan Sykora & James R. Kincaid
doi:10.1038/387162a0
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| | Total synthesis of the potential anticancer vaccine KH-1 adenocarcinoma antigen 164
Prashant P. Deshpande & Samuel J. Danishefsky
doi:10.1038/387164a0
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| | A major biopolymeric component to dissolved organic carbon in surface sea water 166
Lihini I. Aluwihare, Daniel J. Repeta & Robert F. Chen
doi:10.1038/387166a0
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| | Changes of the Earth's rotation axis owing to advection of mantle density heterogeneities 169
Bernhard Steinberger & Richard J. O'Connell
doi:10.1038/387169a0
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| | Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo
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Christopher B. Ruff, Erik Trinkaus & Trenton W. Holliday
doi:10.1038/387173a0
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| | Deficits in auditory temporal and spectral resolution in language-impaired children 176
Beverly A. Wright, Linda J. Lombardino, Wayne M. King, Cynthia S. Puranik, Christiana M. Leonard & Michael M. Merzenich
doi:10.1038/387176a0
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| | Truncation of Kir6.2 produces ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the absence of the sulphonylurea receptor 179
Stephen J. Tucker, Fiona M. Gribble, Chao Zhao, Stefan Trapp & Frances M. Ashcroft
doi:10.1038/387179a0
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| | Quantification of latent tissue reservoirs and total body viral load in HIV-1 infection 183
Tae-Wook Chun, Lucy Carruth, Diana Finzi, Xuefei Shen, Joseph A. DiGiuseppe, Harry Taylor, Monika Hermankova, Karen Chadwick, Joseph Margolick, Thomas C. Quinn, Yen-Hong Kuo, Ronald Brookmeyer, Martha A. Zeiger, Patricia Barditch-Crovo & Robert F. Siliciano
doi:10.1038/387183a0
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| | Decay characteristics of HIV-1-infected compartments during combination therapy 188
Alan S. Perelson, Paulina Essunger, Yunzhen Cao, Mika Vesanen, Arlene Hurley, Kalle Saksela, Martin Markowitz & David D. Ho
doi:10.1038/387188a0
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| | Segmental regulation of Hoxb-3 by kreisler
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Miguel Manzanares, Sabine Cordes, Chung-Tin Kwan, Mai Har Sham, Greg S. Barsh & Robb Krumlauf
doi:10.1038/387191a0
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Sex lethal controls dosage compensation in Drosophila by a non-splicing mechanism 195
Richard L. Kelley, Jiwu Wang, Leslie Bell & Mitzi I. Kuroda
doi:10.1038/387195a0
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| | Homotypic vacuolar fusion mediated by t- and v-SNAREs 199
Benjamin J. Nichols, Christian Ungermann, Hugh R. B. Pelham, William T. Wickner & Albert Haas
doi:10.1038/387199a0
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| | Regulation of gene expression by small molecules 202
Joel M. Gottesfeld, Laura Neely, John W. Trauger, Eldon E. Baird & Peter B. Dervan
doi:10.1038/387202a0
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| | Crystal structure of the obese protein Ieptin-E100 206
Faming Zhang, Margret B. Basinski, John M. Beals, Stephen L. Briggs, Lisa M. Churgay, David K. Clawson, Richard D. DiMarchi, Thomas C. Furman, John E. Hale, Hansen M. Hsiung, Brigitte E. Schoner, Dennis P. Smith, Xing Y. Zhang, Jean-Pierre Wery & Richard W. Schevitz
doi:10.1038/387206a0
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| | Molecular biology marketplace 211
Browsing amongst the new molecular tools, the reader can find a
high-throughput DNA sequencing and gene analysis system, electroelution
capsules, a gel documentation workstation and a blunt PCR cloning
system.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/387211a0
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