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| | Can Hong Kong avoid a future of decline? 437
As it nears the transfer of its governance to China, Hong Kong is hampered by the consequences of historical short-sightedness. Its technological future depends on substantial investment and continuing freedoms.
doi:10.1038/387437a0
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| | Research 'could still result in nuclear arms', warn experts 439
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/387439a0
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| | Two alternative routes to a nuclear trigger 439
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/387439b0
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| | Congressional critic backs amended deal on collider 440
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/387440a0
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| | Nest of mirrors promises X-ray relief 440
doi:10.1038/387440b0
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| | UK redraws medical research funding 441
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/387441a0
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| | New MRC 'response mode' funding schemes 441
doi:10.1038/387441b0
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| | Forged images lead to German inquiry 442
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/387442a0
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| | Computer rolled three sets of data into one 442
doi:10.1038/387442b0
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| | France rings changes in telecoms efforts 443
Declan Butler & Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/387443a0
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| | Britain will meet election commitment to rejoin Unesco 443
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/387443b0
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| | Company accused over lab data 'theft' 444
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/387444a0
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| | Tighter evaluation urged for Japan's public research bodies 444
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/387444b0
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| | Ethics of private panels comes under scrutiny 445
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/387445a0
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| | Indifferent performance on privacy protection 445
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/387445b0
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| | News in brief 446
doi:10.1038/387446a0
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| | Problems of postgraduates and PhDs 448
Gerard Vassiliou
doi:10.1038/387448a0
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| | Problems of postgraduates and PhDs 448
James McComb
doi:10.1038/387448b0
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| | Compatibility of Islam and science 448
Nadeem Ali
doi:10.1038/387448c0
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| | Compatibility of Islam and science 448
Edgar Pearlstein
doi:10.1038/387448d0
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| | No PICES advice 448
Warren S. Wooster
doi:10.1038/387448e0
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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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| | Aquestion of DNA repair 450
Gerard Evan
doi:10.1038/387450b0
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| | Prehistoric monsters 451
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/387451a0
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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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| | Deviancy in the mitochondrial genome1–4
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J. D. P.
doi:10.1038/387454b0
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| | Short precursor shortens memory 457
Mark P. Mattson & Katsutoshi Furukawa
doi:10.1038/387457a0
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| | 100 YEARS AGO 457
doi:10.1038/387457b0
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| | Dry water 458
David Jones
doi:10.1038/387458a0
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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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| | 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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| | Even odder carbons 464
J. A. R. P. Sarma, Ashwini Nangia, Gautam R. Desiraju, Engelbert Zass & Jack D. Dunitz
doi:10.1038/387464b0
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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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| | Gifted discoverer of the neutron 467
Brian Pippard reviews The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick
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Andrew Brown
doi:10.1038/387467a0
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| | Ticking off 468
Kristen Lippincott reviews Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785
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Stuart Sherman
doi:10.1038/387468a0
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| | Number crunching 468
Peter Saunders reviews Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers
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Jan Gullberg
doi:10.1038/387468b0
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| | A conquering man of genius 469
John Meurig Thomas reviews The Correspondence of Michael Faraday Vol. 1,1811-31 (1991), pp. 673, £65; vol. 2,1832-40(1993), pp. 807, £65; vol. 3,1841-48 (1996), pp. 835, £65
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F. A. J. L. James, Leslie Sutton & Mansel Davies
doi:10.1038/387469a0
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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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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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Coverage for this feature includes instrumentation that should prove useful in a variety of fields, including ecology, materials microanalysis, biomolecular interactions and chemistry.
doi:10.1038/387531a0
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