Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6645 pp813-908
In this issue (28 August 1997)
Opinion
Activism that is illegal and also ill judged p813
Campaigns aimed at environmental protection need to maintain a careful balance between conviction and fresh thinking. Industry and activists should aim for more of the latter.
Science loses in new ministry p813
Plans to merge Japan's Science and Technology Agency with the Ministry of Education need more thought.
News
Radical restructuring in Japan merges science and education p815
Richard Nathan and Robert Triendl
New roles for science and technology council p815
Richard Nathan and Robert Triendl
Greenpeace defiant in face of threat from oil company p816
Ehsan Masood
Karolinska Institute disowns work of cancer researcher p816
Declan Butler
Dispute over insect resistance to crops p817
Meredith Wadman
Swiss research resting on its laurels p817
Quirin Schiermeier
Mir's problems could mean scale-down for science p818
Tony Reichhardt
State seeks independence in science policy p818
Peter Pockley
NAS president hints he may run again p819
Colin Macilwain
Cooperative Centres fight cuts proposal p819
Peter Pockley
Correspondence
Peer review is a two-way process p822
Alistair Fielder, Hannah Vinyard and David Grant
Sacred circle p822
Roger Matthews
Space can't wait p823
Mary E. Musgrave and Richard Hopkin
Time and motion p823
Stuart Sherman
Identity crisis p823
J.-H. Klemme
News and Views
Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic p825
Stefan Rahmstorf
Biological hydrostats: Wrapping the armadillo's penis p826
Richard Wassersug
Quantum mechanics: Atoms that agree to differ p827
D. Bouwmeester and A. Zeilinger
Genomic stability: Silencing and DNA repair connect p829
Stephen P. Jackson
RNA structure: A molecular contortionist p830
Jennifer A. Doudna
100 and 50 years ago p831
Autoimmune diabetes: Retrovirus as trigger, precipitator or marker? p833
Christophe Benoist and Diane Mathis
Cryobiology: Cold comfort for anglers and toxicologists p833
Tim Lincoln
Protein-protein interactions: Calcium turns turquoise into gold p834
Tullio Pozzan
Daedalus: A biased solid p835
David Jones
Obituary: Hubert Horace Lamb (1913-97) p836
Mick Kelly
Scientific Correspondence
Sources of the Maelstrom p837
B. Gjevik, H. Moe and A. Ommundsen
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Morbillivirus in monk seal mass mortality p838
Albert Osterhaus, Jan Groen, Hubert Niesters, Marco van de Bildt, Byron Martina, Lies Vedder, Joseph Vos, Hans van Egmond, Ba Abou Sidi and Mohamed Ely Ould Barham
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-Synuclein in Lewy bodies p839
Maria Grazia Spillantini, Marie Luise Schmidt, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, Ross Jakes and Michel Goedert
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Endogenous proviruses as "mementos"? p840
Charles H. Langley and Brian Charlesworth
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Reply: Endogenous proviruses as "mementos"? p840
Jonathan Stoye
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Book Reviews
Transforming the theatre of surgery p841
Fred S. Rosen
Research remedies p842
Iain Smith
It's a frog's life p842
Everyman physics p842
Edwin L. Thomas
Oceans of truth p843
John Shepherd
Flights and fights p843
Paul Duffy
Review
Design and synthesis of chromophores and polymers for electro-optic and photorefractive applications p845
Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen, Alex K.-Y. Jen and Nasser Peyghambarian
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Letters to Nature
A direct image of the obscuring disk surrounding an active galactic nucleus p852
Jack F. Gallimore, Stefi A. Baum and Christopher P. O'Dea
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Core formation on Mars and differentiated asteroids p854
Der-Chuen Lee and Alex N. Halliday
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Effect of microgravity on the crystallization of a self-assembling layered material p857
Homayoun Ahari, Robert L. Bedard, Carol L. Bowes, Neil Coombs, Omer Dag, Tong Jiang, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Srebri Petrov, Igor Sokolov, Atul Verma, Gregory Vovk and David Young
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Biodegradable block copolymers as injectable drug-delivery systems p860
Byeongmoon Jeong, You Han Bae, Doo Sung Lee and Sung Wan Kim
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Influence of CO2 emission rates on the stability of the thermohaline circulation p862
Thomas F. Stocker and Andreas Schmittner
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Critical behaviour and the evolution of fault strength during earthquake cycles p865
Moritz Heimpel
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The Late Precambrian fossil Kimberella is a mollusc-like bilaterian organism p868
Mikhail A. Fedonkin and Benjamin M. Waggoner
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A neuronal population code for sound localization p871
Douglas C. Fitzpatrick, Ranjan Batra, Terrence R. Stanford and Shigeyuki Kuwada
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Loose-patch recordings of single quanta at individual hippocampal synapses p874
Lia Forti, Mario Bossi, Andrea Bergamaschi, Antonello Villa and Antonio Malgaroli
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Microglial activation by Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein and modulation by apolipoprotein E p878
Steven W. Barger and Ashley D. Harmon
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Fluorescent indicators for Ca2+based on green fluorescent proteins and calmodulin p882
Atsushi Miyawaki, Juan Llopis, Roger Heim, J. Michael McCaffery, Joseph A. Adams, Mitsuhiko Ikura and Roger Y. Tsien
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Kinetochores distinguish GTP from GDP forms of the microtubule lattice p888
Fedor F. Severin, Peter K. Sorger and Anthony A. Hyman
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Mutant analysis links the translocon and BiP to retrograde protein transport for ER degradation p891
Richard K. Plemper, Sigrun Böhmler, Javier Bordallo, Thomas Sommer and Dieter H. Wolf
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Marking of active genes on mitotic chromosomes p895
Emil F. Michelotti, Suzanne Sanford and David Levens
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Silencing factors participate in DNA repair and recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae p900
Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Jun-ichi Kato and Hideo Ikeda
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Crystal structure of the breakage–reunion domain of DNA gyrase p903
Joo H. Morais Cabral, Andrew P. Jackson, Clare V. Smith, Nita Shikotra, Anthony Maxwell and Robert C. Liddington
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Erratum: Radical fringe positions the apical ectodermal ridge at the dorsoventral boundary of the vertebrate limb p906
Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, John W. R. Schwabe, Jennifer De La Peña, Bryon Foys, Brian Eshelman and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
New on the Market
DNA technology p907
This round-up of molecular tools includes a thermal printer module, a PCR-product amplification detection system, plasmid purification kits, and a system for in situ hybridization, RT-PCR, PRINS and immunohistochemistry.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
