Table of contents
Volume 389 Number 6650 pp423-526
In this issue (2 October 1997)
Opinion
Not the last word on the BSE crisis p423
The publication of apparently conclusive evidence linking BSE in cattle to CJD in humans strengthens the case for a full review of how the BSE issue was handled. Britain would not be the only beneficiary.
doi:10.1038/38814
Time for imagination in Prague p423
The Czech government should not miss an opportunity to give its scientists a needed shot in the arm.
doi:10.1038/38816
News
Seismologists claim quake data being 'mis-read' as bomb test p425
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/38818
Russian researchers brace for more cuts p425
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/38821
US dispute over live AIDS vaccine trials p426
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/38823
German minister tipped to head UN body p426
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/38825
British guidelines set out standards for genetic tests p427
doi:10.1038/38828
'Policy vacuum' worry as Australian minister quits p427
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/38830
Nobel laureates face libel suits from 'water memory' researcher p427
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/38833
NIH inquiry fails to find culprit of contamination p428
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/38835
UK nuclear waste company gets extended lease of life p428
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/38837
'Government should decide on disposal site' p428
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/38839
'No net cost in cutting carbon emissions' p429
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/38841
Japan's ministries argue over greenhouse target p429
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/38844
Czech science fights against flood costs p430
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/38846
Academy focuses on bringing laser into use p430
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/38850
Irreproducible pursues the improbable p431
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/38852
Netanyahu bolsters opposition to dismemberment of ministry p431
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/38855
Correspondence
Cloning and bioethical thinking p433
John Harris
doi:10.1038/38859
European centres for disease control p433
Michel Tibayrenc
doi:10.1038/38861
Straight talking p433
Siddhartha C. Kadia and Xiaoqin Wang
doi:10.1038/38863
More than just a name p434
Margaret Penston and Robin Catchpole
doi:10.1038/38865
Nonfalsifiable hypothesis p434
A. K. Dewdney
doi:10.1038/38867
Soil without life? p435
Daniel Markewitz
doi:10.1038/38869
The lost ape p435
Terry Harrison
doi:10.1038/38871
Commentary
IUCN's credibility critically endangered p436
doi:10.1038/38873
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News and Views
Human BSE p437
Two sets of studies, using different approaches, provide convincing evidence that the new variant of Creutzfeldt — Jakob disease is caused by the agent that is responsible for BSE in cattle. But they cannot tell us anything about the future number of cases of this variant disease.
Jeffrey Almond and John Pattison
doi:10.1038/38876
'Protein only' prions? p438
Jeffrey Almond and John Pattison
doi:10.1038/38881
Earth science: The puzzle of the South Pacific p439
Norman Sleep
doi:10.1038/38883
Avoided object: The negatives of sound p439
doi:10.1038/38886
Evolutionary biology: Pelvic problems for mammals p440
Robert Presley
doi:10.1038/38891
Kinetic theory: Optimal paths and irreversibility p441
Mark Millonas
doi:10.1038/38895
Avian sex-ratios: Pretty Polly, Polly, Polly, Polly, Polly ... p442
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood
doi:10.1038/38900
Molecular clocks: PERpetuating the PASt p443
Paolo Sassone-Corsi
doi:10.1038/38904
100 and 50 years ago p444
doi:10.1038/38907
Oceanography: Shades of the sea p444
Karen Southwell
doi:10.1038/38909
Palaeoanthropology: One skull does not a species make p445
Eric Delson
doi:10.1038/38912
Daedalus: The ears have it p446
David Jones
doi:10.1038/38916
Scientific Correspondence
A Velociraptor wishbone p447
Mark A. Norell, Peter Makovicky and James M. Clark
doi:10.1038/38918
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Porous silica via colloidal crystallization p447
O. D. Velev, T. A. Jede, R. F. Lobo and A. M. Lenhoff
doi:10.1038/38921
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The same prion strain causes vCJD and BSE p448
Andrew F. Hill, Melanie Desbruslais, Susan Joiner, Katie C. L. Sidle, Ian Gowland, John Collinge, Lawrence J. Doey and Peter Lantos
doi:10.1038/38925
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'Male-stuffing' in wasp societies p450
Philip T. Starks and Emily S. Poe
doi:10.1038/38931
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Book Reviews
Return of the repressed p451
Ziauddin Sardar reviews Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis by Barry Barnes, David Bloor and John Henry and Science by Steve Fuller
doi:10.1038/38935
Stormtrooper in stilettos p452
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/38938
A practical approach to bodybuilding p453
Nicholas A. Peppas reviews Principles of Tissue Engineering edited by Robert P. Lanza, Robert Langer and William L. Chick
doi:10.1038/38940
The living and the dead p454
Bill Chaloner reviews The Evolutionary Biology of Plants by Karl J. Niklas
doi:10.1038/38943
Other books on plants p454
doi:10.1038/38945
Article
Crystal structures of fragment D from human fibrinogen and its crosslinked counterpart from fibrin p455
Glen Spraggon, Stephen J. Everse and Russell F. Doolittle
doi:10.1038/38947
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Letters to Nature
Irreversibility of classical fluctuations studied in analogue electrical circuits p463
D. G. Luchinsky and P. V. E. McClintock
doi:10.1038/38963
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Light amplification in organic thin films using cascade energy transfer p466
M. Berggren, A. Dodabalapur, R. E. Slusher and Z. Bao
doi:10.1038/38979
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A chiral spherical molecular assembly held together by 60 hydrogen bonds p469
Leonard R. MacGillivray and Jerry L. Atwood
doi:10.1038/38985
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Correlation between rate of sea-level change and frequency of explosive volcanism in the Mediterranean p473
W. J. McGuire, R. J. Howarth, C. R. Firth, A. R. Solow, A. D. Pullen, S. J. Saunders, I. S. Stewart and C. Vita-Finzi
doi:10.1038/38998
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The effect of sedimentary cover on the flexural strength of continental lithosphere p476
Luc L. Lavier and Michael S. Steckler
doi:10.1038/39004
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Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands p479
M. K. McNutt, D. W. Caress, J. Reynolds, K. A. Jordahl and R. A. Duncan
doi:10.1038/39013
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Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia p483
Michael J. Novacek, Guillermo W. Rougier, John R. Wible, Malcolm C. McKenna, Demberelyin Dashzeveg and Inés Horovitz
doi:10.1038/39020
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The origin of the dog-like borhyaenoid marsupials of South America p486
Christian de Muizon, Richard L. Cifelli and Ricardo Céspedes Paz
doi:10.1038/39029
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The first skull of Australopithecus boisei p489
Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Tim D. White, Shigehiro Katoh, Shinji Nagaoka, Hideo Nakaya#, Kazuhiro Uzawa, Paul Renne and Giday WoldeGabriel
doi:10.1038/39037
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Decrease of cardiac chaos in congestive heart failure p492
Chi-Sang Poon and Christopher K. Merrill
doi:10.1038/39043
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A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust p495
M. L. Phillips, A. W. Young, C. Senior, M. Brammer, C. Andrew, A. J. Calder, E. T. Bullmore, D. I. Perrett, D. Rowland, S. C. R. Williams, J. A. Gray and A. S. David
doi:10.1038/39051
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Transmissions to mice indicate that 'new variant' CJD is caused by the BSE agent p498
M. E. Bruce, R. G. Will, J. W. Ironside, I. McConnell, D. Drummond, A. Suttie, L. McCardle, A. Chree, J. Hope, C. Birkett, S. Cousens, H. Fraser and C. J. Bostock
doi:10.1038/39057
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AMPA receptor-mediated regulation of a Gi-protein in cortical neurons p502
Yizheng Wang, Daniel L. Small, Danica B. Stanimirovic, Paul Morley and Jon P. Durkin
doi:10.1038/39062
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Prolonged photoresponses in transgenic mouse rods lacking arrestin p505
Jun Xu, Robert L. Dodd, Clint L. Makino, Melvin I. Simon, Denis A. Baylor and Jeannie Chen
doi:10.1038/39068
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The exocytotic event in chromaffin cells revealed by patch amperometry p509
A. Albillos, G. Dernick, H. Horstmann, W. Almers, G. Alvarez de Toledo and M. Lindau
doi:10.1038/39081
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Circadian oscillation of a mammalian homologue of the Drosophila period gene p512
Hajime Tei, Hitoshi Okamura, Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, Chiaki Fukuhara, Ritsuko Ozawa, Matsumi Hirose and Yoshiyuki Sakaki
doi:10.1038/39086
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Head induction by simultaneous repression of Bmp and Wnt signalling in Xenopus p517
Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Darya Onichtchouk, Claudia Blumenstock and Christof Niehrs
doi:10.1038/39092
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Protein memory through altered folding mediated by intramolecular chaperones p520
U. P. Shinde, J. J. Liu and M. Inouye
doi:10.1038/39097
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Two-dimensional structure of plant photosystem II at 8-Å resolution p522
Kyong-Hi Rhee, Ed P. Morris, Daniela Zheleva, Ben Hankamer, Werner Kühlbrandt and James Barber
doi:10.1038/39103
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Addendum: Unaltered susceptibility to BSE in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein p526
John Collinge, Mark S. Palmer, Katie C. L. Sidle, Andrew F. Hill, Ian Gowland, Julie Meads, Emmanuel Asante, Ray Bradley, Lawrence J. Doey and Peter L. Lantos
doi:10.1038/39116