Table of contents
Volume 389 Number 6651 pp527-646
In this issue (9 October 1997)
Opinion
Opportunity in Kyoto for a president's legacy p527
The success or failure of global climate negotiations rests on the shoulders of Bill Clinton, who can enhance his stature by holding his nerve in the face of industry's scare-mongering.
doi:10.1038/39118
News
Nobel panel rewards prion theory after years of heated debate p529
Harriet Coles
doi:10.1038/39120
Japan agrees on target for climate curbs p529
doi:10.1038/39123
Congress warns NASA not to raid science funds p530
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/39125
Surveyor maps desert valleys of Mars p530
doi:10.1038/39127
UK's greenhouse reduction target 'hard but feasible' p530
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/39130
US target 'likely to equal 1990 emissions' p531
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/39132
Public rejects sceptics' line on global warming p531
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/39135
Cash-strapped ANZAAS is set for closure p532
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/39137
Plagiarism claims turn spotlight on US Navy's misconduct policy p532
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/39140
French labs funded by 'big science' cuts p533
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/39142
German research agencies feel the pinch p533
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/39145
NCI apologizes for fallout study delay p534
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/39147
Gene-modified crop sabotaged in Ireland p534
Anthony Garvey
doi:10.1038/39149
Shortcircuit leads India to abandon Internet satellite p535
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/39152
Head of Third World biotechnology centre in Delhi resigns p535
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/39154
Asia-Pacific forum backs life science network p535
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/39157
Correspondence
Monkey business in space p537
David O. Wiebers, Andrzej Elzanowski, Paul W. Gikas, Jennifer Leaning and Roger D. White
doi:10.1038/39162
Bet you didn't know that p537
Raymond Fink
doi:10.1038/39164
Definition of a gene p537
Christopher D. Epp
doi:10.1038/39166
Science studies misjudged? p538
Andrew Pickering
doi:10.1038/39168
Narrowness in science p538
G. Wilse Robinson and Vera Bongertz
doi:10.1038/39170
Duplications in nomenclature p539
Michael Hortsch
doi:10.1038/39172
News and Views
Patterns in the sand p541
Paul Umbanhowar
doi:10.1038/39174
Kainate receptors: Finding homes at synapses p542
Mark Mayer
doi:10.1038/39177
Climate change: Volcanic sulphur in the balance p543
Michael R. Carroll
doi:10.1038/39180
Linguistics: The language steamrollers p544
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/39184
Developmental biology: Straight and wiggly affinities p546
Peter A. Lawrence
doi:10.1038/39188
Chemotaxis: On the crest of a spiral wave p547
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/39191
Avoided object: The negatives of sound p548
doi:10.1038/39194
Gamma-ray astronomy: Bursts make new waves p548
Bohdan Paczyski and Chryssa Kouveliotou
doi:10.1038/39200
Signal transduction: Feedback from inhibitory SMADs p549
Malcolm Whitman
doi:10.1038/39202
100 and 50 years ago p549
doi:10.1038/39205
Telomerase: Cancer and the knockout mouse p551
David Wynford-Thomas and David Kipling
doi:10.1038/39207
The end-replication problem p551
David Wynford-Thomas and David Kipling
doi:10.1038/39210
Daedalus: Smooth ascent p552
David Jones
doi:10.1038/39213
Scientific Correspondence
Systemic signalling in gene silencing p553
Olivier Voinnet and David C. Baulcombe
doi:10.1038/39215
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A pandemic warning? p554
J. C. de Jong, E. C. J. Claas, A. D. M. E. Osterhaus, R. G. Webster and W. L. Lim
doi:10.1038/39218
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Conical beams from open nanotubes p554
Yahachi Saito, Koji Hamaguchi, Koichi Hata, Kunio Uchida, Yoshiharu Tasaka, Fumikazu Ikazaki, Motoo Yumura, Atsuo Kasuya and Yuichiro Nishina
doi:10.1038/39221
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DNA fingerprinting from single cells p555
I. Findlay, A. Taylor, P. Quirke, R. Frazier and A. Urquhart
doi:10.1038/39225
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Archaeopteryx -like skull in Enantiornithine bird p556
Larry D. Martin and Zhonghe Zhou
doi:10.1038/39228
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Book Reviews
Mental modules on the brain p557
P. N. Johnson-Laird
doi:10.1038/39231
Homage to Patagonia p557
doi:10.1038/39233
Old views of the past p558
Nicholas J. Saunders
doi:10.1038/39236
Wing commanders p559
Ernst Hafen
doi:10.1038/39240
Doing the right thing? p560
John Galloway
doi:10.1038/39243
New in paperback p560
doi:10.1038/39245
Reviews
Molecular motors: structural adaptations to cellular functions p561
Joe Howard
doi:10.1038/39247
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (397K)
Constraints on flux rates and mantle dynamics beneath island arcs from Tonga–Kermadec lava geochemistry p568
Simon Turner and Chris Hawkesworth
doi:10.1038/39257
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (316K)
Letters to Nature
Competition between randomizing impacts and inelastic collisions in granular pattern formation p574
Troy Shinbrot
doi:10.1038/39264
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Induced long-range order in crosslinked 'one-dimensional' stacks of fluid monolayers p576
Gerald C. L. Wong, Wim H. de Jeu, Henry Shao, Keng S. Liang and Rudolf Zentel
doi:10.1038/39271
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Origin of rubber-like behaviour in metal alloys p579
Xiaobing Ren and Kazuhiro Otsuka
doi:10.1038/39277
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Bending and buckling of carbon nanotubes under large strain p582
M. R. Falvo, G. J. Clary, R. M. Taylor, II, V. Chi, F. P. Brooks, Jr, S. Washburn and R. Superfine
doi:10.1038/39282
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Synthesis of cadmium sulphide superlattices using self-assembled bacterial S-layers p585
Wayne Shenton, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B. Sleytr and Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/39287
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Convergent total synthesis of a tumour-associated mucin motif p587
Dalibor Sames, Xiao-Tao Chen and Samuel J. Danishefsky
doi:10.1038/39292
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Magma mixing as a source for Pinatubo sulphur p591
Victor Kress
doi:10.1038/39299
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Fitness loss and germline mutations in barn swallows breeding in Chernobyl p593
Hans Ellegren, Gabriella Lindgren, Craig R. Primmer and Anders Pape Møller
doi:10.1038/39303
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How the brain learns to see objects and faces in an impoverished context p596
R. J. Dolan, G. R. Fink, E. Rolls, M. Booth, A. Holmes, R. S. J. Frackowiak and K. J. Friston
doi:10.1038/39309
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A hippocampal GluR5 kainate receptor regulating inhibitory synaptic transmission p599
Vernon R. J. Clarke, Barbara A. Ballyk, Ken H. Hoo, Allan Mandelzys, Andrew Pellizzari, Catherine P. Bath, Justyn Thomas, Erica F. Sharpe, Ceri H. Davies, Paul L. Ornstein, Darryle D. Schoepp, Rajender K. Kamboj, Graham L. Collingridge, David Lodge and David Bleakman
doi:10.1038/39315
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Amyloidogenic role of cytokine TGF-
1 in transgenic mice and in Alzheimer's disease p603
Tony Wyss-Coray, Eliezer Masliah, Margaret Mallory, Lisa McConlogue, Kelly Johnson-Wood, Carol Lin and Lennart Mucke
doi:10.1038/39321
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An epithelial serine protease activates the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel p607
Vronique Vallet, Ahmed Chraibi, Hans-Peter Gaeggeler, Jean-Daniel Horisberger and Bernard C. Rossier
doi:10.1038/39329
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Protection from obesity-induced insulin resistance in mice lacking TNF-
function p610
K. Teoman Uysal, Sarah M. Wiesbrock, Michael W. Marino and Gkhan S. Hotamisligil
doi:10.1038/39335
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Control of compartmental affinity boundaries by Hedgehog p614
Isabel Rodriguez and Konrad Basler
doi:10.1038/39343
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Opposing BMP and EGF signalling pathways converge on the TGF- family mediator Smad1 p618
Marcus Kretzschmar, Jacqueline Doody and Joan Massagu
doi:10.1038/39348
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Smad6 inhibits signalling by the TGF- superfamily p622
Takeshi Imamura, Masao Takase, Ayako Nishihara, Eiichi Oeda, Jun-ichi Hanai, Masahiro Kawabata and Kohei Miyazono
doi:10.1038/39355
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Daughters against dpp modulates dpp organizing activity in Drosophila wing development p627
Kazuhide Tsuneizumi, Takuya Nakayama, Yuko Kamoshida, Thomas B. Kornberg, Jan L. Christian and Tetsuya Tabata
doi:10.1038/39362
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Identification of Smad7, a TGF-inducible antagonist of TGF- signalling p631
Atsuhito Nakao, Mozhgan Afrakhte, Anita Morn, Takuya Nakayama, Jan L. Christian, Rainer Heuchel, Susumu Itoh, Masahiro Kawabata, Nils-Erik Heldin, Carl-Henrik Heldin and Peter ten Dijke
doi:10.1038/39369
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Survival of FimH-expressing enterobacteria in macrophages relies on glycolipid traffic p636
David M. Baorto, Zhimin Gao, Ravi Malaviya, Michael L. Dustin, Anton van der Merwe, Douglas M. Lublin and Soman N. Abraham
doi:10.1038/39376
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Mitotic chromatin regulates phosphorylation of Stathmin/Op18 p640
Søren S. L. Andersen, Anthony J. Ashford, Rgis Tournebize, Olivier Gavet, Andr Sobel, Anthony A. Hyman and Eric Karsenti
doi:10.1038/39382
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New on the Market
Tools for biomedical research labs p644
Offering up a variety of devices and reagents for biomedical sciences, this edition includes a single-cell superfusion system, a bioluminescence assay for monitoring cell-cell interactions, and a cell sizer and counter.
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