Table of contents
Volume 395 Number 6699 pp203-306
In this issue (17 September 1998)
Opinion
Avoiding traditions that undermine Italy's potential p203
For years Italy's research council has suffered from scientific direction tainted by political considerations. Changes now in train carry risks that the next generation of Italian scientists will be similarly betrayed.
doi:10.1038/26047
Primakov's advantageous perspective p203
Russian science's survival requires the particular attention of the country's new prime minister.
doi:10.1038/26049
News
Brussels seeks BSE diagnostic test to screen European cattle p205
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26051
Don't copy our clone, say Dolly scientists p205
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/26054
Cuts 'could leave energy department brain-dead' p206
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26057
Biology teaching wins $90m boost from Howard Hughes institute p206
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26059
Human genome deadline cut by two years p207
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26061
Snowball comet idea refuses to melt away p207
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/26063
German poll could change research goals p208
Quirin Schiermeier and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/26066
Plan to pool part of Europe's science cash p208
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/26069
Foreign contracts 'Russia's only chance' p209
Carl Levitin and Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/26071
Hopes ride on manager with a scientist's mind p209
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/26074
US scientists call for fairer animal funding p210
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26076
Spain lets Latin America 'repay' debts by protecting environment p210
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/26078
Clinton seeks refuge in calls for mentors to help minorities p211
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26081
Japanese institutes wary of increased autonomy p211
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/26084
Correspondence
First shots fired in biological warfare p213
Mark Wheelis
doi:10.1038/26089
How Diana climbed the ratings at the zoo p213
Claire Carvell, Nicholas F. J. Inglis, Georgina M. Mace and Andy Purvis
doi:10.1038/26091
News and Views
Worm holes and avian space-time p215
Kathryn Jeffery and John O'Keefe
doi:10.1038/26094
100 and 50 years ago p216
doi:10.1038/26097
Mathematics: Magic squares cornered p216
Martin Gardner
doi:10.1038/26099
Bacterial infection: For whom the bell tolls p217
Craig Gerard
doi:10.1038/26104
Nuclear physics: Nuclear and subnuclear boiling p220
Frank Wilczek
doi:10.1038/26107
Mutagenesis: Purposeful mutations p221
Myron F. Goodman
doi:10.1038/26111
Earth science: Crack-up under the Pacific p223
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/26114
Ribozymes: How to make a nucleotide p223
Michael P. Robertson and Andrew D. Ellington
doi:10.1038/26117
Signal transduction: Docking I
B kinases p225
Claus Scheidereit
doi:10.1038/26121
Daedalus: Nuclear glue p226
David Jones
doi:10.1038/26124
Science and Image
Mammary models p227
Clinicians screening patients for diseases such as breast cancer have to let a machine do much of the seeing for them. Theoretical modelling of the processes involved can help to ensure that reliable images are generated.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/26126
Scientific Correspondence
Mothers determine sexual preferences p229
Keith M. Kendrick, Michael R. Hinton, Khia Atkins, Martin A. Haupt and John D. Skinner
doi:10.1038/26129
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All limbs are not the same p230
Bea Christen and Jonathan M. W. Slack
doi:10.1038/26133
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Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? p231
Mark Levine, Rushad C. Daruwala, Jae B. Park, Steven C Rumsey and Yaohui Wang
doi:10.1038/26137
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Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? p231
Henrik E. Poulsen, Allan Weimann, Jukka T. Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Steffen Loft, Jean Cadet, Thierry Douki and Jean-Luc Ravanat
doi:10.1038/26139
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Reply: Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? p232
Ian D. Podmore, Helen R. Griffiths, Karl E. Herbert, Nalini Mistry, Pratibha Mistry and Joseph Lunec
doi:10.1038/26141
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Book Reviews
The cowboys in Indian science p233
Pushpa M. Bhargava reviews Nonsense in Indian Science by Dilip M. Salwi
doi:10.1038/26143
Bodies of evidence p234
Bernard Wood reviews On the Fabric of the Human Body. Book One: The Bones and Cartilages by Andreas Vesalius, William Richardson and John Carman and The Complete Visible Human by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Wilhelm Berghorn and Matthias Biel
doi:10.1038/26146
Undiplomatic immunity p235
Fred S. Rosen reviews The Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology by Scott H. Podolsky and Alfred Tauber
doi:10.1038/26150
Taking the mammoth steppes p236
Valerius Geist reviews Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe by George B. Schaller
doi:10.1038/26152
Articles
Structural basis for inhibition of the cyclin-dependent kinase Cdk6 by the tumour suppressor p16INK4a p237
Alicia A. Russo, Lily Tong, Jie-Oh Lee, Philip D. Jeffrey and Nikola P. Pavletich
doi:10.1038/26155
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Crystal structure of the complex of the cyclin D-dependent kinase Cdk6 bound to the cell-cycle inhibitor p19INK4d p244
Deborah H. Brotherton, Venugopal Dhanaraj, Scott Wick, Leonardo Brizuela, Peter J. Domaille, Elena Volyanik, Xu Xu, Emilio Parisini, Brian O. Smith, Sharon J. Archer, Manuel Serrano, Stephen L. Brenner, Tom L. Blundell and Ernest D. Laue
doi:10.1038/26164
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,391K)
Letters to Nature
Imaging circumstellar environments with a nulling interferometer p251
Philip M. Hinz, J. Roger P. Angel, William F. Hoffmann, Donald W. McCarthy, Jr, Patrick C. McGuire, Matt Cheselka, Joseph L. Hora and Neville J. Woolf
doi:10.1038/26172
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Superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas p253
Philip Phillips, Yi Wan, Ivar Martin, Sergey Knysh and Denis Dalidovich
doi:10.1038/26179
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Laminated fabrication of polymeric photovoltaic diodes p257
M. Granström, K. Petritsch, A. C. Arias, A. Lux, M. R. Andersson and R. H. Friend
doi:10.1038/26183
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RNA-catalysed nucleotide synthesis p260
Peter J. Unrau and David P. Bartel
doi:10.1038/26193
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See also: News and Views by Robertson & Ellington
Deep-ocean gradients in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon p263
Dennis A. Hansell and Craig A. Carlson
doi:10.1038/26200
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Plastic deformation of silicate spinel under the transition-zone conditions of the Earth's mantle p266
Shun-ichiro Karato, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek and David C. Rubie
doi:10.1038/26206
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Dynamic topography, plate driving forces and the African superswell p269
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni and Paul G. Silver
doi:10.1038/26212
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (1,339K) | Supplementary information
Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays p272
Nicola S. Clayton and Anthony Dickinson
doi:10.1038/26216
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (223K)
See also: News and Views by Jeffery & O'Keefe
Primary motor cortex is involved in bimanual coordination p274
O. Donchin, A. Gribova, O. Steinberg, H. Bergman and E. Vaadia
doi:10.1038/26220
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Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects p278
N. Lessard, M. Paré, F. Lepore and M. Lassonde
doi:10.1038/26228
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Impaired febrile response in mice lacking the prostaglandin E receptor subtype EP3 p281
Fumitaka Ushikubi, Eri Segi, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Takahiko Murata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Takuya Kobayashi, Hiroko Hizaki, Kazuhito Tuboi, Masato Katsuyama, Atsushi Ichikawa, Takashi Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida and Shuh Narumiya
doi:10.1038/26233
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Toll-like receptor-2 mediates lipopolysaccharide-induced cellular signalling p284
Ruey-Bing Yang, Melanie R. Mark, Alane Gray, Arthur Huang, Ming Hong Xie, Min Zhang, Audrey Goddard, William I. Wood, Austin L. Gurney and Paul J. Godowski
doi:10.1038/26239
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (338K)
See also: News and Views by Gerard
Amino-acid transport by heterodimers of 4F2hc/CD98 and members of a permease family p288
Luca Mastroberardino, Benjamin Spindler, Rahel Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Skelly, Jan Loffing, Charles B. Shoemaker and François Verrey
doi:10.1038/26246
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IKAP is a scaffold protein of the IB kinase complex p292
Lucie Cohen, William J. Henzel and Patrick A. Baeuerle
doi:10.1038/26254
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See also: News and Views by Scheidereit
IKK-
is an essential regulatory subunit of the IB kinase complex p297
David M. Rothwarf, Ebrahim Zandi, Gioacchino Natoli and Michael Karin
doi:10.1038/26261
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See also: News and Views by Scheidereit
Signal-specific co-activator domain requirements for Pit-1 activation p301
Lan Xu, Robert M. Lavinsky, Jeremy S. Dasen, Sarah E. Flynn, Eileen M. McInerney, Tina-Marie Mullen, Thorsten Heinzel, Daniel Szeto, Edward Korzus, Riki Kurokawa, Aneel K. Aggarwal, David W. Rose, Christopher K. Glass and Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/26270
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Erratum: Evidence for the shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites p306
Fiona Roberts, Craig W. Roberts, Jennifer J. Johnson, Dennis E. Kyle, Tino Krell, John R. Coggins, Graham H. Coombs, Wilbur K. Milhous, Saul Tzipori, David J. P. Ferguson, Debopam Chakrabarti and Rima McLeod
doi:10.1038/26277
Erratum: Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 with coherent X-rays p306
Z. W. Hu, P. A. Thomas, A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, A. Souvorov, P. G. R. Smith, G. W. Ross and S. Teat
doi:10.1038/26279
