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Volume 408 Issue 6809, 9 November 2000

Opinion

  • Whatever their previous scepticism, scientists should embrace the opportunity to see whether the International Space Station can address important research questions. NASA's decisions on its microgravity research are a step in the right direction.

    Opinion

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  • An independent inquiry is needed to restore morale at an international biotechnology research centre in New Delhi.

    Opinion
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News

  • WASHINGTON

    US graduate students working as research and teaching assistants at private colleges and universities have the right to form unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week.

    • Paul Smaglik
    News

  • Long term low level exposure to a pesticide widely used in horticulture and water management could be a cause of Parkinson's disease in humans, researchers at Emory University in Georgia warned this week.

    • David Adam
    News

  • PARIS

    Last week, members of the Conseil Superieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie relaunched a public petition calling for a long term scientific employment policy.

    • Declan Butler
    News

  • PARIS

    The French government announced last week the appointment of climatologist Gerard Megie as president of the country's main research agency, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

    • Declan Butler
    News

  • TOKYO

    Reports that an unapproved form of genetically modified corn has found its way into the Japanese food supply has prompted government action in both Japan and the US.

    • David Cyranoski
    News

  • NEW DELHI

    The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology is embroiled in controversy over insufficient funding, staff harassment and political influence on recruitment.

    • K. S. Jayaraman
    News
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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Advances in automation and genome sequence data will allow new protein structures to be produced faster than ever before. As the era of structural genomics unfolds, it could revolutionize drug discovery, says Alison Abbott.

    • Alison Abbott
    News Feature
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Correspondence

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Commentary

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Book Review

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Millennium Essay

  • No news about cancer prevention is good news.

    • Robert C. Young
    Millennium Essay
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Futures

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News & Views

  • Archaeological evidence of unexpected modes of food production in the tropics of lowland Central and South America carries lessons for modern farmers and students of crop-plant evolution.

    • Warwick Bray
    News & Views

  • The effects of the signalling molecule MIF are quite well understood, but how it works remains a mystery. Some of the pathways behind its activity have now been revealed — with surprising results.

    • Richard Bucala
    News & Views

  • Little is known about how lakes change as they get older. Research on a 12,000-year sequence of natural laboratories at Glacier Bay, Alaska, shows how the terrestrial surroundings can influence lake evolution.

    • George W. Kling
    News & Views

  • Viruses have evolved several strategies to attack plants, but the plants keep hitting back. So the viruses have upped the ante by stopping the plants' immune response from spreading to uninfected tissues.

    • James C. Carrington
    News & Views

  • Nature leads the way when it comes to motors on a molecular scale. But chemists are in hot pursuit, designing controllable structures that can mimic muscles or rotary motors.

    • Ben L. Feringa
    News & Views

  • If we are to perceive a visual figure, we need to direct our attention towards it. The more we discover about this ability, the more impressive it seems.

    • Jochen Braun
    News & Views

  • The land and sea soak up much of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. But one set of simulations suggests that global warming could greatly impair this ability.

    • Jorge Sarmiento
    News & Views
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Brief Communication

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Article

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Letter

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Foreword

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Review Article

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Commentary

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New on the Market

  • Immunology and immunochemicals as tools and for their own sake.

    New on the Market
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Careers and Recruitment

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Insight

  • Much of human culture has been shaped by the inevitability of our ageing and death. But why do we age, when fairly similar creatures apparently do not? Individual reviewers discuss ageing from an evolutionary standpoint, the role played by oxidative damage, development of age-related cancers and ageing syndromes, and future prospects for research on ageing.

    Insight
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