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Avoid Wacky (Genome) Races
As the final polish is given to two versions of the human genome sequence, tensions between the competing camps are inevitably high. But excited banter could be damaging to both if it gets out of hand.
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A global solution to global problems?
Time will judge a body being set up this week to address the scientific aspects of topics of international concern.
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South Africa turns to research in the hope of settling AIDS policy...
[PRETORIA] South Africa's Medical Research Council is to work with the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia and two prominent AIDS 'dissidents' in a bid to defuse controversy over the link between HIV and AIDS.
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...as editor defends publishing key AZT paper
[LONDON] The scientific paper cited in a row in South Africa over the efficacy of the anti-HIV drug AZT was published to stimulate public debate rather than as an endorsement of its conclusions, according to the editor of the journal in which it appeared.
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French research minister targets IT and biotech
[PARIS] France's new minister of research has promised that the government will substantially increase its support for research in information technology and biotechnology.
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German Greens go cold on nuclear fusion
[MUNICH] The Greens, the junior partner in Germany's ruling coalition, are urging the government to slam the breaks on nuclear fusion research.
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Canada's plans for neutrons stall
[WASHINGTON] Canadian neutron scientists fear that an ambitious plan to build a world-class neutron scattering facility could collapse unless approval to build it is forthcoming from the government this year.
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US reforms rules for telling public about GM food
[WASHINGTON] The Clinton administration has announced a series of regulatory changes and research proposals intended to bolster public confidence in the government's oversight of genetically-modified food.
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Italian genomics boost retained
[MUNICH] Italy's new government has left intact a plan launched by its predecessor to launch strategic research programmes in genomics and neuroscience.
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Israel debates raising commitment to CERN
[JERUSALEM] Israel's science ministry is considering whether to apply to become a full member of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
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Troubled US fusion project receives cash injection
[WASHINGTON] The US Department of Energy has agreed to provide more funds for the building of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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Medical tests cost Lawrence Berkeley $2.2 million
[SAN FRANCISCO] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has reached a provisional settlement with a group of employees over a suit claiming invasion of privacy related in genetic and other medical testing.
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Australia improves its AIMS
[SYDNEY] The Australian Institute of Marine Science is to be upgraded, following a glowing review of the institute's work by Australia's chief scientist.
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news in brief
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Souped-up search engines
For scientists, finding the information they want on the World-Wide Web is a hit-and-miss affair. But, as Declan Butler reports, more sophisticated and specialized search technologies are promising to change all that.
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The web is a bow tie
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The sweet XML of success
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Never trust a human
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We urgently need more data to improve the lives of laboratory animals
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Planck family paid a high price for opposing Hitler
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How to make diplomats scientifically literate
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Science's neglected legacy
STEPHEN M. MAURER, RICHARD B. FIRESTONE & CHARLES R. SCRIVER
Large, sophisticated databases cannot be left to chance and improvisation.
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Battle of the bones
KEVIN PADIAN reviews The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age by David Rains Wallace
A feud between two palaeontologists sheds light on late-Victorian journalism.
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The bones of modern America
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An ignoble lineage
LEO KINLEN reviews Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy by Mel Greaves
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A sermon on the mounts
CHRIS PAOLA reviews Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics by Mike Leeder
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New journals
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On the scent of the sixth sense
MICHAEL STODDART reviews Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
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A whiff of the past
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Horse power
VACLAV SMIL
The millennium of the horse began with a whimper, but went out with a bang.
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Disextinction, Inc.
KATHRYN CRAMER
For his biology project, Jason decided to resurrect the passenger pigeon.
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Green chemistry: Designed to dissolve
WALTER LEITNER
Many solvents are unpleasant but essential industrial chemicals. Supercritical carbon dioxide would be a viable 'green' alternative but its use has been restricted by its limited solvent power. This is about to change.
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Hearing: Tuning in with motor proteins
MATTHEW HOLLEY
The mammalian ear uses two types of hair cell, inner and outer, to detect sound-induced vibrations. The outer hair cells convert vibrations into electrical signals, and then convert these signals into changes in cell length. The motor protein responsible for this response has now been identified, opening the way to greater understanding of hearing.
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Cosmology: The dark side of distortion
MAX TEGMARK
Einstein told us that gravity could bend light. Astronomers now use an effect known as gravitational lensing to observe images of galaxies distorted by dark matter. Such images can be used to estimate the amount of dark matter in the Universe.
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Plant pathology: The rise of the hybrid fungi
CLIVE BRASIER
Hybrids between fungal pathogens of plants seem to be arising with increasing frequency. The most recently described example is a cross between two species of rust fungus that can attack poplar trees bred for commercial purposes.
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Statistical mechanics: Exploring phase space
MICHAEL F. SHLESINGER
The motion of three particles on a ring should be easy to model. But the behaviour of such a simple system is not ergodic ? that is, it cannot be assumed that the system will always sample its 'phase space' in the same way.
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Gene expression: Mutant weed breaks silence
SUSAN TWEEDIE AND ADRIAN BIRD
DNA methylation has been associated with genes that are 'silenced' through their failure to be transcribed into RNA, so methylation is thought to be involved in silencing. But the identification in plants of a protein that silences foreign genes without affecting their methylation suggests that the two processes can be separated.
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Errata
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100 and 50 years ago
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Daedalus: Moving pictures
DAVID JONES
Last week's innovation was the 'Wink' range of inks and paints that oscillate in brightness. Daedalus now takes the principle a step further, using spatial variation in brightness to produce camouflage for military vehicles and cunning flicker-field advertisements.
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Lie detection and language comprehension
NANCY L. ETCOFF, PAUL EKMAN, JOHN J. MAGEE & MARK G. FRANK
People who can't understand words are better at picking up lies about emotions.
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Growth factors: Formation of endothelial cell networks
GABRIEL HELMLINGER, MITSUHIRO ENDO, NAPOLEONE FERRARA, LYNN HLATKY & RAKESH K. JAIN
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Pollution: Chernobyl's legacy in food and water
J. T. SMITH, R. N. J. COMANS, N. A. BERESFORD, S. M. WRIGHT, B. J. HOWARD & W. C. CAMPLIN
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Detection of weak gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies by cosmic dark matter at large scales
DAVID M. WITTMAN, J. ANTHONY TYSON, DAVID KIRKMAN, IAN DELL'ANTONIO & GARY BERNSTEIN
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Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells
JING ZHENG, WEIXING SHEN, DAVID Z. Z. HE, KEVIN B. LONG, LAIRD D. MADISON & PETER DALLOS
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Cosmic -ray background from structure formation in the intergalactic medium
ABRAHAM LOEB AND ELI WAXMAN
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Proximate humid and dry regions in Jupiter's atmosphere indicate complex local meteorology
M. ROOS-SEROTE, A. R. VASAVADA, L. KAMP, P. DROSSART, P. IRWIN, C. NIXON & R. W. CARLSON
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Closing the spin gap in the Kondo insulator Ce3Bi4Pt3 at high magnetic fields
MARCELO JAIME, ROMAN MOVSHOVICH, GREGORY R. STEWART, WARD P. BEYERMANN, MARIANO GOMEZ BERISSO, MICHAEL F. HUNDLEY, PAUL C. CANFIELD & JOHN L. SARRAO
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Relaxation in polymer electrolytes on the nanosecond timescale
GUOMIN MAO, RICARDO FERNANDEZ PEREA, W. SPENCER HOWELLS, DAVID L. PRICE & MARIE-LOUISE SABOUNGI
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Non-fluorous polymers with very high solubility in supercritical CO 2 down to low pressures
TRAIAN SARBU, THOMAS STYRANEC & ERIC J. BECKMAN
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Resolving the 'opal paradox' in the Southern Ocean
PHILIPPE PONDAVEN, OLIVIER RAGUENEAU, PAUL TRGUER, ANNE HAUVESPRE, LAURENT DEZILEAU & JEAN LOUIS REYSS
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Constraints on the composition of the Earth's core from ab initio calculations
D. ALFÔ, M. J. GILLAN & G. D. PRICE
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Detection and classification of atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria in soil
IAN D. BULL, NISHA R. PAREKH, GRAHAME H. HALL, PHILIP INESON & RICHARD P. EVERSHED
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Infectious parthenogenesis
M. E. HUIGENS, R. F. LUCK, R. H. G. KLAASSEN, M. F. P. M. MAAS, M. J. T. N. TIMMERMANS & R. STOUTHAMER
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Rewarding effects of opiates are absent in mice lacking the receptor for substance P
PATRICIA MURTRA, ANNE M. SHEASBY, STEPHEN P. HUNT & CARMEN DE FELIPE
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Vanilloid receptor-1 is essential for inflammatory thermal hyperalgesia
JOHN B. DAVIS, JULIE GRAY, MARTIN J. GUNTHORPE, JONATHAN P. HATCHER, PHIL T. DAVEY, PHILIP OVEREND, MARK H. HARRIES, JUDI LATCHAM, COLIN CLAPHAM, KIRSTY ATKINSON, STEPHEN A. HUGHES, KIM RANCE, EVELYN GRAU, ALEX J. HARPER, PERDITA L. PUGH, DEREK C. ROGERS, SHARON BINGHAM, ANDREW RANDALL & STEVEN A. SHEARDOWN
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Glutamatergic synapses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the hippocampus
DWIGHT E. BERGLES, J. DAVID B. ROBERTS, PETER SOMOGYI & CRAIG E. JAHR
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Fringe forms a complex with Notch
BONG-GUN JU, SANGYUN JEONG, EUNKYUNG BAE, SEOGANG HYUN, SEAN B. CARROLL, JEONGBIN YIM & JAESEOB KIM
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ATF-2 has intrinsic histone acetyltransferase activity which is modulated by phosphorylation
HIROAKI KAWASAKI, LOU SCHILTZ, ROBERT CHIU, KEIICHI ITAKURA, KAZUNARI TAIRA, YOSHIHIRO NAKATANI & KAZUNARI K. YOKOYAMA
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B and C floral organ identity functions require SEPALLATA MADS-box genes
SORAYA PELAZ, GARY S. DITTA, ELVIRA BAUMANN, ELLEN WISMAN & MARTIN F. YANOFSKY
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Disruption of the plant gene MOM releases transcriptional silencing of methylated genes
PAOLO AMEDEO, YOSHIKI HABU, KARIN AFSAR, ORTRUN MITTELSTEN SCHEID & JERZY PASZKOWSKI
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foreword: Nature Insight Biodiversity
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overview: Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversity
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review article: Getting the measure of biodiversity
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review article: Global patterns in biodiversity
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review article: The diversity?stability debate
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review article: Consequences of changing biodiversity
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review article: Systematic conservation planning
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corporate support: Investing in Conservation Solutions
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corporate support: Integrating Science and Conservation
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corporate support: Conservation International and Biodiversity Conservation
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Making the most of DNA
Aids to DNA synthesis,repair, amplification and the rest.
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Are mega-mergers good medicine for the pharmaceutical industry?
Joining forces creates quick savings. But can vast organizations promote the kind of innovative research they need? Diane Gershon finds out.
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What are you worth to your employer?
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Partners resolve their differences and unite at the second attempt
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