Volume 309 Issue 5967, 31 May 1984

Opinion

Handling the human embryo

Proposals for the organization of British practice are a useful curtain-raiser for the government's own report. But physicians should regulate themselves before the government steps in.

Opinion 31 May 1984

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Opinion 31 May 1984
Small beer, no skittles

The British research system needs to spend more on research grants, less on machines.

Opinion 31 May 1984

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News

American Association for the Advancement of Science — New York: Administration hints at clampdown on biotechnology exports

News 31 May 1984
Europe uneasy at CERN rival

Stephen Budiansky
News 31 May 1984
Intellectual property: Consider the monoclonals

Tim Beardsley
News 31 May 1984
Argentinians safe

Stephen Budiansky
News 31 May 1984
US universities: Benefactions abound

Peter David
News 31 May 1984
Genetic engineering: Picking up the pieces

Stephen Budiansky
News 31 May 1984
Venture captial: Stealing universities' thunder?

Tim Beardsley
News 31 May 1984
A UK venture

Tim Beardsley
News 31 May 1984
Agriculture: Old crop ripe for revival

Casper Schuuring
News 31 May 1984
Software copyright: MITI retreat on “piracy”

Alun Anderson
News 31 May 1984
Hungarian science: Making the most of society

Vera Rich
News 31 May 1984

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Correspondence

Creation research and Noah

GARY E. PARKER
Correspondence 31 May 1984
Creation research and Noah (reply)

THOMAS H. JUKES
Correspondence 31 May 1984
Semen and AIDS

R.E. REWELL
Correspondence 31 May 1984
Fetal viability

PATRICK W. GILL
Correspondence 31 May 1984
Biological control

MICHAEL J. CLEMENS
Correspondence 31 May 1984

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Commentary

Blood group and socio-economic class

A report last year, based on a study of a British population, that A blood groups are significantly more common among members of the higher socio-economic groups (classes I and II) has generated a wealth of correspondence, some of which appears in what follows together with a reply from the original authors. The general conclusion seems to be that there can be no general conclusion.

C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR
I. C. MCMANUS
Commentary 31 May 1984
Blood group and socio-economic class

JEAN GOLDING
PENNY HICKS
N. R. BUTLER
Commentary 31 May 1984
Blood group and socio-economic class

JAMES D. HAWKINS
Commentary 31 May 1984
Blood group and socio-economic class

CARLOS Y. VALENZUELA
Commentary 31 May 1984
Blood group and socio-economic class

JOHN HARTUNG
Commentary 31 May 1984
Blood group and socio-economic class (reply)

J. A. BEARDMORE
F. KARIMI-BOOSHEHRI
Commentary 31 May 1984

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News & Views

Psychoimmunology before its time

That there is probably a link between the central nervous system and the immune system is easily accepted. The doubt is whether enough is yet known to sustain people's hopes of explanation.

John Maddox
News & Views 31 May 1984
Evolution: Palaeontology at the high table

John Maynard Smith
News & Views 31 May 1984
Malarial immunity: Indonesian and Sudanese style

F.E.G. Cox
News & Views 31 May 1984
100 years ago

News & Views 31 May 1984
Astronomy: High-velocity winds in Orion

Ben Zuckerman
News & Views 31 May 1984
Protein structure: From Bacillus to rabbit

Roger H. Pain
News & Views 31 May 1984
Bacterial motion: Progress in flagellation

Michael Spencer
News & Views 31 May 1984
Neurology: Hopes of central repair

Jeffrey S. Nye
News & Views 31 May 1984
[News and Views ‘picture story’]

News & Views 31 May 1984
Cosomolgy: Coloured comets

David W. Hughes
News & Views 31 May 1984
X-ray crystallography: Advantages of electronic ‘film’

Stephen C. Harrison
News & Views 31 May 1984

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Scientific Correspondence

Linear scale for acid rain?

DUNCAN P. H. LAXEN
Scientific Correspondence 31 May 1984
Alphabet and the Western mind

JOHN R. SKOYLES
Scientific Correspondence 31 May 1984
Alignment of base sequences

WALTER M. FITCH
Scientific Correspondence 31 May 1984
Fissure animals of Bristol and South Wales

D.I. WHITESIDE
Scientific Correspondence 31 May 1984
Seminal lymphocytes, plasma and AIDS — Erratum

Scientific Correspondence 31 May 1984

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Review Article

Stoichiometry and the structure and stability of inorganic solids

M. O'Keeffe
B. G. Hyde
Review Article 31 May 1984

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Article

Optical counterparts of unidentified IRAS point sources: infrared luminous galaxies

Marc Aaronson
Edward W. Olszewski
Article 31 May 1984
Human epidermal growth factor receptor cDNA sequence and aberrant expression of the amplified gene in A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells

A. Ullrich
L. Coussens
P. H. Seeburg
Article 31 May 1984
Conservation and change in the DNA sequences coding for alcohol dehydrogenase in sibling species of Drosophila

Mark Bodmer
Michael Ashburner
Article 31 May 1984

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Letter

The ultraluminous interacting galaxy NGC6240

G. S. Wright
R. D. Joseph
W. P. S. Meikle
Letter 31 May 1984
Solid white dwarfs as Type I supernova progenitors

Jordi Isern
Javier Labay
Ramón Canal
Letter 31 May 1984
Topography of the shield volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars

S. S. C. Wu
P. A. Garcia
B. A. Skiff
Letter 31 May 1984
Can X-ray diffraction distinguish between protium and deuterium atoms?

Paul Seiler
Bruno Martinoni
Jack D. Dunitz
Letter 31 May 1984
Microgranitoid enclaves in granites—globules of hybrid magma quenched in a plutonic environment

R. H. Vernon
Letter 31 May 1984
Inverse relationship between Sr isotope diversity and rate of oceanic volcanism has implications for mantle heterogeneity

Rodey Batiza
Letter 31 May 1984
Particulate and dissolved vanadium in the North Pacific Ocean

R. W. Collier
Letter 31 May 1984
Radium fluxes from a salt marsh

Marsha S. Bollinger
Willard S. Moore
Letter 31 May 1984
Ultraviolet sensitivity in hyperpolarizing photoreceptors of the giant clam Tridacna

Lon A. Wilkens
Letter 31 May 1984
Threshold channels—a novel type of sodium channel in squid giant axon

Wm. F. Gilly
Clay M. Armstrong
Letter 31 May 1984
Current generated by backward-running electrogenic Na pump in squid giant axons

Paul De Weer
R. F. Rakowski
Letter 31 May 1984
Mechanism of ion permeation through calcium channels

Peter Hess
Richard W. Tsien
Letter 31 May 1984
Complete tyrosine-O-sulphation of gastrin in neonatal rat pancreas

S. J. Brand
B. N. Andersen
J. F. Rehfeld
Letter 31 May 1984
Expression and amplification of the N-myc gene in primary retinoblastoma

Wen-Hwa Lee
A. Linn Murphree
William F. Benedict
Letter 31 May 1984
Identification of a form of the avian erythroblastosis virus erb-B gene product at the cell surface

Michael J. Hayman
Hartmut Beug
Letter 31 May 1984
Molecular cloning of the whole biosynthetic pathway of a Streptomyces antibiotic and its expression in a heterologous host

F. Malpartida
D. A. Hopwood
Letter 31 May 1984
Ha-ras oncogenes are activated by somatic alterations in human urinary tract tumours

Jun Fujita
Osamu Yoshida
Stuart A. Aaronson
Letter 31 May 1984
Evolution of phosphofructokinase—gene duplication and creation of new effector sites

Roger A. Poorman
Anne Randolph
Robert L. Heinrikson
Letter 31 May 1984
Successive incorporation of force-generating units in the bacterial rotary motor

Steven M. Block
Howard C. Berg
Letter 31 May 1984

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Book Review

Inflationary cosmology

Gary Steigman

Collection:

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
Book Review 31 May 1984
Accounts of energy

Colin Sweet
Book Review 31 May 1984
The information man

Walter Gratzer
Book Review 31 May 1984
Metals on the brain

Laszlo Magos
Book Review 31 May 1984

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Books Received

Books Received

Books Received 31 May 1984

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Product Review

Serum components from NCI

One of fifteen new products this week is a system based on Edman degradation which will detect amino acids at 1 pmol. And NCI announces the availability of serum components.

Product Review 31 May 1984
Frozen serum panels from NCI

Product Review 31 May 1984

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