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16 November 1996

Issue 2056

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How the parasite learnt to kill

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Trails of destruction

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Beaten in spades

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Technology

Firefly enzyme will bring dirty food factories to light

THE glowing enzyme that enables fireflies to attract their mates can now be switched on and off at will. The technique could be used to improve the detection of bacterial contamination in food processing, say researchers. A team of biochemists, physicists and electronics engineers from the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham found that by applying …

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Ashes to ashes, mould to mould

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Doctors farm fish for insulin

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New life for old fighters

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Netropolitan

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Quick start evens up the odds in digital TV race

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Culprit found for stolen starlight

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A good scrub in the sand keeps crab shells clean

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Malaria reveals a chink in its armour

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'Guardian of the genome' falls from grace

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Erratic earthquakes keep forecasters on the hop

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Minor op gives veteran new lease of life

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Waste warning

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Hole over Britain

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Caviar crisis

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Plant blueprint

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CJD cash plea

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Nuclear meltdown

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Plagued by noise

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Full fat milk may prevent common cancers

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Rampant sex solves telephone traffic problem

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Bat virus stalks fruit pickers

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Mother Nature could break US clean air law

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Did cataclysm 'jump-start' the Gulf Stream?

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Pump up the volume

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'Red' genes get the green light

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Hormones blamed for sex-change fish

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Pegasus clings to its satellite cargo

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Scottish court case could unravel the Web

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Geologists in hot water as icecap springs a leak

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Lofty lab frozen out of climate studies

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Greedy patenting could starve poor of biotech promise

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Chinese deal sparks eugenics protests

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Opinion

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Speak, don't hold your peace

EXPORTING genetic know-how to a regime that sanctions eugenics is about as morally wholesome as selling Semtex to countries that sanction terrorism. Yet this uncomfortable idea seems to have bypassed some people. On 1 June 1995, a law came into effect in China forbidding couples diagnosed as having genetic diseases from marrying unless they agree …

Opinion

Lost in the global village

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Young blood NEW LIFE

IN A hi-tech laboratory in Uniondale, New York, two robots are busy working. Robot number one reaches over to a giant tower of plastic plates in which cells are happily growing, selects a plate and deftly squirts fluid into every chamber of the plate before returning it to its incubator. Then, robot number two muscles …

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How the parasite learnt to kill

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Trails of destruction

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Antipodes : Motorists in a political haze

CAR owners in the city have posed a real dilemma for our political masters. In the world of politics, an issue is important if voters think it is. It is quiet clear from a recent survey conducted in NSW that motorists see air pollution as the most important environmental problem facing Australia. Only 20 per …

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Thistle diary : Brickbats and sanctuaries for wildlife

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The story so far …

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Christmas books : … and the crawlies

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Christmas books : Confusing fact with fiction

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Bestsellers : from Oxford

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Christmas books : One flew over

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Feedback

THE BUTTERED cat array we featured on 19 October is still in the experimental stage. However, several readers have suggested modifications to the original proposal. The idea builds on the principle that a falling cat always lands feet downwards, while a falling slice of toast lands buttered-side down. Strap a slice of toast to the …

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