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March 1997, Volume 386, Issue 6621
- 97-97 Texan goes gunning for US role in LHC
by Colin Macilwain - 97-98 Politicians accused of 'shooting from the hip' on human cloning
by Meredith Wadman - 98-98 UK embryo research law 'may need changes'
by David Dickson - 99-99 Mars risks are low but not zero, says NRC
by Tony Reichhardt - 99-99 ESA pulls back from 'fair shares' funding
by Alison Abbott - 100-100 Japan bids to widen brain research funds
by Richard Nathan - 100-100 Task force will review US science policy
by Colin Macilwain - 101-101 BSE surveillance and safety measures still found wanting
by Declan Butler - 101-101 'Poor security' blamed for loss of Russian fossils
by Carl Levitin - 102-102 Physicist takes top Korean science post
by David Swinbanks - 102-102 California agency charged with delaying toxin reports
by Sally Lehrman - 102-102 CERN raises funds for antimatter detector
by Alison Abbott - 103-103 Economic impact of MIT spin-offs larger than Thailand's GDP
by Steve Nadis - 103-103 US seeks greenhouse gas cuts from the Third World
by Ehsan Masood - 105-106 Fisheries science: all at sea when it comes to politics?
by Ehsan Masood - 106-106 Scientists set sail in search of influence
by Ehsan Masood - 107-107 Canada's cod leaves science in hot water
by David Spurgeon - 108-108 Researchers bring fishermen on board
by Steve Nadis - 109-109 Aquaculture: a solution, or source of new problems?
by Ehsan Masood - 110-110 Fishing by numbers reveals its limits
by Ehsan Masood - 111-111 Plant modification needs more discussion
by John R. Porter - 111-111 Plutonium disposal
by Maurizio Martellini - 112-112 Japanese grant system needs more resources
by Fumimaro Takaku - 112-113 Alphabets and citations
by Jan Alexander & Julian Andrews - 113-113 No knife needed
by L. D. Hyslop - 114-114 The earliest Americans
by Frederick Hadleigh West - 114-114 Public support for medical research
by Mary Woolley - 114-114 Novel paper titles
by Jeremy Sanders - 114-114 Passing the buck
by Ambuj Sagar & Paul de Sa - 115-118 Woodstock of physics revisited
by Paul M. Grant - 119-119 Clone mammals... clone man?
by Axel Kahn - 121-122 True vision of a quantum state
by Matthias Freyberger & Wolfgang P. Schleich - 122-123 Look but don't touch, or vice versa
by Michael Shadlen - 123-125 Fractal resistance in a transistor
by Mark Fromhold - 126-126 100 years ago
by Arthur Keith - 126-127 Proviruses pose potential problems
by Jonathan P. Stoye - 127-129 The negative side of crystal growth
by Paul Calvert & Stephen Mann - 129-130 Lipids beyond the bilayer
by Ben de Kruijff - 130-130 Think the good thought!
by David Jones - 131-133 The use and abuse of climate models
by Kevin E. Trenberth - 135-135 Electroluminescence in polymer films
by David G. Lidzey & Donal D. C. Bradley & Santos F. Alvarado & Paul F. Seidler - 135-136 Adaptation of colour vision to sunlight
by G. Jordan & J. D. Mollon - 137-137 Is scrapie solely a genetic disease?
by N. Hunter & D. Cairns & J. D. Foster & G. Smith & W. Goldmann & K. Donnelly - 137-138 Assembly of Borromean rings from DNA
by Chengde Mao & Weiqiong Sun & Nadrian C. Seeman - 139-140 The war against cancer
by John Cairns - 140-141 The comet cometh
by Alan Fitzsimmons - 141-141 Through a glass, historically
by G.L'E. Turner - 141-142 Ribozymes to the fore
by Bob Symons - 143-149 Photonic crystals: putting a new twist on light
by J. D. Joannopoulos & Pierre R. Villeneuve & Shanhui Fan - 150-153 Measurement of the Wigner function of an ensemble of helium atoms
by Ch. Kurtsiefer & T. Pfau & J. Mlynek - 154-156 Origin of asteroid rotation rates in catastrophic impacts
by Stanley G. Love & Thomas J. Ahrens - 156-159 Colossal magnetoresistance in Cr-based chalcogenide spinels
by A. P. Ramirez & R. J. Cava & J. Krajewski - 159-162 Clocking transient chemical changes by ultrafast electron diffraction
by J. Charles Williamson & Jianming Cao & Hyotcherl Ihee & Hans Frey & Ahmed H. Zewail - 162-164 Three-dimensional self-assembly of millimetre-scale components
by Andreas Terfort & Ned Bowden & George M. Whitesides - 164-167 Spurious trends in satellite MSU temperatures from merging different satellite records
by James W. Hurrell & Kevin E. Trenberth - 167-170 Coding of intention in the posterior parietal cortex
by L. H. Snyder & A. P. Batista & R. A. Andersen - 170-173 Self-centring activity of cytoplasm
by Vladimir I. Rodionov & Gary G. Borisy - 173-177 A proton-gated cation channel involved in acid-sensing
by Rainer Waldmann & Guy Champigny & Frédéric Bassilana & Catherine Heurteaux & Michel Lazdunski - 177-181 Ras signalling linked to the cell-cycle machinery by the retinoblastoma protein
by Daniel S. Peeper & Todd M. Upton & Mohamed H. Ladha & Elizabeth Neuman & Juan Zalvide & René Bernards & James A. DeCaprio & Mark E. Ewen - 181-186 A family of proteins that inhibit signalling through tyrosine kinase receptors
by Alexei Kharitonenkov & Zhengjun Chen & Irmi Sures & Hongyang Wang & James Schilling & Axel Ullrich - 187-190 Phosphorylation of RNA-binding protein controls cell cycle switch from mitotic to meiotic in fission yeast
by Yoshinori Watanabe & Satoko Shinozaki-Yabana & Yuji Chikashige & Yasushi Hiraoka & Masayuki Yamamoto - 190-194 Crystal structure of the type-I interleukin-1 receptor complexed with interleukin-1β
by Guy P. A. Vigers & Lana J. Anderson & Patricia Caffes & Barbara J. Brandhuber - 194-200 A new cytokine-receptor binding mode revealed by the crystal structure of the IL-1 receptor with an antagonist
by Herman Schreuder & Chantal Tardif & Susanne Trump-Kallmeyer & Adolfo Soffientini & Edoardo Sarubbi & Ann Akeson & Terry Bowlin & Stephen Yanofsky & Ronald W. Barrett - 200-200 Erratum: Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells
by I. Wilmut & A. E. Schnieke & J. McWhir & A. J. Kind & K. H. S. Campbell
March 1997, Volume 386, Issue 6620
- 3-3 Tritium leak at US reactor sparks crisis for neutron source users
by Colin Macilwain - 4-4 British universities face up to their day of reckoning
by David Dickson - 5-5 Heat rises over Brussels FP5 proposals
by Alison Abbott - 5-5 Lack of focus 'holds back European research'
by Alun Anderson - 6-6 AIDS drug row embroils health minister
by Michael Cherry - 6-6 Data network threatens patient privacy
by Declan Butler - 7-7 US scientists rally around call for seven per cent
by Colin Macilwain - 7-7 India proposes first increase for six years
by K. S. Jayaraman - 7-7 NASA head predicts space station delay
by Tony Reichhardt - 8-9 Calls for cloning ban sell science short
by Declan Butler & Meredith Wadman - 9-9 Putting the lid on Pandora's box of genetics
by Declan Butler & Meredith Wadman - 12-12 Flawed reasoning about oil and gas
by Maurice B. Dusseault - 12-12 Roslin unfunded
by Grahame Bulfield - 13-13 Footloose managers run away from research
by Robert L. Fleischer - 13-13 One for the fairies?
by Ralph Estling - 13-13 No Greenpeace 'hijack'
by Chris Rose - 14-14 Humour should be taken seriously
by Audrey Wells - 14-14 The's' in Unesco
by Michel Batisse - 14-14 Science and emotion
by Mark A. Gillman - 15-16 Contending for the dead
by D. Gareth Jones & Robyn J. Harris - 17-17 Memorizing the floral ABC
by Gerd Jürgens - 18-19 Growing up in a two-parent family?
by Jack J. Lissauer - 19-21 Predicting the present
by Patrick Cavanagh - 21-22 Very small arrays
by Devens Gust - 22-23 The how and why of thermal contraction
by Robert W. Cahn - 25-26 Mice perform a human repertoire
by Michael Neuberger & Marianne Brüggemann - 26-27 Who needs crystals anyway?
by David J. De Rosier - 27-28 The uses of strong and weak lenses
by Joachim Wambsganss - 28-28 Thinking makes it so!
by David Jones - 29-29 Natural and artificial 'singing' sands
by Douglas E. Goldsack & Marcel F. Leach & Cindi Kilkenny - 29-30 Human haemoglobin from transgenic tobacco
by Wilfrid Dieryck & Josée Pagnier & Claude Poyart & Michael C. Marden & Véronique Gruber & Philippe Bournat & Sylvie Baudino & Bertrand Mérot - 30-31 Laser measurements of coral growth
by R. Vago & E. Gill & J. C. Collingwood - 31-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by Vit Lauermann - 32-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by Shu-Chun Teng & Abram Gabriel - 32-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by James E. Haber & J. Kent Moore - 33-33 Cinemagmatic mayhem
by Jonathan Fink - 34-34 The golden age of chemistry
by David knight - 35-35 In retrospect chosen by Keith Stewart Thomson
by Keith Stewart Thomson - 35-36 Elementary cycling
by Mike Whitfield - 36-36 Microbes writ large
by Roger Whittenbury - 37-43 The physics of microwave background anisotropies
by Wayne Hu & Naoshi Sugiyama & Joseph Silk - 44-51 A Polycomb-group gene regulates homeotic gene expression in Arabidopsis
by Justin Goodrich & Preeya Puangsomlee & Marta Martin & Deborah Long & Elliot M. Meyerowitz & George Coupland - 52-54 A candidate dust disk surrounding the binary stellar system BD+31°643
by Paul Kalas & David Jewitt - 54-56 High-energy ions produced in explosions of superheated atomic clusters
by T. Ditmire & J. W. G. Tisch & E. Springate & M. B. Mason & N. Hay & R. A. Smith & J. Marangos & M. H. R. Hutchinson - 57-59 Assembly of ordered colloidal aggregrates by electric-field-induced fluid flow
by Syun-Ru Yeh & Michael Seul & Boris I. Shraiman - 59-61 Predominance of vertical loss of carbon from surface waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean
by Dennis A. Hansell & Nicholas R. Bates & Craig A. Carlson - 61-64 GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya
by Roger Bilham & Kristine Larson & Jeffrey Freymueller - 64-66 Confined subsurface microbial communities in Cretaceous rock
by Lee R. Krumholz & James P. McKinley & Glenn A. Ulrich & Joseph M. Suflita - 66-69 Visual decomposition of colour through motion extrapolation
by Romi Nijhawan - 69-73 Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale
by Stelios M. Smirnakis & Michael J. Berry & David K. Warland & William Bialek & Markus Meister - 73-77 An endothelial receptor for oxidized low-density lipoprotein
by Tatsuya Sawamura & Noriaki Kume & Takuma Aoyama & Hideaki Moriwaki & Hajime Hoshikawa & Yuichi Aiba & Takeshi Tanaka & Soichi Miwa & Yoshimoto Katsura & Toru Kita & Tomoh Masaki - 78-81 Spontaneous calcification of arteries and cartilage in mice lacking matrix GLA protein
by Guangbin Luo & Patricia Ducy & Marc D. McKee & Gerald J. Pinero & Evelyne Loyer & Richard R. Behringer & Gérard Karsenty - 81-84 Osteopetrosis in mice lacking haematopoietic transcription factor PU.1
by M. M. Tondravi & S. R. McKercher & K. Anderson & J. M. Erdmann & M. Quiroz & R. Maki & S. L. Teitelbaum - 84-87 Homeosis and intestinal tumours in Cdx2 mutant mice
by K. Chawengsaksophak & R. James & V. E. Hammond & F. Köntgen & F. Beck - 88-91 Determination of the fold of the core protein of hepatitis B virus by electron cryomicroscopy
by B. Böttcher & S. A. Wynne & R. A. Crowther - 91-94 Visualization of a 4-helix bundle in the hepatitis B virus capsid by cryo-electron microscopy
by J. F. Conway & N. Cheng & A. Zlotnick & P. T. Wingfield & S. J. Stahl & A. C. Steven
February 1997, Volume 385, Issue 6619
- 755-755 Confidentiality of academy panel challenged by environmentalists
by David Kramer - 755-755 US decision 'will not limit gene patents'
by Claire O'Brien - 756-756 High-level ethics committee 'needed to guide genetics policy'
by Meredith Wadman - 756-756 Marijuana research gets backing at NIH
by Meredith Wadman - 757-757 Cloning technique 'reveals legal loophole'
by Ehsan Masood - 757-757 Japan decides to burn plutonium stocks
by David Swinbanks - 758-758 Abortion foe blamed for research head upset in Australia
by Peter Pockley - 758-758 Holland picks 'superleague' plan, despite criticisms
by Declan Butler - 759-759 Basic research gets bipartisan treatment
by Colin Macilwain - 759-759 Budget 'windfall' may tempt Canadian researchers back home
by David Spurgeon - 760-760 Russian rocket offer holds key to Cluster relaunch
by Alison Abbott - 760-760 Abbott sues Chiron over 'secrets' in heads of recruits
by Sally Lehrman - 760-760 Germany may relax animal experiment rules
by Alun Anderson - 761-761 Culture clash tarnishes the image of star laboratory
by Quirin Schiermeier - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by Sachi Sri Kantha - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by G. Fewer - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by Janet Carter-Sigglow - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by N. Umakantha - 765-765 A call to action from the lab bench
by Michelle Peckham - 767-768 The world's oldest spears
by Robin Dennell - 768-769 New physics at last?
by David Miller - 769-771 An udder way of making lambs
by Colin Stewart - 771-771 Why lizards can't turn a blind eye
by Alison Mitchell - 772-772 Many fingers make light work
by Jonathon Mamin - 773-775 Mutations make enzyme polymerize
by M. F. Perutz - 775-776 One of our planets is missing
by Gordon Walker - 776-776 Heard the one about the guinea pig?
by Alison Mitchell - 776-777 Case studies of extinction
by Paul H. Harvey & Robert M. May - 777-777 The sap also bubbles
by David Jones - 778-778 Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97) Astronomer who discovered the Solar System's ninth planet
by S. Alan Stern - 779-780 A new look at old sharks
by John G. Maisey & Marcelo R. de Carvalho - 780-780 A pivotal Archaea group
by S. Burggraf & P. Heyder & N. Eis - 780-781 Fullerene 'crop circles'
by Jie Liu & Hongjie Dai & Jason H. Hafner & Daniel T. Colbert & Richard E. Smalley & Sander J. Tans & Cees Dekker - 781-782 Plants combat infection by gene silencing
by Simon N. Covey & Nadia S. Al-Kaff & Amagoia Lángara & David S. Turner - 782-782 Evening carbon atom oddities
by Matthew Kaser - 782-782 Evening carbon atom oddities
by Peter G. Stanley - 783-784 Struggles to beat the system
by David Joravsky - 785-785 All done by mirrors
by Simon Altmann - 785-786 Crunchy brains
by Stephen J. Simpson - 786-786 Infinite possibilities
by Joseph Silk - 787-793 Instability, unfolding and aggregation of human lysozyme variants underlying amyloid fibrillogenesis
by David R. Booth & Margaret Sunde & Vittorio Bellotti & Carol V. Robinson & Winston L. Hutchinson & Paul E. Fraser & Philip N. Hawkins & Christopher M. Dobson & Sheena E. Radford & Colin C. F. Blake & Mark B. Pepys - 795-796 Absence of a planetary signature in the spectra of the star 51 Pegasi
by David F. Gray - 797-799 Uniform elemental analysis of materials by sputtering and photoionization mass spectrometry
by Chun He & Julian N. Basler & Christopher H. Becker - 799-801 Induction of molecular asymmetry by a remote chiral group
by Patrick Linnane & Nicholas Magnus & Philip Magnus - 801-804 Eccentricity forcing of Pliocene–Early Pleistocene climate revealed in a marine oxygen-isotope record
by Steven C. Clemens & Ralf Tiedemann - 804-807 Vegetation-induced warming of high-latitude regions during the Late Cretaceous period
by Bette L. Otto-Bliesner & Garland R. Upchurch - 807-810 Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany
by Hartmut Thieme - 810-813 Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells
by I. Wilmut & A. E. Schnieke & J. McWhir & A. J. Kind & K. H. S. Campbell - 813-815 Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children
by Lori Markson & Paul Bloom - 815-819 A cGMP-gated cation channel in depolarizing photoreceptors of the lizard parietal eye
by J. T. Finn & E. C. Solessio & K.-W. Yau - 820-823 Insensitivity to anaesthetic agents conferred by a class of GABAA receptor subunit
by Paul A. Davies & Mike C. Hanna & Tim G. Hales & Ewen F. Kirkness - 823-826 Mechanism of resistance of African trypanosomes to cytotoxic human HDL
by Kristin M. Hager & Stephen L. Hajduk - 826-829 Hrs-2 is an ATPase implicated in calcium-regulated secretion
by Andrew J. Bean & Roland Seifert & Yu A. Chen & Rachel Sacks & Richard H. Scheller - 829-833 pangolinencodes a Lef-1 homologue that acts downstream of Armadillo to transduce the Wingless signal in Drosophila
by Erich Brunner & Oliver Peter & Liang Schweizer & Konrad Basler - 833-838 Crystal structure of the anthrax toxin protective antigen
by Carlo Petosa & R. John Collier & Kurt R. Klimpel & Stephen H. Leppla & Robert C. Liddington
February 1997, Volume 385, Issue 6618
- 663-663 Japan's successful launch paves way for interplanetary missions
by David Swinbanks - 664-664 Chemists urge US to ratify weapons pact
by Tony Reichhardt - 664-664 Europe reshuffles its scientific committees following BSE crisis
by Declan Butler - 665-665 EU research plan fails to charm critics
by Alison Abbott - 666-666 ... as privatization windfall fills research coffers
by Alun Anderson - 666-666 EMBO panel gives biology in Finland a pat on the back ..
by Alison Abbott - 667-667 Chair of GMO panel resigns over maize
by Declan Butler - 668-668 Sceptics and salmon challenge scientists
by Colin Macilwain - 669-669 Whistleblowers face blast of hostility
by Colin Macilwain - 669-669 Marconi's daughter sends out distress call about collection
by Claire O'Brien - 672-672 Improvement welcome
by Peter Morley - 672-672 Patent threat to research
by Howard Dalton & Brian Goodwin & Mae-Wan Ho & Jacqueline McGlade & Ghillean Prance & Peter Saunders & David Sherratt & John Maynard Smith & Roger Whittenbury - 672-672 Improvement welcome
by Philip W. Anderson - 672-672 Not such a bad book
by David M.J. Lilley - 673-674 A crisis in scientific morale
by Robert Pollack - 675-676 A new age for type-II superconductors?
by David R. Nelson - 676-677 Different means to common ends
by David Shore - 677-679 The nose leads the eye
by Geoffrey H. Gold & Edward N. Pugh - 679-679 Plus c'est le même chews
by Stephen Battersby - 680-680 Restricting gene inactivation to a subset of neurons
by Richard G. M. Morris & Roger J. Morris - 680-681 Memory floxed
by Richard G. M. Morris & Roger J. Morris - 681-683 Cool tropical punch of the ice ages
by Christopher Charles - 684-685 Blocking adenoslne with antisense
by Peter J. Richardson