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May 2001, Volume 411, Issue 6836
- 416-417 Good communications
by Michael D. Ehlers & Guoping Feng - 417-417 Betwixt and between
by John Lydon - 417-418 Flitting around the subject
by Peter Lawrence - 418-418 Chemical reflections
by Jacques Reisse - 419-419 Explanatory tyranny
by Timothy Taylor - 421-421 A question of scale
by Tamas Vicsek - 423-424 Almost Planet X
by S. C. Tegler & W. Romanishin - 424-425 Switching on kinesin
by Manfred Schliwa & Günther Woehlke - 425-427 Getting excited about helium
by Randall G. Hulet - 428-429 The short answer
by Brenda L. Bass - 429-431 Synthetic lessons from quinine
by Steven M. Weinreb - 431-433 Fertile forest experiments
by Eric A. Davidson & Adam I. Hirsch - 433-434 Learning from a fly's memory
by Randolf Menzel & Uli Müller - 434-435 Why vortices matter
by Peter Gammel - 435-435 Gas is for burning
by David Jones - 436-436 John Frank (Jack) Allen (1908–2001)
by Allan Griffin - 437-437 Converting currencies in the Old World
by Alfredo Mederos & C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky - 438-438 A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic
by L. Q. Ma & K. M. Komar & Cong Tu & Weihua Zhang & Yong Cai & E. D. Kennelley - 438-438 Mitochondrial control of fungal hybrid virulence
by Åke Olson & Jan Stenlid - 439-445 Switch-based mechanism of kinesin motors
by Masahide Kikkawa & Elena P. Sablin & Yasushi Okada & Hiroaki Yajima & Robert J. Fletterick & Nobutaka Hirokawa - 446-447 The size and albedo of the Kuiper-belt object (20000) Varuna
by David Jewitt & Herve Aussel & Aaron Evans - 448-451 An unusual phase transition to a second liquid vortex phase in the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7
by F. Bouquet & C. Marcenat & E. Steep & R. Calemczuk & W. K. Kwok & U. Welp & G. W. Crabtree & R. A. Fisher & N. E. Phillips & A. Schilling - 451-454 'Inverse' melting of a vortex lattice
by Nurit Avraham & Boris Khaykovich & Yuri Myasoedov & Michael Rappaport & Hadas Shtrikman & Dima E. Feldman & Tsuyoshi Tamegai & Peter H. Kes & Ming Li & Marcin Konczykowski & Kees van der Beek & Eli Zeldov - 454-457 Coherent transfer of Cooper pairs by a movable grain
by L. Y. Gorelik & A. Isacsson & Y. M. Galperin & R. I. Shekhter & M. Jonson - 457-460 The complex nature of superconductivity in MgB2 as revealed by the reduced total isotope effect
by D. G. Hinks & H. Claus & J. D. Jorgensen - 460-462 Constraints on hydrothermal processes and water exchange in Lake Vostok from helium isotopes
by Philippe Jean-Baptiste & Jean-Robert Petit & Vladimir Ya. Lipenkov & Dominique Raynaud & Nartsiss I. Barkov - 462-466 Earthquake triggering by seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine earthquakes
by J. Gomberg & P. A. Reasenberg & P. Bodin & R. A. Harris - 466-469 Limited carbon storage in soil and litter of experimental forest plots under increased atmospheric CO2
by William H. Schlesinger & John Lichter - 469-472 Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere
by Ram Oren & David S. Ellsworth & Kurt H. Johnsen & Nathan Phillips & Brent E. Ewers & Chris Maier & Karina V.R. Schäfer & Heather McCarthy & George Hendrey & Steven G. McNulty & Gabriel G. Katul - 472-473 An Early Cambrian tunicate from China
by D.-G. Shu & L. Chen & J. Han & X.-L. Zhang - 473-476 Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns
by Sheng He & Donald I. A. MacLeod - 476-480 Disruption of neurotransmission in Drosophila mushroom body blocks retrieval but not acquisition of memory
by Josh Dubnau & Lori Grady & Toshi Kitamoto & Tim Tully - 480-484 Leptin activates anorexigenic POMC neurons through a neural network in the arcuate nucleus
by Michael A. Cowley & James L. Smart & Marcelo Rubinstein & Marcelo G. Cerdán & Sabrina Diano & Tamas L. Horvath & Roger D. Cone & Malcolm J. Low - 484-489 Calmodulin bifurcates the local Ca2+ signal that modulates P/Q-type Ca2+ channels
by Carla D. DeMaria & Tuck Wah Soong & Badr A. Alseikhan & Rebecca S. Alvania & David T. Yue - 489-494 B cells acquire antigen from target cells after synapse formation
by Facundo D. Batista & Dagmar Iber & Michael S. Neuberger - 494-498 Duplexes of 21-nucleotide RNAs mediate RNA interference in cultured mammalian cells
by Sayda M. Elbashir & Jens Harborth & Winfried Lendeckel & Abdullah Yalcin & Klaus Weber & Thomas Tuschl - 498-501 Ribosomal peptidyl transferase can withstand mutations at the putative catalytic nucleotide
by Norbert Polacek & Marne Gaynor & Aymen Yassin & Alexander S. Mankin - 501-504 Microscopic origins of entropy, heat capacity and the glass transition in proteins
by Andrew L. Lee & A. Joshua Wand
May 2001, Volume 411, Issue 6835
- 3-3 Panning for gold
by Paul Smaglik - 4-5 The birthplace of biotech California
by Potter Wickware - 225-225 United States treads its own path on climate change
by Irwin Goodwin - 225-226 Espionage charges threaten to undermine research relations
by Laura Bonetta & David Cyranoski - 226-226 Record salmon populations disguise uncertain future
by Julie Wakefield - 227-227 Angry researchers pour scorn on astrology classes
by K. S. Jayaraman - 227-227 Californian labs feel the heat of energy crisis
by Rex Dalton - 228-228 Epidemiology gains an ally in bioweapons surveillance project
by Jonathan Knight - 228-228 Array system promises global atmospheric monitoring
by David Cyranoski - 229-229 Physicists put a value that matters on the standard model
by Josette Chen - 229-229 Fresh funding offers lifeline to bioinformatics centre
by Declan Butler & Alison Abbott - 229-229 Resuscitated 'alien' microbes stir up an Italian storm
by Alison Abbott - 232-235 The bugs of war
by Carina Dennis - 236-236 A fine set of threads
by David Adam - 237-237 Hero or villain? Stasi archives shed light on Russian scientist
by Uwe Hossfeld & Mark Walker - 237-237 Sorting out the Smiths
by Andrew Bradbury - 237-237 Health-funding boost not enough for Canada
by Ronald N. McElhaney - 239-240 Why science and religion need to talk
by Charles L. Harper - 240-241 Hopping through the Mathiverse
by Lisa Lehrer Dive & Andrew Irvine - 241-242 Affairs of the mind
by Steven Rose - 242-242 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 243-243 Sense and sensibility
by Robert Simmons - 245-245 Ecological forecasts
by Gretchen C. Daily - 247-248 Leaf sensor for CO2 in deep time
by Wolfram M. Kürschner - 248-249 Why is the cortex a slow learner?
by John Lisman & Richard Morris - 249-249 100 and 50 years ago
by Max Born - 251-252 A stellar performance
by Kevin B. Marvel - 252-252 Strain against the machine
by Josette Chen - 252-255 Snails, synapses and smokers
by Dennis A. Dougherty & Henry A. Lester - 255-256 Making head or tail of Dickkopf
by Roel Nusse - 256-256 Watching the wind
by David Jones - 257-258 Sex differences in vocal learning in birds
by Ayako Yamaguchi - 258-258 Phosphorus solubilization in rewetted soils
by Benjamin L. Turner & Philip M. Haygarth - 258-259 Foot-and-mouth disease under control in the UK
by Mark Woolhouse & Margo Chase-Topping & Daniel Haydon & John Friar & Louise Matthews & Gareth Hughes & Darren Shaw & John Wilesmith & Alex Donaldson & Stephen Cornell & Matthew Keeling & Bryan Grenfell - 259-260 Annotation of the Drosophila genome
by Samuel Karlin & Aviv Bergman & Andrew J. Gentles - 261-268 A glia-derived acetylcholine-binding protein that modulates synaptic transmission
by August B. Smit & Naweed I. Syed & Dick Schaap & Jan van Minnen & Judith Klumperman & Karel S. Kits & Hans Lodder & Roel C. van der Schors & René van Elk & Bertram Sorgedrager & KatjuS̆a Brejc & Titia K. Sixma & Wijnand P. M. Geraerts - 269-276 Crystal structure of an ACh-binding protein reveals the ligand-binding domain of nicotinic receptors
by KatjuS̆a Brejc & Willem J. van Dijk & Remco V. Klaassen & Mascha Schuurmans & John van der Oost & August B. Smit & Titia K. Sixma - 277-280 Spherical episodic ejection of material from a young star
by J. M. Torrelles & N. A. Patel & J. F. Gómez & P. T. P. Ho & L. F. Rodríguez & G. Anglada & G. Garay & L. Greenhill & S. Curiel & J. Cantó - 280-283 Observation of the ideal Josephson effect in superfluid 4He
by Kalyani Sukhatme & Yury Mukharsky & Talso Chui & David Pearson - 283-287 Conversion of silicon carbide to crystalline diamond-structured carbon at ambient pressure
by Yury Gogotsi & Sascha Welz & Daniel A. Ersoy & Michael J. McNallan - 287-290 A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles
by Gregory J. Retallack - 290-293 Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago
by U. Neff & S. J. Burns & A. Mangini & M. Mudelsee & D. Fleitmann & A. Matter - 293-296 Metamorphic devolatilization of subducted marine sediments and the transport of volatiles into the Earth's mantle
by D. M. Kerrick & J. A. D. Connolly - 296-298 Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird
by Christiaan Both & Marcel E. Visser - 298-302 Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm
by Nicole Dubilier & Caroline Mülders & Tim Ferdelman & Dirk de Beer & Annelie Pernthaler & Michael Klein & Michael Wagner & Christer Erséus & Frank Thiermann & Jens Krieger & Olav Giere & Rudolf Amann - 302-305 Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry
by Chris D. Jiggins & Russell E. Naisbit & Rebecca L. Coe & James Mallet - 305-309 Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events
by Adam K. Anderson & Elizabeth A. Phelps - 309-313 α-CaMKII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required for permanent memory
by Paul W. Frankland & Cara O'Brien & Masuo Ohno & Alfredo Kirkwood & Alcino J. Silva - 313-317 A new role for cryptochrome in a Drosophila circadian oscillator
by Balaji Krishnan & Joel D. Levine & M. Kathlea S. Lynch & Harold B. Dowse & Pablo Funes & Jeffrey C. Hall & Paul E. Hardin & Stuart E. Dryer - 317-321 Integrins mediate functional pre- and postsynaptic maturation at a hippocampal synapse
by Pascale Chavis & Gary Westbrook - 321-325 LDL-receptor-related protein 6 is a receptor for Dickkopf proteins
by Bingyu Mao & Wei Wu & Yan Li & Dana Hoppe & Peter Stannek & Andrei Glinka & Christof Niehrs - 325-330 The status of Wnt signalling regulates neural and epidermal fates in the chick embryo
by Sara Wilson & Anna Rydström & Tolleiv Trimborn & Karl Willert & Roel Nusse & Thomas M. Jessell & Thomas Edlund - 330-334 Mae mediates MAP kinase phosphorylation of Ets transcription factors in Drosophila
by David A. Baker & Blandine Mille-Baker & S. Mark Wainwright & David Ish-Horowicz & Nicholas J. Dibb - 335-335 Cancer
by Bernd Pulverer & Lesley Anson & Chris Surridge & Liz Allen - 336-341 Cancer genetics
by Bruce A. J. Ponder - 342-348 Proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis in cancer
by Gerard I. Evan & Karen H. Vousden - 349-354 The Hedgehog and Wnt signalling pathways in cancer
by Jussi Taipale & Philip A. Beachy - 355-365 Oncogenic kinase signalling
by Peter Blume-Jensen & Tony Hunter - 366-374 Genome maintenance mechanisms for preventing cancer
by Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers - 375-379 The microenvironment of the tumour–host interface
by Lance A. Liotta & Elise C. Kohn - 380-384 Progress in human tumour immunology and immunotherapy
by Steven A. Rosenberg - 385-389 Haematopoietic cell transplantation as immunotherapy
by Frederick R. Appelbaum - 390-395 Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade
by Julian Peto - 396-396 AstraZeneca and Cancer discovery from a global perspective
by Les Hughes
May 2001, Volume 411, Issue 6834
- 3-3 Women physicists needed
by Paul Smaglik - 4-5 High-energy physics
by Alexander Hellemans - 119-119 Reprieve for Smithsonian centre
by Corie Lok - 119-120 Stem-cell research in doubt as funders clash with government
by Alison Abbott - 120-120 Birthday meeting bemoans low profile of science office
by Steve Nadis - 120-120 Plans for missile defence system perturb physicists
by Irwin Goodwin - 121-121 Dissent grows over Helmholtz proposals
by Alison Abbott - 121-121 Mouse genome effort 'on course'
by Jonathan Knight - 122-122 Inquiry set up into Porton Down nerve-gas death
by David Adam - 122-122 Canada stakes claim on fusion energy project
by Rex Dalton - 123-123 Record donation from Silicon Valley pioneer goes to Stanford
by Jonathan Knight - 123-123 Europe brings experiments on chimpanzees to an end
by Sally Goodman - 126-128 Decisions, decisions..
by Bas Kast - 129-130 Private investigations
by Rex Dalton - 131-131 Particle physicists need a common objective
by Albrecht Wagner - 131-131 Science should help teach children the meaning of humanity
by Greg Kontos - 131-132 No campaign to strip Baltimore of his Nobel
by James D. Watson - 132-132 Philanthropists are paying their dues
by Ben A. Barres - 132-132 How inbreeding affects productivity in Europe
by Manuel Soler - 133-134 The hidden meanings of maps
by Catherine Delano-Smith - 134-135 Telling it like it really is
by David L. Hull - 135-136 Voyager's treasures lost and found
by John Gascoigne - 136-136 Mastermind of the bird world
by Matthias Glaubrecht - 137-137 Floral tributes
by H. W. Lack - 139-139 A light and a dark side
by Thomas Elbert & Sabine Heim - 141-142 Evolving ideas of brain evolution
by Jon H. Kaas & Christine E. Collins - 142-143 The Indonesian valve
by James D. Wright - 143-145 Developmental circuits rewired
by Eörs Szathmáry - 145-146 Young stars go cruising by
by Gibor Basri - 147-149 Hip-hopping out of control
by David E. Symer & Judith Bender - 149-150 Sex and the X
by Laurence D. Hurst - 150-151 Shock delay
by Elizabeth Harding Hearn - 151-152 Beyond the spherical cow
by John Doyle - 152-152 The art of spinning
by David Jones - 153-154 Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound
by Sheila N. Patek - 154-154 Signals from mature to new leaves
by J. A. Lake & W. P. Quick & D. J. Beerling & F. I. Woodward - 155-155 How old are bacteria from the Permian age?
by Robert M. Hazen & Edwin Roedder - 155-156 How old are bacteria from the Permian age?
by Dennis W. Powers & Russell H. Vreeland & William D. Rosenzweig - 156-156 Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod
by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe & Paul Connolly - 157-162 Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3–4 million years ago
by Mark A. Cane & Peter Molnar - 163-166 Evidence for planet engulfment by the star HD82943
by G. Israelian & N. C. Santos & M. Mayor & R. Rebolo - 166-170 A complementarity experiment with an interferometer at the quantum–classical boundary
by P. Bertet & S. Osnaghi & A. Rauschenbeutel & G. Nogues & A. Auffeves & M. Brune & J. M. Raimond & S. Haroche - 170-174 Semiconducting non-molecular nitrogen up to 240 GPa and its low-pressure stability
by Mikhail I. Eremets & Russell J. Hemley & Ho-kwang Mao & Eugene Gregoryanz - 174-176 A prototype storage ring for neutral molecules
by Floris M.H. Crompvoets & Hendrick L. Bethlem & Rienk T. Jongma & Gerard Meijer - 176-180 Evidence against dust-mediated control of glacial–interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2
by B. A. Maher & P. F. Dennis - 180-183 Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer
by Andrew M. Freed & Jian Lin - 183-186 Emperor penguins and climate change
by Christophe Barbraud & Henri Weimerskirch - 186-189 Host recognition by the tobacco hornworm is mediated by a host plant compound
by Marta L. del Campo & Carol I. Miles & Frank C. Schroeder & Caroline Mueller & Ronald Booker & J. Alan Renwick - 189-193 Scalable architecture in mammalian brains
by Damon A. Clark & Partha P. Mitra & Samuel S.-H. Wang - 193-195 An evolutionary scaling law for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical function
by Charles F. Stevens - 195-199 Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation
by Frank Tong & Stephen A. Engel - 199-204 Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome
by David E. Reich & Michele Cargill & Stacey Bolk & James Ireland & Pardis C. Sabeti & Daniel J. Richter & Thomas Lavery & Rose Kouyoumjian & Shelli F. Farhadian & Ryk Ward & Eric S. Lander - 204-207 The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association
by Enrique Martinez-Perez & Peter Shaw & Graham Moore - 207-211 Phagocytosis and clearance of apoptotic cells is mediated by MER
by Rona S. Scott & Eileen J. McMahon & Shannon M. Pop & Elizabeth A. Reap & Roberto Caricchio & Philip L. Cohen & H. Shelton Earp & Glenn K. Matsushima - 212-214 Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis
by Asuka Miura & Shoji Yonebayashi & Koichi Watanabe & Tomoko Toyama & Hiroaki Shimada & Tetsuji Kakutani - 215-219 The structural basis of Arfaptin-mediated cross-talk between Rac and Arf signalling pathways
by C. Tarricone & B. Xiao & N. Justin & P. A. Walker & K. Rittinger & S. J. Gamblin & S. J. Smerdon - 219-219 Erratum: Drought-induced guard cell signal transduction involves sphingosine-1-phosphate
by Carl K.-Y. Ng & Kathryn Carr & Martin R. McAinsh & Brian Powell & Alistair M. Hetherington - 219-219 Erratum: BRI1 is a critical component of a plasma-membrane receptor for plant steroids
by Zhi-Yong Wang & Hideharu Seto & Shozo Fujioka & Shigeo Yoshida & Joanne Chory
May 2001, Volume 411, Issue 6833
- 3-3 Bills threaten total US ban on human cloning
by Meredith Wadman - 3-3 Active solutions for PhDs
by Paul Smaglik - 3-4 Study says authors are averse to declaring conflicts of interest
by Jonathan Knight - 4-4 Pasteur turns to biotech firms in bid to revitalize research
by Sally Goodman - 4-4 Congress hints at brighter outlook for physical science
by Irwin Goodwin - 5-5 Dispute over digital music muzzles academic
by Corie Lok - 5-5 Electronic ink for current issues
by Declan Butler - 6-6 Funding crisis could spell the end for millimetre telescope
by Rex Dalton - 6-6 Professors facing power cuts in German university reforms
by Marco Jäger & Quirin Schiermeier - 7-7 Researchers strike back in animal-rights row
by David Adam - 7-7 Fungus fingered as dogwood disappears from forests
by Mark Schrope - 10-12 On the trail of the neutrino
by Dan Falk - 13-14 The youth team
by Josette Chen - 15-15 Who will fill the gap by making nucleic synthesizers now?
by David M. J. Lilley & Michael Gait & Fritz Eckstein - 15-15 Outbreak needs lab tests and clinical diagnosis
by Hugh M. Pirie - 15-15 Fossil hunters in dispute over Ethiopian sites
by Horst Seidler - 17-19 What is 'dangerous' climate change?
by Stephen H. Schneider - 21-22 Volcanic irony
by William I. Rose - 22-22 Too faint a flavour?
by Peter Waterman - 23-24 Who guards the guardians?
by Nicholas Zarimpas & Jean Pascal Zanders & Zdzislaw Lachowski - 24-24 Science in culture
by Philip Ball - 25-25 Newton in Japan
by Scott L. Montgomery - 27-27 Here be no dragons
by David Ruelle - 29-30 Wiping out dirty displays
by Jos van Haaren - 30-31 Unspinning the web
by Jeff Hasty & James J. Collins - 31-33 A new twist on neutron stars
by Chris Fryer & Stan Woosley - 33-33 Asymmetry in action
by Amanda Tromans - 34-35 Hybrid costs avoided
by Dennis Hasselquist - 35-38 Dopamine receptors get a boost
by Francis J. White - 38-39 Hard-cored continents
by Andrew A. Nyblade - 39-40 Resistance of a perfect wire
by Albert M. Chang - 40-40 Scroll-reading
by David Jones - 41-42 Lethality and centrality in protein networks
by H. Jeong & S. P. Mason & A.-L. Barabási & Z. N. Oltvai - 42-43 Progenitor cells from human brain after death
by Theo D. Palmer & Philip H. Schwartz & Philippe Taupin & Brian Kaspar & Stuart A. Stein & Fred H. Gage - 43-43 Refraction of a particle beam
by Patric Muggli & Seung Lee & Thomas Katsouleas & Ralph Assmann & Franz-Joseph Decker & Mark J. Hogan & Richard Iverson & Pantaleo Raimondi & Robert H. Siemann & Dieter Walz & Brent Blue & Christopher E. Clayton & Evan Dodd & Ricardo A. Fonseca & Roy Hemker & Chandrashekhar Joshi & Kenneth A. Marsh & Warren B. Mori & Shoquin Wang - 44-44 Chaperonin turned insect toxin
by Naofumi Yoshida & Kenji Oeda & Eijiro Watanabe & Toshiyuki Mikami & Yoshikazu Fukita & Keiichiro Nishimura & Koichiro Komai & Kazuhiko Matsuda - 45-50 Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers
by Thor Veen & Thomas Borge & Simon C. Griffith & Glenn-Peter Saetre & Stanislav Bures & Lars Gustafsson & Ben C. Sheldon - 51-54 Four-terminal resistance of a ballistic quantum wire
by R. de Picciotto & H. L. Stormer & L. N. Pfeiffer & K. W. Baldwin & K. W. West