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May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6734
- 288-288 Britain backs biotech, seeks tougher regulation
by Ehsan Masood - 288-288 South Africa reveals plans to make AIDS a notifiable disease
by Michael Cherry - 289-289 Charges fly in $1bn hormone patent battle
by Rex Dalton - 290-290 Australian geologists left reeling by budget cuts⃛
by Peter Pockley - 290-290 Europe seeks greater role for women on key advisory panels
by Alison Abbott - 290-290 ⃛ while New Zealand research gets thin rations
by Peter Pockley - 291-291 NIH strives to keep resource sharing alive
by Meredith Wadman - 291-291 Hubble spots giant cyclonic storm on Mars
by Ehsan Masood - 292-292 Ethicists urge funding for extraction of embryo cells
by Meredith Wadman - 292-292 Europe's molecular biologists could join global e-journal plan
by Declan Butler - 293-293 Tokyo meeting airs problems of international space collaboration
by Asako Saegusa - 293-293 NASA beefs up life science involvement
by Tony Reichhardt - 297-297 Alarm raised over elephant ivory trade
by Katy Payne & Iain Douglas-Hamilton & Cynthia Moss & Joyce Poole - 297-297 Guidelines point the way on genetics ethics
by Dorothy C. Wertz - 297-298 Genentech stands by original data
by Dennis J. Henner & David V. Goeddel & Herbert Heyneker & Keiichi Itakura & Daniel Yansura & Michael Ross & Giuseppe Miozzari - 298-298 Innocents suffer as rogue regime rapped
by Qais Al-Awqati - 298-298 Science powerhouse of Central America
by Jorge Cortés - 298-298 Statement from Peter Seeburg
by Peter H. Seeburg - 299-301 Will biomedicine outgrow support?
by M. F. Perutz - 303-305 Reinventing the engine
by Steven L. Garrett - 305-307 When one eye is better than two
by Mandyam V. Srinivasan - 307-308 Plate tectonics on Mars?
by Dan McKenzie - 308-309 A message from the gonads
by Donald L. Riddle - 311-312 Taking the frustration out of ice
by Mark Harris - 312-313 Virus on virus infects bacterium
by Ronald K. Taylor - 313-314 Warming without high CO2?
by Benjamin P. Flower - 314-314 Untrue feelings
by David Jones - 315-316 Topology in chaotic scattering
by David Sweet & Edward Ott & James A. Yorke - 316-316 Rainfall characteristics of hurricane Mitch
by Jon Hellin & Martin Haigh & Frank Marks - 316-317 Analysis of telomere lengths in cloned sheep
by Paul G. Shiels & Alexander J. Kind & Keith H. S. Campbell & David Waddington & Ian Wilmut & Alan Colman & Angelika E. Schnieke - 317-318 Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period?
by Gareth J. Dyke & Gerald Mayr - 318-318 Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period?
by Thomas A. Stidham - 319-320 Grain of truth in fears of biotechnology
by John Mugabe - 320-321 A call for unification
by Nicholas Rescher - 321-321 Non-sectarian structure
by Richard A. L. Jones - 322-322 The Universe and everything
by Ray Carlberg - 322-322 Why can't people be more like bats?
by Laurent Excoffier - 323-329 Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima
by Karen E. Nelson & Rebecca A. Clayton & Steven R. Gill & Michelle L. Gwinn & Robert J. Dodson & Daniel H. Haft & Erin K. Hickey & Jeremy D. Peterson & William C. Nelson & Karen A. Ketchum & Lisa McDonald & Teresa R. Utterback & Joel A. Malek & Katja D. Linher & Mina M. Garrett & Ashley M. Stewart & Matthew D. Cotton & Matthew S. Pratt & Cheryl A. Phillips & Delwood Richardson & John Heidelberg & Granger G. Sutton & Robert D. Fleischmann & Jonathan A. Eisen & Owen White & Steven L. Salzberg & Hamilton O. Smith & J. Craig Venter & Claire M. Fraser - 330-332 The inevitable youthfulness of known high-redshift radio galaxies
by Katherine M. Blundell & Steve Rawlings - 333-335 Zero-point entropy in ‘spin ice’
by A. P. Ramirez & A. Hayashi & R. J. Cava & R. Siddharthan & B. S. Shastry - 335-338 A thermoacoustic Stirling heat engine
by S. Backhaus & G. W. Swift - 338-340 Weak surface anchoring of liquid crystals
by G. P. Bryan-Brown & E. L. Wood & I. C. Sage - 340-342 Epitaxial diamond growth on sapphire in an oxidizing environment
by Mamoru Yoshimoto & Kenji Yoshida & Hideaki Maruta & Yoshiko Hishitani & Hideomi Koinuma & Shigeru Nishio & Masato Kakihana & Takeshi Tachibana - 342-345 A large and abrupt fall in atmospheric CO2 concentration during Cretaceous times
by Marcel M. M. Kuypers & Richard D. Pancost & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté - 345-350 Large-scale chemical and thermal division of the Pacific mantle
by I. Vlastélic & D. Aslanian & L. Dosso & H. Bougault & J. L. Olivet & L. Géli - 350-354 A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China
by Xing Xu & Zhi-lu Tang & Xiao-lin Wang - 354-359 Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems
by Bernd Blasius & Amit Huppert & Lewi Stone - 359-362 Auditory collusion and a coupled couple of outer hair cells
by Hong-Bo Zhao & J. Santos-Sacchi - 362-366 Signals from the reproductive system regulate the lifespan of C. elegans
by Honor Hsin & Cynthia Kenyon - 366-370 The homeobox gene Phox2b is essential for the development of autonomic neural crest derivatives
by Alexandre Pattyn & Xavier Morin & Harold Cremer & Christo Goridis & Jean-FranÇois Brunet - 371-375 Clathrin self-assembly is mediated by a tandemly repeated superhelix
by Joel A. Ybe & Frances M. Brodsky & Kay Hofmann & Kai Lin & Shu-Hui Liu & Lin Chen & Thomas N. Earnest & Robert J. Fletterick & Peter K. Hwang - 375-379 A bacteriophage encoding a pathogenicity island, a type-IV pilus and a phage receptor in cholera bacteria
by David K. R. Karaolis & Sita Somara & David R. Maneval & Judith A. Johnson & James B. Kaper - 379-383 Structure of Cdc42 in complex with the GTPase-binding domain of the ‘Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome’ protein
by Norzehan Abdul-Manan & Behzad Aghazadeh & Grace A. Liu & Ananya Majumdar & Ouathek Ouerfelli & Katherine A. Siminovitch & Michael K. Rosen - 384-388 Structure of the small G protein Cdc42 bound to the GTPase-binding domain of ACK
by Helen R. Mott & Darerca Owen & Daniel Nietlispach & Peter N. Lowe & Edward Manser & Louis Lim & Ernest D. Laue
May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6733
- 185-185 Big boost demanded for France's life sciences
by Declan Butler - 185-186 French geneticists raise worries over use of new genome funds
by Declan Butler - 186-186 Increase in German science budget a boon for women and youth
by Alison Abbott - 187-187 Europe keeps space science budget level
by Alison Abbott - 187-187 Britain finds money to renew infrastructure
by Natasha Loder - 188-188 UK debates public's role in science advice
by David Dickson - 188-188 Royal Society: GM food hazard claim is ‘flawed’
by Natasha Loder - 189-189 More US labs may curb visits by foreigners
by Colin Macilwain - 189-189 University museum seeks independence
by Rex Dalton - 190-190 ⃛ as basic scientists feel the pinch in LA
by Meredith Wadman - 190-190 NIH ethics office clamps down on Duke ⃛
by Meredith Wadman - 191-191 Japan's fast-breeder loses money fast too
by Asako Saegusa - 191-191 Chinese reform pushes R&D into market
by Tian Xuewen - 195-195 Stand up for the rights of professors too
by F. W. Taylor - 195-195 Cancer fellowships awarded on merit
by Ruggero Montesano & Norman Breslow - 195-195 Grim reality of war⃛ and plans for the peace
by Stefano Casalotti - 195-195 Grim reality of war⃛ and plans for the peace
by Ian Blake - 195-195 Cancer fellowships awarded on merit
by John Cairns - 197-198 What price ergonomics?
by Neville A. Stanton & Mark S. Young - 199-200 A shared but complex bridge
by Robert E. Kingston - 200-203 Only a matter of time
by Ken Peach - 203-204 Many vessels, faulty gene
by William G. Kaelin - 204-207 Dead end for neurodegeneration?
by Christian Haass - 207-207 Glasses go critical
by Philip Ball - 207-208 Excursions in geomagnetism
by C. G. Langereis - 208-210 Snail mail to the nucleus
by Iain W. Mattaj & Elena Conti - 210-211 A recipe for strength
by Paul Calvert - 211-212 Rain Man's revelations
by Niels Birbaumer - 212-212 Shear chemistry
by David Jones - 213-213 Birds extend their ranges northwards
by Chris D. Thomas & Jack J. Lennon - 214-214 Transgenic pollen harms monarch larvae
by John E. Losey & Linda S. Rayor & Maureen E. Carter - 214-215 The mystery of female beauty
by J. T. Manning & R. L. Trivers & D. Singh & R. Thornhill - 215-216 The mystery of female beauty
by M. J. Tovée & P. L. Cornelissen - 216-216 The mystery of female beauty
by Douglas W. Yu & Glenn H. Shepard - 217-218 Looping the evolutionary loop
by Gabby Dover - 218-219 An expletive in academia
by Malcolm Coe - 219-219 Dip into the century's technological past
by Henry Petroski - 220-220 A bragger's guide to fuzzy objects
by Stephen P. Maran - 220-220 Tale of two disciplines
by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - 221-229 Structure of importin-β bound to the IBB domain of importin-α
by Gino Cingolani & Carlo Petosa & Karsten Weis & Christoph W. Müller - 230-237 Structure of the nuclear transport complex karyopherin-β2–Ran˙GppNHp
by Yuh Min Chook & Günter Blobel - 238-241 Observation of quasiparticles with one-fifth of an electron's charge
by M. Reznikov & R. de Picciotto & T. G. Griffiths & M. Heiblum & V. Umansky - 241-243 Two types of avalanche behaviour in granular media
by Adrian Daerr & Stéphane Douady - 243-246 Desorption–ionization mass spectrometry on porous silicon
by Jing Wei & Jillian M. Buriak & Gary Siuzdak - 246-249 Growing range of correlated motion in a polymer melt on cooling towards the glass transition
by Christoph Bennemann & Claudio Donati & Jörg Baschnagel & Sharon C. Glotzer - 249-252 Global changes in intensity of the Earth's magnetic field during the past 800 kyr
by Yohan Guyodo & Jean-Pierre Valet - 252-255 Nature of the Earth's earliest crust from hafnium isotopes in single detrital zircons
by Yuri Amelin & Der-Chuen Lee & Alex N. Halliday & Robert T. Pidgeon - 255-258 A complete human pelvis from the Middle Pleistocene of Spain
by Juan-Luis Arsuaga & Carlos Lorenzo & José-Miguel Carretero & Ana Gracia & Ignacio Martínez & Nuria García & José-María Bermúdez de Castro & Eudald Carbonell - 258-261 Relative risk of extinction of passerine birds on continents and islands
by Lisa L. Manne & Thomas M. Brooks & Stuart L. Pimm - 261-263 Non-commutativity in the brain
by Douglas B. Tweed & Thomas P. Haslwanter & Vera Happe & Michael Fetter - 263-267 Inhibition of caspase-1 slows disease progression in a mouse model of Huntington's disease
by Victor O. Ona & Mingwei Li & Jean Paul G. Vonsattel & L. John Andrews & Sohail Q. Khan & Woosik M. Chung & Ariel S. Frey & Anil S. Menon & Xiao-Jiang Li & Philip E. Stieg & Junying Yuan & John B. Penney & Anne B. Young & Jang-Ho J. Cha & Robert M. Friedlander - 267-271 In vivo cell sorting in complementary segmental domains mediated by Eph receptors and ephrins
by Qiling Xu & Georg Mellitzer & Vicky Robinson & David G. Wilkinson - 271-275 The tumour suppressor protein VHL targets hypoxia-inducible factors for oxygen-dependent proteolysis
by Patrick H. Maxwell & Michael S. Wiesener & Gin-Wen Chang & Steven C. Clifford & Emma C. Vaux & Matthew E. Cockman & Charles C. Wykoff & Christopher W. Pugh & Eamonn R. Maher & Peter J. Ratcliffe - 276-279 Mammalian Srb/Mediator complex is targeted by adenovirus E1A protein
by Thomas G. Boyer & Michelle E. D. Martin & Emma Lees & Robert P. Ricciardi & Arnold J. Berk - 280-280 Erratum: Elasticity and rheology of iron above 220 GPa and the nature of the Earth's inner core
by Ho-kwang Mao & Jinfu Shu & Guoyin Shen & Russell J. Hemley & Baosheng Li & Anil K. Singh
May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6732
- 91-91 Quake-spotting ‘telescope’ may map North American continent
by Rex Dalton - 91-91 Search for a key to secrets of the Universe
by Ehsan Masood - 92-92 US stem-cell pioneers buy ‘Dolly’ cloning company
by Meredith Wadman - 92-92 ‘Sell the message of research’, Europe's cell biologists urged
by Alison Abbott - 93-93 Battery fault ends X-ray satellite mission
by Alison Abbott - 93-93 French unions hopeful of delaying reforms until after consultation
by Eric Glover - 94-94 Australia boosts medical research, but keeps other budgets level
by Peter Pockley - 94-94 Funding penalty for cross-boundary work
by Natasha Loder - 95-95 NSF told to ease up cost-share demands
by Colin Macilwain - 95-95 Future of Spectrum X mission still cloudy
by Alison Abbott - 96-96 Drug company backs Africa's war on AIDS
by Meredith Wadman - 96-96 Japan bids to catch up on gene sequencing
by Asako Saegusa - 97-97 Science advice test in UK devolution vote
by Ehsan Masood - 101-101 Too many agencies spoil Euro research
by Carlo Gambacorti-Passerini - 101-101 Building the future of biocomputing
by Mark Gerstein - 101-101 The right prescription for preclinical teaching
by H. Peter Soyer & Birger Kränke & Thomas Petnehazy & Stefan Scheidl - 101-101 Phenology and the changing seasons
by John Worrall - 103-104 Dinosaur tracks in the computer age
by Kevin Padian - 104-105 Radon and rock deformation
by Evelyn Roeloffs - 105-105 The planet factory
by Sarah Tomlin - 105-108 Calmodulin at the channel gate
by Michael D. Ehlers & George J. Augustine - 108-109 The hard problem of carbonitrides
by Barry M. Klein - 109-111 Mixed metabolism in plant pools
by Peter D. Moore - 111-112 Neither too loud nor too quiet
by Dimitri M. Kullmann - 112-112 Cultured diamonds
by David Jones - 113-114 Myopia and ambient lighting at night
by Graham E. Quinn & Chai H. Shin & Maureen G. Maguire & Richard A. Stone - 114-114 Superconductors under stress
by Laurens Jansen & Ruud Block - 114-115 Polar gigantism dictated by oxygen availability
by Gauthier Chapelle & Lloyd S. Peck - 115-116 No role for colour in symmetry perception
by Dawn Morales & Harold Pashler - 117-118 A fantasia of biological feminism
by Olivia Judson - 118-119 A chemistry textbook hero
by Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds - 119-120 Quantum behaviour
by David P. DiVincenzo - 120-120 Science in culture
by Duncan Dallas - 121-124 Supersonic winds in Jupiter's aurorae
by Daniel Rego & Nicholas Achilleos & Tom Stallard & Steve Miller & Renée Prangé & Michele Dougherty & Robert D. Joseph - 124-126 Efficient fault-tolerant quantum computing
by Andrew M. Steane - 126-130 Three-dimensional orientation measurements of symmetric single chromophores using polarization microscopy
by S. A. Empedocles & R. Neuhauser & M. G. Bawendi - 130-132 Size and form in efficient transportation networks
by Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan & Andrea Rinaldo - 132-134 Electronic mechanism of hardness enhancement in transition-metal carbonitrides
by Seung-Hoon Jhi & Jisoon Ihm & Steven G. Louie & Marvin L. Cohen - 134-137 Near-field probing of vibrational absorption for chemical microscopy
by B. Knoll & F. Keilmann - 137-141 Radon emanation and electric potential variations associated with transient deformation near reservoir lakes
by M. Trique & P. Richon & F. Perrier & J. P. Avouac & J. C. Sabroux - 141-144 Three-dimensional preservation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs
by Stephen M. Gatesy & Kevin M. Middleton & Farish A. Jenkins Jr & Neil H. Shubin - 144-148 Evolution of genetic mechanisms controlling petal development
by Elena M. Kramer & Vivian F. Irish - 148-151 The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition
by Etienne Koechlin & Gianpaolo Basso & Pietro Pietrini & Seth Panzer & Jordan Grafman - 151-155 Synaptic calcium transients in single spines indicate that NMDA receptors are not saturated
by Zachary F. Mainen & Roberto Malinow & Karel Svoboda - 155-159 Ca2+/calmodulin binds to and modulates P/Q-type calcium channels
by Amy Lee & Scott T. Wong & Daniel Gallagher & Bin Li & Daniel R. Storm & Todd Scheuer & William A. Catterall - 159-162 Calmodulin supports both inactivation and facilitation of L-type calcium channels
by Roger D. Zühlke & Geoffrey S. Pitt & Karl Deisseroth & Richard W. Tsien & Harald Reuter - 162-166 A cytosolic catalase is needed to extend adult lifespan in C. elegans daf-C and clk-1 mutants
by James Taub & Joe F. Lau & Charles Ma & Jang Hee Hahn & Rafaz Hoque & Jonathan Rothblatt & Martin Chalfie - 166-169 Gene silencing in Neurospora crassa requires a protein homologous to RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
by Carlo Cogoni & Giuseppe Macino - 175-176 Out of the lab and into the marketplace
by Brendan Horton - 176-176 First write your business plan
by Brendan Horton - 177-177 Singapore aims to become a hot spot for life sciences
by David Swinbanks - 177-178 ‘Venture fever’ grips Asian economies
by David Swinbanks - 178-178 China's scientists tap offshore funds
by David Swinbanks - 179-179 Taiwan targets biotechnology
by David Swinbanks - 179-180 End of the brain drain could be in sight
by Potter Wickware - 181-182 How to win venture-capital financing
by Diane Gershon - 182-182 Funding brings high-risk technologies to the marketplace
by Diane Gershon
May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6731
- 3-3 Clinton pledges to smooth path of research at universities
by Colin Macilwain - 3-3 UK failing to reap neuroscience rewards
by Ehsan Masood - 4-4 France seeks scientists’ views on reform
by Declan Butler - 4-4 Germany says it will come on board Earth observation mission
by Alison Abbott - 5-5 Berkeley dispute festers over biotech deal
by Rex Dalton - 5-5 Embattled neuroscientist wins US support
by Alison Abbott - 6-6 Global R&D spread clouds locaal analyses
by Declan Butler - 7-7 Australians seek international allies in battle over uranium mine
by Peter Pockley - 7-7 GM advisory panel is slanted, say critics
by Meredith Wadman - 8-8 EU warns on growth-hormone cancer risk
by Meredith Wadman - 8-9 Mixed response to NIH's web journal plan
by Declan Butler & Meredith Wadman - 9-9 Automation ‘could crack the big problems in science’
by Colin Macilwain - 13-13 Cloning claims challenged
by Davor Solter - 13-13 Inequities in German research system
by Stefan Jähnichen & Klaus-Robert Müller - 13-13 Editors’ responsibility in defeating fraud
by Michael M. Meguid - 13-13 Inequities in German research system
by Michael Cross - 14-14 From youthful PMs to presidents who walk tall
by Jeremy Stangroom - 14-14 Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments
by David Tilman - 14-14 Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments
by Olof Andrén & Holger Kirchmann & Olle Pettersson - 15-16 Diamondoids and oil are not forever
by Martin Schoell & Robert M. K. Carlson - 16-17 A calcium window to the gut
by G. David S. Hirst - 17-18 From vortices to genomics
by Terence Hwa - 19-20 A spine to remember
by Per Andersen - 21-22 The magnetic turnabout
by Olivier Kahn - 23-23 Laying it on thick
by Sarah Tomlin - 24-24 Heard but not seen
by John Whitfield - 24-25 Stone legacy of skilled hands
by James Steele - 25-25 Adhesive antibodies
by David Jones - 26-26 David Phillips (1924—99)
by Louise N. Johnson & Gregory A. Petsko - 27-27 Naked foraminiferans revealed
by Jan Pawlowski & Ignacio Bolivar & José Fahrni & Colomban de Vargas & Samuel S. Bowser - 28-28 A stimulatory phalloid organ in a weaver bird
by M. Winterbottom & T. Burke & T. R. Birkhead - 28-29 Green processing using ionic liquids and CO2
by Lynnette A. Blanchard & Dan Hancu & Eric J. Beckman & Joan F. Brennecke