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January 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6715
- 96-96 Fuel additives put under scrutiny — again
by Tony Reichhardt - 96-96 Russian physicists may pay price of success
by Carl Levitin - 97-97 Global ‘eco-survey’ plan gets a rough ride
by Ehsan Masood - 101-101 Did agriculture cause the population explosion?
by Stephen G. Warren - 101-101 Did agriculture cause the population explosion?
by Roger Short - 101-101 French reforms would disrupt research
by Alain Bucheton - 101-101 Lab guidelines aim to prevent misconduct
by Torben Clausen - 103-104 Traffic lights at the Beringian crossroads
by Andrei Sher - 104-105 Checkpoint on the nuclear frontier
by Jonathon Pines - 105-108 A new twist in β-decay
by Wolfgang Stoeffl - 108-109 Modulation minimizes masking
by Brian C. J. Moore - 109-111 An anchor for activation
by Peter ten Dijke & Carl-Henrik Heldin - 111-111 A cultured brain
by David Jones - 112-112 Alan Hodgkin (1914-98)
by Trevor Lamb - 113-114 Lizards took express train to Polynesia
by Christopher C. Austin - 114-114 The first true inorganic fullerenes?
by P. A. Parilla & A. C. Dillon & K. M. Jones & G. Riker & D. L. Schulz & D. S. Ginley & M. J. Heben - 115-115 Length of tail streamers in barn swallows
by Anders Hedenström & Anders Pape Møller - 115-116 Length of tail streamers in barn swallows
by Matthew R. Evans - 116-116 Sign language ‘heard’ in the auditory cortex
by Hiroshi Nishimura & Kazuo Hashikawa & Katsumi Doi & Takako Iwaki & Yoshiyuki Watanabe & Hideo Kusuoka & Tsunehiko Nishimura & Takeshi Kubo - 117-118 Thinking about consciousness
by Paul E. Griffiths - 119-119 Ornithologist-watching
by John W. Fitzpatrick - 119-120 Mediaeval cures and casualties
by Vivian Nutton - 121-128 Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers
by R. H. Friend & R. W. Gymer & A. B. Holmes & J. H. Burroughes & R. N. Marks & C. Taliani & D. D. C. Bradley & D. A. Dos Santos & J. L. Brédas & M. Lögdlund & W. R. Salaneck - 129-134 A single myosin head moves along an actin filament with regular steps of 5.3 nanometres
by Kazuo Kitamura & Makio Tokunaga & Atsuko Hikikoshi Iwane & Toshio Yanagida - 135-137 The thermal imprint of galaxy formation on X-ray clusters
by Trevor J. Ponman & Damian B. Cannon & Julio F. Navarro - 137-139 Detection of environmental fine structure in the low-energy β-decay spectrum of 187Re
by F. Gatti & F. Fontanelli & M. Galeazzi & A. M. Swift & S. Vitale - 139-141 Lateral drag of spin coherence in gallium arsenide
by J. M. Kikkawa & D. D. Awschalom - 141-144 Entropic trapping of macromolecules by mesoscopic periodic voids in a polymer hydrogel
by Lei Liu & Pusheng Li & Sanford A. Asher - 144-146 A nanomechanical device based on the B–Z transition of DNA
by Chengde Mao & Weiqiong Sun & Zhiyong Shen & Nadrian C. Seeman - 146-149 Sulphidic Mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation
by Hilde F. Passier & Hendrik-Jan Bosch & Ivar A. Nijenhuis & Lucas J. Lourens & Michael E. Böttcher & Anke Leenders & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté & Gert J. de Lange & Jan W. Leeuw - 149-151 Evidence for an early opening of the Bering Strait
by Louie Marincovich & Andrey Yu. Gladenkov - 151-154 Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee
by Boris Baer & Paul Schmid-Hempel - 154-157 Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds
by Israel Nelken & Yaron Rotman & Omer Bar Yosef - 157-160 Kainate receptors mediate synaptic transmission between cones and ‘Off’ bipolar cells in a mammalian retina
by Steven H. DeVries & Eric A. Schwartz - 161-164 Kainate-receptor-mediated sensory synaptic transmission in mammalian spinal cord
by Ping Li & Timothy J. Wilding & Susan J. Kim & Amelita A. Calejesan & James E. Huettner & Min Zhuo - 164-168 The oncogene and Polycomb-group gene bmi-1 regulates cell proliferation and senescence through the ink4a locus
by Jacqueline J. L. Jacobs & Karin Kieboom & Silvia Marino & Ronald A DePinho & Maarten van Lohuizen - 168-171 Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
by U. Alon & M. G. Surette & N. Barkai & S. Leibler - 172-175 Nuclear localization of Cdc25 is regulated by DNA damage and a 14-3-3 protein
by Antonia Lopez-Girona & Beth Furnari & Odile Mondesert & Paul Russell - 176-180 Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
by Richard A. Alm & Lo-See L. Ling & Donald T. Moir & Benjamin L. King & Eric D. Brown & Peter C. Doig & Douglas R. Smith & Brian Noonan & Braydon C. Guild & Boudewijn L. deJonge & Gilles Carmel & Peter J. Tummino & Anthony Caruso & Maria Uria-Nickelsen & Debra M. Mills & Cameron Ives & Rene Gibson & David Merberg & Scott D. Mills & Qin Jiang & Diane E. Taylor & Gerald F. Vovis & Trevor J. Trust
January 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6714
- 3-3 US universities create bridges between physics and biology
by Laura Garwin - 3-3 France questions Israeli research deal
by Haim Watzman - 4-4 Eastern Europe still strapped for cash⃛
by Alison Abbott - 4-4 ...but much Hungarian biology is world class
by Alison Abbott - 5-5 Software problem delays US spacecraft's meeting with asteroid
by Tony Reichhardt - 5-5 Japanese budget boosts science funding
by Asako Saegusa - 6-6 Taking knowledge to the poorest
by David Dickson - 6-7 World Bank invests in global science base
by Ehsan Masood - 7-8 US spirit is willing, but funds are still weak
by Colin Macilwain - 8-9 Science moves up Europe's aid agenda
by Alison Abbott - 9-9 Technology and tradition clash in India
by K. S. Jayaraman - 10-11 Internet may help bridge the gap
by Declan Butler - 13-13 Money talks louder than research quality
by Michael Lee - 13-13 AIDS decision threatens drugs trials
by Arthur J. Ammann - 13-14 Lysenko took a dismal view of Malthus
by Sean Nee - 14-14 Beauty and the Bart Simpson effect
by Thomas Getty - 14-14 English versus Spanish in science evaluation
by Jesús Rey-Rocha & M. José Martín-Sempere & Fernando Lopez-Vera & Jesus Martinez-Frias - 15-18 Eighteen-ninety-nine and all that
by J. L. Heilbron & W. F. Bynum - 19-20 Mother and father in surprise genetic agreement
by Mark Pagel - 20-21 May the force be with you
by Patrick S. Stayton - 21-23 A shrike for mobility
by Peter D. Moore - 23-24 Colloidal culprits in contamination
by Bruce D. Honeyman - 25-25 New tool for Swiss army knife
by Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid - 25-27 Recruitment in space and time
by Peter F. Sale - 27-28 Making light of a dark situation
by Robert Willows - 28-28 Highly pointed remarks
by David Jones - 29-30 Timing the end of nocturnal sleep
by Jan Born & Kirsten Hansen & Lisa Marshall & Matthias Mölle & Horst L. Fehm - 30-31 Air traffic may increase cirrus cloudiness
by Olivier Boucher - 31-32 High metabolic rates in running birds
by Matthew W. Bundle & Hans Hoppeler & Ruth Vock & June M. Tester & Peter G. Weyand - 32-32 Reply: The Thomas Jefferson paternity case
by E. A. Foster & M. A. Jobling & P. G. Taylor & P. Donnelly & P. de Knijff & R. Mieremet & T. Zerjal & C. Tyler-Smith - 32-32 The Thomas Jefferson paternity case
by Gary Davis - 32-32 The Thomas Jefferson paternity case
by David M. Abbey - 33-33 Starry, starry night
by Owen Gingerich - 34-35 The wizard of Menlo Park
by Willem Hackmann - 35-36 Hypnotism and the rise of anaesthesia
by Ruth Richardson - 36-36 Mother love and its selective advantage
by Steve Stearns - 37-40 Brown dwarfs: the stars that failed
by C. G. Tinney - 41-43 A giant periodic flare from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14
by K. Hurley & T. Cline & E. Mazets & S. Barthelmy & P. Butterworth & F. Marshall & D. Palmer & R. Aptekar & S. Golenetskii & V. Il'Inskii & D. Frederiks & J. McTiernan & R. Gold & J. Trombka - 43-45 Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction
by J. J. A. Baselmans & A. F. Morpurgo & B. J. van Wees & T. M. Klapwijk - 45-48 Scaling of transition temperature and CuO2 plane buckling in a high-temperature superconductor
by O. Chmaissem & J. D. Jorgensen & S. Short & A. Knizhnik & Y. Eckstein & H. Shaked - 48-50 Molecular growth from a Mo176 to a Mo248 cluster
by A. Müller & Syed Q. N. Shah & H. Bögge & M. Schmidtmann - 50-53 Energy landscapes of receptor–ligand bonds explored with dynamic force spectroscopy
by R. Merkel & P. Nassoy & A. Leung & K. Ritchie & E. Evans - 53-56 The fate of subducted basaltic crust in the Earth's lower mantle
by Kei Hirose & Yingwei Fei & Yanzhang Ma & Ho-Kwang Mao - 56-59 Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site
by A. B. Kersting & D. W. Efurd & D. L. Finnegan & D. J. Rokop & D. K. Smith & J. L. Thompson - 59-63 Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef
by T. P. Hughes & A. H. Baird & E. A. Dinsdale & N. A. Moltschaniwskyj & M. S. Pratchett & J. E. Tanner & B. L. Willis - 63-66 Robust and optimal use of information in stereo vision
by John Porrill & John P. Frisby & Wendy J. Adams & David Buckley - 66-69 The protein MAP-1B links GABAC receptors to the cytoskeleton at retinal synapses
by Jonathan G. Hanley & Peter Koulen & Fiona Bedford & Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks & Stephen J. Moss - 69-72 GABAA-receptor-associated protein links GABAA receptors and the cytoskeleton
by Hongbing Wang & Fiona K. Bedford & Nicholas J. Brandon & Stephen J. Moss & Richard W. Olsen - 72-76 The AMPA receptor interacts with and signals through the protein tyrosine kinase Lyn
by Takashi Hayashi & Hisashi Umemori & Masayoshi Mishina & Tadashi Yamamoto - 76-80 A LIM-homeodomain combinatorial code for motor-neuron pathway selection
by Stefan Thor & Siv G. E. Andersson & Andrew Tomlinson & John B. Thomas - 80-84 A protochlorophyllide light-harvesting complex involved in de-etiolation of higher plants
by Christiane Reinbothe & Nikolai Lebedev & Steffen Reinbothe - 84-88 The imprinting box of the mouse Igf2r gene
by Yehudit Birger & Ruth Shemer & Jonathan Perk & Aharon Razin
December 1998, Volume 396, Issue 6713
- 711-711 Germany's nuclear secrets can now be told
by Quirin Schiermeier - 711-711 World Bank backs Third World centres of excellence plan
by Colin Macilwain - 712-712 Spanish university sued for favouritism⃛
by Xavier Bosch - 713-713 Europe bids for molecular biology ‘club’
by Alison Abbott - 713-713 South Korean researchers under fire for claims of human cloning
by Asako Saegusa - 714-714 Making a case in the corridors of power
by Natasha Loder - 714-715 Britain embraces ‘knowledge economy’
by Ehsan Masood - 715-715 Canadian whistleblower row prompts broader code of conduct
by David Spurgeon - 715-715 Foresight initiative goes for competitiveness
by Ehsan Masood - 718-718 Is Jerusalem the city in Rome's mural?
by Eric Lewin Altschuler - 718-718 Is Jerusalem the city in Rome's mural?
by Nicholas Purcell - 719-720 Longevity and the barren aristocrat
by Daniel E. L. Promislow - 720-721 Something stirs in the deep
by Peter Killworth - 721-723 Sounds in a virtual world
by Malcolm N. Semple - 723-723 It's good to talk
by Alison Mitchell - 724-725 Advanced fuels under debate
by G. L. Kulcinski & J. F. Santarius - 725-725 Brandy and cigars
by David Jones - 727-727 Frémiet's frenzy
by Martin Kemp - 729-730 Spines and tissues of ancient sharks
by M. I. Coates & S. E. K. Sequeira & I. J. Sansom & M. M. Smith - 730-730 Anoxic bioremediation of hydrocarbons
by John D. Coates & Royce A. Bruce & John D. Haddock - 731-731 Of snowflakes, symmetries and shells
by Edward Cox - 731-732 Life, the Universe and the single mollusc
by John Shepherd - 732-732 Africa's mistletoes ripe for the picking
by Jeremy Midgley - 733-735 Quantitative test of a microscopic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity
by Eugene Demler & Shou-Cheng Zhang - 735-737 Moisture-induced ageing in granular media and the kinetics of capillary condensation
by L. Bocquet & E. Charlaix & S. Ciliberto & J. Crassous - 738-740 Coherent moving states in highway traffic
by Dirk Helbing & Bernardo A. Huberman - 741-743 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 - 743-746 Human longevity at the cost of reproductive success
by Rudi G. J. Westendorp & Thomas B. L. Kirkwood - 747-749 Role of spectral detail in sound-source localization
by Abhijit Kulkarni & H. Steven Colburn - 749-753 Hedgehog stimulates maturation of Cubitus interruptus into a labile transcriptional activator
by Johanna Talavera Ohlmeyer & Daniel Kalderon - 753-756 Local calcium signalling by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate in Purkinje cell dendrites
by Elizabeth A. Finch & George J. Augustine - 757-760 A new class of synaptic response involving calcium release in dendritic spines
by Hajime Takechi & Jens Eilers & Arthur Konnerth
December 1998, Volume 396, Issue 6712
- 605-605 UN stands up for East German scientists
by Quirin Schiermeier - 605-605 More foreign research students stay in US to cash in on boom
by Colin Macilwain - 606-606 Budget block on US bid to rejoin Unesco⃛
by Ehsan Masood - 606-606 ⃛ as Australian minister hits out at agency over heritage sites
by Peter Pockley - 607-607 France's scientists rally to oppose Allègre's reforms
by Declan Butler - 607-607 UK set to back industrial spin-offs from research
by Natasha Loder - 608-608 Search hopes to detect laser signals from extraterrestrial life
by Steve Nadis - 608-608 Claims of hidden agenda on French waste
by Eric Glover - 609-609 European physicists split on new magnet
by Alison Abbott - 609-609 German standstill as fewer chairs available
by Tilmann Kiessling - 610-610 Italy backs Third World science body ⃛
by David Dickson - 610-610 ⃛ as African women get research career boost
by Natasha Loder - 611-611 Israeli industry asks for boost to R&D
by Haim Watzman - 614-614 Protest at Nobel omission of Moncada
by José Benjamín López Guillén & Eduardo A. Espinoza Fiallos & Ana Belén Castillo & Gustavo A. Vallejo & Jack R. Lancaster & Bo G. Malmström - 614-614 Bitter pill to swallow over medical education
by Hartmut H. Glossmann & Bernhard A. Peskar - 615-618 Benchmarking international research
by Jonathan Adams - 619-620 C-quest in the Amazon Basin
by I. Colin Prentice & Jon Lloyd - 620-621 The worm revealed
by Martin Chalfie - 621-623 The quirks of jerks
by M. A. R. Koehl - 623-624 The ABC of a versatile engine
by Michael J. Welsh & Andrew D. Robertson & Lynda S. Ostedgaard - 625-627 A protease draws first blood
by Matthew Bogyo & Hidde L. Ploegh - 627-628 An analogue of superfluid 3He
by Maurice Rice - 628-628 Smelly cats
by Sarah Tomlin - 629-630 Death deceiver
by Douglas R. Green - 630-631 The thymus in the age of retirement
by Hans-Reimer Rodewald - 631-631 Boxing the compass
by David Jones - 632-632 Nicholas Kurti (1908-98)
by W. Graham Richards - 633-633 Stilled splashes
by Martin Kemp - 635-636 Do all freshwater eels migrate?
by Katsumi Tsukamoto & Izumi Nakai & W-.V. Tesch - 636-636 Trick or treat from food endocannabinoids?
by Vincenzo Di Marzo & Nunzio Sepe & Luciano De Petrocellis & Alvin Berger & Gayle Crozier & Ester Fride & Raphael Mechoulam - 636-637 Trick or treat from food endocannabinoids?
by Massimiliano Beltramo & Daniele Piomelli - 637-638 Honeybees link sights to smells
by M. V. Srinivasan & S. W. Zhang & H. Zhu - 638-638 Immobile plasticizer in flexible PVC
by A. Jayakrishnan & S. Lakshmi - 639-639 The secret life of the Neanderthal
by Nicolaas A. Rupke - 639-640 An army of zombies
by Raymond J. Dolan - 640-641 Knowing your roots
by Simon Hillson - 641-642 Far beneath in the abysmal sea
by Martin Wells - 642-642 The cosmic rain
by David Miller - 643-649 Genetic instabilities in human cancers
by Christoph Lengauer & Kenneth W. Kinzler & Bert Vogelstein - 650-653 Coexisting conical bipolar and equatorial outflows from a high-mass protostar
by L. J. Greenhill & C. R. Gwinn & C. Schwartz & J. M. Moran & P. J. Diamond - 653-655 Experimental observation of relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering
by Szu-yuan Chen & Anatoly Maksimchuk & Donald Umstadter - 655-658 Electrostatically driven charge-ordering in Fe2OBO3
by J. P. Attfield & A. M. T. Bell & L. M. Rodriguez-Martinez & J. M. Greneche & R. J. Cernik & J. F. Clarke & D. A. Perkins - 658-660 Spin-triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 identified by 17O Knight shift
by K. Ishida & H. Mukuda & Y. Kitaoka & K. Asayama & Z. Q. Mao & Y. Mori & Y. Maeno - 661-664 Polysaccharide elasticity governed by chair–boat transitions of the glucopyranose ring
by Piotr E. Marszalek & Andres F. Oberhauser & Yuan-Ping Pang & Julio M. Fernandez - 664-667 Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems
by Hanqin Tian & Jerry M. Melillo & David W. Kicklighter & A. David McGuire & John V. K. Helfrich & Berrien Moore & Charles J. Vörösmarty - 667-670 Ratios of ferrous to ferric iron from nanometre-sized areas in minerals
by Laurence A. J. Garvie & Peter R. Buseck - 670-674 Mice lacking melanin-concentrating hormone are hypophagic and lean
by Masako Shimada & Nicholas A. Tritos & Bradford B. Lowell & Jeffrey S. Flier & Eleftheria Maratos-Flier - 674-679 GABAB receptors function as a heteromeric assembly of the subunits GABABR1 and GABABR2
by Kenneth A. Jones & Beth Borowsky & Joe A. Tamm & Douglas A. Craig & Margaret M. Durkin & Meng Dai & Wen-Jeng Yao & Mary Johnson & Caryn Gunwaldsen & Ling-Yan Huang & Cheng Tang & Quanrong Shen & John A. Salon & Kelley Morse & Thomas Laz & Kelli E. Smith & Dhanapalan Nagarathnam & Stewart A. Noble & Theresa A. Branchek & Christophe Gerald - 679-682 Heterodimerization is required for the formation of a functional GABAB receptor
by Julia H. White & Alan Wise & Martin J. Main & Andrew Green & Neil J. Fraser & Graham H. Disney & Ashley A. Barnes & Piers Emson & Steven M. Foord & Fiona H. Marshall - 683-687 GABAB-receptor subtypes assemble into functional heteromeric complexes
by Klemens Kaupmann & Barbara Malitschek & Valerie Schuler & Jakob Heid & Wolfgang Froestl & Pascal Beck & Johannes Mosbacher & Serge Bischoff & Akos Kulik & Ryuichi Shigemoto & Andreas Karschin & Bernhard Bettler - 687-690 Moderate loss of function of cyclic-AMP-modulated KCNQ2/KCNQ3 K+ channels causes epilepsy
by Björn C. Schroeder & Christian Kubisch & Valentin Stein & Thomas J. Jentsch - 690-695 Changes in thymic function with age and during the treatment of HIV infection
by Daniel C. Douek & Richard D. McFarland & Philip H. Keiser & Earl A. Gage & Janice M. Massey & Barton F. Haynes & Michael A. Polis & Ashley T. Haase & Mark B. Feinberg & John L. Sullivan# & Beth D. Jamieson & Jerome A. Zack & Louis J. Picker & Richard A. Koup - 695-699 An asparaginyl endopeptidase processes a microbial antigen for class II MHC presentation
by Bénédicte Manoury & Eric W. Hewitt & Nick Morrice & Pam M. Dando & Alan J. Barrett & Colin Watts - 699-703 Genomic amplification of a decoy receptor for Fas ligand in lung and colon cancer
by Robert M. Pitti & Scot A. Marsters & David A. Lawrence & Margaret Roy & Frank C. Kischkel & Patrick Dowd & Arthur Huang & Christopher J. Donahue & Steven W. Sherwood & Daryl T. Baldwin & Paul J. Godowski & William I. Wood & Austin L. Gurney & Kenneth J. Hillan & Robert L. Cohen & Audrey D. Goddard & David Botstein & Avi Ashkenazi - 703-707 Crystal structure of the ATP-binding subunit of an ABC transporter
by Li-Wei Hung & Iris Xiaoyan Wang & Kishiko Nikaido & Pei-Qi Liu & Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames & Sung-Hou Kim - 707-707 Visible viruses
by Martin Kemp - 707-707 Erratum: Crystal structure of a bacterial signal peptidase in complex with a β-lactam inhibitor
by Mark Paetzel & Ross E. Dalbey & Natalie C. J. Strynadka
December 1998, Volume 396, Issue 6711
- 499-499 Patent on gene fragment sends researchers a mixed message⃛
by Tony Reichhardt - 499-499 ⃛ as Germany hesitates over Brussels directive
by Tony Reichhardt - 500-500 ⃛ as review board asks DoE to think again
by Ehsan Masood - 500-500 Planned US nuclear repository ‘at risk’ ⃛
by Ehsan Masood - 501-501 Resignations hit French science reforms
by Declan Butler - 501-501 Japanese industry defies recession to spend more on research
by Asako Saegusa - 502-502 UK minister says sorry for science past
by Natasha Loder - 502-502 Mixed reaction to New Zealand reforms
by Peter Pockley - 503-503 Brazil's scientists fear ministry merger
by Ricardo Bonalume Neto - 503-503 Allow cloning in embryo research, says UK report
by Natasha Loder - 503-503 Monsanto set to back down over ‘terminator’ gene?
by Ehsan Masood - 504-504 US scientists may boycott AIDS congress
by Michael Cherry - 504-504 Palaeontologists divided over ‘stay at home’ policy for fossils
by Natasha Loder - 505-505 Animal rights activists turn the screw
by Quirin Schiermeier - 509-509 No room for complacency over climate
by David Fisk - 509-509 No room for complacency over climate
by Martin Parry & Matt Livermore & Mike Hulme & Nigel Arnell & Robert Nicholls - 509-509 Open up review system
by Bostjan Kobe - 509-509 Whose law for sharing research tools?
by Rudi Balling