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September 1998, Volume 395, Issue 6697
- 4-4 US drive to speed trials for rare disorders
by Meredith Wadman - 4-4 NSF director backs environment studies
by Colin Macilwain - 5-5 China brings in regulations to put a stop to ‘genetic piracy’
by David Dickson - 5-5 Call for UK genetics food watchdog
by Ehsan Masood - 6-7 Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep
by Declan Butler - 7-7 Urgent need for faster diagnostic test
by Declan Butler - 9-9 Make space for levity
by Dan Nagle - 9-9 Citation heaven
by Brian Dean - 9-9 Too intelligent for our own good
by Alan Longhurst & Ken Caldeira - 9-9 Religious belief doesn't weaken scientific mind
by Raul Camba - 11-12 Vocal gymnastics and the bird brain
by Franz Goller - 12-13 Where the weirdness comes from
by Peter Knight - 13-15 Has the smart bomb been defused?
by Steven P. Linke - 15-16 Cosmic rays without end
by Michael Hillas - 17-19 Debatable homologies
by Diethard Tautz - 19-20 Orbits of all sorts
by Donald G. Saari - 20-20 Things that go bump in the night sky
by Stephen Battersby - 20-21 Columns, slabs and pinwheels
by Nigel W. Daw - 21-21 A tale of two tails
by David Bentley - 22-22 Zero-tolerance policing
by David Jones - 23-23 Heezen's highlands
by Martin Kemp - 25-25 Promiscuity in transgenic plants
by Joy Bergelson & Colin B. Purrington & Gale Wichmann - 25-26 Resistance to the herbicide glyphosate
by Stanley Robert & Ute Baumann - 26-27 Turning off follicular dendritic cells
by Fabienne Mackay & Jeffrey L. Browning - 27-28 Nerve agents degraded by enzymatic foams
by Keith E. LeJeune & James R. Wild & Alan J. Russell - 28-28 Nematode phylogeny and embryology
by D. A. Voronov & Yu. V. Panchin & S. E. Spiridonov - 29-30 Sir Oran Haut-ton finds his voice
by Robert Seyfarth - 30-31 Trials and errors
by Jon Turney - 31-32 A cold fish among the trilobites
by Richard Fortey - 32-32 Animal analysts who know their plays
by Marc Mangel - 33-37 Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity probed by a ‘which-way’ experiment in an atom interferometer
by S. Dürr & T. Nonn & G. Rempe - 37-44 A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses
by Li I. Zhang & Huizhong W. Tao & Christine E. Holt & William A. Harris & Mu-ming Poo - 45-47 Constraints on the Hubble constant from observations of the brightest red-giant stars in a Virgo-cluster galaxy
by William E. Harris & Patrick R. Durrell & Michael J. Pierce & Jeff Secker - 47-50 A Cepheid distance to the Fornax cluster and the local expansion rate of the Universe
by Barry F. Madore & Wendy L. Freedman & N. Silbermann & Paul Harding & John Huchra & Jeremy R. Mould & John A. Graham & Laura Ferrarese & Brad K. Gibson & Mingsheng Han & John G. Hoessel & Shaun M. Hughes & Garth D. Illingworth & Randy Phelps & Shoko Sakai & Peter Stetson - 51-53 Most smooth closed space curves contain approximate solutions of the n-body problem
by Gregory Buck - 53-55 Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity
by D. G. Lidzey & D. D. C. Bradley & M. S. Skolnick & T. Virgili & S. Walker & D. M. Whittaker - 56-58 A transient liquid-like phase in the displacement cascades of zircon, hafnon and thorite
by A. Meldrum & S. J. Zinkle & L. A. Boatner & R. C. Ewing - 58-61 Contribution of hurricanes to local and global estimates of air–sea exchange of CO2
by Nicholas R. Bates & Anthony H. Knap & Anthony F. Michaels - 62-65 Seismic evidence for a lower-mantle origin of the Iceland plume
by Yang Shen & Sean C. Solomon & Ingi Th. Bjarnason & Cecily J. Wolfe - 65-67 Microbiological evidence for Fe(III) reduction on early Earth
by Madeline Vargas & Kazem Kashefi & Elizabeth L. Blunt-Harris & Derek R. Lovley - 67-71 The role of nonlinear dynamics of the syrinx in the vocalizations of a songbird
by Michale S. Fee & Boris Shraiman & Bijan Pesaran & Partha P. Mitra - 71-73 When temporal terms belie conceptual order
by Thomas F. Münte & Kolja Schiltz & Marta Kutas - 73-78 Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development
by F. Wolf & T. Geisel - 78-82 lin-14 regulates the timing of synaptic remodelling in Caenorhabditis elegans
by Steven J. Hallam & Yishi Jin - 82-86 Three-dimensional segregation of supramolecular activation clusters in T cells
by Colin R. F. Monks & Benjamin A. Freiberg & Hannah Kupfer & Noah Sciaky & Abraham Kupfer - 86-89 Yeast G1 cyclins are unstable in G1 phase
by Brandt L. Schneider & E. Elizabeth Patton & Stefan Lanker & Michael D. Mendenhall & Curt Wittenberg & Bruce Futcher & Mike Tyers - 89-93 DNA hypomethylation leads to elevated mutation rates
by Richard Z. Chen & Ulf Pettersson & Caroline Beard & Laurie Jackson-Grusby & Rudolf Jaenisch - 93-96 RNA polymerase II is an essential mRNA polyadenylation factor
by Yutaka Hirose & James L. Manley
August 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6696
- 817-817 Rethink urged on Framework programme
by Alison Abbott - 817-817 Arizona professor files lawsuit after being fired for misconduct
by Rex Dalton - 818-818 NIH institute to work with trial of AIDS vaccine, despite concerns
by Meredith Wadman - 818-818 Prisoners' DNA database ruled unlawful
by Sally Lehrman - 819-819 DuPont opens up access to genetics tool
by Meredith Wadman - 819-819 German transgenic crop trials face attack
by Quirin Schiermeier - 820-820 Spending spree propels Finland towards top of research league
by Alison Abbott - 820-820 Ocean drilling project fishes for members
by Peter Pockley - 821-821 Outcry as ‘scientific’ badger cull is launched to target TB
by Ehsan Masood - 821-821 India's short cow drags Roslin Institute into controversy
by K.S. Jayaraman - 823-823 Tougher crackdown on fraud needed
by Paolo del Guercio - 823-823 Modified animal feeds must be put to the test
by Pantelis E. Zoiopoulos - 825-826 White dwarfs sing the blues
by Harvey B. Richer - 826-827 The secrets of faces
by Magnus Enquist & Stefano Ghirlanda - 827-829 A deficit vanished
by Steven N. Ward - 829-830 Cinderella factors have a ball
by Richard J. Jackson - 831-831 Fetal fascination
by Marie-Thérèse Heemels - 831-833 Brownian motion and microscopic chaos
by Detlef Dürr & Herbert Spohn - 833-834 Sheep in wolves' clothing
by Graeme D. Ruxton - 834-835 Down with novelty
by Richard G. M. Morris - 835-836 Bedazzled by flowers
by Nick Waser & Lars Chittka - 836-836 Total protection
by David Jones - 837-837 Modelled moons
by Martin Kemp - 839-839 The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales
by Adrian C. Barbrook & Christopher J. Howe & Norman Blake & Peter Robinson - 839-840 Green-wave phenology
by Mark D. Schwartz - 840-841 A posteriori teleportation
by Samuel L. Braunstein & H. J. Kimble - 841-841 A posteriori teleportation
by D. Bouwmeester & J.-W. Pan & M. Daniell & H. Weinfurter & M. Zukowski & A. Zeilinger - 842-842 DNA methylation models histone acetylation
by S. Eden & T. Hashimshony & I. Keshet & H. Cedar & A. W. Thorne - 843-844 Anyone for tenets?
by Walter Gratzer - 844-845 How to avoid making a fortune in medicine
by Jean Lindenmann - 845-846 The king of rocking roles
by Robert Muir-Wood - 846-846 Monk-y puzzles
by Andrew Bremner - 847-853 Simulated influence of carbon dioxide, orbital forcing and ice sheets on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum
by Andrew J. Weaver & Michael Eby & Augustus F. Fanning & Edward C. Wiebe - 854-859 Eukaryotic ribosomes require initiation factors 1 and 1A to locate initiation codons
by Tatyana V. Pestova & Sergei I. Borukhov & Christopher U. T. Hellen - 860-862 Old and blue white-dwarf stars as a detectable source of microlensing events
by Brad M. S. Hansen - 862-865 A symmetrically pulsed jet of gas from an invisible protostar in Orion
by Hans Zinnecker & Mark J. McCaughrean & John T. Rayner - 865-868 Experimental evidence for microscopic chaos
by P. Gaspard & M. E. Briggs & M. K. Francis & J. V. Sengers & R. W. Gammon & J. R. Dorfman & R. V. Calabrese - 868-871 Controlling local disorder in self-assembled monolayers by patterning the topography of their metallic supports
by Joanna Aizenberg & Andrew J. Black & George M. Whitesides - 871-874 Decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic seas to the deep Atlantic Ocean
by Sheldon Bacon - 874-878 Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise
by S. C. Singh & G. M. Kent & J. S. Collier & A. J. Harding & J. A. Orcutt - 878-881 The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field over the past 160 million years
by M. T. Juárez & L. Tauxe & J. S. Gee & T. Pick - 882-884 The evolution of warning signals
by Shigeo Yachi & Masahiko Higashi - 884-887 Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness
by D. I. Perrett & K. J. Lee & I. Penton-Voak & D. Rowland & S. Yoshikawa & D. M. Burt & S. P. Henzi & D. L. Castles & S. Akamatsu - 887-891 Separate body- and world-referenced representations of visual space in parietal cortex
by Lawrence H. Snyder & Kenneth L. Grieve & Peter Brotchie & Richard A. Andersen - 891-894 Spatial exploration induces a persistent reversal of long-term potentiation in rat hippocampus
by Lin Xu & Roger Anwyl & Michael J. Rowan - 894-897 Decreased lesion formation in CCR2−/− mice reveals a role for chemokines in the initiation of atherosclerosis
by Landin Boring & Jennifa Gosling & Michael Cleary & Israel F. Charo - 897-901 Leptin modulates the T-cell immune response and reverses starvation-induced immunosuppression
by Graham M. Lord & Giuseppe Matarese & Jane K. Howard & Richard J. Baker & Stephen R. Bloom & Robert I. Lechler - 901-904 Csk controls antigen receptor-mediated development and selection of T-lineage cells
by Christian Schmedt & Kaoru Saijo & Tetsuhiro Niidome & Ralf Kühn & Shinichi Aizawa & Alexander Tarakhovsky - 904-908 FGF-mediated mesoderm induction involves the Src-family kinase Laloo
by Daniel C. Weinstein & Jennifer Marden & Francesca Carnevali & Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou - 909-913 Smad3 and Smad4 cooperate with c-Jun/c-Fos to mediate TGF-β-induced transcription
by Ying Zhang & Xin-Hua Feng & Rik Derynck
August 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6695
- 709-709 Salk Institute investigated after claims of inhumane research
by Rex Dalton - 709-709 India set to allow patents for products
by K. S. Jayaraman - 710-710 Massive jobs shake-up as China reorganizes science academy
by David Swinbanks & Richard Nathan - 710-710 Japanese R&D spending defies recession
by Asako Saegusa - 711-711 Congress grabs eugenics common ground
by David Dickson - 712-712 Italy frees research council from ‘baroni’
by Alison Abbott - 712-712 Boost to Canadian science infrastructure
by David Spurgeon - 713-713 Ethical protection for subjects ‘could stifle psychiatric research’
by Meredith Wadman - 713-713 NASA's Mars plans revitalized by Europe
by Tony Reichhardt - 715-715 Serbia's universities come under attack
by Petar Grujic - 715-715 Transgene risk is not too low to be tested
by Brian V. Ford-Lloyd - 717-718 Timing is everything in a game of two hemispheres
by James W. C. White & Eric J. Steig - 718-719 Ragtime jumping
by Ronald Plasterk - 719-721 Neanderthals emancipated
by Paul G. Bahn - 721-722 Just skip it
by Claire T. Farley - 722-722 Defective sculpture
by Karen Southwell - 723-725 Early uplift in Tibet?
by William Ruddiman - 725-726 Making smooth moves
by Terrence J. Sejnowski - 726-727 Sunbird surprise for syndromes
by Jeff Ollerton - 727-727 Defossilization
by David Jones - 728-728 James Lighthill (1924-98)
by Keith Moffatt - 729-729 Cartesian contrivances
by Martin Kemp - 731-732 Pollen transfer on birds' tongues
by Anton Pauw - 732-733 A proxy index of ENSO teleconnections
by M. N. Evans & R. G. Fairbanks & J. L. Rubenstone - 734-734 Trifling variation in truffles
by G. Bertault & M. Raymond & A. Berthomieu & G. Callot & D. Fernandez - 735-735 Enigma variations on the nuclear stage
by Michael Berry - 735-736 Myths that won't die
by Roslynn Haynes - 736-737 Getting to grips with the solid Earth
by Jon Bull - 737-738 Defining moment
by Peter Brimblecombe - 738-738 In retrospect chosen by Gordon L. Herries Davies
by Gordon L. Herries Davies - 739-743 Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period
by T. Blunier & J. Chappellaz & J. Schwander & A. Dällenbach & B. Stauffer & T. F. Stocker & D. Raynaud & J. Jouzel & H. B. Clausen & C. U. Hammer & S. J. Johnsen - 744-751 Transposition mediated by RAG1 and RAG2 and its implications for the evolution of the immune system
by Alka Agrawal & Quinn M. Eastman & David G. Schatz - 752-754 Tidal disruption of the Magellanic Clouds by the Milky Way
by M. E. Putman & B. K. Gibson & L. Staveley-Smith & G. Banks & D. G. Barnes & R. Bhatal & M. J. Disney & R. D. Ekers & K. C. Freeman & R. F. Haynes & P. Henning & H. Jerjen & V. Kilborn & B. Koribalski & P. Knezek & D. F. Malin & J. R. Mould & T. Oosterloo & R. M. Price & S. D. Ryder & E. M. Sadler & I. Stewart & F. Stootman & R. A. Vaile & R. L. Webster & A. E. Wright - 755-757 Inevitability of a magnetic field in the Sun's radiative interior
by D. O. Gough & M. E. McIntyre - 758-760 Archetypal energy landscapes
by David J. Wales & Mark A. Miller & Tiffany R. Walsh - 761-764 Electron–electron correlations in carbon nanotubes
by Sander J. Tans & Michel H. Devoret & Remco J. A. Groeneveld & Cees Dekker - 764-766 Pairwise selection of guests in a cylindrical molecular capsule of nanometre dimensions
by Thomas Heinz & Dmitry M. Rudkevich & Julius Rebek - 767-769 A million-year record of fire in sub-Saharan Africa
by M. I. Bird & J. A. Cali - 769-773 Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40?Myr ago
by Sun-Lin Chung & Ching-Hua Lo & Tung-Yi Lee & Yuquan Zhang & Yingwen Xie & Xianhua Li & Kuo-Lung Wang & Pei-Ling Wang - 773-776 Evolutionary transition from stretch to hearing organs in ancient grasshoppers
by Moira J. van Staaden & Heiner Römer - 776-780 A proposed path by which genes common to mammalian X and Y chromosomes evolve to become X inactivated
by Karin Jegalian & David C. Page - 780-784 Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning
by Christopher M. Harris & Daniel M. Wolpert - 784-787 Cortical feedback improves discrimination between figure and background by V1, V2 and V3 neurons
by J. M. Hupé & A. C. James & B. R. Payne & S. G. Lomber & P. Girard & J. Bullier - 787-790 Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory
by Dominique J.-F. de Quervain & Benno Roozendaal & James L. McGaugh - 790-793 The stomach is a source of leptin
by André Bado & Sandrine Levasseur & Samir Attoub & Stéphanie Kermorgant & Jean-Pierre Laigneau & Marie-Noëlle Bortoluzzi & Laurent Moizo & Thérèse Lehy & Michèle Guerre-Millo & Yannick Le Marchand-Brustel & Miguel. J. M. Lewin - 793-797 Epsin is an EH-domain-binding protein implicated in clathrin-mediated endocytosis
by Hong Chen & Silvia Fre & Vladimir I. Slepnev & Maria Rosaria Capua & Kohji Takei & Margaret H. Butler & Pier Paolo Di Fiore & Pietro De Camilli - 798-801 GPI-anchored proteins are organized in submicron domains at the cell surface
by Rajat Varma & Satyajit Mayor - 802-805 Microdomains of GPI-anchored proteins in living cells revealed by crosslinking
by Tim Friedrichson & Teymuras V. Kurzchalia - 805-809 Structure of a cephalosporin synthase
by Karin Valegård & Anke C. Terwisscha van Scheltinga & Matthew D. Lloyd & Takane Hara & S. Ramaswamy & Anastassis Perrakis & Andy Thompson & Hwei-Jen Lee & Jack E. Baldwin & Christopher J. Schofield & Janos Hajdu & Inger Andersson - 809-809 Erratum: Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch
by M. E. Raymo & K. Ganley & S. Carter & D. W. Oppo & J. McManus
August 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6694
- 607-607 Industrialist to head UK research councils
by Ehsan Masood - 607-607 Radioastronomers hammer out an agreement on mobile phones
by Alison Abbott - 608-608 Science returns to Einstein's rural retreat
by Alison Abbott - 608-608 Crop trials speed up as eco-warriors strike
by Ehsan Masood & Katherine Akingbade - 609-609 Dilemma for journals over tobacco cash
by Meredith Wadman - 609-609 Researchers accused of wanting to rob the poor to give to NIH
by Meredith Wadman - 610-610 Visa wrangle brings crisis in science jobs
by Tony Reichhardt - 610-610 Geneticists told to debate with politicians
by David Dickson - 611-611 Fermilab faces up to uncertain future
by Colin Macilwain - 613-613 East Germans succeed
by Ritchie Brown - 613-613 Deceptive appearance
by Werner Burkart - 613-613 French reforms should go further
by Klaus Scherrer - 615-616 Falling satellites, rising temperatures?
by Dian J. Gaffen - 616-617 Awakening angels
by David Lane - 617-619 Surfing the wake
by Robert Bingham - 619-620 Marked for nuclear export?
by Nullin Divecha - 620-621 Nonlinear sheep in a noisy world
by Nils Chr. Stenseth & Kung-Sik Chan - 623-624 Cool sounds
by Peter T. Landsberg - 624-625 Burnet's unhappy hybrid
by Klaus Rajewsky - 625-625 Bubble power
by David Jones - 626-626 Colin Patterson (1933-98)
by Gareth Nelson - 627-627 Attractive attractors
by Martin Kemp - 629-630 Cretaceous plesiosaurs ate ammonites
by Tamaki Sato & Kazushige Tanabe - 630-631 Connexin mutations in deafness
by Thomas W. White & Michael R. Deans & David P. Kelsell & David L. Paul - 631-632 Very long carbon nanotubes
by Z. W. Pan & S. S. Xie & B. H. Chang & C. Y. Wang & L. Lu & W. Liu & W. Y. Zhou & W. Z. Li & L. X. Qian - 632-632 Switch from specialized to generalized pollination
by W. Scott Armbruster & Bruce G. Baldwin - 633-634 The ‘great secret’ of chemistry's past
by D. M. Knight - 634-634 Eclipsed no more
by Ziauddin Sardar - 635-636 Dogged by controversy
by John Galloway - 636-636 Grub's up!
by Helen Phillips - 637-644 Chaotic topography, mantle flow and mantle migration in the Australian–Antarctic discordance
by David M. Christie & Brian P. West & Douglas G. Pyle & Barry B. Hanan - 645-650 Crystal structure of the spliceosomal U2B″–U2A′ protein complex bound to a fragment of U2 small nuclear RNA
by Stephen R. Price & Philip R. Evans & Kiyoshi Nagai - 651-653 Reconciling the spectrum of Sagittarius A* with a two-temperature plasma model
by Rohan Mahadevan - 653-655 Long-lived giant cells detected at the surface of the Sun
by J. G. Beck & T. L. Duvall & P. H. Scherrer - 656-658 Visualization of hydrogen migration in solids using switchable mirrors
by F. J. A. den Broeder & S. J. van der Molen & M. Kremers & J. N. Huiberts & D. G. Nagengast & A. T. M. van Gogh & W. H. Huisman & N. J. Koeman & B. Dam & J. H. Rector & S. Plota & M. Haaksma & R. M. N. Hanzen & R. M. Jungblut & P. A. Duine & R. Griessen - 659-661 Evidence for laser action driven by electrochemiluminescence
by Tsutomu Horiuchi & Osamu Niwa & Noriyuki Hatakenaka - 661-664 Effects of orbital decay on satellite-derived lower-tropospheric temperature trends
by Frank J. Wentz & Matthias Schabel - 664-667 Isotopic evidence for a solar argon component in the Earth's mantle
by R. O. Pepin - 668-671 Evolution of an active sea-floor massive sulphide deposit
by C.-F. You & M. J. Bickle - 671-674 The gain of three mitochondrial introns identifies liverworts as the earliest land plants
by Yin-Long Qiu & Yangrae Cho & J. Colin Cox & Jeffrey D. Palmer - 674-677 Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics
by B. T. Grenfell & K. Wilson & B. F. Finkenstädt & T. N. Coulson & S. Murray & S. D. Albon & J. M. Pemberton & T. H. Clutton-Brock & M. J. Crawley - 677-680 Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth
by Gregory C. DeAngelis & Bruce G. Cumming & William T. Newsome - 680-683 Maintenance of late-phase LTP is accompanied by PKA-dependent increase in AMPA receptor synthesis
by Asha Nayak & Devon J. Zastrow & Ronald Lickteig & Nancy R. Zahniser & Michael D. Browning - 683-687 Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors mediate long-term potentiation in interneurons in the amygdala
by Nishith K. Mahanty & Pankaj Sah - 687-690 Pore stoichiometry of a voltage-gated chloride channel
by Christoph Fahlke & Thomas H. Rhodes & Reshma R. Desai & Alfred L. George - 690-694 A dual thrombin receptor system for platelet activation
by Mark L. Kahn & Yao-Wu Zheng & Wei Huang & Violeta Bigornia & Dewan Zeng & Stephen Moff & Robert V. Farese & Carmen Tam & Shaun R. Coughlin - 694-697 A mutation in succinate dehydrogenase cytochrome b causes oxidative stress and ageing in nematodes
by Naoaki Ishii & Michihiko Fujii & Philip S. Hartman & Michio Tsuda & Kayo Yasuda & Nanami Senoo-Matsuda & Sumino Yanase & Dai Ayusawa & Kenshi Suzuki - 697-700 Protein kinase C regulates the nuclear localization of diacylglycerol kinase-ζ
by Matthew K. Topham & Michaeline Bunting & Guy A. Zimmerman & Thomas M. McIntyre & Perry J. Blackshear & Stephen M. Prescott - 700-704 DNA-dependent protein kinase acts upstream of p53 in response to DNA damage
by Richard A. Woo & Kevin G. McLure & Susan P. Lees-Miller & Derrick E. Rancourt & Patrick W. K. Lee
August 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6693
- 511-511 Retailer appointed UK minister for science
by David Dickson