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August 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6693
- 511-512 US Congress looks set to scuttle international fusion project
by Colin Macilwain - 512-512 Japan picks prominent physicist to lead education ministry
by Asako Saegusa - 512-512 Fall in Australian R&D is linked to tax llaw change
by Peter Pockley - 513-513 Xenotransplant experts face good and bad news
by Ehsan Masood - 513-513 India may retaliate over US expulsion of its scientists
by K. S. Jayaraman - 514-514 Germany faces physics graduate shortage as students turn away
by Annette Kloboucek - 514-514 Italy pulls plug on unproven cancer ‘cure’
by Alison Abbott - 515-515 Pesticide tests on humans cause concern
by Meredith Wadman - 515-515 California laboratory backs its use of volunteers
by Meredith Wadman - 517-517 Finding the funding for agriculture
by R. Michael Roberts - 517-517 German ambivalence to genetic engineering
by Jürgen Hampel - 517-517 101 uses for a natural history museum
by Nicholas Arnold - 519-519 Vision in the eternal present
by Robert Ward - 520-521 Io writes its history in hot metal
by Lionel Wilson - 521-522 Green beard as death warrant
by Alan Grafen - 523-524 Hot stuff under southern Chile
by Julie D. Morris - 524-524 The music of the spirals
by Stephen Battersby - 525-527 Plants just say NO to pathogens
by Jeff Dangl - 527-528 Proteases — invasion and more
by Dylan R. Edwards & Gillian Murphy - 528-528 Smokeless powder
by David Jones - 529-529 Shelley's shocks
by Martin Kemp - 531-532 Triclosan targets lipid synthesis
by Laura M. McMurry & Margret Oethinger & Stuart B. Levy - 532-533 Oldest known fossils of monocotyledons
by M. A Gandolfo & K. C. Nixon & W. L. Crepet & D. W. Stevenson & E. M. Friis - 533-534 Natural selection on human twinning
by Virpi Lummaa & Erkki Haukioja & Risto Lemmetyinen & Mirja Pikkola - 534-534 A Roman “implant” reconsidered
by Eric Crubézy & Pascal Murail & Louis Girard & Jean-Pierre Bernadou - 534-534 A Roman “implant” reconsidered
by Marshall Joseph Becker - 535-536 Focusing on what counts
by Alexander Masters - 536-537 The making of a bomb scientist
by Richard Rhodes - 537-538 NO sex please⃛
by Frances M. Brodsky - 538-538 From chaos to complexity
by Michael F. Shlesinger - 539-544 Design and self-assembly of two-dimensional DNA crystals
by Erik Winfree & Furong Liu & Lisa A. Wenzler & Nadrian C. Seeman - 545-551 Pitx2 determines left–right asymmetry of internal organs in vertebrates
by Aimee K. Ryan & Bruce Blumberg & Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban & Sayuri Yonei-Tamura & Koji Tamura & Tohru Tsukui & Jennifer de la Peña & Walid Sabbagh & Jason Greenwald & Senyon Choe & Dominic P. Norris & Elizabeth J. Robertson & Ronald M. Evans & Michael G. Rosenfeld & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte - 552-553 Emergence of magnetic flux on the Sun as the cause of a 158-day periodicity in sunspot areas
by R. Oliver & J. L. Ballester & F. Baudin - 554-556 Production of O2 on icy satellites by electronic excitation of low-temperature water ice
by M. T. Sieger & W. C. Simpson & T. M. Orlando - 556-558 Fluctuation-induced diffusive instabilities
by David A. Kessler & Herbert Levine - 558-561 Time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in Sr2RuO4
by G. M. Luke & Y. Fudamoto & K. M. Kojima & M. I. Larkin & J. Merrin & B. Nachumi & Y. J. Uemura & Y. Maeno & Z. Q. Mao & Y. Mori & H. Nakamura & M. Sigrist - 561-563 Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region
by Randall S. Cerveny & Robert C. Balling - 563-566 Stable phytoplankton community structure in the Arabian Sea over the past 200,000 years
by C. J. Schubert & J. Villanueva & S. E. Calvert & G. L. Cowie & U. von Rad & H. Schulz & U. Berner & H. Erlenkeuser - 566-569 Melting of a subducting oceanic crust from U–Th disequilibria in austral Andean lavas
by O. Sigmarsson & H. Martin & J. Knowles - 569-573 A complete primitive rhizodont from Australia
by Zerina Johanson & Per E. Ahlberg - 573-575 Selfish genes: a green beard in the red fire ant
by Laurent Keller & Kenneth G. Ross - 575-577 Visual search has no memory
by Todd S. Horowitz & Jeremy M. Wolfe - 577-581 Facilitation of long-term potentiation and memory in mice lacking nociceptin receptors
by Toshiya Manabe & Yukihiro Noda & Takayoshi Mamiya & Hiroyuki Katagiri & Takeshi Houtani & Miyuki Nishi & Tetsuo Noda & Tomoyuki Takahashi & Tetsuo Sugimoto & Toshitaka Nabeshima & Hiroshi Takeshima - 581-585 Kinetics and regulation of fast endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
by Jürgen Klingauf & Ege T. Kavalali & Richard W. Tsien - 585-588 Nitric oxide functions as a signal in plant disease resistance
by Massimo Delledonne & Yiji Xia & Richard A. Dixon & Chris Lamb - 588-592 Transformation of primary human endothelial cells by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
by Ornella Flore & Shahin Rafii & Scott Ely & John J. O'Leary & Elizabeth M. Hyjek & Ethel Cesarman - 592-595 Perinuclear localization of chromatin facilitates transcriptional silencing
by Erik D. Andrulis & Aaron M. Neiman & David C. Zappulla & Rolf Sternglanz - 595-599 Crystal structure of a small heat-shock protein
by Kyeong Kyu Kim & Rosalind Kim & Sung-Hou Kim - 601-602 Scientists with business flair in demand
by Richard Nathan & David Swinbanks
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6692
- 405-405 Dutch universities and research laboratories set for major cuts
by Declan Butler - 406-406 New Zealand government backtracks on funding promises
by Peter Pockley - 406-406 China and Taiwan edge a shade closer
by David Dickson - 407-407 Ministers block disposal of oil rigs at sea
by Ehsan Masood - 407-407 Meeting agrees cuts to radioactive emissions
by Ehsan Masood - 408-408 Japanese fear that new publicity rules could hinder their research
by Asako Saegusa - 408-409 Cloned mice fail to rekindle ethics debate
by Meredith Wadman - 409-409 Mother bears could help save giant panda
by Asako Saegusa - 409-409 Patent clash looming over cloning techniques?
by Declan Butler - 410-410 Alarm in US over database antipiracy bill
by Tony Reichhardt - 410-410 Telescopes track down lost spacecraft
by Alison Abbott - 411-411 A physicist joins the race for Congress
by Colin Macilwain - 413-413 Japan to the fore in biodiversity initiative
by Junko Shimura - 413-413 Extrasensory statistics
by Dean Radin & I. J. Good - 413-413 Tough time for taxonomy
by Marcel Jaspars - 415-416 How to simplify the plutonium problem
by Frank N. von Hippel - 417-418 A sense for landmines
by Anthony W. Czarnik - 418-419 A declining amphibian conundrum
by Tim Halliday - 419-421 Strain yourself
by Ivan K. Schuller - 421-422 The original sin of killer T cells
by Andrew J. McMichael - 422-423 The ends of an era
by Christopher Charles - 423-425 Sex and the single copepod
by Rory Howlett - 425-425 Polarized flight
by Alison Mitchell - 426-427 Sticky fingers grab a lipid
by Claudia Wiedemann & Shamshad Cockcroft - 427-428 A lesson from secretory granules
by Ronald A. Siegel - 428-428 A chance of justice
by David Jones - 429-429 Kroto and charisma
by Martin Kemp - 431-431 Ploughing up the wood-wide web?
by T. Helgason & T. J. Daniell & R. Husband & A. H. Fitter & J. P. W. Young - 432-433 FYVE fingers bind PtdIns(3)P
by Jean-Michel Gaullier & Anne Simonsen & Antonello D'Arrigo & Bjørn Bremnes & Harald Stenmark & Rein Aasland - 433-434 A functional PtdIns(3)P-binding motif
by Varsha Patki & Deirdre C. Lawe & Silvia Corvera & Joseph V. Virbasius & Anil Chawla - 434-434 Does practice shape the brain?
by Pat Monaghan & Neil B. Metcalfe & Graeme D. Ruxton - 435-435 Rocky horror picture shows
by Kevin Zahnle - 436-437 The weeds in Fibonacci's garden
by Dennis Bray - 437-437 Bouffi à la girafe
by Philippe Janvier - 437-438 The is and the ought
by Brian Martin - 438-438 The FAQs of astronomy
by Jay M. Pasachoff - 439-447 Gaia and natural selection
by Timothy M. Lenton - 448-451 An extraordinary cluster of massive stars near the centre of the Milky Way
by E. Serabyn & D. Shupe & D. F. Figer - 451-453 Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns
by Harald Brune & Marcella Giovannini & Karsten Bromann & Klaus Kern - 453-456 Doubling the critical temperature of La1.9Sr0.1CuO4 using epitaxial strain
by J.-P. Locquet & J. Perret & J. Fompeyrine & E. Mächler & J. W. Seo & G. Van Tendeloo - 456-458 Nanocomposite polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries
by F. Croce & G. B. Appetecchi & L. Persi & B. Scrosati - 459-462 A synthetic mimic of the secretory granule for drug delivery
by Patrick F. Kiser & Glynn Wilson & David Needham - 462-464 Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N2O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea
by S. W. A. Naqvi & T. Yoshinari & D. A. Jayakumar & M. A. Altabet & P. V. Narvekar & A. H. Devol & J. A. Brandes & L. A. Codispoti - 464-468 Orbital modulation of the Earth's magnetic field intensity
by J. E. T. Channell & D. A. Hodell & J. McManus & B. Lehman - 469-472 Energy and trace-gas fluxes across a soil pH boundary in the Arctic
by D. A. Walker & N. A. Auerbach & J. G. Bockheim & F. S. Chapin & W. Eugster & J. Y. King & J. P. McFadden & G. J. Michaelson & F. E. Nelson & W. C. Oechel & C. L. Ping & W. S. Reeburg & S. Regli & N. I. Shiklomanov & G. L. Vourlitis - 472-475 Complementarity and the use of indicator groups for reserve selection in Uganda
by Peter C. Howard & Paolo Viskanic & Tim R. B. Davenport & Fred W. Kigenyi & Michael Baltzer & Chris J. Dickinson & Jeremiah S. Lwanga & Roger A. Matthews & Andrew Balmford - 475-478 Membrane potential synchrony of simultaneously recorded striatal spiny neurons in vivo
by Edward A. Stern & Dieter Jaeger & Charles J. Wilson - 478-482 Glutamate locally activates dendritic outputs of thalamic interneurons
by Charles L. Cox & Qiang Zhou & S. Murray Sherman - 482-485 Original antigenic sin impairs cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to viruses bearing variant epitopes
by Paul Klenerman & Rolf M. Zinkernagel - 485-490 Role of HIF-1α in hypoxia-mediated apoptosis, cell proliferation and tumour angiogenesis
by Peter Carmeliet & Yuval Dor & Jean-Marc Herbert & Dai Fukumura & Koen Brusselmans & Mieke Dewerchin & Michal Neeman & Françoise Bono & Rinat Abramovitch & Patrick Maxwell & Cameron J. Koch & Peter Ratcliffe & Lieve Moons & Rakesh K. Jain & Désiré Collen & Eli Keshet - 491-494 Role of citron kinase as a target of the small GTPase Rho in cytokinesis
by Pascal Madaule & Masatoshi Eda & Naoki Watanabe & Kazuko Fujisawa & Toshiyuki Matsuoka & Haruhiko Bito & Toshimasa Ishizaki & Shuh Narumiya - 494-498 EEA1 links PI(3)K function to Rab5 regulation of endosome fusion
by Anne Simonsen & Roger Lippe & Savvas Christoforidis & Jean-Michel Gaullier & Andreas Brech & Judy Callaghan & Ban-Hock Toh & Carol Murphy & Marino Zerial & Harald Stenmark - 498-502 Transcriptional activators direct histone acetyltransferase complexes to nucleosomes
by Rhea T. Utley & Keiko Ikeda & Patrick A. Grant & Jacques Côté & David J. Steger & Anton Eberharter & Sam John & Jerry L. Workman - 502-506 Structure of the metal-ion-activated diphtheria toxin repressor/ tox operator complex
by André White & Xiaochun Ding & Johanna C. vanderSpek & John R. Murphy & Dagmar Ringe - 507-507 A light at the end of the tube
by Brendan Horton
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6691
- 305-305 Gore calls for action on climate change as Congress stalls
by Colin Macilwain - 305-305 Indian atomic chief is refused US visa
by K. S. Jayaraman - 306-306 NIH streamlines research grants process
by Meredith Wadman - 306-306 Bill tightens law against genetic discrimination by health insurers
by Meredith Wadman - 307-307 UK universities get another funding boost
by David Dickson - 307-307 New Zealand enjoys science jamboree
by Peter Pockley - 308-308 Plan for government researchers in Japan to work in industry
by Asako Saegusa - 308-308 Fraud squad files report to prosecutor in Inserm case
by Declan Butler - 309-309 Congress revives hopes for solar power satellites
by Tony Reichhardt - 309-309 Accelerator project digs itself into a hole
by Carl Levitin - 309-309 France sets high targets for impact factors and patents
by Declan Butler - 310-310 Hungary pushes for further reform
by Alison Abbott - 313-313 Leading scientists still reject God
by Edward J. Larson & Larry Witham - 313-314 Dilemma over genetics and population in China
by Sun-Wei Guo & Chang-Jiang Zheng & C. C. Li - 314-314 Science in the firing line in Argentina
by Marcelino Cereijido - 315-316 Dolly is a clone — and no longer alone
by Davor Solter - 316-317 Death by delay
by Steven H. Strogatz - 317-319 Caught in the act of the switch-on
by Fred Wittinghofer - 320-321 Cracking Los Angeles
by John H. Shaw - 321-321 An Asian Grande Coupure
by Jean-Louis Hartenberger - 323-324 A period of change
by Nicholas E. White - 324-325 Keeping up with the F1-ATPase
by Howard C. Berg - 325-325 Lucy takes a stroll
by Tim Lincoln - 325-326 Connecting with catalysis
by Ian E. Maxwell - 326-326 Wet metallic hydrogen
by David Jones - 327-327 Wheatstone's waves
by Martin Kemp - 329-329 DNA microsatellite analysis of Dolly
by David Ashworth & Matthew Bishop & Keith Campbell & Alan Colman & Alex Kind & Angelika Schnieke & Sarah Blott & Harry Griffin & Chris Haley & Jim McWhir & Ian Wilmut - 329-330 DNA fingerprinting Dolly
by Esther N. Signer & Yuri E. Dubrova & Alec J. Jeffreys & Colin Wilde & Lynn M. B. Finch & Michelle Wells & Malcolm Peaker - 330-331 A cellulase gene of termite origin
by Hirofumi Watanabe & Hiroaki Noda & Gaku Tokuda & Nathan Lo - 331-332 Arctic springtime depletion of mercury
by W. H. Schroeder & K. G. Anlauf & L. A. Barrie & J. Y. Lu & A. Steffen & D. R. Schneeberger & T. Berg - 333-333 The joy of secants
by Jeremy Gray - 334-334 Carnivores in living colour
by Adrian M. Lister - 335-335 Instrumental insects
by Darryl T. Gwynne & Glenn K. Morris - 335-336 Holy prehistory
by Nicholas J. Saunders - 336-336 Is anybody out there?
by David W. Hughes - 337-343 The structural basis of the activation of Ras by Sos
by P. Ann Boriack-Sjodin & S. Mariana Margarit & Dafna Bar-Sagi & John Kuriyan - 344-346 A millisecond pulsar in an X-ray binary system
by Rudy Wijnands & Michiel van der Klis - 346-348 The two-hour orbit of a binary millisecond X-ray pulsar
by Deepto Chakrabarty & Edward H. Morgan - 348-350 Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles
by M. E. J. Friese & T. A. Nieminen & N. R. Heckenberg & H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop - 350-353 High-throughput screening of solid-state catalyst libraries
by Selim M. Senkan - 353-356 Unexpectedly high concentrations of molecular chlorine in coastal air
by C. W. Spicer & E. G. Chapman & B. J. Finlayson-Pitts & R. A. Plastridge & J. M. Hubbe & J. D. Fast & C. M. Berkowitz - 356-360 Escape tectonics in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and implications for seismic risk
by Christian Walls & Thomas Rockwell & Karl Mueller & Yehuda Bock & Simon Williams & John Pfanner & James Dolan & Peng Fang - 360-363 Evidence from the asymmetry of fast-spreading ridges that the axial topographic high is due to extensional stresses
by Michael A. Eberle & Donald W. Forsyth - 364-367 Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau
by Jin Meng & Malcolm C. McKenna - 367-369 Veil architecture in a sulphide-oxidizing bacterium enhances countercurrent flux
by Tom Fenchel & Ronnie N. Glud - 369-374 Full-term development of mice from enucleated oocytes injected with cumulus cell nuclei
by T. Wakayama & A. C. F. Perry & M. Zuccotti & K. R. Johnson & R. Yanagimachi - 374-377 Defects in somite formation in lunatic fringe-deficient mice
by Nian Zhang & Thomas Gridley - 377-381 lunatic fringe is an essential mediator of somite segmentation and patterning
by Yvonne A. Evrard & Yi Lun & Alexander Aulehla & Lin Gan & Randy L. Johnson - 381-384 A neuronal ryanodine receptor mediates light-induced phase delays of the circadian clock
by Jian M. Ding & Gordon F. Buchanan & Shelley A. Tischkau & Dong Chen & Liana Kuriashkina & Lia E. Faiman & Joan M. Alster & Peter S. McPherson & Kevin P. Campbell & Martha U. Gillette - 384-388 High-frequency firing helps replenish the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles
by Lu-Yang Wang & Leonard K. Kaczmarek - 388-392 An ancient retrotransposal insertion causes Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy
by Kazuhiro Kobayashi & Yutaka Nakahori & Masashi Miyake & Kiichiro Matsumura & Eri Kondo-Iida & Yoshiko Nomura & Masaya Segawa & Mieko Yoshioka & Kayoko Saito & Makiko Osawa & Kenzo Hamano & Youichi Sakakihara & Ikuya Nonaka & Yasuo Nakagome & Ichiro Kanazawa & Yusuke Nakamura & Katsushi Tokunaga & Tatsushi Toda - 392-395 Developmental selection of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum
by Qijun Chen & Victor Fernandez & Annika Sundström & Martha Schlichtherle & Santanu Datta & Per Hagblom & Mats Wahlgren - 395-399 Crystal structure of the first three domains of the type-1 insulin-like growth factor receptor
by Thomas P. J. Garrett & Neil M. McKern & Meizhen Lou & Maurice J. Frenkel & John D. Bentley & George O. Lovrecz & Thomas C. Elleman & Leah J. Cosgrove & Colin W. Ward
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6690
- 209-209 Wellcome secures new synchrotron source
by David Dickson - 209-209 UK provides ‘step increase’ in funding for its science base
by David Dickson - 210-210 Fusion machines ‘breach treaty and open weapons risk’
by Colin Macilwain - 210-211 Plant scientists want focus on the best and brightest
by Colin Macilwain - 211-211 Monsanto backs $150m plant science centre
by Colin Macilwain - 212-212 Britain ignores warning on privatization of defence research
by Ehsan Masood - 212-212 UK court gives green light to trial of modified maize
by Ehsan Masood - 213-213 Biologists recommend scrapping NASA's research on crystals
by Tony Reichhardt - 213-213 Gore's satellite may fill role of lost SOHO
by Tony Reichhardt - 214-214 Israel split on rights to genetic privacy
by Haim Watzman - 214-214 Swiss databank to start charging for use
by Alison Abbott - 216-216 Tokyo campus rising
by Shun-ichi Kobayashi - 216-216 When names are less than crystal clear
by Senyon Choe & Paul Pfaffinger - 216-216 Haldane's speculation
by I. J. Good - 216-216 When names are less than crystal clear
by Michael Ashburner - 217-218 How to make microbes safer
by Graham S. Pearson - 219-220 Dust hides a universal starburst
by Douglas Scott - 220-221 Why Ras needs Rho
by Frank McCormick - 221-223 Craters unchained
by H. J. Melosh - 224-225 Incas and alders
by Peter D. Moore - 225-227 Printing screens
by Robert Wisnieff - 227-228 The pathogen connection
by Christophe Benoist & Diane Mathis - 228-229 Eddies make ocean deserts bloom
by Richard G. Williams & Michael J. Follows - 229-230 Rarity as double jeopardy
by Kevin J. Gaston - 230-230 His master's fist
by David Jones - 231-231 Feynman's figurations
by Martin Kemp - 233-234 Selection on swallow tail streamers
by Matthew R. Evans - 234-235 The oldest coelurosaurian
by Xijin Zhao & Xing Xu - 235-236 Seal whiskers detect water movements
by Guido Dehnhardt & Björn Mauck & Horst Bleckmann - 236-236 Alanine enantiomers in the Murchison meteorite
by S. Pizzarello & J. R. Cronin - 237-238 Microbiology for the millions
by W. F. Bynum - 238-239 From meat to merchandise
by John Robb - 239-240 No laughing matter
by Colin L. Masters - 240-240 The making of a biochemist
by Mikuláš Teich - 241-247 High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey
by David H. Hughes & Stephen Serjeant & James Dunlop & Michael Rowan-Robinson & Andrew Blain & Robert G. Mann & Rob Ivison & John Peacock & Andreas Efstathiou & Walter Gear & Seb Oliver & Andy Lawrence & Malcolm Longair & Pippa Goldschmidt & Tim Jenness - 248-251 Submillimetre-wavelength detection of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift
by A. J. Barger & L. L. Cowie & D. B. Sanders & E. Fulton & Y. Taniguchi & Y. Sato & K. Kawara & H. Okuda - 251-253 A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths
by S. Y. Lin & J. G. Fleming & D. L. Hetherington & B. K. Smith & R. Biswas & K. M. Ho & M. M. Sigalas & W. Zubrzycki & S. R. Kurtz & Jim Bur - 253-255 An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays
by Barrett Comiskey & J. D. Albert & Hidekazu Yoshizawa & Joseph Jacobson - 256-260 Continuous self-assembly of organic–inorganic nanocomposite coatings that mimic nacre
by Alan Sellinger & Pilar M. Weiss & Anh Nguyen & Yunfeng Lu & Roger A. Assink & Weiliang Gong & C. Jeffrey Brinker - 260-263 Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U–Pb and Ar–Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes
by M. A. Hamilton & D. G. Pearson & R. N. Thompson & S. P. Kelley & C. H. Emeleus - 263-266 Influence of mesoscale eddies on new production in the Sargasso Sea
by D. J. McGillicuddy & A. R. Robinson & D. A. Siegel & H. W. Jannasch & R. Johnson & T. D. Dickey & J. McNeil & A. F. Michaels & A. H. Knap