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March 1998, Volume 392, Issue 6671
- 7-7 Cuts reversed in Canada's new budget
by David Spurgeon - 7-7 Australia urged to avert collapse of university science
by Peter Pockley - 8-8 Jury still undecided on French reforms
by Declan Butler - 9-9 Researchers challenge biomedical plans
by Declan Butler - 11-12 Xenotransplants: proceed with caution
by Daniel R. Salomon & Ronald M. Ferguson & J. Harold Helderman - 12-12 Xenotransplants: proceed with caution
by Paolo Macchiarini - 12-12 Xenotransplants: proceed with caution
by A. S. Daar - 13-13 Growing benefits of biotechnology
by Gordon Conway - 13-13 Search for consensus on genetic engineering
by Michael Altmann - 14-14 Benefits and dangers of genetic tests
by Harry Ostrer - 14-14 Benefits and dangers of genetic tests
by Richard H. Scheuermann & Louis J. Picker - 14-14 About face
by Jonathan Cole - 15-16 A paradigm gets shifty
by W. Ford Doolittle - 16-17 Two shades beyond Neptune
by Clark R. Chapman - 17-19 Mass extinction probed
by Charles R. Marshall - 20-21 A last wave from the dying heart
by Arun V. Holden - 21-21 Lasers blow a bigger bubble
by Detlef Lohse - 23-24 Chaperoning brain diseases
by William J. Welch & Pierluigi Gambetti - 24-25 A circumscribed Universe
by Masataka Fukugita - 25-25 Sequences lead to tree of worms
by Claus Nielsen - 26-26 Fibre couplings
by David Jones - 27-27 Vermeer's vision
by Martin Kemp - 29-29 Does acoustic testing strand whales?
by A. Frantzis - 29-30 Electron pairs shed light on frustrated percolation
by P. J. van der Put - 30-31 Synthetic ligands point to cell surface strategies
by Eva J. Gordon & William J. Sanders & Laura L. Kiessling - 31-32 Thyroid cancer risk to children calculated
by P. Jacob & G. Goulko & W. F. Heidenreich & I. Likhtarev & I. Kairo & N. D. Tronko & T. I. Bogdanova & J. Kenigsberg & E. Buglova & V. Drozdovitch & A. Golovneva & E. P. Demidchik & M. Balonov & I. Zvonova & V. Beral - 32-32 Sulphur isotope data consistency improved
by Tyler B. Coplen & H. Roy Krouse - 33-34 Rise and fall of an academic empire
by David Joravsky - 34-35 Pairs of genes
by John Galloway - 35-36 True stories
by Stathis Psillos - 36-36 At a glance
by Marlene Zuk & Steven Siller - 37-41 The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote
by William Martin & Miklós Müller - 42-48 Structure of the DNA-binding domains from NFAT, Fos and Jun bound specifically to DNA
by Lin Chen & J. N. Mark Glover & Patrick G. Hogan & Anjana Rao & Stephen C. Harrison - 49-51 Two distinct populations of Kuiper-belt objects
by S. C. Tegler & W. Romanishin - 51-54 Subsurface charge accumulation imaging of a quantum Hall liquid
by S. H. Tessmer & P. I. Glicofridis & R. C. Ashoori & L. S. Levitov & M. R. Melloch - 54-56 Highly mobile electrons and holes on isolated chains of the semiconducting polymer poly(phenylene vinylene)
by Romano J. O. M. Hoofman & Matthijs P. de Haas & Laurens D. A. Siebbeles & John M. Warman - 56-59 Uniform quantum-dot arrays formed by natural self-faceting on patterned substrates
by Richard Nötzel & Zhichuan Niu & Manfred Ramsteiner & Hans-Peter Schönherr & Achim Tranpert & Lutz Däweritz & Klaus H. Ploog - 59-62 Atmospheric CO2 concentration and millennial-scale climate change during the last glacial period
by B. Stauffer & T. Blunier & A. Dällenbach & A. Indermühle & J. Schwander & T. F. Stocker & J. Tschumi & J. Chappellaz & D. Raynaud & C. U. Hammer & H. B. Clausen - 62-65 Influence of sea-salt on aerosol radiative properties in the Southern Ocean marine boundary layer
by D. M. Murphy & J. R. Anderson & P. K. Quinn & L. M. McInnes & F. J. Brechtel & S. M. Kreidenweis & A. M. Middlebrook & M. Pósfai & D. S. Thomson & P. R. Buseck - 65-69 Transition from dome-forming to plinian eruptive styles controlled by H2O and Cl degassing
by Benoît Villemant & Georges Boudon - 69-71 Selectivity of extinction among sea urchins at the end of the Cretaceous period
by Andrew B. Smith & Charlotte H. Jeffery - 71-75 A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda
by Mark L. Blaxter & Paul De Ley & James R. Garey & Leo X. Liu & Patsy Scheldeman & Andy Vierstraete & Jacques R. Vanfleteren & Laura Y. Mackey & Mark Dorris & Linda M. Frisse & J. T. Vida & W. Kelley Thomas - 75-78 Spatial and temporal organization during cardiac fibrillation
by Richard A. Gray & Arkady M. Pertsov & José Jalife - 78-82 Spatiotemporal evolution of ventricular fibrillation
by Francis X. Witkowski & L. Joshua Leon & Patricia A. Penkoske & Wayne R. Giles & Mark L. Spano & William L. Ditto & Arthur T. Winfree - 82-86 Synapse-specific control of synaptic efficacy at the terminals of a single neuron
by Graeme W. Davis & Corey S. Goodman - 86-89 Dendritic cells acquire antigen from apoptotic cells and induce class I-restricted CTLs
by Matthew L. Albert & Birthe Sauter & Nina Bhardwaj - 90-93 Role for interleukin-3 in mast-cell and basophil development and in immunity to parasites
by Chris S. Lantz & Jurg Boesiger & Chang Ho Song & Nicolas Mach & Takahiko Kobayashi & Richard C. Mulligan & Yukifumi Nawa & Glenn Dranoff & Stephen J. Galli - 93-97 Regulated nuclear import of Rel proteins in the Drosophila immune response
by Louisa P. Wu & Kathryn V. Anderson - 97-101 The 1.7 Å crystal structure of the regulator of chromosome condensation (RCC1) reveals a seven-bladed propeller
by Louis Renault & Nicolas Nassar & Ingrid Vetter & Jörg Becker & Christian Klebe & Michel Roth & Alfred Wittinghofer - 101-105 Structure of the Sec7 domain of the Arf exchange factor ARNO
by Jacqueline Cherfils & Julie Ménétrey & Magali Mathieu & Gérard Le Bras & Sylviane Robineau & Sophie Béraud-Dufour & Bruno Antonny & Pierre Chardin - 105-105 Erratum: Radical alterations in the roles of homeobox genes during echinoderm evolution
by Christopher J. Lowe & Gregory A. Wray
February 1998, Volume 391, Issue 6670
- 825-825 French agency faces fresh controversy
by Declan Butler & Olivier de Gandt - 825-826 Dolly researcher plans further experiments after challenges
by Declan Butler - 826-826 Genome panel defends researchers' — and families' — interests
by Meredith Wadman - 827-827 Medical researchers set up UK body to raise public profile
by Asako Saegusa - 827-827 Japan backs carbon project in shift to applied research
by Richard Nathan - 828-828 ANZAAS looks to grassroots for relaunch
by Peter Pockley - 828-828 Germany seeks ‘non-modified’ food label
by Alison Abbott & Burkhardt Roeper - 829-829 Ecologists seek flexible protection rules
by Tony Reichhardt - 829-829 Boost to biodiversity research ‘would strengthen US economy’
by Colin Macilwain - 830-830 US urged to explore accelerator options
by Colin Macilwain - 830-830 UK nuclear physicists set to lose their privileged funding status
by Ehsan Masood - 831-831 Iraq crisis spurs new bioweapons moves
by David Dickson - 831-831 Individuals face weapons work indictment
by David Dickson - 834-834 Flow of novel genes for R&D continues
by David C. U'Prichard - 834-834 Flow of novel genes for R&D continues
by William A. Haseltine - 834-834 New Zealand science
by P. M. Hargreaves - 835-836 A test for the insurance industry
by Robert J. Pokorski - 837-838 Clouds, contrails and climate
by John H. Seinfeld - 838-839 Green policies for defence spending
by Peter D. Moore - 839-841 Key clockwork component cloned
by Richard W. Tsien - 841-842 A time-resolved glimpse of the terahertz glory
by Philip L. Marston - 842-842 Kiss of death
by Alison Mitchell - 843-845 Slow and fast dietary proteins
by Gema Frühbeck - 845-846 Homeostasis or synaptic plasticity?
by Yves Frégnac - 846-847 A signal for β-cell failure
by Joseph Avruch - 847-847 Cold porridge
by David Jones - 848-848 Masaru Ibuka (1908-97)
by Gerhard Fasol - 849-849 Latham's life-forms
by Martin Kemp - 851-852 Skin immunization made possible by cholera toxin
by Gregory M. Glenn & Mangala Rao & Gary R. Matyas & Carl R. Alving - 852-853 Rescuing Wolbachia have been overlooked⃛
by Kostas Bourtzis & Stephen L. Dobson & Henk R. Braig & Scott L. O'Neill - 853-853 ⃛and discovered on Mount Kilimanjaro
by Hervé Merçot & Denis Poinsot - 854-854 Cranial surgery dates back to Mesolithic
by Malcolm C. Lillie - 855-856 Celestial calculations
by William R. Shea - 856-856 Figure heads
by Brian Butterworth - 857-858 Old embryos and new developments
by Jonathan Slack - 858-858 The great elusionist
by Stephen Battersby - 859-865 Structure of the retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor pocket domain bound to a peptide from HPV E7
by Jie-Oh Lee & Alicia A. Russo & Nikola P. Pavletich - 866-868 A population of faint galaxies that contribute to the cosmic X-ray background
by Y. Ueda & T. Takahashi & H. Inoue & T. Tsuru & M. Sakano & Y. Ishisaki & Y. Ogasaka & K. Makishima & T. Yamada & K. Ohta & M. Akiyama - 868-871 An oxygen-rich dust disk surrounding an evolved star in the Red Rectangle
by L. B. F. M. Waters & C. Waelkens & H. van Winckel & F. J. Molster & A. G. G. M. Tielens & J. Th. van Loon & P. W. Morris & J. Cami & J. Bouwman & A. de Koter & T. de Jong & Th. de Graauw - 871-874 Dephasing in electron interference by a ‘which-path’ detector
by E. Buks & R. Schuster & M. Heiblum & D. Mahalu & V. Umansky - 874-877 Two-dimensional ferroelectric films
by A. V. Bune & V. M. Fridkin & Stephen Ducharme & L. M. Blinov & S. P. Palto & A. V. Sorokin & S. G. Yudin & A. Zlatkin - 877-879 Surface-induced structure formation of polymer blends on patterned substrates
by Martin Böltau & Stefan Walheim & Jürgen Mlynek & Georg Krausch & Ullrich Steiner - 879-883 Origin of upper-ocean warming and El Niño change on decadal scales in the tropical Pacific Ocean
by Rong-Hua Zhang & Lewis M. Rothstein & Antonio J. Busalacchi - 883-886 Evidence for pressure-release melting beneath magmatic arcs from basalt at Galunggung, Indonesia
by T. W. Sisson & S. Bronto - 886-889 Foot posture in a primitive pterosaur
by J. M. Clark & J. A. Hopson & R. Hernández R. & D. E. Fastovsky & M. Montellano - 889-892 Explaining the geographic distributions of sexual and asexual populations
by Joel R. Peck & Jonathan M. Yearsley & David Waxman - 892-896 Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons
by Gina G. Turrigiano & Kenneth R. Leslie & Niraj S. Desai & Lana C. Rutherford & Sacha B. Nelson - 896-900 Molecular characterization of a neuronal low-voltage-activated T-type calcium channel
by Edward Perez-Reyes & Leanne L. Cribbs & Asif Daud & Antonio E. Lacerda & Jane Barclay & Magali P. Williamson & Margaret Fox & Michele Rees & Jung-Ha Lee - 900-904 Disruption of IRS-2 causes type 2 diabetes in mice
by Dominic J. Withers & Julio Sanchez Gutierrez & Heather Towery & Deborah J. Burks & Jian-Ming Ren & Stephen Previs & Yitao Zhang & Dolores Bernal & Sebastian Pons & Gerald I. Shulman & Susan Bonner-Weir & Morris F. White - 904-907 Impaired immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in mice lacking the IL-7 receptor
by Anne E. Corcoran & Andrew Riddell & Danielle Krooshoop & Ashok R. Venkitaraman - 908-911 β-Chemokines are released from HIV-1-specific cytolytic T-cell granules complexed to proteoglycans
by Ludwig Wagner & Otto O. Yang & Eduardo A. Garcia-Zepeda & Yimin Ge & Spyros A. Kalams & Bruce D. Walker & Mark S. Pasternack & Andrew D. Luster - 912-915 Carrier protein import into mitochondria mediated by the intermembrane proteins Tim10/Mrs11 and Tim12/Mrs5
by Christian Sirrenberg & Maxi Endres & Heike Fölsch & Rosemary A. Stuart & Walter Neupert & Michael Brunner - 915-918 Group II intron splicing in vivo by first-step hydrolysis
by Mircea Podar & Vi T. Chu & Anna Marie Pyle & Philip S. Perlman - 918-921 X-ray crystal structure of arrestin from bovine rod outer segments
by Joachim Granzin & Ursula Wilden & Hui-Woog Choe & Jörg Labahn & Bianca Krafft & Georg Büldt
February 1998, Volume 391, Issue 6669
- 723-723 Industrial research booms in US, despite job cuts at large labs
by Colin Macilwain - 723-723 Germany approves DNA tests for visas
by Burkhardt Roeper - 724-724 Moscow's ‘missing fossils’ come under new scrutiny
by Alison Abbott - 724-724 Seventh heaven for Australia's optical astronomers
by Peter Pockley - 725-725 Clinton picks NSF chief as science adviser
by Colin Macilwain - 725-725 NIH peer-review revision panel is named
by Meredith Wadman - 726-726 Gene marker database stirs up debate
by Meredith Wadman - 726-726 Quebec urged to match supply and demand for science graduates
by David Spurgeon - 727-727 Tensions grow over access to DNA bank
by Declan Butler - 728-728 Call for moratorium on seedbank patents
by Ehsan Masood - 728-728 ‘Give us back our mansion,’ plead scientists
by Carl Levitin - 728-728 India to challenge Basmati rice ‘invention’
by K. S. Jayaraman - 729-729 A degree of success for MRes courses
by Ehsan Masood - 729-729 Spain lifts block on Framework funds
by Alison Abbott - 738-738 Celebrated errors
by Charles Weissmann & Julian A. Hiscox - 738-738 Portuguese science needs a shake-up
by Tomasz Boski & Helena D. Galvao - 738-738 Biology versus physics
by Arndt von Hippel - 738-738 ‘Mad’ science wanted
by Boryeu Mao - 739-740 Fixed hotspots gone with the wind
by Ulrich Christensen - 741-741 Supernova 1987A Shockwave hits the ring
by Stephen Battersby - 741-743 Immunology Signal sequences stop killer cells
by Eric O. Long - 743-744 Chemical dynamics Noisy waves
by Frank Moss - 744-745 Functional genomics Double-stranded RNA poses puzzle
by Richard W. Wagner & Lin Sun - 745-746 Liquid crystals New designs in cholesteric colour
by Peter Palffy-Muhoray - 747-747 On the shelf
by John VanDecar - 748-749 Neural patterning Deconstructing the organizer
by A. Ruiz i Altaba - 749-749 Winter in slumberland
by David Jones - 750-750 Kenichi Fukui (1918-98)
by Roald Hoffmann - 751-751 Boccioni's ballistics
by Martin Kemp - 753-754 Male ticks help their mates to feed
by Hui Wang & Guido C. Paesen & Patricia A. Nuttall & Alan G. Barbour - 754-754 Theropod-bird link reconsidered
by Alan Feduccia & Larry D. Martin - 754-754 Reply: Theropod-bird link reconsidered
by Mark A. Norell & Peter Makovicky & James A. Clark - 754-755 Height depends on month of birth
by Gerhard W. Weber & Hermann Prossinger & Horst Seidler - 756-756 Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see
by Matthew Botvinick & Jonathan Cohen - 757-758 Natural entertainments
by Stephen Bostock - 758-758 Money spinner
by Ian Stewart - 759-759 A weighty problem
by John Wilding - 760-760 In retrospect chosen by David Ruelle
by David Ruelle - 761-767 Dax1 antagonizes Sry action in mammalian sex determination
by Amanda Swain & Veronica Narvaez & Paul Burgoyne & Giovanna Camerino & Robin Lovell-Badge - 768-770 Magneto-electric Aharonov–Bohm effect in metal rings
by Alexander van Oudenaarden & Michel H. Devoret & Yu. V. Nazarov & J. E. Mooij - 770-772 Noise-supported travelling waves in sub-excitable media
by Sándor Kádár & Jichang Wang & Kenneth Showalter - 773-775 High-strength alkali-resistant sintered SiC fibre stable to 2,200 °C
by Toshihiro Ishikawa & Yasuhiko Kohtoku & Kiyoshi Kumagawa & Takemi Yamamura & Toshio Nagasawa - 775-778 DNA-templated assembly and electrode attachment of a conducting silver wire
by Erez Braun & Yoav Eichen & Uri Sivan & Gdalyahu Ben-Yoseph - 778-780 Breakup and conditions for stability of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica
by C. S. M. Doake & H. F. J. Corr & H. Rott & P. Skvarca & N. W. Young - 781-783 Composition of fluids in the lower crust inferred from metamorphic salt in lower crustal rocks
by Gregor Markl & Kurt Bucher - 783-786 Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range in response to global warming
by Andrew J. Davis & Linda S. Jenkinson & John H. Lawton & Bryan Shorrocks & Simon Wood - 786-788 Automatic alerting does not speed late motoric processes in a reaction-time task
by Steven A. Hackley & Fernando Valle-Inclán - 788-792 A small population of anterior cells patterns the forebrain during zebrafish gastrulation
by Corinne Houart & Monte Westerfield & Stephen W. Wilson - 792-795 Staufen-dependent localization of prospero mRNA contributes to neuroblast daughter-cell fate
by Julie Broadus & Sal Fuerstenberg & Chris Q. Doe - 795-799 HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C
by Veronique M. Braud & David S. J. Allan & Christopher A. O'Callaghan & Kalle Söderström & Annalisa D'Andrea & Graham S. Ogg & Sasha Lazetic & Neil T. Young & John I. Bell & Joseph H. Phillips & Lewis L. Lanier & Andrew J. McMichael - 799-803 A B-cell-homing chemokine made in lymphoid follicles activates Burkitt's lymphoma receptor-1
by Michael D. Gunn & Vu N. Ngo & K. Mark Ansel & Eric H. Ekland & Jason G. Cyster & Lewis T. Williams - 803-806 Direct activation of inward rectifier potassium channels by PIP2 and its stabilization by Gβγ
by Chou-Long Huang & Siyi Feng & Donald W. Hilgemann - 806-811 Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
by Andrew Fire & SiQun Xu & Mary K. Montgomery & Steven A. Kostas & Samuel E. Driver & Craig C. Mello - 811-814 Role of the histone deacetylase complex in acute promyelocytic leukaemia
by Richard J. Lin & Laszlo Nagy & Satoshi Inoue & Wenlin Shao & Wilson H. Miller & Ronald M. Evans - 815-818 Fusion proteins of the retinoic acid receptor-α recruit histone deacetylase in promyelocytic leukaemia
by Francesco Grignani & Silvia De Matteis & Clara Nervi & Lucia Tomassoni & Vania Gelmetti & Mario Cioce & Mirco Fanelli & Marthin Ruthardt & Fabiana F. Ferrara & Iris Zamir & Christian Seiser & Fausto Grignani & Mitchell A. Lazar & Saverio Minucci & Pier Giuseppe Pelicci - 818-818 Erratum: The cerebellar leucine-rich acidic nuclear protein interacts with ataxin-1
by Antoni Matilla & Beena T. Koshy & Christopher J. Cummings & Toshiaki Isobe & Harry T. Orr & Huda Y. Zoghbi - 818-818 Erratum: Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala
by Michael T. Rogan & Ursula V. Stäubli & Joseph E. LeDoux - 819-819 Developing ‘chemical genetics’
by Brendan Horton - 819-820 Light in the gloom for cell biologists
by Brendan Horton - 820-821 Favouring the brave
by Potter Wickware - 821-821 Salaries and qualifications across Europe
by Owen Goldring - 821-822 Not enough places to go in Europe
by Owen Goldring - 822-822 Opportunities open up in Dresden
by Barbara Miller
February 1998, Volume 391, Issue 6668
- 619-620 $6bn package to cut US carbon emissions comes under attack
by Colin Macilwain - 620-620 ⃛while project wins backing in Canada
by Alison Abbott - 620-620 Physicists oppose plan to slim down fusion reactor⃛
by Alison Abbott - 621-621 Curtain falls on gene sequencing deal
by Declan Butler - 621-621 Drugs merger seeks strength in breadth
by Ehsan Masood - 622-622 Weapons physicist ‘denied access’ to remanufacture data
by Colin Macilwain - 622-622 Tokyo centre takes steps to boost patent output
by Asako Saegusa - 622-622 Stamp marks Max Planck milestone
by Burkhardt Roeper - 623-623 US Senate bills on cloning under fire from researchers
by Meredith Wadman - 623-623 Population explosion raises alarm over lab animal health
by Meredith Wadman - 624-624 Science advice gets a face-lift in Australian reorganization
by Peter Pockley - 624-624 Germany remains split on animal testing
by Barbara Miller - 625-625 South Korea keeps a cool head in a crisis
by David Swinbanks - 628-628 The disciplines of national wealth
by Tiiu Ojasoo - 629-630 Economic returns from the biosphere
by Graciela Chichilnisky & Geoffrey Heal - 631-632 Robust solutions to hard problems
by John Preskill - 632-633 Eyes viewed from the skin
by Heinz Arnheiter - 634-635 Continental mechanics
by John Haines - 635-637 Love thine enemy?
by Bruno J. Ens - 637-638 Unlocking dislocation secrets
by Michael Marder - 638-639 Viral envelope fails to deliver?
by Dani P. Bolognesi & Thomas J. Matthews - 641-641 Spring origami
by Rory Howlett - 641-642 More than transparent
by Roy Sambles - 642-643 Unmasking the killer's accomplice
by Marco Colonna - 643-643 Craters of doom
by David Jones - 644-644 Reginald Victor Jones (1911-97)
by Brebis Bleaney - 645-645 Wright's ruptions
by Martin Kemp - 647-647 Sex and violence in hermaphrodites
by N. K. Michiels & L. J. Newman - 648-649 Gas hydrate crystals may help build reefs
by J. P. Henriet & B. De Mol & S. Pillen & M. Vanneste & D. Van Rooij & W. Versteeg & P. F. Croker & P. M. Shannon & V. Unnithan & S. Bouriak & P. Chachkine - 649-650 Role for lichen melanins in uranium remediation
by J. McLean & O. W. Purvis & B. J. Williamson & E. H. Bailey