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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 - 650-650 Electric current stimulates laughter
by Itzhak Fried & Charles L. Wilson & Katherine A. MacDonald & Eric J. Behnke - 651-652 Wobbly pursuit of extrasolar planets
by David W. Hughes - 652-652 Letters to Leibniz in Berlin
by Alison Abbott - 652-653 Life laws
by Per Bak - 653-654 Individual view
by Mark Ridley - 654-654 Novel adaptation
by Marek Kohn - 655-659 The motion of crustal blocks driven by flow of the lower lithosphere and implications for slip rates of continental strike-slip faults
by S. J. Bourne & P. C. England & B. Parsons - 660-666 Crystal structure of the yeast MATα2/MCM1/DNA ternary complex
by Song Tan & Timothy J. Richmond - 667-669 Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays
by T. W. Ebbesen & H. J. Lezec & H. F. Ghaemi & T. Thio & P. A. Wolff - 669-672 Connecting atomistic and mesoscale simulations of crystal plasticity
by Vasily Bulatov & Farid F. Abraham & Ladislas Kubin & Benoit Devincre & Sidney Yip - 672-675 Impact energy measurement in time-of-flight mass spectrometry with cryogenic microcalorimeters
by G. C. Hilton & John M. Martinis & D. A. Wollman & K. D. Irwin & L. L. Dulcie & Daniel Gerber & Patrick M. Gillevet & Damian Twerenbold - 675-678 Increased stratospheric ozone depletion due to mountain-induced atmospheric waves
by K. S. Carslaw & M. Wirth & A. Tsias & B. P. Luo & A. Dörnbrack & M. Leutbecher & H. Volkert & W. Renger & J. T. Bacmeister & E. Reimer & Th. Peter - 678-682 Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes
by K. R. Briffa & F. H. Schweingruber & P. D. Jones & T. J. Osborn & S. G. Shiyatov & E. A. Vaganov - 682-685 Evidence for partial melt at the core–mantle boundary north of Tonga from the strong scattering of seismic waves
by John E. Vidale & Michael A. H. Hedlin - 685-687 The breeding structure of a tropical keystone plant resource
by John D. Nason & E. Allen Herre & J. L. Hamrick - 687-691 Female–female cooperation in polygynous oystercatchers
by Dik Heg & Rob van Treuren - 691-695 Evidence for evolutionary conservation of sex-determining genes
by Christopher S. Raymond & Caroline E. Shamu & Michael M. Shen & Kelly J. Seifert & Betsy Hirsch & Jonathan Hodgkin & David Zarkower - 695-697 Three neural tubes in mouse embryos with mutations in the T-box gene Tbx6
by Deborah L. Chapman & Virginia E. Papaioannou - 697-700 Neural noise limitations on infant visual sensitivity
by Ann M. Skoczenski & Anthony M. Norcia - 700-703 Requirement for IRF-1 in the microenvironment supporting development of natural killer cells
by Kouetsu Ogasawara & Shigeaki Hida & Nazli Azimi & Yutaka Tagaya & Takeo Sato & Taeko Yokochi-Fukuda & Thomas A. Waldmann & Tadatsugu Taniguchi & Shinsuke Taki - 703-707 Immunoreceptor DAP12 bearing a tyrosine-based activation motif is involved in activating NK cells
by Lewis L. Lanier & Brian C. Corliss & Jun Wu & Clement Leong & Joseph H. Phillips - 707-710 Involvement of p85 in p53-dependent apoptotic response to oxidative stress
by Yuxin Yin & Yasuo Terauchi & Gregory G. Solomon & Shinichi Aizawa & P. N. Rangarajan & Yoshio Yazaki & Takashi Kadowaki & J. Carl Barrett - 711-715 Location of enhancers is essential for the imprinting of H19 and Igf2 genes
by Andrea L. Webber & Robert S. Ingram & John M. Levorse & Shirley M. Tilghman - 715-718 Rad23 links DNA repair to the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway
by Cherylene Schauber & Li Chen & Prasad Tongaonkar & Irving Vega & David Lambertson & Warren Potts & Kiran Madura
February 1998, Volume 391, Issue 6667
- 519-519 Spain blocks new Framework programme
by Alison Abbott - 519-520 French ministry reopens inquiry into conduct of INSERM unit
by Declan Butler & Olivier De Gandt - 520-520 New Hubble institute chief seeks broader focus and more work
by Tony Reichhardt - 521-521 NASA cuts Earth observation, boosts ‘gravitational biology’
by Tony Reichhardt - 521-521 NSF returns to favour with biggest increase
by Colin Macilwain - 521-522 Biomedical research shines in Clinton budget bonanza
by Colin Macilwain - 522-522 NIH basks in broad support
by Meredith Wadman - 522-522 Global warming is bright spot for Energy
by Colin Macilwain - 523-523 UK consults public on clones for research
by David Dickson - 523-523 US sees flurry of bills in bids to legislate
by Meredith Wadman - 524-524 ‘Collaboration could restore excellence’
by Colin Macilwain - 524-525 Latin America steps up its science tempo
by Colin Macilwain - 525-525 Argentina gives peer review a boost
by Colin Macilwain - 528-528 Order and justice in French universities
by A. D. Strosberg - 528-528 Risk and benefit
by Tom Crompton & John Barrett & Chris Gliddon & Julian Kinderlerer & George Tzotzos - 528-528 Place of science on European agenda
by Maurice Guéron - 529-530 Animal embryos in deep time
by Stefan Bengtson - 530-531 A neglected dimension
by Mark L. Wells - 531-532 1959 and all that
by Simon Wain-Hobson - 532-533 The strongest size
by Sidney Yip - 533-534 The cancer-chromatin connection
by Ronald A. DePinho - 536-537 Feedbacks from the sea floor
by Clare E. Reimers - 537-538 Hair apparent
by Kevin Davies - 539-540 Disciplines bound by pressure
by Paul F. McMillan - 540-540 Natural attraction
by Tim Lincoln - 540-541 Net progress
by Kevin Burton & Daniel L. Farkas - 541-541 The seeing ear
by David Jones - 542-542 Vladimir Prelog (1906-98)
by Jack D. Dunitz - 543-543 Onwin's holistics
by Martin Kemp - 545-546 Worms bask in extreme temperatures
by S. C. Cary & T. Shank & J. Stein - 546-546 Phytoplankton change in the North Atlantic
by Philip C. Reid & Martin Edwards & Harold G. Hunt & Andrew J. Warner - 547-547 Language steamrollers?
by Wolfgang E. Sterrer - 547-547 Language steamrollers?
by Jared Diamond - 547-547 Language steamrollers?
by John Edward Terrell & John Hines & Terry L. Hunt & Chapurukha Kusimba & Carl Lipo - 548-548 Paraflagellar rod is vital for trypanosome motility
by Philippe Bastin & Trevor Sherwin & Keith Gull - 549-550 The story of ewe, again
by Robert Bud - 550-551 Homage to Earth
by Peter Westbroek - 552-552 Probing the sea
by N. G. Carr - 552-552 Patchy coverage
by Thomas F. Stocker - 553-558 Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite
by Shuhai Xiao & Yun Zhang & Andrew H. Knoll - 559-561 A stellar origin for the short-lived nuclides in the early Solar System
by S. Sahijpal & J. N. Goswami & A. M. Davis & L. Grossman & R. S. Lewis - 561-563 Softening of nanocrystalline metals at very small grain sizes
by Jakob Schiøtz & Francesco D. Di Tolla & Karsten W. Jacobsen - 563-566 Compound refractive optics for the imaging and focusing of low-energy neutrons
by M. R. Eskildsen & P. L. Gammel & E. D. Isaacs & C. Detlefs & K. Mortensen & D. J. Bishop - 566-568 Chiral discrimination by chemical force microscopy
by Rachel McKendry & Maria-Elena Theoclitou & Trevor Rayment & Chris Abell - 568-572 Spontaneous assembly of marine dissolved organic matter into polymer gels
by Wei-Chun Chin & Mónica V. Orellana & Pedro Verdugo - 572-575 Influence of oxygen exposure time on organic carbon preservation in continental margin sediments
by Hilairy E. Hartnett & Richard G. Keil & John I. Hedges & Allan H. Devol - 575-577 Oceanic transport of subpolar climate signals to mid-depth subtropical waters
by Ruth G. Curry & Michael S. McCartney & Terrence M. Joyce - 577-580 The generation of plankton patchiness by turbulent stirring
by Edward R. Abraham - 580-584 Collinear stimuli regulate visual responses depending on cell's contrast threshold
by Uri Polat & Keiko Mizobe & Mark W. Pettet & Takuji Kasamatsu & Anthony M. Norcia - 584-587 Pathogenesis of two axonopathies does not require axonal neurofilaments
by J. Eyer & D. W. Cleveland & P. C. Wong & A. C. Peterson - 587-591 Blocking apoptosis prevents blindness in Drosophila retinal degeneration mutants
by Florence F. Davidson & Hermann Steller - 591-594 CD40 ligand on activated platelets triggers an inflammatory reaction of endothelial cells
by Volker Henn & Joseph R. Slupsky & Michael Gräfe & Ioannis Anagnostopoulos & Reinhold Förster & Gert Müller-Berghaus & Richard A. Kroczek - 594-597 An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic
by Tuofu Zhu & Bette T. Korber & Andre J. Nahmias & Edward Hooper & Paul M. Sharp & David D. Ho - 597-601 Retinoblastoma protein recruits histone deacetylase to repress transcription
by Alexander Brehm & Eric A. Miska & Dennis J. McCance & Juliet L. Reid & Andrew J. Bannister & Tony Kouzarides - 601-605 Retinoblastoma protein represses transcription by recruiting a histone deacetylase
by L. Magnaghi-Jaulin & R. Groisman & I. Naguibneva & P. Robin & S. Lorain & J. P. Le Villain & F. Troalen & D. Trouche & A. Harel-Bellan - 605-608 The conduction pore of a cardiac potassium channel
by Kwok-Keung Tai & Steve A. N. Goldstein - 608-612 Design of potent selective zinc-mediated serine protease inhibitors
by Bradley A. Katz & James M. Clark & Janet S. Finer-Moore & Thomas E. Jenkins & Charles R. Johnson & Michael J. Ross & Christine Luong & William R. Moore & Robert M. Stroud - 613-614 Telemicroscopy via the Internet
by Guenter Wolf & Detlev Petersen & Manfred Dietel & Iver peterson
January 1998, Volume 391, Issue 6666
- 421-421 Japan's research institutes face cuts in maintenance budgets
by Asako Saegusa - 421-421 Green light for US spallation source
by Dave Kramer - 422-422 German chemist sues over fraud allegation
by Quirin Schiermeier - 423-423 Earth today, Eros in a year's time, for asteroid spacecraft
by Tony Reichhardt - 423-423 FDA turns down moratorium demand on xenotransplants
by Meredith Wadman - 424-424 Genome unit falls foul of campus politics in India
by K. S. Jayaraman - 424-424 Kennedy backed on use of tobacco money
by Meredith Wadman - 424-424 US ‘split’ over support for research project database
by Colin Macilwain - 425-425 Germany's institute for scientific film could face final curtain
by Quirin Schiermeier - 425-425 NASA ‘needs better analytical equipment’
by Tony Reichardt - 426-426 ‘Purchasing’ policy still stirs heated debate
by Peter Pockley - 426-427 New Zealand puts its science to profit
by Peter Pockley - 427-427 Government under fire from academics
by Peter Pockley - 430-430 Callan's canyons and Voronoi's cells
by Adrian Webster - 431-431 Maintaining science culture in Japan
by Minoru Oda - 433-434 Peeling the Chinese onion
by Jared M. Diamond - 434-435 Appreciate the gravity
by Thomas A. Herring - 435-436 Making memories stick?
by Cori Bargmann - 436-438 Reading the minor groove
by Claude Hélène - 438-439 Genes blossom from a weed
by Joseph R. Ecker - 439-439 Positronic lithium and the many-body problem
by J.-P. Connerade - 441-442 Death cycle and Swiss army knives
by Michael O. Hengartner - 442-443 A Roundabout way of avoiding the midline
by Barry Dickson