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June 1997, Volume 387, Issue 6636
- 837-837 Competition is the spur for German research centres
by Quirin Schiermeir - 837-837 South African museums' status ‘at risk’
by Michael Cherry - 837-837 Geologist set to challenge ‘creationism’ verdict
by Peter Pockley - 838-838 Japan set to face a lonely future in fast-breeder research
by David Swinbanks & Declan Butler - 838-839 Nuclear love affair loses its charm
by Declan Butler - 839-839 Cogema's ‘arrogance’ adds to La Hague's problems
by Declan Butler - 841-841 Cannibalism and kuru
by June Goodfield - 841-841 Serious flaws in UK funding system
by Linda M. Castell & Hillary Rose - 842-842 Tories out on cue
by J. Richard Gott - 842-843 Stranglehold on science
by Peter Cohen - 843-843 You read it here first
by Robert W. Levis & Steven Henikoff - 849-850 Symmetry as destiny — taking a balanced view of IQ
by Steve Blinkhorn - 850-851 The end of the beginnings
by Roberto Abraham - 851-853 Dendritic shock absorbers
by Rafael Yuste - 854-854 Palaeoclimatology
by Philip Newton - 854-855 Solitons light the way
by Allan Boardman - 855-857 A robust view of biochemical pathways
by Leland Hartwell - 857-858 Sulphur, climate and the microbial maze
by Gillian Malin - 858-858 Explorers deliver tea to the pole
by Alison Mitchell - 859-860 Bursting out all over
by Joshua S. Bloom & Malvin Ruderman - 860-860 A level viewing field
by David Jones - 861-861 A peptide antibiotic from human skin
by J. Harder & J. Bartels & E Christophers & J.-M. Schröder - 862-863 The zebrafish organizer requires chordino
by Stefan Schulte-Merker & Kevin J. Lee & Andrew P. McMahon & Matthias Hammerschmidt - 863-864 Have quantum scars been observed?
by T. S. Monteiro & D. Delande & J.-P. Connerade - 864-864 Have quantum scars been observed?
by T. M. Fromhold & F. W. Sheard & L. Eaves & P. B. Wilkinson - 865-866 A richly varied life in physics
by H. B. G. Casimir - 866-867 Our flexible friends
by J. M. W. Slack - 867-868 Earthquakes and elephants
by Keith Cox - 868-868 Fringe maths
by Keith Devlin - 869-875 K+ channel regulation of signal propagation in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons
by Dax A. Hoffman & Jeffrey C. Magee & Costa M. Colbert & Daniel Johnston - 876-878 The optical counterpart to the γ-ray burst GRB970508
by S. G. Djorgovski & M. R. Metzger & S. R. Kulkarni & S. C. Odewahn & R. R. Gal & M. A. Pahre & D. A. Frail & M. Feroci & E. Costa & E. Palazzi - 878-880 Spectral constraints on the redshift of the optical counterpart to the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997
by M. R. Metzger & S. G. Djorgovski & S. R. Kulkarni & C. C. Steidel & K. L. Adelberger & D. A. Frail & E. Costa & F. Frontera - 880-883 Self-trapping of incoherent white light
by Matthew Mitchell & Mordechai Segev - 883-885 Crystallization of hard-sphere colloids in microgravity
by Jixiang Zhu & Min Li & R. Rogers & W. Meyer & R. H. Ottewill & W. B. Russel & P. M. Chaikin - 885-888 Dissolved metals in surface sediment and a microbial mat at 100-μm resolution
by W. Davison & G. R. Fones & G. W. Grime - 888-891 Measuring the pulse of a plume with the sedimentary record
by Nicky White & Bryan Lovell - 891-894 A new route for synthesis of dimethylsulphoniopropionate in marine algae
by Douglas A. Gage & David Rhodes & Kurt D. Nolte & Wayne A. Hicks & Thomas Leustek & Arthur J. L. Cooper & Andrew D. Hanson - 894-897 Grazing-activated chemical defence in a unicellular marine alga
by Gordon V. Wolfe & Michael Steinke & Gunter O. Kirst - 897-900 Effects of sea-ice extent and krill or salp dominance on the Antarctic food web
by V. Loeb & V. Siegel & O. Holm-Hansen & R. Hewitt & W. Fraser & W. Trivelpiece & S. Trivelpiece - 900-903 Corticofugal modulation of frequency processing in bat auditory system
by Yunfeng Zhang & Nobuo Suga & Jun Yan - 903-908 Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans
by Carl T. Montague & I. Sadaf Farooqi & Jonathan P. Whitehead & Maria A. Soos & Harald Rau & Nicholas J. Wareham & Ciaran P. Sewter & Janet E. Digby & Shehla N. Mohammed & Jane A. Hurst & Christopher H. Cheetham# & Alison R. Earley# & Anthony H. Barnett & Johannes B. Prins & Stephen O'Rahilly - 908-912 Fringe modulates Notch–ligand interactions
by Vladislav M. Panin & Venizelos Papayannopoulos & Richa Wilson & Kenneth D. Irvine - 913-917 Robustness in simple biochemical networks
by N. Barkai & S. Leibler - 917-921 A family of cytokine-inducible inhibitors of signalling
by Robyn Starr & Tracy A. Willson & Elizabeth M. Viney & Leecia J. L. Murray & John R. Rayner & Brendan J. Jenkins & Thomas J. Gonda & Warren S. Alexander & Donald Metcalf & Nicos A. Nicola & Douglas J. Hilton - 921-924 A new protein containing an SH2 domain that inhibits JAK kinases
by Takaho A. Endo & Masaaki Masuhara & Masahiro Yokouchi & Ritsu Suzuki & Hiroshi Sakamoto & Kaoru Mitsui & Akira Matsumoto & Shyu Tanimura & Motoaki Ohtsubo & Hiroyuki Misawa & Tadaaki Miyazaki & Nogueira Leonor & Tadatsugu Taniguchi & Takashi Fujita & Yuzuru Kanakura & Seturo Komiya & Akihiko Yoshimura - 924-929 Structure and function of a new STAT-induced STAT inhibitor
by Tetsuji Naka & Masashi Narazaki & Moritoshi Hirata & Tomoshige Matsumoto & Seijiro Minamoto & Atsufumi Aono & Norihiro Nishimoto & Tadahiro Kajita & Tetsuya Taga & Kazuyuki Yoshizaki & Shizuo Akira & Tadamitsu Kishimoto - 929-931 Repair of DNA loops involves DNA-mismatch and nucleotide-excision repair proteins
by David T. Kirkpatrick & Thomas D. Petes - 932-932 Erratum: Myc and Ras collaborate in inducing accumulation of active cyclin E/Cdk2 and E2F
by Gustavo Leone & James DeGregori & Rosalie Sears & Laszlo Jakoi & Joseph R. Nevins - 933-936 Finding the meaning in genes
by Brendan Horton
June 1997, Volume 387, Issue 6635
- 745-745 Statistician is named to UK science post
by David Dickson - 745-745 NIH backers take Clinton to task over impact of budget pact
by Meredith Wadman - 746-746 Collapse of study complicates US participation
by Colin Macilwain - 746-746 Global fusion plans face three-year delay
by Alison Abbott - 747-747 Space physicists plead for extended solar missions
by Tony Reichhardt - 747-747 Tritium leak protests prompt Canada to suspend discharges
by David Spurgeon - 748-748 Republicans seek to widen cloning ban
by Meredith Wadman - 748-748 Palaeontologists protest at Web sale of hominid remains
by Ehsan Masood - 749-749 Britain extends controls to combat risk to sheep
by Declan Butler - 749-749 Brussels reshapes science panels after BSE criticism
by Declan Butler - 750-750 University ‘failed to acknowledge exoneration’
by Alison Abbott - 750-750 Fraud claims shake German complacency
by Alison Abbott - 751-751 Nuclear triggers get subcritical scrutiny
by Colin Macilwain - 754-754 Is cloning an attack on human dignity?
by John Harris - 754-754 Hubble ‘worth the price’
by Jay M. Pasachoff - 754-754 Protect patients’ rights
by Philip L. Bereano - 755-755 A laser that sings a different tune
by Sean Washburn - 756-757 In a blink of the mind's eye
by Jeremy M. Wolfe - 757-759 New sights in the high-energy sky
by Hans Bloemen - 759-760 Insect pollinators see the light
by Peter D. Moore - 760-761 Taking the measure of uncertainty
by Shripad Tuljapurkar - 761-763 Super slippery solids
by Somuri Prasad & Jeffrey Zabinski - 763-763 A science futures market
by David Jones - 764-764 Keith Roberts Porter (1912-97)
by Manfred Schliwa - 765-765 What keeps sandcastles standing?
by D. J. Hornbaker & R. Albert & I. Albert & A.-L. Barabási & P. Schiffer - 766-767 Natural isotope markers in salmon
by Brian P. Kennedy & Carol L. Folt & Joel D. Blum & C. Page Chamberlain - 767-767 How many replicons make a nodule?
by Xavier Perret & William Broughton - 767-767 DNA fingerprints from fingerprints
by Roland A. H. van Oorschot & Maxwell K. Jones - 767-768 Unique morphology of the human eye
by Hiromi Kobayashi & Shiro Kohshima - 769-770 Politics of eighteenth-century science
by Owen Gingerich - 770-770 Cleaning devils
by Richard Davenport-Hines - 770-771 Knowing our minds
by Liam Hudson - 771-772 The latest C-theory
by Steven H. Strogatz - 772-772 Truth buried in history
by David Baltimore - 773-776 Double identity for proteins of the Bcl-2 family
by John C. Reed - 777-782 Laser action by tuning the oscillator strength
by Jrme Faist & Federico Capasso & Carlo Sirtori & Deborah L. Sivco & Albert L. Hutchinson & Alfred Y. Cho - 783-785 Discovery of an X-ray afterglow associated with the γ-ray burst of 28 February 1997
by E. Costa & F. Frontera & J. Heise & M. Feroci & J. in 't Zand & F. Fiore & M. N. Cinti & D. Dal Fiume & L. Nicastro & M. Orlandini & E. Palazzi & M. Rapisarda# & G. Zavattini & R. Jager & A. Parmar & A. Owens & S. Molendi & G. Cusumano & M. C. Maccarone & S. Giarrusso & A. Coletta & L. A. Antonelli & P. Giommi & J. M. Muller & L. Piro & R. C. Butler - 785-788 A possible long-lived belt of objects between Uranus and Neptune
by Matthew J. Holman - 788-791 Cluster-derived structures and conductance fluctuations in nanowires
by R. N. Barnett & Uzi Landman - 791-793 Hollow nanoparticles of WS2 as potential solid-state lubricants
by L. Rapoport & Yu. Bilik & Y. Feldman & M. Homyonfer & S. R. Cohen & R. Tenne - 793-796 Low nitrate:phosphate ratios in the global ocean
by T. Tyrrell & C. S. Law - 796-799 Contrasting physiological and structural vegetation feedbacks in climate change simulations
by Richard A. Betts & Peter M. Cox & Susan E. Lee & F. Ian Woodward - 799-802 Wing upstroke and the evolution of flapping flight
by Samuel O. Poore & A. Sánchez-Haiman & G. E. Goslow - 803-805 Doubling of world population unlikely
by Wolfgang Lutz & Warren Sanderson & Sergei Scherbov - 805-807 Attentional requirements in a ‘preattentive’ feature search task
by Julian S. Joseph & Marvin M. Chun & Ken Nakayama - 808-810 Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities
by John Duncan & Sander Martens & Robert Ward - 810-814 The small GTP-binding protein Rab3A regulates a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion
by Martin Geppert & Yukiko Goda & Charles F. Stevens & Thomas C. Südhof - 814-819 C-terminal binding domain of Rho GDP-dissociation inhibitor directs N-terminal inhibitory peptide to GTPases
by Yuying Q. Gosser & Tyzoon K. Nomanbhoy & Behzad Aghazadeh & Danny Manor & Carolyn Combs & Richard A. Cerione & Michael K. Rosen - 819-823 Synergistic activation of transcription by CBP and p53
by Wei Gu & Xiao-Lu Shi & Robert G. Roeder - 823-827 Binding and modulation of p53 by p300/CBP coactivators
by Nancy L. Lill & Steven R. Grossman & Doron Ginsberg & James DeCaprio & David M. Livingston - 827-830 Structure of isopenicillinN synthase complexed with substrate and the mechanism ofpenicillin formation
by Peter L. Roach & Ian J. Clifton & Charles M. H. Hensgens & Norio Shibata & Christopher J. Schofield & Janos Hajdu & Jack E. Baldwin - 830-830 Erratum: Photonic crystals: putting a new twist on light
by J. D. Joannopoulos & Pierre R. Villeneuve & Shanhui Fan
June 1997, Volume 387, Issue 6634
- 639-639 ‘Quick’ Mars mission proposal puts pressure on ESA's plans
by Alison Abbott - 640-640 Britain seeks leadership role with ambitious greenhouse-gas targets
by Ehsan Masood - 640-641 Clinton sets a careful course on climate…
by Colin Macilwain - 641-641 …as Japan seeks to bridge split on emissions policy
by Richard Nathan - 642-642 ‘No change’ while NIH revises peer review
by Meredith Wadman - 642-642 Arecibo enters ‘new era’ in astronomy
by Steve Nadis - 643-643 Germany follows science council's advice on closures
by Quirin Schiermeier - 643-643 Japanese budget austerity puts science plans at risk
by Robert Triendl - 643-643 Spending cuts threaten ambitions to host ITER
by Richard Nathan & Robert Triendl - 644-644 White House bill would ban human cloning
by Meredith Wadman - 644-644 US opens reagent repository to boost malaria vaccine research
by Meredith Wadman - 645-645 French science set to shift up a gear
by Declan Butler - 647-647 Once upon a time…
by Bill Mixon - 647-647 NERC maligned
by Brian L. Bayne - 647-647 Funding for malaria genome sequencing
by Stephen L. Hoffman & William H. Bancroft & Gottlieb Michael & Stephanie L. James & Enriqueta C. Bond Burroughs & John R. Stephenson & Michael J. Morgan - 648-648 Demise of the monograph
by Michael S. Y. Lee - 648-649 Events at Jena institute
by Stephan Diekmann - 649-649 Biology, not microbiology
by Volker Vossius & Nick Scott-Ram - 650-650 The ‘piddling school’ of geology
by N. S. Haile - 651-652 The Earth's secret companion
by Carl D. Murray - 652-653 A father's imprint on his daughter's thinking
by Peter McGuffin & Jane Scourfield - 653-654 Aluminium under the spotlight
by Jean-Paul Poirier - 654-655 Something new to hang your HAT on
by Marc Montminy - 655-657 The restless heart of a spiral
by Arun V. Holden - 657-657 The ends of understanding
by Paul Nurse - 658-659 The frontier beyond Neptune
by Glen R. Stewart - 659-662 The tinkerer's evolving tool-box
by E. Richard Moxon & David S. Thaler - 662-663 The first two billion years
by Eörs Szathmáry - 663-663 Pure liquid sound
by David Jones - 664-664 John C. Eccles (1903-97)
by Masao Ito - 665-666 Tracking fish with electronic tags
by J. D. Metcalfe & G. P. Arnold - 666-667 Long-term potentiation in awake mutant mice
by M. L. Errington & T. V. P. Bliss & R. J. Morris & S. Laroche & S. Davis - 667-668 Rhodopsin evolution in the dark
by Keith A. Crandall & David M. Hillis - 668-668 Chirality errors in nucleic acid structures
by Peter Schultze & Juli Feigon - 669-670 Medicine in the marketplace
by Edward S. Golub - 670-671 War of the rosé
by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - 671-672 A Darwinian Universe?
by George Ellis - 673-676 Signalling through the lipid products of phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase
by Alex Toker & Lewis C. Cantley - 677-684 The transcriptional co-activator p/CIP binds CBP and mediates nuclear-receptor function
by Joseph Torchia & David W. Rose & Juan Inostroza & Yasutomi Kamei & Stefan Westin & Christopher K. Glass & Michael G. Rosenfeld - 685-686 An asteroidal companion to the Earth
by Paul A. Wiegert & Kimmo A. Innanen & Seppo Mikkola - 686-688 A silicon/iron-disilicide light-emitting diode operating at a wavelength of 1.5 μm
by D. Leong & M. Harry & K. J. Reeson & K. P. Homewood - 688-691 Single-molecule optical switching of terrylene in p-terphenyl
by F. Kulzer & S. Kummer & R. Matzke & C. Bräuchle & Th. Basche´ - 691-694 Control of atmospheric export of dust from North Africa by the North Atlantic Oscillation
by Cyril Moulin & Claude E. Lambert & François Dulac & Uri Dayan - 694-696 Perovskite as a possible sink for ferric iron in the lower mantle
by Catherine McCammon - 696-699 Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia
by Richard Roberts & Grahame Walsh & Andrew Murray & Jon Olley & Rhys Jones & Michael Morwood & Claudio Tuniz & Ewan Lawson & Michael Macphail & Doreen Bowdery & Ian Naumann - 700-702 Role of mutator alleles in adaptive evolution
by F. Taddei & M. Radman & J. Maynard-Smith & B. Toupance & P. H. Gouyon & B. Godelle - 703-705 Evolution of high mutation rates in experimental populations of E. coli
by Paul D. Sniegowski & Philip J. Gerrish & Richard E. Lenski - 705-708 Evidence from Turner's syndrome of an imprinted X-linked locus affecting cognitive function
by D. H. Skuse & R. S. James & D. V. M. Bishop & B. Coppin & P. Dalton & G. Aamodt-Leeper & M. Bacarese-Hamilton & C. Creswell & R. McGurk & P. A. Jacobs - 708-713 Molecular evidence for an ancient duplication of the entire yeast genome
by Kenneth H. Wolfe & Denis C. Shields - 713-717 A dendritic-cell-derived C–C chemokine that preferentially attracts naive T cells
by Gosse J. Adema & Franca Hartgers & Riet Verstraten & Edwin de Vries & Gill Marland & Satish Menon & Jessica Foster & Yuming Xu & Pete Nooyen & Terrill McClanahan & Kevin B. Bacon & Carl G. Figdor - 717-721 A GPI-linked protein that interacts with Ret to form a candidate neurturin receptor
by Robert D. Klein & Daniel Sherman & Wei-Hsien Ho & Donna Stone & Gregory L. Bennett & Barbara Moffat & Richard Vandlen & Laura Simmons & Qimin Gu & Jo-Anne Hongo & Brigitte Devaux & Kris Poulsen & Mark Armanini & Chika Nozaki & Naoya Asai & Audrey Goddard & Heidi Phillips & Chris E. Henderson & Masahide Takahashi & Arnon Rosenthal - 721-724 Neurturin responsiveness requires a GPI-linked receptor and the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase
by Anna Buj-Bello & Jimi Adu & Luzia G. P. Piñón & Antony Horton & Jane Thompson & Arnon Rosenthal & Miguel Chinchetru & Vladimir L. Buchman & Alun M. Davies - 725-729 Gln 63 of Rho is deamidated by Escherichia coli cytotoxic necrotizing factor-1
by Gudula Schmidt & Peter Sehr & Matthias Wilm & Jörg Selzer & Matthias Mann & Klaus Aktories - 729-733 Toxin-induced activation of the G protein p21 Rho by deamidation of glutamine
by Gilles Flatau & Emmanuel Lemichez & Michel Gauthier & Pierre Chardin & Sonia Paris & Carla Fiorentini & Patrice Boquet - 733-736 A signature motif in transcriptional co-activators mediates binding to nuclear receptors
by David M. Heery & Eric Kalkhoven & Susan Hoare & Malcolm G. Parker - 737-737 Erratum: Overview of the yeast genome
by H. W. Mewes & K. Albermann & M. Bähr & D. Frishman & A. Gleissner & J. Hani & K. Heumann & K. Kleine & A. Maierl & S. G. Oliver & F. Pfeiffer & A. Zollner - 739-742 Microorganisms under scrutiny
by Brendan Horton
June 1997, Volume 387, Issue 6633
- 535-535 Russian academy elects younger blood
by Carl Levitin - 535-535 New French government aims to boost research job prospects
by Declan Butler - 536-536 Germany rejects genome data ‘isolation’
by Alison Abbott - 536-536 European ethics advisers back cloning ban
by Declan Butler - 537-537 Europe seeks to head off oil-exporters' veto on climate treaty
by Ehsan Masood - 538-538 Italian universities move to peer review for grants
by Alison Abbott - 538-538 Microsoft ‘in talks’ to set up research base in Cambridge
by Ehsan Masood - 539-539 Politics fuels French synchrotron row
by Declan Butler - 539-539 France and Britain drop idea of joint machine
by Declan Butler - 540-540 Geologist loses ‘creationism’ challenge
by Peter Pockley - 540-540 US threat to end science agreement with India over patent law
by K. S. Jayaraman - 541-541 Weapons labs turn to computer simulation
by Colin Macilwain - 543-543 Science as a cultural construct
by Andrew Pickering - 543-544 Science as a cultural construct
by Collins, H. M. & Pinch, Trevor - 544-544 Science as a cultural construct
by David Bloor & Donald MacKenzie - 544-545 Science as a cultural construct
by Federico Capasso - 545-546 Science as a cultural construct
by Kurt Gottfried & Kenneth G. Wilson - 546-546 Patents and royalties
by Robert B. Helling - 547-548 Words and rules in the human brain
by Steven Pinker - 548-549 Quantum procrastination
by P. T. Greenland - 549-550 The platypus put in its place
by David Penny & Masami Hasegawa - 551-552 Is speciation no accident?
by Roger K. Butlin & Tom Tregenza - 553-554 Husbandry at the oldest henge
by Elizabeth Aveling - 554-555 Time to get excited by GABA
by Christopher S. Colwell - 555-557 Switching channels makes sense
by Anthony P. F. Turner - 557-558 Hypermutation under stress
by Bryn A. Bridges - 558-559 The secret life of the dipole
by Jeeva S. Anandan - 559-559 Flower power
by David Jones - 560-560 Norman Pirie (1907-97)
by Leslie Fowden & Stan Pierpoint - 561-561 Why drinking green tea could prevent cancer
by Jerzy Jankun & Steven H. Selman & Rafal Swiercz & Ewa Skrzypczak-Jankun - 562-563 Domatia mediate plantarthropod mutualism
by Anurag A. Agrawal & Richard Karban - 563-563 Salt enhances flavour by suppressing bitterness
by P. A. S. Breslin & G. K. Beauchamp - 563-564 Structures of mollusc shell framework proteins
by Shu Sudo & Takahiko Fujikawa & Takeshi Nagakura & Takeshi Ohkubo & Kesami Sakaguchi & Minoru Tanaka & Kunio Nakashima & Takao Takahashi - 565-566 Speculation on population
by Joel E. Cohen - 566-567 Nostalgia for the USSR
by Zhores A. Medvedev - 567-568 Squabbles in space
by Roy Gibson - 568-568 Creatures of mystery
by J. L . Cloudsley-Thompson - 569-572 Functional rafts in cell membranes
by Kai Simons & Elina Ikonen - 573-575 A new dynamical class of object in the outer Solar System
by Jane Luu & Brian G. Marsden & David Jewitt & Chadwick A. Trujillo & Carl W. Hergenrother & Jun Chen & Warren B. Offutt - 575-577 Experimental evidence for non-exponential decay in quantum tunnelling
by Steven R. Wilkinson & Cyrus F. Bharucha & Martin C. Fischer & Kirk W. Madison & Patrick R. Morrow & Qian Niu & Bala Sundaram & Mark G. Raizen