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November 1999, Volume 402, Issue 6757
- 16-16 Science in culture
by John Carmody - 17-17 Are you serious, Dr Mitchell?
by Leslie E. Orgel - 19-19 Improving the neighbourhood
by Arthur C. Clarke - 21-22 Catching the first fish
by Philippe Janvier - 22-23 Maxwell's other demon
by Frank Wilczek - 23-26 Functional links between proteins
by Andrej Šali - 26-27 Latest spin on the core
by F. A. Dahlen - 27-29 Linking catalysts to chemistry
by Robert Freedman - 29-30 Clumps that survive to tell a tale
by Sidney van den Bergh - 30-31 Grabbing phosphoproteins
by Michael B. Yaffe & Lewis C. Cantley - 31-31 Chain in miniature
by David Jones - 33-34 Trans-gender induction of hair follicles
by Amanda J. Reynolds & Clifford Lawrence & Peter B. Cserhalmi-Friedman & Angela M. Christiano & Colin A. B. Jahoda - 34-35 Restoration of an inbred adder population
by Thomas Madsen & Richard Shine & Mats Olsson & Håkan Wittzell - 35-35 The world smells different to each nostril
by Noam Sobel & Rehan M. Khan & Amnon Saltman & Edith V. Sullivan & John D. E. Gabrieli - 36-36 Trichromatic vision in prosimians
by Ying Tan & Wen-Hsiung Li - 37-41 Nonlinear dynamics of lava dome extrusion
by O. Melnik & R. S. J. Sparks - 42-46 Lower Cambrian vertebrates from south China
by D-G. Shu & H-L. Luo & S. Conway Morris & X-L. Zhang & S-X. Hu & L. Chen & J. Han & M. Zhu & Y. Li & L-Z. Chen - 47-52 Natural engineering principles of electron tunnelling in biological oxidation–reduction
by Christopher C. Page & Christopher C. Moser & Xiaoxi Chen & P. Leslie Dutton - 53-55 Debris streams in the solar neighbourhood as relicts from the formation of the Milky Way
by Amina Helmi & Simon D. M. White & P. Tim de Zeeuw & HongSheng Zhao - 55-57 Multiple stellar populations in the globular cluster ω Centauri as tracers of a merger event
by Y.-W. Lee & J.-M. Joo & Y.-J. Sohn & S.-C. Rey & H.-c. Lee & A. R. Walker - 57-59 Discovery of a planet orbiting a binary star system from gravitational microlensing
by D. P. Bennett & S. H. Rhie & A. C. Becker & N. Butler & J. Dann & S. Kaspi & E. M. Leibowitz & Y. Lipkin & D. Maoz & H. Mendelson & B. A. Peterson & J. Quinn & O. Shemmer & S. Thomson & S. E. Turner - 60-63 The inverse band-structure problem of finding an atomic configuration with given electronic properties
by Alberto Franceschetti & Alex Zunger - 63-66 Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum
by Johan Kleman & Clas Hättestrand - 66-69 Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations
by Gabi Laske & Guy Masters - 69-72 Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function
by Owen L. Petchey & P. Timon McPhearson & Timothy M. Casey & Peter J. Morin - 72-75 A network of fast-spiking cells in the neocortex connected by electrical synapses
by Mario Galarreta & Shaul Hestrin - 75-79 Two networks of electrically coupled inhibitory neurons in neocortex
by Jay R. Gibson & Michael Beierlein & Barry W. Connors - 79-83 Complex lipid determines tissue-specific replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice
by Jeffery S. Cox & Bing Chen & Michael McNeil & William R. Jacobs - 83-86 A combined algorithm for genome-wide prediction of protein function
by Edward M. Marcotte & Matteo Pellegrini & Michael J. Thompson & Todd O. Yeates & David Eisenberg - 86-90 Protein interaction maps for complete genomes based on gene fusion events
by Anton J. Enright & Ioannis Iliopoulos & Nikos C. Kyrpides & Christos A. Ouzounis - 90-93 Glycoproteins form mixed disulphides with oxidoreductases during folding in living cells
by Maurizio Molinari & Ari Helenius - 93-96 The CoRNR motif controls the recruitment of corepressors by nuclear hormone receptors
by Xiao Hu & Mitchell A. Lazar - 96-100 Mitochondrial DNA repairs double-strand breaks in yeast chromosomes
by Miria Ricchetti & Cécile Fairhead & Bernard Dujon - 100-103 Mechanical unfolding intermediates in titin modules
by Piotr E. Marszalek & Hui Lu & Hongbin Li & Mariano Carrion-Vazquez & Andres F. Oberhauser & Klaus Schulten & Julio M. Fernandez
October 1999, Volume 401, Issue 6756
- 831-831 Developing countries look for guidance in GM crops debate…
by Colin Macilwain - 831-832 …as Rockefeller head warns of backlash
by Sally Lehrman - 832-832 Japanese companies join international fight against malaria
by Asako Saegusa - 833-833 Database to standardize mouse phenotyping
by Alison Abbott - 833-834 Japan wins bid for top Unesco post
by David Dickson & Peter Pockley - 834-834 US Congressman boycotts science meeting with China
by Rex Dalton - 834-834 European biologists unite to lobby for more money
by Alison Abbott - 835-835 Indian government faces controversy over new IT ministry
by K. S. Jayaraman - 835-835 Ukrainian scientists charged over transfer of data to West
by Natasha Loder & Carl Levitin - 836-836 MIT promises us the sensitive computer …
by Steve Nadis - 836-836 … and may look to Ireland for expansion
by Natasha Loder - 837-837 Bringing a community-based vision to the heart of Europe's research
by David Dickson - 841-841 Accurate radiometers should measure the output of the Sun
by T. J. Quinn & C. Fröhlich - 841-842 Finding the complete bioinformaticist
by David Jones - 842-842 Pasadena pranks
by Jean-Paul Revel & A. B. Ruddock - 842-842 Hospital merger leaves clinical science intact
by J. Michael Bishop - 842-842 Freedom to speak or to misinform?
by Hermann Hamacher - 842-842 Hospital merger leaves clinical science intact
by Michael P. Stryker & Allan Basbaum & Tony DeFranco & Ira Herskowitz & Keith Yamamoto - 843-845 Gaps in the Human Genome Project
by Jared C. Roach & Andrew F. Siegel & Ger van den Engh & Barbara Trask & Leroy Hood - 847-848 Feeling the neurobiological self
by Raymond J. Dolan - 848-849 The claim of the inner world
by Jane Kitto - 849-850 Dogs, telepathy and quantum mechanics
by John Maddox - 850-851 Eccentricities of an everyday substance
by Frank H. Stillinger - 851-852 New rhythms of our lives
by Paolo Sassone-Corsi - 852-853 Know thyself genetically
by W. F. Bodmer - 853-854 Darwin's evolution
by Mark Pagel - 854-856 Coelacanth à la Marseillaise
by Philippe Janvier - 856-857 Pogo-centricity
by Jürgen Heinze - 857-858 An exobiologist's life search
by Christopher Chyba - 859-859 Innovation machine on the boil
by Helga Nowotny - 861-862 Role reversal in geomagnetism
by Bruce Buffett - 862-863 Exciting neurotrophins
by Benedikt Berninger & Mu-ming Poo - 863-865 Holes and hot spots
by Ian Stewart - 865-866 Scaling, energetics and diversity
by Robert J. Whittaker - 866-869 Enzymes of evolutionary change
by Miroslav Radman - 869-870 Putting an electron to rest
by P. Meystre - 870-871 Soaring costs in defence
by Peter Parham - 871-871 Nuclear autumn
by David Jones - 872-872 Arthur James Cain (1921–99)
by Bryan Clarke - 873-874 The colourful world of the mantis shrimp
by Justin Marshall & Johannes Oberwinkler - 874-875 Re-emergence of HIV after stopping therapy
by Tae-Wook Chun & Richard T. Davey & Delphine Engel & H. Clifford Lane & Anthony S. Fauci - 875-875 Microscopic chaos from brownian motion?
by C. P. Dettmann & E. G. D. Cohen & H. van Beijeren - 875-876 Microscopic chaos from brownian motion?
by Peter Grassberger & Thomas Schreiber - 876-876 Microscopic chaos from brownian motion?
by P. Gaspard & M. E. Briggs & M. K. Francis & J. V. Sengers & R. W. Gammon & J. R. Dorfman & R. V. Calabrese - 877-884 Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution
by Mark Pagel - 885-890 The role of the Earth's mantle in controlling the frequency of geomagnetic reversals
by Gary A. Glatzmaier & Robert S. Coe & Lionel Hongre & Paul H. Roberts - 891-892 Formation of the radio jet in M87 at 100 Schwarzschild radii from the central black hole
by William Junor & John A. Biretta & Mario Livio - 893-895 Controlled growth of hard-sphere colloidal crystals
by Zhengdong Cheng & William B. Russel & P. M. Chaikin - 895-898 High-efficiency multilevel zone plates for keV X-rays
by E. Di Fabrizio & F. Romanato & M. Gentili & S Cabrini & B. Kaulich & J. Susini & R. Barrett - 898-901 Influence of environmental changes on degradation of chiral pollutants in soils
by David L. Lewis & A. Wayne Garrison & K. Eric Wommack & Alton Whittemore & Paul Steudler & Jerry Melillo - 902-904 Mixing and convection in the Greenland Sea from a tracer-release experiment
by A. J. Watson & M.-J. Messias & E. Fogelqvist & K. A. Van Scoy & T. Johannessen & K. I. C. Oliver & D. P. Stevens & F. Rey & T. Tanhua & K. A. Olsson & F. Carse & K. Simonsen & J. R. Ledwell & E. Jansen & D. J. Cooper & J. A. Kruepke & E. Guilyardi - 905-907 Ecosystem consequences of wolf behavioural response to climate
by Eric Post & Rolf O. Peterson & Nils Chr. Stenseth & Brian E. McLaren - 907-911 Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants
by Brian J. Enquist & Geoffrey B. West & Eric L. Charnov & James H. Brown - 911-914 Optimizing the success of random searches
by G. M. Viswanathan & Sergey V. Buldyrev & Shlomo Havlin & M. G. E. da Luz & E. P. Raposo & H. Eugene Stanley - 914-917 Water stress inhibits plant photosynthesis by decreasing coupling factor and ATP
by W. Tezara & V. J. Mitchell & S. D. Driscoll & D. W. Lawlor - 918-921 Neurotrophin-evoked rapid excitation through TrkB receptors
by Karl W. Kafitz & Christine R. Rose & Hans Thoenen & Arthur Konnerth - 923-925 The chicken B locus is a minimal essential major histocompatibility complex
by Jim Kaufman & Sarah Milne & Thomas W. F. Göbel & Brian A. Walker & Jansen P. Jacob & Charles Auffray & Rima Zoorob & Stephan Beck - 926-929 Actin-based motility of vaccinia virus mimics receptor tyrosine kinase signalling
by Friedrich Frischknecht & Violaine Moreau & Sabine Röttger & Stefania Gonfloni & Inge Reckmann & Giulio Superti-Furga & Michael Way - 929-932 Asynchronous replication of imprinted genes is established in the gametes and maintained during development
by Itamar Simon & Toyoaki Tenzen & Benjamin E. Reubinoff & Dahlia Hillman & John R. McCarrey & Howard Cedar - 932-935 A kinetic proofreading mechanism for disentanglement of DNA by topoisomerases
by Jie Yan & Marcelo O. Magnasco & John F. Marko - 935-938 A triple β-spiral in the adenovirus fibre shaft reveals a new structural motif for a fibrous protein
by Mark J. van Raaij & Anna Mitraki & Gilles Lavigne & Stephen Cusack
October 1999, Volume 401, Issue 6755
- 729-729 Wellcome funds cancer database
by David Dickson - 729-730 Venter's Drosophila ‘success’ set to boost human genome efforts
by Declan Butler - 731-731 Journal under attack over controversial paper on GM food
by Natasha Loder - 731-731 Japanese guidelines specify the terms of gene patents
by Asako Saegusa - 731-732 Research chair bonanza in Canada
by David Spurgeon - 732-732 French students continue to turn away from science
by Heather McCabe - 732-732 US university fears allayed over access to research data
by Colin Macilwain - 733-733 PNAS joins peer-reviewed PubMed Central
by Colin Macilwain - 733-733 Funding changes aim to reform German universities
by Alison Abbott - 734-734 …and Europe to measure the Earth's gravity
by Alison Abbott - 734-734 Genetic variations can point the way to disease genes
by Natasha Loder - 734-734 NASA plans to map stars and hunt gamma-ray bursts …
by Tony Reichhardt - 735-735 US Senate ignores scientific advice in failing to ratify test ban treaty
by Colin Macilwain - 738-738 Corot would put more planets in the picture
by Annie Baglin - 738-738 Millions at risk as big cities grow apace in earthquake zones
by Roger Bilham - 738-738 Where are the high-tech entrepreneurs?
by Alexander Olek - 738-738 The birth of Big Biology
by Alvin M. Weinberg - 739-740 What is a wave?
by John A. Scales & Roel Snieder - 741-742 Giants' footprints in the greenhouse
by Robert J. Charlson - 742-743 Planting the evidence
by Christopher M. Berry - 743-744 Confessions of a modern roué
by Walter Gratzer - 744-744 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 745-745 Spark ignites physicists
by Dominique Pestre - 747-747 Life on the road
by John G. Flanagan - 748-748 Frozen in time
by Christopher Surridge - 749-751 Molecules are cool
by John M. Doyle & Bretislav Friedrich - 751-752 Towards better benzodiazepines
by William Wisden & David N. Stephens - 752-755 The blast in the past
by Gerald R. Dickens - 755-756 Toll gates for pathogen selection
by Richard J. Ulevitch - 756-756 Mercurial vents
by John Whitfield - 756-758 Order in chaos
by Hassan Aref - 758-758 Lickety split
by Elizabeth Brainerd - 758-758 Life without gravity
by Richard J. Wassersug - 759-759 See a pocket, block it
by John P. Moore & Tatjana Dragic - 759-760 Think positive to find parts
by Bartlett W. Mel - 760-760 Setting and upsetting
by David Jones - 761-762 Hox genes and the making of sphincters
by József Zákány & Denis Duboule - 762-762 Dicyemids are higher animals
by Mari Kobayashi & Hidetaka Furuya & Peter W.H. Holland - 762-763 Male beetles attracted by females mounting
by Ally R. Harari & H. Jane Brockmann - 763-764 Exposure to bisphenol A advances puberty
by Kembra L. Howdeshell & Andrew K. Hotchkiss & Kristina A. Thayer & John G. Vandenbergh & Frederick S. vom Saal - 764-764 Solar variability and the Earth's climate
by Martin I. Hoffert & Ken Caldeira & Curt Covey & Philip B. Duffy & Benjamin D. Santer - 765-769 En passant neurotrophic action of an intermediate axonal target in the developing mammalian CNS
by Hao Wang & Marc Tessier-Lavigne - 770-772 Persistent patterns in transient chaotic fluid mixing
by D. Rothstein & E. Henry & J. P. Gollub - 772-775 Sonoluminescence temperatures during multi-bubble cavitation
by William B. McNamara & Yuri T. Didenko & Kenneth S. Suslick - 775-778 Carbon cycling and chronology of climate warming during the Palaeocene/Eocene transition
by Richard D Norris & Ursula Röhl - 779-782 Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean
by Gerald H. Haug & Daniel M. Sigman & Ralf Tiedemann & Thomas F. Pedersen & Michael Sarnthein - 782-785 The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback
by Zohar Gvirtzman & Amos Nur - 785-788 Decline in Mesozoic reef-building sponges explained by silicon limitation
by Manuel Maldonado & M. Carmen Carmona & María J. Uriz & Antonio Cruzado - 788-791 Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization
by Daniel D. Lee & H. Sebastian Seung - 792-796 Distributed synaptic modification in neural networks induced by patterned stimulation
by Guo-qiang Bi & Mu-ming Poo - 796-800 Benzodiazepine actions mediated by specific γ-aminobutyric acidA receptor subtypes
by Uwe Rudolph & Florence Crestani & Dietmar Benke & Ina Brünig & Jack A. Benson & Jean-Marc Fritschy & James R. Martin & Horst Bluethmann & Hanns Möhler - 800-804 P/Q-type calcium channels mediate the activity-dependent feedback of syntaxin-1A
by Kathy G. Sutton & John E. McRory & Heather Guthrie & Timothy H. Murphy & Terrance P. Snutch - 804-808 Extraintestinal dissemination of Salmonella by CD18-expressing phagocytes
by Andrés Vazquez-Torres & Jessica Jones-Carson & Andreas J. Bäumler & Stanley Falkow & Raphael Valdivia & William Brown & Mysan Le & Ruth Berggren & W. Tony Parks & Ferric C. Fang - 808-811 Integrin cytoplasmic tyrosine motif is required for outside-in αIIbβ3 signalling and platelet function
by Debbie A. Law & Francis R. DeGuzman & Patrick Heiser & Kathleen Ministri-Madrid & Nigel Killeen & David R. Phillips - 811-815 The Toll-like receptor 2 is recruited to macrophage phagosomes and discriminates between pathogens
by David M. Underhill & Adrian Ozinsky & Adeline M. Hajjar & Anne Stevens & Christopher B. Wilson & Michael Bassetti & Alan Aderem - 815-818 Accumulation of cyclin B1 requires E2F and cyclin-A-dependent rearrangement of the anaphase-promoting complex
by Claudia Lukas & Claus Storgaard Sørensen & Edgar Kramer & Eric Santoni-Rugiu & Claes Lindeneg & Jan-Michael Peters & Jiri Bartek & Jiri Lukas - 818-822 NMR structure and mutagenesis of the inhibitor-of-apoptosis protein XIAP
by Chaohong Sun & Mengli Cai & Angelo H. Gunasekera & Robert P. Meadows & Hong Wang & Jun Chen & Haichao Zhang & Wei Wu & Nan Xu & Shi-Chung Ng & Stephen W. Fesik - 822-826 High-resolution X-ray structure of an early intermediate in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle
by Karl Edman & Peter Nollert & Antoine Royant & Hassan Belrhali & Eva Pebay-Peyroula & Janos Hajdu & Richard Neutze & Ehud M. Landau
October 1999, Volume 401, Issue 6754
- 625-625 Medicine Nobel goes to pioneer of protein guidance mechanisms
by Marie-Thérèse Heemels - 626-626 Dutch theoreticians win physics prize
by Karl Ziemelis - 626-626 Publishers agree on a ‘seamless web’
by David Dickson - 626-626 Split-second chemistry is rewarded
by Philip Ball - 627-627 Varmus announces decision to quit NIH for cancer centre
by Colin Macilwain - 627-627 US State Department hires consultant to boost role of science
by Colin Macilwain - 627-628 Japan plans to join array project
by Asako Saegusa & Natasha Loder - 628-628 Aim for better business sense to bolster Russian science
by Carl Levitin - 628-628 Anger at Israeli sex crimes DNA bank
by Haim Watzman - 629-629 ‘Faked’ rock-dating data charge dismissed…
by Rex Dalton - 629-629 … and German garlic study under scrutiny
by Quirin Schiermeier - 630-630 Berkeley puts $500m into multidisciplinary approach to disease
by Rex Dalton - 630-630 Institut Pasteur names Kourilsky as new director
by Heather McCabe - 630-630 Joint institute set to boost Austria's genome research
by Quirin Schiermeier - 631-631 UK government not convinced by claims for flu drug
by Natasha Loder - 631-631 ICSU seeks to classify ‘traditional knowledge’
by David Dickson - 640-640 Substantial equivalence is a useful tool
by Peter Kearns & Paul Mayers - 640-640 No GM conspiracy
by Editor -- Nature - 640-640 Conventional crops are the test of GM prejudice
by Anthony Trewavas & C. J. Leaver - 640-641 No GM conspiracy
by Derek Burke - 641-641 Putting transparency into ethical balance
by Dai Rees - 642-642 Do-it-yourself climate prediction
by Myles Allen - 643-644 Save Mozart for later
by Elizabeth Spelke - 644-644 Oiling the wheels of controversy
by R. John Parkes - 645-646 Much ado about some thing
by Ivor Grattan-Guinness - 646-646 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 647-647 Revolution in the ocean
by Victor Smetacek - 649-650 Hurricane heat engines
by H. E. Willoughby - 650-651 Straight from the top
by Earl K. Miller - 651-653 Waves, particles and fullerenes
by Alastair I. M. Rae - 653-654 Power behind diversity's throne
by Shahid Naeem - 654-655 Super photon counters
by John C. Mather - 657-658 Controlling the cellular brakes
by Peter Carmeliet - 658-659 Memories are made of …
by Angus Kingon - 659-660 Dual personality of memory T cells
by Charles R. Mackay - 660-660 Go with the flow
by David Jones - 661-662 Familiarity breeds contempt in guppies
by J. L. Kelley & J. A. Graves & A. E. Magurran - 662-662 Searching for FLASH domains
by Eugene V. Koonin & L. Aravind & Kay Hofmann & Jurg Tschopp & Vishva M. Dixit - 662-663 Searching for FLASH domains
by Takaharu Kimura & Yuzuru Imai & Shin Yonehara - 663-664 Transformation of diamond to graphite
by Yury G. Gogotsi & Andreas Kailer & Klaus G. Nickel - 665-669 Thermodynamic control of hurricane intensity
by Kerry A. Emanuel - 670-677 Id1 and Id3 are required for neurogenesis, angiogenesis and vascularization of tumour xenografts
by David Lyden & Alison Z. Young & David Zagzag & Wei Yan & William Gerald & Richard O'Reilly & Bernhard L. Bader & Richard O. Hynes & Yuan Zhuang & Katia Manova & Robert Benezra - 678-679 Bright rings around sunspots
by M. P. Rast & P. A. Fox & H. Lin & B. W. Lites & R. W. Meisner & O. R. White - 680-682 Wave–particle duality of C60 molecules
by Markus Arndt & Olaf Nairz & Julian Vos-Andreae & Claudia Keller & Gerbrand van der Zouw & Anton Zeilinger - 682-684 Lanthanum-substituted bismuth titanate for use in non-volatile memories
by B. H. Park & B. S. Kang & S. D. Bu & T. W. Noh & J. Lee & W. Jo