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March 1997, Volume 386, Issue 6620
- 14-14 Humour should be taken seriously
by Audrey Wells - 14-14 The's' in Unesco
by Michel Batisse - 14-14 Science and emotion
by Mark A. Gillman - 15-16 Contending for the dead
by D. Gareth Jones & Robyn J. Harris - 17-17 Memorizing the floral ABC
by Gerd Jürgens - 18-19 Growing up in a two-parent family?
by Jack J. Lissauer - 19-21 Predicting the present
by Patrick Cavanagh - 21-22 Very small arrays
by Devens Gust - 22-23 The how and why of thermal contraction
by Robert W. Cahn - 25-26 Mice perform a human repertoire
by Michael Neuberger & Marianne Brüggemann - 26-27 Who needs crystals anyway?
by David J. De Rosier - 27-28 The uses of strong and weak lenses
by Joachim Wambsganss - 28-28 Thinking makes it so!
by David Jones - 29-29 Natural and artificial 'singing' sands
by Douglas E. Goldsack & Marcel F. Leach & Cindi Kilkenny - 29-30 Human haemoglobin from transgenic tobacco
by Wilfrid Dieryck & Josée Pagnier & Claude Poyart & Michael C. Marden & Véronique Gruber & Philippe Bournat & Sylvie Baudino & Bertrand Mérot - 30-31 Laser measurements of coral growth
by R. Vago & E. Gill & J. C. Collingwood - 31-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by Vit Lauermann - 32-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by Shu-Chun Teng & Abram Gabriel - 32-32 DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts
by James E. Haber & J. Kent Moore - 33-33 Cinemagmatic mayhem
by Jonathan Fink - 34-34 The golden age of chemistry
by David knight - 35-35 In retrospect chosen by Keith Stewart Thomson
by Keith Stewart Thomson - 35-36 Elementary cycling
by Mike Whitfield - 36-36 Microbes writ large
by Roger Whittenbury - 37-43 The physics of microwave background anisotropies
by Wayne Hu & Naoshi Sugiyama & Joseph Silk - 44-51 A Polycomb-group gene regulates homeotic gene expression in Arabidopsis
by Justin Goodrich & Preeya Puangsomlee & Marta Martin & Deborah Long & Elliot M. Meyerowitz & George Coupland - 52-54 A candidate dust disk surrounding the binary stellar system BD+31°643
by Paul Kalas & David Jewitt - 54-56 High-energy ions produced in explosions of superheated atomic clusters
by T. Ditmire & J. W. G. Tisch & E. Springate & M. B. Mason & N. Hay & R. A. Smith & J. Marangos & M. H. R. Hutchinson - 57-59 Assembly of ordered colloidal aggregrates by electric-field-induced fluid flow
by Syun-Ru Yeh & Michael Seul & Boris I. Shraiman - 59-61 Predominance of vertical loss of carbon from surface waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean
by Dennis A. Hansell & Nicholas R. Bates & Craig A. Carlson - 61-64 GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya
by Roger Bilham & Kristine Larson & Jeffrey Freymueller - 64-66 Confined subsurface microbial communities in Cretaceous rock
by Lee R. Krumholz & James P. McKinley & Glenn A. Ulrich & Joseph M. Suflita - 66-69 Visual decomposition of colour through motion extrapolation
by Romi Nijhawan - 69-73 Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale
by Stelios M. Smirnakis & Michael J. Berry & David K. Warland & William Bialek & Markus Meister - 73-77 An endothelial receptor for oxidized low-density lipoprotein
by Tatsuya Sawamura & Noriaki Kume & Takuma Aoyama & Hideaki Moriwaki & Hajime Hoshikawa & Yuichi Aiba & Takeshi Tanaka & Soichi Miwa & Yoshimoto Katsura & Toru Kita & Tomoh Masaki - 78-81 Spontaneous calcification of arteries and cartilage in mice lacking matrix GLA protein
by Guangbin Luo & Patricia Ducy & Marc D. McKee & Gerald J. Pinero & Evelyne Loyer & Richard R. Behringer & Gérard Karsenty - 81-84 Osteopetrosis in mice lacking haematopoietic transcription factor PU.1
by M. M. Tondravi & S. R. McKercher & K. Anderson & J. M. Erdmann & M. Quiroz & R. Maki & S. L. Teitelbaum - 84-87 Homeosis and intestinal tumours in Cdx2 mutant mice
by K. Chawengsaksophak & R. James & V. E. Hammond & F. Köntgen & F. Beck - 88-91 Determination of the fold of the core protein of hepatitis B virus by electron cryomicroscopy
by B. Böttcher & S. A. Wynne & R. A. Crowther - 91-94 Visualization of a 4-helix bundle in the hepatitis B virus capsid by cryo-electron microscopy
by J. F. Conway & N. Cheng & A. Zlotnick & P. T. Wingfield & S. J. Stahl & A. C. Steven
February 1997, Volume 385, Issue 6619
- 755-755 Confidentiality of academy panel challenged by environmentalists
by David Kramer - 755-755 US decision 'will not limit gene patents'
by Claire O'Brien - 756-756 High-level ethics committee 'needed to guide genetics policy'
by Meredith Wadman - 756-756 Marijuana research gets backing at NIH
by Meredith Wadman - 757-757 Cloning technique 'reveals legal loophole'
by Ehsan Masood - 757-757 Japan decides to burn plutonium stocks
by David Swinbanks - 758-758 Abortion foe blamed for research head upset in Australia
by Peter Pockley - 758-758 Holland picks 'superleague' plan, despite criticisms
by Declan Butler - 759-759 Basic research gets bipartisan treatment
by Colin Macilwain - 759-759 Budget 'windfall' may tempt Canadian researchers back home
by David Spurgeon - 760-760 Russian rocket offer holds key to Cluster relaunch
by Alison Abbott - 760-760 Abbott sues Chiron over 'secrets' in heads of recruits
by Sally Lehrman - 760-760 Germany may relax animal experiment rules
by Alun Anderson - 761-761 Culture clash tarnishes the image of star laboratory
by Quirin Schiermeier - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by Sachi Sri Kantha - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by G. Fewer - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by Janet Carter-Sigglow - 764-764 Beyond the language barrier
by N. Umakantha - 765-765 A call to action from the lab bench
by Michelle Peckham - 767-768 The world's oldest spears
by Robin Dennell - 768-769 New physics at last?
by David Miller - 769-771 An udder way of making lambs
by Colin Stewart - 771-771 Why lizards can't turn a blind eye
by Alison Mitchell - 772-772 Many fingers make light work
by Jonathon Mamin - 773-775 Mutations make enzyme polymerize
by M. F. Perutz - 775-776 One of our planets is missing
by Gordon Walker - 776-776 Heard the one about the guinea pig?
by Alison Mitchell - 776-777 Case studies of extinction
by Paul H. Harvey & Robert M. May - 777-777 The sap also bubbles
by David Jones - 778-778 Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97) Astronomer who discovered the Solar System's ninth planet
by S. Alan Stern - 779-780 A new look at old sharks
by John G. Maisey & Marcelo R. de Carvalho - 780-780 A pivotal Archaea group
by S. Burggraf & P. Heyder & N. Eis - 780-781 Fullerene 'crop circles'
by Jie Liu & Hongjie Dai & Jason H. Hafner & Daniel T. Colbert & Richard E. Smalley & Sander J. Tans & Cees Dekker - 781-782 Plants combat infection by gene silencing
by Simon N. Covey & Nadia S. Al-Kaff & Amagoia Lángara & David S. Turner - 782-782 Evening carbon atom oddities
by Matthew Kaser - 782-782 Evening carbon atom oddities
by Peter G. Stanley - 783-784 Struggles to beat the system
by David Joravsky - 785-785 All done by mirrors
by Simon Altmann - 785-786 Crunchy brains
by Stephen J. Simpson - 786-786 Infinite possibilities
by Joseph Silk - 787-793 Instability, unfolding and aggregation of human lysozyme variants underlying amyloid fibrillogenesis
by David R. Booth & Margaret Sunde & Vittorio Bellotti & Carol V. Robinson & Winston L. Hutchinson & Paul E. Fraser & Philip N. Hawkins & Christopher M. Dobson & Sheena E. Radford & Colin C. F. Blake & Mark B. Pepys - 795-796 Absence of a planetary signature in the spectra of the star 51 Pegasi
by David F. Gray - 797-799 Uniform elemental analysis of materials by sputtering and photoionization mass spectrometry
by Chun He & Julian N. Basler & Christopher H. Becker - 799-801 Induction of molecular asymmetry by a remote chiral group
by Patrick Linnane & Nicholas Magnus & Philip Magnus - 801-804 Eccentricity forcing of Pliocene–Early Pleistocene climate revealed in a marine oxygen-isotope record
by Steven C. Clemens & Ralf Tiedemann - 804-807 Vegetation-induced warming of high-latitude regions during the Late Cretaceous period
by Bette L. Otto-Bliesner & Garland R. Upchurch - 807-810 Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany
by Hartmut Thieme - 810-813 Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells
by I. Wilmut & A. E. Schnieke & J. McWhir & A. J. Kind & K. H. S. Campbell - 813-815 Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children
by Lori Markson & Paul Bloom - 815-819 A cGMP-gated cation channel in depolarizing photoreceptors of the lizard parietal eye
by J. T. Finn & E. C. Solessio & K.-W. Yau - 820-823 Insensitivity to anaesthetic agents conferred by a class of GABAA receptor subunit
by Paul A. Davies & Mike C. Hanna & Tim G. Hales & Ewen F. Kirkness - 823-826 Mechanism of resistance of African trypanosomes to cytotoxic human HDL
by Kristin M. Hager & Stephen L. Hajduk - 826-829 Hrs-2 is an ATPase implicated in calcium-regulated secretion
by Andrew J. Bean & Roland Seifert & Yu A. Chen & Rachel Sacks & Richard H. Scheller - 829-833 pangolinencodes a Lef-1 homologue that acts downstream of Armadillo to transduce the Wingless signal in Drosophila
by Erich Brunner & Oliver Peter & Liang Schweizer & Konrad Basler - 833-838 Crystal structure of the anthrax toxin protective antigen
by Carlo Petosa & R. John Collier & Kurt R. Klimpel & Stephen H. Leppla & Robert C. Liddington
February 1997, Volume 385, Issue 6618
- 663-663 Japan's successful launch paves way for interplanetary missions
by David Swinbanks - 664-664 Chemists urge US to ratify weapons pact
by Tony Reichhardt - 664-664 Europe reshuffles its scientific committees following BSE crisis
by Declan Butler - 665-665 EU research plan fails to charm critics
by Alison Abbott - 666-666 ... as privatization windfall fills research coffers
by Alun Anderson - 666-666 EMBO panel gives biology in Finland a pat on the back ..
by Alison Abbott - 667-667 Chair of GMO panel resigns over maize
by Declan Butler - 668-668 Sceptics and salmon challenge scientists
by Colin Macilwain - 669-669 Whistleblowers face blast of hostility
by Colin Macilwain - 669-669 Marconi's daughter sends out distress call about collection
by Claire O'Brien - 672-672 Improvement welcome
by Peter Morley - 672-672 Patent threat to research
by Howard Dalton & Brian Goodwin & Mae-Wan Ho & Jacqueline McGlade & Ghillean Prance & Peter Saunders & David Sherratt & John Maynard Smith & Roger Whittenbury - 672-672 Improvement welcome
by Philip W. Anderson - 672-672 Not such a bad book
by David M.J. Lilley - 673-674 A crisis in scientific morale
by Robert Pollack - 675-676 A new age for type-II superconductors?
by David R. Nelson - 676-677 Different means to common ends
by David Shore - 677-679 The nose leads the eye
by Geoffrey H. Gold & Edward N. Pugh - 679-679 Plus c'est le même chews
by Stephen Battersby - 680-680 Restricting gene inactivation to a subset of neurons
by Richard G. M. Morris & Roger J. Morris - 680-681 Memory floxed
by Richard G. M. Morris & Roger J. Morris - 681-683 Cool tropical punch of the ice ages
by Christopher Charles - 684-685 Blocking adenoslne with antisense
by Peter J. Richardson - 685-686 The amazing atom laser
by Keith Burnett - 686-686 Sheets of light
by David Jones - 687-688 Giant female or dwarf male spiders?
by Jonathan A. Coddington & Gustavo Hormiga & Nikolaj Scharff - 688-688 Giant female or dwarf male spiders?
by Fritz Vollrath & Geoff A. Parker - 688-689 A gene family of silicon transporters
by Mark Hildebrand & Benjamin E. Volcani & Walter Gassmann & Julian I. Schroeder - 689-690 Hydration in electrical double layers
by S. Marc̆elja - 690-690 Hydration in electrical double layers
by J. N. Israelachvili & H. Wennerström - 691-692 Genius triumphs over jealousy
by Joseph Silk - 692-692 Flying yellow kangaroos
by Jared M. Diamond - 693-694 Out of the shadow of the guillotine
by David Cahan - 694-694 The framework of feelings
by Raymond J. Dolan - 695-699 Influence of ocean heat transport on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum
by Robert S. Webb & David H. Rind & Scott J. Lehman & Richard J. Healy & Daniel Sigman - 700-702 Visibility of scattered broad-line emission in Seyfert 2 galaxies
by Charlene A. Heisler & Stuart L. Lumsden & Jeremy A. Bailey - 702-705 Magneto-optical observation of twisted vortices in type-II superconductors
by M. V. Indenbom & C. J. van der Beek & V. Berseth & W. Benoit & G. D'Anna & A. Erb & E. Walker & R. Flükiger - 705-707 Abrupt changes in early Holocene tropical sea surface temperature derived from coral records
by J. Warren Beck & Jacques Récy & Fred Taylor & R. Lawrence Edwards & Guy Cabioch - 707-710 Interhemispheric synchrony of the last deglaciation inferred from alkenone palaeothermometry
by Edouard Bard & Frauke Rostek & Corinne Sonzogni - 710-712 Direct observation of complete miscibility in the albite–H2O system
by Andy H. Shen & Hans Keppler - 712-714 Multituberculate and other mammal hair recovered from Palaeogene excreta
by Jin Meng & André R. Wyss - 715-718 Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution
by Farish A. Jenkins & Stephen M. Gatesy & Neil H. Shubin & William W. Amaral - 718-721 Airborne signalling by methyl salicylate in plant pathogen resistance
by Vladimir Shulaev & Paul Silverman & Ilya Raskin - 721-725 DNA antisense therapy for asthma in an animal model
by Jonathan W. Nyce & W. James Metzger - 725-729 Mechanism of odorant adaptation in the olfactory receptor cell
by Takashi Kurahashi & Anna Menini - 729-733 A metalloproteinase disintegrin that releases tumour-necrosis factor-α from cells
by Roy A. Black & Charles T. Rauch & Carl J. Kozlosky & Jacques J. Peschon & Jennifer L. Slack & Martin F. Wolfson & Beverly J. Castner & Kim L. Stocking & Pranitha Reddy & Subhashini Srinivasan & Nicole Nelson & Norman Boiani & Kenneth A. Schooley & Mary Gerhart & Raymond Davis & Jeffrey N. Fitzner & Richard S. Johnson & Raymond J. Paxton & Carl J. March & Douglas Pat Cerretti - 733-736 Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor-α
by Marcia L. Moss & S.-L. Catherine Jin & Marcos E. Milla & William Burkhart & H. Luke Carter & Wen-Ji Chen & William C. Clay & John R. Didsbury & Daniel Hassler & Christine R. Hoffman & Thomas A. Kost & Millard H. Lambert & M. Anthony Leesnitzer & Philip McCauley & Gerard McGeehan & Justin Mitchell & Mary Moyer & Gregory Pahel & Warren Rocque & Laurie K. Overton & Frank Schoenen & Theresa Seaton & Jui-Lan Su & Janet Warner & Derril Willard & J. David Becherer - 737-740 Editing of ubiquitin conjugates by an isopeptidase in the 26S proteasome
by Y. Amy Lam & Wei Xu & George N. DeMartino & Robert E. Cohen - 740-743 Control of telomere length by the human telomeric protein TRF1
by Bas van Steensel & Titia de Lange - 744-747 Regulation of telomere length and function by a Myb-domain protein in fission yeast
by Julia Promisel Cooper & Elaine R. Nimmo & Robin C. Allshire & Thomas R. Cech - 749-752 According to the code
by Brendan Horton
February 1997, Volume 385, Issue 6617
- 565-565 Outlook brightens for science in US budget proposals for 1998
by Colin Macilwain - 565-565 Japanese increases include support for CERN's Large Hadron Collider
by Richard Nathan & David Swinbanks - 566-566 Heat rises over UCSD 'misconduct' charge
by Rex Dalton - 567-567 Congress turns the microscope on science spending
by Tony Reichhardt - 567-567 UK universities urged to join forces to boost research
by David Dickson - 568-568 Congress vows to contest 'unacceptable' NIH plans
by Meredith Wadman - 568-568 Despite cutbacks, NASA pulls out of a threatened long-term nosedive
by Tony Reichhardt - 569-569 NSF greets 'a good budget'
by Colin Macilwain - 569-569 Green light sought for laser fusion and LHC
by Colin Macilwain - 570-570 Medicinal plants threatened by over-use
by Ehsan Masood - 570-570 Breach of embryo ban leads to resignation
by Meredith Wadman - 571-571 France takes gentler approach to reforms
by Declan Butler - 574-574 Freedom of choice
by Colin Berry - 574-574 Canadian Red Cross seeks to reform itself
by Antonio Giulivi - 574-574 Patronomy and conservation
by Thomas Brooks - 575-575 Parity and chivalry in nuclear physics
by Nicholas Kurti & Christine Sutton - 577-578 An oblique slant on deep-sea biodiversity
by Michael A. Rex - 578-579 An emerging pathophysiology
by Eric J. Nestler - 579-581 How far can sequences diverge?
by Cyrus Chothia & Mark Gerstein - 583-583 A safer hiding hole
by Stephen Battersby - 583-585 New impressions of Src and Hck
by Tony Pawson - 585-585 A problem dissolved
by David Jones - 586-586 Melvin Calvin (1911–97) Chemist who elucidated the biochemical basis of photosynthesis
by Vivian Moses - 587-587 Common mechanism of infection by lentiviruses
by Brian J. Willett & Margaret J. Hosie & James C. Neil & Julie D. Turner & James A. Hoxie - 587-588 Volcanic iron, CO2, ocean productivity and climate
by Andrew J. Watson - 588-589 Hox genes misled by local environments
by Ralf Schnabel & Heinke Schnabel - 589-590 The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod
by Wim van der Brugghen & Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill - 590-590 D2 dopamine receptors and personality traits
by Lars Farde & J. Petter Gustavsson & Erik Jönsson - 591-592 The campaign for biodiversity
by Paul Colinvaux - 592-592 Complex physics
by Chris Philippidis - 593-594 Seeing is believing
by Stephen G. Brush - 594-594 The health of nations
by John Galloway - 595-602 Three-dimensional structure of the tyrosine kinase c-Src
by Wenqing Xu & Stephen C. Harrison & Michael J. Eck - 602-609 Crystal structure of the Src family tyrosine kinase Hck
by Frank Sicheri & Ismail Moarefi & John Kuriyan - 610-612 A massive black hole at the centre of the quiescent galaxy M32
by Roeland P. van der Marel & P. Tim de Zeeuw & Hans-Walter Rix & Gerald D. Quinlan - 613-615 Asymmetric synthesis by enantiomer-selective activation of racemic catalysts
by Koichi Mikami & Satoru Matsukawa - 615-617 Acoustic observations of heat content across the Mediterranean Sea
by U. Send & G. Krahmann & D. Mauuary & Y. Desaubies & F. Gaillard & T. Terre & J. Papadakis & M. Taroudakis & E. Skarsoulis & C. Millot - 618-621 Basin-scale ocean circulation from combined altimetric, tomographic and model data
by Dimitris Menemenlis & Tony Webb & Carl Wunsch & Uwe Send & Chris Hill - 621-624 Rheology of the continental lithosphere inferred from sedimentary basins
by Robert Newman & Nicky White - 624-627 Orbital forcing of deep-sea benthic species diversity
by T. M. Cronin & M. E. Raymo - 627-630 Evolutionary origin of insect wings from ancestral gills
by Michalis Averof & Stephen M. Cohen - 630-634 Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors
by Massimo Scanziani & Paul A. Salin & Kaspar E. Vogt & Robert C. Malenka & Roger A. Nicoll - 634-636 Decreased prefrontal dopamine D1 receptors in schizophrenia revealed by PET
by Yoshiro Okubo & Tetsuya Suhara & Kazutoshi Suzuki & Kaoru Kobayashi & Osamu Inoue & Omi Terasaki & Yasuhiro Someya & Takeshi Sassa & Yasuhiko Sudo & Eisuke Matsushima & Masaomi Iyo & Yukio Tateno & Michio Toru - 637-640 Bax suppresses tumorigenesis and stimulates apoptosis in vivo
by Chaoying Yin & C. Michael Knudson & Stanley J. Korsmeyer & Terry Van Dyke - 640-644 A new class of membrane-bound chemokine with a CX3C motif
by J. Fernando Bazan & Kevin B. Bacon & Gary Hardiman & Wei Wang & Ken Soo & Devora Rossi & David R. Greaves & Albert Zlotnik & Thomas J. Schall - 645-649 CCR3 and CCR5 are co-receptors for HIV-1 infection of microglia
by Jianglin He & Youzhi Chen & Michael Farzan & Hyeryun Choe & Asa Ohagen & Suzanne Gartner & Jorge Busciglio & Xiaoyu Yang & Wolfgang Hofmann & Walter Newman & Charles R. Mackay & Joseph Sodroski & Dana Gabuzda - 650-653 Activation of the Sire-family tyrosine kinase Hck by SH3 domain displacement
by Ismail Moarefi & Michelle LaFevre-Bernt & Frank Sicheri & Morgan Huse & Chi-Hon Lee & John Kuriyan & W. Todd Miller - 653-656 Interaction between the C. elegans cell-death regulators CED-9 and CED-4
by Mona S. Spector & Serge Desnoyers & Daniel J. Hoeppner & Michael O. Hengartner - 657-657 Watch the Internet for careers update
by Brendan Holton - 657-658 Diverse opportunities for immunologists
by Brendan Horton & Orla Smith - 658-659 The dos and don'ts of grant writing
by Diane Gershon - 659-660 Molecular biology skills in demand in Europe
by Claire O'Brien