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February 2001, Volume 409, Issue 6822
- 963-964 Current role suggests the shape of future work opportunities
by Helen Gavaghan - 964-964 Tips for sequence centre job-seekers
by Helen Gavaghan - 964-964 Biology moves into the silicon stage
by Helen Gavaghan
February 2001, Volume 409, Issue 6821
- 651-651 Science 'in crisis' says commission
by Irwin Goodwin - 651-652 Japan's ape sequencing effort set to unravel the brain's secrets
by David Cyranoski - 652-652 Germany targets international talent
by Quirin Schiermeier - 652-652 Japanese premier underlines opposition to human cloning
by David Cyranoski - 652-652 Italian biologists left out in the cold
by Alison Abbott - 653-653 Greek plutonium haul raises smuggling fears
by Quirin Schiermeier - 653-653 Top research universities face up to gender bias
by Steve Nadis - 654-654 India struggles to cope with IT brain drain
by K. S. Jayaraman - 654-654 NASA celebrates as spacecraft homes in on asteroid
by William Triplett - 655-655 Tissue donations slump after revelations about misuse
by David Adam - 655-655 Australian leader pledges research boost before election
by Peter Pockley - 658-659 Testing times for BSE
by Quirin Schiermeier - 660-661 In search of a cure for CJD
by Clare Thompson - 662-662 Secret behind Hungary's stellar intellects
by Leon Eisenberg - 662-662 Why didn't flood of print launch science in China?
by P. -L. Chau - 662-662 Leaders need to realize that science can offer a route out of poverty
by Germán Poveda - 663-664 Fit for the seven-league boots
by Richard White - 664-665 Taxonomy and the blues
by James Mallet - 665-666 Crash, bang, wallop
by Bernard Richardson - 666-666 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 667-667 Gained in the translation
by Scott L. Montgomery - 669-669 The big picture
by Sean B. Carroll - 671-672 The dark side of aerosols
by Meinrat O. Andreae - 672-673 Dialogue between muscle and fat
by Morris J. Birnbaum - 673-675 The age of the Universe
by Christopher Sneden - 675-677 Infectious speciation
by Michael J. Wade - 677-679 The day the solar wind nearly died
by Mike Lockwood - 679-680 A macho way to make muscles
by Olivier Pourquié - 681-682 Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion
by Brian T. Preston & Ian R. Stevenson & Josephine M. Pemberton & Kenneth Wilson - 682-683 Transgenic crops in natural habitats
by M. J. Crawley & S. L. Brown & R. S. Hails & D. D. Kohn & M. Rees - 683-684 Nanoscale control of chain polymerization
by Yuji Okawa & Masakazu Aono - 684-684 View of a mouse clock gene ticking
by Shun Yamaguchi & Masaki Kobayashi & Shigeru Mitsui & Yoshiki Ishida & Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst & Misao Suzuki & Shigenobu Shibata & Hitoshi Okamura - 691-692 Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay
by R. Cayrel & V. Hill & T. C. Beers & B. Barbuy & M. Spite & F. Spite & B. Plez & J. Andersen & P. Bonifacio & P. François & P. Molaro & B. Nordström & F. Primas - 692-695 Generic mechanism for generating a liquid–liquid phase transition
by Giancarlo Franzese & Gianpietro Malescio & Anna Skibinsky & Sergey V. Buldyrev & H. Eugene Stanley - 695-697 Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols
by Mark Z. Jacobson - 698-701 Tropical climate changes at millennial and orbital timescales on the Bolivian Altiplano
by Paul A. Baker & Catherine A. Rigsby & Geoffrey O. Seltzer & Sherilyn C. Fritz & Tim K. Lowenstein & Niklas P. Bacher & Carlos Veliz - 701-703 Upper-mantle dynamics revealed by helium isotope variations along the southeast Indian ridge
by D. W. Graham & J. E. Lupton & F. J. Spera & D. M. Christie - 704-707 Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution
by Alan Cooper & Carles Lalueza-Fox & Simon Anderson & Andrew Rambaut & Jeremy Austin & Ryk Ward - 707-710 Wolbachia-induced incompatibility precedes other hybrid incompatibilities in Nasonia
by Seth R. Bordenstein & F. Patrick O'Hara & John H. Werren - 710-714 Evolutionary radiations and convergences in the structural organization of mammalian brains
by Willem de Winter & Charles E. Oxnard - 714-720 Neurons derived from radial glial cells establish radial units in neocortex
by Stephen C. Noctor & Alexander C. Flint & Tamily A. Weissman & Ryan S. Dammerman & Arnold R. Kriegstein - 720-724 The gating mechanism of the large mechanosensitive channel MscL
by Sergei Sukharev & Monica Betanzos & Chien-Sung Chiang & H. Robert Guy - 724-729 macho-1 encodes a localized mRNA in ascidian eggs that specifies muscle fate during embryogenesis
by Hiroki Nishida & Kaichiro Sawada - 729-733 Adipose-selective targeting of the GLUT4 gene impairs insulin action in muscle and liver
by E. Dale Abel & Odile Peroni & Jason K. Kim & Young-Bum Kim & Olivier Boss & Ed Hadro & Timo Minnemann & Gerald I. Shulman & Barbara B. Kahn - 733-739 Negative regulation of T-cell activation and autoimmunity by Mgat5 N-glycosylation
by Michael Demetriou & Maria Granovsky & Sue Quaggin & James W. Dennis - 739-743 Crystal structure of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 Å resolution
by Athina Zouni & Horst-Tobias Witt & Jan Kern & Petra Fromme & Norbert Krauss & Wolfram Saenger & Peter Orth - 743-743 Correction: Warm-coding deficits and aberrant inflammatory pain in mice lacking P2X3
by Veronika Souslova & Paolo Cesare & Yanning Ding & Armen N. Akoplan & Louise Stanfa & Rie Suzuki & Katherine Carpenter & Daniela Nebenius-Oosthuizen & Andrew J. H. Smith & Emma J. Kidd & John N. Wood - 743-743 Erratum: The protein–protein interaction map of Helicobacter pylori
by Jean-Christophe Rain & Luc Selig & Hilde De Reuse & Véronique Battaglia & Céline Reverdy & Stéphane Simon & Gerlinde Lenzen & Fabien Petel & Jérôme Wojcik & Vincent Schächter & Y. Chemama & Agnès Labigne & Pierre Legrain - 743-743 Correction: Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion
by Russell D. Gray & Fiona M. Jordan
February 2001, Volume 409, Issue 6820
- 547-547 Ethics watchdog to oversee drugs trials in Third World
by Matthew Davis - 547-548 Hughes institute will put down roots to develop research tools
by Colin Macilwain - 548-548 Weapons labs escape FBI action
by Irwin Goodwin - 548-548 Journal will publish accused scientist's work
by Rex Dalton - 549-549 BSE crisis sinks German public biotech programme
by Regina Krammer - 549-549 Canada pours funds into health research
by David Spurgeon - 550-550 Poor coordination 'wastes US research into global change'
by Mark Schrope - 550-550 Bank raids malaria centre in dispute over landlord's debt
by Xavier Bosch - 551-551 Designer rice to combat diet deficiencies makes its debut
by Quirin Schiermeier - 551-551 Commercial sector scores success with whole rice genome
by David Dickson & David Cyranoski - 554-555 Taming Africa's killer lake
by Tom Clarke - 556-557 Digital history
by Alison Abbott - 558-558 Why Pauling didn't solve the structure of DNA
by Jim Lake - 558-558 Changing patent laws could be a healthy move to combat resistance
by Terry Nicholls - 558-558 We need both computer models and experiments
by Daniel Fischer & David Baker & John Moult - 559-560 Food for thought . . . and action
by Dick Taverne - 560-561 Getting the point across
by John Galloway - 561-562 Legacy of a flying tamping iron
by Ian Glynn - 562-562 Science in culture
by Alison Abbott - 563-563 Back to the future from 1888
by Howard P. Segal - 565-565 A never-ending story
by Peter D. Moore - 567-568 Fusion needs more than SNAREs
by Wolfhard Almers - 569-571 That sinking feeling
by Michael P. Brenner & Peter J. Mucha - 571-572 Silent genes given voice
by Athel Cornish-Bowden & María Luz Cárdenas - 572-573 A laser that turns down the heat
by Garry Rumbles - 573-575 Pumping DNA
by Edward H. Egelman - 575-576 Ultrafast colour displays
by Michael Grätzel - 576-577 The Rossby rototiller
by David A. Siegel - 577-578 Targeted delivery of nitric oxide
by Steven S. Gross - 579-579 A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic
by Lena Q. Ma & Kenneth M. Komar & Cong Tu & Weihua Zhang & Yong Cai & Elizabeth D. Kennelley - 580-580 Superior auditory spatial tuning in conductors
by Thomas F. Münte & Christine Kohlmetz & Wido Nager & Eckart Altenmüller - 581-588 Trans-complex formation by proteolipid channels in the terminal phase of membrane fusion
by Christopher Peters & Martin J. Bayer & Susanne Bühler & Jens S. Andersen & Matthias Mann & Andreas Mayer - 589-591 Rapid collisional evolution of comets during the formation of the Oort cloud
by S. Alan Stern & Paul R. Weissman - 591-594 Two coexisting vortex phases in the peak effect regime in a superconductor
by M. Marchevsky & M. J. Higgins & S. Bhattacharya - 594-597 An effective gravitational temperature for sedimentation
by P. N. Segrè & F. Liu & P. Umbanhowar & D. A. Weitz - 597-600 Pumping of nutrients to ocean surface waters by the action of propagating planetary waves
by B. Mete Uz & James A. Yoder & Vladimir Osychny - 600-603 Aerogeophysical measurements of collapse-prone hydrothermally altered zones at Mount Rainier volcano
by Carol A. Finn & Thomas W. Sisson & Maryla Deszcz-Pan - 603-607 Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton
by Purificación López-García & Francisco Rodríguez-Valera & Carlos Pedrós-Alió & David Moreira - 607-610 Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity
by Seung Yeo Moon-van der Staay & Rupert De Wachter & Daniel Vaulot - 610-614 Parallel adaptive radiations in two major clades of placental mammals
by Ole Madsen & Mark Scally & Christophe J. Douady & Diana J. Kao & Ronald W. DeBry & Ronald Adkins & Heather M. Amrine & Michael J. Stanhope & Wilfried W. de Jong & Mark S. Springer - 614-618 Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals
by William J. Murphy & Eduardo Eizirik & Warren E. Johnson & Ya Ping Zhang & Oliver A. Ryder & Stephen J. O'Brien - 618-622 Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants
by Kathleen M. Pryer & Harald Schneider & Alan R. Smith & Raymond Cranfill & Paul G. Wolf & Jeffrey S. Hunt & Sedonia D. Sipes - 622-626 Export by red blood cells of nitric oxide bioactivity
by John R. Pawloski & Douglas T. Hess & Jonathan S. Stamler - 626-630 Scabrous complexes with Notch to mediate boundary formation
by Patricia A. Powell & Cedric Wesley & Susan Spencer & Ross L. Cagan - 630-633 Polarity controls forces governing asymmetric spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo
by Stephan W. Grill & Pierre Gönczy & Ernst H. K. Stelzer & Anthony A. Hyman - 633-637 Normal human mammary epithelial cells spontaneously escape senescence and acquire genomic changes
by Serguei R. Romanov & B. Krystyna Kozakiewicz & Charles R. Holst & Martha R. Stampfer & Larisa M. Haupt & Thea D. Tlsty - 637-641 The bacterial conjugation protein TrwB resembles ring helicases and F1-ATPase
by F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth & Gabriel Moncalián & Rosa Pérez-Luque & Ana González & Elena Cabezón & Fernando de la Cruz & Miquel Coll - 641-645 Three key residues form a critical contact network in a protein folding transition state
by Michele Vendruscolo & Emanuele Paci & Christopher M. Dobson & Martin Karplus - 646-646 Erratum A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA
by Hiroaki Hemmi & Osamu Takeuchi & Taro Kawai & Tsuneyasu Kaisho & Shintaro Sato & Hideki Sanjo & Makoto Matsumoto & Katsuaki Hoshino & Hermann Wagner & Kiyoshi Takeda & Shizuo Akira
January 2001, Volume 409, Issue 6819
- 441-441 Italians drop beef as first cow tests positive
by Sergio Pistoi - 441-442 Agencies face uphill battle to keep United States free of BSE
by Meredith Wadman - 442-442 Students fuzzy about the future
by Mark Schrope - 442-442 Public have right to see data from all gene trials, says FDA
by Paul Smaglik - 443-443 Max Planck Society broke pledge to ask Jews back after war
by Vera Bettenworth & Alison Abbott - 443-443 Animal-rights protests raise calls for UK government move
by Georgina Kenyon - 444-444 Health and energy chiefs sail through Senate
by Matthew Davis & Irwin Goodwin - 444-444 Canadian minister keeps researchers guessing
by David Spurgeon - 445-445 Demand for physicists on the rise
by Alison Abbott - 445-445 Stem-cell research to start in Britain
by David Dickson - 445-445 Assessment ups the ante on climate change
by Quirin Schiermeier - 448-450 Bringing supernovae down to Earth
by Alexander Hellemans - 451-451 The brain in Spain
by Xavier Bosch & Alison Abbott - 452-452 The long-term answer: fight fire with research
by Thomas J. Mills & Ariel E. Lugo - 452-452 Users must help to keep public databases correct
by Francis Ouellette - 452-452 European researchers encourage improvement in lab animal welfare
by Bert van Zutphen - 453-454 Memoirs of a reluctant cult figure
by Crispin Tickell - 454-455 Floral tributes for a treasure reclaimed
by Ryan J. Huxtable - 455-456 From chemistry to cordon bleu
by Etienne Guyon - 456-456 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 457-457 The suspense of strangeness
by Maurice Riordan - 459-459 Natural progression
by Steven A. Benner - 461-462 Stopping light in its tracks
by Eric A. Cornell - 462-463 Giant giants or dwarf dwarfs?
by Alan P. Boss - 463-465 Gastrogenomics
by Jonathan A. Eisen - 466-467 The age of river carbon
by Wolfgang Ludwig - 467-467 Activity at the active zone
by Lesley Anson - 467-469 Walking on other planets
by Alberto E. Minetti - 469-471 Floral quartets
by Günter Theißen & Heinz Saedler - 471-472 Watching an atom tunnel
by Ali Yazdani - 472-473 A new code for axons
by Guy Tear - 473-474 Sperm and mammalian polarity
by Roger A. Pedersen - 475-475 Watching fights raises fish hormone levels
by Rui F. Oliveira & Marco Lopes & Luis A. Carneiro & Adelino V. M. Canário - 476-476 Light-emitting diodes as chemical sensors
by Albena Ivanisevic & Jeng-Ya Yeh & Luke Mawst & Thomas F. Kuech & Arthur B. Ellis - 476-478 Screening slaughtered cattle for BSE
by J. P. Deslys & E. Comoy & S. Hawkins & S. Simon & H. Schimmel & G. Wells & J. Grassi & J. Moynagh - 478-478 Gene capture in archaeal chromosomes
by Qunxin She & Xu Peng & Wolfram Zillig & Roger A. Garrett - 479-484 The architecture of active zone material at the frog's neuromuscular junction
by Mark L. Harlow & David Ress & Arne Stoschek & Robert M. Marshall & Uel J. McMahan - 485-487 Dynamos in asymptotic-giant-branch stars as the origin of magnetic fields shaping planetary nebulae
by Eric G. Blackman & Adam Frank & J. Andrew Markiel & John H. Thomas & Hugh M. Van Horn - 487-490 Geochemical evidence for magmatic water within Mars from pyroxenes in the Shergotty meteorite
by Harry Y. McSween & Timothy L. Grove & Rachel C. F. Lentz & Jesse C. Dann & Astrid H. Holzheid & Lee R. Riciputi & Jeffrey G. Ryan - 490-493 Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses
by Chien Liu & Zachary Dutton & Cyrus H. Behroozi & Lene Vestergaard Hau - 494-497 Formation cross-sections of singlet and triplet excitons in π-conjugated polymers
by M. Wohlgenannt & Kunj Tandon & S. Mazumdar & S. Ramasesha & Z. V. Vardeny - 497-500 Riverine export of aged terrestrial organic matter to the North Atlantic Ocean
by Peter A. Raymond & James E. Bauer - 500-504 Geochemical evidence for the melting of subducting oceanic lithosphere at plate edges
by G. M. Yogodzinski & J. M. Lees & T. G. Churikova & F. Dorendorf & G. Wöerner & O. N. Volynets - 504-506 A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar
by Scott D. Sampson & Matthew T. Carrano & Catherine A. Forster - 507-510 Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean
by Markus B. Karner & Edward F. DeLong & David M. Karl - 510-513 Testing Hamilton's rule with competition between relatives
by Stuart A. West & Martyn G. Murray & Carlos A. Machado & Ashleigh S. Griffin & Edward Allen Herre - 513-517 Reduced antinociception and plasma extravasation in mice lacking a neuropeptide Y receptor
by Philippe Naveilhan & Hessameh Hassani & Guilherme Lucas & Karin Hygge Blakeman & Jing-Xia Hao & Xiao-Jun Xu & Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin & Peter Thorén & Patrik Ernfors - 517-521 Role for sperm in spatial patterning of the early mouse embryo
by Karolina Piotrowska & Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz - 522-525 Adherens junctions inhibit asymmetric division in the Drosophila epithelium
by Bingwei Lu & Fabrice Roegiers & Lily Y. Jan & Yuh Nung Jan - 525-529 Complexes of MADS-box proteins are sufficient to convert leaves into floral organs
by Takashi Honma & Koji Goto - 529-533 Genome sequence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
by Nicole T. Perna & Guy Plunkett & Valerie Burland & Bob Mau & Jeremy D. Glasner & Debra J. Rose & George F. Mayhew & Peter S. Evans & Jason Gregor & Heather A. Kirkpatrick & György Pósfai & Jeremiah Hackett & Sara Klink & Adam Boutin & Ying Shao & Leslie Miller & Erik J. Grotbeck & N. Wayne Davis & Alex Lim & Eileen T. Dimalanta & Konstantinos D. Potamousis & Jennifer Apodaca & Thomas S. Anantharaman & Jieyi Lin & Galex Yen & David C. Schwartz & Rodney A. Welch & Frederick R. Blattner - 533-538 Genomic binding sites of the yeast cell-cycle transcription factors SBF and MBF
by Vishwanath R. Iyer & Christine E. Horak & Charles S. Scafe & David Botstein & Michael Snyder & Patrick O. Brown - 539-542 Arrangement of RNA and proteins in the spliceosomal U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle
by Holger Stark & Prakash Dube & Reinhard Lührmann & Berthold Kastner - 542-542 addendum: A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations
by G. Clarke & R. A. Collins & B. R. Leavitt & D. F. Andrews & M. R. Hayden & C. J. Lumsden & R. R. McInnes - 542-542 Correction: Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
by Réka Albert & Hawoong Jeong & Albert-László Barabasi - 542-542 Correction: Kainate receptors are involved in synaptic plasticity
by Zuner A. Bortolotto & Vernon R. J. Clarke & Caroline M. Delany & Michael C. Parry & Ilse Smolders & Michel Vignes & Ken H. Ho & Peter Miu & Bradford T. Brinton & Robert Fantaske & Ann Ogden & Mary Gates & Paul L. Ornstein & David Lodge & David Bleakman & Graham L. Collingridge
January 2001, Volume 409, Issue 6818
- 271-271 Biotech sector still looking lively
by Sally Lehrman - 271-271 Harvard to spend 'hundreds of millions' on further expansion
by Rex Dalton - 272-272 South Africa reveals funding allocations for research
by Michael Cherry - 272-272 Japanese legume project may help to fix nitrogen problem
by David Cyranoski - 273-273 French museum report sparks researchers' revolt
by Declan Butler - 273-273 Group urges survey of antibiotics in animals
by Meredith Wadman - 274-274 Spanish leader lends ear to science
by Xavier Bosch - 274-274 Genes may solve hormone-disrupter debate
by Robert Triendl - 275-275 BSE fallout sends shock waves through Germany
by Alison Abbott - 275-275 CNN founder launches arms control initiative
by Irwin Goodwin - 278-280 Polio's last stand
by Tom Clarke - 281-281 Difficulty in reconciling global-warming data
by S. Fred Singer - 281-281 . . . and senior staff say there's no problem
by S. K. Sopory - 281-281 Doing our best for returners to Spain
by Carme Picallo - 281-281 Funding assured for India's international biotechnology centre . .
by Adolfo R. Taylhardat & Arturo Falaschi - 283-284 How Maxwell made his mark
by Scott Walter - 284-284 Not so crazy after all
by Dylan Evans - 285-285 A book that rocked the Victorian world
by David Oldroyd - 287-287 The birth of scientific reading
by Adrian Johns - 289-289 The key to the past?
by Richard B. Alley - 291-292 Talk is cheap in the city
by Henry L. Bertoni - 292-293 The missing link with obesity?
by Jeffrey S. Flier - 293-295 New prospects for old gas
by Bernard Marty - 295-296 Diced defence
by David Baulcombe - 297-299 Pulsars crash the magnetar party
by Jim Cordes - 299-300 Speciation in the round
by David B. Wake - 300-300 Cats, dogs and categories
by Hemai Parthasarathy - 300-301 Order and oddities
by Srikanth Sastry - 302-302 Louis Néel (1904–2000)
by Michael Coey - 303-303 A viable herd of genetically uniform cattle
by P. M. Visscher & D. Smith & S. J. G. Hall & J. L. Williams - 304-305 Topology of two-dimensional C60 domains
by J. G. Hou & Yang Jinlong & Wang Haiqian & Li Qunxiang & Zeng Changgan & Yuan Lanfeng & Wang Bing & D. M. Chen & Zhu Qingshi - 305-305 Self-recognition and the right hemisphere
by Julian Paul Keenan & Aaron Nelson & Margaret O'Connor & Alvaro Pascual-Leone - 306-306 Life, geology and snowball Earth
by Daniel P. Schrag & Paul F. Hoffman - 306-306 Life, geology and snowball Earth
by William T. Hyde & Thomas J. Crowley & Steven K. Baum & W. Richard Peltier - 307-312 The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes
by Claire M. Steppan & Shannon T. Bailey & Savitha Bhat & Elizabeth J. Brown & Ronadip R. Banerjee & Christopher M. Wright & Hiralben R. Patel & Rexford S. Ahima & Mitchell A. Lazar - 313-315 Non-detection at Venus of high-frequency radio signals characteristic of terrestrial lightning
by D. A. Gurnett & P. Zarka & R. Manning & W. S. Kurth & G. B. Hospodarsky & T. F. Averkamp & M. L. Kaiser & W. M. Farrell - 316-318 Tripling the capacity of wireless communications using electromagnetic polarization
by Michael R. Andrews & Partha P. Mitra & Robert deCarvalho - 318-321 Relationship between structural order and the anomalies of liquid water
by Jeffrey R. Errington & Pablo G. Debenedetti - 321-325 Transparent nematic phase in a liquid-crystal-based microemulsion
by Jun Yamamoto & Hajime Tanaka - 325-327 Increased thermohaline stratification as a possible cause for an ocean anoxic event in the Cretaceous period
by Jochen Erbacher & Brian T. Huber & Richard D. Norris & Molly Markey - 327-331 300-Myr-old magmatic CO2 in natural gas reservoirs of the west Texas Permian basin
by Chris J. Ballentine & Martin Schoell & Dennis Coleman & Bruce A. Cain