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July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6692
- 507-507 A light at the end of the tube
by Brendan Horton
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6691
- 305-305 Gore calls for action on climate change as Congress stalls
by Colin Macilwain - 305-305 Indian atomic chief is refused US visa
by K. S. Jayaraman - 306-306 NIH streamlines research grants process
by Meredith Wadman - 306-306 Bill tightens law against genetic discrimination by health insurers
by Meredith Wadman - 307-307 UK universities get another funding boost
by David Dickson - 307-307 New Zealand enjoys science jamboree
by Peter Pockley - 308-308 Plan for government researchers in Japan to work in industry
by Asako Saegusa - 308-308 Fraud squad files report to prosecutor in Inserm case
by Declan Butler - 309-309 Congress revives hopes for solar power satellites
by Tony Reichhardt - 309-309 Accelerator project digs itself into a hole
by Carl Levitin - 309-309 France sets high targets for impact factors and patents
by Declan Butler - 310-310 Hungary pushes for further reform
by Alison Abbott - 313-313 Leading scientists still reject God
by Edward J. Larson & Larry Witham - 313-314 Dilemma over genetics and population in China
by Sun-Wei Guo & Chang-Jiang Zheng & C. C. Li - 314-314 Science in the firing line in Argentina
by Marcelino Cereijido - 315-316 Dolly is a clone — and no longer alone
by Davor Solter - 316-317 Death by delay
by Steven H. Strogatz - 317-319 Caught in the act of the switch-on
by Fred Wittinghofer - 320-321 Cracking Los Angeles
by John H. Shaw - 321-321 An Asian Grande Coupure
by Jean-Louis Hartenberger - 323-324 A period of change
by Nicholas E. White - 324-325 Keeping up with the F1-ATPase
by Howard C. Berg - 325-325 Lucy takes a stroll
by Tim Lincoln - 325-326 Connecting with catalysis
by Ian E. Maxwell - 326-326 Wet metallic hydrogen
by David Jones - 327-327 Wheatstone's waves
by Martin Kemp - 329-329 DNA microsatellite analysis of Dolly
by David Ashworth & Matthew Bishop & Keith Campbell & Alan Colman & Alex Kind & Angelika Schnieke & Sarah Blott & Harry Griffin & Chris Haley & Jim McWhir & Ian Wilmut - 329-330 DNA fingerprinting Dolly
by Esther N. Signer & Yuri E. Dubrova & Alec J. Jeffreys & Colin Wilde & Lynn M. B. Finch & Michelle Wells & Malcolm Peaker - 330-331 A cellulase gene of termite origin
by Hirofumi Watanabe & Hiroaki Noda & Gaku Tokuda & Nathan Lo - 331-332 Arctic springtime depletion of mercury
by W. H. Schroeder & K. G. Anlauf & L. A. Barrie & J. Y. Lu & A. Steffen & D. R. Schneeberger & T. Berg - 333-333 The joy of secants
by Jeremy Gray - 334-334 Carnivores in living colour
by Adrian M. Lister - 335-335 Instrumental insects
by Darryl T. Gwynne & Glenn K. Morris - 335-336 Holy prehistory
by Nicholas J. Saunders - 336-336 Is anybody out there?
by David W. Hughes - 337-343 The structural basis of the activation of Ras by Sos
by P. Ann Boriack-Sjodin & S. Mariana Margarit & Dafna Bar-Sagi & John Kuriyan - 344-346 A millisecond pulsar in an X-ray binary system
by Rudy Wijnands & Michiel van der Klis - 346-348 The two-hour orbit of a binary millisecond X-ray pulsar
by Deepto Chakrabarty & Edward H. Morgan - 348-350 Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles
by M. E. J. Friese & T. A. Nieminen & N. R. Heckenberg & H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop - 350-353 High-throughput screening of solid-state catalyst libraries
by Selim M. Senkan - 353-356 Unexpectedly high concentrations of molecular chlorine in coastal air
by C. W. Spicer & E. G. Chapman & B. J. Finlayson-Pitts & R. A. Plastridge & J. M. Hubbe & J. D. Fast & C. M. Berkowitz - 356-360 Escape tectonics in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and implications for seismic risk
by Christian Walls & Thomas Rockwell & Karl Mueller & Yehuda Bock & Simon Williams & John Pfanner & James Dolan & Peng Fang - 360-363 Evidence from the asymmetry of fast-spreading ridges that the axial topographic high is due to extensional stresses
by Michael A. Eberle & Donald W. Forsyth - 364-367 Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau
by Jin Meng & Malcolm C. McKenna - 367-369 Veil architecture in a sulphide-oxidizing bacterium enhances countercurrent flux
by Tom Fenchel & Ronnie N. Glud - 369-374 Full-term development of mice from enucleated oocytes injected with cumulus cell nuclei
by T. Wakayama & A. C. F. Perry & M. Zuccotti & K. R. Johnson & R. Yanagimachi - 374-377 Defects in somite formation in lunatic fringe-deficient mice
by Nian Zhang & Thomas Gridley - 377-381 lunatic fringe is an essential mediator of somite segmentation and patterning
by Yvonne A. Evrard & Yi Lun & Alexander Aulehla & Lin Gan & Randy L. Johnson - 381-384 A neuronal ryanodine receptor mediates light-induced phase delays of the circadian clock
by Jian M. Ding & Gordon F. Buchanan & Shelley A. Tischkau & Dong Chen & Liana Kuriashkina & Lia E. Faiman & Joan M. Alster & Peter S. McPherson & Kevin P. Campbell & Martha U. Gillette - 384-388 High-frequency firing helps replenish the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles
by Lu-Yang Wang & Leonard K. Kaczmarek - 388-392 An ancient retrotransposal insertion causes Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy
by Kazuhiro Kobayashi & Yutaka Nakahori & Masashi Miyake & Kiichiro Matsumura & Eri Kondo-Iida & Yoshiko Nomura & Masaya Segawa & Mieko Yoshioka & Kayoko Saito & Makiko Osawa & Kenzo Hamano & Youichi Sakakihara & Ikuya Nonaka & Yasuo Nakagome & Ichiro Kanazawa & Yusuke Nakamura & Katsushi Tokunaga & Tatsushi Toda - 392-395 Developmental selection of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum
by Qijun Chen & Victor Fernandez & Annika Sundström & Martha Schlichtherle & Santanu Datta & Per Hagblom & Mats Wahlgren - 395-399 Crystal structure of the first three domains of the type-1 insulin-like growth factor receptor
by Thomas P. J. Garrett & Neil M. McKern & Meizhen Lou & Maurice J. Frenkel & John D. Bentley & George O. Lovrecz & Thomas C. Elleman & Leah J. Cosgrove & Colin W. Ward
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6690
- 209-209 Wellcome secures new synchrotron source
by David Dickson - 209-209 UK provides ‘step increase’ in funding for its science base
by David Dickson - 210-210 Fusion machines ‘breach treaty and open weapons risk’
by Colin Macilwain - 210-211 Plant scientists want focus on the best and brightest
by Colin Macilwain - 211-211 Monsanto backs $150m plant science centre
by Colin Macilwain - 212-212 Britain ignores warning on privatization of defence research
by Ehsan Masood - 212-212 UK court gives green light to trial of modified maize
by Ehsan Masood - 213-213 Biologists recommend scrapping NASA's research on crystals
by Tony Reichhardt - 213-213 Gore's satellite may fill role of lost SOHO
by Tony Reichhardt - 214-214 Israel split on rights to genetic privacy
by Haim Watzman - 214-214 Swiss databank to start charging for use
by Alison Abbott - 216-216 Tokyo campus rising
by Shun-ichi Kobayashi - 216-216 When names are less than crystal clear
by Senyon Choe & Paul Pfaffinger - 216-216 Haldane's speculation
by I. J. Good - 216-216 When names are less than crystal clear
by Michael Ashburner - 217-218 How to make microbes safer
by Graham S. Pearson - 219-220 Dust hides a universal starburst
by Douglas Scott - 220-221 Why Ras needs Rho
by Frank McCormick - 221-223 Craters unchained
by H. J. Melosh - 224-225 Incas and alders
by Peter D. Moore - 225-227 Printing screens
by Robert Wisnieff - 227-228 The pathogen connection
by Christophe Benoist & Diane Mathis - 228-229 Eddies make ocean deserts bloom
by Richard G. Williams & Michael J. Follows - 229-230 Rarity as double jeopardy
by Kevin J. Gaston - 230-230 His master's fist
by David Jones - 231-231 Feynman's figurations
by Martin Kemp - 233-234 Selection on swallow tail streamers
by Matthew R. Evans - 234-235 The oldest coelurosaurian
by Xijin Zhao & Xing Xu - 235-236 Seal whiskers detect water movements
by Guido Dehnhardt & Björn Mauck & Horst Bleckmann - 236-236 Alanine enantiomers in the Murchison meteorite
by S. Pizzarello & J. R. Cronin - 237-238 Microbiology for the millions
by W. F. Bynum - 238-239 From meat to merchandise
by John Robb - 239-240 No laughing matter
by Colin L. Masters - 240-240 The making of a biochemist
by Mikuláš Teich - 241-247 High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey
by David H. Hughes & Stephen Serjeant & James Dunlop & Michael Rowan-Robinson & Andrew Blain & Robert G. Mann & Rob Ivison & John Peacock & Andreas Efstathiou & Walter Gear & Seb Oliver & Andy Lawrence & Malcolm Longair & Pippa Goldschmidt & Tim Jenness - 248-251 Submillimetre-wavelength detection of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift
by A. J. Barger & L. L. Cowie & D. B. Sanders & E. Fulton & Y. Taniguchi & Y. Sato & K. Kawara & H. Okuda - 251-253 A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths
by S. Y. Lin & J. G. Fleming & D. L. Hetherington & B. K. Smith & R. Biswas & K. M. Ho & M. M. Sigalas & W. Zubrzycki & S. R. Kurtz & Jim Bur - 253-255 An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays
by Barrett Comiskey & J. D. Albert & Hidekazu Yoshizawa & Joseph Jacobson - 256-260 Continuous self-assembly of organic–inorganic nanocomposite coatings that mimic nacre
by Alan Sellinger & Pilar M. Weiss & Anh Nguyen & Yunfeng Lu & Roger A. Assink & Weiliang Gong & C. Jeffrey Brinker - 260-263 Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U–Pb and Ar–Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes
by M. A. Hamilton & D. G. Pearson & R. N. Thompson & S. P. Kelley & C. H. Emeleus - 263-266 Influence of mesoscale eddies on new production in the Sargasso Sea
by D. J. McGillicuddy & A. R. Robinson & D. A. Siegel & H. W. Jannasch & R. Johnson & T. D. Dickey & J. McNeil & A. F. Michaels & A. H. Knap - 266-269 Eddy-induced enhancement of primary production in a model of the North Atlantic Ocean
by Andreas Oschlies & Véronique Garçon - 269-272 Local and global vectors in desert ant navigation
by M. Collett & T. S. Collett & S. Bisch & R. Wehner - 272-274 Species extinction and the relationship between distribution and abundance
by C. N. Johnson - 274-277 A multimodal language region in the ventral visual pathway
by Christian Büchel & Cathy Price & Karl Friston - 277-281 Control of pain initiation by endogenous cannabinoids
by Antonio Calignano & Giovanna La Rana & Andrea Giuffrida & Daniele Piomelli - 281-284 Expression of a potassium current in inner hair cells during development of hearing in mice
by Corné J. Kros & J. Peter Ruppersberg & Alfons Rüsch - 284-287 Mice lacking serum paraoxonase are susceptible to organophosphate toxicity and atherosclerosis
by Diana M. Shih & Lingjie Gu & Yu-Rong Xia & Mohamad Navab & Wan-Fen Li & Susan Hama & Lawrence W. Castellani & Clement E. Furlong & Lucio G. Costa & Alan M. Fogelman & Aldons J. Lusis - 287-291 Combined effects of angiostatin and ionizing radiation in antitumour therapy
by Helena J. Mauceri & Nader N. Hanna & Michael A. Beckett & David H. Gorski & Mary-Jane Staba & Kerri Anne Stellato & Kevin Bigelow & Ruth Heimann & Stephen Gately & Mohanraj Dhanabal & Gerald A. Soff & Vikas P. Sukhatme & Donald W. Kufe & Ralph R. Weichselbaum - 292-295 V(D)J recombinase induction in splenic B lymphocytes is inhibited by antigen-receptor signalling
by Marc Hertz & Valérie Kouskoff & Tetsuya Nakamura & David Nemazee - 295-299 Signals from Ras and Rho GTPases interact to regulate expression of p21Waf1/Cip1
by Michael F. Olson & Hugh F. Paterson & Christopher J. Marshall - 299-302 Structure of dehydroquinate synthase reveals an active site capable of multistep catalysis
by Elisabeth P. Carpenter & Alastair R. Hawkins & John W. Frost & Katherine A. Brown - 302-302 A prolactin-releasing peptide in the brain
by Shuji Hinuma & Yugo Habata & Ryo Fujii & Yuji Kawamata & Masaki Hosoya & Shoji Fukusumi & Chieko Kitada & Yoshinori Masuo & Tsuneo Asano & Hirokazu Matsumoto & Masahiro Sekiguchi & Tsutomu Kurokawa & Osamu Nishimura & Haruo Onda & Masahiko Fujino - 302-302 Erratum: Engineering cyclophilin into a proline-specific endopeptidase
by Eric Quéméneur & Mireille Moutiez & Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier & André Ménez
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6689
- 107-107 US public puts faith in science, but still lacks understanding
by Colin Macilwain - 107-107 University says sorry for its racist past
by Quirin Schiermeier - 108-108 Indian meeting backed despite boycott threats over nuclear tests
by K. S. Jayaraman - 108-108 Congress turns NIH budget into a political football
by Meredith Wadman - 109-109 Japan's Mars probe launched successfully
by Asako Saegusa - 109-109 Genome research set to take off in China
by David Swinbanks - 110-110 Japan okays test-tube baby gene tests
by Asako Saegusa - 110-110 US think-tank queries cost of ‘stockpile stewardship’ programme
by Colin Macilwain - 111-111 Panel casts doubt on helium sell-off plan
by Colin Macilwain - 111-111 Public ‘must have more say on NIH spend’
by Meredith Wadman - 112-112 CITES chief removed in scandal over trade in banned species
by Ehsan Masood - 112-112 Small-scale space projects ‘threaten collaboration’
by Alison Abbott - 113-113 Future of Gabon lab hangs in the balance
by Declan Butler - 115-116 Museum research comes off list of endangered species
by Declan Butler & Henry Gee & Colin Macilwain - 120-120 Untenured in Toronto
by Pekka K. Sinervo - 120-120 Rescue plan needed for taxonomy
by Henry Disney - 121-122 Familiarity breeds cooperation
by Laurent Keller & H. Kern Reeve - 122-123 Well of darkness
by August E. Evrard - 125-126 Actin branches out
by Laura M. Machesky & Michael Way - 126-127 Disorder in the ranks
by R. J. Cava - 127-127 Ancient Australian arthropods
by Tim Lincoln - 129-130 Dancing dendrites
by Frances A. Edwards - 130-131 Jive talking
by John Chappell - 131-132 A quantum leap for electronics
by Lydia L. Sohn - 132-133 What makes the brain's tickers tock
by John Lisman - 133-133 Corrugated carbon
by David Jones - 133-133 Correction: Immunology: Ways around rejection
by David L. Vaux - 134-134 Alberto P. Calderón (1920-98)
by Robert A. Fefferman - 135-135 Lane's landscapes
by Martin Kemp - 137-137 Nicotine withdrawal and accident rates
by Andrew J. Waters & Martin J. Jarvis & Stephen R. Sutton - 137-138 Cause of sea fan death in the West Indies
by David M. Geiser & John W. Taylor & Kim B. Ritchie & Garriet W. Smith - 138-140 Origins of Old Testament priests
by Mark G. Thomas & Karl Skorecki & Haim Ben-Amid & Tudor Parfitt & Neil Bradman & David B. Goldstein - 140-140 Regeneration in metazoan larvae
by Minako S. Vickery & James B. McClintock - 141-143 Postmodernism disrobed
by Richard Dawkins - 143-144 From protective rind to cognitive cortex
by John C. Marshall - 144-144 A piece of the true Feynman
by Stephen Battersby - 145-151 Three-dimensional structure of the Stat3β homodimer bound to DNA
by Stefan Becker & Bernd Groner & Christoph W. Müller - 152-154 Large-scale coronal heating by the small-scale magnetic field of the Sun
by C. J. Schrijver & A. M. Title & K. L. Harvey & N. R. Sheeley & Y.-M. Wang & G. H. J. van den Oord & R. A. Shine & T. D. Tarbell & N. E. Hurlburt - 154-157 The signature of chemical valence in the electrical conduction through a single-atom contact
by Elke Scheer & Nicolás Agraït & Juan Carlos Cuevas & Alfredo Levy Yeyati & Bas Ludoph & Alvaro Martín-Rodero & Gabino Rubio Bollinger & Jan M. van Ruitenbeek & Cristián Urbina - 157-159 Cation effects in doped La2CuO4 superconductors
by J. P. Attfield & A. L. Kharlanov & J. A. McAllister - 159-162 A molecular metal with ion-conducting channels
by Takayoshi Nakamura & Tomoyuki Akutagawa & Kazumasa Honda & Allan E. Underhill & A. Treeve Coomber & Richard H. Friend - 162-165 Magnitudes of sea-level lowstands of the past 500,000 years
by E. J. Rohling & M. Fenton & F. J. Jorissen & P. Bertrand & G. Ganssen & J. P. Caulet - 165-168 Megaripple migration in a natural surf zone
by Edith L. Gallagher & Steve Elgar & Edward B. Thornton - 168-172 The unique anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle
by Göran Ekström & Adam M. Dziewonski - 172-175 Devonian terrestrial arthropods from Gondwana
by Gregory D. Edgecombe - 175-179 Development of cooperative relationships through increasing investment
by Gilbert Roberts & Thomas N. Sherratt - 179-182 Visual synchrony affects binding and segmentation in perception
by Marius Usher & Nick Donnelly - 182-185 Inhibitory long-term potentiation underlies auditory conditioning of goldfish escape behaviour
by Yoichi Oda & Keisuke Kawasaki & Masahiro Morita & Henri Korn & Haruko Matsui - 186-189 Cholinergic induction of network oscillations at 40 Hz in the hippocampus in vitro
by André Fisahn & Fenella G. Pike & Eberhard H. Buhl & Ole Paulsen - 189-192 Electrical coupling underlies high-frequency oscillations in the hippocampus in vitro
by A. Draguhn & R. D. Traub & D. Schmitz & J. G. R. Jefferys - 192-195 Visualizing secretion and synaptic transmission with pH-sensitive green fluorescent proteins
by Gero Miesenböck & Dino A. De Angelis & James E. Rothman - 196-200 Antagonism between extradenticle function and Hedgehog signalling in the developing limb
by Sergio González-Crespo & Muna Abu-Shaar & Miguel Torres & Carlos Martínez-A & Richard S. Mann & Ginés Morata - 200-203 Reduction of atherosclerosis in mice by inhibition of CD40 signalling
by François Mach & Uwe Schönbeck & Galina K. Sukhova & Elizabeth Atkinson & Peter Libby - 203-206 Truncating mutations of hSNF5/INI1 in aggressive paediatric cancer
by Isabella Versteege & Nicolas Sévenet & Julian Lange & Marie-Françoise Rousseau-Merck & Peter Ambros & Rupert Handgretinger & Alain Aurias & Olivier Delattre
July 1998, Volume 394, Issue 6688
- 3-3 ‘Ignition not vital’ in scaled-down fusion reactor
by Asako Saegusa - 3-3 Japan reacts uneasily to nuclear plan for meeting carbon cuts
by Asako Saegusa - 4-4 French panel calls for closer monitoring of genetic modification
by Eric Glover - 4-4 UNEP rebuffed in search for a wider role
by Ehsan Masood - 5-5 Senators back bill to double R & D funds over 12 years
by Colin Macilwain - 5-5 NASA loses touch with solar observatory in space
by Tony Reichhardt - 5-5 Space agency to work closely with EU
by Alison Abbott - 6-6 New doubts over rock-dating techniques
by Rex Dalton - 6-6 German institute ‘correct’ to fire technician
by Alison Abbot - 7-7 Australia builds on biological successes with a broad new centre
by Peter Pockley - 7-7 China plans major shake-up of academy
by David Swinbanks - 8-8 Organic farmer takes gene battle to court
by Ehsan Masood - 10-10 Biotech battlelines
by Othmar Käppeli & Lillian Auberson - 10-10 Let's share the excitement of science
by Edward J. Weiler - 11-12 A conduit to the core
by Richard W. Carlson - 12-13 Evolutionary cut and paste
by Neil Shubin - 13-15 The Standard Model transcended
by Frank Wilczek - 15-15 SO(10) marshals the particles
by Frank Wilczek - 16-17 Boning up on Hedgehog's movements
by Philip W. Ingham - 17-19 Intergalactic pollution
by J. Michael Shull - 19-20 The two faces of glutamate
by Jean-Philippe Pin - 21-22 Ice on the fast track
by Charles R. Bentley - 22-23 The ghost of magnetism
by Zachary Fisk & David Pines - 23-24 What goes up must come down
by David R. H. Evans & Brian A. Hemmings - 24-24 Extruded tubing
by David Jones - 25-25 Röntgen's rays
by Martin Kemp - 27-28 Novel retinal photoreceptors
by Bobby G. Soni & Alisdair R. Philp & Russell G. Foster & Barry E. Knox - 28-29 Do flame retardants threaten ocean life?
by Jacob de Boer & Peter G. Wester & Hans J. C. Klamer & Wilma E. Lewis & Jan P. Boon - 29-30 Density of states reflects diameter in nanotubes
by C. T. White & J. W. Mintmire - 30-30 A more reliable design for biodiversity study?
by David A. Wardle - 30-30 A more reliable design for biodiversity study?
by Shahid Naeem & Shibin Li - 31-32 Selling science against the odds
by Graham Farmelo - 32-33 Tripped up by timekeeping
by Kristen Lippincott - 33-34 Truth and consequences
by Gisli H. Gudjonsson - 34-34 Digging up history's skeletons
by Ruth Richardson - 35-38 G-protein diseases furnish a model for the turn-on switch
by Taroh Iiri & Zvi Farfel & Henry R. Bourne