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May 2000, Volume 405, Issue 6782
- 14-14 Persian role in flowering of Islamic science
by Saadi Khochbin - 14-14 Instrument's ability to do the job is NASA's priority
by Donald A. Kniffen - 14-14 Putting marine mammals back in the mainstream
by David W. Sims - 15-16 Hell-fire and medication
by Ryan J. Huxtable - 16-17 Tales from a continental drifter
by Alan Longhurst - 17-18 Winging their way
by R. McNeill Alexander - 18-18 Strolling through the bioenergy field
by Paul D. Boyer - 19-19 Oeconomia Naturae L
by Geir Hestmark - 21-21 Et in articulo mortis
by Han Yu - 23-24 Evolution all at sea
by Richard D. Norris & Colomban de Vargas - 25-27 Coasting out of Africa
by Chris Stringer - 27-28 Turbulence without inertia
by Ronald G. Larson - 28-29 Gone but not forgotten
by Douglas R. Green & Helen M. Beere - 29-29 How far to the cosmic lighthouse?
by Sarah Tomlin - 31-32 Strength of the San Andreas
by Mark D. Zoback - 32-33 A single birth of all plastids?
by Jeffrey D. Palmer - 33-33 A flicker of interest
by David Jones - 34-34 Jane Gray (1929–2000)
by William A. Shear - 35-36 Beetle larvae cooperate to mimic bees
by John Hafernik & Leslie Saul-Gershenz - 36-36 Coral bleach-out in Belize
by Richard B. Aronson & William F. Precht & Ian G. Macintyre & Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch - 37-37 Transgenerational mutation by radiation
by Yuri E. Dubrova & Mark Plumb & Bruno Gutierrez & Emma Boulton & Alec J. Jeffreys - 38-38 Erratum: Stomach rinsing in rays
by David W. Sims & Paul L. R. Andrews & J. Z. Young - 38-38 Spontaneous formation of inorganic helices
by Oscar Giraldo & Stephanie L. Brock & Manuel Marquez & Steven L. Suib & Hugh Hillhouse & Michael Tsapatsis - 39-42 A surprising simplicity to protein folding
by David Baker - 43-47 Molecular evidence for genetic mixing of Arctic and Antarctic subpolar populations of planktonic foraminifers
by Kate F. Darling & Christopher M. Wade & Iain A. Stewart & Dick Kroon & Richard Dingle & Andrew J. Leigh Brown - 48-50 Io as a source of the jovian dust streams
by A. L. Graps & E. Grün & H. Svedhem & H. Krüger & M. Horányi & A. Heck & S. Lammers - 50-53 Detection of doubled shot noise in short normal-metal/ superconductor junctions
by X. Jehl & M. Sanquer & R. Calemczuk & D. Mailly - 53-55 Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow
by A. Groisman & V. Steinberg - 56-60 Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures
by Hongyou Fan & Yunfeng Lu & Aaron Stump & Scott T. Reed & Tom Baer & Randy Schunk & Victor Perez-Luna & Gabriel P. López & C. Jeffrey Brinker - 60-63 Large differences in tropical aerosol forcing at the top of the atmosphere and Earth's surface
by S. K. Satheesh & V. Ramanathan - 63-65 Sensitivity of the geomagnetic axial dipole to thermal core–mantle interactions
by Jeremy Bloxham - 65-69 Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial
by Robert C. Walter & Richard T. Buffler & J. Henrich Bruggemann & Mireille M. M. Guillaume & Seife M. Berhe & Berhane Negassi & Yoseph Libsekal & Hai Cheng & R. Lawrence Edwards & Rudo von Cosel & Didier Néraudeau & Mario Gagnon - 69-72 The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts
by David Moreira & Hervé Le Guyader & Hervé Philippe - 72-76 Encoding of movement time by populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells
by Peter Thier & Peter W. Dicke & Roman Haas & Shabtai Barash - 76-81 Silberblick/Wnt11 mediates convergent extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation
by Carl-Philipp Heisenberg & Masazumi Tada & Gerd-Jörg Rauch & Leonor Saúde & Miguel L. Concha & Robert Geisler & Derek L. Stemple & James C. Smith & Stephen W. Wilson - 81-85 Dishevelled controls cell polarity during Xenopus gastrulation
by John B. Wallingford & Brian A. Rowning & Kevin M. Vogeli & Ute Rothbächer & Scott E. Fraser & Richard M. Harland - 85-90 A receptor for phosphatidylserine-specific clearance of apoptotic cells
by Valerie A. Fadok & Donna L. Bratton & David M. Rose & Alan Pearson & R. Alan B. Ezekewitz & Peter M. Henson - 91-94 JNK is required for effector T-cell function but not for T-cell activation
by Chen Dong & Derek D. Yang & Cathy Tournier & Alan J. Whitmarsh & Jie Xu & Roger J. Davis & Richard A. Flavell - 94-97 A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer
by Dianne K. Newman & Roberto Kolter - 97-101 Structural insights into the stereochemistry of the cyclooxygenase reaction
by James R. Kiefer & Jennifer L. Pawlitz & Kirby T. Moreland & Roderick A. Stegeman & William F. Hood & James K. Gierse & Anna M. Stevens & Douglas C. Goodwin & Scott W. Rowlinson & Lawrence J. Marnett & William C. Stallings & Ravi G. Kurumbail - 101-101 Erratum: The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes
by Yin-Long Qiu & Jungho Lee & Fabiana Bernasconi-Quadroni & Douglas E. Soltis & Pamela S. Soltis & Michael Zanis & Elizabeth A. Zimmer & Zhiduan Chen & Vincent Savolainen & Mark W. Chase
April 2000, Volume 404, Issue 6781
- 909-909 UK science spend ‘not sensible’
by Natasha Loder - 909-910 Budget crisis forces hard choices on US high-energy physics
by Colin Macilwain - 910-910 ‘Saturation screen’ lets zebrafish show their stripes
by Peter Aldhous - 911-911 Letter fuels South Africa's AIDS furore
by Michael Cherry - 911-911 Unesco backs ‘science for debt’ plan
by David Dickson - 912-912 …as companies are urged to share benefits
by Paul Smaglik - 912-912 Genetic diversity project fights for its life…
by Paul Smaglik - 913-913 NASA's new environmental satellite shows its sensitive side
by Tony Reichhardt - 913-913 Japan gears up for growth in genomics
by Robert Triendl - 914-915 New Zealand GM inquiry will cast a wide net
by Peter Pockley - 915-915 German research agency ‘doesn't stifle creativity’, say 1,600 scientists
by Quirin Schiermeier - 918-920 Meet the spin doctors …
by Philip Ball - 921-921 How diagnosis with microarrays can help cancer patients
by John R. W. Masters & Sunil R. Lakhani - 921-921 Short-sighted move to close the 12-m telescope
by Ronak Shah - 921-922 Genetic modification and the meat market
by Jonathan Cowie - 922-922 Distinguished scientists back Germany's DFG…
by Reinhard Jahn - 922-922 reply: …but young researchers feel disillusioned
by The Editor - 922-922 …but young researchers feel disillusioned
by Daniel R. Dietrich & Bettina C. Hitzfeld - 923-924 ‘Marketing’ species conservation
by R. E. Gullison & R. E. Rice & A. G. Blundell - 925-926 Sir James in cyberspace
by Walter Gratzer - 926-927 When silence is not a true option
by Sunetra Gupta - 927-928 Of science and men
by Giovanni F. Bignami - 928-929 Wacky star of the Renaissance
by Owen Gingerich - 929-930 Not just a pretty Polly
by John C. Marshall - 930-931 Communications from the dead
by A. J. Berry - 931-932 On being human
by Andrew Whiten - 932-933 The sequence of words
by Patrick V. Kirch - 933-933 Evolution in a broader perspective
by Christophe Boesch - 934-934 How much is really changing in Japan?
by Robert Triendl - 935-935 Putting technology in its place
by Don Ihde - 937-937 The Enduring Test
by Paul Levinson - 939-940 Ringing in the new cosmology
by Wayne Hu - 940-943 Introns gain ground
by Thomas H. Eickbush - 943-944 Heat flow through nanobridges
by Leo P. Kouwenhoven & Liesbeth C. Venema - 944-945 In reverse gear
by Gillian Bates - 945-947 Molecular switches in lipid rafts
by Leslie A. Cary & Jonathan A. Cooper - 948-949 Superconducting nanowires
by Gerd Schön - 949-950 Decoy receptors thwart B cells
by Carl F. Ware - 950-950 Danger! Men at work
by David Jones - 951-951 Focusing hard X-rays with old LPs
by Björn Cederström & Robert N. Cahn & Mats Danielsson & Mats Lundqvist & David R. Nygren - 951-952 Symbiotic solution to arsenic contamination
by J. M. Sharples & A. A. Meharg & S. M. Chambers & J. W. G. Cairney - 952-953 Tunes and templates
by Willy Wong & Horace Barlow - 953-953 A refugium for relicts?
by Makoto Manabe & Paul M. Barrett & Shinji Isaji - 955-959 A flat Universe from high-resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
by P. de Bernardis & P. A. R. Ade & J. J. Bock & J. R. Bond & J. Borrill & A. Boscaleri & K. Coble & B. P. Crill & G. De Gasperis & P. C. Farese & P. G. Ferreira & K. Ganga & M. Giacometti & E. Hivon & V. V. Hristov & A. Iacoangeli & A. H. Jaffe & A. E. Lange & L. Martinis & S. Masi & P. V. Mason & P. D. Mauskopf & A. Melchiorri & L. Miglio & T. Montroy & C. B. Netterfield & E. Pascale & F. Piacentini & D. Pogosyan & S. Prunet & S. Rao & G. Romeo & J. E. Ruhl & F. Scaramuzzi & D. Sforna & N. Vittorio - 960-967 Structure of the reovirus core at 3.6?Å resolution
by Karin M. Reinisch & Max L. Nibert & Stephen C. Harrison - 968-971 Identification of molecular-cloud material in interplanetary dust particles
by Scott Messenger - 971-974 Quantum suppression of superconductivity in ultrathin nanowires
by A. Bezryadin & C. N. Lau & M. Tinkham - 974-977 Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance
by K. Schwab & E. A. Henriksen & J. M. Worlock & M. L. Roukes - 977-980 Coulomb-blockade transport in single-crystal organic thin-film transistors
by W. A. Schoonveld & J. Wildeman & D. Fichou & P. A. Bobbert & B. J. van Wees & T. M. Klapwijk - 980-982 Inorganic yellow-red pigments without toxic metals
by M. Jansen & H. P. Letschert - 982-986 A homochiral metal–organic porous material for enantioselective separation and catalysis
by Jung Soo Seo & Dongmok Whang & Hyoyoung Lee & Sung Im Jun & Jinho Oh & Young Jin Jeon & Kimoon Kim - 986-990 Recycled oceanic crust observed in ‘ghost plagioclase’ within the source of Mauna Loa lavas
by Alexander V. Sobolev & Albrecht W. Hofmann & Igor K. Nikogosian - 990-992 Human population in the biodiversity hotspots
by Richard P. Cincotta & Jennifer Wisnewski & Robert Engelman - 992-995 Identification of sleep-promoting neurons in vitro
by Thierry Gallopin & Patrice Fort & Emmanuel Eggermann & Bruno Cauli & Pierre-Hervé Luppi & Jean Rossier & Etienne Audinat & Michel Mühlethaler & Mauro Serafin - 995-999 TACI and BCMA are receptors for a TNF homologue implicated in B-cell autoimmune disease
by Jane A. Gross & Janet Johnston & Sherri Mudri & Rachel Enselman & Stacey R. Dillon & Karen Madden & Wenfeng Xu & Julia Parrish-Novak & Don Foster & Cathy Lofton-Day & Margaret Moore & Alisa Littau & Angelika Grossman & Harald Haugen & Kevin Foley & Hal Blumberg & Kim Harrison & Wayne Kindsvogel & Christopher H. Clegg - 999-1003 Transmembrane phosphoprotein Cbp regulates the activities of Src-family tyrosine kinases
by Masahiro Kawabuchi & Yoshinori Satomi & Toshifumi Takao & Yasutsugu Shimonishi & Shigeyuki Nada & Katsuya Nagai & Alexander Tarakhovsky & Masato Okada - 1003-1007 CpG methylation is maintained in human cancer cells lacking DNMT1
by Ina Rhee & Kam-Wing Jair & Ray-Whay Chiu Yen & Christoph Lengauer & James G. Herman & Kenneth W. Kinzler & Bert Vogelstein & Stephen B. Baylin & Kornel E. Schuebel - 1007-1011 Direct observation of dendritic actin filament networks nucleated by Arp2/3 complex and WASP/Scar proteins
by Laurent Blanchoin & Kurt J. Amann & Henry N. Higgs & Jean-Baptiste Marchand & Donald A. Kaiser & Thomas D. Pollard - 1011-1013 Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-η
by Toshiro Matsuda & Katarzyna Bebenek & Chikahide Masutani & Fumio Hanaoka & Thomas A. Kunkel - 1014-1018 Roles of E. coli DNA polymerases IV and V in lesion-targeted and untargeted SOS mutagenesis
by Mengjia Tang & Phuong Pham & Xuan Shen & John-Stephen Taylor & Mike O'Donnell & Roger Woodgate & Myron F. Goodman - 1018-1021 Retrotransposition of a bacterial group II intron
by Benoit Cousineau & Stacey Lawrence & Dorie Smith & Marlene Belfort
April 2000, Volume 404, Issue 6780
- 797-797 UK defence research goes private
by Peter Aldhous - 797-797 Clean-up strategy at Australian nuclear site called into question
by Peter Pockley - 798-798 Middle East's synchrotron heads for Jordan
by Heather McCabe - 798-798 Top physicist crosses to Boston in search of like minds
by Steve Nadis - 799-799 Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed
by Colin Macilwain - 799-799 California targets GM-trial vandals with new legislation
by Sally Lehrmann - 800-800 Women and ethnic minorities needed for US skills gap…
by Meredith Wadman - 800-800 Congress moves to open up access for foreign academics
by Tony Reichhardt - 800-800 …as academic pay fails to keep up
by Rex Dalton - 801-801 Bid to relax rules on tissue transport runs into opposition
by Michael Cherry - 801-801 US energy agency sequences human chromosome trio
by Paul Smaglik - 801-801 A first in computer printing
by Natasha Loder - 802-802 Wellcome shoulders its share of blame for Oxford debacle
by Natasha Loder - 802-802 Politicians seek to block human-gene patents in Europe
by Alison Abbott & Ulrike Hellerer - 804-808 A silence that speaks volumes
by Trisha Gura - 809-809 Open-source work even more vital to genome project than to software
by Andreas P. Russ & Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio & Mark B. L. Carlton - 809-809 Mayo and the mouse
by Steven G. Younkin & Susan Stoddard - 811-812 Science rules — OK?
by John Ziman - 812-813 Advances in a toxic offensive
by Alastair Hay - 813-814 Ecological Scrabble played in earnest
by Jeffrey A. Harvey - 814-814 Turned out nice again
by Mojib Latif - 815-815 Mighty mice
by Michael F.W. Festing & Elizabeth M.C. Fisher - 817-817 The paradigm and the pendulum
by William K. Hartmann - 819-820 Respiration in the balance
by John Grace & Mark Rayment - 820-821 Seeing in the sound zone
by Michael Merzenich - 821-823 Oxide-ion conductors by design
by John B. Goodenough - 823-824 New guardians of the genome
by David B. Roth & Martin Gellert - 825-827 A moving experience
by Kevin Fox - 827-827 High tension
by David Jones - 828-828 William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000)
by Robert Trivers - 829-832 Small bodies of the Solar System
by Don Yeomans - 833-834 Euler's disk and its finite-time singularity
by H. K. Moffatt - 834-835 Potential modulations along carbon nanotubes
by Sander J. Tans & Cees Dekker - 835-835 Microbial essentials at hydrothermal vents
by Anna-Louise Reysenbach & Amy B. Banta & David R. Boone & Stephen C. Cary & George W. Luther - 836-836 Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees
by William F. Laurance & Patricia Delamônica & Susan G. Laurance & Heraldo L. Vasconcelos & Thomas E. Lovejoy - 837-840 Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers
by J. J. Niemela & L. Skrbek & K. R. Sreenivasan & R. J. Donnelly - 841-847 Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex
by Jitendra Sharma & Alessandra Angelucci & Mriganka Sur - 848-850 Extended magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause from detection of bi-directional jets
by T. D. Phan & L. M. Kistler & B. Klecker & G. Haerendel & G. Paschmann & B. U. Ö. Sonnerup & W. Baumjohann & M. B. Bavassano-Cattaneo & C. W. Carlson & A. M. DiLellis & K.-H. Fornacon & L. A. Frank & M. Fujimoto & E. Georgescu & S. Kokubun & E. Moebius & T. Mukai & M. Øieroset & W. R. Paterson & H. Reme - 850-853 Statistical signatures of photon localization
by A. A. Chabanov & M. Stoytchev & A. Z. Genack - 853-855 Spontaneous macroscopic magnetization at the superconducting transition temperature of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
by R. Carmi & E. Polturak & G. Koren & A. Auerbach - 856-858 Designing fast oxide-ion conductors based on La2Mo2O9
by Philippe Lacorre & François Goutenoire & Odile Bohnke & Richard Retoux & Yvon Laligant - 858-861 Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature
by Christian P. Giardina & Michael G. Ryan - 861-865 Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests
by R. Valentini & G. Matteucci & A. J. Dolman & E.-D. Schulze & C. Rebmann & E. J. Moors & A. Granier & P. Gross & N. O. Jensen & K. Pilegaard & A. Lindroth & A. Grelle & C. Bernhofer & T. Grünwald & M. Aubinet & R. Ceulemans & A. S. Kowalski & T. Vesala & Ü. Rannik & P. Berbigier & D. Loustau & J. Guðmundsson & H. Thorgeirsson & A. Ibrom & K. Morgenstern & R. Clement & J. Moncrieff & L. Montagnani & S. Minerbi & P. G. Jarvis - 865-869 Determination of relative growth rates of natural quartz crystals
by Phillip D. Ihinger & Stephen I. Zink - 869-871 Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp
by Jeremy Field & Gavin Shreeves & Seirian Sumner & Maurizio Casiraghi - 871-876 Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway
by Laurie von Melchner & Sarah L. Pallas & Mriganka Sur - 876-881 Experience-dependent plasticity of dendritic spines in the developing rat barrel cortex in vivo
by Balazs Lendvai & Edward A. Stern & Brian Chen & Karel Svoboda - 881-884 Ion permeation mechanism of the potassium channel
by Johan Åqvist & Victor Luzhkov - 884-888 CD1c-mediated T-cell recognition of isoprenoid glycolipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
by D. Branch Moody & Timo Ulrichs & Walter Mühlecker & David C. Young & Sudagar S. Gurcha & Ethan Grant & Jean-Pierre Rosat & Michael B. Brenner & Catherine E. Costello & Gurdyal S. Besra & Steven A. Porcelli - 889-892 Integration of floral inductive signals in Arabidopsis
by Miguel A. Blázquez & Detlef Weigel - 892-897 Role of NF-κB in p53-mediated programmed cell death
by Kevin M. Ryan & Mary K. Ernst & Nancy R. Rice & Karen H. Vousden - 897-900 Interplay of p53 and DNA-repair protein XRCC4 in tumorigenesis, genomic stability and development
by Yijie Gao & David O. Ferguson & Wei Xie & John P. Manis & JoAnn Sekiguchi & Karen M. Frank & Jayanta Chaudhuri & James Horner & Ronald A. DePinho & Frederick W. Alt - 901-904 Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase
by Terence R. Strick & Vincent Croquette & David Bensimon - 904-904 Erratum: Formation of molecular gas in the tidal debris of violent galaxy–galaxy interactions
by Jonathan Braine & Ute Lisenfeld & Pierre-Alain Duc & Stéphane Leon - 904-904 Erratum: Uptake of apoptotic cells drives the growth of a pathogenic trypanosome in macrophages
by Célio G. Freire-de-Lima & Danielle O. Nascimento & Milena B. P. Soares & Patricia T. Bozza & Hugo C. Castro-Faria-Neto & Fernando G. de Mello & George A. DosReis & Marcela F. Lopes - 904-904 Correction: The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22
by I. Dunham & N. Shimizu & B. A. Roe & S. Chissoe - 904-904 Correction: Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous
by Richard L. Cifelli
April 2000, Volume 404, Issue 6779
- 691-691 …as biotech debate splits along party lines
by Paul Smaglik - 691-692 Critics challenge Celera's claims over human genome sequence…
by Paul Smaglik - 692-692 Ontario joins the genomics goldrush
by David Spurgeon - 692-692 German parliament agrees on limits to bioethics inquiry
by Quirin Schiermeier & Ulrike Hellerer - 693-693 …but critics claim the panel was biased
by Colin Macilwain - 693-693 US academy study finds GM foods are safe…
by Colin Macilwain - 694-694 Space detectors show off their paces
by Tony Reichhardt - 694-694 Music software to come to genome aid?
by Declan Butler - 695-695 Deaths bring South African HIV drug trials to a premature halt
by Michael Cherry - 695-695 Frustration grows over EU grant application procedures
by Alison Abbott & Patrick Weydt - 696-696 Fake bird fossil highlights the problem of illegal trading
by Rex Dalton - 696-696 Director of Wellcome centre resigns over damning report
by Natasha Loder - 697-697 Affymetrix loses first round of patent battle
by David Dickson - 697-697 UK ethicists back use of stem cells
by David Dickson - 700-700 Storming the Tower of Babel
by Henry Bortman & Philip Ball - 701-701 reply: No conflict between SLAC and Japan's KEK
by Colin Macilwain - 701-701 Technology failures were caused by managers not listening to engineers
by Richard Wilson - 701-701 No conflict between SLAC and Japan's KEK
by Helen Quinn - 703-704 More than meets the eye
by Philip Ball - 704-704 Endangered harvest?
by John G. Robinson & John Thorbjarnarson - 704-705 Seeds that never grew in Sweden
by Harriet Ritvo - 705-706 An uncertainty principle for geometry
by Peter T. Landsberg - 706-706 A fraternal view of Russian fauna
by Mikhail Mina - 707-707 Venture funding for new ideas
by Jayant V. Narlikar - 708-708 Regenesis
by Cynthia Ward - 709-710 Perfect use of imperfection
by Hansjörg Schild & Hans-Georg Rammensee - 710-711 Chaos in space and time
by J. P. Gollub & M. C. Cross - 711-713 Shattering developments
by Günter Theißen - 714-714 An arresting tale
by Bernd Pulverer - 714-715 Stripes defeat the Fermi liquid
by J. Zaanen - 715-717 Recognizing DNA in the library
by Satish K. Nair & Stephen K. Burley - 717-717 The stellar fuel
by Leslie Sage - 718-719 Freezing by heating
by H. Eugene Stanley - 719-720 Commit ye helpers
by Anne O'Garra - 720-720 Rain, rain, go away
by David Jones - 721-722 Delaying the onset of Huntington's in mice
by Anton van Dellen & Colin Blakemore & Robert Deacon & Denis York & Anthony J. Hannan - 722-723 Hexadecane decay by methanogenesis
by Robert T. Anderson & Derek R. Lovley - 723-723 Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment
by Madeleine Beekman & Johan N. M. Calis & Willem Jan Boot - 725-728 Specificities of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in developmental processes
by Norbert Perrimon & Merton Bernfield