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May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6732
- 113-114 Myopia and ambient lighting at night
by Graham E. Quinn & Chai H. Shin & Maureen G. Maguire & Richard A. Stone - 114-114 Superconductors under stress
by Laurens Jansen & Ruud Block - 114-115 Polar gigantism dictated by oxygen availability
by Gauthier Chapelle & Lloyd S. Peck - 115-116 No role for colour in symmetry perception
by Dawn Morales & Harold Pashler - 117-118 A fantasia of biological feminism
by Olivia Judson - 118-119 A chemistry textbook hero
by Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds - 119-120 Quantum behaviour
by David P. DiVincenzo - 120-120 Science in culture
by Duncan Dallas - 121-124 Supersonic winds in Jupiter's aurorae
by Daniel Rego & Nicholas Achilleos & Tom Stallard & Steve Miller & Renée Prangé & Michele Dougherty & Robert D. Joseph - 124-126 Efficient fault-tolerant quantum computing
by Andrew M. Steane - 126-130 Three-dimensional orientation measurements of symmetric single chromophores using polarization microscopy
by S. A. Empedocles & R. Neuhauser & M. G. Bawendi - 130-132 Size and form in efficient transportation networks
by Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan & Andrea Rinaldo - 132-134 Electronic mechanism of hardness enhancement in transition-metal carbonitrides
by Seung-Hoon Jhi & Jisoon Ihm & Steven G. Louie & Marvin L. Cohen - 134-137 Near-field probing of vibrational absorption for chemical microscopy
by B. Knoll & F. Keilmann - 137-141 Radon emanation and electric potential variations associated with transient deformation near reservoir lakes
by M. Trique & P. Richon & F. Perrier & J. P. Avouac & J. C. Sabroux - 141-144 Three-dimensional preservation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs
by Stephen M. Gatesy & Kevin M. Middleton & Farish A. Jenkins Jr & Neil H. Shubin - 144-148 Evolution of genetic mechanisms controlling petal development
by Elena M. Kramer & Vivian F. Irish - 148-151 The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition
by Etienne Koechlin & Gianpaolo Basso & Pietro Pietrini & Seth Panzer & Jordan Grafman - 151-155 Synaptic calcium transients in single spines indicate that NMDA receptors are not saturated
by Zachary F. Mainen & Roberto Malinow & Karel Svoboda - 155-159 Ca2+/calmodulin binds to and modulates P/Q-type calcium channels
by Amy Lee & Scott T. Wong & Daniel Gallagher & Bin Li & Daniel R. Storm & Todd Scheuer & William A. Catterall - 159-162 Calmodulin supports both inactivation and facilitation of L-type calcium channels
by Roger D. Zühlke & Geoffrey S. Pitt & Karl Deisseroth & Richard W. Tsien & Harald Reuter - 162-166 A cytosolic catalase is needed to extend adult lifespan in C. elegans daf-C and clk-1 mutants
by James Taub & Joe F. Lau & Charles Ma & Jang Hee Hahn & Rafaz Hoque & Jonathan Rothblatt & Martin Chalfie - 166-169 Gene silencing in Neurospora crassa requires a protein homologous to RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
by Carlo Cogoni & Giuseppe Macino - 175-176 Out of the lab and into the marketplace
by Brendan Horton - 176-176 First write your business plan
by Brendan Horton - 177-177 Singapore aims to become a hot spot for life sciences
by David Swinbanks - 177-178 ‘Venture fever’ grips Asian economies
by David Swinbanks - 178-178 China's scientists tap offshore funds
by David Swinbanks - 179-179 Taiwan targets biotechnology
by David Swinbanks - 179-180 End of the brain drain could be in sight
by Potter Wickware - 181-182 How to win venture-capital financing
by Diane Gershon - 182-182 Funding brings high-risk technologies to the marketplace
by Diane Gershon
May 1999, Volume 399, Issue 6731
- 3-3 Clinton pledges to smooth path of research at universities
by Colin Macilwain - 3-3 UK failing to reap neuroscience rewards
by Ehsan Masood - 4-4 France seeks scientists’ views on reform
by Declan Butler - 4-4 Germany says it will come on board Earth observation mission
by Alison Abbott - 5-5 Berkeley dispute festers over biotech deal
by Rex Dalton - 5-5 Embattled neuroscientist wins US support
by Alison Abbott - 6-6 Global R&D spread clouds locaal analyses
by Declan Butler - 7-7 Australians seek international allies in battle over uranium mine
by Peter Pockley - 7-7 GM advisory panel is slanted, say critics
by Meredith Wadman - 8-8 EU warns on growth-hormone cancer risk
by Meredith Wadman - 8-9 Mixed response to NIH's web journal plan
by Declan Butler & Meredith Wadman - 9-9 Automation ‘could crack the big problems in science’
by Colin Macilwain - 13-13 Cloning claims challenged
by Davor Solter - 13-13 Inequities in German research system
by Stefan Jähnichen & Klaus-Robert Müller - 13-13 Editors’ responsibility in defeating fraud
by Michael M. Meguid - 13-13 Inequities in German research system
by Michael Cross - 14-14 From youthful PMs to presidents who walk tall
by Jeremy Stangroom - 14-14 Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments
by David Tilman - 14-14 Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments
by Olof Andrén & Holger Kirchmann & Olle Pettersson - 15-16 Diamondoids and oil are not forever
by Martin Schoell & Robert M. K. Carlson - 16-17 A calcium window to the gut
by G. David S. Hirst - 17-18 From vortices to genomics
by Terence Hwa - 19-20 A spine to remember
by Per Andersen - 21-22 The magnetic turnabout
by Olivier Kahn - 23-23 Laying it on thick
by Sarah Tomlin - 24-24 Heard but not seen
by John Whitfield - 24-25 Stone legacy of skilled hands
by James Steele - 25-25 Adhesive antibodies
by David Jones - 26-26 David Phillips (1924—99)
by Louise N. Johnson & Gregory A. Petsko - 27-27 Naked foraminiferans revealed
by Jan Pawlowski & Ignacio Bolivar & José Fahrni & Colomban de Vargas & Samuel S. Bowser - 28-28 A stimulatory phalloid organ in a weaver bird
by M. Winterbottom & T. Burke & T. R. Birkhead - 28-29 Green processing using ionic liquids and CO2
by Lynnette A. Blanchard & Dan Hancu & Eric J. Beckman & Joan F. Brennecke - 29-30 Long-distance transport of pollen into the Arctic
by Ian D. Campbell & Karen McDonald & Michael D. Flannigan & Joanni Kringayark - 30-30 Cause and effect in evolution
by W. Joe Dickinson & Jon Seger - 31-32 From an old world order to show ’n’ sell
by Thomas F. Gieryn - 32-33 From entropy to Duino
by G. F. Bignami - 33-33 Aiming for that goal of zero emission
by Roger Sheldon - 33-34 Information, information
by Nancy Lane - 34-34 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 35-40 Energy traps in atomic nuclei
by Philip Walker & George Dracoulis - 41-43 Possible long-lived asteroid belts in the inner Solar System
by N. Wyn Evans & Serge Tabachnik - 43-46 Observation of mesoscopic vortex physics using micromechanical oscillators
by C. A. Bolle & V. Aksyuk & F. Pardo & P. L. Gammel & E. Zeldov & E. Bucher & R. Boie & D. J. Bishop & D. R. Nelson - 46-48 Influence of a knot on the strength of a polymer strand
by A. Marco Saitta & Paul D. Soper & E. Wasserman & Michael L. Klein - 48-51 Controlled growth and electrical properties of heterojunctions of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires
by Jiangtao Hu & Min Ouyang & Peidong Yang & Charles M. Lieber - 51-54 Stress-induced recrystallization of a protein crystal by electron irradiation
by F. Zemlin & R. Schuster & E. Beckmann & J. L. Carrascosa & J. M. Valpuesta & G. Ertl - 54-57 Diamondoid hydrocarbons as indicators of natural oil cracking
by J. E. Dahl & J. M. Moldowan & K. E. Peters & G. E. Claypool & M. A. Rooney & G. E. Michael & M. R. Mello & M. L. Kohnen - 57-60 Early hominid stone tool production and technical skill 2.34 Myr ago in West Turkana, Kenya
by H. Roche & A. Delagnes & J.-P. Brugal & C. Feibel & M. Kibunjia & V. Mourre & P.-J. Texier - 60-62 The wing of Archaeopteryx as a primary thrust generator
by Phillip Burgers & Luis M. Chiappe - 62-66 Induction and organization of Ca2+ waves by enteric neural reflexes
by Randel J. Stevens & Nelson G. Publicover & Terence K. Smith - 66-70 Dendritic spine changes associated with hippocampal long-term synaptic plasticity
by Florian Engert & Tobias Bonhoeffer - 70-75 A family of mammalian Na+-dependent L-ascorbic acid transporters
by Hiroyasu Tsukaguchi & Taro Tokui & Bryan Mackenzie & Urs V. Berger & Xing-Zhen Chen & Yangxi Wang & Richard F. Brubaker & Matthias A. Hediger - 75-80 Regulation of alternative splicing by RNA editing
by Susan M. Rueter & T. Renee Dawson & Ronald B. Emeson - 80-83 Structural basis for initiation of transcription from an RNA polymerase–promoter complex
by Graham M. T. Cheetham & David Jeruzalmi & Thomas A Steitz - 84-84 Erratum: Extreme Th1 bias of invariant Vα24JαQ T cells in type 1 diabetes
by S. Brian Wilson & Sally C. Kent & Kurt T. Patton & Tihamer Orban & Richard A. Jackson & Mark Exley & Steven Porcelli & Desmond A. Schatz & Mark A. Atkinson & Steven P. Balk & Jack L. Strominger & David A. Hafler - 84-84 Erratum: Experimental verification of the quasi-unit-cell model of quasicrystal structure
by Paul J. Steinhardt & H.-C. Jeong & K. Saitoh & M. Tanaka & E. Abe & A. P. Tsai - 84-84 Erratum: The role of mat-forming diatoms in the formation of Mediterranean sapropels
by Alan E. S. Kemp & Richard B. Pearce & Itaru Koizumi & Jennifer Pike & S. Jae Rance - 84-84 Erratum: In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients
by Timothy M. Gomez & Nicholas C. Spitzer
April 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6730
- 735-735 National project to boost Japan's net presence
by Asako Saegusa - 735-735 NIH plan brings global electronic journal a step nearer reality
by Declan Butler - 736-736 US processor rejects maize that EU won't take
by Meredith Wadman - 736-736 Swiss reject GM trial to protect organics
by Alison Abbott - 737-737 Swedish minister rebuilds scientists' trust
by Peter Sylwan - 737-737 Mars sundial celebrates joy of discovery
by Tony Reichhardt - 738-738 Monitoring system planned for US biodiversity drive
by Rex Dalton - 738-738 NASA's plan to hire peer-review contractor raises scientists' fears
by Tony Reichhardt - 739-739 SSC spectre hovers over neutron project
by Colin Macilwain - 740-740 University libraries put pen to paper in journal pricing protest
by Alison Abbott - 740-740 Japan moves to evaluate its engineers
by Asako Saegusa - 741-741 Scientists split on US smallpox decision
by Meredith Wadman - 741-741 Radioactive leak at Indian power station
by K. S. Jayaraman - 745-745 Why Japan's professors fear evaluation
by Mitsuo Tagaya - 745-745 Name and shame the scientific fraudsters
by James McComb - 745-745 Some PhDs are more equal than others
by Leonor Cruzeiro-Hansson - 747-748 Ants, plants and antibiotics
by Ted R. Schultz - 748-749 Solid-state qubits under control
by D. V. Averin - 751-752 Legs to wings and back again
by Lee Niswander - 752-753 Molecular probing of deep secrets
by Roger Summons - 753-753 Coated-pit dynamics
by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz - 755-756 Linear and nonlinear signatures
by Klaus Hasselmann - 756-757 Life and death in a FLASH
by Jan Paul Medema - 757-758 Mitotic treasures in the nucleolus
by Jeffrey B. Bachant & Stephen J. Elledge - 758-758 Theological chemistry
by David Jones - 759-760 Acoustic guide in bat-pollinated flower
by Dagmar von Helversen & Otto von Helversen - 760-760 Cognitive restoration of reversed speech
by Kourosh Saberi & David R. Perrott - 760-761 Co-carcinogenic effect of β-carotene
by M. Paolini & G. Cantelli-Forti & P. Perocco & G. F. Pedulli & S. Z. Abdel-Rahman & M. S. Legator - 761-762 Growth of nanotubes for probe microscopy tips
by Jason H. Hafner & Chin Li Cheung & Charles M. Lieber - 763-764 An octopus-like obsession with loyalty
by Daniel J. Kevles - 764-765 Beware the diseases of the will, my child
by Pere Puigdomènech - 765-766 German science admits to fraud
by Alison Abbott - 766-767 A further string to the believers' bow
by John Maddox - 767-768 The self-centred meme
by Jerry A. Coyne - 768-769 Shady secrets of the Enlightenment
by W. F. Bynum - 770-771 The outward urge
by Walter Gratzer - 771-772 Turning evening into morning
by John Bayley - 773-774 Lord of the flies
by Yadin Dudai - 774-775 Hitting the target
by Stephen Neidle - 775-776 Taming the black dog
by Charles B. Nemeroff - 777-785 The CED-4-homologous protein FLASH is involved in Fas-mediated activation of caspase-8 during apoptosis
by Yuzuru Imai & Takaharu Kimura & Akira Murakami & Nobuyuki Yajima & Kazuhiro Sakamaki & Shin Yonehara - 786-788 Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair box
by Y. Nakamura & Yu. A. Pashkin & J. S. Tsai - 788-791 The existence of supercooled liquid water at 150?K
by R. Scott Smith & Bruce D. Kay - 792-794 Structure of the polymer electrolyte poly(ethylene oxide)6:LiAsF6
by Graham S. MacGlashan & Yuri G. Andreev & Peter G. Bruce - 794-796 A nanometre-sized hexahedral coordination capsule assembled from 24 components
by Nobuhiro Takeda & Kazuhiko Umemoto & Kentaro Yamaguchi & Makoto Fujita - 796-799 Self-assembly of nanoscale cuboctahedra by coordination chemistry
by Bogdan Olenyuk & Jeffery A. Whiteford & Andreas Fechtenkötter & Peter J. Stang - 799-802 Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes
by S. Corti & F. Molteni & T. N. Palmer - 802-805 Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments
by Kai-Uwe Hinrichs & John M. Hayes & Sean P. Sylva & Peter G. Brewer & Edward F. DeLong - 805-810 Reduced antinociception in mice lacking neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits
by Lisa M. Marubio & Maria del Mar Arroyo-Jimenez & Matilde Cordero-Erausquin & Clément Léna & Nicolas Le Novère & Alban de Kerchove d'Exaerde & Monique Huchet & M. Imad Damaj & Jean-Pierre Changeux - 810-814 Tbx5 and Tbx4 genes determine the wing/leg identity of limb buds
by Jun K. Takeuchi & Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi & Ken Matsumoto & Astrid Vogel-Höpker & Mayumi Naitoh-Matsuo & Keiko Ogura & Naoki Takahashi & Kunio Yasuda & Toshihiko Ogura - 814-818 The T-box genes Tbx4 and Tbx5 regulate limb outgrowth and identity
by Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban & Tohru Tsukui & Sayuri Yonei & Jorge Magallon & Koji Tamura & Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte - 818-823 Cfi1 prevents premature exit from mitosis by anchoring Cdc14 phosphatase in the nucleolus
by Rosella Visintin & Ellen S. Hwang & Angelika Amon - 824-828 Ligand-dependent transcription activation by nuclear receptors requires the DRIP complex
by Christophe Rachez & Bryan D. Lemon & Zalman Suldan & Virginia Bromleigh & Matthew Gamble & Anders M. Näär & Hediye Erdjument-Bromage & Paul Tempst & Leonard P. Freedman - 828-832 Composite co-activator ARC mediates chromatin-directed transcriptional activation
by Anders M. Näär & Pierre A. Beaurang & Sharleen Zhou & Shaji Abraham & William Solomon & Robert Tjian
April 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6729
- 641-641 US sets up ‘round-table’ talks with scientists
by Colin Macilwain - 641-641 Europe and US in confrontation over GM food labelling criteria
by Ehsan Masood - 642-642 UK's royal societies oppose new research council for Scotland
by Ehsan Masood - 642-642 Europe will fly animals on space station
by Tony Reichhardt - 643-643 Transplant panel to play ‘honest broker’
by Declan Butler - 643-643 Looser ties urged for Japanese scientists
by Asako Saegusa - 644-644 Financial doubts over future of chimp lab
by Meredith Wadman - 644-644 Japan plans cDNA hunt for disease genes
by Asako Saegusa - 645-645 Spanish watchdog sees way ahead for stem-cell research
by Xavier Bosch - 645-645 Private nuclear waste plan faces critics in Australia
by Peter Pockley - 646-646 Bioinformatics institute plans public database for gene expression data
by Alison Abbott - 646-646 Scientists urged to raise lobbying efforts
by Alison Abbott - 647-647 A meeting of parallel paths for US fusion?
by Colin Macilwain - 657-657 Miscalculation
by Mordecai-Mark Mac Low - 657-657 Did Parisians catch HIV from ‘monkey glands’?
by R. V. Short - 657-657 Hand over your clones or lose your reputation
by Mark Tester - 657-657 When extra authors get in on the act
by Eugen Tarnow - 659-659 Three planets for Upsilon Andromedae
by Jack J. Lissauer - 660-661 Adapting to nanoscale events
by Daniel Branton & Jene Golovchenko - 661-663 Attraction is relative not absolute
by Masataka Watanabe - 663-664 Uncertain road to ozone recovery
by Paul J. Fraser & Michael J. Prather - 665-667 Gatekeepers of recombination
by James E. Haber - 667-667 A big slip
by Tim Lincoln - 667-668 Fine-structure variable?
by Antoinette Songaila & Lennox L. Cowie - 668-669 Defence by diversity
by Adrian V. S. Hill - 669-669 Spiritual matters
by David Jones - 670-670 Gerhard Herzberg (1904-99)
by Dudley Herschbach - 671-672 Antibacterial peptide from H. pylori
by Katrin Pütsep & Carl-Ivar Brändén & Hans G. Boman & Staffan Normark - 672-673 Cleaner fish really do clean
by Alexandra S. Grutter - 673-673 Perception of changes in loudness
by Georges Canévet & Bertram Scharf & Robert S. Schlauch & Martha Teghtsoonian & Robert Teghtsoonian - 673-674 Perception of changes in loudness
by John G. Neuhoff - 674-674 Movement of motor and cargo along cilia
by Jose T. Orozco & Karen P. Wedaman & Dawn Signor & Heather Brown & Lesilee Rose & Jonathan M. Scholey - 675-675 Drugs wipe out a sporting chance
by Craig Sharp - 675-677 Peering into a child's priorities
by Simon Baron-Cohen - 677-677 A singularity in modern science
by Peter Galison - 678-678 Monsters in the night
by Chris Reynolds - 678-678 The charm of the single neuron
by Erik De Schutter - 679-681 Environmentally decoupled sds -wave Josephson junctions for quantum computing
by Lev B. Ioffe & Vadim B. Geshkenbein & Mikhail V. Feigel'man & Alban L. Fauchère & Gianni Blatter - 681-684 Metastable ice VII at low temperature and ambient pressure
by S. Klotz & J. M. Besson & G. Hamel & R. J. Nelmes & J. S. Loveday & W. G. Marshall - 684-686 Low-temperature superplasticity in nanostructured nickel and metal alloys
by S. X. McFadden & R. S. Mishra & R. Z. Valiev & A. P. Zhilyaev & A. K. Mukherjee - 686-690 Stochastic sensing of organic analytes by a pore-forming protein containing a molecular adapter
by Li-Qun Gu & Orit Braha & Sean Conlan & Stephen Cheley & Hagan Bayley - 690-694 Present and future trends in the atmospheric burden of ozone-depleting halogens
by S. A. Montzka & J. H. Butler & J.W. Elkins & T. M. Thompson & A. D. Clarke & L. T. Lock - 694-697 Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming
by A. Timmermann & J. Oberhuber & A. Bacher & M. Esch & M. Latif & E. Roeckner - 697-700 Continental-shelf sediment as a primary source of iron for coastal phytoplankton
by Kenneth S. Johnson & Francisco P. Chavez & Gernot E. Friederich - 700-701 Archaeopteris is the earliest known modern tree
by Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud & Stephen E. Scheckler & Jobst Wendt - 701-704 Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites
by Cameron R. Currie & James A. Scott & Richard C. Summerbell & David Malloch - 704-708 Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex
by Léon Tremblay & Wolfram Schultz - 708-713 p63 is a p53 homologue required for limb and epidermal morphogenesis
by Alea A. Mills & Binhai Zheng & Xiao-Jing Wang & Hannes Vogel & Dennis R. Roop & Allan Bradley - 714-718 p63 is essential for regenerative proliferation in limb, craniofacial and epithelial development
by Annie Yang & Ronen Schweitzer & Deqin Sun & Mourad Kaghad & Nancy Walker & Roderick T. Bronson & Cliff Tabin & Arlene Sharpe & Daniel Caput & Christopher Crum & Frank McKeon - 718-723 MCP-1 and IL-8 trigger firm adhesion of monocytes to vascular endothelium under flow conditions
by Robert E. Gerszten & Eduardo A. Garcia-Zepeda & Yaw-Chyn Lim & Masayuki Yoshida & Han A. Ding & Michael A. Gimbrone & Andrew D. Luster & Francis W. Luscinskas & Anthony Rosenzweig - 723-728 Tyro-3 family receptors are essential regulators of mammalian spermatogenesis
by Qingxian Lu & Martin Gore & Qing Zhang & Todd Camenisch & Sharon Boast & Franca Casagranda & Cary Lai & Michael K. Skinner & Rüdiger Klein & Glenn K. Matsushima & H. Shelton Earp & Stephen P. Goff & Greg Lemke - 728-731 Binding of double-strand breaks in DNA by human Rad52 protein
by Eric Van Dyck & Alicja Z. Stasiak & Andrzej Stasiak & Stephen C. West
April 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6728
- 545-545 US firm's bid to sequence rice genome causes stir in Japan⃛
by Asako Saegusa - 545-546 ⃛ as consortium plans free SNP map of human genome
by Ehsan Masood