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March 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6724
- 186-186 Whales, science and activism
by Sidney J. Holt - 186-186 Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
by Jens C. Jensenius - 186-186 Words go missing in cyberspace
by Rosie Redfield - 186-186 Words go missing in cyberspace
by Jorge Golowasch & Tania Bedrax-Weiss & Adrián Palacios - 187-188 Lessons from Iraq on bioweapons
by Christian Seelos - 189-190 Bell's inequality test: more ideal than ever
by Alain Aspect - 190-190 Oryx go back to the brink
by Martyn Gorman - 191-193 Ageing hard or hardly ageing?
by David Kipling & Richard G. A. Faragher - 193-194 Research enters a new phase
by A. J. Millis - 194-195 Neolithic genetic engineering
by Svante Pääbo - 195-198 Bose gases and their Fermi cousins
by Michael R. Andrews - 198-199 A new-for-old urinary bladder
by Jeffrey A. Hubbell - 199-200 Testing time for theories
by D. V. Ahluwalia - 200-201 Modification by nuclear export?
by Patrick G. Hogan & Anjana Rao - 201-201 Sweeping the seas
by David Jones - 202-202 Henry W. Kendall (1926-99)
by Kurt Gottfried - 203-204 Colour categories in a stone-age tribe
by Jules Davidoff & Ian Davies & Debi Roberson - 204-205 Why biodiversity surveys are good value
by Andrew Balmford & Kevin J. Gaston - 205-206 How the ‘terror crocodile’ grew so big
by Gregory M. Erickson & Christopher A. Brochu - 206-207 Localization or classical diffusion of light?
by Frank Scheffold & Ralf Lenke & Ralf Tweer & Georg Maret - 207-207 Localization or classical diffusion of light?
by Diederik S. Wiersma & Jaime Gómez Rivas & Paolo Bartolini & Ad Lagendijk & Roberto Righini - 208-208 Simulating the motion of gas bubbles in a liquid
by R. Krishna & J. M. van Baten - 209-210 Tale of a stigma redeemed
by Richard Davenport-Hines - 210-210 In retrospect: chosen by Anton Zeilinger
by Anton Zeilinger - 210-211 ⃛ nor any drop to drink
by Daniel Hillel - 212-212 Sounding out two centuries
by J. Woodhouse - 213-216 Sublimation from icy jets as a probe of the interstellar volatile content of comets
by Geoffrey A. Blake & C. Qi & Michiel R. Hogerheijde & M. A. Gurwell & D. O. Muhleman - 216-218 Gravity-wave interferometers as quantum-gravity detectors
by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia - 218-220 Four-wave mixing with matter waves
by L. Deng & E. W. Hagley & J. Wen & M. Trippenbach & Y. Band & P. S. Julienne & J. E. Simsarian & K. Helmerson & S. L. Rolston & W. D. Phillips - 221-223 Vanishing of phase coherence in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
by J. Corson & R. Mallozzi & J. Orenstein & J. N. Eckstein & I. Bozovic - 223-226 Aerosol-assisted self-assembly of mesostructured spherical nanoparticles
by Yunfeng Lu & Hongyou Fan & Aaron Stump & Timothy L. Ward & Thomas Rieker & C. Jeffrey Brinker - 227-230 Molecular-sieve catalysts for the selective oxidation of linear alkanes by molecular oxygen
by John Meurig Thomas & Robert Raja & Gopinathan Sankar & Robert G. Bell - 230-233 Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the Arctic troposphere
by Ann Louise Sumner & Paul B. Shepson - 233-236 Increased marine sediment suspension and fluxes following an earthquake
by Robert Thunell & Eric Tappa & Ramon Varela & Martin Llano & Yrene Astor & Frank Muller-Karger & Richard Bohrer - 236-239 The limits of selection during maize domestication
by Rong-Lin Wang & Adrian Stec & Jody Hey & Lewis Lukens & John Doebley - 239-242 Gaze direction controls response gain in primary visual-cortex neurons
by Yves Trotter & Simona Celebrini - 242-246 brinker is a target of Dpp in Drosophila that negatively regulates Dpp-dependent genes
by Maki Minami & Noriyuki Kinoshita & Yuko Kamoshida & Hiromu Tanimoto & Tetsuya Tabata - 246-251 A new protease required for cell-cycle progression in yeast
by Shyr-Jiann Li & Mark Hochstrasser - 252-256 The kinase TAK1 can activate the NIK-IκB as well as the MAP kinase cascade in the IL-1 signalling pathway
by Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji & Kazuya Kishimoto & Atsushi Hiyama & Jun-ichiro Inoue & Zhaodan Cao & Kunihiro Matsumoto - 256-260 NF-AT activation requires suppression of Crm1-dependent export by calcineurin
by Jiangyu Zhu & Frank McKeon - 265-266 Physics grapples with its image problem
by Helen Gavaghan
March 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6723
- 93-93 Catalonia offers $16m innovation grants
by Xavier Bosch - 93-94 Biologists make plea to NIH to invest in supercomputer centre
by Meredith Wadman - 94-94 US Nobel winners back stem-cell research
by Meredith Wadman - 94-94 Mixed funding fortunes for UK research universities
by Ehsan Masood - 95-95 Japan's transplant law ‘is too stringent’⃛
by Asako Saegusa - 95-95 ⃛ but the pill may be legalized at last
by Asako Saegusa - 96-96 Los Alamos secrets ‘were leaked to China’
by Colin Macilwain - 96-96 Russia protests at US science sanctions
by Carl Levitin - 97-97 Top physics labs ‘must bury the hatchet’
by Colin Macilwain - 97-97 The search for missing mass finds funds for UK researchers
by Ehsan Masood - 98-98 US State Department gets cold feet about cold fusion
by Tony Reichhardt - 98-98 Food scientist in GMO row defends ‘premature’ warning
by Ehsan Masood - 98-98 £150m tax break for research in UK budget
by Ehsan Masood - 99-99 Call for research and education to tackle ‘environmental injustice’
by Tony Reichhardt - 99-99 Africa splits over bar to patents on plants
by Ehsan Masood - 102-102 It's time to ‘out’ the selfish researchers
by Noel C. Harris - 102-102 PMs and policemen are getting younger
by M. de L. Brooke - 103-104 Moving protein heads for breakdown
by Martin Scheffner - 104-105 Probing magnetism in the well
by S. D. Bader - 105-107 The mysterious missing sink
by David W. Schindler - 107-108 Asymmetry the easy way
by Samuel P. Gido - 109-111 Retroshuffling the genomic deck
by Jef D. Boeke & Oxana K. Pickeral - 111-111 Mothers of invention
by John Whitfield - 111-112 Restless carbon pools
by Philippe Ciais - 112-112 Negative friction
by David Jones - 113-114 Light-emitting suckers in an octopus
by Sönke Johnsen & Elisabeth J. Balser & Edith A. Widder - 114-115 Visualization of Bloch waves and domain walls
by M. Torres & J. P. Adrados & F. R. Montero de Espinosa - 115-116 Genetic flexibility of plant chloroplasts
by Jürg E. Frey - 116-116 Are vent shrimps blinded by science?
by Peter J. Herring & Edward Gaten & Peter M. J. Shelton - 117-118 Bursting a south-sea bubble
by Melvin Konner - 118-119 Unstable door to the future of computing
by John Preskill - 119-120 Tides in our time
by Paul Melchior - 120-120 Pgomldadldcd
by Alexander Masters - 121-126 Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica
by A. Indermühle & T. F. Stocker & F. Joos & H. Fischer & H. J. Smith & M. Wahlen & B. Deck & D. Mastroianni & J. Tschumi & T. Blunier & R. Meyer & B. Stauffer - 127-129 An outburst of relativistic particles from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14
by D. A. Frail & S. R. Kulkarni & J. S. Bloom - 129-132 Rotation rates of Kuiper-belt objects from their light curves
by W. Romanishin & S. C. Tegler - 132-134 Quantum-well states in copper thin films
by R. K. Kawakami & E. Rotenberg & Hyuk J. Choi & Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio & M. O. Bowen & J. H. Wolfe & E. Arenholz & Z. D. Zhang & N. V. Smith & Z. Q. Qiu - 134-136 Enhancement of surface self-diffusion of platinum atoms by adsorbed hydrogen
by S. Horch & H. T. Lorensen & S. Helveg & E. Lægsgaard & I. Stensgaard & K. W. Jacobsen & J. K. Nørskov & F. Besenbacher - 137-139 Non-centrosymmetric superlattices in block copolymer blends
by Thorsten Goldacker & Volker Abetz & Reimund Stadler & Igor Erukhimovich & Ludwik Leibler - 139-142 Unblocking of the Nares Strait by Greenland and Ellesmere ice-sheet retreat 10,000 years ago
by Marek Zreda & John England & Fred Phillips & David Elmore & Pankaj Sharma - 142-145 The role of hydraulic fractures and intermediate-depth earthquakes in generating subduction-zone magmatism
by J. Huw Davies - 145-148 Nitrogen deposition makes a minor contribution to carbon sequestration in temperate forests
by Knute J. Nadelhoffer & Bridget A. Emmett & Per Gundersen & O. Janne Kjønaas & Chris J. Koopmans & Patrick Schleppi & Albert Tietema & Richard F. Wright - 148-152 The mahogany protein is a receptor involved in suppression of obesity
by Deborah L. Nagle & Sonja H. McGrail & James Vitale & Elizabeth A. Woolf & Barry J. Dussault & Lisa DiRocco & Lisa Holmgren & Jill Montagno & Peer Bork & Dennis Huszar & Victoria Fairchild-Huntress & Pei Ge & John Keilty & Chris Ebeling & Linda Baldini & Julie Gilchrist & Paul Burn & George A. Carlson & Karen J. Moore - 152-156 The mouse mahogany locus encodes a transmembrane form of human attractin
by Teresa M. Gunn & Kimberly A. Miller & Lin He & Richard W. Hyman & Ronald W. Davis & Arezou Azarani & Stuart F. Schlossman & Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan & Gregory S. Barsh - 156-160 A protective role for protease-activated receptors in the airways
by T. M. Cocks & B. Fong & J. M. Chow & G. P. Anderson & A. G. Frauman & R. G. Goldie & P. J. Henry & M. J. Carr & J. R. Hamilton & J. D. Moffatt - 160-165 Degradation of the cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 is instigated by Jab1
by Kiichiro Tomoda & Yukiko Kubota & Jun-ya Kato - 165-169 CBP-independent activation of CREM and CREB by the LIM-only protein ACT
by Gian Maria Fimia & Dario De Cesare & Paolo Sassone-Corsi
March 1999, Volume 398, Issue 6722
- 3-3 Anomalies in French blood inquiry over ‘misleading’ report
by Declan Butler - 4-4 British drive for more women in science
by Natasha Loder - 4-4 Indian budget boost targets innovation, vaccines and genetics
by K. S. Jayaraman - 5-5 Japanese institutes face greater autonomy
by Asako Saegusa - 5-5 US aid to Russian weapons labs defended
by Colin Macilwain - 6-6 Collapse of talks on safety of GMO trade
by Ehsan Masood - 6-6 NASA plans two-stage Hubble repair to keep the data flowing
by Tony Reichhardt - 7-7 Head of German particle physics lab dies
by Alison Abbott - 7-7 Germany aims for competitive equality
by Alison Abbott - 8-8 ⃛while forecasting benefits from NASA funds
by Michael Cherry - 8-8 South Africa stands firm on AIDS drug ⃛
by Michael Cherry - 9-9 Canadians protest over rare species bill
by David Spurgeon - 9-9 Varmus wish list guides senators in fight for biomedical funding
by Meredith Wadman - 19-19 Engineering a longer life
by Nigel L. Firth - 19-19 Managing SOHO
by Joseph B. Gurman - 19-19 Papers vanish in mis-citation black hole
by Janne S. Kotiaho - 19-20 Controversy over the cloning of mice
by Karl Illmensee - 20-20 Space-grown crystals may prove their worth
by Naomi E. Chayen & John R. Helliwell - 20-20 Forging links in an electronic paper chain
by Mark Gerstein - 20-20 The editor as an endangered species
by Gene L. Wells - 21-22 From rifting to drifting
by Fred F. Pollitz - 22-23 An SH2 domain in disguise
by John Kuriyan & James E. Darnell - 25-25 A taste of things to come
by Alison Mitchell - 25-26 Evolution of the cosmological constant
by P. J. E. Peebles - 26-27 Accessory to murder
by Ton N. M. Schumacher - 27-29 The mystery of the sapropels
by Connie Sancetta - 29-30 DREAM on without calcium
by Gail Mandel & Richard H. Goodman - 30-30 Bugging the brain
by David Jones - 31-32 Designing tie knots by random walks
by Thomas M. Fink & Yong Mao - 32-33 Pasture damage by an Amazonian earthworm
by Armand Chauvel & Michel Grimaldi & Eleusa Barros & Eric Blanchart & Thierry Desjardins & Max Sarrazin & Patrick Lavelle - 33-34 Using hair to screen for breast cancer
by Veronica James & John Kearsley & Tom Irving & Yoshiyuki Amemiya & David Cookson - 34-34 Change-blindness as a result of ‘mudsplashes’
by J. Kevin O'Regan & Ronald A. Rensink & James J. Clark - 35-36 From Daedalus to NASA
by G. Siegfried Kutter - 36-37 Counting on statistics
by Jonathan Rosenhead - 37-38 Decision-making for our ecological future
by Marc Mangel - 38-38 Super news
by A. J. Leggett - 38-38 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 39-46 Structure of a Ran-binding domain complexed with Ran bound to a GTP analogue: implications for nuclear transport
by Ingrid R. Vetter & Christine Nowak & Takeharu Nishimoto & Jürgen Kuhlmann & Alfred Wittinghofer - 47-49 Superconductivity mediated by spin fluctuations in the heavy-fermion compound UPd2 Al3
by M. Jourdan & M. Huth & H. Adrian - 49-51 Coherent displacement of atoms during ion irradiation
by K. Nordlund & J. Keinonen & M. Ghaly & R. S. Averback - 51-54 Two-photon polymerization initiators for three-dimensional optical data storage and microfabrication
by Brian H. Cumpston & Sundaravel P. Ananthavel & Stephen Barlow & Daniel L. Dyer & Jeffrey E. Ehrlich & Lael L. Erskine & Ahmed A. Heikal & Stephen M. Kuebler & I.-Y. Sandy Lee & Dianne McCord-Maughon & Jinqui Qin & Harald Röckel & Mariacristina Rumi & Xiang-Li Wu & Seth R. Marder & Joseph W. Perry - 54-57 Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent
by Yves Lansac & Matthew A. Glaser & Noel A. Clark & Oleg D. Lavrentovich - 57-61 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 - 61-63 Low-temperature thermal generation of hydrocarbon gases in shallow shales
by Devon Rowe & Atis Muehlenbachs - 64-67 Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the Southwest Indian ridge
by Dezhi Chu & Richard G. Gordon - 67-69 Dissociation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens from intracranial self-stimulation
by Paul A. Garris & Michaux Kilpatrick & Melissa A. Bunin & Darren Michael & Q. David Walker & R. Mark Wightman - 70-73 Regulation of calcium signalling in T lymphocytes by the second messenger cyclic ADP-ribose
by Andreas H. Guse & Cristina P. da Silva & Ingeborg Berg & Alla L. Skapenko & Karin Weber & Petra Heyer & Martin Hohenegger & Gloria A. Ashamu & Hendrik Schulze-Koops & Barry V. L. Potter & Georg W. Mayr - 74-76 Coordination of agonist-induced Ca2+-signalling patterns by NAADP in pancreatic acinar cells
by Jose Manuel Cancela & Grant C. Churchill & Antony Galione - 77-80 Cytotoxic T-cell immunity to virus-infected non-haematopoietic cells requires presentation of exogenous antigen
by Luis J. Sigal & Shane Crotty & Raul Andino & Kenneth L. Rock - 80-84 DREAM is a Ca2+-regulated transcriptional repressor
by Angel M. Carrión & Wolfgang A. Link & Fran Ledo & Britt Mellström & Jose R. Naranjo - 84-90 Structure of the amino-terminal domain of Cbl complexed to its binding site on ZAP-70 kinase
by Wuyi Meng & Sansana Sawasdikosol & Steven J. Burakoff & Michael J. Eck - 90-90 Erratum: Protein translation and folding are coupled by an endoplasmic-reticulum-resident kinase
by Heather P. Harding & Yuhong Zhang & David Ron
February 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6721
- 635-635 Former Pasteur head defends politicians
by Declan Butler - 635-635 Debts and salaries tempt British graduates away from research
by Natasha Loder - 636-636 US groups sue over approval of Bt crops ..
by Meredith Wadman - 636-636 Spain makes transgenic crop producers pay into insurance fund
by Xavier Bosch - 637-637 Britain reassures critics on risk research
by Ehsan Masood - 637-637 ... as UK press reports come under fire
by Ehsan Masood - 638-638 ... while Canada's budget boosts innovation
by David Spurgeon - 638-638 Japan on target to double science spend ..
by Asako Saegusa - 639-639 Congress may block stem-cell research
by Meredith Wadman - 639-639 Co-discoverer of evidence for quarks killed in diving accident
by Steve Nadis - 640-641 Europe's young researchers seek proper rewards
by Quirin Schiermeier - 644-644 Revolutionary ideas come round again
by Douglas B. Kell - 644-644 Patent attorneys pay their way
by Joseph T. Leone - 644-644 How hunger keeps the population down
by Hermann Bondi - 644-644 Trials and tribulations of PhD students
by Sudhanshu Dole - 644-644 Trials and tribulations of PhD students
by Name and address supplied - 645-646 Who benefits from climate forecasts?
by A. Pfaff & K. Broad & M. Glantz - 647-648 Driving parents cuckoo
by Douglas W. Mock - 648-649 A nanotube laboratory
by David H. Cobden - 649-651 Hox proteins reach out round DNA
by Matthew P. Scott - 651-652 One price to run, swim or fly?
by R. McNeill Alexander - 653-655 Sorting out the neuron
by Peter J. Hollenbeck & Gordon Ruthel - 655-656 Running rings around RNA
by Angus I. Lamond - 656-657 Measures of crystal vacancies
by Robert W. Cahn - 657-658 The question of significance
by A. Barrie Pittock - 658-658 Pinpoint therapy
by David Jones - 659-659 Growing season extended in Europe
by Annette Menzel & Peter Fabian - 660-660 Breathing through skin in a newborn mammal
by J. P. Mortola & P. B. Frappell & P. A. Woolley - 660-661 Formation of ice XII at different conditions
by Michael Koza & Helmut Schober & Albert Tölle & Franz Fujara & Thomas Hansen - 661-662 The bio-logic of facial geometry
by David A. Meyer & Melanie W Quong - 662-662 The bio-logic of facial geometry
by D. I. Perrett & I. Penton-Voak - 663-664 Exit Homo sapiens, stage left
by John L. Casti - 664-664 Affecting climate in a second-best world
by Paul Ekins - 664-665 Happy accidents?
by Mark Pagel - 665-666 Species without frontiers
by Harold A. Mooney - 666-666 Ritual meanings lost in a vegetable stew
by Roy Vickery - 667-672 Signals of need in parent–offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo
by R. M. Kilner & D. G. Noble & N. B. Davies - 673-675 Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in carbon nanotubes
by Adrian Bachtold & Christoph Strunk & Jean-Paul Salvetat & Jean-Marc Bonard & Laszló Forró & Thomas Nussbaumer & Christian Schönenberger - 675-678 Spontaneous chaotic granular mixing
by Troy Shinbrot & Albert Alexander & Fernando J. Muzzio - 678-681 Self-organized growth of alloy superlattices
by P. Venezuela & J. Tersoff & J. A. Floro & E. Chason & D. M. Follstaedt & Feng Liu & M. G. Lagally - 681-684 Non-aqueous supramolecular assembly of mesostructured metal germanium sulphides from (Ge4S10)4− clusters
by Mark J. MacLachlan & Neil Coombs & Geoffrey A. Ozin - 685-688 124,000-year periodicity in terrestrial vegetation change during the late Pliocene epoch
by K. J. Willis & A. Kleczkowski & S. J. Crowhurst - 688-691 Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability
by Mike Hulme & Elaine M. Barrow & Nigel W. Arnell & Paula A. Harrison & Timothy C. Johns & Thomas E. Downing - 691-694 The origin of spinifex texture in komatiites
by Mark Shore & Anthony D. Fowler - 694-697 A ferric-chelate reductase for iron uptake from soils
by Nigel J. Robinson & Catherine M. Procter & Erin L. Connolly & Mary Lou Guerinot - 698-701 A diffusion barrier maintains distribution of membrane proteins in polarized neurons
by Bettina Winckler & Paul Forscher & Ira Mellman - 702-706 Development of peripheral lymphoid organs and natural killer cells depends on the helix–loop–helix inhibitor Id2
by Yoshifumi Yokota & Ahmed Mansouri & Seiichi Mori & Seiichi Sugawara & Satoko Adachi & Shin-Ichi Nishikawa & Peter Gruss - 707-710 The head inducer Cerberus is a multifunctional antagonist of Nodal, BMP and Wnt signals
by Stefano Piccolo & Eric Agius & Luc Leyns & Subha Bhattacharyya & Horst Grunz & Tewis Bouwmeester & E. M. De Robertis - 710-713 Inhibition of transforming growth factor-β/SMAD signalling by the interferon-γ/STAT pathway
by Luis Ulloa & Jacqueline Doody & Joan Massagué - 714-719 Structure of a DNA-bound Ultrabithorax–Extradenticle homeodomain complex
by Jonathan M. Passner & Hyung Don Ryoo & Leyi Shen & Richard S. Mann & Aneel K. Aggarwal - 719-719 Erratum: Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
by Richard A. Alm & Lo-See L. Ling & Donald T. Moir & Benjamin L. King & Eric D. Brown & Peter C. Doig & Douglas R. Smith & Brian Noonan & Braydon C. Guild & Boudewijn L. deJonge & Gilles Carmel & Peter J. Tummino & Anthony Caruso & Maria Uria-Nickelsen & Debra M. Mills & Cameron Ives & Rene Gibson & David Merberg & Scott D. Mills & Qin Jiang & Diane E. Taylor & Gerald F. Vovis & Trevor J. Trust - 719-719 Erratum: Structural basis for activation of the titin kinase domain during myofibrillogenesis
by Olga Mayans & Peter F. M. van der Ven & Matthias Wilm & Alexander Mues & Paul Young & Dieter O. Fürst & Matthias Wilmanns & Mathias Gautel
February 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6720
- 547-547 Gag on food scientist is lifted as gene modification row hots up ..
by Ehsan Masood - 547-547 ... and Blair resists demands for a moratorium
by Ehsan Masood - 548-548 African ‘flexibility’ may open path to biosafety agreement
by Ehsan Masood - 548-548 Scientists defend French ex-ministers in blood trial
by Declan Butler - 549-549 Anticancer activity of endostatin redeemed
by Meredith Wadman - 549-549 Federal panel endorses Baylor fraud claim
by Rex Dalton