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May 1998, Volume 393, Issue 6680
- 8-8 The changing culture of British science
by Ehsan Masood - 8-9 UK eyes social goals for next Foresight
by Ehsan Masood - 11-11 Training undervalued
by Alexander Olek - 11-11 Patents paved the way
by Arnold Kramish - 11-11 It's Jakob's disease, not Creutzfeldt's
by Friedrich Katscher - 13-14 The burst, the burster and its lair
by Ralph Wijers - 14-15 SNAREs line up in new environment
by Reinhard Jahn & Phyllis I. Hanson - 15-17 Carbon-based electronics
by Paul L. McEuen - 17-18 What killed the monk seals?
by John Harwood - 19-21 United we sense ⃛
by N. Barkai & S. Leibler - 21-22 Organic groups cling to the pores
by Edward J. Creyghton - 22-23 Transposons unbound
by Margaret G. Kidwell & Damon R. Lisch - 23-24 The forest fragment classic
by Stuart L. Pimm - 24-24 Gravity waving to us
by David Jones - 25-25 Noticing Nature
by Martin Kemp - 27-28 Zebra mussels invade Lake Erie muds
by Paul Arthur Berkman & Melissa A. Haltuch & Emily Tichich & David W. Garton & Gregory W. Kennedy & John E. Gannon & Scudder D. Mackey & Jonathan A. Fuller & Dale L. Liebenthal - 28-29 Did algal toxins cause monk seal mortality?
by Mauro Hernández & Ian Robinson & Alex Aguilar & Luis Mariano González & Luis Felipe López-Jurado & María Isabel Reyero & Emiliano Cacho & José Franco & Victoria López-Rodas & Eduardo Costas - 29-29 ATP synthase's second stalk comes into focus
by Stephan Wilkens & Roderick A. Capaldi - 31-32 All aboard the biotech express
by Sheldon Krimsky - 32-33 Living with dinosaurs
by José Luis Sanz & Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno & Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza - 33-34 Farming forecast
by Peter D. Moore - 34-34 Stress points
by Stuart Sutherland - 35-39 Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997
by S. R. Kulkarni & S. G. Djorgovski & A. N. Ramaprakash & R. Goodrich & J. S. Bloom & K. L. Adelberger & T. Kundic & L. Lubin, & D. A. Frail & F. Frontera & M. Feroci & L. Nicastro & A. J. Barth & M. Davis & A. V. Filippenko & J. Newman - 41-43 Optical afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997
by J. P. Halpern & J. R. Thorstensen & D. J. Helfand & E. Costa - 43-46 The energetic afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997
by A. N. Ramaprakash & S. R. Kulkarni & D. A. Frail & C. Koresko & M. Kuchner & R. Goodrich & G. Neugebauer & T. Murphy & S. Eikenberry & J. S. Bloom & S. G. Djorgovski & E. Waxman & F. Frontera & M. Feroci & L. Nicastro - 46-49 Solid hydrogen at 342 GPa: no evidence for an alkali metal
by Chandrabhas Narayana & Huan Luo & Jon Orloff & Arthur L. Ruoff - 49-52 Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube
by Sander J. Tans & Alwin R. M. Verschueren & Cees Dekker - 52-54 Organic-functionalized molecular sieves as shape-selective catalysts
by Christopher W. Jones & Katsuyuki Tsuji & Mark E. Davis - 54-57 Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations of the past 110,000 years
by Hartmut Schulz, & Ulrich von Rad, & Helmut Erlenkeuser, & Ulrich von Rad, - 58-61 Re–Os isotope evidence for the composition, formation and age of the lower continental crust
by A. E. Saal & R. L. Rudnick & G. E. Ravizza & S. R. Hart - 62-66 New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis
by Meave G. Leakey & Craig S. Feibel & Ian McDougall & Carol Ward & Alan Walker - 66-68 Probing motivational state during agonistic encounters in animals
by R. W. Elwood & K. E. Wood & M. B. Gallagher & J. T. A. Dick - 68-72 Undermethylation associated with retroelement activation and chromosome remodelling in an interspecific mammalian hybrid
by Rachel J. Waugh O'Neill & Michael J. O'Neill & Jennifer A. Marshall Graves - 72-76 Hypothalamic CART is a new anorectic peptide regulated by leptin
by Peter Kristensen & Martin E. Judge & Lars Thim & Ulla Ribel & Kennet N. Christjansen & Birgitte S. Wulff & Jes T. Clausen & Per B. Jensen & Ole D. Madsen & Niels Vrang & Philip J. Larsen & Sven Hastrup - 76-79 Dramatic decreases in brain reward function during nicotine withdrawal
by Mark P. Epping-Jordan & Shelly S. Watkins & George F. Koob & Athina Markou - 79-82 Salmonella typhi uses CFTR to enter intestinal epithelial cells
by Gerald B. Pier & Martha Grout & Tanweer Zaidi & Gloria Meluleni & Simone S. Mueschenborn & George Banting & Rosemary Ratcliff & Martin J. Evans & William H. Colledge - 83-85 Requirement of ErbB2 for signalling by interleukin-6 in prostate carcinoma cells
by Yun Qiu & Lakshmeswari Ravi & Hsing-Jien Kung - 85-88 Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity
by Dennis Bray & Matthew D. Levin & Carl J. Morton-Firth - 88-91 Chromatin remodelling by the glucocorticoid receptor requires the BRG1 complex
by Christy J. Fryer & Trevor K. Archer - 91-94 Catalysis of homologous DNA pairing by yeast Rad51 and Rad54 proteins
by Galina Petukhova & Sabrina Stratton & Patrick Sung
April 1998, Volume 392, Issue 6679
- 849-849 ‘More effectiveness needed’ in Brussels' handling of research
by David Dickson & Alison Abbott - 849-849 Physicists seek definition of ‘science’
by Colin Macilwain - 850-850 UK waives nuclear waste rule for Georgia
by Alison Abbott - 850-850 German reactor project faces safety challenge
by Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier - 851-851 Success prompts bid for second Neurolab launch
by Tony Reichhardt - 851-851 Jewish leaders meet NIH chiefs on genetic stigmatization fears
by Meredith Wadman - 852-852 Spanish government pledges full funding for Canaries telescope
by Alison Abbott - 852-852 Troubled UK biotech firm faces new probe
by Ehsan Masood - 853-853 Beijing media join attack on air pollution
by David Swinbanks - 853-853 Banned drug ‘still used until this month’
by Meredith Wadman - 854-854 Free market is advocated for Australian universities
by Peter Pockley - 854-854 Unesco board set to agree compromise on bioethics committee
by Declan Butler - 855-855 Test ban treaty faces make or break in the US Senate
by Colin Macilwain - 857-857 Art in the round
by Ian Smith - 857-857 Tycho's illusion and human cognition
by Howard Margolis - 859-860 British forensic science in the dock
by Zakaria Erzinçlioglu - 861-862 A marriage of bone and nacre
by Peter Westbroek & Frédéric Marin - 862-863 Current limits to wire technology
by David Christen - 863-865 Oscillation, activation, expression
by Jacopo Meldolesi - 866-867 Nitrogen oxides and tropical agriculture
by A. F. Bouwman - 867-869 The purple patch
by Tim Guilford & Paul H. Harvey - 869-870 Premenstrual steroids?
by Karen T. Britton & George F. Koob - 870-870 The wide open society
by David Jones - 872-872 Molecular clocks in development
by Paolo Sassone-Corsi - 872-874 Molecular clocks: mastering time by gene regulation
by Paolo Sassone-Corsi - 875-875 Kemp's conclusions
by Martin Kemp - 877-878 Painters centre one eye in portraits
by Christopher W. Tyler - 878-879 Ball court design dates back 3,400 years
by Warren D. Hill & Michael Blake & John E. Clark - 879-879 New ice outdoes related nets in smallest-ring size
by Michael O'Keeffe - 881-881 Designs on evolutionary invention
by R. McNeill Alexander - 882-883 People power
by Steven Yearley - 883-883 Current concerns
by Jacqueline Reynolds & Charles Tanford - 883-884 Fossil dichotomy
by Brian R. Rosen - 884-884 In retrospect by Mikhail Mina
by Mikhail Mina - 885-888 Allosteric effects of DNA on transcriptional regulators
by Jeffrey A. Lefstin & Keith R. Yamamoto - 889-894 The paradox of drowned carbonate platforms and the origin of Cretaceous Pacific guyots
by Paul A. Wilson & Hugh C. Jenkyns & Henry Elderfield & Roger L. Larson - 895-897 Vigorous star formation hidden by dust in a galaxy at a redshift of 1.4
by Andrea Cimatti & Paola Andreani & Huub Röttgering & Remo Tilanus - 897-899 Discovery of two distant irregular moons of Uranus
by Brett J. Gladman & Philip D. Nicholson & Joseph A. Burns & JJ Kavelaars & Brian G. Marsden & Gareth V. Williams & Warren B. Offutt - 899-903 Accretion rate of cosmic spherules measured at the South Pole
by Susan Taylor & James H. Lever & Ralph P. Harvey - 903-906 Charge separation in localized and delocalized electronic states in polymeric semiconductors
by A. Köhler & D. A. dos Santos & D. Beljonne & Z. Shuai & J.-L. Brédas & A. B. Holmes & A. Kraus & K. Müllen & R. H. Friend - 906-909 Current-limiting mechanisms in individual filaments extracted from superconducting tapes
by X. Y. Cai & A. Polyanskii & Q. Li & G. N. Riley & D. C. Larbalestier - 909-911 Determination of the absolute chirality of individual adsorbed molecules using the scanning tunnelling microscope
by G. P. Lopinski & D. J. Moffatt & D. D. M. Wayner & R. A. Wolkow - 911-914 Extremely acid Permian lakes and ground waters in North America
by Kathleen Counter Benison & Robert H. Goldstein & Brigitte Wopenka & Robert C. Burruss & Jill Dill Pasteris - 914-916 Boreal forest plants take up organic nitrogen
by Torgny Näsholm & Alf Ekblad & Annika Nordin & Reiner Giesler & Mona Högberg & Peter Högberg - 917-920 A molecular timescale for vertebrate evolution
by Sudhir Kumar & S. Blair Hedges - 920-922 The ParaHox gene cluster is an evolutionary sister of the Hox gene cluster
by Nina M. Brooke & Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez & Peter W. H. Holland - 923-926 Oligophrenin-1 encodes a rhoGAP protein involved in X-linked mental retardation
by Pierre Billuart & Thierry Bienvenu & Nathalie Ronce & Vincent des Portes & Marie Claude Vinet & Ramzi Zemni & Hugues Roest Crollius & Alain Carrié & Fabien Fauchereau & Michele Cherry & Sylvain Briault & Ben Hamel & Jean-Pierre Fryns & Cherif Beldjord & Axel Kahn & Claude Moraine & Jamel Chelly - 926-929 GABAA receptor α4 subunit suppression prevents withdrawal properties of an endogenous steroid
by Sheryl S. Smith & Qi Hua Gong & Fu-Chun Hsu & Ronald S. Markowitz & J. M. H. ffrench-Mullen & Xinshe Li - 930-933 Modifying the mechanical property and shear threshold of L-selectin adhesion independently of equilibrium properties
by Kamal D. Puri & Shuqi Chen & Timothy A. Springer - 933-936 Calcium oscillations increase the efficiency and specificity of gene expression
by Ricardo E. Dolmetsch & Keli Xu & Richard S. Lewis - 936-941 Cell-permeant caged InsP3 ester shows that Ca2+ spike frequency can optimize gene expression
by Wen-hong Li & Juan Llopis & Michael Whitney & Gregor Zlokarnik & Roger Y. Tsien - 941-945 NMR structure and mutagenesis of the FADD (Mort1) death-effector domain
by Matthias Eberstadt & Baohua Huang & Zehan Chen & Robert P. Meadows & Shi-Chung Ng & Lixin Zheng & Michael J. Lenardo & Stephen W. Fesik - 945-948 Crystal structure of the tetramerization domain of the Shaker potassium channel
by Andreas Kreusch & Paul J. Pfaffinger & Charles F. Stevens & Senyon Choe
April 1998, Volume 392, Issue 6678
- 743-743 Australian research centres escape axe
by Peter Pockley - 743-744 Montserrat residents ‘lost faith’ in volcanologists' warnings
by Ehsan Masood - 744-744 Faster Internet system will overcome congestion
by Colin Macilwain - 745-745 Call for Europe-wide nuclear physics push
by Alison Abbott - 745-745 French research agency to seek ruling on Holocaust sceptics
by Declan Butler - 746-746 UK biotech flagship meets stormy waters
by Ehsan Masood - 746-746 Auto project has veered off track, says academy panel
by Colin Macilwain - 746-746 US universities under fire
by Colin Macilwain - 747-747 Row erupts over child aggression study
by Meredith Wadman - 748-748 Japan set to inject funds into endocrine disrupter research
by Asako Saegusa - 748-748 Heed public opinion, British geologists told
by Ehsan Masood - 748-748 Police violence flares up at Russian education protest
by Carl Levitin - 749-749 German sex killings prompt decision to create a DNA database
by Quirin Schiermeier - 749-749 Data glitches delay observation satellite
by Tony Reichhardt - 751-751 Assessing risks of genetic engineering
by Tom Crompton & John Barrett & Chris Gliddon & Julian Kinderlerer & George Tzotzos & Phil Gates - 751-751 Who flew first?
by Ildeu de Castro Moreira - 752-752 Cancer controversy
by Michael Pollak - 752-752 Teaching research skills
by Tianhan Xue - 752-752 Reaping the benefits of basic research
by Frank Gannon - 753-754 Ending up with the right partner
by Titia de Lange - 754-755 Comet leaves a trail in the air
by Laura Garwin - 757-758 Controlling the fly's gyroscopes
by Roland Hengstenberg - 758-759 The past as guide to the future
by Gabriele Hegerl - 759-761 The evolution of menopause
by Paul W. Sherman - 761-763 Matching speed and locality
by Hue Sun Chan - 763-764 The prion's perplexing persistence
by Adriano Aguzzi & Charles Weissmann - 764-764 Penetrating gaze
by David Jones - 765-765 Merz's maths
by Martin Kemp - 767-768 Creating corners in kitchen sinks
by Clive Ellegaard & Adam Espe Hansen & Anders Haaning & Kim Hansen & Anders Marcussen & Tomas Bohr & Jonas Lundbek Hansen & Shinya Watanabe - 768-769 Electron microscopy image enhanced
by Maximilian Haider & Stephan Uhlemann & Eugen Schwan & Harald Rose & Bernd Kabius & Knut Urban - 769-770 Point vortices exhibit asymmetric equilibria
by Hassan Aref & Dmitri L. Vainchtein - 770-770 Scrapie infectivity found in resistant species
by Richard Race & Bruce Chesebro - 771-771 Designer genes and legal briefs
by John Cairns - 771-773 Spin doctors
by Ian Aitchison - 773-773 Plant roots
by Sandy Knapp - 774-774 Chat shows
by Peter Atkins - 775-778 Asymmetric cell division
by Yuh Nung Jan & Lily Yeh Jan - 779-787 Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries
by Michael E. Mann & Raymond S. Bradley & Malcolm K. Hughes - 788-791 Submillimetre images of dusty debris around nearby stars
by Wayne S. Holland & Jane S. Greaves & B. Zuckerman & R. A. Webb & Chris McCarthy & Iain M. Coulson & D. M. Walther & William R. F. Dent & Walter K. Gear & Ian Robson - 791-793 Shallow mixing in the solar photosphere inferred from revised beryllium abundances
by Suchitra C. Balachandran & Roger A. Bell - 794-796 Direct evidence for a half-metallic ferromagnet
by J.-H. Park & E. Vescovo & H.-J. Kim & C. Kwon & R. Ramesh & T. Venkatesan - 796-798 A soft magnetic CoNiFe film with high saturation magnetic flux density and low coercivity
by Tetsuya Osaka & Madoka Takai & Katsuyoshi Hayashi & Keishi Ohashi & Mikiko Saito & Kazuhiko Yamada - 799-801 Biomimetic engineering of non-adhesive glycocalyx-like surfaces using oligosaccharide surfactant polymers
by Nolan B. Holland & Yongxing Qiu & Mark Ruegsegger & Roger E. Marchant - 801-805 Direct linking of microbial populations to specific biogeochemical processes by 13C-labelling of biomarkers
by H. T. S. Boschker & S. C. Nold & P. Wellsbury & D. Bos & W. de Graaf & R. Pel & R. J. Parkes & T. E. Cappenberg - 805-807 The viscosity of liquid iron at the physical conditions of the Earth's core
by Gilles A. de Wijs & Georg Kresse & Lidunka Vočadlo & David Dobson & Dario Alfè & Michael J. Gillan & Geoffrey D. Price - 807-811 Reproductive cessation in female mammals
by Craig Packer & Marc Tatar & Anthony Collins - 811-814 Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians
by Christo Pantev & Robert Oostenveld & Almut Engelien & Bernhard Ross & Larry E. Roberts & Manfried Hoke - 814-818 Dynamic cortical activity in the human brain reveals motor equivalence
by J. A. S. Kelso & A. Fuchs & R. Lancaster & T. Holroyd & D. Cheyne & H. Weinberg - 818-821 Lipids are required for directional pollen-tube growth
by Mieke Wolters-Arts & W. Mary Lush & Celestina Mariani - 821-824 Dynamic activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by Hsp90
by Guillermo García-Cardeña & Roger Fan & Vijay Shah & Raffaella Sorrentino & Giuseppe Cirino & Andreas Papapetropoulos & William C. Sessa - 825-828 Defective meiosis in telomere-silencing mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
by Elaine R. Nimmo & Alison L. Pidoux & Paul E. Perry & Robin C. Allshire - 828-831 Fission yeast Taz1 protein is required for meiotic telomere clustering and recombination
by Julia Promisel Cooper & Yoshinori Watanabe & Paul Nurse - 831-835 Transcriptional repression by UME6 involves deacetylation of lysine 5 of histone H4 by RPD3
by Stephen E. Rundlett & Andrew A. Carmen & Noriyuki Suka & Bryan M. Turner & Michael Grunstein - 835-839 Structure of the calcium pump from sarcoplasmic reticulum at 8-Å resolution
by Peijun Zhang & Chikashi Toyoshima & Koji Yonekura & N. Michael Green & David L. Stokes - 840-843 Three-dimensional map of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in the open conformation
by Manfred Auer & Gene A. Scarborough & Werner Kühlbrandt - 843-843 Erratum: Requirement for IRF-1 in the microenvironment supporting development of natural killer cells
by Kouetsu Ogasawara & Shigeaki Hida & Nazli Azimi & Yutaka Tagaya & Takeo Sato & Taeko Yokochi-Fukuda & Thomas A. Waldmann & Tadatsugu Taniguchi & Shinsuke Taki - 843-843 Erratum to: The effect of sedimentary cover on the flexural strength of continental lithosphere
by Luc L. Lavier & Michael S. Steckler
April 1998, Volume 392, Issue 6677
- 637-637 US legislator warns of hollow promises on research spending
by Colin Macilwain - 637-637 Europe may pool marine research efforts
by Declan Butler - 638-638 Russian acoustics scientists defended on ‘secrets’ charges
by Carl Levitin - 638-638 Fight hots up over Toronto racial discrimination claim
by David Spurgeon - 639-639 US space agency sharpens focus on near-Earth objects
by Tony Reichhardt - 639-639 Teachers gain aid for evolutionary struggle
by Colin Macilwain - 639-639 Petition strengthens hand of global warming sceptics
by Colin Macilwain - 640-640 UN eco-fund under pressure to open up
by K. S. Jayaraman & Ehsan Masood - 640-640 Ministry ‘changing course’ on lab closure
by Ehsan Masood - 641-641 Collaboration is the name of the game for Europe's scientists
by Alison Abbott - 641-641 CERN told to start technical thinking for next collider
by Alison Abbott - 641-641 Curbs on research dropped from US medical privacy bill
by Meredith Wadman - 642-642 US and Japanese scientists in dispute over ‘poisoned’ radishes
by Asako Saegusa - 642-642 Call to boost research on particulates
by Tony Reichhardt - 645-645 Italian reforms
by Francesco Mauro - 645-645 Problems of germline therapy
by Anne McLaren & Jonathan Ewbank - 645-645 DIY meetings
by Alan J. McCarthy - 646-646 No viral disease after xenotransplantation
by A. Tibell & C. G. Groth - 646-646 Speculation is premature
by Eric M. Meslin - 646-646 Plight of hawksbill turtles
by N. Mrosovsky - 646-646 Student cheats
by Alexander Vinogradov - 647-648 Adapting to change in Latin America
by Fernando C. Reinach - 649-650 In victu veritas
by Harold McGee - 651-651 The eyes have it
by Henry Gee - 651-653 Olivine emerges from isolation
by Craig R. Bina - 653-654 Reducing transgene escape routes
by Alan J. Gray & Alan F. Raybould - 655-657 How to melt if you must
by Ivar Ekeland - 657-658 Pulling the fly's leg
by Ginés Morata & Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero - 658-659 The noise is the signal
by Rolf Landauer - 660-660 Cold cousin of the colloids
by Stephen Battersby - 660-661 Ants match as they march
by Mandyam V. Srinivasan - 661-662 Frondless ferns lie low to survive
by Peter D. Moore - 662-662 Cleansing fire
by David Jones - 663-663 Parker's pieces
by Martin Kemp - 665-666 Tree stem diameters fluctuate with tide
by Ernst Zürcher & Maria-Giulia Cantiani & Francesco Sorbetti-Guerri & Denis Michel - 666-667 Code for collagen's stability deciphered
by Steven K. Holmgren & Kimberly M. Taylor & Lynn E. Bretscher & Ronald T. Raines - 667-668 Gene translocation links insects and crustaceans
by Jeffrey L. Boore & Dennis V. Lavrov & Wesley M. Brown - 668-668 What's so special about figs?
by Timothy G. O'Brien & Margaret F. Kinnaird & Ellen S. Dierenfeld & Nancy L. Conklin-Brittain & Richard W. Wrangham & Scott C. Silver - 669-670 Bright light comes around again
by Owen Gingerich - 670-671 Brains trust
by Glenn Northcutt - 671-672 Is meta better?
by Steve Blinkhorn - 672-672 Lighting up the dark
by Philippe Grangier - 673-676 Microquasars in our Galaxy
by I. F. Mirabel & L. F. Rodríguez - 677-684 Electron transfer by domain movement in cytochrome bc1
by Zhaolei Zhang & Lishar Huang & Vladimir M. Shulmeister & Young-In Chi & Kyeong Kyu Kim & Li-Wei Hung & Antony R. Crofts & Edward A. Berry & Sung-Hou Kim - 685-687 Outflow–infall interactions as a mechanism for terminating accretion in protostars
by T. Velusamy & W. D. Langer - 687-690 Discovery of a metastable π-state in a superfluid 3He weak link
by S. Backhaus & S. Pereverzev & R. W. Simmonds & A. Loshak & J. C. Davis & R. E. Packard - 690-693 Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 with coherent X-rays
by Z. H. Hu & P. A. Thomas & A. Snigirev & I. Snigireva & A Souvorov & P. G. R. Smith & G. W. Ross & S. Teat - 694-696 Identification of cathode materials for lithium batteries guided by first-principles calculations
by G. Ceder & Y.-M. Chiang & D. R. Sadoway & M. K. Aydinol & Y.-I. Jang & B. Huang