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February 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6721
- 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 - 550-550 Higher status for ‘research risks’ office?
by Meredith Wadman - 550-550 Congressman aims to punish cloning research
by Meredith Wadman - 551-551 Union backs Toronto researcher's claims
by David Spurgeon - 551-551 Early American goes for tests — at last
by Tony Reichhardt - 552-552 Giant radio telescope will boost search for extraterrestrial life
by Steve Nadis - 552-552 US panel says research can be assessed
by Wil Lepkowski - 553-553 Mexico to overhaul R&D funding system
by Laura Garwin - 553-553 Switzerland adopts transplant guidelines
by Ulrich Bahnsen - 557-557 Harvest time is over for UK agricultural research
by Peter S. Kettlewell - 557-557 Don't count on World Bank initiatives
by Felipe Cabello - 557-558 Evolutionary forces behind human infertility
by Jim Cummins - 558-558 Why Spanish science is at a standstill
by Angel Baltanás & Isabel Castro - 559-560 Slow light in cool atoms
by Jon Marangos - 560-561 Snapshots of an ancient cover-up
by Maria T. Zuber - 561-563 A place for space and smells
by J. N. P. Rawlins - 564-565 Something fishy in the family tree
by Per Erik Ahlberg - 565-567 The protean proton in water
by James T. Hynes - 567-568 Sugaring vancomycin
by Dudley H. Williams - 568-569 The amazing demethylase
by Howard Cedar & Gregory L. Verdine - 569-570 Breaking the brain-blood barrier
by Anders Bjorklund & Clive Svendsen - 570-570 Space aeronautics
by David Jones - 571-572 Superalliance of bottlenose dolphins
by Richard C. Connor & Michael R. Heithaus & Lynne M. Barre - 572-572 Anterior sphenoid in modern humans
by Fred Spoor & Paul O'Higgins & Christopher Dean & Daniel E. Lieberman - 572-573 Iodine oxide in the marine boundary layer
by Björn Alicke & Kai Hebestreit & Jochen Stutz & Ulrich Platt - 574-574 Horse sickness and ENSO in South Africa
by Matthew Baylis & Philip S. Mellor & Rudy Meiswinkel - 575-576 Unique memories: creating the mind's ‘I’
by Martin Conway - 576-577 Seminal work
by Mark Ridley - 577-578 Illuminating the past
by Peter T. Fox - 578-578 A thing to a void
by Michael Redhead - 579-583 A mammalian protein with specific demethylase activity for mCpG DNA
by Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya & Shyam Ramchandani & Nadia Cervoni & Moshe Szyf - 584-586 Voluminous volcanism on early Mars revealed in Valles Marineris
by Alfred S. McEwen & Michael C. Malin & Michael H. Carr & William K. Hartmann - 586-589 Evidence for recent volcanism on Mars from crater counts
by William K. Hartmann & Michael Malin & Alfred McEwen & Michael Carr & Larry Soderblom & Peter Thomas & Ed Danielson & Phillip James & Joseph Veverka - 589-591 Groundwater formation of martian valleys
by Michael C. Malin & Michael H. Carr - 592-594 Bright dunes on Mars
by P. C. Thomas & M. C. Malin & M. H. Carr & G. E. Danielson & M. E. Davies & W. K. Hartmann & A. P. Ingersoll & P. B. James & A. S. McEwen & L. A. Soderblom & J. Veverka - 594-598 Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas
by Lene Vestergaard Hau & S. E. Harris & Zachary Dutton & Cyrus H. Behroozi - 598-601 Luttinger-liquid behaviour in carbon nanotubes
by Marc Bockrath & David H. Cobden & Jia Lu & Andrew G. Rinzler & Richard E. Smalley & Leon Balents & Paul L. McEuen - 601-604 The nature of the hydrated excess proton in water
by Dominik Marx & Mark E. Tuckerman & Jürg Hutter & Michele Parrinello - 604-607 Discrete alternating hotspot islands formed by interaction of magma transport and lithospheric flexure
by Christoph F. Hieronymus & David Bercovici - 607-610 A primitive fossil fish sheds light on the origin of bony fishes
by Min Zhu & Xiaobo Yu & Philippe Janvier - 610-612 Influence of motion signals on the perceived position of spatial pattern
by Shin'ya Nishida & Alan Johnston - 613-616 The global record of memory in hippocampal neuronal activity
by Emma R. Wood & Paul A. Dudchenko & Howard Eichenbaum - 617-621 Vertebrate Hedgehog signalling modulated by induction of a Hedgehog-binding protein
by Pao-Tien Chuang & Andrew P. McMahon - 621-625 The Rab5 effector EEA1 is a core component of endosome docking
by Savvas Christoforidis & Heidi M. McBride & Robert D. Burgoyne & Marino Zerial - 625-628 Photosynthetic control of chloroplast gene expression
by Thomas Pfannschmidt & Anders Nilsson & John F. Allen
February 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6719
- 457-457 German call to invest more in technology
by Quirin Schiermeier - 457-457 Europe bids to pull US patent law into line with first-to-file system
by Ehsan Masood - 458-458 UK panel formed to rebuild trust in government science advice
by Ehsan Masood - 458-458 DoE budget scramble as closure plan axed
by Colin Macilwain - 459-459 SOIREE aims to iron out atmospheric puzzle
by Philip Newton - 459-459 Scientists fight for right to withhold data
by Colin Macilwain - 460-460 Roche and Promega back in court for Taq
by Sally Lehrman - 460-460 US sanctions hurt basic research in India
by K. S. Jayaraman - 461-461 Japanese university approves genetic tests on in vitro embryos
by Asako Saegusa - 461-461 German science fights animal rights bill
by Quirin Schiermeier - 462-462 Chandra slips, space shuttle runs a risk
by Tony Reichhardt - 462-462 Everglades plan flawed, claim ecologists
by Tony Reichhardt - 463-463 French ministry in climbdown over reform
by Declan Butler - 463-463 British universities face review to increase accountability
by Natasha Loder - 467-467 Language bias discredits the peer-review system
by Antonio J. Herrera - 467-467 Pressure to publish stifles young talent
by Michael J. Larkin - 467-468 German job security leads to stagnation ..
by Eberhard Passarge - 468-468 ... and reduces students' chances of publishing
by Andreas Herde - 468-468 Frémiet's phantasms
by Eric Buffetaut - 469-469 Physics takes the biscuit
by Len Fisher - 471-472 A transformed view of cyclosporine
by Gary J. Nabel - 472-473 The undemocratic proton
by David J. Miller - 473-475 A patchwork of cones
by Heinz Wässle - 475-476 Bacteria and silica cycling
by Victor Smetacek - 476-479 Unstable by design
by Aneta Siemiginowska & Martin Elvis - 479-480 New way to activate caspases
by Erkki Ruoslahti & John Reed - 480-481 Electronic motion in DNA
by Mark Ratner - 481-481 Cell squeezing
by David Jones - 482-482 Jean Leray (1906-98)
by Ivar Ekeland - 483-484 Making make-up in Ancient Egypt
by P. Walter & P. Martinetto & G. Tsoucaris & R. Brniaux & M. A. Lefebvre & G. Richard & J. Talabot & E. Dooryhee - 484-485 Josephson effect and a π-state in superfluid 3He
by Olivier Avenel & Yury Mukharsky & Eric Varoquaux - 485-485 Josephson effect and a π-state in superfluid 3He
by S. Backhaus & R. W. Simmonds & A. Loshak & J. C. Davis & R. E. Packard - 485-486 How and why a parasitic nematode jumps
by James F. Campbell & Harry K. Kaya - 486-486 Non-fertile sperm delay female remating
by Penny A. Cook & Nina Wedell - 487-488 The fashions and foibles of science
by Peter A. Lawrence - 488-489 Darwinizing psychology
by Andrew Whiten - 489-490 Earth's internally generated motions
by Paul G. Richards - 490-490 Science in culture
by Graham Farmelo - 491-497 Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development
by O. A. Chadwick & L. A. Derry & P. M. Vitousek & B. J. Huebert & L. O. Hedin - 498-500 Scaling and criticality in a stochastic multi-agent model of a financial market
by Thomas Lux & Michele Marchesi - 500-503 A single-photon turnstile device
by J. Kim & O. Benson & H. Kan & Y. Yamamoto - 503-506 Modulated phases and proton centring in ice observed by X-ray diffraction up to 170?GPa
by Paul Loubeyre & René LeToullec & Elodie Wolanin & Michel Hanfland & Daniel Hausermann - 506-508 Circularly polarized light generated by photoexcitation of luminophores in glassy liquid-crystal films
by S. H. Chen & D. Katsis & A. W. Schmid & J. C. Mastrangelo & T. Tsutsui & T. N. Blanton - 508-512 Accelerated dissolution of diatom silica by marine bacterial assemblages
by Kay D. Bidle & Farooq Azam - 512-514 Cool surface waters of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean during the last glacial
by Kyung E. Lee & Niall C. Slowey - 515-517 Holocene periodicity in North Atlantic climate and deep-ocean flow south of Iceland
by Giancarlo G. Bianchi & I. Nicholas McCave - 517-520 Auditory distance perception in rooms
by Adelbert W. Bronkhorst & Tammo Houtgast - 520-522 The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye
by Austin Roorda & David R. Williams - 523-526 Asymmetric Notch activation specifies photoreceptors R3 and R4 and planar polarity in the Drosophila eye
by Manolis Fanto & Marek Mlodzik - 526-530 Frizzled regulation of Notch signalling polarizes cell fate in the Drosophila eye
by Michael T. D. Cooper & Sarah J. Bray - 530-534 Cyclosporine induces cancer progression by a cell-autonomous mechanism
by Minoru Hojo & Takashi Morimoto & Mary Maluccio & Tomohiko Asano & Kengo Morimoto & Milagros Lagman & Toshikazu Shimbo & Manikkam Suthanthiran - 534-539 RGD peptides induce apoptosis by direct caspase-3 activation
by Christopher D. Buckley & Darrell Pilling & Nick V. Henriquez & Greg Parsonage & Katy Threlfall & Dagmar Scheel-Toellner & David L. Simmons & Arne N. Akbar & Janet M. Lord & Mike Salmon - 543-544 Expanding Canada's knowledge base
by Potter Wickware
February 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6718
- 373-373 Curb on foreign computers puts damper on US climate modelling
by Tony Reichhardt - 373-373 Geophysicists call for action on global warming
by Tony Reichhardt - 374-374 AAAS head wants to see scientists on school boards
by Sally Lehrman - 374-374 Harvard reveals plans for research centres
by Steve Nadis - 374-374 Rubbia proposes a speedier voyage to Mars and back
by Alison Abbott - 375-375 German science council clashes with anti-nuclear government
by Quirin Schiermeier - 375-375 Treaty nations ‘are exploiting Antarctica’
by Peter Pockley - 376-376 Asian scientists call on Unesco to protect indigenous knowledge
by K S Jayaraman - 376-376 Fear of BSE risks could hit US blood banks
by Meredith Wadman - 377-377 US budget ‘freezes’ spending on research
by Colin Macilwain & Tony Reichhardt - 378-378 Leaked CNRS report raises fears and hopes on job security
by Declan Butler - 378-378 Japanese labs balk at bid to boost external evaluation
by Asako Saegusa - 379-379 Tougher EU copyright rules come under fire
by Declan Butler - 383-383 Risks inherent in fetal gene therapy
by W. French Anderson - 383-383 Risks inherent in fetal gene therapy
by David King & Tom Shakespeare & Richard Nicholson & Angus Clarke & Sheila McLean - 383-384 Visible viruses and geodesic domes
by David J. DeRosier - 384-384 Spanish researchers defeated by the system
by Francisco Rodríguez-Quioñes - 384-384 Glaciation: the snowball theory still holds water
by Paul F. Hoffman & Adam C. Maloof - 384-384 Can teaching ethics make people ethical?
by Frank J. Leavitt - 385-386 From Pan to pandemic
by Robin A. Weiss & Richard W. Wrangham - 386-387 Return of the itinerant electron
by David Ceperley - 387-389 A cellular poison cupboard
by William C. Earnshaw - 389-391 All change in the Arctic
by Bob Dickson - 391-393 Striving for coherence
by Wolf Singer - 393-394 Counting up to four
by Ivar Ekeland - 394-395 Fragmenting magma
by Oleg E. Melnik - 395-395 Powerful lighting
by David Jones - 396-396 Hans Oeschger (1927-98)
by Thomas Stocker - 397-398 Half-awake to the risk of predation
by Niels C. Rattenborg & Steven L. Lima & Charles J. Amlaner - 398-398 Pattern formation in semiconductors
by V. V. Bel'kov & J. Hirschinger & V. Novák & F.-J. Niedernostheide & S.D. Ganichev & W. Prettl - 398-399 UV-B damage amplified by transposons in maize
by Virginia Walbot - 400-400 Collective decisions and cognition in bees
by P. Kirk Visscher & Scott Camazine - 401-402 Japan's enthused individualists
by Rupert Goodwins - 402-403 A bestiary of chaos and biodiversity
by Paul H. Harvey - 403-404 Worth its salt
by Hervé This - 404-404 Science in culture
by Martin Kemp - 405-409 Female development in mammals is regulated by Wnt-4 signalling
by Seppo Vainio & Minna Heikkilä & Andreas Kispert & Norman Chin & Andrew P. McMahon - 410-412 Coherence and single-particle excitations in the high-temperature superconductors
by Guy Deutscher - 412-414 High-temperature weak ferromagnetism in a low-density free-electron gas
by D. P. Young & D. Hall & M. E. Torelli & Z. Fisk & J. L. Sarrao & J. D. Thompson & H.-R. Ott & S. B. Oseroff & R. G. Goodrich & R. Zysler - 414-417 Improved quantum efficiency for electroluminescence in semiconducting polymers
by Yong Cao & Ian D. Parker & Gang Yu & Chi Zhang & Alan J. Heeger - 417-420 Hybrid hydrogels assembled from synthetic polymers and coiled-coil protein domains
by Chun Wang & Russell J. Stewart & JindŘich KopeČek - 420-423 A complex clathrate hydrate structure showing bimodal guest hydration
by Konstantin A. Udachin & John A. Ripmeester - 423-425 Upward transport of oceanic nitrate by migrating diatom mats
by Tracy A. Villareal & Cynthia Pilskaln & Mark Brzezinski & Fredric Lipschultz & Mark Dennett & George B. Gardner - 425-428 Strain-induced magma fragmentation in explosive eruptions
by Paolo Papale - 428-430 A neuronal representation of the location of nearby sounds
by Michael S. A. Graziano & Lina A. J. Reiss & Charles G. Gross - 430-433 Perception's shadow: long-distance synchronization of human brain activity
by Eugenio Rodriguez & Nathalie George & Jean-Philippe Lachaux & Jacques Martinerie & Bernard Renault & Francisco J. Varela - 434-436 Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learning
by Wolfgang H. R. Miltner & Christoph Braun & Matthias Arnold & Herbert Witte & Edward Taub - 436-441 Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes
by Feng Gao & Elizabeth Bailes & David L. Robertson & Yalu Chen & Cynthia M. Rodenburg & Scott F. Michael & Larry B. Cummins & Larry O. Arthur & Martine Peeters & George M. Shaw & Paul M. Sharp & Beatrice H. Hahn - 441-446 Molecular characterization of mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor
by Santos A. Susin & Hans K. Lorenzo & Naoufal Zamzami & Isabel Marzo & Bryan E. Snow & Greg M. Brothers & Joan Mangion & Etienne Jacotot & Paola Costantini & Markus Loeffler & Nathanael Larochette & David R. Goodlett & Ruedi Aebersold & David P. Siderovski & Josef M. Penninger & Guido Kroemer - 446-450 The transcriptional cofactor complex CRSP is required for activity of the enhancer-binding protein Sp1
by Soojin Ryu & Sharleen Zhou & Andreas G. Ladurner & Robert Tjian
January 1999, Volume 397, Issue 6717
- 281-281 Sequence ‘terrorist genes’, says Venter
by Ehsan Masood - 281-282 Europe is urged to hold back on xenotransplant clinical trials
by Declan Butler - 282-282 UK women lead the way on interdisciplinary research
by Alison Mitchell - 283-283 Cancer body ‘must do more for minorities’
by Meredith Wadman - 283-283 German/Swedish venture creates plant biotechnology giant
by Quirin Schiermeier - 284-284 China clamps down on inaccurate warnings
by Asako Saegusa - 284-284 Japan to try to understand quakes, not predict them
by Asako Saegusa - 284-284 US life scientists seek 15 per cent rise to NIH research funds
by Meredith Wadman - 285-285 US unveils $366 million computing boost
by Natasha Loder - 285-285 Warning on pitfalls in measuring research
by Natasha Loder - 286-286 Hopes for reform rise as Spain replaces its hard-line minister
by Xavier Bosch - 286-286 UK gets the green light on modified crops
by Ehsan Masood - 287-287 ‘Inadequate science’ in US habitat plans
by Tony Reichhardt - 287-287 Australia battles to mine heritage site
by Peter Pockley - 290-290 Keele book sell-off squanders heritage
by David Singmaster - 290-290 Don't put research in a goal-based straitjacket
by Mike Berridge - 290-290 Green campaigners undermine the IWC
by Dan Goodman - 291-291 Who will mentor the mentors?
by Carl Djerassi