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1999, volume 400, articles 6747

Wellcome Trust loses battle to expand its genome campus pp. 803-803

Natasha Loder

Shoddy buildings cost lives in Turkish quake pp. 803-803

Quirin Schiermeier

UK centre ‘drops science for sensation’ pp. 804-804

Heather McCabe

A million volunteers join the online search for extraterrestrial life pp. 804-804

Tony Reichhardt

Leadership wrangle forces Salk Institute restructuring pp. 805-805

Rex Dalton

Canadian report urges universities to make research earn its keep pp. 805-805

David Spurgeon

California initiative to probe transgenics in large animals pp. 806-806

Rex Dalton

University confronts new rival across Lake Tahoe pp. 806-806

Rex Dalton

Astronomy adapts to sharpen up its image pp. 807-807

Tony Reichhardt

Kansas makes a monkey of itself pp. 810-810

Paul M. Grant

Global emissions could soon start rising again pp. 810-810

Michael Jefferson

Alois Alzheimer and the amyloid debate pp. 810-810

John N. Davis and Jane C. Chisholm

Mechanics of the ribosome pp. 811-812

Roger Garrett

Life beyond the pulsar death valley pp. 812-813

Alex Wolszczan

How do you pay attention? pp. 813-815

Jeremy M. Wolfe

Complex lessons of iron uptake pp. 815-816

Richard J. Geider

Good cholesterol news pp. 817-819

James Scott

Shedding light on dark matter pp. 819-820

Daniel E. Holz

Rhapsody in G proteins pp. 820-821

Johannes L. Bos and Fried J. T. Zwartkruis

Sharp snow pp. 821-821

David Jones

Eladio Viñuela (1937-99) pp. 822-822

Jesús Ávila and Federico Mayor

Journey into space pp. 823-823

Martin Kemp

Parasitoid behaviour and Bt plants pp. 825-826

Tanja H. Schuler, Roel P. J. Potting, Ian Denholm and Guy M. Poppy

Prelude or requiem for the ‘Mozart effect’? pp. 826-827

Christopher F. Chabris

Prelude or requiem for the ‘Mozart effect’? pp. 827-827

Kenneth M. Steele, Simone Dalla Bella, Isabelle Peretz, Tracey Dunlop, Lloyd A. Dawe, G. Keith Humphrey, Roberta A. Shannon, Johnny L. Kirby and C. G. Olmstead

Prelude or requiem for the ‘Mozart effect’? pp. 827-828

Frances H. Rauscher

Ubiquitous dispersal of microbial species pp. 828-828

Bland J. Finlay and Ken J. Clarke

The universal structure of babbling pp. 829-830

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Thou shalt not mix religion and science pp. 830-831

S. Nomanul Haq

Dogged footsteps to a vanishing past pp. 831-832

Andrew Berry

Mainstreaming monsters pp. 832-832

Harriet Ritvo

Structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit at 5.5 Å resolution pp. 833-840

William M. Clemons, Joanna L. C. May, Brian T. Wimberly, John P. McCutcheon, Malcolm S. Capel and V. Ramakrishnan

Placement of protein and RNA structures into a 5 Å-resolution map of the 50S ribosomal subunit pp. 841-847

Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Malcolm Capel, Peter B. Moore and Thomas A. Steitz

A radio pulsar with an 8.5-second period that challenges emission models pp. 848-849

M. D. Young, R. N. Manchester and S. Johnston

Measurement of gravitational acceleration by dropping atoms pp. 849-852

Achim Peters, Keng Yeow Chung and Steven Chu

Thermally induced ultrasonic emission from porous silicon pp. 853-855

H. Shinoda, T. Nakajima, K. Ueno and N. Koshida

Layered double hydroxides exchanged with tungstate as biomimetic catalysts for mild oxidative bromination pp. 855-857

Bert Sels, Dirk De Vos, Mieke Buntinx, Frédéric Pierard, A. Kirsch- De Mesmaeker and Pierre Jacobs

Competition among marine phytoplankton for different chelated iron species pp. 858-861

David A. Hutchins, Amy E. Witter, Alison Butler and George W. Luther

Tracking the evolution of insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens pp. 861-864

Thomas Lenormand, Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud and Michel Raymond

Illusory shifts in visual direction accompany adaptation of saccadic eye movements pp. 864-866

Dan O. Bahcall and Eileen Kowler

Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search pp. 867-869

Geoffrey F. Woodman and Steven J. Luck

Global and fine information coded by single neurons in the temporal visual cortex pp. 869-873

Yasuko Sugase, Shigeru Yamane, Shoogo Ueno and Kenji Kawano

Caudal is the Hox gene that specifies the most posterior Drosophile segment pp. 873-877

Eduardo Moreno and Ginés Morata

Notch signalling controls pancreatic cell differentiation pp. 877-881

Åsa Apelqvist, Hao Li, Lukas Sommer, Paul Beatus, David J. Anderson, Tasuku Honjo, Martin Hrabě de Angelis, Urban Lendahl and Helena Edlund

A C. elegans Ror receptor tyrosine kinase regulates cell motility and asymmetric cell division pp. 881-885

Wayne C. Forrester, Megan Dell, Elliot Perens and Gian Garriga

Bid-deficient mice are resistant to Fas-induced hepatocellular apoptosis pp. 886-891

Xiao-Ming Yin, Kun Wang, Atan Gross, Yongge Zhao, Sandra Zinkel, Barbara Klocke, Kevin A. Roth and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Activation of the ERK/MAPK pathway by an isoform of rap1GAP associated with Gαi pp. 891-894

Naoki Mochizuki, Yusuke Ohba, Etsuko Kiyokawa, Takeshi Kurata, Takeshi Murakami, Takefumi Ozaki, Akira Kitabatake, Kazuo Nagashima and Michiyuki Matsuda

Extracellular sodium regulates airway ciliary motility by inhibiting a P2X receptor pp. 894-897

Weiyuan Ma, Alon Korngreen, Natalya Uzlaner, Zvi Priel and Shai D. Silberberg

A new pathway for polyketide synthesis in microorganisms pp. 897-899

Nobutaka Funa, Yasuo Ohnishi, Isao Fujii, Masaaki Shibuya, Yutaka Ebizuka and Sueharu Horinouchi

1999, volume 400, articles 6746

Annotation competition spurs Drosophila sequencing efforts pp. 699-699

Alison Abbott

EPA science ‘overburdened by Congress’ pp. 700-700

Colin Macilwain

Clinton gets the message on biomass energy pp. 700-700

Colin Macilwain

Kansas kicks evolution out the classroom pp. 701-701

Rex Dalton

Cray sale threatens to send researchers shopping elsewhere pp. 701-701

Rex Dalton

Research to benefit from cheaper Landsat images pp. 702-702

Tony Reichhardt

Monsanto rapped for misleading press advertisements pp. 702-702

Heather McCabe

Japanese university plan under fire again pp. 703-703

Asako Saegusa

Australia plans research reforms but without extra funding pp. 703-703

Peter Pockley

Bureaucrats pose threat to museums pp. 707-707

Michael A. Mares

What price ‘prestige’ in publishing? pp. 707-707

Alexander A. Berezin

Icelanders opt out of genetic database pp. 707-708

Pétur Hauksson

Icelanders opt out of genetic database pp. 708-708

Skúli Sigurdsson

Corals resist extinction by global warming pp. 708-708

A. J. (Tom) van Loon

‘Snowball Earth’ theory still stands pp. 708-708

Paul F. Hoffman

Visit heaven and hell ahead of schedule pp. 708-708

Jorge Mira-Pérez

Neptune's misbehaving rings pp. 709-710

Mark R. Showalter

Tripping the light fantastic pp. 710-713

Harry Smith

Sulphur emissions from ships pp. 713-714

Barry J. Huebert

Mast-cell heparin demystified pp. 714-715

James L. Zehnder and Stephen J. Galli

Real metals, 2D or not 2D? pp. 715-717

Michelle Y. Simmons and Alex R. Hamilton

Fluid dynamics: Lights, camera, drip pp. 715-715

Sarah Tomlin

No hibernation for basking sharks pp. 717-718

Daniel Weihs

Cognition by a mini brain pp. 718-719

Randolf Menzel and Martin Giurfa

Superficial complexity pp. 719-719

David Jones

Rolf Landauer (1927-99) pp. 720-720

Seth Lloyd

Rules of the game of doing science pp. 721-721

John Ziman

Chemokine control of HIV-1 infection pp. 723-724

Mario Mellado, José Miguel Rodríguez-Frade, Antonio J. Vila-Coro, Ana Martín de Ana and Carlos Martínez-A.

A movement-sensitive area in auditory cortex pp. 724-726

Frank Baumgart, Birgit Gaschler-Markefski, Marty G. Woldorff, Hans-Jochen Heinze and Henning Scheich

Climate variability and crop yields in Europe pp. 724-724

John R. Porter and Mikhail A. Semenov

reply Climate variability and crop yields in Europe pp. 724-724

Mike Hulme, Paula Harrison and Nigel Arnell

Striped rabbits in Southeast Asia pp. 726-726

Alison K. Surridge, Robert J. Timmins, Godfrey M. Hewitt and Diana J. Bell

A brilliant dissection of the brain pp. 727-728

Semir Zeki

The problem with an evolutionary answer pp. 728-729

R. C. Lewontin

The future of the doctor's drug culture pp. 729-730

Ann Dally

Surfing the history of space pp. 730-730

Owen Gingerich

Images of Neptune's ring arcs obtained by a ground-based telescope pp. 731-733

B. Sicardy, F. Roddier, C. Roddier, E. Perozzi, J. E. Graves, O. Guyon and M. J. Northcott

Stability of Neptune's ring arcs in question pp. 733-735

Christophe Dumas, Richard J. Terrile, Bradford A. Smith, Glenn Schneider and E. E. Becklin

Linking insulator-to-metal transitions at zero and finite magnetic fields pp. 735-737

Y. Hanein, N. Nenadovic, D. Shahar, Hadas Shtrikman, J. Yoon, C. C. Li and D. C. Tsui

Observation of short-range critical wetting pp. 737-739

D. Ross, D. Bonn and J. Meunier

Rapid environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period pp. 740-743

Judy R. M. Allen, Ute Brandt, Achim Brauer, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Brian Huntley, Jörg Keller, Michael Kraml, Andreas Mackensen, Jens Mingram, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Norbert R. Nowaczyk, Hedi Oberhänsli, William A. Watts, Sabine Wulf and Bernd Zolitschka

Effects of ship emissions on sulphur cycling and radiative climate forcing over the ocean pp. 743-746

Kevin Capaldo, James J. Corbett, Prasad Kasibhatla, Paul Fischbeck and Spyros N. Pandis

A pipiscid-like fossil from the Lower Cambrian of south China pp. 746-749

D. Shu, S. Conway Morris, X-L. Zhang, L. Chen, Y. Li and J. Han

Environmental controls on the geographic distribution of zooplankton diversity pp. 749-753

Scott Rutherford, Steven D'Hondt and Warren Prell

Context generalization in Drosophila visual learning requires the mushroom bodies pp. 753-756

Li Liu, Reinhard Wolf, Roman Ernst and Martin Heisenberg

Synaptic function modulated by changes in the ratio of synaptotagmin I and IV pp. 757-760

J. Troy Littleton, Thomas L. Serano, Gerald M. Rubin, Barry Ganetzky and Edwin R. Chapman

Interaction of glutamic-acid-rich proteins with the cGMP signalling pathway in rod photoreceptors pp. 761-766

Heinz G. Körschen, Michael Beyermann, Frank Müller, Martin Heck, Marius Vantler, Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Roland Kellner, Uwe Wolfrum, Christian Bode, Klaus Peter Hofmann and U. Benjamin Kaupp

Increased affiliative response to vasopressin in mice expressing the V1a receptor from a monogamous vole pp. 766-768

Larry J. Young, Roger Nilsen, Katrina G. Waymire, Grant R. MacGregor and Thomas R. Insel

Heparin is essential for the storage of specific granule proteases in mast cells pp. 769-772

Donald E. Humphries, Guang W. Wong, Daniel S. Friend, Michael F. Gurish, Wen-Tao Qiu, Chifu Huang, Arlene H. Sharpe and Richard L. Stevens

Abnormal mast cells in mice deficient in a heparin-synthesizing enzyme pp. 773-776

Erik Forsberg, Gunnar Pejler, Maria Ringvall, Carolina Lunderius, Bianca Tomasini-Johansson, Marion Kusche-Gullberg, Inger Eriksson, Johan Ledin, Lars Hellman and Lena Kjellén

The chemokine receptor CCR4 in vascular recognition by cutaneous but not intestinal memory T cells pp. 776-780

J. J. Campbell, G. Haraldsen, J. Pan, J. Rottman, S. Qin, P. Ponath, D. P. Andrew, R. Warnke, N. Ruffing, N. Kassam, L. Wu and E. C. Butcher

Binding of phytochrome B to its nuclear signalling partner PIF3 is reversibly induced by light pp. 781-784

Min Ni, James M. Tepperman and Peter H. Quail

Nucleosome mobilization catalysed by the yeast SWI/SNF complex pp. 784-787

Iestyn Whitehouse, Andrew Flaus, Bradley R. Cairns, Malcolm F. White, Jerry L. Workman and Tom Owen-Hughes

Four-helical-bundle structure of the cytoplasmic domain of a serine chemotaxis receptor pp. 787-792

Kyeong Kyu Kim, Hisao Yokota and Sung-Hou Kim

Erratum: p73 is regulated by tyrosine kinase c-Abl in the apoptotic response to DNA damage pp. 792-792

Zhi-Min Yuan, Hisashi Shioya, Takatoshi Ishiko, Xiangao Sun, Jijie Gu, YinYin Huang, Hua Lu, Surender Kharbanda, Ralph Weichselbaum and Donald Kufe

Erratum: Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt pp. 792-792

David Fulton, Jean-Philippe Gratton, Timothy J. McCabe, Jason Fontana, Yasushi Fujio, Kenneth Walsh, Thomas F. Franke, Andreas Papapetropoulos and William C. Sessa

Green chemistry puts down roots pp. 797-799

Brendan Horton

Data explosion fuels search for drugs pp. 799-800

Potter Wickware

1999, volume 400, articles 6745

Researcher sues university over rights to transgenic technology pp. 601-601

Rex Dalton

CERN collider homes in on Higgs boson pp. 601-601

Alison Abbott

Coordinated work reveals plant evolution pp. 602-602

Rex Dalton

‘Strengthened’ Icelandic bioethics committee comes under fire pp. 602-602

Alison Abbott

UK space strategy sets sights on Mars pp. 603-603

Quirin Schiermeier

Legal threat in bid to ban xenotransplants pp. 603-603

Meredith Wadman

US acts to lengthen term of patents to help biotechnology pp. 604-604

Meredith Wadman

French anger over plan to back British synchrotron pp. 604-604

Heather McCabe

Japan plans to label ‘detectable’ GM food pp. 605-605

Asako Saegusa

Tension stays high as US optical societies launch merger ballot pp. 605-605

Rex Dalton

Protests at Indian solar observatory refit pp. 606-606

K. S. Jayaraman

Animal rights activists attack Gore over chemical screening pp. 606-606

Meredith Wadman

Endocrine disrupter verdict left open pp. 607-607

Colin Macilwain

Brain drain accelerates from Siberia pp. 607-607

Carl Levitin

Why quasi-persons are not patentable pp. 610-610

Richard M. Lebovitz

Where a little aid could go a long way pp. 610-610

Peter Campbell

More evidence needed on effect of ivory ban pp. 610-610

Nigel Leader-Williams

The second Silent Spring? pp. 611-612

John R. Krebs, Jeremy D. Wilson, Richard B. Bradbury and Gavin M. Siriwardena

From desert to deluge in the Mediterranean pp. 613-614

Judith A. McKenzie

Developing B-cell theories pp. 615-617

David G. Schatz

Tiling by numbers pp. 617-618

Michael O'Keeffe

Creatures from another world pp. 618-619

Inman Harvey

Running on natural gas pp. 619-621

Brian C. H. Steele

Oscillations in the basal ganglia pp. 621-622

Thomas Wichmann and Mahlon R. DeLong

Sprucing up beaver meadows pp. 622-623

Peter D. Moore

Agreeing on strategies pp. 623-624

Ivar Ekeland

Turning the other cheek pp. 624-624

Alison Mitchell

Eclipse of the Earth pp. 624-624

David Jones

Slaying the crystal homunculus pp. 625-625

Robert W. Cahn

Convergent evolution of cytokines pp. 627-628

Alain Beschin, Martin Bilej, Lea Brys, Els Torreele, Rudolf Lucas, Stefan Magez and Patrick De Baetselier

Rise in carbon dioxide changes soil structure pp. 628-628

Matthias C. Rillig, Sara F. Wright, Michael F. Allen and Christopher B. Field

Nitrogen deposition and carbon sequestration pp. 629-630

Herman Sievering

Anisotropy of iron in the Earth's inner core pp. 629-629

S. C. Singh and J.-P. Montagner

Nitrogen deposition and carbon sequestration pp. 629-629

D. S. Jenkinson, K. Goulding and D. S. Powlson

Nitrogen deposition and carbon sequestration pp. 630-630

Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Bridget A. Emmett, Per Gundersen, Chris J. Koopmans, Patrick Schleppi, Albert Tietema and Richard F. Wright

Culture clash in American anthropology pp. 631-632

Mary Douglas

Neural networks beyond Freud pp. 632-633

Terrence J. Sejnowski

What did you do in the [cold] war, Daddy? pp. 632-632

Malcolm R. Dando

The first three billion years pp. 633-633

Stefan Bengtson

Damsels and dragons pp. 634-634

Mike Siva-Jothy

Streaks of microearthquakes along creeping faults pp. 635-641

Allan M. Rubin, Dominique Gillard and Jean-Luc Got

Photon-stimulated desorption as a substantial source of sodium in the lunar atmosphere pp. 642-644

B. V. Yakshinskiy and T. E. Madey

Systematic enumeration of crystalline networks pp. 644-647

Olaf Delgado Friedrichs, Andreas W. M. Dress, Daniel H. Huson, Jacek Klinowski and Alan L. Mackay

The mechanisms for pressure-induced amorphization of ice Ih pp. 647-649

J. S. Tse, D. D. Klug, C. A. Tulk, I. Swainson, E. C. Svensson, C.-K. Loong, V. Shpakov, V. R. Belosludov, R. V. Belosludov and Y. Kawazoe

A direct-methane fuel cell with a ceria-based anode pp. 649-651

E. Perry Murray, T. Tsai and S. A. Barnett

Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis pp. 652-655

W. Krijgsman, F. J. Hilgen, I. Raffi, F. J. Sierro and D. S. Wilson

The origin of snake feeding pp. 655-659

Michael S. Y. Lee, Gorden L. Bell and Michael W. Caldwell

Planktonic nutrient regeneration and cycling efficiency in temperate lakes pp. 659-661

Jeff J. Hudson, William D. Taylor and David W. Schindler

Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms pp. 661-664

Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, Travis C. Collier and Christoph Adami

A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems pp. 664-667

Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown and Brian J. Enquist

Dynamics of disease resistance polymorphism at the Rpm1 locus of Arabidopsis pp. 667-671

Eli A. Stahl, Greg Dwyer, Rodney Mauricio, Martin Kreitman and Joy Bergelson

Time-dependent reorganization of brain circuitry underlying long-term memory storage pp. 671-675

Bruno Bontempi, Catherine Laurent-Demir, Claude Destrade and Robert Jaffard

Memory for places learned long ago is intact after hippocampal damage pp. 675-677

Edmond Teng and Larry R. Squire

A basal ganglia pacemaker formed by the subthalamic nucleus and external globus pallidus pp. 677-682

Dietmar Plenz and Stephen T. Kital

Continued RAG expression in late stages of B cell development and no apparent re-induction after immunizion pp. 682-687

Wong Yu, Hitoshi Nagaoka, Mila Jankovic, Ziva Misulovin, Heikyung Suh, Antonius Rolink, Fritz Melchers, Eric Meffre and Michel C. Nussenzweig

A SMAD ubiquitin ligase targets the BMP pathway and affects embryonic pattern formation pp. 687-693

Haitao Zhu, Peter Kavsak, Shirin Abdollah, Jeffrey L. Wrana and Gerald H. Thomsen

Trigger factor and DnaK cooperate in folding of newly synthesized proteins pp. 693-696

Elke Deuerling, Agnes Schulze-Specking, Toshifumi Tomoyasu, Axel Mogk and Bernd Bukau

1999, volume 400, articles 6744

France to collaborate with UK pp. 489-489

David Dickson and Natasha Loder

Wallace rescued from a grave injustice pp. 489-489

Natasha Loder

Congress talks tough on funds for NASA and basic research pp. 490-490

Colin Macilwain

BSE advisers admit giving up a purely scientific role pp. 490-490

Natasha Loder

UN call for action to clear up space junk pp. 490-490

Eva von Schaper

Asia backs E-Biomed ‘with peer review’ pp. 491-491

Asako Saegusa

Varmus speculates on a possible reorganization of the NIH pp. 491-491

Carina Dennis

NSF urged to raise environmental efforts ⃛ pp. 492-492

Colin Macilwain

⃛ as panel backs the return of the ‘green GDP’ pp. 492-492

Tony Reichhardt

Charity cools on stem cells after boycott by Catholics pp. 493-493

Meredith Wadman

Russian Antarctic base falls prey to budget cuts pp. 493-493

Carl Levitin

US plans giant effort on protein structure pp. 494-494

Meredith Wadman

Emissions fall despite economic growth pp. 494-494

Tony Reichhardt

Africa seeks laws on GM food exports ⃛ pp. 495-495

Ehsan Masood

⃛as Brazilian scientists protest at GM ban pp. 495-495

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

More haste, less science? pp. 498-498

Bradford A. Hawkins

Tale of an intrepid duo unearthed pp. 498-498

Cynthia Reavell

How to restore public trust in science pp. 499-499

Benny Haerlin and Doug Parr

Bollworms, genes and ecologists pp. 501-502

M. J. Crawley

Palaeoecology A breath of fresh air pp. 503-505

D. E. Canfield

Quantum optics: Energy transfer under control pp. 505-506

William L. Barnes and Piers Andrew

Malaria A blueprint of ‘bad air’ pp. 506-507

Mats Wahlgren and Maria Teresa Bejarano

Engineering Shark skin and other solutions pp. 507-509

Philip Ball

Earth's productivity Ghosts of biospheres past pp. 509-510

Joe Berry

Conservation biology Top dogs maintain diversity pp. 510-511

Bernt-Erik Sæther

Oceanography: An ultimate limiting nutrient pp. 511-512

J. R. Toggweiler

Materials science: Superdiffusion in solid helium pp. 512-513

Robert W. Cahn

The insect plane pp. 513-513

David Jones

Obituary J. John Sepkoski Jr (1948-99) pp. 514-514

Derek E. G. Briggs

The tale of the great cuckoo egg pp. 515-515

George Klein

Haem detoxification by an insect pp. 517-518

Marcus F. Oliveira, José R. Silva, Marílvia Dansa-Petretski, Wanderley de Souza, Ulysses Lins, Cláudia M. S. Braga, Hatisaburo Masuda and Pedro L. Oliveira

‘Raise the stakes’ evolves into a defector pp. 518-518

Timothy Killingback and Michael Doebeli

reply ‘Raise the stakes’ evolves into a defector pp. 518-518

Thomas N. Sherratt and Gilbert Roberts

How was the Sdic gene fixed? pp. 519-520

Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth

Development time and resistance to Bt crops pp. 519-519

Yong-Biao Liu, Bruce E. Tabashnik, Timothy J. Dennehy, Amanda L. Patin and Alan C. Bartlett

reply: How was the Sdic gene fixed? pp. 520-520

Dmitry I. Nurminsky and Daniel L. Hartl

An epidemiology of the invention virus pp. 521-521

Crispin Tickell

From a particular to a global perspective pp. 522-523

David Schimel

A tale of two fronts pp. 523-524

Huw C. Davies

Science in culture pp. 524-524

Martin Kemp

The relative influences of nitrogen and phosphorus on oceanic primary production pp. 525-531

Toby Tyrrell

The complete nucleotide sequence of chromosome 3 of Plasmodium falciparum pp. 532-538

S. Bowman, D. Lawson, D. Basham, D Brown, T. Chillingworth, C. M. Churcher, A. Craig, R. M. Davies, K. Devlin, T. Feltwell, S. Gentles, R. Gwilliam, N. Hamlin, D. Harris, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, P. Horrocks, K. Jagels, B. Jassal, S. Kyes, J. McLean, S. Moule, K. Mungall, L. Murphy, K. Oliver, M. A. Quail, M.-A. Rajandream, S. Rutter, J. Skelton, R. Squares, S. Squares, J. E. Sulston, S. Whitehead, J. R. Woodward, C. Newbold and B. G. Barrell

A geometric distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from orbital motions in a nuclear gas disk pp. 539-541

J. R. Herrnstein, J. M. Moran, L. J. Greenhill, P. J. Diamond, M. Inoue, N. Nakai, M. Miyoshi, C. Henkel and A. Riess

Identification of atomic-like electronic states in indium arsenide nanocrystal quantum dots pp. 542-544

Uri Banin, YunWei Cao, David Katz and Oded Millo

Surface impact ionization of polar-molecule clusters through pickup of alkali atoms pp. 544-547

C. R. Gebhardt, H. Schröder and K.-L. Kompa

Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity pp. 547-550

Boaz Luz, Eugeni Barkan, Michael L. Bender, Mark H. Thiemens and Kristie A. Boering

Relative influences of atmospheric chemistry and transport on Arctic ozone trends pp. 551-554

M. P. Chipperfield and R. L. Jones

2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis pp. 554-557

Roger E. Summons, Linda L. Jahnke, Janet M. Hope and Graham A. Logan

Spatial scaling laws yield a synthetic theory of biodiversity pp. 557-560

Mark E. Ritchie and Han Olff

A mesoscale approach to extinction risk in fragmented habitats pp. 560-562

Renato Casagrandi and Marino Gatto

Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system pp. 563-566

Kevin R. Crooks and Michael E. Soulé

Linking a genetic defect to its cellular phenotype in a cardiac arrhythmia pp. 566-569

Colleen E. Clancy and Yoram Rudy

Developmental and activity- dependent regulation of kainate receptors at thalamocortical synapses pp. 569-573

Fleur L. Kidd and John T. R. Isaac

Oligopeptide-repeat expansions modulate ‘protein-only’ inheritance in yeast pp. 573-576

Jia-Jia Liu and Susan Lindquist

Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is mediated by a Ca2+-dependent calcineurin signalling pathway pp. 576-581

Christopher Semsarian, Ming-Jie Wu, Yue-Kun Ju, Tadeusz Marciniec, Thomas Yeoh, David G. Allen, Richard P. Harvey and Robert M. Graham

IGF-1 induces skeletal myocyte hypertrophy through calcineurin in association with GATA-2 and NF-ATc1 pp. 581-585

Antonio Musarò, Karl J. A. McCullagh, Francisco J. Naya, Eric N. Olson and Nadia Rosenthal

Inner-arm dynein c of Chlamydomonas flagella is a single-headed processive motor pp. 586-590

Hitoshi Sakakibara, Hiroaki Kojima, Yukako Sakai, Eisaku Katayama and Kazuhiro Oiwa

Myosin-V is a processive actin-based motor pp. 590-593

Amit D. Mehta, Ronald S. Rock, Matthias Rief, James A. Spudich, Mark S. Mooseker and Richard E. Cheney

1999, volume 400, articles 6743

Japan declares five-year plan to double genome research funds pp. 389-389

Asako Saegusa

UK ignored BSE vaccine advice, inquiry told pp. 389-389

Natasha Loder

Senate baulks at cost of collider project pp. 390-390

Colin Macilwain

Neurogenetic institute comes to California pp. 390-390

Rex Dalton

NIH budget prospect bright despite political stalemate pp. 391-391

Meredith Wadman

Michigan to use tobacco money to fund life sciences pp. 391-391

Colin Macilwain

Self-navigation put to asteroid fly-by test pp. 392-392

Tony Reichhardt

Scaling the degree of danger from an asteroid pp. 392-392

Tony Reichhardt

Spanish research to receive funding boost pp. 393-393

Xavier Bosch

Monkey dispute halts Indian drug tests pp. 393-393

K. S. Jayaraman

US fusion scientists seeking a fresh start pp. 394-395

Colin Macilwain

NIH weighs in behind improved synchrotrons pp. 395-395

Meredith Wadman

Precautionary principle stifles discovery pp. 398-398

Søren Holm and John Harris

Funding agencies must use their muscle pp. 398-398

Benjamin White

Substance versus style in scientific papers pp. 398-398

Marta Pulido

Flood warnings pp. 398-398

Stephen Blackmore

A manual for planetary management pp. 399-399

Philip Newton

Rebuilding the road to cancer pp. 401-402

Jonathan B. Weitzman and Moshe Yaniv

Mysteries of the Milky Way pp. 402-403

Gerry Gilmore

What's eating the free lunch? pp. 403-405

Gary J. Olsen

Magnetic phases to order pp. 405-406

Neil Mathur

Distinguished sperm in competition pp. 406-407

Tim Birkhead

Roots of a conservationist pp. 407-407

Tim Lincoln

Slow ruptures, roaring tsunamis pp. 409-410

Heidi Houston

All's well that ends dead pp. 410-411

Timothy S. Zheng and Richard A. Flavell

The business of research pp. 411-412

Henk F. Moed and Marc Luwel

Two phases of proton translocation pp. 412-413

Denis L. Rousseau

No difference at all pp. 413-413

David Jones

George Brown (1920-99) pp. 414-414

Daniel S. Greenberg

Detonator of the population explosion pp. 415-415

Vaclav Smil

Diamond formation from mantle carbonate fluids pp. 417-418

Yu. N. Pal'yanov, A. G. Sokol, Yu. M. Borzdov, A. F. Khokhryakov and N. V. Sobolev

Chernobyl radioactivity persists in fish pp. 417-417

Bror Jonsson, TorbjØrn Forseth and Ola Ugedal

Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function pp. 418-419

Arthur F. Kramer, Sowon Hahn, Neal J. Cohen, Marie T. Banich, Edward McAuley, Catherine R. Harrison, Julie Chason, Eli Vakil, Lynn Bardell, Richard A. Boileau and Angela Colcombe

Developmental model for thalidomide action pp. 419-420

Reinhard Neubert, Hans-Joachim Merker and Diether Neubert

Developmental model for thalidomide action pp. 420-420

Clifford J. Tabin

Equality in glory and culpability pp. 421-422

David Joravsky

Journey into a strange affliction pp. 422-423

Mary Robertson

A provincial setting for the oceans pp. 423-424

Yves Dandonneau

Getting at where it hurts pp. 423-423

John Carmody

Loose round-up lacks even circular logic pp. 424-424

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Dynamic measurement of myosin light-chain-domain tilt and twist in muscle contraction pp. 425-430

J. E. T. Corrie, B. D. Brandmeier, R. E. Ferguson, D. R. Trentham, J. Kendrick-Jones, S. C. Hopkins, U. A. van der Heide, Y. E. Goldman, C. Sabido-David, R. E. Dale, S. Criddle and M. Irving

Discovery of the acoustic Faraday effect in superfluid 3He-B pp. 431-433

Y. Lee, T. M. Haard, W. P. Halperin and J. A. Sauls

Similarities between the growth dynamics of university research and of competitive economic activities pp. 433-437

Vasiliki Plerou, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Martin Meyer and H. Eugene Stanley

Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times pp. 437-440

F. S. Hu, D. Slawinski, H. E. Wright, E. Ito, R. G. Johnson, K. R. Kelts, R. F. McEwan and A. Boedigheimer

Large-scale freshening of intermediate waters in the Pacific and Indian oceans pp. 440-443

Annie P. S. Wong, Nathaniel L. Bindoff and John A. Church

Rigidity variations with depth along interplate megathrust faults in subduction zones pp. 443-446

Susan L. Bilek and Thorne Lay

Missing lithotroph identified as new planctomycete pp. 446-449

Marc Strous, John A. Fuerst, Evelien H. M. Kramer, Susanne Logemann, Gerard Muyzer, Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen, Richard Webb, J. Gijs Kuenen and Mike S. M. Jetten

Sperm competition between Drosophila males involves both displacement and incapacitation pp. 449-452

Catherine S. C. Price, Kelly A. Dyer and Jerry A. Coyne

Vanilloid receptors on sensory nerves mediate the vasodilator action of anandamide pp. 452-457

Peter M. Zygmunt, Jesper Petersson, David A. Andersson, Huai-hu Chuang, Morten Sørgård, Vincenzo Di Marzo, David Julius and Edward D. Högestätt

Munc13-1 is essential for fusion competence of glutamatergic synaptic vesicles pp. 457-461

Iris Augustin, Christian Rosenmund, Thomas C. Südhof and Nils Brose

Cohesin Rec8 is required for reductional chromosome segregation at meiosis pp. 461-464

Yoshinori Watanabe and Paul Nurse

Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements pp. 464-468

William C. Hahn, Christopher M. Counter, Ante S. Lundberg, Roderick L. Beijersbergen, Mary W. Brooks and Robert A. Weinberg

Essential role for oncogenic Ras in tumour maintenance pp. 468-472

Lynda Chin, Alice Tam, Jason Pomerantz, Michelle Wong, Jocelyn Holash, Nabeel Bardeesy, Qiong Shen, Ronan O'Hagan, Joe Pantginis, Hao Zhou, James W. Horner, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, George D. Yancopoulos and Ronald A. DePinho#

Structure of the C-terminal domain of FliG, a component of the rotor in the bacterial flagellar motor pp. 472-475

Scott A. Lloyd, Frank G. Whitby, David F. Blair and Christopher P. Hill

Structure of cytochrome c nitrite reductase pp. 476-480

Oliver Einsle, Albrecht Messerschmidt, Petra Stach, Gleb P. Bourenkov, Hans D. Bartunik, Robert Huber and Peter M. H. Kroneck

Proton translocation by cytochrome c oxidase pp. 480-483

Michael I. Verkhovsky, Audrius Jasaitis, Marina L. Verkhovskaya, Joel E. Morgan and Mårten Wikström

1999, volume 400, articles 6742

US researchers losing battle to hide their data from prying eyes pp. 297-297

Colin Macilwain

Computer upgrade for Canadian science pp. 297-297

David Spurgeon

US sends mixed message in GM debate ⃛ pp. 298-298

Tony Reichhardt

⃛ as questions emerge over cost-effectiveness pp. 298-298

Tony Reichhardt

Germany aims for younger professors pp. 299-299

Alison Abbott

UK physics postdocs turn to jobs in industry pp. 299-299

Heather McCabe

Russian environmental researcher falls foul of security services pp. 300-300

Carl Levitin

Merger of top Californian medical schools turns sour pp. 300-300

Rex Dalton

Britain faces up to transparency review pp. 301-301

Natasha Loder

White House cool on obtaining human embryonic stem cells pp. 301-301

Meredith Wadman

Plan to create agency for US weapons labs under strong criticism pp. 302-302

Colin Macilwain

$3m deal launches major hunt for drug leads in Brazil pp. 302-302

Ricardo Bonalume Neto and David Dickson

Outspoken science minister ousted in reshuffle pp. 302-302

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

Brookhaven's heavy ion collider goes live pp. 303-303

Colin Macilwain

Leading a laboratory out of the mire pp. 303-303

Colin Macilwain

Unfamiliar citations breed mistakes pp. 307-307

Janne S. Kotiaho, Joseph L. Tomkins and Leigh W. Simmons

Ethics of population genomics research pp. 307-308

Jeffrey R. Gulcher and Kari Stefansson

Striking the right note pp. 308-308

Alan Longhurst

Heisenberg, the bomb and the historical record pp. 308-308

Paul Lawrence Rose

Heisenberg, the bomb and the historical record pp. 308-308

Jonothan L. Logan

Strengthening biomedicine's roots pp. 309-310

Ken A. Dill

Speciation without isolation pp. 311-312

Tom Tregenza and Roger K. Butlin

Superhard ceramics pp. 312-313

R. J. Brook

Discriminating migrations pp. 315-316

Pasko Rakic

Big planets and little stars pp. 316-317

James Liebert and William B. Hubbard

Breaking the chain of addiction pp. 317-319

Gary Aston-Jones and Jonathan Druhan

Randomness everywhere pp. 319-320

C. S. Calude and G. J. Chaitin

Fiery compositions pp. 320-320

David Jones

Princess of palaeontology pp. 321-321

Crispin Tickell

Magnet levitation at your fingertips pp. 323-324

A. K. Geim, M. D. Simon, M. I. Boamfa and L. O. Heflinger

Extraocular magnetic compass in newts pp. 324-325

M. E. Deutschlander, S. C. Borland and J. B. Phillips

Dating the origin of HIV-1 subtypes pp. 325-326

Jaap Goudsmit and Vladimir V. Lukashov

Life as we don't know it pp. 327-328

Joseph A. Burns

Under the covers or under a lens pp. 327-327

Carl Djerassi

Energetic Victorians pp. 329-330

John Meurig Thomas

Thinking ahead (and why politicians don't) pp. 330-330

Joseph T. Coyle

Directional guidance of neuronal migration in the olfactory system by the protein Slit pp. 331-336

Wei Wu, Kit Wong, Jin-hui Chen, Zhi-hong Jiang, Sophie Dupuis, Jane Y. Wu and Yi Rao

Reducing vortex density in superconductors using the ‘ratchet effect’ pp. 337-340

C.-S. Lee, B. Jankó, I. Derényi and A.-L. Barabási

Synthesis of cubic silicon nitride pp. 340-342

Andreas Zerr, Gerhard Miehe, George Serghiou, Marcus Schwarz, Edwin Kroke, Ralf Riedel, Hartmut Fueß, Peter Kroll and Reinhard Boehler

Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging of micrometre-sized non-crystalline specimens pp. 342-344

Jianwei Miao, Pambos Charalambous, Janos Kirz and David Sayre

Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes pp. 344-348

D. C. Barber, A. Dyke, C. Hillaire-Marcel, A. E. Jennings, J. T. Andrews, M. W. Kerwin, G. Bilodeau, R. McNeely, J. Southon, M. D. Morehead and J.-M. Gagnon

Asynchronous deposition of ice-rafted layers in the Nordic seas and North Atlantic Ocean pp. 348-351

J. A. Dowdeswell, A. Elverhøi, J. T. Andrews and D. Hebbeln

Interactions among quantitative traits in the course of sympatric speciation pp. 351-354

Alexey S. Kondrashov and Fyodor A. Kondrashov

On the origin of species by sympatric speciation pp. 354-357

Ulf Dieckmann and Michael Doebeli

Environmental determination of a sexually selected trait pp. 358-360

Simon C. Griffith, Ian P. F. Owens and Terry Burke

Neuronal pacemaker for breathing visualized in vitro pp. 360-363

Naohiro Koshiya and Jeffrey C. Smith

Temporal dissociation of parallel processing in the human subcortical outputs pp. 364-367

Yijun Liu, Jia-Hong Gao, Mario Liotti, Yonglin Pu and Peter T. Fox

Sensory experience modifies the short-term dynamics of neocortical synapses pp. 367-371

Gerald T. Finnerty, Langdon S. E. Roberts and Barry W. Connors

Selective inhibition of cocaine-seeking behaviour by a partial dopamine D3 receptor agonist pp. 371-375

Maria Pilla, Sylvie Perachon, FranÇois Sautel, Fabrice Garrido, André Mann, Camille G. Wermuth, Jean-Charles Schwartz, Barry J. Everitt and Pierre Sokoloff

Circadian rhythms in olfactory responses of Drosophila melanogaster pp. 375-378

Balaji Krishnan, Stuart E. Dryer and Paul E. Hardin

Interleukin-4-dependent production of PPAR-γ ligands in macrophages by 12/15-lipoxygenase pp. 378-382

Jannet T. Huang, John S. Welch, Mercedes Ricote, Christoph J. Binder, Timothy M. Willson, Carolyn Kelly, Joseph L. Witztum, Colin D. Funk, Douglas Conrad and Christopher K. Glass

Regulation of cell movement is mediated by stretch-activated calcium channels pp. 382-386

Juliet Lee, Akira Ishihara, Gerry Oxford, Barry Johnson and Ken Jacobson

1999, volume 400, articles 6741

UK spotlight on alternatives to using animals pp. 197-197

Ehsan Masood

Legal bid could extend US animal welfare law to cover lab rodents pp. 197-198

Meredith Wadman

Five young life scientists win $1m no-strings grants pp. 198-198

Colin Macilwain

UK biotech industry aims to clean up its act pp. 198-198

Ehsan Masood

France losing genome race, says report⃛ pp. 199-199

Heather McCabe

⃛ as government announces creation of genome research consortium pp. 199-199

Heather McCabe

Bumpy ride for ‘core e-journals’ project pp. 200-200

Rex Dalton

Critics query financing of proposed ‘E-Biomed’ pp. 200-200

Meredith Wadman

US seeks a big increase in wind power pp. 201-201

Steve Nadis

Mexican project shows that emissions reductions could be traded pp. 201-201

Colin Macilwain

Supernetwork to boost women in science pp. 202-202

Natasha Loder

NASA to visit Mercury and dig into a comet pp. 202-202

Tony Reichhardt

Spanish university sued for advertising posts in August pp. 203-203

Xavier Bosch

Belgian scientist proposed to head EC research directorate pp. 203-203

Natasha Loder

Covert trade in toxic vetch continues pp. 207-207

Max E. Tate, Jane Rathjen, Ian Delaere and Dirk Enneking

Valuable biodiversity data under threat pp. 207-207

Angelo Capparella

Global e-journal must take radical approach pp. 207-207

Lance Sultzbaugh

Charting the shores of nuclear stability pp. 209-210

Neil Rowley

Electrifying diversity pp. 211-213

Michael J. Ryan

Neither straight nor narrow pp. 213-215

Mark Peifer

A box for a single photon pp. 215-217

Philippe Grangier

Monkeys play the odds pp. 217-218

M. James Nichols and William T. Newsome

Crossing over to the dark side pp. 218-218

John Whitfield

We are what we ate pp. 219-220

Bernard Wood and Alison Brooks

Clues to galaxy formation pp. 220-221

J. Bland-Hawthorn

Relating dynamics to function pp. 221-222

Ann Stock

Reason to be cheerful pp. 222-222

David Jones

Too good to be true pp. 223-223

John Maynard Smith

Prions prevent neuronal cell-line death pp. 225-226

Chieko Kuwahara, Alice M. Takeuchi, Takuya Nishimura, Keiko Haraguchi, Atsutaka Kubosaki, Yasunobu Matsumoto, Keiichi Saeki, Yoshitsugu Matsumoto, Takashi Yokoyama, Shigeyoshi Itohara and Takashi Onodera

Breast-cancer diagnosis using hair pp. 226-226

Fatma Briki, Bertrand Busson, Bruno Salicru, François Estève and Jean Doucet

Evolution of cooperation between individuals pp. 226-227

Arnon Lotem, Michael A. Fishman and Lewi Stone

Higher fullerenes in the Allende meteorite pp. 227-228

Luann Becker, Theodore E. Bunch and Louis J. Allamandola

Learning from the rainbow pp. 229-230

Philip Ball

Bedrock of geology pp. 230-231

Paul Lucier

Everyday extinctions in embattled forests pp. 231-232

Norman Myers

Experimenting with drugs pp. 232-232

John Foreman

Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex pp. 233-238

Michael L. Platt and Paul W. Glimcher

Seeing a single photon without destroying it pp. 239-242

G. Nogues, A. Rauschenbeutel, S. Osnaghi, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond and S. Haroche

Synthesis of nuclei of the superheavy element 114 in reactions induced by 48Ca pp. 242-245

Yu. Ts. Oganessian, A. V. Yeremin, A. G. Popeko, S. L. Bogomolov, G. V. Buklanov, M. L. Chelnokov, V. I. Chepigin, B. N. Gikal, V. A. Gorshkov, G. G. Gulbekian, M. G. Itkis, A. P. Kabachenko, A. Yu. Lavrentev, O. N. Malyshev, J. Rohac, R. N. Sagaidak, S. Hofmann, S. Saro, G. Giardina and K. Morita

Observation of negative electron-binding energy in a molecule pp. 245-248

Xue-Bin Wang and Lai-Sheng Wang

Dual modes of the carbon cycle since the Last Glacial Maximum pp. 248-250

H. Jesse Smith, H. Fischer, M. Wahlen, D. Mastroianni and B. Deck

Surface effects of bottom-generated turbulence in a shallow tidal sea pp. 251-254

W. A. M. Nimmo Smith, S. A. Thorpe and A. Graham

Predation enhances complexity in the evolution of electric fish signals pp. 254-256

Philip K. Stoddard

‘Green revolution’ genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators pp. 256-261

Jinrong Peng, Donald E. Richards, Nigel M. Hartley, George P. Murphy, Katrien M. Devos, John E. Flintham, James Beales, Leslie J. Fish, Anthony J. Worland, Fatima Pelica, Duraialagaraja Sudhakar, Paul Christou, John W. Snape, Michael D. Gale and Nicholas P. Harberd

Melanin-concentrating hormone is the cognate ligand for the orphan G-protein-coupled receptor SLC-1 pp. 261-265

Jon Chambers, Robert S. Ames, Derk Bergsma, Alison Muir, Laura R. Fitzgerald, Guillaume Hervieu, George M. Dytko, James J. Foley, John Martin, Wu-Schyong Liu, Janet Park, Catherine Ellis, Subinay Ganguly, Susan Konchar, Jane Cluderay, Ron Leslie, Shelagh Wilson and Henry M. Sarau

Molecular characterization of the melanin-concentrating-hormone receptor pp. 265-269

Yumiko Saito, Hans-Peter Nothacker, Zhiwei Wang, Steven H. S. Lin, Frances Leslie and Olivier Civelli

Therapy of tuberculosis in mice by DNA vaccination pp. 269-271

Douglas B. Lowrie, Ricardo E. Tascon, Vania L. D. Bonato, Valeria M. F. Lima, Lucia H. Faccioli, Evangelos Stavropoulos, M. Joseph Colston, Robert G. Hewinson, Karin Moelling and Celio L. Silva

ovo/svb integrates Wingless and DER pathways to control epidermis differentiation pp. 271-275

FranÇois Payre, Alain Vincent and Sebastien Carreno

The cell-surface proteoglycan Dally regulates Wingless signalling in Drosophila pp. 276-280

Manabu Tsuda, Keisuke Kamimura, Hiroshi Nakato, Michael Archer, William Staatz, Bethany Fox, Melanie Humphrey, Sara Olson, Tracy Futch, Vesna Kaluza, Esther Siegfried, Lynn Stam and Scott B. Selleck

Dally cooperates with Drosophila Frizzled 2 to transduce Wingless signalling pp. 281-284

Xinhua Lin and Norbert Perrimon

The chromatin-specific transcription elongation factor FACT comprises human SPT16 and SSRP1 proteins pp. 284-288

George Orphanides, Wei-Hua Wu, William S. Lane, Michael Hampsey and Danny Reinberg

Millisecond-timescale motions contribute to the function of the bacterial response regulator protein Spo0F pp. 289-293

Victoria A. Feher and John Cavanagh

1999, volume 400, articles 6740

US plans large funding boost to support nanotechnology boom pp. 95-95

Colin Macilwain

India backs World Conference decisions pp. 95-95

K. S. Jayaraman

Protesters seek US ban on embryo stem-cell work⃛ pp. 96-96

Meredith Wadman

⃛as Wisconsin researcher awaits go-ahead pp. 96-96

Meredith Wadman

US universities request special help as visa quota is reached early pp. 96-96

Tony Reichhardt

EMBO backs single electronic repository pp. 97-97

Declan Butler

Commission to report on overhaul for French research structure pp. 97-97

Eric Glover

Job losses feared as UK marine science centre overspends pp. 98-98

Ehsan Masood

Global warming ‘could kill most coral reefs by 2100’ pp. 98-98

Peter Pockley

NIH office plans research on misconduct pp. 99-99

Rex Dalton

NASA axes comet mission as delays to other projects prove costly pp. 99-99

Tony Reichhardt

German agency to boost bioinformatics pp. 102-103

Alison Abbott

European embryology experts offer to advise on ethics of cloning pp. 103-103

Alison Abbott

Tests for BSE evaluated pp. 105-105

Jim Moynagh and Heinz Schimmel

The land of rising science pp. 105-105

G. P. Glasby

Accessibility of information on the web pp. 107-107

Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles

Less expansion, more agreement pp. 111-112

Riccardo Giovanelli

How flies fly pp. 112-113

Robin Wootton

Solving problems in finite time pp. 115-116

Philip W. Anderson

Bonsai flies pp. 115-115

Alison Mitchell

Antibody clears senile plaques pp. 116-117

Peter H. St George-Hyslop and David A. Westaway

Simple metals under pressure pp. 117-119

Richard M. Martin

Ever decreasing circles pp. 119-120

Geoff McFadden

Dirty eating for healthy living pp. 120-121

Jared M. Diamond

Creep and anti-creep pp. 121-121

David Jones

Oleg Ptitsyn (1929-99) pp. 122-122

Christopher M. Dobson and R. John Ellis

Rocketing from the Galaxy Bazaar pp. 123-123

Roddam Narasimha

Mitochondria and germ-cell death pp. 125-126

David C. Krakauer and Alex Mira

Compensation for wind drift by bumble-bees pp. 126-126

J. R. Riley, D. R. Reynolds, A. D. Smith, A. S. Edwards, J. L. Osborne, I. H. Williams and H. A. McCartney

Origin of life from apatite dating? pp. 127-127

Yuji Sano, Kentaro Terada, Yoshio Takahashi and Allen P. Nutman

Origin of life from apatite dating? pp. 127-128

S. J. Mojzsis, T. M. Harrison, G. Arrhenius, K. D. McKeegan and M. Grove

Nicotine withdrawal and road accidents pp. 128-128

Jackie Knowles

Deviating from the line pp. 129-130

Karl Sigmund

When ideas become tollbooths pp. 130-131

A. P. Simonds

Dos and don'ts, whys and wherefores pp. 131-132

Ruth Mace

Sensation and explanation pp. 132-132

John C. Marshall

Determining computational complexity from characteristic ‘phase transitions’ pp. 133-137

Rémi Monasson, Riccardo Zecchina, Scott Kirkpatrick, Bart Selman and Lidror Troyansky

A confirmed location in the Galactic halo for the high-velocity cloud ‘chain A’ pp. 138-141

Hugo van Woerden, Ulrich J. Schwarz, Reynier F. Peletier, Bart P. Wakker and Peter M. W. Kalberla

Pairing in dense lithium pp. 141-144

J. B. Neaton and N. W. Ashcroft

Observation of shell structure in sodium nanowires pp. 144-146

A. I. Yanson, I. K. Yanson and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Chain conformation in ultrathin polymer films pp. 146-149

Ronald L. Jones, Sanat K. Kumar, Derek L. Ho, Robert M. Briber and Thomas P. Russell

Influence of snowfall and melt timing on tree growth in subarctic Eurasia pp. 149-151

E. A. Vaganov, M. K. Hughes, A. V. Kirdyanov, F. H. Schweingruber and P. P. Silkin

Nitrogen oxide emissions after nitrogen additions in tropical forests pp. 152-155

Sharon J. Hall and Pamela A. Matson

Single gene circles in dinoflagellate chloroplast genomes pp. 155-159

Zhaoduo Zhang, B. R. Green and T. Cavalier-Smith

Chlorophyll b and phycobilins in the common ancestor of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts pp. 159-162

Akiko Tomitani, Kiyotaka Okada, Hideaki Miyashita, Hans C. P. Matthijs, Terufumi Ohno and Ayumi Tanaka

Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans pp. 162-166

Brigitte Röder, Wolfgang Teder-Sälejärvi, Anette Sterr, Frank Rösler, Steven A. Hillyard and Helen J. Neville

Distortion of proximodistal information causes JNK-dependent apoptosis in Drosophila wing pp. 166-169

Takashi Adachi-Yamada, Konomi Fujimura-Kamada, Yasuyoshi Nishida and Kunihiro Matsumoto

The mPer2 gene encodes a functional component of the mammalian circadian clock pp. 169-173

Binhai Zheng, David W. Larkin, Urs Albrecht, Zhong Sheng Sun, Marijke Sage, Gregor Eichele, Cheng Chi Lee and Allan Bradley

Immunization with amyloid-β attenuates Alzheimer-disease-like pathology in the PDAPP mouse pp. 173-177

Dale Schenk, Robin Barbour, Whitney Dunn, Grace Gordon, Henry Grajeda, Teresa Guido, Kang Hu, Jiping Huang, Kelly Johnson-Wood, Karen Khan, Dora Kholodenko, Mike Lee, Zhenmei Liao, Ivan Lieberburg, Ruth Motter, Linda Mutter, Ferdie Soriano, George Shopp, Nicki Vasquez, Christopher Vandevert, Shannan Walker, Mark Wogulis, Ted Yednock, Dora Games and Peter Seubert

Generation of GTP-bound Ran by RCC1 is required for chromatin-induced mitotic spindle formation pp. 178-181

Rafael E. Carazo-Salas, Giulia Guarguaglini, Oliver J. Gruss, Alexandra Segref, Eric Karsenti and Iain W. Mattaj

Orientation of DNA replication establishes mating-type switching pattern in S. pombe pp. 181-184

Jacob Z. Dalgaard and Amar J. S. Klar

Single kinesin molecules studied with a molecular force clamp pp. 184-189

Koen Visscher, Mark J. Schnitzer and Steven M. Block

1999, volume 400, articles 6739

Sweden sets ethical standards for use of genetic ‘biobanks’ pp. 3-3

Alison Abbott

Expert group to look at UK cloning law ⃛ pp. 4-4

Ehsan Masood

⃛ as US DNA advisory body redefines itself pp. 4-4

Meredith Wadman

Vast database offers vision of biodiversity pp. 5-5

Heather McCabe

US ‘wastes vital time’ as climate-change minority sows confusion pp. 5-5

Meredith Wadman

Congress threat to technology transfer pp. 6-6

Rex Dalton

Japan to launch ambitious genome project pp. 6-6

Asako Saegusa

Reactor may switch to low-grade uranium pp. 7-7

Quirin Schiermeier

European Union tightens GMO regulations pp. 7-7

Heather McCabe and Declan Butler

Academies call for ban on patenting agricultural life forms pp. 8-8

Ehsan Masood

Islamic nations set themselves tough target for science budgets pp. 8-8

Ehsan Masood

Debt relief cash ‘should be spent on a fund for science’ pp. 8-8

Ehsan Masood

Research ‘must aid fight against poverty’ pp. 9-9

Ehsan Masood

Young scientists seek help from Unesco pp. 9-9

Natasha Loder

Secondary metabolism and the risks of GMOs pp. 13-14

Richard D. Firn and Clive G. Jones

Weathering a storm of global statistics pp. 13-13

Kelly Sponberg

Colonial adventures pp. 13-13

Michael A. G. Michaud

Modern museums are far from fossilized pp. 13-13

James Hanken

Making sense of GM tomatoes pp. 14-14

Simon Bright and Wolfgang Schuch

Winners and losers in Framework programme pp. 14-14

Carlos M. Duarte and Maria-José Delgado

Why Africa needs agricultural biotech pp. 15-16

Florence Wambugu

Taking stock of new flavours pp. 17-18

Harold McGee

A century of zero expansion pp. 18-19

Peter Mohn

A snip separates sisters pp. 19-21

Andrew Murray

And you're glue pp. 21-22

Frank Wilczek

A refugium for relicts pp. 23-25

Zhexi Luo

Tying the conductor's arms pp. 25-26

Michael F. Good

Virtual overpopulation pp. 26-26

David Jones

The inventor of modern science pp. 27-27

Freeman J. Dyson

Genetic link to cervical tumours pp. 29-30

Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Pär Sparén and Ulf B. Gyllensten

Isochores result from mutation not selection pp. 30-31

M. Pilar Francino and Howard Ochman

Periodicity in marine phosphorus burial rate pp. 31-32

R. K. Tiwari and K. N. N. Rao

Life-sustaining planets in interstellar space? pp. 32-32

David J. Stevenson

At the third stroke, the time will be 2300 pp. 33-33

John L. Casti

Wise old wives pp. 33-34

Rima D. Apple

How far the stars? pp. 34-35

Virginia Trimble

Sustaining hopes for change pp. 35-36

Peter Doran

Science in culture pp. 36-36

Martin Kemp

Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase onset is promoted by cleavage of the cohesin subunit Scc1 pp. 37-42

Frank Uhlmann, Friedrich Lottspeich and Kim Nasmyth

Spin gap and magnetic coherence in a clean high-temperature superconductor pp. 43-46

B. Lake, G. Aeppli, T. E. Mason, A. Schröder, D. F. McMorrow, K. Lefmann, M. Isshiki, M. Nohara, H. Takagi and S. M. Hayden

Origin of the Invar effect in iron–nickel alloys pp. 46-49

Mark van Schilfgaarde, I. A. Abrikosov and B. Johansson

Confinement-induced miscibility in polymer blends pp. 49-51

S. Zhu, Y. Liu, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. Gersappe, D. A. Winesett and H. Ade

Spontaneous assembly of ten components into two interlocked, identical coordination cages pp. 52-55

Makoto Fujita, Norifumi Fujita, Katsuyuki Ogura and Kentaro Yamaguchi

Rapid accumulation and turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest pp. 56-58

Daniel D. Richter, Daniel Markewitz, Susan E. Trumbore and Carol G. Wells

Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China pp. 58-61

Carl C. Swisher, Yuan-qing Wang, Xiao-lin Wang, Xing Xu and Yuan Wang

Hydrologically defined niches reveal a basis for species richness in plant communities pp. 61-63

Jonathan Silvertown, Mike E. Dodd, David J. G. Gowing and J. Owen Mountford

Ectoparasite infestation and sex-biased local recruitment of hosts pp. 63-65

Philipp Heeb, Isabelle Werner, A. C. Mateman, Mathias Kölliker, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, C. M. Lessells and Heinz Richner

Motion streaks provide a spatial code for motion direction pp. 65-69

Wilson S. Geisler

Mox2 is a component of the genetic hierarchy controlling limb muscle development pp. 69-73

Baljinder S. Mankoo, Nina S. Collins, Peter Ashby, Elena Grigorieva, Larysa H. Pevny, Albert Candia, Christopher V. E. Wright, Peter W. J. Rigby and Vassilis Pachnis

Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes modulate the maturation of dendritic cells pp. 73-77

Britta C. Urban, David J. P. Ferguson, Arnab Pain, Nick Willcox, Magdalena Plebanski, Jonathan M. Austyn and David J. Roberts

Eph receptors and ephrins restrict cell intermingling and communication pp. 77-81

Georg Mellitzer, Qiling Xu and David G. Wilkinson

DNA-dependent protein kinase is not required for the p53-dependent response to DNA damage pp. 81-83

Gretchen S. Jimenez, Fredrik Bryntesson, Maria I. Torres-Arzayus, Anne Priestley, Michelle Beeche, Shin'ichi Saito, Kazuyasu Sakaguchi, Ettore Appella, Penny A. Jeggo, Guillermo E. Taccioli, Geoffrey M. Wahl and Michael Hubank

DNA protection by stress-induced biocrystallization pp. 83-85

Sharon G. Wolf, Daphna Frenkiel, Talmon Arad, Steven E. Finkel, Roberto Kolter and Abraham Minsky

Solution structure of the catalytic domain of GCN5 histone acetyltransferase bound to coenzyme A pp. 86-89

Yingxi Lin, C. Mark Fletcher, Jianxin Zhou, C. David Allis and Gerhard Wagner

Erratum: The CED-4-homologous protein FLASH is involved in Fas-mediated activation of caspase-8 during apoptosis pp. 89-89

Yuzuru Imai, Takaharu Kimura, Akira Murakami, Nobuyuki Yajima, Kazuhiro Sakamaki and Shin Yonehara

Correction: Structural basis for initiation of transcription from an RNA polymerase–promoter complex pp. 89-89

Graham M. T. Cheetham, David Jeruzalmi and Thomas A. Steitz