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1999, volume 399, articles 6738

New order from neurological disorders pp. A3-A5

Donald L. Price

The changing landscape of ischaemic brain injury mechanisms pp. A7-A14

Jin-Moo Lee, Gregory J. Zipfel and Dennis W. Choi

Emerging insights into the genesis of epilepsy pp. A15-A22

James O. McNamara

Translating cell biology into therapeutic advances in Alzheimer's disease pp. A23-A31

Dennis J. Selkoe

Prospects for new restorative and neuroprotective treatments in Parkinson's disease pp. A32-A39

Stephen B. Dunnett and Anders Björklund

Progress in determining the causes and treatment of multiple sclerosis pp. A40-A47

John H. Noseworthy

G8 leaders seek study on effects of biotech pp. 717-717

Ehsan Masood

Gore under fire in controversy over South Africa AIDS drug law pp. 717-718

Meredith Wadman

Chlorine industry says EPA rules ignore good science pp. 718-718

Tony Reichhardt

Wellcome Trust boosts researchers' pay pp. 719-719

Natasha Loder

Japan tightens rules on GM crops to protect the environment pp. 719-719

Asako Saegusa

Urgent talks follow damning report on US weapons labs pp. 720-720

Wil Lepkowski

Varmus defends plan for global biomedical e-journal pp. 720-720

Meredith Wadman

One-stop shop for 200 life science journals pp. 720-720

Declan Butler

Compromise sought on ‘Terminator’⃛ pp. 721-721

Ehsan Masood

⃛as academies meet to plan a global approach pp. 721-721

Ehsan Masood

Five bid to host Middle East synchrotron pp. 722-722

Heather McCabe

Israel ‘must relax technology transfer law’ pp. 722-722

Haim Watzman

Researcher fights suspension over funds pp. 723-723

Rex Dalton

First-born telescopic twin starts to deliver pp. 723-723

Natasha Loder

Farm-scale evaluation of GM crops explained pp. 727-728

L. G. Firbank, A. M. Dewar, M. O. Hill, M. J. May, J. N. Perry, P. Rothery, G. R. Squire and I. P. Woiwod

Devolution threat to decision-making pp. 727-727

Sir Ian Lloyd

Bioethicists must come down to Earth pp. 728-728

Lee M. Silver

Barking up the wrong pole pp. 728-728

Austin Mardon

Let's all speak the same language pp. 728-728

D. A. H. Taylor

German researchers won't be put in the dock pp. 728-728

Wolfgang Apel

The end of the road for silicon? pp. 729-730

Max Schulz

Size doesn't matter pp. 730-731

Mark Q. Martindale and Matthew J. Kourakis

Unmixing Hawaiian cocktails pp. 733-734

Alex N. Halliday

A bigger Hockney pp. 734-734

Tim Lincoln

DNA damage enables p73 pp. 735-737

Eileen White and Carol Prives

No sex please, we're fungi pp. 737-738

Ian R. Sanders

Polar endeavours pp. 738-738

Timothy D. Swindle

Pinning down phosphorylated tau pp. 739-740

Michel Goedert

Metallic compost pp. 740-740

David Jones

Menstrual cycle alters face preference pp. 741-742

I. S. Penton-Voak, D. I. Perrett, D. L. Castles, T. Kobayashi, D. M. Burt, L. K. Murray and R. Minamisawa

Limbs move beyond the Radical fringe pp. 742-743

Jennifer L. Moran, John M. Levorse and Thomas F. Vogt

Limbs move beyond the Radical fringe pp. 743-743

Nian Zhang and Thomas Gridley

Risk of collisions for constellation satellites pp. 743-743

A. Rossi, G. B. Valsecchi and P. Farinella

When the means do not justify the end pp. 745-745

Eörs Szathmáry

This passion of our kind pp. 745-746

Lucia Galli-Resta

Ditties of the fragile and the inscrutable pp. 746-747

Christopher Longuet-Higgins

The world as a patchwork pp. 747-747

Camille Parmesan

Taking a gender tiger by the tail pp. 747-748

Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold

Science in culture pp. 748-748

John Maddox

A record of atmospheric halocarbons during the twentieth century from polar firn air pp. 749-755

James H. Butler, Mark Battle, Michael L. Bender, Stephen A. Montzka, Andrew D. Clarke, Eric S. Saltzman, Cara M. Sucher, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus and James W. Elkins

Understanding the valency of rare earths from first-principles theory pp. 756-758

P. Strange, A. Svane, W. M. Temmerman, Z. Szotek and H. Winter

The electronic structure at the atomic scale of ultrathin gate oxides pp. 758-761

D. A. Muller, T. Sorsch, S. Moccio, F. H. Baumann, K. Evans-Lutterodt and G. Timp

Molecular mechanistic origin of the toughness of natural adhesives, fibres and composites pp. 761-763

Bettye L. Smith, Tilman E. Schäffer, Mario Viani, James B. Thompson, Neil A. Frederick, Johannes Kindt, Angela Belcher, Galen D. Stucky, Daniel E. Morse and Paul K. Hansma

Chiral nematic order in liquid crystals imposed by an engineered inorganic nanostructure pp. 764-766

K. Robbie, D. J. Broer and M. J. Brett

A reversibly antigen-responsive hydrogel pp. 766-769

Takashi Miyata, Noriko Asami and Tadashi Uragami

The use of path integration to guide route learning in ants pp. 769-772

B. Schatz, S. Chameron, G. Beugnon and T. S. Collett

Hox genes in brachiopods and priapulids and protostome evolution pp. 772-776

Renaud de Rosa, Jennifer K. Grenier, Tatiana Andreeva, Charles E. Cook, André Adoutte, Michael Akam, Sean B. Carroll and Guillaume Balavoine

A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia pp. 776-781

Ruben Vidal, Blas Frangione, Agueda Rostagno, Simon Mead, Tamas Révész, Gordon Plant and Jorge Ghiso

Human theta oscillations exhibit task dependence during virtual maze navigation pp. 781-784

Michael J. Kahana, Robert Sekuler, Jeremy B. Caplan, Matthew Kirschen and Joseph R. Madsen

The prolyl isomerase Pin1 restores the function of Alzheimer-associated phosphorylated tau protein pp. 784-788

Pei-Jung Lu, Gerburg Wulf, Xiao Zhen Zhou, Peter Davies and Kun Ping Lu

Characterization of the human cysteinyl leukotriene CysLT1 receptor pp. 789-793

Kevin R. Lynch, Gary P. O'Neill, Qingyun Liu, Dong-Soon Im, Nicole Sawyer, Kathleen M. Metters, Nathalie Coulombe, Mark Abramovitz, David J. Figueroa, Zhizhen Zeng, Brett M. Connolly, Chang Bai, Christopher P. Austin, Anne Chateauneuf, Rino Stocco, Gillian M. Greig, Stacia Kargman, Shelley B. Hooks, Elizabeth Hosfield, David L. Williams, Anthony W. Ford-Hutchinson, C. Thomas Caskey and Jilly F. Evans

MAP kinase and Wnt pathways converge to downregulate an HMG-domain repressor in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 793-797

Marc D. Meneghini, Tohru Ishitani, J. Clayton Carter, Naoki Hisamoto, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Christopher J. Thorpe, Danielle R. Hamill, Kunihiro Matsumoto and Bruce Bowerman

The TAK1–NLK–MAPK-related pathway antagonizes signalling between β-catenin and transcription factor TCF pp. 798-802

Tohru Ishitani, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Shin-ichi Nagai, Michiru Nishita, Marc Meneghini, Nick Barker, Marian Waterman, Bruce Bowerman, Hans Clevers, Hiroshi Shibuya and Kunihiro Matsumoto

TRA-1 regulates the cellular distribution of the tra-2 mRNA in C. elegans pp. 802-805

L. E. Graves, S. Segal and E. B. Goodwin

The tyrosine kinase c-Abl regulates p73 in apoptotic response to cisplatin-induced DNA damage pp. 806-809

JianGen Gong, Antonio Costanzo, Hong-Qiong Yang, Gerry Melino, William G. Kaelin, Massimo Levrero and Jean Y. J. Wang

Interaction of c-Abl and p73α and their collaboration to induce apoptosis pp. 809-813

Reuven Agami, Giovanni Blandino, Moshe Oren and Yosef Shaul

p73 is regulated by tyrosine kinase c-Abl in the apoptotic response to DNA damage pp. 814-817

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

Erratum: p73 is a human p53-related protein that can induce apoptosis pp. 817-817

Christine A. Jost, Maria C. Marin and William G. Kaelin

Industry beckons Benelux's brightest pp. 819-820

Quirin Schiermeier

Belgian biotech boom brings skill shortage pp. 820-820

Quirin Schiermeier

1999, volume 399, articles 6737

Senate seeks $750m for NIH to rebuild ageing biomedical labs pp. 621-621

Meredith Wadman

Teams work elbow to elbow in cramped labs pp. 621-621

Meredith Wadman

UK to help fund US laser fusion research pp. 622-622

Rex Dalton

DFG urges Germany to boost its spending on genome research pp. 622-622

Quirin Schiermeier

Markl warns Germany not to reduce budget increase pp. 623-623

Quirin Schiermeier

Referee quits journal over price rise as library faces cutbacks pp. 623-623

Declan Butler

Japan may lift industry-academy barrier pp. 624-624

Asako Saegusa

South African government seeks reassurances on AIDS initiative pp. 624-624

Michael Cherry

Congress limits moratorium on lab visits pp. 625-625

Meredith Wadman

Energy secretary reassures Asian Americans pp. 625-625

Rex Dalton

Patent on umbilical-cord cells rejected in Europe⃛ pp. 626-626

Declan Butler

⃛ as US bid to patent human-animal hybrid fails pp. 626-626

David Dickson

US agency seeks to boost funds for basic research in Russia pp. 626-626

Tony Reichhardt

Prance leaves Kew rooted in the present pp. 627-627

Ehsan Masood

Proposed GMO rules lack scientific sense pp. 631-632

Henry I. Miller

Latin America and the Dracula problem pp. 631-631

Antonio Lazcano

Speaking up for our Japanese colleagues pp. 631-631

Kathy Weston

Extinction needn't be for ever pp. 631-631

K. P. Rajesh and P. V. Madhusoodanan

Others should follow the US line on bioweapons pp. 632-632

D. A. Henderson

There's still a place for physics out west pp. 632-632

Philip L. Dubois and Tom Buchanan

There's still a place for physics out west pp. 632-632

Tony Reichhardt

Scientific societies build better nations pp. 633-633

Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam

Cultural primatology comes of age pp. 635-636

Frans B. M. de Waal

Picking a winner pp. 636-637

Roger Sheldon

Crystals to order pp. 637-637

Sarah Tomlin

Variants on a theme pp. 639-640

Richard D. Wood

Putting the CO in coma pp. 640-641

Jacques Crovisier

Turning a corner in vision research pp. 641-643

Ulf Eysel

Sugars out in the open pp. 644-645

Ole Hindsgaul

Decoding the Reelin signal pp. 645-646

Isabelle Bar and André M. Goffinet

Total digital recall pp. 646-646

David Jones

Visual kin recognition in chimpanzees pp. 647-648

Lisa A. Parr and Frans B. M. de Waal

The oldest fossil ascomycetes pp. 648-648

T. N. Taylor, H. Hass and H. Kerp

Is there solar argon in the Earth's mantle? pp. 649-650

Joachim Kunz

Singing and hearing in a Tertiary bushcricket pp. 650-650

Jes Rust, Andreas Stumpner and Jochen Gottwald

A user's guide to two minutes of totality pp. 651-652

Jay M. Pasachoff

An awkward dinner guest pp. 652-652

Jeffrey Gray

A theory that's hard to digest pp. 653-653

Christophe Boesch

Courting success for the future pp. 653-654

Calestous Juma

Topography of contextual modulations mediated by short-range interactions in primary visual cortex pp. 655-661

Aniruddha Das and Charles D. Gilbert

Identification of two sources of carbon monoxide in comet Hale–Bopp pp. 662-665

Michael A. DiSanti, Michael J. Mumma, Neil Dello Russo, Karen Magee-Sauer, Robert Novak and Terrence W. Rettig

Collective and plastic vortex motion in superconductors at high flux densities pp. 665-668

A. M. Troyanovski, J. Aarts and P. H. Kes

Full sintering of powdered-metal bodies in a microwave field pp. 668-670

Rustum Roy, Dinesh Agrawal, Jiping Cheng and Shalva Gedevanishvili

Laboratory evolution of peroxide-mediated cytochrome P450 hydroxylation pp. 670-673

Hyun Joo, Zhanglin Lin and Frances H. Arnold

Reassessment of ice-age cooling of the tropical ocean and atmosphere pp. 673-676

S. W. Hostetler and A. C. Mix

Gold concentrations of magmatic brines and the metal budget of porphyry copper deposits pp. 676-679

T. Ulrich, D. Günther and C. A. Heinrich

A diapsid skull in a new species of the primitive bird Confuciusornis pp. 679-682

Lianhai Hou, Larry D. Martin, Zhonghe Zhou, Alan Feduccia and Fucheng Zhang

Cultures in chimpanzees pp. 682-685

A. Whiten, J. Goodall, W. C. McGrew, T. Nishida, V. Reynolds, Y. Sugiyama, C. E. G. Tutin, R. W. Wrangham and C. Boesch

Jasmonate-inducible plant defences cause increased parasitism of herbivores pp. 686-688

Jennifer S. Thaler

Auditory cortical responses in the cat to sounds that produce spatial illusions pp. 688-691

Li Xu, Shigeto Furukawa and John C. Middlebrooks

The SIL gene is required for mouse embryonic axial development and left–right specification pp. 691-694

Shai Izraeli, Linda A. Lowe, Virginia L. Bertness, Deborah J. Good, David W. Dorward, Ilan R. Kirsch and Michael R. Kuehn

Regions of variant histone His2AvD required for Drosophila development pp. 694-697

Michael John Clarkson, Julian R. E. Wells, Frank Gibson, Robert Saint and David John Tremethick

G-protein-coupled receptor heterodimerization modulates receptor function pp. 697-700

Bryen A. Jordan and Lakshmi A. Devi

The XPV (xeroderma pigmentosum variant) gene encodes human DNA polymerase η pp. 700-704

Chikahide Masutani, Rika Kusumoto, Ayumi Yamada, Naoshi Dohmae, Masayuki Yokoi, Mayumi Yuasa, Marito Araki, Shigenori Iwai, Koji Takio and Fumio Hanaoka

A specific partner for abasic damage in DNA pp. 704-708

Tracy J. Matray and Eric T. Kool

Basis for recognition of cisplatin-modified DNA by high-mobility-group proteins pp. 708-712

Uta-Maria Ohndorf, Mark A. Rould, Qing He, Carl O. Pabo and Stephen J. Lippard

1999, volume 399, articles 6736

Middle East synchrotron facility could bring regional cooperation pp. 507-508

Ehsan Masood

Pakistan prime minister pledges science boost pp. 507-507

Ehsan Masood

Biotech panel set up in US may help allay public fears pp. 508-508

Tony Reichhardt

German plan to curb rise in research funds pp. 508-508

Quirin Schiermeier

NASA tells physicists to aim for the stars pp. 509-509

Colin Macilwain

Varmus relaunches NIH degree proposal pp. 509-509

Meredith Wadman

Lawton named head of UK environment research agency pp. 510-510

Ehsan Masood

French research boosted by grants run by ministries pp. 510-510

Eric Glover

Funds promised for South African telescope pp. 510-510

Michael Cherry

Japan seeks targeted science funding ⃛ pp. 511-511

Asako Saegusa

⃛ and to use external scrutiny to increase competitiveness at universities pp. 511-511

Asako Saegusa

US jury split over hormone patent case ⃛ pp. 512-512

Rex Dalton

⃛ as Seeburg faces misconduct inquiry pp. 512-512

Alison Abbott

Astronomers win satellite phone curb⃛ pp. 513-513

Alison Abbott

⃛ and plan for talks on sharing the spectrum pp. 513-513

Alison Abbott

Data rescue fills in the climate record pp. 518-518

Tony Reichhardt

Catalogue of life could become reality pp. 519-519

Tony Reichhardt

Reaching for the digital sky pp. 520-520

Tony Reichhardt

Exploitation of junior scientists must end pp. 521-521

Troy Shinbrot

Lifting the lid on the homeobox discovery pp. 521-521

Walter Gehring

Lifting the lid on the homeobox discovery pp. 521-522

William McGinnis and Peter Lawrence

Longevity — does family size matter? pp. 522-522

Toon Ligtenberg and Henk Brand

Longevity — does family size matter? pp. 522-522

R. G. J. Westendorp and T. B. L. Kirkwood

City dwellers must share blame on biodiversity pp. 522-522

A. J. Murdoch

Biblical answer to cooking up pi pp. 522-522

Kevin Peil

Shifting seas in the greenhouse? pp. 523-524

Stefan Rahmstorf

A vancomycin surprise pp. 525-527

Michael S. Gilmore and James A. Hoch

Cohabitation in the cuprates pp. 527-528

Arthur P. Ramirez

Woodpecker population drills pp. 528-529

Peter D. Moore

Phases of resistance pp. 529-531

Peter Littlewood

Looking out for memory T cells pp. 531-532

Benedita Rocha

Drawn from life pp. 532-532

David Jones

Hiding messages in DNA microdots pp. 533-534

Catherine Taylor Clelland, Viviana Risca and Carter Bancroft

Neurochemicals aid bee nestmate recognition pp. 534-535

Gene E. Robinson, Laura M. Heuser, Yves LeConte, Frederic Lenquette and Robert M. Hollingworth

Parameters for global ecosystem models pp. 535-535

Paul J. Crutzen, Ray Fall, Ian Galbally and Werner Lindinger

Parameters for global ecosystem models pp. 535-536

Leif Schulman, Kalle Ruokolainen and Hanna Tuomisto

Parameters for global ecosystem models pp. 536-536

Hanqin Tian, Jerry M. Melillo, David W. Kicklighter, A. David McGuire, Berrien Moore and Charles J. Vörösmarty

Apes and their place in our world pp. 537-537

Mary Midgley

Telling it like it was pp. 538-538

Peter T. Landsberg

Explosion of interest pp. 538-539

Martin Rudwick

From tulips to electric cars pp. 539-540

Patrick Tabeling

Stumbling about the world of little things pp. 540-540

Martin Wells

Marine viruses and their biogeochemical and ecological effects pp. 541-548

Jed A. Fuhrman

Structural basis of procaspase-9 recruitment by the apoptotic protease-activating factor 1 pp. 549-557

Hongxu Qin, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Geng Wu, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Emad S. Alnemri and Yigong Shi

Detection of an impact-generated dust cloud around Ganymede pp. 558-560

Harald Krüger, Alexander V. Krivov, Douglas P. Hamilton and Eberhard Grün

Percolative phase separation underlies colossal magnetoresistance in mixed-valent manganites pp. 560-563

M. Uehara, S. Mori, C. H. Chen and S.-W. Cheong

Dynamics of individual flexible polymers in a shear flow pp. 564-566

Philip LeDuc, Charbel Haber, Gang Bao and Denis Wirtz

Tuning bilayer twist using chiral counterions pp. 566-569

R. Oda, I. Huc, M. Schmutz, S. J. Candau and F. C. MacKintosh

Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface pp. 569-572

Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram and John F. B. Mitchell

Changing spatial structure of the thermohaline circulation in response to atmospheric CO2 forcing in a climate model pp. 572-575

Richard A. Wood, Ann B. Keen, John F. B. Mitchell and Jonathan M. Gregory

Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex pp. 575-579

Stefan Treue and Julio C. Martínez Trujillo

Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming pp. 579-583

Camille Parmesan, Nils Ryrholm, Constantí Stefanescu, Jane K. Hill, Chris D. Thomas, Henri Descimon, Brian Huntley, Lauri Kaila, Jaakko Kullberg, Toomas Tammaru, W. John Tennent, Jeremy A. Thomas and Martin Warren

Assignment of circadian function for the Neurospora clock gene frequency pp. 584-586

Martha Merrow, Michael Brunner and Till Roenneberg

Control of organ shape by a secreted metalloprotease in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 586-590

Robert Blelloch and Judith Kimble

Emergence of vancomycin tolerance in Streptococcus pneumoniae pp. 590-593

R. Novak, B. Henriques, E. Charpentier, S. Normark and E. Tuomanen

Modelling T-cell memory by genetic marking of memory T cells in vivo pp. 593-597

Joshy Jacob and David Baltimore

Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt pp. 597-601

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

Activation of nitric oxide synthase in endothelial cells by Akt-dependent phosphorylation pp. 601-605

Stefanie Dimmeler, Ingrid Fleming, Beate Fisslthaler, Corinna Hermann, Rudi Busse and Andreas M. Zeiher

Enhancement of TBP binding by activators and general transcription factors pp. 605-609

Xiao-Yong Li, Amy Virbasius, Xiaochuan Zhu and Michael R. Green

Binding of TBP to promoters in vivo is stimulated by activators and requires Pol II holoenzyme pp. 609-613

Laurent Kuras and Kevin Struhl

1999, volume 399, articles 6735

German research bodies urged to open up more to new ideas pp. 395-396

Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier

US labs braced for anti-spying legislation pp. 395-395

Colin Macilwain

Proceed with caution, says UK report on ethics of GM foods pp. 396-396

David Dickson

US Senate gets tough on animal activists pp. 397-397

Meredith Wadman

San Francisco scientists hit by growing protests pp. 397-397

Meredith Wadman

‘Frontiers’ grants count cost of success pp. 398-398

Alison Abbott and Asako Saegusa

Californian grad students vote to unionize pp. 399-399

Rex Dalton

Reprieve for neutron project in Congress pp. 399-399

Colin Macilwain

Spanish council quizzed on recruits ⃛ pp. 400-400

Xavier Bosch

⃛ as physicist's complaints hit their mark pp. 400-400

Xavier Bosch

Canadian institute seeks to secure its financial future pp. 401-401

Colin Macilwain

Cautionary tale on safety of GM crops pp. 405-405

John E. Beringer

Plant DNA patents in the hands of a few pp. 405-406

S. M. Thomas, M. Brady and J. F. Burke

Papers should spell out authors' roles pp. 406-406

A. Zyzik and T. Goldmann

Scientists must bridge the communication gap pp. 406-406

Nick Battey and Pablo Jensen

Deer destiny determined by density pp. 407-408

Andrew Cockburn

Glowing developments pp. 409-411

Karl Ziemelis

Key to the mitochondrial gate pp. 411-412

Jean-Claude Martinou

Cornucopia of ice core results pp. 412-413

Bernhard Stauffer

Closing the joint pp. 413-415

John M. Coffin and Naomi Rosenberg

Chaperonin camouflage pp. 415-415

Mark Gibbs

Sunny side of global warming pp. 416-417

E. N. Parker

Tunnel vision pp. 417-418

Dagmar Ringe and Gregory A. Petsko

The neocortex comes together pp. 418-419

Jon H. Kaas and Anton Reiner

Play it again, Sam pp. 419-419

David Jones

Arthur Schawlow (1921-99) pp. 420-420

Charles H. Townes

Orchid pollination by sexual swindle pp. 421-421

Florian P. Schiestl, Manfred Ayasse, Hannes F. Paulus, Christer Löfstedt, Bill S. Hansson, Fernando Ibarra and Wittko Francke

Fractal analysis of Pollock's drip paintings pp. 422-422

Richard P. Taylor, Adam P. Micolich and David Jonas

Release from inhibition reveals the visual past pp. 422-422

T. R. Vidyasagar, P. Buzás, Z. F. Kisvárday and U. T. Eysel

Climate change related to egg-laying trends pp. 423-423

Humphrey Q. P. Crick and Timothy H. Sparks

Captain, art thou sleeping there below? pp. 425-426

Alan Longhurst

Firing up the power plant in our heads pp. 426-427

Bob Martin

The feelgood factor pp. 427-427

John Galloway

Science in culture pp. 428-428

Martin Kemp

Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica pp. 429-436

J. R. Petit, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, N. I. Barkov, J.-M. Barnola, I. Basile, M. Bender, J. Chappellaz, M. Davis, G. Delaygue, M. Delmotte, V. M. Kotlyakov, M. Legrand, V. Y. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, L. PÉpin, C. Ritz, E. Saltzman and M. Stievenard

A doubling of the Sun's coronal magnetic field during the past 100 years pp. 437-439

M. Lockwood, R. Stamper and M. N. Wild

Origin of high critical currents in YBa2Cu3O7−δ superconducting thin films pp. 439-442

B. Dam, J. M. Huijbregtse, F. C. Klaassen, R. C. F. van der Geest, G. Doornbos, J. H. Rector, A. M. Testa, S. Freisem, J. C. Martinez, B. Stäuble-Pümpin and R. Griessen

Recovery of surfaces from impurity poisoning during crystal growth pp. 442-445

Terry A. Land, Tracie L. Martin, Sergey Potapenko, G. Tayhas Palmore and James J. De Yoreo

Tying a molecular knot with optical tweezers pp. 446-448

Yasuharu Arai, Ryohei Yasuda, Ken-ichirou Akashi, Yoshie Harada, Hidetake Miyata, Kazuhiko Kinosita and Hiroyasu Itoh

Memory of macromolecular helicity assisted by interaction with achiral small molecules pp. 449-451

Eiji Yashima, Katsuhiro Maeda and Yoshio Okamoto

Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing pp. 452-455

Drew T. Shindell, Ron L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt and Lionel Pandolfo

Diamonds in volcaniclastic komatiite from French Guiana pp. 456-458

Ramon Capdevila, Nicholas Arndt, Jacques Letendre and Jean-FranÇois Sauvage

Population density affects sex ratio variation in red deer pp. 459-461

Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Steve D. Albon, Josephine M. Pemberton and Fiona E. Guinness

Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics pp. 461-465

Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Ary L. Goldberger, Shlomo Havlin, Michael G. Rosenblum, Zbigniew R. Struzik and H. Eugene Stanley

Decrystallization of adult birdsong by perturbation of auditory feedback pp. 466-470

Anthony Leonardo and Masakazu Konishi

Neuronal correlates of parametric working memory in the prefrontal cortex pp. 470-473

Ranulfo Romo, Carlos D. Brody, Adrián Hernández and Luis Lemus

Developmental basis of limblessness and axial patterning in snakes pp. 474-479

Martin J .Cohn and Cheryll Tickle

The MAPK kinase Pek1 acts as a phosphorylation-dependent molecular switch pp. 479-483

Reiko Sugiura, Takashi Toda, Susheela Dhut, Hisato Shuntoh, Takayoshi Kuno and Takayoshi Kuno

Bcl-2 family proteins regulate the release of apoptogenic cytochrome c by the mitochondrial channel VDAC pp. 483-487

Shigeomi Shimizu, Masashi Narita, Yoshihide Tsujimoto and Yoshihide Tsujimoto

Interaction of E1 and hSNF5 proteins stimulates replication of human papillomavirus DNA pp. 487-491

Daeyoup Lee, Hekwang Sohn, Ganjam V. Kalpana, Joonho Choe and Joonho Choe

Structure and ligand of a histone acetyltransferase bromodomain pp. 491-496

Christophe Dhalluin, Justin E. Carlson, Lei Zeng, Cheng He, Aneel K. Aggarwal, Ming-Ming Zhou and Ming-Ming Zhou

Enzyme dynamics and hydrogen tunnelling in a thermophilic alcohol dehydrogenase pp. 496-499

Amnon Kohen, Raffaele Cannio, Simonetta Bartolucci, Judith P. Klinman and Judith P. Klinman

1999, volume 399, articles 6734

Britain opens biotech regulation to greater public involvement pp. 287-288

Ehsan Masood

Trade concerns dominate GM debate in US pp. 287-287

Tony Reichhardt

Britain backs biotech, seeks tougher regulation pp. 288-288

Ehsan Masood

South Africa reveals plans to make AIDS a notifiable disease pp. 288-288

Michael Cherry

Charges fly in $1bn hormone patent battle pp. 289-289

Rex Dalton

Europe seeks greater role for women on key advisory panels pp. 290-290

Alison Abbott

Australian geologists left reeling by budget cuts⃛ pp. 290-290

Peter Pockley

⃛ while New Zealand research gets thin rations pp. 290-290

Peter Pockley

NIH strives to keep resource sharing alive pp. 291-291

Meredith Wadman

Hubble spots giant cyclonic storm on Mars pp. 291-291

Ehsan Masood

Ethicists urge funding for extraction of embryo cells pp. 292-292

Meredith Wadman

Europe's molecular biologists could join global e-journal plan pp. 292-292

Declan Butler

NASA beefs up life science involvement pp. 293-293

Tony Reichhardt

Tokyo meeting airs problems of international space collaboration pp. 293-293

Asako Saegusa

Genentech stands by original data pp. 297-298

Dennis J. Henner, David V. Goeddel, Herbert Heyneker, Keiichi Itakura, Daniel Yansura, Michael Ross and Giuseppe Miozzari

Alarm raised over elephant ivory trade pp. 297-297

Katy Payne, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole

Guidelines point the way on genetics ethics pp. 297-297

Dorothy C. Wertz

Statement from Peter Seeburg pp. 298-298

Peter H. Seeburg

Innocents suffer as rogue regime rapped pp. 298-298

Qais Al-Awqati

Science powerhouse of Central America pp. 298-298

Jorge Cortés

Will biomedicine outgrow support? pp. 299-301

M. F. Perutz

Reinventing the engine pp. 303-305

Steven L. Garrett

When one eye is better than two pp. 305-307

Mandyam V. Srinivasan

Plate tectonics on Mars? pp. 307-308

Dan McKenzie

A message from the gonads pp. 308-309

Donald L. Riddle

Taking the frustration out of ice pp. 311-312

Mark Harris

Virus on virus infects bacterium pp. 312-313

Ronald K. Taylor

Warming without high CO2? pp. 313-314

Benjamin P. Flower

Untrue feelings pp. 314-314

David Jones

Topology in chaotic scattering pp. 315-316

David Sweet, Edward Ott and James A. Yorke

Rainfall characteristics of hurricane Mitch pp. 316-316

Jon Hellin, Martin Haigh and Frank Marks

Analysis of telomere lengths in cloned sheep pp. 316-317

Paul G. Shiels, Alexander J. Kind, Keith H. S. Campbell, David Waddington, Ian Wilmut, Alan Colman and Angelika E. Schnieke

Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period? pp. 317-318

Gareth J. Dyke and Gerald Mayr

Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period? pp. 318-318

Thomas A. Stidham

Grain of truth in fears of biotechnology pp. 319-320

John Mugabe

A call for unification pp. 320-321

Nicholas Rescher

Non-sectarian structure pp. 321-321

Richard A. L. Jones

Why can't people be more like bats? pp. 322-322

Laurent Excoffier

The Universe and everything pp. 322-322

Ray Carlberg

Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima pp. 323-329

Karen E. Nelson, Rebecca A. Clayton, Steven R. Gill, Michelle L. Gwinn, Robert J. Dodson, Daniel H. Haft, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, William C. Nelson, Karen A. Ketchum, Lisa McDonald, Teresa R. Utterback, Joel A. Malek, Katja D. Linher, Mina M. Garrett, Ashley M. Stewart, Matthew D. Cotton, Matthew S. Pratt, Cheryl A. Phillips, Delwood Richardson, John Heidelberg, Granger G. Sutton, Robert D. Fleischmann, Jonathan A. Eisen, Owen White, Steven L. Salzberg, Hamilton O. Smith, J. Craig Venter and Claire M. Fraser

The inevitable youthfulness of known high-redshift radio galaxies pp. 330-332

Katherine M. Blundell and Steve Rawlings

Zero-point entropy in ‘spin ice’ pp. 333-335

A. P. Ramirez, A. Hayashi, R. J. Cava, R. Siddharthan and B. S. Shastry

A thermoacoustic Stirling heat engine pp. 335-338

S. Backhaus and G. W. Swift

Weak surface anchoring of liquid crystals pp. 338-340

G. P. Bryan-Brown, E. L. Wood and I. C. Sage

Epitaxial diamond growth on sapphire in an oxidizing environment pp. 340-342

Mamoru Yoshimoto, Kenji Yoshida, Hideaki Maruta, Yoshiko Hishitani, Hideomi Koinuma, Shigeru Nishio, Masato Kakihana and Takeshi Tachibana

A large and abrupt fall in atmospheric CO2 concentration during Cretaceous times pp. 342-345

Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Richard D. Pancost and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

Large-scale chemical and thermal division of the Pacific mantle pp. 345-350

I. Vlastélic, D. Aslanian, L. Dosso, H. Bougault, J. L. Olivet and L. Géli

A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China pp. 350-354

Xing Xu, Zhi-lu Tang and Xiao-lin Wang

Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems pp. 354-359

Bernd Blasius, Amit Huppert and Lewi Stone

Auditory collusion and a coupled couple of outer hair cells pp. 359-362

Hong-Bo Zhao and J. Santos-Sacchi

Signals from the reproductive system regulate the lifespan of C. elegans pp. 362-366

Honor Hsin and Cynthia Kenyon

The homeobox gene Phox2b is essential for the development of autonomic neural crest derivatives pp. 366-370

Alexandre Pattyn, Xavier Morin, Harold Cremer, Christo Goridis and Jean-FranÇois Brunet

Clathrin self-assembly is mediated by a tandemly repeated superhelix pp. 371-375

Joel A. Ybe, Frances M. Brodsky, Kay Hofmann, Kai Lin, Shu-Hui Liu, Lin Chen, Thomas N. Earnest, Robert J. Fletterick and Peter K. Hwang

A bacteriophage encoding a pathogenicity island, a type-IV pilus and a phage receptor in cholera bacteria pp. 375-379

David K. R. Karaolis, Sita Somara, David R. Maneval, Judith A. Johnson and James B. Kaper

Structure of Cdc42 in complex with the GTPase-binding domain of the ‘Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome’ protein pp. 379-383

Norzehan Abdul-Manan, Behzad Aghazadeh, Grace A. Liu, Ananya Majumdar, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Katherine A. Siminovitch and Michael K. Rosen

Structure of the small G protein Cdc42 bound to the GTPase-binding domain of ACK pp. 384-388

Helen R. Mott, Darerca Owen, Daniel Nietlispach, Peter N. Lowe, Edward Manser, Louis Lim and Ernest D. Laue

1999, volume 399, articles 6733

French geneticists raise worries over use of new genome funds pp. 185-186

Declan Butler

Big boost demanded for France's life sciences pp. 185-185

Declan Butler

Increase in German science budget a boon for women and youth pp. 186-186

Alison Abbott

Europe keeps space science budget level pp. 187-187

Alison Abbott

Britain finds money to renew infrastructure pp. 187-187

Natasha Loder

UK debates public's role in science advice pp. 188-188

David Dickson

Royal Society: GM food hazard claim is ‘flawed’ pp. 188-188

Natasha Loder

University museum seeks independence pp. 189-189

Rex Dalton

More US labs may curb visits by foreigners pp. 189-189

Colin Macilwain

NIH ethics office clamps down on Duke ⃛ pp. 190-190

Meredith Wadman

⃛ as basic scientists feel the pinch in LA pp. 190-190

Meredith Wadman

Chinese reform pushes R&D into market pp. 191-191

Tian Xuewen

Japan's fast-breeder loses money fast too pp. 191-191

Asako Saegusa

Stand up for the rights of professors too pp. 195-195

F. W. Taylor

Grim reality of war⃛ and plans for the peace pp. 195-195

Ian Blake

Grim reality of war⃛ and plans for the peace pp. 195-195

Stefano Casalotti

Cancer fellowships awarded on merit pp. 195-195

John Cairns

Cancer fellowships awarded on merit pp. 195-195

Ruggero Montesano and Norman Breslow

What price ergonomics? pp. 197-198

Neville A. Stanton and Mark S. Young

A shared but complex bridge pp. 199-200

Robert E. Kingston

Only a matter of time pp. 200-203

Ken Peach

Many vessels, faulty gene pp. 203-204

William G. Kaelin

Dead end for neurodegeneration? pp. 204-207

Christian Haass

Excursions in geomagnetism pp. 207-208

C. G. Langereis

Glasses go critical pp. 207-207

Philip Ball

Snail mail to the nucleus pp. 208-210

Iain W. Mattaj and Elena Conti

A recipe for strength pp. 210-211

Paul Calvert

Rain Man's revelations pp. 211-212

Niels Birbaumer

Shear chemistry pp. 212-212

David Jones

Birds extend their ranges northwards pp. 213-213

Chris D. Thomas and Jack J. Lennon

The mystery of female beauty pp. 214-215

J. T. Manning, R. L. Trivers, D. Singh and R. Thornhill

Transgenic pollen harms monarch larvae pp. 214-214

John E. Losey, Linda S. Rayor and Maureen E. Carter

The mystery of female beauty pp. 215-216

M. J. Tovée and P. L. Cornelissen

The mystery of female beauty pp. 216-216

Douglas W. Yu and Glenn H. Shepard

Looping the evolutionary loop pp. 217-218

Gabby Dover

An expletive in academia pp. 218-219

Malcolm Coe

Dip into the century's technological past pp. 219-219

Henry Petroski

A bragger's guide to fuzzy objects pp. 220-220

Stephen P. Maran

Tale of two disciplines pp. 220-220

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Structure of importin-β bound to the IBB domain of importin-α pp. 221-229

Gino Cingolani, Carlo Petosa, Karsten Weis and Christoph W. Müller

Structure of the nuclear transport complex karyopherin-β2–Ran˙GppNHp pp. 230-237

Yuh Min Chook and Günter Blobel

Observation of quasiparticles with one-fifth of an electron's charge pp. 238-241

M. Reznikov, R. de Picciotto, T. G. Griffiths, M. Heiblum and V. Umansky

Two types of avalanche behaviour in granular media pp. 241-243

Adrian Daerr and Stéphane Douady

Desorption–ionization mass spectrometry on porous silicon pp. 243-246

Jing Wei, Jillian M. Buriak and Gary Siuzdak

Growing range of correlated motion in a polymer melt on cooling towards the glass transition pp. 246-249

Christoph Bennemann, Claudio Donati, Jörg Baschnagel and Sharon C. Glotzer

Global changes in intensity of the Earth's magnetic field during the past 800 kyr pp. 249-252

Yohan Guyodo and Jean-Pierre Valet

Nature of the Earth's earliest crust from hafnium isotopes in single detrital zircons pp. 252-255

Yuri Amelin, Lee Der-Chuen, Alex N. Halliday and Robert T. Pidgeon

A complete human pelvis from the Middle Pleistocene of Spain pp. 255-258

Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Carlos Lorenzo, José-Miguel Carretero, Ana Gracia, Ignacio Martínez, Nuria García, José-María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell

Relative risk of extinction of passerine birds on continents and islands pp. 258-261

Lisa L. Manne, Thomas M. Brooks and Stuart L. Pimm

Non-commutativity in the brain pp. 261-263

Douglas B. Tweed, Thomas P. Haslwanter, Vera Happe and Michael Fetter

Inhibition of caspase-1 slows disease progression in a mouse model of Huntington's disease pp. 263-267

Victor O. Ona, Mingwei Li, Jean Paul G. Vonsattel, L. John Andrews, Sohail Q. Khan, Woosik M. Chung, Ariel S. Frey, Anil S. Menon, Xiao-Jiang Li, Philip E. Stieg, Junying Yuan, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young, Jang-Ho J. Cha and Robert M. Friedlander

In vivo cell sorting in complementary segmental domains mediated by Eph receptors and ephrins pp. 267-271

Qiling Xu, Georg Mellitzer, Vicky Robinson and David G. Wilkinson

The tumour suppressor protein VHL targets hypoxia-inducible factors for oxygen-dependent proteolysis pp. 271-275

Patrick H. Maxwell, Michael S. Wiesener, Gin-Wen Chang, Steven C. Clifford, Emma C. Vaux, Matthew E. Cockman, Charles C. Wykoff, Christopher W. Pugh, Eamonn R. Maher and Peter J. Ratcliffe

Mammalian Srb/Mediator complex is targeted by adenovirus E1A protein pp. 276-279

Thomas G. Boyer, Michelle E. D. Martin, Emma Lees, Robert P. Ricciardi and Arnold J. Berk

Erratum: Elasticity and rheology of iron above 220 GPa and the nature of the Earth's inner core pp. 280-280

Ho-kwang Mao, Jinfu Shu, Guoyin Shen, Russell J. Hemley, Baosheng Li and Anil K. Singh

1999, volume 399, articles 6732

Quake-spotting ‘telescope’ may map North American continent pp. 91-91

Rex Dalton

Search for a key to secrets of the Universe pp. 91-91

Ehsan Masood

‘Sell the message of research’, Europe's cell biologists urged pp. 92-92

Alison Abbott

US stem-cell pioneers buy ‘Dolly’ cloning company pp. 92-92

Meredith Wadman

Battery fault ends X-ray satellite mission pp. 93-93

Alison Abbott

French unions hopeful of delaying reforms until after consultation pp. 93-93

Eric Glover

Funding penalty for cross-boundary work pp. 94-94

Natasha Loder

Australia boosts medical research, but keeps other budgets level pp. 94-94

Peter Pockley

NSF told to ease up cost-share demands pp. 95-95

Colin Macilwain

Future of Spectrum X mission still cloudy pp. 95-95

Alison Abbott

Japan bids to catch up on gene sequencing pp. 96-96

Asako Saegusa

Drug company backs Africa's war on AIDS pp. 96-96

Meredith Wadman

Science advice test in UK devolution vote pp. 97-97

Ehsan Masood

Too many agencies spoil Euro research pp. 101-101

Carlo Gambacorti-Passerini

Building the future of biocomputing pp. 101-101

Mark Gerstein

Phenology and the changing seasons pp. 101-101

John Worrall

The right prescription for preclinical teaching pp. 101-101

H. Peter Soyer, Birger Kränke, Thomas Petnehazy and Stefan Scheidl

Dinosaur tracks in the computer age pp. 103-104

Kevin Padian

Radon and rock deformation pp. 104-105

Evelyn Roeloffs

The planet factory pp. 105-105

Sarah Tomlin

Calmodulin at the channel gate pp. 105-108

Michael D. Ehlers and George J. Augustine

The hard problem of carbonitrides pp. 108-109

Barry M. Klein

Mixed metabolism in plant pools pp. 109-111

Peter D. Moore

Neither too loud nor too quiet pp. 111-112

Dimitri M. Kullmann

Cultured diamonds pp. 112-112

David Jones

Myopia and ambient lighting at night pp. 113-114

Graham E. Quinn, Chai H. Shin, Maureen G. Maguire and Richard A. Stone

Polar gigantism dictated by oxygen availability pp. 114-115

Gauthier Chapelle and Lloyd S. Peck

Superconductors under stress pp. 114-114

Laurens Jansen and Ruud Block

No role for colour in symmetry perception pp. 115-116

Dawn Morales and Harold Pashler

A fantasia of biological feminism pp. 117-118

Olivia Judson

A chemistry textbook hero pp. 118-119

Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds

Quantum behaviour pp. 119-120

David P. DiVincenzo

Science in culture pp. 120-120

Duncan Dallas

Supersonic winds in Jupiter's aurorae pp. 121-124

Daniel Rego, Nicholas Achilleos, Tom Stallard, Steve Miller, Renée Prangé, Michele Dougherty and Robert D. Joseph

Efficient fault-tolerant quantum computing pp. 124-126

Andrew M. Steane

Three-dimensional orientation measurements of symmetric single chromophores using polarization microscopy pp. 126-130

S. A. Empedocles, R. Neuhauser and M. G. Bawendi

Size and form in efficient transportation networks pp. 130-132

Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan and Andrea Rinaldo

Electronic mechanism of hardness enhancement in transition-metal carbonitrides pp. 132-134

Seung-Hoon Jhi, Jisoon Ihm, Steven G. Louie and Marvin L. Cohen

Near-field probing of vibrational absorption for chemical microscopy pp. 134-137

B. Knoll and F. Keilmann

Radon emanation and electric potential variations associated with transient deformation near reservoir lakes pp. 137-141

M. Trique, P. Richon, F. Perrier, J. P. Avouac and J. C. Sabroux

Three-dimensional preservation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs pp. 141-144

Stephen M. Gatesy, Kevin M. Middleton, Farish A. Jenkins and Neil H. Shubin

Evolution of genetic mechanisms controlling petal development pp. 144-148

Elena M. Kramer and Vivian F. Irish

The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition pp. 148-151

Etienne Koechlin, Gianpaolo Basso, Pietro Pietrini, Seth Panzer and Jordan Grafman

Synaptic calcium transients in single spines indicate that NMDA receptors are not saturated pp. 151-155

Zachary F. Mainen, Roberto Malinow and Karel Svoboda

Ca2+/calmodulin binds to and modulates P/Q-type calcium channels pp. 155-159

Amy Lee, Scott T. Wong, Daniel Gallagher, Bin Li, Daniel R. Storm, Todd Scheuer and William A. Catterall

Calmodulin supports both inactivation and facilitation of L-type calcium channels pp. 159-162

Roger D. Zühlke, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Karl Deisseroth, Richard W. Tsien and Harald Reuter

A cytosolic catalase is needed to extend adult lifespan in C. elegans daf-C and clk-1 mutants pp. 162-166

James Taub, Joe F. Lau, Charles Ma, Jang Hee Hahn, Rafaz Hoque, Jonathan Rothblatt and Martin Chalfie

Gene silencing in Neurospora crassa requires a protein homologous to RNA-dependent RNA polymerase pp. 166-169

Carlo Cogoni and Giuseppe Macino

Out of the lab and into the marketplace pp. 175-176

Brendan Horton

First write your business plan pp. 176-176

Brendan Horton

Singapore aims to become a hot spot for life sciences pp. 177-177

David Swinbanks

‘Venture fever’ grips Asian economies pp. 177-178

David Swinbanks

China's scientists tap offshore funds pp. 178-178

David Swinbanks

End of the brain drain could be in sight pp. 179-180

Potter Wickware

Taiwan targets biotechnology pp. 179-179

David Swinbanks

How to win venture-capital financing pp. 181-182

Diane Gershon

Funding brings high-risk technologies to the marketplace pp. 182-182

Diane Gershon

1999, volume 399, articles 6731

Clinton pledges to smooth path of research at universities pp. 3-3

Colin Macilwain

UK failing to reap neuroscience rewards pp. 3-3

Ehsan Masood

France seeks scientists’ views on reform pp. 4-4

Declan Butler

Germany says it will come on board Earth observation mission pp. 4-4

Alison Abbott

Berkeley dispute festers over biotech deal pp. 5-5

Rex Dalton

Embattled neuroscientist wins US support pp. 5-5

Alison Abbott

Global R&D spread clouds locaal analyses pp. 6-6

Declan Butler

GM advisory panel is slanted, say critics pp. 7-7

Meredith Wadman

Australians seek international allies in battle over uranium mine pp. 7-7

Peter Pockley

EU warns on growth-hormone cancer risk pp. 8-8

Meredith Wadman

Mixed response to NIH's web journal plan pp. 8-9

Declan Butler and Meredith Wadman

Automation ‘could crack the big problems in science’ pp. 9-9

Colin Macilwain

Editors’ responsibility in defeating fraud pp. 13-13

Michael M. Meguid

Inequities in German research system pp. 13-13

Stefan Jähnichen and Klaus-Robert Müller

Inequities in German research system pp. 13-13

Michael Cross

Cloning claims challenged pp. 13-13

Davor Solter

From youthful PMs to presidents who walk tall pp. 14-14

Jeremy Stangroom

Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments pp. 14-14

Olof Andrén, Holger Kirchmann and Olle Pettersson

Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments pp. 14-14

David Tilman

Diamondoids and oil are not forever pp. 15-16

Martin Schoell and Robert M. K. Carlson

A calcium window to the gut pp. 16-17

G. David S. Hirst

From vortices to genomics pp. 17-18

Terence Hwa

A spine to remember pp. 19-20

Per Andersen

The magnetic turnabout pp. 21-22

Olivier Kahn

Laying it on thick pp. 23-23

Sarah Tomlin

Heard but not seen pp. 24-24

John Whitfield

Stone legacy of skilled hands pp. 24-25

James Steele

Adhesive antibodies pp. 25-25

David Jones

David Phillips (1924—99) pp. 26-26

Louise N. Johnson and Gregory A. Petsko

Naked foraminiferans revealed pp. 27-27

Jan Pawlowski, Ignacio Bolivar, José Fahrni, Colomban de Vargas and Samuel S. Bowser

A stimulatory phalloid organ in a weaver bird pp. 28-28

M. Winterbottom, T. Burke and T. R. Birkhead

Green processing using ionic liquids and CO2 pp. 28-29

Lynnette A. Blanchard, Dan Hancu, Eric J. Beckman and Joan F. Brennecke

Long-distance transport of pollen into the Arctic pp. 29-30

Ian D. Campbell, Karen McDonald, Michael D. Flannigan and Joanni Kringayark

Cause and effect in evolution pp. 30-30

W. Joe Dickinson and Jon Seger

From an old world order to show ’n’ sell pp. 31-32

Thomas F. Gieryn

From entropy to Duino pp. 32-33

G. F. Bignami

Aiming for that goal of zero emission pp. 33-33

Roger Sheldon

Information, information pp. 33-34

Nancy Lane

Science in culture pp. 34-34

Martin Kemp

Energy traps in atomic nuclei pp. 35-40

Philip Walker and George Dracoulis

Possible long-lived asteroid belts in the inner Solar System pp. 41-43

N. Wyn Evans and Serge Tabachnik

Observation of mesoscopic vortex physics using micromechanical oscillators pp. 43-46

C. A. Bolle, V. Aksyuk, F. Pardo, P. L. Gammel, E. Zeldov, E. Bucher, R. Boie, D. J. Bishop and D. R. Nelson

Influence of a knot on the strength of a polymer strand pp. 46-48

A. Marco Saitta, Paul D. Soper, E. Wasserman and Michael L. Klein

Controlled growth and electrical properties of heterojunctions of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires pp. 48-51

Jiangtao Hu, Min Ouyang, Peidong Yang and Charles M. Lieber

Stress-induced recrystallization of a protein crystal by electron irradiation pp. 51-54

F. Zemlin, R. Schuster, E. Beckmann, J. L. Carrascosa, J. M. Valpuesta and G. Ertl

Diamondoid hydrocarbons as indicators of natural oil cracking pp. 54-57

J. E. Dahl, J. M. Moldowan, K. E. Peters, G. E. Claypool, M. A. Rooney, G. E. Michael, M. R. Mello and M. L. Kohnen

Early hominid stone tool production and technical skill 2.34 Myr ago in West Turkana, Kenya pp. 57-60

H. Roche, A. Delagnes, J.-P. Brugal, C. Feibel, M. Kibunjia, V. Mourre and P.-J. Texier

The wing of Archaeopteryx as a primary thrust generator pp. 60-62

Phillip Burgers and Luis M. Chiappe

Induction and organization of Ca2+ waves by enteric neural reflexes pp. 62-66

Randel J. Stevens, Nelson G. Publicover and Terence K. Smith

Dendritic spine changes associated with hippocampal long-term synaptic plasticity pp. 66-70

Florian Engert and Tobias Bonhoeffer

A family of mammalian Na+-dependent L-ascorbic acid transporters pp. 70-75

Hiroyasu Tsukaguchi, Taro Tokui, Bryan Mackenzie, Urs V. Berger, Xing-Zhen Chen, Yangxi Wang, Richard F. Brubaker and Matthias A. Hediger

Regulation of alternative splicing by RNA editing pp. 75-80

Susan M. Rueter, T. Renee Dawson and Ronald B. Emeson

Structural basis for initiation of transcription from an RNA polymerase–promoter complex pp. 80-83

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

Erratum: Experimental verification of the quasi-unit-cell model of quasicrystal structure pp. 84-84

Paul J. Steinhardt, H.-C. Jeong, K. Saitoh, M. Tanaka, E. Abe and A. P. Tsai

Erratum: Extreme Th1 bias of invariant Vα24JαQ T cells in type 1 diabetes pp. 84-84

S. Brian Wilson, Sally C. Kent, Kurt T. Patton, Tihamer Orban, Richard A. Jackson, Mark Exley, Steven Porcelli, Desmond A. Schatz, Mark A. Atkinson, Steven P. Balk, Jack L. Strominger and David A. Hafler

Erratum: In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients pp. 84-84

Timothy M. Gomez and Nicholas C. Spitzer

Erratum: The role of mat-forming diatoms in the formation of Mediterranean sapropels pp. 84-84

Alan E. S. Kemp, Richard B. Pearce, Itaru Koizumi, Jennifer Pike and S. Jae Rance