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1999, volume 398, articles 6730

NIH plan brings global electronic journal a step nearer reality pp. 735-735

Declan Butler

National project to boost Japan's net presence pp. 735-735

Asako Saegusa

Swiss reject GM trial to protect organics pp. 736-736

Alison Abbott

US processor rejects maize that EU won't take pp. 736-736

Meredith Wadman

Swedish minister rebuilds scientists' trust pp. 737-737

Peter Sylwan

Mars sundial celebrates joy of discovery pp. 737-737

Tony Reichhardt

Monitoring system planned for US biodiversity drive pp. 738-738

Rex Dalton

NASA's plan to hire peer-review contractor raises scientists' fears pp. 738-738

Tony Reichhardt

SSC spectre hovers over neutron project pp. 739-739

Colin Macilwain

Japan moves to evaluate its engineers pp. 740-740

Asako Saegusa

University libraries put pen to paper in journal pricing protest pp. 740-740

Alison Abbott

Scientists split on US smallpox decision pp. 741-741

Meredith Wadman

Radioactive leak at Indian power station pp. 741-741

K. S. Jayaraman

Why Japan's professors fear evaluation pp. 745-745

Mitsuo Tagaya

Some PhDs are more equal than others pp. 745-745

Leonor Cruzeiro-Hansson

Name and shame the scientific fraudsters pp. 745-745

James McComb

Ants, plants and antibiotics pp. 747-748

Ted R. Schultz

Solid-state qubits under control pp. 748-749

D. V. Averin

Legs to wings and back again pp. 751-752

Lee Niswander

Molecular probing of deep secrets pp. 752-753

Roger Summons

Coated-pit dynamics pp. 753-753

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Linear and nonlinear signatures pp. 755-756

Klaus Hasselmann

Life and death in a FLASH pp. 756-757

Jan Paul Medema

Mitotic treasures in the nucleolus pp. 757-758

Jeffrey B. Bachant and Stephen J. Elledge

Theological chemistry pp. 758-758

David Jones

Acoustic guide in bat-pollinated flower pp. 759-760

Dagmar von Helversen and Otto von Helversen

Co-carcinogenic effect of β-carotene pp. 760-761

M. Paolini, G. Cantelli-Forti, P. Perocco, G. F. Pedulli, S. Z. Abdel-Rahman and M. S. Legator

Cognitive restoration of reversed speech pp. 760-760

Kourosh Saberi and David R. Perrott

Growth of nanotubes for probe microscopy tips pp. 761-762

Jason H. Hafner, Chin Li Cheung and Charles M. Lieber

An octopus-like obsession with loyalty pp. 763-764

Daniel J. Kevles

Beware the diseases of the will, my child pp. 764-765

Pere Puigdomènech

German science admits to fraud pp. 765-766

Alison Abbott

A further string to the believers' bow pp. 766-767

John Maddox

The self-centred meme pp. 767-768

Jerry A. Coyne

Shady secrets of the Enlightenment pp. 768-769

W. F. Bynum

The outward urge pp. 770-771

Walter Gratzer

Turning evening into morning pp. 771-772

John Bayley

Lord of the flies pp. 773-774

Yadin Dudai

Hitting the target pp. 774-775

Stephen Neidle

Taming the black dog pp. 775-776

Charles B. Nemeroff

The CED-4-homologous protein FLASH is involved in Fas-mediated activation of caspase-8 during apoptosis pp. 777-785

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

Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair box pp. 786-788

Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin and J. S. Tsai

The existence of supercooled liquid water at 150?K pp. 788-791

R. Scott Smith and Bruce D. Kay

Structure of the polymer electrolyte poly(ethylene oxide)6:LiAsF6 pp. 792-794

Graham S. MacGlashan, Yuri G. Andreev and Peter G. Bruce

A nanometre-sized hexahedral coordination capsule assembled from 24 components pp. 794-796

Nobuhiro Takeda, Kazuhiko Umemoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Makoto Fujita

Self-assembly of nanoscale cuboctahedra by coordination chemistry pp. 796-799

Bogdan Olenyuk, Jeffery A. Whiteford, Andreas Fechtenkötter and Peter J. Stang

Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes pp. 799-802

S. Corti, F. Molteni and T. N. Palmer

Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments pp. 802-805

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, John M. Hayes, Sean P. Sylva, Peter G. Brewer and Edward F. DeLong

Reduced antinociception in mice lacking neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits pp. 805-810

Lisa M. Marubio, Maria del Mar Arroyo-Jimenez, Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, Clément Léna, Nicolas Le Novère, Alban de Kerchove d'Exaerde, Monique Huchet, M. Imad Damaj and Jean-Pierre Changeux

Tbx5 and Tbx4 genes determine the wing/leg identity of limb buds pp. 810-814

Jun K. Takeuchi, Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi, Ken Matsumoto, Astrid Vogel-Höpker, Mayumi Naitoh-Matsuo, Keiko Ogura, Naoki Takahashi, Kunio Yasuda and Toshihiko Ogura

The T-box genes Tbx4 and Tbx5 regulate limb outgrowth and identity pp. 814-818

Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, Tohru Tsukui, Sayuri Yonei, Jorge Magallon, Koji Tamura and Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Cfi1 prevents premature exit from mitosis by anchoring Cdc14 phosphatase in the nucleolus pp. 818-823

Rosella Visintin, Ellen S. Hwang and Angelika Amon

Ligand-dependent transcription activation by nuclear receptors requires the DRIP complex pp. 824-828

Christophe Rachez, Bryan D. Lemon, Zalman Suldan, Virginia Bromleigh, Matthew Gamble, Anders M. Näär, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst and Leonard P. Freedman

Composite co-activator ARC mediates chromatin-directed transcriptional activation pp. 828-832

Anders M. Näär, Pierre A. Beaurang, Sharleen Zhou, Shaji Abraham, William Solomon and Robert Tjian

1999, volume 398, articles 6729

Europe and US in confrontation over GM food labelling criteria pp. 641-641

Ehsan Masood

US sets up ‘round-table’ talks with scientists pp. 641-641

Colin Macilwain

Europe will fly animals on space station pp. 642-642

Tony Reichhardt

UK's royal societies oppose new research council for Scotland pp. 642-642

Ehsan Masood

Transplant panel to play ‘honest broker’ pp. 643-643

Declan Butler

Looser ties urged for Japanese scientists pp. 643-643

Asako Saegusa

Financial doubts over future of chimp lab pp. 644-644

Meredith Wadman

Japan plans cDNA hunt for disease genes pp. 644-644

Asako Saegusa

Spanish watchdog sees way ahead for stem-cell research pp. 645-645

Xavier Bosch

Private nuclear waste plan faces critics in Australia pp. 645-645

Peter Pockley

Scientists urged to raise lobbying efforts pp. 646-646

Alison Abbott

Bioinformatics institute plans public database for gene expression data pp. 646-646

Alison Abbott

A meeting of parallel paths for US fusion? pp. 647-647

Colin Macilwain

When extra authors get in on the act pp. 657-657

Eugen Tarnow

Miscalculation pp. 657-657

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Hand over your clones or lose your reputation pp. 657-657

Mark Tester

Did Parisians catch HIV from ‘monkey glands’? pp. 657-657

R. V. Short

Three planets for Upsilon Andromedae pp. 659-659

Jack J. Lissauer

Adapting to nanoscale events pp. 660-661

Daniel Branton and Jene Golovchenko

Attraction is relative not absolute pp. 661-663

Masataka Watanabe

Uncertain road to ozone recovery pp. 663-664

Paul J. Fraser and Michael J. Prather

Gatekeepers of recombination pp. 665-667

James E. Haber

Fine-structure variable? pp. 667-668

Antoinette Songaila and Lennox L. Cowie

A big slip pp. 667-667

Tim Lincoln

Defence by diversity pp. 668-669

Adrian V. S. Hill

Spiritual matters pp. 669-669

David Jones

Gerhard Herzberg (1904-99) pp. 670-670

Dudley Herschbach

Antibacterial peptide from H. pylori pp. 671-672

Katrin Pütsep, Carl-Ivar Brändén, Hans G. Boman and Staffan Normark

Cleaner fish really do clean pp. 672-673

Alexandra S. Grutter

Perception of changes in loudness pp. 673-673

Georges Canévet, Bertram Scharf, Robert S. Schlauch, Martha Teghtsoonian and Robert Teghtsoonian

Perception of changes in loudness pp. 673-674

John G. Neuhoff

Movement of motor and cargo along cilia pp. 674-674

Jose T. Orozco, Karen P. Wedaman, Dawn Signor, Heather Brown, Lesilee Rose and Jonathan M. Scholey

Drugs wipe out a sporting chance pp. 675-675

Craig Sharp

Peering into a child's priorities pp. 675-677

Simon Baron-Cohen

A singularity in modern science pp. 677-677

Peter Galison

Monsters in the night pp. 678-678

Chris Reynolds

The charm of the single neuron pp. 678-678

Erik De Schutter

Environmentally decoupled sds -wave Josephson junctions for quantum computing pp. 679-681

Lev B. Ioffe, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, Mikhail V. Feigel'man, Alban L. Fauchère and Gianni Blatter

Metastable ice VII at low temperature and ambient pressure pp. 681-684

S. Klotz, J. M. Besson, G. Hamel, R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday and W. G. Marshall

Low-temperature superplasticity in nanostructured nickel and metal alloys pp. 684-686

S. X. McFadden, R. S. Mishra, R. Z. Valiev, A. P. Zhilyaev and A. K. Mukherjee

Stochastic sensing of organic analytes by a pore-forming protein containing a molecular adapter pp. 686-690

Li-Qun Gu, Orit Braha, Sean Conlan, Stephen Cheley and Hagan Bayley

Present and future trends in the atmospheric burden of ozone-depleting halogens pp. 690-694

S. A. Montzka, J. H. Butler, J.W. Elkins, T. M. Thompson, A. D. Clarke and L. T. Lock

Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming pp. 694-697

A. Timmermann, J. Oberhuber, A. Bacher, M. Esch, M. Latif and E. Roeckner

Continental-shelf sediment as a primary source of iron for coastal phytoplankton pp. 697-700

Kenneth S. Johnson, Francisco P. Chavez and Gernot E. Friederich

Archaeopteris is the earliest known modern tree pp. 700-701

Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Stephen E. Scheckler and Jobst Wendt

Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites pp. 701-704

Cameron R. Currie, James A. Scott, Richard C. Summerbell and David Malloch

Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex pp. 704-708

Léon Tremblay and Wolfram Schultz

p63 is a p53 homologue required for limb and epidermal morphogenesis pp. 708-713

Alea A. Mills, Binhai Zheng, Xiao-Jing Wang, Hannes Vogel, Dennis R. Roop and Allan Bradley

p63 is essential for regenerative proliferation in limb, craniofacial and epithelial development pp. 714-718

Annie Yang, Ronen Schweitzer, Deqin Sun, Mourad Kaghad, Nancy Walker, Roderick T. Bronson, Cliff Tabin, Arlene Sharpe, Daniel Caput, Christopher Crum and Frank McKeon

MCP-1 and IL-8 trigger firm adhesion of monocytes to vascular endothelium under flow conditions pp. 718-723

Robert E. Gerszten, Eduardo A. Garcia-Zepeda, Yaw-Chyn Lim, Masayuki Yoshida, Han A. Ding, Michael A. Gimbrone, Andrew D. Luster, Francis W. Luscinskas and Anthony Rosenzweig

Tyro-3 family receptors are essential regulators of mammalian spermatogenesis pp. 723-728

Qingxian Lu, Martin Gore, Qing Zhang, Todd Camenisch, Sharon Boast, Franca Casagranda, Cary Lai, Michael K. Skinner, Rüdiger Klein, Glenn K. Matsushima, H. Shelton Earp, Stephen P. Goff and Greg Lemke

Binding of double-strand breaks in DNA by human Rad52 protein pp. 728-731

Eric Van Dyck, Alicja Z. Stasiak, Andrzej Stasiak and Stephen C. West

1999, volume 398, articles 6728

US firm's bid to sequence rice genome causes stir in Japan⃛ pp. 545-545

Asako Saegusa

⃛ as consortium plans free SNP map of human genome pp. 545-546

Ehsan Masood

Glaxo Wellcome is already using map data pp. 546-546

Ehsan Masood

French research would benefit from less paperwork, says report pp. 546-546

Declan Butler

Plan to merge optical societies under fire pp. 547-547

Rex Dalton

Weapons labs tighten computer security pp. 547-547

Colin Macilwain

Canadian Light Source is ready to glow as final grant comes in pp. 548-548

David Spurgeon

South African funding body faces evaluation headache pp. 548-548

Michael Cherry

Britain promises cash for UK/SA joint research pp. 548-548

Michael Cherry

FDA warns on primate xenotransplants pp. 549-549

Declan Butler

Serb scientists call for help to end bombing pp. 549-549

Alison Abbott

German centre risks women-only job ads pp. 550-550

Alison Abbott

NIH stem-cell guidelines face stormy ride pp. 551-551

Meredith Wadman

Cell sale to Elsevier will boost web ventures pp. 551-551

Declan Butler

Going cold on ‘snowball Earth’ theory pp. 555-556

George E. Williams

Say no to boycott of AIDS conference pp. 555-555

Mark A. Wainberg

Take the best from both patents systems pp. 555-555

Rattan Nath

On the trail of the prolific Dr Path pp. 555-555

Nigel L. Brown

Denmark lacks coherent policy on basic research pp. 556-556

Michael Ibba and Thomas Bentin

Green revolution still too green pp. 556-556

Thomas R. Sinclair and Kenneth G. Cassman

Fertile grounds for a lively debate pp. 556-556

Stephen G. Warren

Cryptic clues to clock function pp. 557-558

David Whitmore and Paolo Sassone-Corsi

A long-distance record breaker pp. 558-559

Richard Green

The child prodigy of 1997-98 pp. 559-561

Michael J. McPhaden

A new escape and evasion tactic pp. 562-563

John W. Barnwell

Screws tighten on the core pp. 563-565

Michael J. Walter

Slow-flowing metal pp. 565-565

David Jones

Thomas A. McMahon (1943-99) pp. 566-566

Claire T. Farley

Drug addiction: bad habits add up pp. 567-570

Trevor W. Robbins and Barry J. Everitt

Myelin-like sheaths in copepod axons pp. 571-571

April D. Davis, Tina M. Weatherby, Daniel K. Hartline and Petra H. Lenz

Plant energetics and population density pp. 572-572

Roderick C. Dewar

Plant energetics and population density” pp. 572-572

Federico Magnani

Plant energetics and population density pp. 573-573

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

Biostratigraphy of new pterosaurs from China pp. 573-573

S.-A. Ji, Q. Ji and K. Padian

Prometheus unwound pp. 575-576

Adrienne Zihlman

A most uplifting career pp. 576-577

Steve Sparks

Speaking in tongues pp. 577-578

Risto NÄÄtÄnen and Teija Kujala

Hallo capitalism, goodbye science pp. 578-578

Zhores A. Medvedev

Structural basis for recognition of the tra mRNA precursor by the Sex-lethal protein pp. 579-585

Noriko Handa, Osamu Nureki, Kazuki Kurimoto, Insil Kim, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yoshiro Shimura, Yutaka Muto and Shigeyuki Yokoyama

Spectroscopic identification of a galaxy at a probable redshift of z = 6.68 pp. 586-588

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Kenneth M. Lanzetta and Sebastian Pascarelle

Neutron scattering from magnetic excitations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ pp. 588-591

H. F. Fong, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, L. P. Regnault, A. Ivanov, G. D. Gu, N. Koshizuka and B. Keimer

Surface-aligned reaction of photogenerated oxygen atoms with carbon monoxide targets pp. 591-593

C. Emil Tripa and John T. Yates

Template-imprinted nanostructured surfaces for protein recognition pp. 593-597

Huaiqiu Shi, Wei-Bor Tsai, Michael D. Garrison, Sandro Ferrari and Buddy D. Ratner

Influence of El Niño on the equatorial Pacific contribution to atmospheric CO2 accumulation pp. 597-601

Richard A. Feely, Rik Wanninkhof, Taro Takahashi and Pieter Tans

Tectonic processes in Papua New Guinea and past productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean pp. 601-604

Mark. L. Wells, Geoffrey K. Vallis and Eli A. Silver

Partitioning of nickel and cobalt between silicate perovskite and metal at pressures up to 80 GPa pp. 604-607

O. Tschauner, A. Zerr, S. Specht, A. Rocholl, R. Boehler and H. Palme

Simulating the effects of climate change on tropical montane cloud forests pp. 608-610

Christopher J. Still, Prudence N. Foster and Stephen H. Schneider

Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain pp. 611-615

J. Alan Pounds, Michael P. L. Fogden and John H. Campbell

Humans use internal models to estimate gravity and linear acceleration pp. 615-618

Daniel M. Merfeld, Lionel Zupan and Robert J. Peterka

A rhoptry-protein-associated mechanism of clonal phenotypic variation in rodent malaria pp. 618-622

P. R. Preiser, W. Jarra, T. Capiod and G. Snounou

Homeobox gene Nkx2.2 and specification of neuronal identity by graded Sonic hedgehog signalling pp. 622-627

J. Briscoe, L. Sussel, P. Serup, D. Hartigan-O'Connor, T. M. Jessell, J. L. R. Rubenstein and J. Ericson

Mammalian Cry1 and Cry2 are essential for maintenance of circadian rhythms pp. 627-630

Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst, Manja Muijtjens, Kumiko Kobayashi, Riya Takano, Shin-ichiro Kanno, Masashi Takao, Jan de Wit, Anton Verkerk, Andre P. M. Eker, Dik van Leenen, Ruud Buijs, Dirk Bootsma, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers and Akira Yasui

Direct control of the Forkhead transcription factor AFX by protein kinase B pp. 630-634

Geert J. P. L. Kops, Nancy D. de Ruiter, Alida M. M. De Vries-Smits, David R. Powell, Johannes L. Bos and Boudewijn M. Th. Burgering

1999, volume 398, articles 6727

US societies fear clamp-down on visits by foreign scientists pp. 447-448

Colin Macilwain

Pay awards split Indian research world pp. 447-447

K. S. Jayaraman

Japanese researcher faces US charges over data pp. 448-448

Asako Saegusa

Ethical failures block Los Angeles research pp. 448-448

Rex Dalton

Primate study may yield new CJD clues ⃛ pp. 449-449

Declan Butler

⃛ as researchers fume over blocked research pp. 449-449

Declan Butler

Anger at NZ plan to target social goals in research pp. 450-450

Peter Pockley

Brazilian scientists team up for cancer genome project pp. 450-450

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

Biometrics group counters privacy fears pp. 451-451

Meredith Wadman

Hand and eye security systems in growing use pp. 451-451

Meredith Wadman

Russia to focus science on high-tech goals pp. 452-452

Carl Levitin

US spallation project ‘running into trouble’ pp. 452-452

Colin Macilwain

‘FLAT Earthers’ in battle with creationism pp. 453-453

Rex Dalton

Search for a quick getaway from Mars pp. 455-455

Steven D. Howe

Sartorial simplicity is knot what it seems pp. 455-455

David B. McDonald

Sartorial simplicity is knot what it seems pp. 455-455

Jeremy H. Marshall

Grant agencies must be seen to be fair pp. 455-455

Stefano Parodi

Revealing the hidden costs of research pp. 457-459

Robert M. May and Stuart C. Sarson

Micro-printing with crystal inks pp. 461-462

Lia Addadi and Steve Weiner

Slit, the midline repellent pp. 462-463

W. A. Harris and C. E. Holt

Another step ahead for myosin pp. 463-465

Malcolm Irving and Yale E. Goldman

A dusty revolution pp. 463-463

Sarah Tomlin

In search of γ-secretase pp. 466-467

John Hardy and Alain Israël

Going strong or falling apart? pp. 467-469

Srikanth Sastry

Boa constrictor or rattlesnake? pp. 470-471

Tom Kirchhausen

New eyes pp. 471-471

David Jones

Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-99) pp. 472-472

Albert Ghiorso

Exposing the human nude phenotype pp. 473-474

Jorge Frank, Claudio Pignata, Andrei A. Panteleyev, David M. Prowse, Howard Baden, Lorin Weiner, Lucia Gaetaniello, Wasim Ahmad, Nicola Pozzi, Peter B. Cserhalmi-Friedman, Vincent M. Aita, Hendrik Uyttendaele, Derek Gordon, Jurg Ott, Janice L. Brissette and Angela M. Christiano

Putting nuclear-test monitoring to the test pp. 474-475

A. Douglas, D. Bowers, P. D. Marshall, J. B. Young, D. Porter and N. J. Wallis

Seeing movement in the dark pp. 475-476

Karl R. Gegenfurtner, Helmut Mayser and Lindsay T. Sharpe

Sexual propagation by sponge fragments pp. 476-476

Manuel Maldonado and María J. Uriz

Bantu banter and African roots pp. 477-478

Jared Diamond

For Charlie and Nick pp. 478-479

Bruce Mazlish

Reasons to be miserable pp. 479-480

Hugh Freeman

A model subject pp. 480-480

David Rind

Science in culture pp. 480-480

John Polkinghorne

Impairment of dynamin's GAP domain stimulates receptor-mediated endocytosis pp. 481-486

Sanja Sever, Amy B. Muhlberg and Sandra L. Schmid

A dusty pinwheel nebula around the massive star WR104 pp. 487-489

Peter G. Tuthill, John D. Monnier and William C. Danchi

Nuclear fusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters pp. 489-492

T. Ditmire, J. Zweiback, V. P. Yanovsky, T. E. Cowan, G. Hays and K. B. Wharton

Thermodynamic determination of fragility in liquids and a fragile-to-strong liquid transition in water pp. 492-495

Kaori Ito, Cornelius T. Moynihan and C. Austen Angell

Control of crystal nucleation by patterned self-assembled monolayers pp. 495-498

Joanna Aizenberg, Andrew J. Black and George M. Whitesides

Complete asymmetric induction of supramolecular chirality in a hydrogen-bonded assembly pp. 498-502

Leonard J. Prins, Jurriaan Huskens, Feike de Jong, Peter Timmerman and David N. Reinhoudt

Variability of inorganic and organic phosphorus turnover rates in the coastal ocean pp. 502-505

Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson and Ken O. Buesseler

Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire pp. 505-508

Daniel C. Nepstad, Adalberto Verssimo, Ane Alencar, Carlos Nobre, Eirivelthon Lima, Paul Lefebvre, Peter Schlesinger, Christopher Potter, Paulo Moutinho, Elsa Mendoza, Mark Cochrane and Vanessa Brooks

An amniote-like skeleton from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland pp. 508-513

R. L. Paton, T. R. Smithson and J. A. Clack

Two transmembrane aspartates in presenilin-1 required for presenilin endoproteolysis and γ-secretase activity pp. 513-517

Michael S. Wolfe, Weiming Xia, Beth L. Ostaszewski, Thekla S. Diehl, W. Taylor Kimberly and Dennis J. Selkoe

A presenilin-1-dependent γ-secretase-like protease mediates release of Notch intracellular domain pp. 518-522

Bart De Strooper, Wim Annaert, Philippe Cupers, Paul Saftig, Katleen Craessaerts, Jeffrey S. Mumm, Eric H. Schroeter, Vincent Schrijvers, Michael S. Wolfe, William J. Ray, Alison Goate and Raphael Kopan

Presenilin is required for activity and nuclear access of Notch in Drosophila pp. 522-525

Gary Struhl and Iva Greenwald

Neurogenic phenotypes and altered Notch processing in Drosophila Presenilin mutants pp. 525-529

Yihong Ye, Nina Lukinova and Mark E. Fortini

The motor protein myosin-I produces its working stroke in two steps pp. 530-533

Claudia Veigel, Lynne M. Coluccio, James D. Jontes, John C. Sparrow, Ronald A. Milligan and Justin E. Molloy

Structural basis for self-association and receptor recognition of human TRAF2 pp. 533-538

Young Chul Park, Vicki Burkitt, Anthony R. Villa, Liang Tong and Hao Wu

1999, volume 398, articles 6726

Stability offers unique opportunity for research pp. 4-5

Colin Macilwain

Scientists seek support from Mexican public pp. 7-9

Laura Garwin

Customs delays drive researchers to smuggling pp. 10-10

Colin Macilwain

Chile tries to bridge gap in scientific standards pp. 11-12

Colin Macilwain

Andes observatories belatedly take root pp. 13-13

Roland Pease

Community split on Peronist reform effort pp. 14-15

Colin Macilwain

Collapse of réal sharpens Brazil's contrasts pp. 16-18

Colin Macilwain

Brazil's space programme comes of age pp. 19-19

Tony Reichhardt

Resources lacking to save Amazon biodiversity pp. 20-21

Andrea Kauffmann-Zeh

Cuban biotechnology treads a lonely path pp. 22-23

Kimberly Carr

Wellcome wages battle to house companies next to genome labs pp. 355-356

Ehsan Masood

Local residents unimpressed by growth plan pp. 355-355

Ehsan Masood

Scientists welcome Prodi as European Commission president pp. 356-356

Alison Abbott

New Howard Hughes head seeks bioinformatics boost pp. 356-356

Colin Macilwain

Wyoming physics faculty faces closure pp. 357-357

Tony Reichhardt

Geological problems drive up cost of nuclear waste dump in Japan pp. 357-357

Asako Saegusa

Cosmic-ray observatory in Argentina gets go-ahead pp. 358-358

Alison Abbott

Canadian scientists win over rare species pp. 358-358

David Spurgeon

Court suspends pioneering gene deal in Yellowstone pp. 358-358

Colin Macilwain

US concern grows over secrecy clauses pp. 359-359

Steve Nadis

UK research councils look to future needs pp. 359-359

Natasha Loder

Biotech industry seeks ‘honest brokers’ pp. 360-360

Declan Butler

Asians link up to protect plant resources pp. 360-360

K. S. Jayaraman

Women scientists unite to battle cowboy culture pp. 361-361

Steve Nadis

Budget shock hits Danish universities pp. 365-365

Kaj Sand-Jensen

High priests of science fear for their position pp. 365-365

George Lauer

Harpoons fly in whale wars pp. 365-366

Alan Macnow

Harpoons fly in whale wars pp. 366-366

Steve Palumbi and Frank Cipriano

System values seniority over innovation pp. 366-366

I. A. Brown

Phage-lift for game theory pp. 367-368

Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund

A burst caught in flagrante pp. 368-369

Peter Mészáros

Spit and polish off pp. 369-369

John Whitfield

Crash tests for real pp. 371-372

Robert M. May

Phonons rewrite structural recipes pp. 372-375

Mark S. T. Bukowinski

A unity of opposites pp. 375-376

Ethan Bier

Millennium bug pp. 376-376

R. S. Siew

Sugars slide into heparin activity pp. 377-378

Pierre Sinaÿ

And there was light! pp. 378-379

Robert Apfel

Oscillating enzymes pp. 379-379

David Jones

Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-99) pp. 380-380

Richard Kent and Brian Huber

Angiogenesis inhibited by drinking tea pp. 381-381

Yihai Cao and Renhai Cao

Trimethylamine induces migration of waterfleas pp. 382-382

Hinnerk Boriss, Maarten Boersma and Karen H. Wiltshire

Ancient stunted trees on cliffs pp. 382-383

D. W. Larson, U. Matthes, J. A. Gerrath, J. M. Gerrath, J. C. Nekola, G. L. Walker, S. Porembski, A. Charlton and N. W. K. Larson

Molecular basis of triclosan activity pp. 383-384

Colin W. Levy, Anna Roujeinikova, Svetlana Sedelnikova, Patrick J. Baker, Antoine R. Stuitje, Antoni R. Slabas, David W. Rice and John B. Rafferty

Evolutionists red in tooth and claw pp. 385-385

David L. Hull

On from Babylon pp. 385-387

J. D. North

An explosive laboratory pp. 387-388

Ilkka Hanski

The laying on of genes pp. 387-387

Karol Sikora

Science in culture pp. 388-388

Martin Kemp

The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999 pp. 389-394

S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, S. C. Odewahn, J. S. Bloom, R. R. Gal, C. D. Koresko, F. A. Harrison, L. M. Lubin, L. Armus, R. Sari, G. D. Illingworth, D. D. Kelson, D. K. Magee, P. G. van Dokkum, D. A. Frail, J. S. Mulchaey, M. A. Malkan, I. S. McClean, H. I. Teplitz, D. Koerner, D. Kirkpatrick, N. Kobayashi, I.-A. Yadigaroglu, J. Halpern, T. Piran, R. W. Goodrich, F. H. Chaffee, M. Feroci and E. Costa

The effect of magnetic fields on γ-ray bursts inferred from multi-wavelength observations of the burst of 23 January 1999 pp. 394-399

Titus Galama, M. S. Briggs, R. A. M. J. Wijers, P. M. Vreeswijk, E. Rol, D. Band, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, R. D. Preece, M. Bremer, I. A. Smith, R. P. J. Tilanus, A. G. de Bruyn, R. G. Strom, G. Pooley, A. J. Castro-Tirado, N. Tanvir, C. Robinson, K. Hurley, J. Heise, J. Telting, R. G. M. Rutten, C. Packham, R. Swaters, J. K. Davies, A. Fassia, S. F. Green, M. J. Foster, R. Sagar, A. K. Pandey, Nilakshi, R. K. S. Yadav, E. O. Ofek, E. Leibowitz, P. Ibbetson, J. Rhoads, E. Falco, C. Petry, C. Impey, T. R. Geballe and D. Bhattacharya

Observation of contemporaneous optical radiation from a γ-ray burst pp. 400-402

C. Akerlof, R. Balsano, S. Barthelmy, J. Bloch, P. Butterworth, D. Casperson, T. Cline, S. Fletcher, F. Frontera, G. Gisler, J. Heise, J. Hills, R. Kehoe, B. Lee, S. Marshall, T. McKay, R. Miller, L. Piro, W. Priedhorsky, J. Szymanski and J. Wren

A simple explanation of light emission in sonoluminescence pp. 402-405

Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse

Immobility of protons in ice from 30 to 190 K pp. 405-407

J. P. Cowin, A. A. Tsekouras, M. J. Iedema, K. Wu and G. B. Ellison

Electrical conduction through DNA molecules pp. 407-410

Hans-Werner Fink and Christian Schönenberger

Glacial–interglacial changes in ocean surface conditions in the Southern Hemisphere pp. 410-413

F. Vimeux, V. Masson, J. Jouzel, M. Stievenard and J. R. Petit

Gravity-driven continental overflow and Archaean tectonics pp. 413-415

R. C. Bailey

Absolute measures of the completeness of the fossil record pp. 415-417

Mike Foote and J. John Sepkoski

Synthesis of thrombin-inhibiting heparin mimetics without side effects pp. 417-422

Maurice Petitou, Jean-Pascal Hérault, André Bernat, Pierre-Alexandre Driguez, Philippe Duchaussoy, Jean-Claude Lormeau and Jean-Marc Herbert

β-Catenin regulates expression of cyclin D1 in colon carcinoma cells pp. 422-426

Osamu Tetsu and Frank McCormick

Local inhibition and long-range enhancement of Dpp signal transduction by Sog pp. 427-431

Hilary L. Ashe and Michael Levine

A new secreted protein that binds to Wnt proteins and inhibits their activites pp. 431-436

Jen-Chih Hsieh, Laurent Kodjabachian, Martha L. Rebbert, Amir Rattner, Philip M. Smallwood, Cynthia Harryman Samos, Roel Nusse, Igor B. Dawid and Jeremy Nathans

A capsaicin-receptor homologue with a high threshold for noxious heat pp. 436-441

Michael J. Caterina, Tobias A. Rosen, Makoto Tominaga, Anthony J. Brake and David Julius

Prisoner's dilemma in an RNA virus pp. 441-443

Paul E. Turner and Lin Chao

1999, volume 398, articles 6725

Nuclear waste store could be built within 25 years, say Lords pp. 271-271

Ehsan Masood

Gaps remain in knowledge of waste behaviour pp. 271-271

Ehsan Masood

Unease mounts over Japan's reform plan pp. 272-272

Asako Saegusa

Libraries offer incentive for web-based rivals to ‘costly’ journals pp. 272-272

Meredith Wadman

Husbands a drag to high-flying physicists pp. 273-273

Natasha Loder

California approves $1.5 billion campus pp. 273-273

Rex Dalton

Dispute erupts over Nazi research claims pp. 274-274

Quirin Schiermeier

Embattled French science agency says it is holding its own pp. 274-274

Declan Butler

CERN plan to train science entrepreneurs pp. 275-275

Alison Abbott

Don't try to change embryo research law pp. 275-275

Alison Abbott

Weapon lab security may hit foreign visits pp. 276-276

Wil Lepkowski

Trade unions campaign for lifelong learning pp. 276-276

Ehsan Masood

Minister slams ‘mismanaged’ universities pp. 277-277

Michael Cherry

UK life scientists seek wider Foresight role pp. 277-277

Ehsan Masood

Researchers face ‘Catch-22’ grants trap pp. 280-280

Carlos F. Ibáñez

It's time to stop counting beans pp. 280-280

David A. Watson

Franklin recalled pp. 280-280

Brenda Maddox

Is science dangerous? pp. 281-282

Lewis Wolpert

At the roots of the mammalian family tree pp. 283-284

Timothy Rowe

Table-top picosecond sources pp. 284-285

Justin Wark

Good reception in fruitfly antennae pp. 285-287

Yitzhak Pilpel and Doron Lancet

The pulling power of galaxy clusters pp. 288-289

Peter Coles

Europe's winter prospects pp. 289-291

Yochanan Kushnir

The eyes have it! pp. 291-292

Karl Gegenfurtner

Free oscillations illuminate the mantle pp. 292-293

R. Widmer-Schnidrig

Phytoplankton death in the sea pp. 293-294

David L. Kirchman

The elusive ‘ultimate state’ of thermal convection pp. 294-295

Joël Sommeria

Coming up for air and sporulation pp. 295-296

Nicholas J. Talbot

Press-fit chemistry pp. 296-296

David Jones

A spelling device for the paralysed pp. 297-298

N. Birbaumer, N. Ghanayim, T. Hinterberger, I. Iversen, B. Kotchoubey, A. Kübler, J. Perelmouter, E. Taub and H. Flor

Insect antenna as a smoke detector pp. 298-299

Stefan Schütz, Bernhard Weissbecker, Hans E. Hummel, Karl-Heinz Apel, Helmut Schmitz and Horst Bleckmann

Rings of single-walled carbon nanotubes pp. 299-299

Richard Martel, Herbert R. Shea and Phaedon Avouris

Taxon sampling revisited pp. 299-300

Steven Poe and David L. Swofford

Historical transformations pp. 301-302

William McGinnis and Peter A. Lawrence

Painting a picture of development pp. 302-303

John Maynard Smith

Surfing a chaotic sea pp. 303-303

J. D. Meiss

A bloody business pp. 303-304

Fred S. Rosen

Storm-chaser reaps the whirlwind pp. 304-304

Roger A. Pielke

Josephson-junction qubits with controlled couplings pp. 305-307

Yuriy Makhlin, Gerd Scöhn and Alexander Shnirman

Evidence against ‘ultrahard’ thermal turbulence at very high Rayleigh numbers pp. 307-310

James A. Glazier, Takehiko Segawa, Antoine Naert and Masaki Sano

Picosecond–milliångström lattice dynamics measured by ultrafast X-ray diffraction pp. 310-312

Christoph Rose-Petruck, Ralph Jimenez, Ting Guo, Andrea Cavalleri, Craig W. Siders, Ferenc Rksi, Jeff A. Squier, Barry C. Walker, Kent R. Wilson and Christopher P. J. Barty

Directed nucleation of calcite at a crystal-imprinted polymer surface pp. 312-316

S. M. D'Souza, C. Alexander, S. W. Carr, A. M. Waller, M. J. Whitcombe and E. N. Vulfson

Ubiquity of quasi-horizontal layers in the troposphere pp. 316-319

Reginald E. Newell, Valerie Thouret, John Y. N. Cho, Patrick Stoller, Alain Marenco and Herman G. Smit

Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate pp. 320-323

M. J. Rodwell, D. P. Rowell and C. K. Folland

Distortion of isochronous layers in ice revealed by ground-penetrating radar pp. 323-326

David G. Vaughan, Hugh F. J. Corr, Christopher S. M. Doake and Ed. D. Waddington

A Chinese triconodont mammal and mosaic evolution of the mammalian skeleton pp. 326-330

Ji Qiang, Luo Zhexi and Ji Shu-an

Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities pp. 330-334

E. L. Berlow

Anticipation of moving stimuli by the retina pp. 334-338

Michael J. Berry, Iman H. Brivanlou, Thomas A. Jordan and Markus Meister

A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers pp. 338-341

Matthew E. Larkum, J. Julius Zhu and Bert Sakmann

Signalling through CD30 protects against autoimmune diabetes mediated by CD8 T cells pp. 341-344

Christian Kurts, Francis R. Carbone, Matthew F. Krummel, Karl M. Koch, Jacques F. A. P. Miller and William R. Heath

Effects of altered gene order or orientation of the locus control region on human β-globin gene expression in mice pp. 344-348

Keiji Tanimoto, Qinghui Liu, Jörg Bungert and James Douglas Engel

Chaperone-like activity of the AAA domain of the yeast Yme1 AAA protease pp. 348-351

Klaus Leonhard, Alexandra Stiegler, Walter Neupert and Thomas Langer

1999, volume 398, articles 6724

Human Genome Project aims to finish ‘working draft’ next year pp. 177-177

Meredith Wadman

Britain sought to speed-up sequencing efforts pp. 177-177

Ehsan Masood

French ministries seek way out of lab supplies crisis pp. 178-178

Declan Butler

Doñana clean-up ‘left half the soil still contaminated’ pp. 178-178

Xavier Bosch

WHO's bioethics code likely to stir debate pp. 179-179

Declan Butler

India falls into line over patents legislation pp. 179-179

K. S. Jayaraman

Call for a lighter regulatory burden on NIH researchers pp. 180-180

Meredith Wadman

US quest for AIDS vaccine appoints a leader pp. 180-180

Meredith Wadman

Britain's ‘high-tech’ budget praised⃛ pp. 181-181

Ehsan Masood

⃛ in the push for a knowledge-driven economy pp. 181-181

Ehsan Masood

Students win pay rise in Michigan strike pp. 182-182

Wil Lepkowski

Japanese emissions plan under fire for relying on nuclear power pp. 182-182

Asako Saegusa

European archive for mouse mutants is set to open at last pp. 183-183

Alison Abbott

Words go missing in cyberspace pp. 186-186

Rosie Redfield

Words go missing in cyberspace pp. 186-186

Jorge Golowasch, Tania Bedrax-Weiss and Adrián Palacios

Whales, science and activism pp. 186-186

Sidney J. Holt

Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip pp. 186-186

Jens C. Jensenius

Lessons from Iraq on bioweapons pp. 187-188

Christian Seelos

Bell's inequality test: more ideal than ever pp. 189-190

Alain Aspect

Oryx go back to the brink pp. 190-190

Martyn Gorman

Ageing hard or hardly ageing? pp. 191-193

David Kipling and Richard G. A. Faragher

Research enters a new phase pp. 193-194

A. J. Millis

Neolithic genetic engineering pp. 194-195

Svante Pääbo

Bose gases and their Fermi cousins pp. 195-198

Michael R. Andrews

A new-for-old urinary bladder pp. 198-199

Jeffrey A. Hubbell

Testing time for theories pp. 199-200

D. V. Ahluwalia

Modification by nuclear export? pp. 200-201

Patrick G. Hogan and Anjana Rao

Sweeping the seas pp. 201-201

David Jones

Henry W. Kendall (1926-99) pp. 202-202

Kurt Gottfried

Colour categories in a stone-age tribe pp. 203-204

Jules Davidoff, Ian Davies and Debi Roberson

Why biodiversity surveys are good value pp. 204-205

Andrew Balmford and Kevin J. Gaston

How the ‘terror crocodile’ grew so big pp. 205-206

Gregory M. Erickson and Christopher A. Brochu

Localization or classical diffusion of light? pp. 206-207

Frank Scheffold, Ralf Lenke, Ralf Tweer and Georg Maret

Localization or classical diffusion of light? pp. 207-207

Diederik S. Wiersma, Jaime Gómez Rivas, Paolo Bartolini, Ad Lagendijk and Roberto Righini

Simulating the motion of gas bubbles in a liquid pp. 208-208

R. Krishna and J. M. van Baten

Tale of a stigma redeemed pp. 209-210

Richard Davenport-Hines

In retrospect: chosen by Anton Zeilinger pp. 210-210

Anton Zeilinger

⃛ nor any drop to drink pp. 210-211

Daniel Hillel

Sounding out two centuries pp. 212-212

J. Woodhouse

Sublimation from icy jets as a probe of the interstellar volatile content of comets pp. 213-216

Geoffrey A. Blake, C. Qi, Michiel R. Hogerheijde, M. A. Gurwell and D. O. Muhleman

Gravity-wave interferometers as quantum-gravity detectors pp. 216-218

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Four-wave mixing with matter waves pp. 218-220

L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, J. Wen, M. Trippenbach, Y. Band, P. S. Julienne, J. E. Simsarian, K. Helmerson, S. L. Rolston and W. D. Phillips

Vanishing of phase coherence in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ pp. 221-223

J. Corson, R. Mallozzi, J. Orenstein, J. N. Eckstein and I. Bozovic

Aerosol-assisted self-assembly of mesostructured spherical nanoparticles pp. 223-226

Yunfeng Lu, Hongyou Fan, Aaron Stump, Timothy L. Ward, Thomas Rieker and C. Jeffrey Brinker

Molecular-sieve catalysts for the selective oxidation of linear alkanes by molecular oxygen pp. 227-230

John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja, Gopinathan Sankar and Robert G. Bell

Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the Arctic troposphere pp. 230-233

Ann Louise Sumner and Paul B. Shepson

Increased marine sediment suspension and fluxes following an earthquake pp. 233-236

Robert Thunell, Eric Tappa, Ramon Varela, Martin Llano, Yrene Astor, Frank Muller-Karger and Richard Bohrer

The limits of selection during maize domestication pp. 236-239

Rong-Lin Wang, Adrian Stec, Jody Hey, Lewis Lukens and John Doebley

Gaze direction controls response gain in primary visual-cortex neurons pp. 239-242

Yves Trotter and Simona Celebrini

brinker is a target of Dpp in Drosophila that negatively regulates Dpp-dependent genes pp. 242-246

Maki Minami, Noriyuki Kinoshita, Yuko Kamoshida, Hiromu Tanimoto and Tetsuya Tabata

A new protease required for cell-cycle progression in yeast pp. 246-251

Shyr-Jiann Li and Mark Hochstrasser

The kinase TAK1 can activate the NIK-IκB as well as the MAP kinase cascade in the IL-1 signalling pathway pp. 252-256

Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Kazuya Kishimoto, Atsushi Hiyama, Jun-ichiro Inoue, Zhaodan Cao and Kunihiro Matsumoto

NF-AT activation requires suppression of Crm1-dependent export by calcineurin pp. 256-260

Jiangyu Zhu and Frank McKeon

Physics grapples with its image problem pp. 265-266

Helen Gavaghan

1999, volume 398, articles 6723

Biologists make plea to NIH to invest in supercomputer centre pp. 93-94

Meredith Wadman

Catalonia offers $16m innovation grants pp. 93-93

Xavier Bosch

Mixed funding fortunes for UK research universities pp. 94-94

Ehsan Masood

US Nobel winners back stem-cell research pp. 94-94

Meredith Wadman

Japan's transplant law ‘is too stringent’⃛ pp. 95-95

Asako Saegusa

⃛ but the pill may be legalized at last pp. 95-95

Asako Saegusa

Russia protests at US science sanctions pp. 96-96

Carl Levitin

Los Alamos secrets ‘were leaked to China’ pp. 96-96

Colin Macilwain

Top physics labs ‘must bury the hatchet’ pp. 97-97

Colin Macilwain

The search for missing mass finds funds for UK researchers pp. 97-97

Ehsan Masood

Food scientist in GMO row defends ‘premature’ warning pp. 98-98

Ehsan Masood

US State Department gets cold feet about cold fusion pp. 98-98

Tony Reichhardt

£150m tax break for research in UK budget pp. 98-98

Ehsan Masood

Africa splits over bar to patents on plants pp. 99-99

Ehsan Masood

Call for research and education to tackle ‘environmental injustice’ pp. 99-99

Tony Reichhardt

It's time to ‘out’ the selfish researchers pp. 102-102

Noel C. Harris

PMs and policemen are getting younger pp. 102-102

M. de L. Brooke

Moving protein heads for breakdown pp. 103-104

Martin Scheffner

Probing magnetism in the well pp. 104-105

S. D. Bader

The mysterious missing sink pp. 105-107

David W. Schindler

Asymmetry the easy way pp. 107-108

Samuel P. Gido

Retroshuffling the genomic deck pp. 109-111

Jef D. Boeke and Oxana K. Pickeral

Mothers of invention pp. 111-111

John Whitfield

Restless carbon pools pp. 111-112

Philippe Ciais

Negative friction pp. 112-112

David Jones

Light-emitting suckers in an octopus pp. 113-114

Sönke Johnsen, Elisabeth J. Balser and Edith A. Widder

Visualization of Bloch waves and domain walls pp. 114-115

M. Torres, J. P. Adrados and F. R. Montero de Espinosa

Genetic flexibility of plant chloroplasts pp. 115-116

Jürg E. Frey

Are vent shrimps blinded by science? pp. 116-116

Peter J. Herring, Edward Gaten and Peter M. J. Shelton

Bursting a south-sea bubble pp. 117-118

Melvin Konner

Unstable door to the future of computing pp. 118-119

John Preskill

Tides in our time pp. 119-120

Paul Melchior

PGOMLDADLDCD pp. 120-120

Alexander Masters

Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica pp. 121-126

A. Indermühle, T. F. Stocker, F. Joos, H. Fischer, H. J. Smith, M. Wahlen, B. Deck, D. Mastroianni, J. Tschumi, T. Blunier, R. Meyer and B. Stauffer

An outburst of relativistic particles from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14 pp. 127-129

D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni and J. S. Bloom

Rotation rates of Kuiper-belt objects from their light curves pp. 129-132

W. Romanishin and S. C. Tegler

Quantum-well states in copper thin films pp. 132-134

R. K. Kawakami, E. Rotenberg, Hyuk J. Choi, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, M. O. Bowen, J. H. Wolfe, E. Arenholz, Z. D. Zhang, N. V. Smith and Z. Q. Qiu

Enhancement of surface self-diffusion of platinum atoms by adsorbed hydrogen pp. 134-136

S. Horch, H. T. Lorensen, S. Helveg, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov and F. Besenbacher

Non-centrosymmetric superlattices in block copolymer blends pp. 137-139

Thorsten Goldacker, Volker Abetz, Reimund Stadler, Igor Erukhimovich and Ludwik Leibler

Unblocking of the Nares Strait by Greenland and Ellesmere ice-sheet retreat 10,000 years ago pp. 139-142

Marek Zreda, John England, Fred Phillips, David Elmore and Pankaj Sharma

The role of hydraulic fractures and intermediate-depth earthquakes in generating subduction-zone magmatism pp. 142-145

J. Huw Davies

Nitrogen deposition makes a minor contribution to carbon sequestration in temperate forests pp. 145-148

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

The mahogany protein is a receptor involved in suppression of obesity pp. 148-152

Deborah L. Nagle, Sonja H. McGrail, James Vitale, Elizabeth A. Woolf, Barry J. Dussault, Lisa DiRocco, Lisa Holmgren, Jill Montagno, Peer Bork, Dennis Huszar, Victoria Fairchild-Huntress, Pei Ge, John Keilty, Chris Ebeling, Linda Baldini, Julie Gilchrist, Paul Burn, George A. Carlson and Karen J. Moore

The mouse mahogany locus encodes a transmembrane form of human attractin pp. 152-156

Teresa M. Gunn, Kimberly A. Miller, Lin He, Richard W. Hyman, Ronald W. Davis, Arezou Azarani, Stuart F. Schlossman, Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan and Gregory S. Barsh

A protective role for protease-activated receptors in the airways pp. 156-160

T. M. Cocks, B. Fong, J. M. Chow, G. P. Anderson, A. G. Frauman, R. G. Goldie, P. J. Henry, M. J. Carr, J. R. Hamilton and J. D. Moffatt

Degradation of the cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 is instigated by Jab1 pp. 160-165

Kiichiro Tomoda, Yukiko Kubota and Jun-ya Kato

CBP-independent activation of CREM and CREB by the LIM-only protein ACT pp. 165-169

Gian Maria Fimia, Dario De Cesare and Paolo Sassone-Corsi

1999, volume 398, articles 6722

Anomalies in French blood inquiry over ‘misleading’ report pp. 3-3

Declan Butler

British drive for more women in science pp. 4-4

Natasha Loder

Indian budget boost targets innovation, vaccines and genetics pp. 4-4

K. S. Jayaraman

US aid to Russian weapons labs defended pp. 5-5

Colin Macilwain

Japanese institutes face greater autonomy pp. 5-5

Asako Saegusa

Collapse of talks on safety of GMO trade pp. 6-6

Ehsan Masood

NASA plans two-stage Hubble repair to keep the data flowing pp. 6-6

Tony Reichhardt

Germany aims for competitive equality pp. 7-7

Alison Abbott

Head of German particle physics lab dies pp. 7-7

Alison Abbott

South Africa stands firm on AIDS drug ⃛ pp. 8-8

Michael Cherry

⃛while forecasting benefits from NASA funds pp. 8-8

Michael Cherry

Canadians protest over rare species bill pp. 9-9

David Spurgeon

Varmus wish list guides senators in fight for biomedical funding pp. 9-9

Meredith Wadman

Controversy over the cloning of mice pp. 19-20

Karl Illmensee

Papers vanish in mis-citation black hole pp. 19-19

Janne S. Kotiaho

Engineering a longer life pp. 19-19

Nigel L. Firth

Managing SOHO pp. 19-19

Joseph B. Gurman

Forging links in an electronic paper chain pp. 20-20

Mark Gerstein

The editor as an endangered species pp. 20-20

Gene L. Wells

Space-grown crystals may prove their worth pp. 20-20

Naomi E. Chayen and John R. Helliwell

From rifting to drifting pp. 21-22

Fred F. Pollitz

An SH2 domain in disguise pp. 22-23

John Kuriyan and James E. Darnell

Evolution of the cosmological constant pp. 25-26

P. J. E. Peebles

A taste of things to come pp. 25-25

Alison Mitchell

Accessory to murder pp. 26-27

Ton N. M. Schumacher

The mystery of the sapropels pp. 27-29

Connie Sancetta

DREAM on without calcium pp. 29-30

Gail Mandel and Richard H. Goodman

Bugging the brain pp. 30-30

David Jones

Designing tie knots by random walks pp. 31-32

Thomas M. Fink and Yong Mao

Pasture damage by an Amazonian earthworm pp. 32-33

Armand Chauvel, Michel Grimaldi, Eleusa Barros, Eric Blanchart, Thierry Desjardins, Max Sarrazin and Patrick Lavelle

Using hair to screen for breast cancer pp. 33-34

Veronica James, John Kearsley, Tom Irving, Yoshiyuki Amemiya and David Cookson

Change-blindness as a result of ‘mudsplashes’ pp. 34-34

J. Kevin O'Regan, Ronald A. Rensink and James J. Clark

From Daedalus to NASA pp. 35-36

G. Siegfried Kutter

Counting on statistics pp. 36-37

Jonathan Rosenhead

Decision-making for our ecological future pp. 37-38

Marc Mangel

Super news pp. 38-38

A. J. Leggett

Science in culture pp. 38-38

Martin Kemp

Structure of a Ran-binding domain complexed with Ran bound to a GTP analogue: implications for nuclear transport pp. 39-46

Ingrid R. Vetter, Christine Nowak, Takeharu Nishimoto, Jürgen Kuhlmann and Alfred Wittinghofer

Superconductivity mediated by spin fluctuations in the heavy-fermion compound UPd2 Al3 pp. 47-49

M. Jourdan, M. Huth and H. Adrian

Coherent displacement of atoms during ion irradiation pp. 49-51

K. Nordlund, J. Keinonen, M. Ghaly and R. S. Averback

Two-photon polymerization initiators for three-dimensional optical data storage and microfabrication pp. 51-54

Brian H. Cumpston, Sundaravel P. Ananthavel, Stephen Barlow, Daniel L. Dyer, Jeffrey E. Ehrlich, Lael L. Erskine, Ahmed A. Heikal, Stephen M. Kuebler, I.-Y. Sandy Lee, Dianne McCord-Maughon, Jinqui Qin, Harald Röckel, Mariacristina Rumi, Xiang-Li Wu, Seth R. Marder and Joseph W. Perry

Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent pp. 54-57

Yves Lansac, Matthew A. Glaser, Noel A. Clark and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

The role of mat-forming diatoms in the formation of Mediterranean sapropels pp. 57-61

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

Low-temperature thermal generation of hydrocarbon gases in shallow shales pp. 61-63

Devon Rowe and Atis Muehlenbachs

Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the Southwest Indian ridge pp. 64-67

Dezhi Chu and Richard G. Gordon

Dissociation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens from intracranial self-stimulation pp. 67-69

Paul A. Garris, Michaux Kilpatrick, Melissa A. Bunin, Darren Michael, Q. David Walker and R. Mark Wightman

Regulation of calcium signalling in T lymphocytes by the second messenger cyclic ADP-ribose pp. 70-73

Andreas H. Guse, Cristina P. da Silva, Ingeborg Berg, Alla L. Skapenko, Karin Weber, Petra Heyer, Martin Hohenegger, Gloria A. Ashamu, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Barry V. L. Potter and Georg W. Mayr

Coordination of agonist-induced Ca2+-signalling patterns by NAADP in pancreatic acinar cells pp. 74-76

Jose Manuel Cancela, Grant C. Churchill and Antony Galione

Cytotoxic T-cell immunity to virus-infected non-haematopoietic cells requires presentation of exogenous antigen pp. 77-80

Luis J. Sigal, Shane Crotty, Raul Andino and Kenneth L. Rock

DREAM is a Ca2+-regulated transcriptional repressor pp. 80-84

Angel M. Carrión, Wolfgang A. Link, Fran Ledo, Britt Mellström and Jose R. Naranjo

Structure of the amino-terminal domain of Cbl complexed to its binding site on ZAP-70 kinase pp. 84-90

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