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1998, volume 395, articles 6705

US plans a multi-million dollar boost to computer simulation pp. 825-825

Colin Macilwain

Biomedicine wins British budget top-up pp. 825-825

Ehsan Masood

Suicide highlights graduate student woes pp. 826-826

Steve Nadis

Damaged satellite adds to delays facing X-ray astronomers pp. 826-826

Alison Abbott

Italian scientists fear impact of cabinet reshuffle on reforms pp. 827-827

Alison Abbott

Alarm raised over drop in basic research at NASA pp. 827-827

Tony Reichhardt

US panel split on endocrine disruptors ⃛ pp. 828-828

Colin Macilwain

⃛ while Japan studies drop in sperm counts pp. 828-828

Alison Abbott

French inquiry into misconduct is shelved pp. 829-829

Declan Butler

Controversial Swedish science minister loses seat in reshuffle pp. 829-829

Peter Sylwan

UK holds up applications of genetically modified crops pp. 830-830

Ehsan Masood

Canada announces second round of infrastructure awards pp. 830-830

David Spurgeon

Brazil forced to cut back science funding pp. 831-831

Andrea Kauffman-Zeh

Clash over demand for more synchrotron sources in Europe pp. 831-831

Declan Butler

Missing the mark on misconduct pp. 835-836

Rustum Roy

Rising costs hold up drug discovery pp. 835-835

Henry I. Miller

Gender gap in health decline in East Europe pp. 835-835

Gerdi Weidner

Question marks over genetic counselling pp. 836-836

Alan Akers

Germany keen to reduce the nuclear threat pp. 836-836

Martin Erdmann

Germany keen to reduce the nuclear threat pp. 836-836

Frank N. von Hippel

‘No controversy’ at CITES pp. 836-836

Victoria Lichtschein

Strategies for cutting carbon pp. 837-838

David G. Victor

Measuring distance in two dimensions pp. 838-839

Walter Metzner

Crystal cages for clean coolers pp. 839-841

Laszlo Mihaly

A fly's eye view of Huntington's disease pp. 841-841

Alison Mitchell

A map for cyberspace pp. 842-843

Peter Little

New members of the Local Group pp. 843-845

Sidney van den Bergh

In the mind's eye of the beholder pp. 845-846

Robert Shapley

The clash in titin pp. 846-847

Anthony R. Means

Photocoiffure pp. 847-847

David Jones

André Weil (1906-98) pp. 848-848

Robert P. Langlands

Laudable labs? pp. 849-849

Martin Kemp

Maternal antibodies block malaria pp. 851-852

Michal Fried, François Nosten, Alan Brockman, Bernard J. Brabin and Patrick E. Duffy

Object recognition can drive motion perception pp. 852-853

V. S. Ramachandran, C. Armel, C. Foster and R. Stoddard

Preserving tardigrades under pressure pp. 853-854

Kunihiro Seki and Masato Toyoshima

Specific interference by ingested dsRNA pp. 854-854

Lisa Timmons and Andrew Fire

Beefing up the food police pp. 855-856

John Godfrey

The freedom not to listen pp. 856-857

John Ziman

How the brain holds our attention pp. 857-858

Steven Yantis

Looking after your molecules pp. 858-858

John Emsley

Star formation triggered by galaxy collisions pp. 859-862

Reinhard Genzel, Dieter Lutz and Linda Tacconi

Structural basis for activation of the titin kinase domain during myofibrillogenesis pp. 863-869

Olga Mayans, Peter F. M. van der Ven, Matthias Wilm, Alexander Mues, Paul Young, Dieter O. Fürst, Matthias Wilmanns and Mathias Gautel

Carbon monoxide emission as a precise tracer of molecular gas in the Andromeda galaxy pp. 871-873

N. Neininger, M. Guélin, H. Ungerechts, R. Lucas and R. Wielebinski

Microwave spectroscopy of a quantum-dot molecule pp. 873-876

T. H. Oosterkamp, T. Fujisawa, W. G. van der Wiel, K. Ishibashi, R. V. Hijman, S. Tarucha and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Localized vibrational modes in metallic solids pp. 876-878

V. Keppens, D. Mandrus, B. C. Sales, B. C. Chakoumakos, P. Dai, R. Coldea, M. B. Maple, D. A. Gajewski, E. J. Freeman and S. Bennington

Synthesis of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on patterned silicon wafers pp. 878-881

Jing Kong, Hyongsok T. Soh, Alan M. Cassell, Calvin F. Quate and Hongjie Dai

Energy implications of future stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content pp. 881-884

Martin I. Hoffert, Ken Caldeira, Atul K. Jain, Erik F. Haites, L. D. Danny Harvey, Seth D. Potter, Michael E. Schlesinger, Stephen H. Schneider, Robert G. Watts, Tom M. L. Wigley and Donald J. Wuebbles

Oil preserved in fluid inclusions in Archaean sandstones pp. 885-888

Adriana Dutkiewicz, Birger Rasmussen and Roger Buick

Triggering of volcanic eruptions pp. 888-890

Alan T. Linde and I. Selwyn Sacks

Electric fish measure distance in the dark pp. 890-894

Gerhard von der Emde, Stephan Schwarz, Leonel Gomez, Ruben Budelli and Kirsty Grant

Seeing biological motion pp. 894-896

Peter Neri, M. Concetta Morrone and David C. Burr

Temporal dynamics of chromatic tuning in macaque primary visual cortex pp. 896-900

Nicolas P. Cottaris and Russell L. De Valois

Selective activation of Ca2+-activated K+ channels by co-localized Ca2+ channels in hippocampal neurons pp. 900-905

Neil V. Marrion and Steven J. Tavalin

Mice without myoglobin pp. 905-908

Daniel J. Garry, George A. Ordway, John N. Lorenz, Nina B. Radford, Eva R. Chin, Robert W. Grange, Rhonda Bassel-Duby and R. Sanders Williams

Role of Ca2+/K+ ion exchange in intracellular storage and release of Ca2+ pp. 908-912

Thien Nguyen, Wei-Chun Chin and Pedro Verdugo

Structure of a glutamate-receptor ligand-binding core in complex with kainate pp. 913-917

Neali Armstrong, Yu Sun, Guo-Qiang Chen and Eric Gouaux

Chromatin deacetylation by an ATP-dependent nucleosome remodelling complex pp. 917-921

Jeffrey K. Tong, Christian A. Hassig, Gavin R. Schnitzler, Robert E. Kingston and Stuart L. Schreiber

Erratum FGF-mediated mesoderm induction involves the Src-family kinase Laloo pp. 921-921

Daniel C. Weinstein, Jennifer Marden, Francesca Carnevali and Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou

1998, volume 395, articles 6704

French researchers kick up a storm over CNRS ‘reforms’ pp. 729-730

Declan Butler

Universities to get more control of biomedicine pp. 729-729

Declan Butler

Japan's universities resist plan for greater autonomy pp. 730-730

Asako Saegusa

US Congress rebuffs data copyright law pp. 730-730

Tony Reichhardt

US cancer body calls for ideas from all disciplines pp. 731-731

Colin Macilwain

Proposed restrictions relaxed on research on mentally disabled pp. 731-731

Colin Macilwain

Europe's space funds feel the squeeze⃛ pp. 732-732

Alison Abbott

⃛ while UK scientists seek private backing pp. 732-732

Alison Abbott

New faces, old policies in German coalition pp. 733-733

Alison Abbott

Research reactor escapes Green axe⃛ so far pp. 733-733

Quirin Schiermeier

Superconductors make their public debut in US utility network pp. 733-733

Laura Garwin

Lobbyists elated as the NIH wins $2bn budget increase pp. 734-734

Colin Macilwain

Spain's cardiologists rally to Moncada pp. 734-734

Xavier Bosch

Top BSE official denies charges of excessive secrecy pp. 734-734

Ehsan Masood

Closer links urged for islands in the sun pp. 735-735

David Dickson

Hybrid journals pp. 739-740

B. Annapoorani, S. Amba and K. S. Raghavan

Where has Britain's plutonium gone? pp. 739-739

K. W. J. Barnham, J. Nelson and R. A. Stevens

Journals are best left on the shelf pp. 739-739

Anthony K. Grafton

Popular reaction against science pp. 740-740

Daniel Davies

Two-way street pp. 740-740

Alessandro Minelli

Referencing crystal coordinates pp. 740-740

Peter B. Moore

Adapting to the inevitable pp. 741-741

Martin Parry, Nigel Arnell, Mike Hulme, Robert Nicholls and Matthew Livermore

A channelled plume under Africa pp. 743-744

Geoff Davies

Stability is woven by complex webs pp. 744-745

Gary A. Polis

Limits to growth pp. 745-747

Philip Ball

Darwin and Archimedes come under the hammer pp. 747-747

Tim Lincoln

Forerunners of four legs pp. 748-749

Philippe Janvier

Oceans inside Jupiter's moons pp. 749-751

Fritz Neubauer

The geometry of adaptation pp. 751-752

Nick Barton

Dead metallic silence pp. 752-752

David Jones

Akeley's Africa pp. 753-753

Martin Kemp

Neuron loss in APP transgenic mice pp. 755-756

Michael E. Calhoun, Karl-Heinz Wiederhold, Dorothee Abramowski, Amie L. Phinney, Alphonse Probst, Christine Sturchler-Pierrat, Matthias Staufenbiel, Bernd Sommer and Mathias Jucker

Why some papers have long citation lifetimes pp. 756-757

Helmut A. Abt

Nanodomain control in copolymer thin films pp. 757-758

E. Huang, L. Rockford, T. P. Russell and C. J. Hawker

How to store seeds to conserve biodiversity pp. 758-758

Richard H. Ellis and Eric H. Roberts

Refrigeration can save seeds economically pp. 758-758

Christina Walters, Eric E. Roos, Darren H. Touchell, Phillip C. Stanwood, Leigh Towill, Loren Wiesner and Steve A. Eberhart

Through the looking-glass pp. 759-760

Keith Miller

What two legs can learn from four legs pp. 760-761

Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund

Fungus not always a bogeyman pp. 761-762

David L. Hawksworth

Twisted strands pp. 762-762

Sydney Brenner

Leptin and the regulation of body weight in mammals pp. 763-770

Jeffrey M. Friedman and Jeffrey L. Halaas

Hydrological characteristics of the drainage system beneath a surging glacier pp. 771-774

Helgi Björnsson

A circumstellar dust disk around a star with a known planetary companion pp. 775-777

David E. Trilling and Robert H. Brown

Induced magnetic fields as evidence for subsurface oceans in Europa and Callisto pp. 777-780

K. K. Khurana, M. G. Kivelson, D. J. Stevenson, G. Schubert, C. T. Russell, R. J. Walker and C. Polanskey

Quantized conductance through individual rows of suspended gold atoms pp. 780-783

Hideaki Ohnishi, Yukihito Kondo and Kunio Takayanagi

Formation and manipulation of a metallic wire of single gold atoms pp. 783-785

A. I. Yanson, G. Rubio Bollinger, H. E. van den Brom, N. Agraït and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Contribution of bedrock nitrogen to high nitrate concentrations in stream water pp. 785-788

J. M. Holloway, R. A. Dahlgren, B. Hansen and W. H. Casey

Cenozoic magmatism throughout east Africa resulting from impact of a single plume pp. 788-791

C. J. Ebinger and N. H. Sleep

Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods pp. 792-794

Per E. Ahlberg and Zerina Johanson

Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature pp. 794-798

Kevin McCann, Alan Hastings and Gary R. Huxel

A jitter after-effect reveals motion-based stabilization of vision pp. 798-801

Ikuya Murakami and Patrick Cavanagh

The DCC gene product induces apoptosis by a mechanism requiring receptor proteolysis pp. 801-804

Patrick Mehlen, Shahrooz Rabizadeh, Scott J. Snipas, Nuria Assa-Munt, Guy S. Salvesen and Dale E. Bredesen

Assembly of the Drosophila phototransduction cascade into a signalling complex shapes elementary responses pp. 805-808

Kristin Scott and Charles S. Zuker

The G protein Gα12 stimulates Bruton's tyrosine kinase and a rasGAP through a conserved PH/BM domain pp. 808-813

Yun Jiang, Wei Ma, Yong Wan, Tohru Kozasa, Seisuke Hattori and Xin-Yun Huang

Direction determination in the minus-end-directed kinesin motor ncd pp. 813-816

Elena P. Sablin, Ryan B. Case, Shirleko C. Dai, Cynthia L. Hart, Aaron Ruby, Ronald D. Vale and Robert J. Fletterick

Unfolded conformations of α-lytic protease are more stable than its native state pp. 817-819

Julie L. Sohl, Sheila S. Jaswal and David A. Agard

1998, volume 395, articles 6703

Hidden role of a gas of many parts pp. 625-625

Rory Howlett

Nobel award stirs up debate on nitric oxide breakthrough pp. 625-626

Rory Howlett

Physicists rewarded for ‘fractional electrons’ pp. 626-626

Philip Ball

Theoretical chemistry makes its mark pp. 626-626

Philip Ball

Congress warns nuclear labs of spy risk pp. 627-627

Colin Macilwain

Pay crisis drives Russian scientists abroad pp. 627-627

Carl Levitin

Japan may require labels on genetic food pp. 628-628

Asako Saegusa

UK environment report looks to the people pp. 628-628

Quirin Schiermeier

UK nuclear waste firm faces US critics pp. 629-629

Colin Macilwain

Epidemiologist's funds axed after report on Californian smoking pp. 629-629

Sally Lehrmann

Canadians call for tax cuts to curb the ‘brain drain’⃛ pp. 630-630

David Spurgeon

⃛ as skilled workers head for the United States pp. 630-630

David Spurgeon

France abandons plan to reform national biomedical agency pp. 630-630

Declan Butler

UK contract staff need help, says report pp. 631-631

David Dickson

New telescope shows off its paces pp. 631-631

Ehsan Masood

101 uses for a life sciences PhD pp. 634-634

Andrew A. Bogan and Elizabeth C. Bogan

The Western front pp. 634-634

Daniel Wildcat and Raymond Pierotti

The Western front pp. 634-634

Adam Kuper

Coelacanth populations may go with the flow pp. 634-634

Arnold L. Gordon

Launch editor pp. 634-634

Faith Rogers

How big do stellar explosions get? pp. 635-636

Eddie Baron

Towards a genetic history of China pp. 637-639

Alberto Piazza

Pick out a penguin pp. 637-637

Rory Howlett

New troubles for inflation? pp. 639-640

Marc Kamionkowski and Andrew H. Jaffe

Chemistry of light pp. 640-640

Stephen Battersby

Cripto-analysis of embryonic codes pp. 641-643

Rosa Beddington

New smells for old pp. 643-643

David Jones

Frederick Reines (1918-98) pp. 644-644

Michael Moe

Calcium - a life and death signal pp. 645-648

Michael J. Berridge, Martin D. Bootman and Peter Lipp

Monge's maths, Hummel's highlights pp. 649-649

Martin Kemp

Female gene flow stratifies Hindu castes pp. 651-652

Michael J. Bamshad, W. Scott Watkins, Mary E. Dixon, Lynn B. Jorde, B. Bhaskara Rao, J. M. Naidu, B. V. Ravi Prasad, Arani Rasanayagam and Mike F. Hammer

Effects of progesterone or neuroactive steroid? pp. 652-653

Sheryl S. Smith, Qi Hua Gong, Fu-Chun Hsu, Ronald S. Markowitz, J. M. H. ffrench-Mullen and Xinshe Li

Effects of progesterone or neuroactive steroid? pp. 652-652

A. Leslie Morrow, Margaret J. VanDoren and Leslie L. Devaud

Young wallabies get a free ride pp. 653-654

R. V. Baudinette and A. A. Biewener

Stabilizing gaze in flying blowflies pp. 654-654

C. Schilstra and J. H. van Hateren

The bird-watcher's guides to paradise pp. 655-656

Jared Diamond

Are talkers the only thinkers? pp. 656-657

Karen McComb and Stuart Semple

Bound for the future pp. 657-658

David Larbalestier

When the boat comes in pp. 658-658

Linda Medlin

A vertebrate model of extreme physiological regulation pp. 659-662

Stephen M. Secor and Jared Diamond

Radio emission from the unusual supernova 1998bw and its association with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 pp. 663-669

S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, M. H. Wieringa, R. D. Ekers, E. M. Sadler, R. M. Wark, J. L. Higdon, E. S. Phinney and J. S. Bloom

An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 pp. 670-672

Titus Galama, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, T. Augusteijn, H. Böhnhardt, J. P. Brewer, V. Doublier, J.-F. Gonzalez, B. Leibundgut, C. Lidman, O. R. Hainaut, F. Patat, J. Heise, J. in't Zand, K. Hurley, P. J. Groot, R. G. Strom, P. A. Mazzali, K. Iwamoto, K. Nomoto, H. Umeda, T. Nakamura, T. R. Young, T. Suzuki, T. Shigeyama, T. Koshut, M. Kippen, C. Robinson, P. de Wildt, R. A. M. J. Wijers, N. Tanvir, J. Greiner, E. Pian, E. Palazzi, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, L. Nicastro, M. Feroci, E. Costa, L. Piro, B. A. Peterson, C. Tinney, B. Boyle, R. Cannon, R. Stathakis, E. Sadler, M. C. Begam and P. Ianna

A hypernova model for the supernova associated with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 pp. 672-674

K. Iwamoto, P. A. Mazzali, K. Nomoto, H. Umeda, T. Nakamura, F. Patat, I. J. Danziger, T. R. Young, T. Suzuki, T. Shigeyama, T. Augusteijn, V. Doublier, J.-F. Gonzalez, H. Boehnhardt, J. Brewer, O. R. Hainaut, C. Lidman, B. Leibundgut, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, Titus Galama, P. M. Vreeswijk, C. Kouveliotou, J. van Paradijs, E. Pian, E. Palazzi and F. Frontera

Experimental evidence for a two-dimensional quantized Hall insulator pp. 675-677

M. Hilke, D. Shahar, S. H. Song, D. C. Tsui, Y. H. Xie and Don Monroe

Room-temperature magnetoresistance in an oxide material with an ordered double-perovskite structure pp. 677-680

K.-I. Kobayashi, T. Kimura, H. Sawada, K. Terakura and Y. Tokura

Silicon-isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change pp. 680-683

C. L. De La Rocha, M. A. Brzezinski, M. J. DeNiro and A. Shemesh

Formation of atmospheric particles from organic acids produced by forests pp. 683-686

Ilias G. Kavouras, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos and Euripides G. Stephanou

Mantle convection simulations with rheologies that generate plate-like behaviour pp. 686-689

Ron Trompert and Ulrich Hansen

Two-dimensional matches from one-dimensional stimulus components in human stereopsis pp. 689-693

Bart Farell

Who reads temporal information contained across synchronized and oscillatory spike trains? pp. 693-698

Katrina MacLeod, Alex Bäcker and Gilles Laurent

Destabilization of β-catenin by mutations in presenilin-1 potentiates neuronal apoptosis pp. 698-702

Zhuohua Zhang, Henrike Hartmann, Viet Minh Do, Dorothee Abramowski, Christine Sturchler-Pierrat, Matthias Staufenbiel, Bernd Sommer, Marc van de Wetering, Hans Clevers, Paul Saftig, Bart De Strooper, Xi He and Bruce A. Yankner

Cripto is required for correct orientation of the anterior–posterior axis in the mouse embryo pp. 702-707

Jixiang Ding, Lu Yang, Yu-Ting Yan, Amy Chen, Nishita Desai, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris and Michael M. Shen

Sexually dimorphic development of the mammalian reproductive tract requires Wnt-7a pp. 707-710

Brian A. Parr and Andrew P. McMahon

Spanning binding sites on allosteric proteins with polymer-linked ligand dimers pp. 710-713

Richard H. Kramer and Jeffrey W. Karpen

Bmk1/Erk5 is required for cell proliferation induced by epidermal growth factor pp. 713-716

Yutaka Kato, Richard I. Tapping, Shuang Huang, Mark H. Watson, Richard J. Ulevitch and Jiing-Dwan Lee

Suppression of auxin signal transduction by a MAPK cascade in higher plants pp. 716-720

Yelena Kovtun, Wan-Ling Chiu, Weike Zeng and Jen Sheen

Ribonuclease E is a 5′-end-dependent endonuclease pp. 720-724

George A. Mackie

Erratum: Subsurface charge accumulation imaging of a quantum Hall liquid pp. 724-724

S. H. Tessmer, P. I. Glicofridis, R. C. Ashoori, L. S. Levitov and M. R. Melloch

Ways to handle DNA pp. 725-726

Brendan Horton

1998, volume 395, articles 6702

World Bank calls for a fairer deal on patents and knowledge pp. 529-529

Declan Butler

Magnetar blasts its way out of theory pp. 529-529

Tony Reichhardt

Recession hits plans for science growth in New Zealand pp. 530-530

Peter Pockley

Intel co-founder funds new centre for biodiversity⃛ pp. 530-530

Tony Reichhardt

⃛and gives Cambridge a science library pp. 530-530

Tony Reichhardt

Congress smiles on research budgets pp. 531-531

Colin Macilwain and Tony Reichhardt

Brussels rejects ‘grace period’ on patents pp. 531-531

Declan Butler and David Dickson

German scientists may escape fraud trial pp. 532-533

Alison Abbott

Task force set up to determine the damage pp. 533-533

Alison Abbott

Shake-up on the way for Swiss research pp. 534-534

Quirin Schiermeier

Canada's blood agency up and running pp. 534-534

David Spurgeon

Big increase in Spanish research funding pp. 535-535

Xavier Bosch

French scientist shrugs off winning his second Ig Nobel prize pp. 535-535

Steve Nadis

Long-lived, but not ‘aged’ pp. 538-538

Eric Le Bourg and Nadège Minois

What's in a name (or a number or a date)? pp. 538-538

Nicholas C. Price

Each to his own pp. 538-538

Thomas J. Crowley

The fate of the Neanderthals pp. 539-540

Paul Mellars

Titan weather report pp. 541-543

F. Michael Flasar

Two orphans find a home pp. 543-544

Didier Picard

Solid-state organic solar cells pp. 544-545

Wim C. Sinke and Martijn M. Wienk

A LEAFY link from outer space pp. 545-547

Ben Scheres

From deep time to late arrivals pp. 547-548

Martin Brasier

Ribozyme crevices and catalysis pp. 548-549

Daniel Herschlag

Water amongst the rock pp. 549-550

Timothy D. Swindle

Worlds apart pp. 550-550

David Jones

Icons of intellect pp. 551-551

Martin Kemp

Harvesting a crop of gold in plants pp. 553-554

Christopher W. N. Anderson, Robert R. Brooks, Robert B. Stewart and Robyn Simcock

Salinity history of the Earth's early ocean pp. 554-555

L. Paul Knauth

Receptor that leaves a sour taste in the mouth pp. 555-556

Shinya Ugawa, Yuki Minami, Wei Guo, Yoshitsugu Saishin, Koichi Takatsuji, Takashi Yamamoto, Masaya Tohyama and Shoichi Shimada

Over-water dispersal of lizards due to hurricanes pp. 556-556

Ellen J. Censky, Karim Hodge and Judy Dudley

Calls for a ceasefire in the science wars pp. 557-558

John Henry

From fins to limbs and back again pp. 558-558

Michael S. Y. Lee

Winning by a whisker pp. 559-560

James D. Meindl

The mother of all questions pp. 560-560

Stefan Bengtson

A genetic framework for floral patterning pp. 561-566

François Parcy, Ove Nilsson, Maximilian A. Busch, Ilha Lee and Detlef Weigel

Crystal structure of a hepatitis delta virus ribozyme pp. 567-574

Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, Kaihong Zhou and Jennifer A. Doudna

Transient clouds in Titan's lower atmosphere pp. 575-578

Caitlin A. Griffith, Tobias Owen, Gary A Miller and Thomas Geballe

Mesoscopic behaviour of the neutral Fermi gas 3He confined in quantum wires pp. 578-580

S. L. Phillipson, A. M. Guénault, S. N. Fisher, G. R. Pickett and P. J. Y. Thibault

Spin fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O6.6 pp. 580-582

H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, S. M. Hayden, G. Aeppli, T. G. Perring and F. Doğan

Solid-state dye-sensitized mesoporous TiO2 solar cells with high photon-to-electron conversion efficiencies pp. 583-585

U. Bach, D. Lupo, P. Comte, J. E. Moser, F. Weissörtel, J. Salbeck, H. Spreitzer and M. Grätzel

Accumulation of persistent organochlorine compounds in mountains of western Canada pp. 585-588

Jules M. Blais, David W. Schindler, Derek C. G. Muir, Lynda E. Kimpe, David B. Donald and Bruno Rosenberg

The influence of natural mineral coatings on feldspar weathering pp. 588-591

M. A. Nugent, S. L. Brantley, C. G. Pantano and P. A. Maurice

Evidence from the rare-earth-element record of mantle melting for cooling of the Tertiary Iceland plume pp. 591-594

C. Tegner, C. E. Lesher, L. M. Larsen and W. S. Watt

Apostatic selection by blue jays produces balanced polymorphism in virtual prey pp. 594-596

Alan B. Bond and Alan C. Kamil

Imaging unconscious semantic priming pp. 597-600

Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache, Gurvan Le Clec'H, Etienne Koechlin, Michael Mueller, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Pierre-FranÇois van de Moortele and Denis Le Bihan

Local control of information flow in segmental and ascending collaterals of single afferents pp. 600-604

J. Lomelí, J. Quevedo, P. Linares and P. Rudomin

Drosophila Tcf and Groucho interact to repress Wingless signalling activity pp. 604-608

Robert A. Cavallo, Rachel T. Cox, Melissa M. Moline, Jeroen Roose, Gordon A. Polevoy, Hans Clevers, Mark Peifer and Amy Bejsovec

The Xenopus Wnt effector XTcf-3 interacts with Groucho-related transcriptional repressors pp. 608-612

Jeroen Roose, Miranda Molenaar, Josi Peterson, Jolanda Hurenkamp, Helen Brantjes, Petra Moerer, Marc van de Wetering, Olivier Destrée and Hans Clevers

Androstane metabolites bind to and deactivate the nuclear receptor CAR-β pp. 612-615

Barry M. Forman, Iphigenia Tzameli, Hueng-Sik Choi, Jasmine Chen, Devendranath Simha, Wongi Seol, Ronald M. Evans and David D. Moore

A Mec1- and Rad53-dependent checkpoint controls late-firing origins of DNA replication pp. 615-618

Corrado Santocanale and John F. X. Diffley

Regulation of DNA-replication origins during cell-cycle progression pp. 618-621

Katsuhiko Shirahige, Yuji Hori, Katsuya Shiraishi, Minoru Yamashita, Keiko Takahashi, Chikashi Obuse, Toshiki Tsurimoto and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

Erratum: Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles pp. 621-621

M. E. J. Friese, T. A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Pressure grows for relaxation of French embryo research laws pp. 623-623

Declan Butler

1998, volume 395, articles 6701

Titanic tourists given a ‘scientific’ identity pp. 417-417

Carl Levitin

Malaria research deal seeks to make up for industry's retreat pp. 417-418

Declan Butler

Energy department under fire on pace of reforms pp. 418-418

Colin Macilwain

Agencies to mitigate space station delays pp. 419-419

Tony Reichhardt and Alison Abbott

Japan looking forward to Christmas Island pp. 419-419

Asako Saegusa

NIH launches discussion of in utero gene therapy⃛ pp. 420-420

Meredith Wadman

⃛and seeks to repair ‘flaw’ in review process pp. 420-420

Meredith Wadman

Canadian research councils publish joint code on ethics pp. 420-420

David Spurgeon

Report to Congress ‘ducks major issues’ pp. 421-421

Colin Macilwain

US stays in global fusion deal — for a year pp. 421-421

Colin Macilwain

UK university fund ‘seeking out the best’ pp. 422-422

Ehsan Masood

French government tightens its grip on research priorities pp. 422-422

Declan Butler

Australian opposition pledges more funds pp. 423-423

Peter Pockley

NIH ponders role of ‘public’ advisers pp. 423-423

Meredith Wadman

Costing the Earth: when ecology meets economics pp. 426-427

Ehsan Masood and Laura Garwin

Plight of US postdocs⃛ in the US pp. 431-431

John Moore

Hope or hype for lexipafant? pp. 431-431

Fikri M. Abu-Zidan

Animals at the Salk pp. 431-431

Thomas D. Pollard

How economists see the environment pp. 433-434

Don Fullerton and Robert Stavins

Kepler's conjecture confirmed pp. 435-436

Neil J. A. Sloane

Origin of the spider's head pp. 436-437

Michalis Averof

Vents at higher frequency pp. 437-439

Cindy Lee Van Dover

The doors to organelles pp. 439-440

Gottfried Schatz

Light jets near light speed pp. 440-441

Tom Jones

Sinking surveillance's flagship pp. 441-443

George Klein and Eva Klein

Sighting of the swinging lever arm of muscle pp. 443-443

Maxine Clarke

See and grasp pp. 444-445

Nikos K. Logothetis

Psychic misperceptions pp. 445-445

David Jones

Thomas Kreis (1952-98) pp. 446-446

Kai Simons and Ira Mellman

Haeckel's hierarchies pp. 447-447

Martin Kemp

Pollen analysis reveals murder season pp. 449-450

R. Szibor, C. Schubert, R. Schöning, D. Krause and U. Wendt

Stingray jaws strut their stuff pp. 450-451

Adam P. Summers, Thomas J. Koob and Elizabeth L. Brainerd

The ubiquitin pathway in Parkinson's disease pp. 451-452

Elisabeth Leroy, Rebecca Boyer, Georg Auburger, Barbara Leube, Gudrun Ulm, Eva Mezey, Gyongyi Harta, Michael J. Brownstein, Sobhanadditya Jonnalagada, Tanya Chernova, Anindya Dehejia, Christian Lavedan, Thomas Gasser, Peter J. Steinbach, Keith D. Wilkinson and Mihael H. Polymeropoulos

Whale ankles and evolutionary relationships pp. 452-452

J. G. M. Thewissen, S. I. Madar and S. T. Hussain

To see a world in a grain of sand pp. 453-454

Bernard Lovell

Fat and fiction: time to weigh the benefits pp. 454-454

John Prins

Complementing for fishes pp. 454-455

Hans Fricke

Impurities in the historical stream pp. 455-456

James Vorosmarti

In retrospect chosen by Roger Short pp. 456-456

Roger Short

Electron–positron jets associated with the quasar 3C279 pp. 457-461

J. F. C. Wardle, D. C. Homan, R. Ojha and D. H. Roberts

The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM pp. 462-469

J. Sayos, C. Wu, M. Morra, N. Wang, X. Zhang, D. Allen, S. van Schaik, L. Notarangelo, R. Geha, M. G. Roncarolo, H. Oettgen, J. E. De Vries, G. Aversa and C. Terhorst

The atomic structure of the bluetongue virus core pp. 470-478

Jonathan M. Grimes, J. Nicholas Burroughs, Patrice Gouet, Jonathan M. Diprose, Robyn Malby, Stephan Ziéntara, Peter P. C. Mertens and David I. Stuart

Dependence of magnetoresistivity on charge-carrier density in metallic ferromagnets and doped magnetic semiconductors pp. 479-481

Pinaki Majumdar and Peter B. Littlewood

Electric-field-enhanced crystallization of amorphous silicon pp. 481-483

Jin Jang, Jae Young Oh, Sung Ki Kim, Young Jin Choi, Soo Young Yoon and Chae Ok Kim

Molecular-scale mechanisms of crystal growth in barite pp. 483-486

Carlos M. Pina, Udo Becker, Peter Risthaus, Dirk Bosbach and Andrew Putnis

Satellite mapping of enhanced BrO concentrations in the troposphere pp. 486-490

U. Platt and T. Wagner

Hydrothermal activity along the southwest Indian ridge pp. 490-493

C. R. German, E. T. Baker, C. Mevel, K. Tamaki and the FUJI Science Team

Electrical conductivity of silicate perovskite at lower-mantle conditions pp. 493-495

Tomoo Katsura, Kiminori Sato and Eiji Ito

Productivity controls food-chain properties in microbial communities pp. 495-497

Christina M. K. Kaunzinger and Peter J. Morin

Terrain influences the accurate judgement of distance pp. 497-500

Michael J. Sinai, Teng Leng Ooi and Zijiang J. He

Shape selectivity in primate lateral intraparietal cortex pp. 500-503

A. B. Sereno and J. H. R. Maunsell

Mechanism of calcium gating in small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels pp. 503-507

X.-M. Xia, B. Fakler, A. Rivard, G. Wayman, T. Johnson-Pais, J. E. Keen, T. Ishii, B. Hirschberg, C. T. Bond, S. Lutsenko, J. Maylie and J. P. Adelman

Replication checkpoint requires phosphorylation of the phosphatase Cdc25 by Cds1 or Chk1 pp. 507-510

Yan Zeng, Kristi Chrispell Forbes, Zhiqi Wu, Sergio Moreno, Helen Piwnica-Worms and Tamar Enoch

Efficiency of signalling through cytokine receptors depends critically on receptor orientation pp. 511-516

Rashid S. Syed, Scott W. Reid, Cuiwei Li, Janet C. Cheetham, Kenneth H. Aoki, Beishan Liu, Hangjun Zhan, Timothy D. Osslund, Arthur J. Chirino, Jiandong Zhang, Janet Finer-Moore, Steven Elliott, Karen Sitney, Bradley A. Katz, David J. Matthews, John J. Wendoloski, Joan Egrie and Robert M. Stroud

Tom40 forms the hydrophilic channel of the mitochondrial import pore for preproteins pp. 516-521

Kerstin Hill, Kirstin Model, Michael T. Ryan, Klaus Dietmeier, Falk Martin, Richard Wagner and Nikolaus Pfanner

Drosophila CBP represses the transcription factor TCF to antagonize Wingless signalling pp. 521-525

Lucas Waltzer and Mariann Bienz

Erratum: Role of HIF-1α in hypoxia-mediated apoptosis, cell proliferation and tumour angiogenesis pp. 525-525

Peter Carmeliet, Yuval Dor, Jean-Marc Herbert, Dai Fukumura, Koen Brusselmans, Mieke Dewerchin, Michal Neeman, FranÇoise Bono, Rinat Abramovitch, Patrick Maxwell, Cameron J. Koch, Peter Ratcliffe, Lieve Moons, Rakesh K. Jain, Désiré Collen and Eli Keshert

Tests of quantum gravity from observations of γ-ray bursts pp. 525-525

G. Amelino-Camelia, John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos and Subir Sarkar

Erratum: Perinuclear localization of chromatin facilitates transcriptional silencing pp. 525-525

Erik D. Andrulis, Aaron M. Neiman, David C. Zappulla and Rolf Sternglanz

1998, volume 395, articles 6700

Panel urges caution on genetic testing for mental disorders pp. 309-309

David Dickson

US gene-therapy proposals come under fire pp. 309-309

Meredith Wadman

France to strengthen regional centres … pp. 310-310

Declan Butler

Biology federation urged to widen focus pp. 310-310

Colin Macilwain

⃛ and more money for Paris laboratories pp. 311-311

Declan Butler

Map of research activities highlights disparity across European regions pp. 311-311

Declan Butler

India blocks panel hearings on impact of dam construction pp. 312-312

K. S. Jayaraman

Edgy Japan wants a new reconnaissance satellite pp. 312-312

Asako Saegusa

SOHO returns, Mars Surveyor hiccups pp. 313-313

Tony Reichhardt

Call for scientific experts to keep State Department up to speed pp. 313-313

Colin Macilwain

Brussels rewrites mission of ‘Eurolabs’ pp. 314-314

Alison Abbott

New Chile observatory shows its mettle pp. 314-314

Alison Abbott

UK life science students seek better deal pp. 315-315

Ehsan Masood

Restrict genetic susceptibility tests pp. 317-317

Sandy Thomas, Fiona Caldicott, Chris Barchard, Rachel Bartlett, John Haldane, Sonia Hornby, Peter McGuffin, Nigel Pleming, Martin Richards, Pamela Taylor, Andrew Wilkie and Sally Young

Star chambers will result in injustice pp. 317-317

Daniel J. Kevles

Was Moses the first ecologist? pp. 317-317

John Lydon

A home from home for coelacanths pp. 319-320

Peter Forey

Twin planetary systems in embryo pp. 320-321

Alan P. Boss

Ubiquitous déjà vu pp. 321-323

Stefan Jentsch and Helle D. Ulrich

Imperfect fluids and inheritance pp. 323-324

Glenn H. Fredrickson

Birds of a feather flock together pp. 324-325

Mark Peifer

Sorting stardust pp. 325-327

Sara S. Russell

Worming out social secrets pp. 327-327

Alison Mitchell

SNARE the rod, coil the complex pp. 328-329

William I. Weis and Richard H. Scheller

Earth science Melting moments pp. 329-329

Tim Lincoln

Buried beginnings pp. 329-330

Christopher Chyba

Getting to the roots of tubers pp. 330-331

Peter D. Moore

Daedalus A magnetic speaker pp. 331-331

David Jones

Otto Wichterle (1913-98) pp. 332-332

Jindrich Kopecek

Gray's greyness pp. 333-333

Martin Kemp

Indonesian ‘king of the sea’ discovered pp. 335-335

Mark V. Erdmann, Roy L. Caldwell and M. Kasim Moosa

Cage structures and nanotubes of NiCl2 pp. 336-337

Y. Rosenfeld Hacohen, E. Grunbaum, R. Tenne, J. Sloan and J. L. Hutchison

No fractals in fossil extinction statistics pp. 337-338

James W. Kirchner and Anne Weil

Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater pp. 338-338

Ross Nickson, John McArthur, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Peter Ravenscroft and Mizanur Rahmanñ

Beware scientists writing history pp. 339-340

J. L. Heilbron

It's written in stone, but can we trust it? pp. 340-341

Andrew B. Smith

Rambling along the byways of probability pp. 341-342

A. W. F. Edwards

Life is like a game of chess pp. 342-342

Hanspeter Mallot

Role of plagioclase crystal chains in the differentiation of partly crystallized basaltic magma pp. 343-346

Anthony R. Philpotts, Jianyang Shi and Caroline Brustman

Crystal structure of a SNARE complex involved in synaptic exocytosis at 2.4 Å resolution pp. 347-353

R. Bryan Sutton, Dirk Fasshauer, Reinhard Jahn and Axel T. Brunger

Compact protoplanetary disks around the stars of a young binary system pp. 355-357

L. F. Rodríguez, P. D'Alessio, D. J. Wilner, P. T. P. Ho, J. M. Torrelles, S. Curiel, Y. Gómez, S. Lizano, A. Pedlar, J. Cantó and A. C. Raga

Continuous excitation of planetary free oscillations by atmospheric disturbances pp. 357-360

Naoki Kobayashi and Kiwamu Nishida

Global and local measures of the intrinsic Josephson coupling in Tl2Ba2CuO6 as a test of the interlayer tunnelling model pp. 360-362

A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Grüninger, J. Schützmann, J. W. van der Eb, H. S. Somal and J. H. Wang

Ultra-low-threshold field emission from conjugated polymers pp. 362-365

I. Musa, D. A. I. Munindrasdasa, G. A. J. Amaratunga and W. Eccleston

Abiotic nitrogen reduction on the early Earth pp. 365-367

Jay A. Brandes, Nabil Z. Boctor, George D. Cody, Benjamin A. Cooper, Robert M. Hazen and Hatten S. Yoder

Quantification of dust-forced heating of the lower troposphere pp. 367-370

P. Alpert, Y. J. Kaufman, Y. Shay-El, D. Tanre, A. da Silva, S. Schubert and J. H. Joseph

Evidence for long-term diffuse deformation of the lithosphere of the equatorial Indian Ocean pp. 370-374

Richard G. Gordon, Charles DeMets and Jean-Yves Royer

Postcranial pneumatization in Archaeopteryx pp. 374-376

Brooks B. Britt, Peter J. Makovicky, Jacques Gauthier and Niels Bonde

Object-based attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey pp. 376-381

Pieter R. Roelfsema, Victor A. F. Lamme and Henk Spekreijse

An analgesia circuit activated by cannabinoids pp. 381-383

Ian D. Meng, Barton H. Manning, Will Martin and Howard L. Fields

Paired-spike interactions and synaptic efficacy of retinal inputs to the thalamus pp. 384-387

W. Martin Usrey, John B. Reppas and R. Clay Reid

Drosophila oocyte localization is mediated by differential cadherin-based adhesion pp. 387-391

Dorothea Godt and Ulrich Tepass

A function for lipoxygenase in programmed organelle degradation pp. 392-395

Klaus van Leyen, Robert M. Duvoisin, Harald Engelhardt and Martin Wiedmann

A protein conjugation system essential for autophagy pp. 395-398

Noboru Mizushima, Takeshi Noda, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Yae Tanaka, Tomoko Ishii, Michael D. George, Daniel J. Klionsky, Mariko Ohsumi and Yoshinori Ohsumi

Retinoid-X receptor signalling in the developing spinal cord pp. 398-402

Ludmila Solomin, Clas B. Johansson, Rolf H. Zetterström, Reid P. Bissonnette, Richard A. Heyman, Lars Olson, Urban Lendahl, Jonas Frisén and Thomas Perlmann

Position and orientation of the globular domain of linker histone H5 on the nucleosome pp. 402-405

Y.-B. Zhou, Sue Ellen Gerchman, V. Ramakrishnan, Andrew Travers and Serge Muyldermans

Erratum: Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region pp. 405-405

Randall S. Cerveny and Robert C. Balling

Taking knowledge from bench to bank pp. 409-410

Brendan Horton

Partnerships and the critical mass pp. 410-411

Potter Wickware

How to turn R into D and get paid for it pp. 411-412

Diane Gershon

Medicon Valley: a bridge to collaboration pp. 412-413

Brendan Horton

From research to commercial benefits pp. 413-414

Helen Gavaghan

1998, volume 395, articles 6699

Brussels seeks BSE diagnostic test to screen European cattle pp. 205-206

Declan Butler

Don't copy our clone, say Dolly scientists pp. 205-205

Ehsan Masood

Cuts ‘could leave energy department brain-dead’ pp. 206-206

Colin Macilwain

Biology teaching wins $90m boost from Howard Hughes institute pp. 206-206

Colin Macilwain

Human genome deadline cut by two years pp. 207-207

Meredith Wadman

Snowball comet idea refuses to melt away pp. 207-207

Tony Reichhardt

German poll could change research goals pp. 208-208

Quirin Schiermeier and Alison Abbott

Plan to pool part of Europe's science cash pp. 208-208

Alison Abbott

Foreign contracts ‘Russia's only chance’ pp. 209-209

Carl Levitin and Ehsan Masood

Hopes ride on manager with a scientist's mind pp. 209-209

Carl Levitin

US scientists call for fairer animal funding pp. 210-210

Meredith Wadman

Spain lets Latin America ‘repay’ debts by protecting environment pp. 210-210

Xavier Bosch

Clinton seeks refuge in calls for mentors to help minorities pp. 211-211

Colin Macilwain

Japanese institutes wary of increased autonomy pp. 211-211

Asako Saegusa

First shots fired in biological warfare pp. 213-213

Mark Wheelis

How Diana climbed the ratings at the zoo pp. 213-213

Claire Carvell, Nicholas F. J. Inglis, Georgina M. Mace and Andy Purvis

Worm holes and avian space-time pp. 215-216

Kathryn Jeffery and John O'Keefe

Magic squares cornered pp. 216-217

Martin Gardner

For whom the bell tolls pp. 217-219

Craig Gerard

Nuclear and subnuclear boiling pp. 220-221

Frank Wilczek

Purposeful mutations pp. 221-223

Myron F. Goodman

Crack-up under the Pacific pp. 223-223

Tim Lincoln

How to make a nucleotide pp. 223-225

Michael P. Robertson and Andrew D. Ellington

Docking IκB kinases pp. 225-226

Claus Scheidereit

Nuclear glue pp. 226-226

David Jones

Mammary models pp. 227-227

Martin Kemp

Mothers determine sexual preferences pp. 229-230

Keith M. Kendrick, Michael R. Hinton, Khia Atkins, Martin A. Haupt and John D. Skinner

All limbs are not the same pp. 230-231

Bea Christen and Jonathan M. W. Slack

Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? pp. 231-231

Mark Levine, Rushad C. Daruwala, Jae B. Park, Steven C Rumsey and Yaohui Wang

Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? pp. 231-232

Henrik E. Poulsen, Allan Weimann, Jukka T. Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Steffen Loft, Jean Cadet, Thierry Douki and Jean-Luc Ravanat

Does vitamin C have a pro-oxidant effect? pp. 232-232

Ian D. Podmore, Helen R. Griffiths, Karl E. Herbert, Nalini Mistry, Pratibha Mistry and Joseph Lunec

The cowboys in Indian science pp. 233-234

Pushpa M. Bhargava

Bodies of evidence pp. 234-235

Bernard Wood

Undiplomatic immunity pp. 235-236

Fred S. Rosen

Taking the mammoth steppes pp. 236-236

Valerius Geist

Structural basis for inhibition of the cyclin-dependent kinase Cdk6 by the tumour suppressor p16INK4a pp. 237-243

Alicia A. Russo, Lily Tong, Jie-Oh Lee, Philip D. Jeffrey and Nikola P. Pavletich

Crystal structure of the complex of the cyclin D-dependent kinase Cdk6 bound to the cell-cycle inhibitor p19INK4d pp. 244-250

Deborah H. Brotherton, Venugopal Dhanaraj, Scott Wick, Leonardo Brizuela, Peter J. Domaille, Elena Volyanik, Xu Xu, Emilio Parisini, Brian O. Smith, Sharon J. Archer, Manuel Serrano, Stephen L. Brenner, Tom L. Blundell and Ernest D. Laue

Imaging circumstellar environments with a nulling interferometer pp. 251-253

Philip M. Hinz, J. Roger P. Angel, William F. Hoffmann, Donald W. McCarthy, Patrick C. McGuire, Matt Cheselka, Joseph L. Hora and Neville J. Woolf

Superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas pp. 253-257

Philip Phillips, Yi Wan, Ivar Martin, Sergey Knysh and Denis Dalidovich

Laminated fabrication of polymeric photovoltaic diodes pp. 257-260

M. Granström, K. Petritsch, A. C. Arias, A. Lux, M. R. Andersson and R. H. Friend

RNA-catalysed nucleotide synthesis pp. 260-263

Peter J. Unrau and David P. Bartel

Deep-ocean gradients in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon pp. 263-266

Dennis A. Hansell and Craig A. Carlson

Plastic deformation of silicate spinel under the transition-zone conditions of the Earth's mantle pp. 266-269

Shun-ichiro Karato, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek and David C. Rubie

Dynamic topography, plate driving forces and the African superswell pp. 269-272

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni and Paul G. Silver

Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays pp. 272-274

Nicola S. Clayton and Anthony Dickinson

Primary motor cortex is involved in bimanual coordination pp. 274-278

O. Donchin, A. Gribova, O. Steinberg, H. Bergman and E. Vaadia

Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects pp. 278-280

N. Lessard, M. Paré, F. Lepore and M. Lassonde

Impaired febrile response in mice lacking the prostaglandin E receptor subtype EP3 pp. 281-284

Fumitaka Ushikubi, Eri Segi, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Takahiko Murata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Takuya Kobayashi, Hiroko Hizaki, Kazuhito Tuboi, Masato Katsuyama, Atsushi Ichikawa, Takashi Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida and Shuh Narumiya

Toll-like receptor-2 mediates lipopolysaccharide-induced cellular signalling pp. 284-288

Ruey-Bing Yang, Melanie R. Mark, Alane Gray, Arthur Huang, Ming Hong Xie, Min Zhang, Audrey Goddard, William I. Wood, Austin L. Gurney and Paul J. Godowski

Amino-acid transport by heterodimers of 4F2hc/CD98 and members of a permease family pp. 288-291

Luca Mastroberardino, Benjamin Spindler, Rahel Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Skelly, Jan Loffing, Charles B. Shoemaker and François Verrey

IKAP is a scaffold protein of the IκB kinase complex pp. 292-296

Lucie Cohen, William J. Henzel and Patrick A. Baeuerle

IKK-γ is an essential regulatory subunit of the IκB kinase complex pp. 297-300

David M. Rothwarf, Ebrahim Zandi, Gioacchino Natoli and Michael Karin

Signal-specific co-activator domain requirements for Pit-1 activation pp. 301-306

Lan Xu, Robert M. Lavinsky, Jeremy S. Dasen, Sarah E. Flynn, Eileen M. McInerney, Tina-Marie Mullen, Thorsten Heinzel, Daniel Szeto, Edward Korzus, Riki Kurokawa, Aneel K. Aggarwal, David W. Rose, Christopher K. Glass and Michael G. Rosenfeld

Erratum: Evidence for the shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites pp. 306-306

Fiona Roberts, Craig W. Roberts, Jennifer J. Johnson, Dennis E. Kyle, Tino Krell, John R. Coggins, Graham H. Coombs, Wilbur K. Milhous, Saul Tzipori, David J. P. Ferguson, Debopam Chakrabarti and Rima McLeod

Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 with coherent X-rays pp. 306-306

Z. W. Hu, P. A. Thomas, A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, A. Souvorov, P. G. R. Smith, G. W. Ross and S. Teat

1998, volume 395, articles 6698

Jobs crisis sparks call for freeze in number of PhD students in US pp. 103-103

Meredith Wadman

Retraining scheme could go Europe-wide pp. 104-104

Quirin Schiermeier

Stock market crash threatens start-up biotech companies pp. 104-104

Sally Lehrman

Neutrino study ‘needs transatlantic effort’ pp. 105-105

Colin Macilwain

NASA charts Earth observation strategy pp. 106-106

Tony Reichhardt

Call for Europe-wide public health agency pp. 106-106

Declan Butler

Rapid shake-up at German health institute pp. 107-107

Alison Abbott

Japanese science ministry expects large funding boost pp. 107-107

Asako Saegusa

US unlikely to swallow plan for a food safety supremo pp. 108-108

Meredith Wadman

Controversial appointment to SA council pp. 108-108

Michael Cherry

Row in India over rules on animal experiments pp. 108-108

K. S. Jayaraman

Toxic spill caught Spain off guard pp. 110-110

Antonio Aparicio, Javier Escartín, Luis Santamaría and Pablo Valverde

Wacky, weird and scientifically illiterate pp. 110-110

John Durant

Water, water, every weekend pp. 110-110

Marc Abrahams

River meanders in a tray pp. 111-112

Gary Parker

Casting an eye over cyclopia pp. 112-113

Patrick Blader and Uwe Strähle

Ancient cosmic spherules pp. 113-115

Don Brownlee

Common rules for animals and plants pp. 115-116

John D. Damuth

Nonlinear modes of vibration pp. 116-117

Ivar Ekeland

Setting death in motion pp. 117-119

Jean Claude Ameisen

The elusive coldfinger pp. 119-120

George Helffrich

Cruise micromissiles pp. 120-120

David Jones

Audubon in action pp. 121-121

Martin Kemp

Perceptual bias for rising tones pp. 123-124

John G. Neuhoff

p14ARF links the tumour suppressors RB and p53 pp. 124-125

Stewart Bates, Andrew C. Phillips, Paula A. Clark, Francesca Stott, Gordon Peters, Robert L. Ludwig and Karen H. Vousden

p19ARF links the tumour suppressor p53 to Ras pp. 125-126

Ignacio Palmero, Cristina Pantoja and Manuel Serrano

Impacts on Earth in the Late Triassic pp. 126-126

Dennis V. Kent

Impacts on Earth in the Late Triassic pp. 126-126

John G. Spray

On-line journals and financial fire walls pp. 127-128

Stevan Harnad

Seen and heard pp. 129-130

Peter Bryant

Gathering the strands of thought pp. 129-129

Martha J. Farah

Brains on call pp. 129-129

Todd C. Holmes

The chaotic psyche pp. 130-130

H. Eugene Stanley

No waste of trees pp. 130-131

David W. Schindler

Imperilled wetlands pp. 131-132

Thomas J. Smith

Common ground among quagmires pp. 131-131

Gilbert S. Hedstrom

Human interest stories pp. 132-132

Michael Batty

Civil defence in the war against AIDS pp. 132-132

Ralph J. DiClemente

Rapid response pp. 133-133

Jeffrey M. Leiden

A fertile and dynamic sea pp. 133-133

Brent L. Iverson

NO particular place to go pp. 133-134

John Garthwaite

Venturing outside the laboratory pp. 134-134

Patrick MacCarthy

A site for sore eyes pp. 134-135

L. M. Brown

Fuel for thought pp. 135-136

A. C. McIntosh

Digging up the recent past pp. 135-135

Frans Verhaeghe

Free advice for experimenters pp. 135-135

Laurie Goodman

Golden age journal pp. 136-136

John Hogan

Living on the edge pp. 136-136

John A. Baross

Ligand binding and co-activator assembly of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ pp. 137-143

Robert T. Nolte, G. Bruce Wisely, Stefan Westin, Jeffery E. Cobb, Millard H. Lambert, Riki Kurokawa, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Timothy M. Willson, Christopher K. Glass and Michael V. Milburn

A mysterious dust clump in a disk around an evolved binary star system pp. 144-145

M. Jura and J. Turner

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Unaltered cosmic spherules in a 1.4-Gyr-old sandstone from Finland pp. 146-148

Alexander Deutsch, Ansgar Greshake, Lauri J. Pesonen and Pekka Pihlaja

Magnetic trapping of calcium monohydride molecules at millikelvin temperatures pp. 148-150

Jonathan D. Weinstein, Robert deCarvalho, Thierry Guillet, Bretislav Friedrich and John M. Doyle

Highly efficient phosphorescent emission from organic electroluminescent devices pp. 151-154

M. A. Baldo, D. F. O'Brien, Y. You, A. Shoustikov, S. Sibley, M. E. Thompson and S. R. Forrest

Synthesis and organization of zeolite-like materials with three-dimensional helical pores pp. 154-157

Thurman E. Gier, Xianhui Bu, Pingyun Feng and Galen D. Stucky

Heterogeneous production of nitrous acid on soot in polluted air masses pp. 157-160

M. Ammann, M. Kalberer, D. T. Jost, L. Tobler, E. Rössler, D. Piguet, H. W. Gäggeler and U. Baltensperger

Mantle discontinuities and temperature under the North American continental keel pp. 160-163

Aibing Li, Karen M. Fischer, Michael E. Wysession and Timothy J. Clarke

Allometric scaling of plant energetics and population density pp. 163-165

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

Prism adaptation to a rightward optical deviation rehabilitates left hemispatial neglect pp. 166-169

Yves Rossetti, Gilles Rode, Laure Pisella, Alessandro Farné, Ling Li, Dominique Boisson and Marie-Thérèse Perenin

Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness pp. 169-172

Ian H. Robertson, Jason B. Mattingley, Chris Rorden and Jon Driver

Increased number of synaptic GABAA receptors underlies potentiation at hippocampal inhibitory synapses pp. 172-177

Zoltan Nusser, Norbert Hájos, Peter Somogyi and Istvan Mody

Cloning of inv, a gene that controls left/right asymmetry and kidney development pp. 177-181

Toshio Mochizuki, Yukio Saijoh, Ken Tsuchiya, Yasuaki Shirayoshi, Setsuo Takai, Choji Taya, Hiromichi Yonekawa, Kiyomi Yamada, Hiroshi Nihei, Norio Nakatsuji, Paul A. Overbeek, Hiroshi Hamada and Takahiko Yokoyama

Zebrafish organizer development and germ-layer formation require nodal-related signals pp. 181-185

Benjamin Feldman, Michael A. Gates, Elizabeth S. Egan, Scott T. Dougan, Gabriela Rennebeck, Howard I. Sirotkin, Alexander F. Schier and William S. Talbot

Induction of the zebrafish ventral brain and floorplate requires cyclops/nodal signalling pp. 185-189

Karuna Sampath, Amy L. Rubinstein, Abby M. S. Cheng, Jennifer O. Liang, Kimberly Fekany, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Vladimir Korzh, Marnie E. Halpern and Christopher V. E. Wright

Apoptosis of CD8+ T cells is mediated by macrophages through interaction of HIV gp120 with chemokine receptor CXCR4 pp. 189-194

Georges Herbein, Ulrich Mahlknecht, Franak Batliwalla, Peter Gregersen, Todd Pappas, John Butler, William A. O'Brien and Eric Verdin

The p35/Cdk5 kinase is a neuron-specific Rac effector that inhibits Pak1 activity pp. 194-198

Margareta Nikolic, Margaret M. Chou, Wange Lu, Bruce J. Mayer and Li-Huei Tsai

Interactions controlling the assembly of nuclear-receptor heterodimers and co-activators pp. 199-202

Stefan Westin, Riki Kurokawa, Robert T. Nolte, G. Bruce Wisely, Eileen M. McInerney, David W. Rose, Michael V. Milburn, Michael G. Rosenfeld and Christopher K. Glass

1998, volume 395, articles 6697

Japan's science agency seeks extra billions, despite recession pp. 3-3

David Swinbanks

Peregrine leads flight from endangered list pp. 3-3

Tony Reichhardt

NSF director backs environment studies pp. 4-4

Colin Macilwain

US drive to speed trials for rare disorders pp. 4-4

Meredith Wadman

Call for UK genetics food watchdog pp. 5-5

Ehsan Masood

China brings in regulations to put a stop to ‘genetic piracy’ pp. 5-5

David Dickson

Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep pp. 6-7

Declan Butler

Urgent need for faster diagnostic test pp. 7-7

Declan Butler

Too intelligent for our own good pp. 9-9

Alan Longhurst and Ken Caldeira

Religious belief doesn't weaken scientific mind pp. 9-9

Raul Camba

Make space for levity pp. 9-9

Dan Nagle

Citation heaven pp. 9-9

Brian Dean

Vocal gymnastics and the bird brain pp. 11-12

Franz Goller

Where the weirdness comes from pp. 12-13

Peter Knight

Has the smart bomb been defused? pp. 13-15

Steven P. Linke

Cosmic rays without end pp. 15-16

Michael Hillas

Debatable homologies pp. 17-19

Diethard Tautz

Orbits of all sorts pp. 19-20

Donald G. Saari

Columns, slabs and pinwheels pp. 20-21

Nigel W. Daw

Things that go bump in the night sky pp. 20-20

Stephen Battersby

A tale of two tails pp. 21-21

David Bentley

Zero-tolerance policing pp. 22-22

David Jones

Heezen's highlands pp. 23-23

Martin Kemp

Resistance to the herbicide glyphosate pp. 25-26

Stanley Robert and Ute Baumann

Promiscuity in transgenic plants pp. 25-25

Joy Bergelson, Colin B. Purrington and Gale Wichmann

Turning off follicular dendritic cells pp. 26-27

Fabienne Mackay and Jeffrey L. Browning

Nerve agents degraded by enzymatic foams pp. 27-28

Keith E. LeJeune, James R. Wild and Alan J. Russell

Nematode phylogeny and embryology pp. 28-28

D. A. Voronov, Yu. V. Panchin and S. E. Spiridonov

Sir Oran Haut-ton finds his voice pp. 29-30

Robert Seyfarth

Trials and errors pp. 30-31

Jon Turney

A cold fish among the trilobites pp. 31-32

Richard Fortey

Animal analysts who know their plays pp. 32-32

Marc Mangel

Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity probed by a ‘which-way’ experiment in an atom interferometer pp. 33-37

S. Dürr, T. Nonn and G. Rempe

A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses pp. 37-44

Li I. Zhang, Huizhong W. Tao, Christine E. Holt, William A. Harris and Mu-ming Poo

Constraints on the Hubble constant from observations of the brightest red-giant stars in a Virgo-cluster galaxy pp. 45-47

William E. Harris, Patrick R. Durrell, Michael J. Pierce and Jeff Secker

A Cepheid distance to the Fornax cluster and the local expansion rate of the Universe pp. 47-50

Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, N. Silbermann, Paul Harding, John Huchra, Jeremy R. Mould, John A. Graham, Laura Ferrarese, Brad K. Gibson, Mingsheng Han, John G. Hoessel, Shaun M. Hughes, Garth D. Illingworth, Randy Phelps, Shoko Sakai and Peter Stetson

Most smooth closed space curves contain approximate solutions of the n-body problem pp. 51-53

Gregory Buck

Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity pp. 53-55

D. G. Lidzey, D. D. C. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, T. Virgili, S. Walker and D. M. Whittaker

A transient liquid-like phase in the displacement cascades of zircon, hafnon and thorite pp. 56-58

A. Meldrum, S. J. Zinkle, L. A. Boatner and R. C. Ewing

Contribution of hurricanes to local and global estimates of air–sea exchange of CO2 pp. 58-61

Nicholas R. Bates, Anthony H. Knap and Anthony F. Michaels

Seismic evidence for a lower-mantle origin of the Iceland plume pp. 62-65

Yang Shen, Sean C. Solomon, Ingi Th. Bjarnason and Cecily J. Wolfe

Microbiological evidence for Fe(III) reduction on early Earth pp. 65-67

Madeline Vargas, Kazem Kashefi, Elizabeth L. Blunt-Harris and Derek R. Lovley

The role of nonlinear dynamics of the syrinx in the vocalizations of a songbird pp. 67-71

Michale S. Fee, Boris Shraiman, Bijan Pesaran and Partha P. Mitra

When temporal terms belie conceptual order pp. 71-73

Thomas F. Münte, Kolja Schiltz and Marta Kutas

Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development pp. 73-78

F. Wolf and T. Geisel

lin-14 regulates the timing of synaptic remodelling in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 78-82

Steven J. Hallam and Yishi Jin

Three-dimensional segregation of supramolecular activation clusters in T cells pp. 82-86

Colin R. F. Monks, Benjamin A. Freiberg, Hannah Kupfer, Noah Sciaky and Abraham Kupfer

Yeast G1 cyclins are unstable in G1 phase pp. 86-89

Brandt L. Schneider, E. Elizabeth Patton, Stefan Lanker, Michael D. Mendenhall, Curt Wittenberg, Bruce Futcher and Mike Tyers

DNA hypomethylation leads to elevated mutation rates pp. 89-93

Richard Z. Chen, Ulf Pettersson, Caroline Beard, Laurie Jackson-Grusby and Rudolf Jaenisch

RNA polymerase II is an essential mRNA polyadenylation factor pp. 93-96

Yutaka Hirose and James L. Manley