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1999, volume 397, articles 6721

Debts and salaries tempt British graduates away from research pp. 635-635

Natasha Loder

Former Pasteur head defends politicians pp. 635-635

Declan Butler

US groups sue over approval of Bt crops pp. 636-636

Meredith Wadman

Spain makes transgenic crop producers pay into insurance fund pp. 636-636

Xavier Bosch

... as UK press reports come under fire pp. 637-637

Ehsan Masood

Britain reassures critics on risk research pp. 637-637

Ehsan Masood

Japan on target to double science spend pp. 638-638

Asako Saegusa

... while Canada's budget boosts innovation pp. 638-638

David Spurgeon

Congress may block stem-cell research pp. 639-639

Meredith Wadman

Co-discoverer of evidence for quarks killed in diving accident pp. 639-639

Steve Nadis

Europe's young researchers seek proper rewards pp. 640-641

Quirin Schiermeier

Trials and tribulations of PhD students pp. 644-644

Sudhanshu Dole

Trials and tribulations of PhD students pp. 644-644

Name and address supplied

How hunger keeps the population down pp. 644-644

Hermann Bondi

Revolutionary ideas come round again pp. 644-644

Douglas B. Kell

Patent attorneys pay their way pp. 644-644

Joseph T. Leone

Who benefits from climate forecasts? pp. 645-646

Alexander Pfaff, K. Broad and M. Glantz

Driving parents cuckoo pp. 647-648

Douglas W. Mock

A nanotube laboratory pp. 648-649

David H. Cobden

Hox proteins reach out round DNA pp. 649-651

Matthew P. Scott

One price to run, swim or fly? pp. 651-652

R. McNeill Alexander

Sorting out the neuron pp. 653-655

Peter J. Hollenbeck and Gordon Ruthel

Running rings around RNA pp. 655-656

Angus I. Lamond

Measures of crystal vacancies pp. 656-657

Robert W. Cahn

The question of significance pp. 657-658

A. Barrie Pittock

Pinpoint therapy pp. 658-658

David Jones

Growing season extended in Europe pp. 659-659

Annette Menzel and Peter Fabian

Breathing through skin in a newborn mammal pp. 660-660

J. P. Mortola, P. B. Frappell and P. A. Woolley

Formation of ice XII at different conditions pp. 660-661

Michael Koza, Helmut Schober, Albert Tölle, Franz Fujara and Thomas Hansen

The bio-logic of facial geometry pp. 661-662

David A. Meyer and Melanie W Quong

The bio-logic of facial geometry pp. 662-662

D. I. Perrett and I. Penton-Voak

Exit Homo sapiens, stage left pp. 663-664

John L. Casti

Happy accidents? pp. 664-665

Mark Pagel

Affecting climate in a second-best world pp. 664-664

Paul Ekins

Species without frontiers pp. 665-666

Harold A. Mooney

Ritual meanings lost in a vegetable stew pp. 666-666

Roy Vickery

Signals of need in parent–offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo pp. 667-672

R. M. Kilner, D. G. Noble and N. B. Davies

Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in carbon nanotubes pp. 673-675

Adrian Bachtold, Christoph Strunk, Jean-Paul Salvetat, Jean-Marc Bonard, Laszló Forró, Thomas Nussbaumer and Christian Schönenberger

Spontaneous chaotic granular mixing pp. 675-678

Troy Shinbrot, Albert Alexander and Fernando J. Muzzio

Self-organized growth of alloy superlattices pp. 678-681

P. Venezuela, J. Tersoff, J. A. Floro, E. Chason, D. M. Follstaedt, Feng Liu and M. G. Lagally

Non-aqueous supramolecular assembly of mesostructured metal germanium sulphides from (Ge4S10)4− clusters pp. 681-684

Mark J. MacLachlan, Neil Coombs and Geoffrey A. Ozin

124,000-year periodicity in terrestrial vegetation change during the late Pliocene epoch pp. 685-688

K. J. Willis, A. Kleczkowski and S. J. Crowhurst

Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability pp. 688-691

Mike Hulme, Elaine M. Barrow, Nigel W. Arnell, Paula A. Harrison, Timothy C. Johns and Thomas E. Downing

The origin of spinifex texture in komatiites pp. 691-694

Mark Shore and Anthony D. Fowler

A ferric-chelate reductase for iron uptake from soils pp. 694-697

Nigel J. Robinson, Catherine M. Procter, Erin L. Connolly and Mary Lou Guerinot

A diffusion barrier maintains distribution of membrane proteins in polarized neurons pp. 698-701

Bettina Winckler, Paul Forscher and Ira Mellman

Development of peripheral lymphoid organs and natural killer cells depends on the helix–loop–helix inhibitor Id2 pp. 702-706

Yoshifumi Yokota, Ahmed Mansouri, Seiichi Mori, Seiichi Sugawara, Satoko Adachi, Shin-Ichi Nishikawa and Peter Gruss

The head inducer Cerberus is a multifunctional antagonist of Nodal, BMP and Wnt signals pp. 707-710

Stefano Piccolo, Eric Agius, Luc Leyns, Subha Bhattacharyya, Horst Grunz, Tewis Bouwmeester and E. M. De Robertis

Inhibition of transforming growth factor-β/SMAD signalling by the interferon-γ/STAT pathway pp. 710-713

Luis Ulloa, Jacqueline Doody and Joan Massagué

Structure of a DNA-bound Ultrabithorax–Extradenticle homeodomain complex pp. 714-719

Jonathan M. Passner, Hyung Don Ryoo, Leyi Shen, Richard S. Mann and Aneel K. Aggarwal

Erratum: Structural basis for activation of the titin kinase domain during myofibrillogenesis pp. 719-719

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

Erratum: Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori pp. 719-719

Richard A. Alm, Lo-See L. Ling, Donald T. Moir, Benjamin L. King, Eric D. Brown, Peter C. Doig, Douglas R. Smith, Brian Noonan, Braydon C. Guild, Boudewijn L. deJonge, Gilles Carmel, Peter J. Tummino, Anthony Caruso, Maria Uria-Nickelsen, Debra M. Mills, Cameron Ives, Rene Gibson, David Merberg, Scott D. Mills, Qin Jiang, Diane E. Taylor, Gerald F. Vovis and Trevor J. Trust

1999, volume 397, articles 6720

Gag on food scientist is lifted as gene modification row hots up pp. 547-547

Ehsan Masood

... and Blair resists demands for a moratorium pp. 547-547

Ehsan Masood

African ‘flexibility’ may open path to biosafety agreement pp. 548-548

Ehsan Masood

Scientists defend French ex-ministers in blood trial pp. 548-548

Declan Butler

Federal panel endorses Baylor fraud claim pp. 549-549

Rex Dalton

Anticancer activity of endostatin redeemed pp. 549-549

Meredith Wadman

Higher status for ‘research risks’ office? pp. 550-550

Meredith Wadman

Congressman aims to punish cloning research pp. 550-550

Meredith Wadman

Early American goes for tests — at last pp. 551-551

Tony Reichhardt

Union backs Toronto researcher's claims pp. 551-551

David Spurgeon

US panel says research can be assessed pp. 552-552

Wil Lepkowski

Giant radio telescope will boost search for extraterrestrial life pp. 552-552

Steve Nadis

Mexico to overhaul R&D funding system pp. 553-553

Laura Garwin

Switzerland adopts transplant guidelines pp. 553-553

Ulrich Bahnsen

Don't count on World Bank initiatives pp. 557-557

Felipe Cabello

Harvest time is over for UK agricultural research pp. 557-557

Peter S. Kettlewell

Evolutionary forces behind human infertility pp. 557-558

Jim Cummins

Why Spanish science is at a standstill pp. 558-558

Angel Baltanás and Isabel Castro

Slow light in cool atoms pp. 559-560

Jon Marangos

Snapshots of an ancient cover-up pp. 560-561

Maria T. Zuber

A place for space and smells pp. 561-563

J. N. P. Rawlins

Something fishy in the family tree pp. 564-565

Per Erik Ahlberg

The protean proton in water pp. 565-567

James T. Hynes

Sugaring vancomycin pp. 567-568

Dudley H. Williams

The amazing demethylase pp. 568-569

Howard Cedar and Gregory L. Verdine

Breaking the brain-blood barrier pp. 569-570

Anders Bjorklund and Clive Svendsen

Space aeronautics pp. 570-570

David Jones

Superalliance of bottlenose dolphins pp. 571-572

Richard C. Connor, Michael R. Heithaus and Lynne M. Barre

Anterior sphenoid in modern humans pp. 572-572

Fred Spoor, Paul O'Higgins, Christopher Dean and Daniel E. Lieberman

Iodine oxide in the marine boundary layer pp. 572-573

Björn Alicke, Kai Hebestreit, Jochen Stutz and Ulrich Platt

Horse sickness and ENSO in South Africa pp. 574-574

Matthew Baylis, Philip S. Mellor and Rudy Meiswinkel

Unique memories: creating the mind's ‘I’ pp. 575-576

Martin Conway

Seminal work pp. 576-577

Mark Ridley

Illuminating the past pp. 577-578

Peter T. Fox

A thing to a void pp. 578-578

Michael Redhead

A mammalian protein with specific demethylase activity for mCpG DNA pp. 579-583

Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, Shyam Ramchandani, Nadia Cervoni and Moshe Szyf

Voluminous volcanism on early Mars revealed in Valles Marineris pp. 584-586

Alfred S. McEwen, Michael C. Malin, Michael H. Carr and William K. Hartmann

Evidence for recent volcanism on Mars from crater counts pp. 586-589

William K. Hartmann, Michael Malin, Alfred McEwen, Michael Carr, Larry Soderblom, Peter Thomas, Ed Danielson, Phillip James and Joseph Veverka

Groundwater formation of martian valleys pp. 589-591

Michael C. Malin and Michael H. Carr

Bright dunes on Mars pp. 592-594

P. C. Thomas, M. C. Malin, M. H. Carr, G. E. Danielson, M. E. Davies, W. K. Hartmann, A. P. Ingersoll, P. B. James, A. S. McEwen, L. A. Soderblom and J. Veverka

Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas pp. 594-598

Lene Vestergaard Hau, S. E. Harris, Zachary Dutton and Cyrus H. Behroozi

Luttinger-liquid behaviour in carbon nanotubes pp. 598-601

Marc Bockrath, David H. Cobden, Jia Lu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Richard E. Smalley, Leon Balents and Paul L. McEuen

The nature of the hydrated excess proton in water pp. 601-604

Dominik Marx, Mark E. Tuckerman, Jürg Hutter and Michele Parrinello

Discrete alternating hotspot islands formed by interaction of magma transport and lithospheric flexure pp. 604-607

Christoph F. Hieronymus and David Bercovici

A primitive fossil fish sheds light on the origin of bony fishes pp. 607-610

Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu and Philippe Janvier

Influence of motion signals on the perceived position of spatial pattern pp. 610-612

Shin'ya Nishida and Alan Johnston

The global record of memory in hippocampal neuronal activity pp. 613-616

Emma R. Wood, Paul A. Dudchenko and Howard Eichenbaum

Vertebrate Hedgehog signalling modulated by induction of a Hedgehog-binding protein pp. 617-621

Pao-Tien Chuang and Andrew P. McMahon

The Rab5 effector EEA1 is a core component of endosome docking pp. 621-625

Savvas Christoforidis, Heidi M. McBride, Robert D. Burgoyne and Marino Zerial

Photosynthetic control of chloroplast gene expression pp. 625-628

Thomas Pfannschmidt, Anders Nilsson and John F. Allen

1999, volume 397, articles 6719

Europe bids to pull US patent law into line with first-to-file system pp. 457-457

Ehsan Masood

German call to invest more in technology pp. 457-457

Quirin Schiermeier

DoE budget scramble as closure plan axed pp. 458-458

Colin Macilwain

UK panel formed to rebuild trust in government science advice pp. 458-458

Ehsan Masood

Scientists fight for right to withhold data pp. 459-459

Colin Macilwain

SOIREE aims to iron out atmospheric puzzle pp. 459-459

Philip Newton

Roche and Promega back in court for Taq pp. 460-460

Sally Lehrman

US sanctions hurt basic research in India pp. 460-460

K. S. Jayaraman

German science fights animal rights bill pp. 461-461

Quirin Schiermeier

Japanese university approves genetic tests on in vitro embryos pp. 461-461

Asako Saegusa

Everglades plan flawed, claim ecologists pp. 462-462

Tony Reichhardt

Chandra slips, space shuttle runs a risk pp. 462-462

Tony Reichhardt

French ministry in climbdown over reform pp. 463-463

Declan Butler

British universities face review to increase accountability pp. 463-463

Natasha Loder

German job security leads to stagnation pp. 467-468

Eberhard Passarge

Pressure to publish stifles young talent pp. 467-467

Michael J. Larkin

Language bias discredits the peer-review system pp. 467-467

Antonio J. Herrera

... and reduces students' chances of publishing pp. 468-468

Andreas Herde

Frémiet's phantasms pp. 468-468

Eric Buffetaut

Physics takes the biscuit pp. 469-469

Len Fisher

A transformed view of cyclosporine pp. 471-472

Gary J. Nabel

The undemocratic proton pp. 472-473

David J. Miller

A patchwork of cones pp. 473-475

Heinz Wässle

Bacteria and silica cycling pp. 475-476

Victor Smetacek

Unstable by design pp. 476-479

Aneta Siemiginowska and Martin Elvis

New way to activate caspases pp. 479-480

Erkki Ruoslahti and John Reed

Electronic motion in DNA pp. 480-481

Mark Ratner

Cell squeezing pp. 481-481

David Jones

Jean Leray (1906-98) pp. 482-482

Ivar Ekeland

Making make-up in Ancient Egypt pp. 483-484

P. Walter, P. Martinetto, G. Tsoucaris, R. Brniaux, M. A. Lefebvre, G. Richard, J. Talabot and E. Dooryhee

Josephson effect and a π-state in superfluid 3He pp. 484-485

Olivier Avenel, Yury Mukharsky and Eric Varoquaux

Josephson effect and a π-state in superfluid 3He pp. 485-485

S. Backhaus, R. W. Simmonds, A. Loshak, J. C. Davis and R. E. Packard

How and why a parasitic nematode jumps pp. 485-486

James F. Campbell and Harry K. Kaya

Non-fertile sperm delay female remating pp. 486-486

Penny A. Cook and Nina Wedell

The fashions and foibles of science pp. 487-488

Peter A. Lawrence

Darwinizing psychology pp. 488-489

Andrew Whiten

Earth's internally generated motions pp. 489-490

Paul G. Richards

Science in culture pp. 490-490

Graham Farmelo

Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development pp. 491-497

O. A. Chadwick, L. A. Derry, P. M. Vitousek, B. J. Huebert and L. O. Hedin

Scaling and criticality in a stochastic multi-agent model of a financial market pp. 498-500

Thomas Lux and Michele Marchesi

A single-photon turnstile device pp. 500-503

J. Kim, O. Benson, H. Kan and Y. Yamamoto

Modulated phases and proton centring in ice observed by X-ray diffraction up to 170?GPa pp. 503-506

Paul Loubeyre, René LeToullec, Elodie Wolanin, Michel Hanfland and Daniel Hausermann

Circularly polarized light generated by photoexcitation of luminophores in glassy liquid-crystal films pp. 506-508

S. H. Chen, D. Katsis, A. W. Schmid, J. C. Mastrangelo, T. Tsutsui and T. N. Blanton

Accelerated dissolution of diatom silica by marine bacterial assemblages pp. 508-512

Kay D. Bidle and Farooq Azam

Cool surface waters of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean during the last glacial pp. 512-514

Kyung E. Lee and Niall C. Slowey

Holocene periodicity in North Atlantic climate and deep-ocean flow south of Iceland pp. 515-517

Giancarlo G. Bianchi and I. Nicholas McCave

Auditory distance perception in rooms pp. 517-520

Adelbert W. Bronkhorst and Tammo Houtgast

The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye pp. 520-522

Austin Roorda and David R. Williams

Asymmetric Notch activation specifies photoreceptors R3 and R4 and planar polarity in the Drosophila eye pp. 523-526

Manolis Fanto and Marek Mlodzik

Frizzled regulation of Notch signalling polarizes cell fate in the Drosophila eye pp. 526-530

Michael T. D. Cooper and Sarah J. Bray

Cyclosporine induces cancer progression by a cell-autonomous mechanism pp. 530-534

Minoru Hojo, Takashi Morimoto, Mary Maluccio, Tomohiko Asano, Kengo Morimoto, Milagros Lagman, Toshikazu Shimbo and Manikkam Suthanthiran

RGD peptides induce apoptosis by direct caspase-3 activation pp. 534-539

Christopher D. Buckley, Darrell Pilling, Nick V. Henriquez, Greg Parsonage, Katy Threlfall, Dagmar Scheel-Toellner, David L. Simmons, Arne N. Akbar, Janet M. Lord and Mike Salmon

Expanding Canada's knowledge base pp. 543-544

Potter Wickware

1999, volume 397, articles 6718

Curb on foreign computers puts damper on US climate modelling pp. 373-373

Tony Reichhardt

Geophysicists call for action on global warming pp. 373-373

Tony Reichhardt

Rubbia proposes a speedier voyage to Mars and back pp. 374-374

Alison Abbott

AAAS head wants to see scientists on school boards pp. 374-374

Sally Lehrman

Harvard reveals plans for research centres pp. 374-374

Steve Nadis

Treaty nations ‘are exploiting Antarctica’ pp. 375-375

Peter Pockley

German science council clashes with anti-nuclear government pp. 375-375

Quirin Schiermeier

Fear of BSE risks could hit US blood banks pp. 376-376

Meredith Wadman

Asian scientists call on Unesco to protect indigenous knowledge pp. 376-376

K S Jayaraman

US budget ‘freezes’ spending on research pp. 377-377

Colin Macilwain and Tony Reichhardt

Leaked CNRS report raises fears and hopes on job security pp. 378-378

Declan Butler

Japanese labs balk at bid to boost external evaluation pp. 378-378

Asako Saegusa

Tougher EU copyright rules come under fire pp. 379-379

Declan Butler

Risks inherent in fetal gene therapy pp. 383-383

David King, Tom Shakespeare, Richard Nicholson, Angus Clarke and Sheila McLean

Risks inherent in fetal gene therapy pp. 383-383

W. French Anderson

Visible viruses and geodesic domes pp. 383-384

David J. DeRosier

Spanish researchers defeated by the system pp. 384-384

Francisco Rodríguez-Quioñes

Can teaching ethics make people ethical? pp. 384-384

Frank J. Leavitt

Glaciation: the snowball theory still holds water pp. 384-384

Paul F. Hoffman and Adam C. Maloof

From Pan to pandemic pp. 385-386

Robin A. Weiss and Richard W. Wrangham

Return of the itinerant electron pp. 386-387

David Ceperley

A cellular poison cupboard pp. 387-389

William C. Earnshaw

All change in the Arctic pp. 389-391

Bob Dickson

Striving for coherence pp. 391-393

Wolf Singer

Counting up to four pp. 393-394

Ivar Ekeland

Fragmenting magma pp. 394-395

Oleg E. Melnik

Powerful lighting pp. 395-395

David Jones

Hans Oeschger (1927-98) pp. 396-396

Thomas Stocker

Half-awake to the risk of predation pp. 397-398

Niels C. Rattenborg, Steven L. Lima and Charles J. Amlaner

UV-B damage amplified by transposons in maize pp. 398-399

Virginia Walbot

Pattern formation in semiconductors pp. 398-398

V. V. Bel'kov, J. Hirschinger, V. Novák, F.-J. Niedernostheide, S.D. Ganichev and W. Prettl

Collective decisions and cognition in bees pp. 400-400

P. Kirk Visscher and Scott Camazine

Japan's enthused individualists pp. 401-402

Rupert Goodwins

A bestiary of chaos and biodiversity pp. 402-403

Paul H. Harvey

Worth its salt pp. 403-404

Hervé This

Science in culture pp. 404-404

Martin Kemp

Female development in mammals is regulated by Wnt-4 signalling pp. 405-409

Seppo Vainio, Minna Heikkilä, Andreas Kispert, Norman Chin and Andrew P. McMahon

Coherence and single-particle excitations in the high-temperature superconductors pp. 410-412

Guy Deutscher

High-temperature weak ferromagnetism in a low-density free-electron gas pp. 412-414

D. P. Young, D. Hall, M. E. Torelli, Z. Fisk, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, H.-R. Ott, S. B. Oseroff, R. G. Goodrich and R. Zysler

Improved quantum efficiency for electroluminescence in semiconducting polymers pp. 414-417

Yong Cao, Ian D. Parker, Gang Yu, Chi Zhang and Alan J. Heeger

Hybrid hydrogels assembled from synthetic polymers and coiled-coil protein domains pp. 417-420

Chun Wang, Russell J. Stewart and JindŘich KopeČek

A complex clathrate hydrate structure showing bimodal guest hydration pp. 420-423

Konstantin A. Udachin and John A. Ripmeester

Upward transport of oceanic nitrate by migrating diatom mats pp. 423-425

Tracy A. Villareal, Cynthia Pilskaln, Mark Brzezinski, Fredric Lipschultz, Mark Dennett and George B. Gardner

Strain-induced magma fragmentation in explosive eruptions pp. 425-428

Paolo Papale

A neuronal representation of the location of nearby sounds pp. 428-430

Michael S. A. Graziano, Lina A. J. Reiss and Charles G. Gross

Perception's shadow: long-distance synchronization of human brain activity pp. 430-433

Eugenio Rodriguez, Nathalie George, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Jacques Martinerie, Bernard Renault and Francisco J. Varela

Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learning pp. 434-436

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner, Christoph Braun, Matthias Arnold, Herbert Witte and Edward Taub

Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes pp. 436-441

Feng Gao, Elizabeth Bailes, David L. Robertson, Yalu Chen, Cynthia M. Rodenburg, Scott F. Michael, Larry B. Cummins, Larry O. Arthur, Martine Peeters, George M. Shaw, Paul M. Sharp and Beatrice H. Hahn

Molecular characterization of mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor pp. 441-446

Santos A. Susin, Hans K. Lorenzo, Naoufal Zamzami, Isabel Marzo, Bryan E. Snow, Greg M. Brothers, Joan Mangion, Etienne Jacotot, Paola Costantini, Markus Loeffler, Nathanael Larochette, David R. Goodlett, Ruedi Aebersold, David P. Siderovski, Josef M. Penninger and Guido Kroemer

The transcriptional cofactor complex CRSP is required for activity of the enhancer-binding protein Sp1 pp. 446-450

Soojin Ryu, Sharleen Zhou, Andreas G. Ladurner and Robert Tjian

1999, volume 397, articles 6717

Sequence ‘terrorist genes’, says Venter pp. 281-281

Ehsan Masood

Europe is urged to hold back on xenotransplant clinical trials pp. 281-282

Declan Butler

UK women lead the way on interdisciplinary research pp. 282-282

Alison Mitchell

Cancer body ‘must do more for minorities’ pp. 283-283

Meredith Wadman

German/Swedish venture creates plant biotechnology giant pp. 283-283

Quirin Schiermeier

US life scientists seek 15 per cent rise to NIH research funds pp. 284-284

Meredith Wadman

Japan to try to understand quakes, not predict them pp. 284-284

Asako Saegusa

China clamps down on inaccurate warnings pp. 284-284

Asako Saegusa

US unveils $366 million computing boost pp. 285-285

Natasha Loder

Warning on pitfalls in measuring research pp. 285-285

Natasha Loder

UK gets the green light on modified crops pp. 286-286

Ehsan Masood

Hopes for reform rise as Spain replaces its hard-line minister pp. 286-286

Xavier Bosch

‘Inadequate science’ in US habitat plans pp. 287-287

Tony Reichhardt

Australia battles to mine heritage site pp. 287-287

Peter Pockley

Keele book sell-off squanders heritage pp. 290-290

David Singmaster

Green campaigners undermine the IWC pp. 290-290

Dan Goodman

Don't put research in a goal-based straitjacket pp. 290-290

Mike Berridge

Who will mentor the mentors? pp. 291-291

Carl Djerassi

The odds of losing at genetic roulette pp. 293-294

James F. Crow

Lasing from a molecular sieve pp. 294-295

Stephen R. Forrest

A new spin on handed asymmetry pp. 295-298

Kyle J. Vogan and Clifford J. Tabin

Stress drives gas into a black hole pp. 298-299

Kartik Sheth and Peter J. Teuben

Bromine explosion pp. 299-301

Paul Wennberg

Colour renewal from space pp. 301-302

Raymond Sambrotto

Visions of vortices pp. 301-301

Sarah Tomlin

Ultra-light glazing pp. 302-302

David Jones

Getting its from bits pp. 303-306

Frank Wilczek

Genetic tracking of a protected whale pp. 307-308

Frank Cipriano and Stephen R. Palumbi

Motion of vortices in superconductors pp. 308-309

A. Tonomura, H. Kasai, O. Kamimura, T. Matsuda, K. Harada, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio and K. Kitazawa

Role of the giant panda's ‘pseudo-thumb’ pp. 309-310

Hideki Endo, Daishiro Yamagiwa, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Hiroshi Koie, Yoshiki Yamaya and Junpei Kimura

Yeast cell-type regulation of DNA repair pp. 310-310

Stefan U. Åström, Sara M. Okamura and Jasper Rine

The child of unfulfilled expectations pp. 311-312

Malcolm R. Dando

Of rats and psychology students pp. 312-313

Adam Kuper

From worms to prawns pp. 313-314

Diethard Tautz

Remembering Big Blue and his kin pp. 314-314

Rupert Goodwins

OPGL is a key regulator of osteoclastogenesis, lymphocyte development and lymph-node organogenesis pp. 315-323

Young-Yun Kong, Hiroki Yoshida, Ildiko Sarosi, Hong-Lin Tan, Emma Timms, Casey Capparelli, Sean Morony, Antonio J. Oliveira-dos-Santos, Gwyneth Van, Annick Itie, Wilson Khoo, Andrew Wakeham, Colin R. Dunstan, David L. Lacey, Tak W. Mak, William J. Boyle and Josef M. Penninger

Magnetic field as a tracer of sheared gas flow in barred galaxies pp. 324-327

R. Beck, M. Ehle, V. Shoutenkov, A. Shukurov and D. Sokoloff

Predicted signatures of rotating Bose–Einstein condensates pp. 327-329

D. A. Butts and D. S. Rokhsar

Cluster-weighted modelling for time-series analysis pp. 329-332

N. Gershenfeld, B. Schoner and E. Metois

Confirming the continuum theory of dynamic brittle fracture for fast cracks pp. 333-335

Eran Sharon and Jay Fineberg

A controlled-release microchip pp. 335-338

John T. Santini, Michael J. Cima and Robert Langer

Evidence for bromine monoxide in the free troposphere during the Arctic polar sunrise pp. 338-341

C. T. McElroy, C. A. McLinden and J. C. McConnell

High genomic deleterious mutation rates in hominids pp. 344-347

Adam Eyre-Walker and Peter D. Keightley

Monocular deprivation induces homosynaptic long-term depression in visual cortex pp. 347-350

Cynthia D. Rittenhouse, Harel Z. Shouval, Michael A. Paradiso and Mark F. Bear

In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients pp. 350-355

Timothy M. Gomez and Nicholas C. Spitzer

Secondary V(D)J recombination in B-1 cells pp. 355-359

Xiao-Feng Qin, Stephan Schwers, Wong Yu, Fotini Papavasiliou, Heikyung Suh, Andre Nussenzweig, Klaus Rajewsky and Michel C. Nussenzweig

The 5-HT3B subunit is a major determinant of serotonin-receptor function pp. 359-363

Paul A. Davies, Marco Pistis, Michael C. Hanna, John A. Peters, Jeremy J. Lambert, Tim G. Hales and Ewen F. Kirkness

TPL-2 kinase regulates the proteolysis of the NF-κB-inhibitory protein NF-κB1 p105 pp. 363-368

Mônica P. Belich, Andrés Salmerón, Leland H. Johnston and Steven C. Ley

Getting into automatic gear pp. 369-370

Brendan Horton

1999, volume 397, articles 6716

Insider trading alert over bioscience companies pp. 185-185

Sally Lehrman

Embryonic stem-cell research exempt from ban, NIH is told pp. 185-186

Meredith Wadman

Space station faces research cuts to cover risk of Russian default pp. 186-186

Tony Reichhardt

Biochemistry panel dropped from UK quality review pp. 187-187

Natasha Loder

French scientists offered time to set up companies pp. 187-187

Declan Butler

India approves use of genetically modified crops, despite critics pp. 188-188

K. S. Jayaraman

Physicist's dual role could help with Japanese merger pp. 188-188

Asako Saegusa

Fossil dealer charged over Russian cache pp. 189-189

Alison Abbott

Greens accept reprieve for neutron source pp. 189-189

Quirin Schiermeier

Quebec's tax incentives act as a magnet to research companies pp. 190-190

David Spurgeon

Plan to limit Cambridge high-tech growth pp. 190-191

Ehsan Masood

Tough times set to continue for US biotech start-ups pp. 191-191

Sally Lehrman

The writing is on the web for science journals in print pp. 197-198

Declan Butler

Close the South-North knowledge gap pp. 201-201

Vanderlei Canhos, Leslie Chan, Frances Giaquinto, Barbara Kirsop, Anthony ODonnell and Judy Ugonna

Luddites must not block progress in genetics pp. 201-201

David Wood

Computers and the copyright conundrum pp. 201-202

Dennis S. Karjala

Who pays what in drug development pp. 202-202

James Love

Guard your knowledge... and reap the rewards pp. 202-202

David Grant

German university reforms misguided pp. 202-202

Robin Ghosh

Prospecting for Jurassic slabs pp. 203-204

Mark A. Richards

Molecular motors join forces pp. 204-205

Manfred Schliwa

Deep-sea clams feel the heat pp. 205-207

Cindy Lee Van Dover

Sculpting a wavepacket pp. 207-208

Wolfgang P. Schleich

Translational control perks up pp. 209-211

Robert H. Silverman and Bryan R. G. Williams

Monkey business in the aquarium pp. 211-211

Rory Howlett

Ferroelectric ice pp. 212-213

Steven T. Bramwell

Capping off the ends pp. 213-214

Carolyn Price

Hydrogenase sophistication pp. 214-215

Richard Cammack

A homeostatic switch pp. 215-216

Richard Miles

Cogito in vitro pp. 216-216

David Jones

Density-dependent warning coloration pp. 217-217

Gregory A. Sword

Fas-mediated cell death promoted by opioids pp. 218-218

Deling Yin, R. Allan Mufson, Ruoxiang Wang and Yufang Shi

Shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites pp. 219-220

Patrick J. Keeling, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Robert G. K. Donald, David S. Roos, Ross F. Waller and Geoffrey I. McFadden

Does global warming make Triton blush? pp. 219-219

Bonnie J. Buratti, Michael D. Hicks and Ray L. Newburn, Jr

Shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites pp. 220-220

Craig W. Roberts, John Finnerty, Jennifer J. Johnson, Fiona Roberts, 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

Betwixt hagiography and debunking pp. 221-222

W. F. Bynum

The face of the future pp. 222-223

David Gems

Destruction and deliberation pp. 223-223

Claudio Vita-Finzi

Antidote to angst pp. 224-224

Gerhard Neuweiler

The large-scale smoothness of the Universe pp. 225-230

Kelvin K. S. Wu, Ofer Lahav and Martin J. Rees

The generation of martian floods by the melting of ground ice above dykes pp. 231-233

Dan McKenzie and Francis Nimmo

Controlling the shape of a quantum wavefunction pp. 233-235

T. C. Weinacht, J. Ahn and P. H. Bucksbaum

Nanometre-scale rolling and sliding of carbon nanotubes pp. 236-238

M. R. Falvo, R. M. Taylor, A. Helser, V. Chi, F. P. Brooks, S. Washburn and R. Superfine

Identifying the forces responsible for self-organization of nanostructures at crystal surfaces pp. 238-241

K. Pohl, M. C. Bartelt, J. de la Figuera, N. C. Bartelt, J. Hrbek and R. Q. Hwang

Coordinated proton tunnelling in a cyclic network of four hydrogen bonds in the solid state pp. 241-243

Dermot F. Brougham, Roberto Caciuffo and Anthony J. Horsewill

Possible predictability in overflow from the Denmark Strait pp. 243-246

Bob Dickson, Jens Meincke, Ian Vassie, Johann Jungclaus and Svein Østerhus

Mesozoic subducted slabs under Siberia pp. 246-249

Rob Van der Voo, Wim Spakman and Harmen Bijwaard

Can aposematic signals evolve by gradual change? pp. 249-251

Leena Lindström, Rauno V. Alatalo, Johanna Mappes, Marianna Riipi and Laura Vertainen

The K+/Cl− co-transporter KCC2 renders GABA hyperpolarizing during neuronal maturation pp. 251-255

Claudio Rivera, Juha Voipio, John A. Payne, Eva Ruusuvuori, Hannele Lahtinen, Karri Lamsa, Ulla Pirvola, Mart Saarma and Kai Kaila

Polyunsaturated fatty acids activate the Drosophila light-sensitive channels TRP and TRPL pp. 255-259

Sylwester Chyb, Padinjat Raghu and Roger C. Hardie

Direct activation of human TRPC6 and TRPC3 channels by diacylglycerol pp. 259-263

Thomas Hofmann, Alexander G. Obukhov, Michael Schaefer, Christian Harteneck, Thomas Gudermann and Günter Schultz

ICOS is an inducible T-cell co-stimulator structurally and functionally related to CD28 pp. 263-266

Andreas Hutloff, Anna M. Dittrich, Katja C. Beier, Barbara Eljaschewitsch, Regine Kraft, Ionnis Anagnostopoulos and Richard A. Kroczek

Direct interaction of microtubule- and actin-based transport motors pp. 267-270

Jian-Dong Huang, Scott T. Brady, Bruce W. Richards, David Stenoien, James H. Resau, Neal G. Copeland and Nancy A. Jenkins

Protein translation and folding are coupled by an endoplasmic-reticulum-resident kinase pp. 271-274

Heather P. Harding, Yuhong Zhang and David Ron

1999, volume 397, articles 6715

US biologists propose launch of electronic preprint archive pp. 91-91

Declan Butler

Indian scientist sues over spying charge pp. 91-91

K. S. Jayaraman

Future of German neutron source hangs in the balance pp. 92-92

Alison Abbott

Japanese centre will study the origins of the Universe pp. 92-92

Asako Saegusa

China signs up for participation in EU's Framework pp. 93-93

Alison Abbott

Energy department revises terms of Venter deal after complaints pp. 93-93

Colin Macilwain

Brazil brings in reforms of science funding agency pp. 93-93

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

Gene therapy pushes on, despite doubts pp. 94-94

Meredith Wadman

Senator seeks reassurance on NIH budget pp. 94-94

Meredith Wadman

US astronomers contest building project pp. 95-95

Tony Reichhardt

Fuel additives put under scrutiny — again pp. 96-96

Tony Reichhardt

Russian physicists may pay price of success pp. 96-96

Carl Levitin

Global ‘eco-survey’ plan gets a rough ride pp. 97-97

Ehsan Masood

French reforms would disrupt research pp. 101-101

Alain Bucheton

Lab guidelines aim to prevent misconduct pp. 101-101

Torben Clausen

Did agriculture cause the population explosion? pp. 101-101

Stephen G. Warren

Did agriculture cause the population explosion? pp. 101-101

Roger Short

Traffic lights at the Beringian crossroads pp. 103-104

Andrei Sher

Checkpoint on the nuclear frontier pp. 104-105

Jonathon Pines

A new twist in β-decay pp. 105-108

Wolfgang Stoeffl

Modulation minimizes masking pp. 108-109

Brian C. J. Moore

An anchor for activation pp. 109-111

Peter ten Dijke and Carl-Henrik Heldin

A cultured brain pp. 111-111

David Jones

Alan Hodgkin (1914-98) pp. 112-112

Trevor Lamb

Lizards took express train to Polynesia pp. 113-114

Christopher C. Austin

The first true inorganic fullerenes? pp. 114-114

P. A. Parilla, A. C. Dillon, K. M. Jones, G. Riker, D. L. Schulz, D. S. Ginley and M. J. Heben

Length of tail streamers in barn swallows pp. 115-115

Anders Hedenström and Anders Pape Møller

Length of tail streamers in barn swallows pp. 115-116

Matthew R. Evans

Sign language ‘heard’ in the auditory cortex pp. 116-116

Hiroshi Nishimura, Kazuo Hashikawa, Katsumi Doi, Takako Iwaki, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Hideo Kusuoka, Tsunehiko Nishimura and Takeshi Kubo

Thinking about consciousness pp. 117-118

Paul E. Griffiths

Ornithologist-watching pp. 119-119

John W. Fitzpatrick

Mediaeval cures and casualties pp. 119-120

Vivian Nutton

Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers pp. 121-128

R. H. Friend, R. W. Gymer, A. B. Holmes, J. H. Burroughes, R. N. Marks, C. Taliani, D. D. C. Bradley, D. A. Dos Santos, J. L. Brédas, M. Lögdlund and W. R. Salaneck

A single myosin head moves along an actin filament with regular steps of 5.3 nanometres pp. 129-134

Kazuo Kitamura, Makio Tokunaga, Atsuko Hikikoshi Iwane and Toshio Yanagida

The thermal imprint of galaxy formation on X-ray clusters pp. 135-137

Trevor J. Ponman, Damian B. Cannon and Julio F. Navarro

Detection of environmental fine structure in the low-energy β-decay spectrum of 187Re pp. 137-139

F. Gatti, F. Fontanelli, M. Galeazzi, A. M. Swift and S. Vitale

Lateral drag of spin coherence in gallium arsenide pp. 139-141

J. M. Kikkawa and D. D. Awschalom

Entropic trapping of macromolecules by mesoscopic periodic voids in a polymer hydrogel pp. 141-144

Lei Liu, Pusheng Li and Sanford A. Asher

A nanomechanical device based on the B–Z transition of DNA pp. 144-146

Chengde Mao, Weiqiong Sun, Zhiyong Shen and Nadrian C. Seeman

Sulphidic Mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation pp. 146-149

Hilde F. Passier, Hendrik-Jan Bosch, Ivar A. Nijenhuis, Lucas J. Lourens, Michael E. Böttcher, Anke Leenders, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Gert J. de Lange and Jan W. Leeuw

Evidence for an early opening of the Bering Strait pp. 149-151

Louie Marincovich and Andrey Yu. Gladenkov

Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee pp. 151-154

Boris Baer and Paul Schmid-Hempel

Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds pp. 154-157

Israel Nelken, Yaron Rotman and Omer Bar Yosef

Kainate receptors mediate synaptic transmission between cones and ‘Off’ bipolar cells in a mammalian retina pp. 157-160

Steven H. DeVries and Eric A. Schwartz

Kainate-receptor-mediated sensory synaptic transmission in mammalian spinal cord pp. 161-164

Ping Li, Timothy J. Wilding, Susan J. Kim, Amelita A. Calejesan, James E. Huettner and Min Zhuo

The oncogene and Polycomb-group gene bmi-1 regulates cell proliferation and senescence through the ink4a locus pp. 164-168

Jacqueline J. L. Jacobs, Karin Kieboom, Silvia Marino, Ronald A DePinho and Maarten van Lohuizen

Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis pp. 168-171

U. Alon, M. G. Surette, N. Barkai and S. Leibler

Nuclear localization of Cdc25 is regulated by DNA damage and a 14-3-3 protein pp. 172-175

Antonia Lopez-Girona, Beth Furnari, Odile Mondesert and Paul Russell

Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori pp. 176-180

Richard A. Alm, Lo-See L. Ling, Donald T. Moir, Benjamin L. King, Eric D. Brown, Peter C. Doig, Douglas R. Smith, Brian Noonan, Braydon C. Guild, Boudewijn L. deJonge, Gilles Carmel, Peter J. Tummino, Anthony Caruso, Maria Uria-Nickelsen, Debra M. Mills, Cameron Ives, Rene Gibson, David Merberg, Scott D. Mills, Qin Jiang, Diane E. Taylor, Gerald F. Vovis and Trevor J. Trust

1999, volume 397, articles 6714

US universities create bridges between physics and biology pp. 3-3

Laura Garwin

France questions Israeli research deal pp. 3-3

Haim Watzman

Eastern Europe still strapped for cash⃛ pp. 4-4

Alison Abbott

...but much Hungarian biology is world class pp. 4-4

Alison Abbott

Japanese budget boosts science funding pp. 5-5

Asako Saegusa

Software problem delays US spacecraft's meeting with asteroid pp. 5-5

Tony Reichhardt

World Bank invests in global science base pp. 6-7

Ehsan Masood

Taking knowledge to the poorest pp. 6-6

David Dickson

US spirit is willing, but funds are still weak pp. 7-8

Colin Macilwain

Science moves up Europe's aid agenda pp. 8-9

Alison Abbott

Technology and tradition clash in India pp. 9-9

K. S. Jayaraman

Internet may help bridge the gap pp. 10-11

Declan Butler

AIDS decision threatens drugs trials pp. 13-13

Arthur J. Ammann

Money talks louder than research quality pp. 13-13

Michael Lee

Lysenko took a dismal view of Malthus pp. 13-14

Sean Nee

Beauty and the Bart Simpson effect pp. 14-14

Thomas Getty

English versus Spanish in science evaluation pp. 14-14

Jesús Rey-Rocha, M. José Martín-Sempere, Fernando Lopez-Vera and Jesus Martinez-Frias

Eighteen-ninety-nine and all that pp. 15-18

J. L. Heilbron and W. F. Bynum

Mother and father in surprise genetic agreement pp. 19-20

Mark Pagel

May the force be with you pp. 20-21

Patrick S. Stayton

A shrike for mobility pp. 21-23

Peter D. Moore

Colloidal culprits in contamination pp. 23-24

Bruce D. Honeyman

New tool for Swiss army knife pp. 25-25

Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid

Recruitment in space and time pp. 25-27

Peter F. Sale

Making light of a dark situation pp. 27-28

Robert Willows

Highly pointed remarks pp. 28-28

David Jones

Timing the end of nocturnal sleep pp. 29-30

Jan Born, Kirsten Hansen, Lisa Marshall, Matthias Mölle and Horst L. Fehm

Air traffic may increase cirrus cloudiness pp. 30-31

Olivier Boucher

High metabolic rates in running birds pp. 31-32

Matthew W. Bundle, Hans Hoppeler, Ruth Vock, June M. Tester and Peter G. Weyand

The Thomas Jefferson paternity case pp. 32-32

David M. Abbey

The Thomas Jefferson paternity case pp. 32-32

Gary Davis

Reply: The Thomas Jefferson paternity case pp. 32-32

E. A. Foster, M. A. Jobling, P. G. Taylor, P. Donnelly, P. de Knijff, R. Mieremet, T. Zerjal and C. Tyler-Smith

Starry, starry night pp. 33-33

Owen Gingerich

The wizard of Menlo Park pp. 34-35

Willem Hackmann

Hypnotism and the rise of anaesthesia pp. 35-36

Ruth Richardson

Mother love and its selective advantage pp. 36-36

Steve Stearns

Brown dwarfs: the stars that failed pp. 37-40

C. G. Tinney

A giant periodic flare from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14 pp. 41-43

K. Hurley, T. Cline, E. Mazets, S. Barthelmy, P. Butterworth, F. Marshall, D. Palmer, R. Aptekar, S. Golenetskii, V. Il'Inskii, D. Frederiks, J. McTiernan, R. Gold and J. Trombka

Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction pp. 43-45

J. J. A. Baselmans, A. F. Morpurgo, B. J. van Wees and T. M. Klapwijk

Scaling of transition temperature and CuO2 plane buckling in a high-temperature superconductor pp. 45-48

O. Chmaissem, J. D. Jorgensen, S. Short, A. Knizhnik, Y. Eckstein and H. Shaked

Molecular growth from a Mo176 to a Mo248 cluster pp. 48-50

A. Müller, Syed Q. N. Shah, H. Bögge and M. Schmidtmann

Energy landscapes of receptor–ligand bonds explored with dynamic force spectroscopy pp. 50-53

R. Merkel, P. Nassoy, A. Leung, K. Ritchie and E. Evans

The fate of subducted basaltic crust in the Earth's lower mantle pp. 53-56

Kei Hirose, Yingwei Fei, Yanzhang Ma and Ho-Kwang Mao

Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site pp. 56-59

A. B. Kersting, D. W. Efurd, D. L. Finnegan, D. J. Rokop, D. K. Smith and J. L. Thompson

Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef pp. 59-63

T. P. Hughes, A. H. Baird, E. A. Dinsdale, N. A. Moltschaniwskyj, M. S. Pratchett, J. E. Tanner and B. L. Willis

Robust and optimal use of information in stereo vision pp. 63-66

John Porrill, John P. Frisby, Wendy J. Adams and David Buckley

The protein MAP-1B links GABAC receptors to the cytoskeleton at retinal synapses pp. 66-69

Jonathan G. Hanley, Peter Koulen, Fiona Bedford, Phillip R. Gordon-Weeks and Stephen J. Moss

GABAA-receptor-associated protein links GABAA receptors and the cytoskeleton pp. 69-72

Hongbing Wang, Fiona K. Bedford, Nicholas J. Brandon, Stephen J. Moss and Richard W. Olsen

The AMPA receptor interacts with and signals through the protein tyrosine kinase Lyn pp. 72-76

Takashi Hayashi, Hisashi Umemori, Masayoshi Mishina and Tadashi Yamamoto

A LIM-homeodomain combinatorial code for motor-neuron pathway selection pp. 76-80

Stefan Thor, Siv G. E. Andersson, Andrew Tomlinson and John B. Thomas

A protochlorophyllide light-harvesting complex involved in de-etiolation of higher plants pp. 80-84

Christiane Reinbothe, Nikolai Lebedev and Steffen Reinbothe

The imprinting box of the mouse Igf2r gene pp. 84-88

Yehudit Birger, Ruth Shemer, Jonathan Perk and Aharon Razin