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1997, volume 390, articles 6661

Battling for science takes its toll on UN climate panel stalwarts pp. 649-649

Ehsan Masood

Kyoto agreement creates new agenda for climate research pp. 649-650

Ehsan Masood

Faith, hope and tact needed for US ratification pp. 650-650

Colin Macilwain

Minister's near miss at the final curtain pp. 650-650

Asako Saegusa

National Institutes of Health sets up its own bioethics panel pp. 651-651

Meredith Wadman

Energy labs urged to boost supercomputing capability pp. 651-651

Colin Macilwain

New Zealand imports technology foresight pp. 651-651

Peter Pockley

Researcher sues over ‘fraud’ sanction pp. 652-652

Alison Abbott

Germany proposes guidelines for good practice pp. 652-652

Alison Abbott

Japan's research spending rises again pp. 653-653

Robert Triendl

Inquiry looks into Indian cancer deaths pp. 653-653

K. S. Jayaraman

Time for change in Portuguese science pp. 656-656

Adelino V. M. Canario

Quid pro quo pp. 656-656

John A. Davis

Plant cyclic AMP comes in from the cold pp. 657-658

Anthony J. Trewavas

Remedies for windy camels pp. 658-659

Adrian M. Lister

100 and 50 years ago pp. 659-659

N. W. Pirie

Colour takes the field pp. 659-661

Frank Wilczek

Frozen light pp. 661-662

Sajeev John

B lymphocytes and neuroinvasion pp. 662-663

Paul Brown

Music with everything pp. 663-663

David Jones

Palissy's philosophical pots pp. 665-665

Martin Kemp

Archaeological frankincense pp. 667-668

R. P. Evershed, P. F. van Bergen, T. M. Peakman, E. C. Leigh-Firbank, M. C. Horton, D. Edwards, M. Biddle, B. Kjølbye-Biddle and P. A. Rowley-Conwy

How pine cones open pp. 668-668

Colin Dawson, Julian F. V. Vincent and Anne-Marie Rocca

Managing clinical uncertainty pp. 669-670

John Harley Warner

Molecular thriller pp. 670-670

Maxine Clarke

Localization of light in a disordered medium pp. 671-673

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

Microscopic patterning of orientated mesoscopic silica through guided growth pp. 674-676

M. Trau, N. Yao, E. Kim, Y. Xia, G. M. Whitesides and I. A. Aksay

A resonance in the Earth's obliquity and precession overthe past 20 Myr drivenbymantle convection pp. 676-680

Alessandro M. Forte and Jerry X. Mitrovica

Regeneration of adult axons in white matter tracts of the central nervous system pp. 680-683

Stephen J. A. Davies, Michael T. Fitch, Stacey P. Memberg, Alison K. Hall, Geoffrey Raisman and Jerry Silver

The cellular prion protein binds copper in vivo pp. 684-687

David R. Brown, Kefeng Qin, Jochen W. Herms, Axel Madlung, Jean Manson, Robert Strome, Paul E. Fraser, Theo Kruck, Alex von Bohlen, Walter Schulz-Schaeffer, Armin Giese, David Westaway and Hans Kretzschmar

A crucial role for B cells in neuroinvasive scrapie pp. 687-690

Michael A. Klein, Rico Frigg, Eckhard Flechsig, Alex J. Raeber, Ulrich Kalinke, Horst Bluethmann, Frank Bootz, Marc Suter, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Adriano Aguzzi

Neuregulin-β induces expression of an NMDA-receptor subunit pp. 691-694

Miwako Ozaki, Michael Sasner, Ryoji Yano, Hsieng S. Lu and Andres Buonanno

Cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels mediate synaptic feedback by nitric oxide pp. 694-698

Alexei Savchenko, Steven Barnes and Richard H. Kramer

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Identification and role of adenylyl cyclase in auxin signalling in higher plants pp. 698-701

Takanari Ichikawa, Yoshihito Suzuki, Inge Czaja, Carla Schommer, Angela LeBnick, Jeff Schell and Richard Walden

1997, volume 390, articles 6660

$40m plant genome sequencing effort targets the best science pp. 539-540

Colin Macilwain

Greenwich observatory's fate hangs in the balance pp. 540-540

Ehsan Masood

UK accused over risk of CJD in plasma⃛ pp. 541-541

Declan Butler

⃛and latest BSE beef ban ‘comes too late’ pp. 541-541

Declan Butler

Geologist fails to overturn Creationist judgement pp. 542-542

Peter Pockley

Dispute blocks agreement on Europe's fusion funds pp. 542-542

Alison Abbott

Science board seeks priority agreement pp. 543-543

Colin Macilwain

US wins access to Framework programme pp. 543-543

Colin Macilwain

Asia/Pacific ‘bionetwork’ comes to life pp. 544-544

David Swinbanks

Taiwan looks to the skies for a boost to its basic research pp. 544-544

Richard Nathan

Australia lifts budget threats to public research pp. 545-545

Peter Pockley

Kyoto meeting bridges gaps, though differences remain pp. 545-545

Ehsan Masood

CERN deal ‘historic and path-breaking’ pp. 545-545

Colin Macilwain

Red grouse and their predators pp. 547-547

Simon Thirgood and Steve Redpath

Exaggeration or underestimate? pp. 547-547

George M. Woodwell

A little learning pp. 548-548

Gareth Griffiths

Open access to data pp. 548-548

Henry Rishbeth

An early warning of the risks of rocketry pp. 549-549

Paul Tunbridge

Nuclear agency's research misjudged pp. 549-549

Catherine Cesarsky

How to evaluate journal impact factors pp. 550-550

Johannes Stegmann

Standards for safety cabinets pp. 550-550

Raymond P. Clark

The fastest way from A to B pp. 551-552

Tony Sudbery

Never fear, LTP is hear pp. 552-553

Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll

New tricks of tick-borne pathogen pp. 553-554

Alan G. Barbour and Wolfram R. Zückert

Clocks within the hourglass pp. 555-556

Mario Livio

A star is born pp. 556-557

Stephen R. Palumbi

The painless synergism of aspirin and opium pp. 557-559

John T. Williams

Sounds from the cochlea pp. 559-560

Karen B. Avraham

Ringing the changes pp. 560-561

Andrew Holmes

Payment in advance pp. 561-561

David Jones

The past and the future of El Niño pp. 562-564

Peter J. Webster and Timothy N. Palmer

Callan's canyons pp. 565-565

Martin Kemp

An E2F-like repressor of transcription pp. 567-568

M. Morkel, J. Wenkel, A. J. Bannister, T. Kouzarides and Christian Hagemeier

Ribonuclease inhibits Kaposi's sarcoma pp. 568-568

Suzanne J. Griffiths, David J. Adams and Simon J. Talbot

Detoxifying aluminium with buckwheat pp. 569-570

Jian Feng Ma, Shao Jian Zheng, Hideaki Matsumoto and Syuntaro Hiradate

Mosaicism in Turner's syndrome pp. 569-569

Wolfram Henn and Klaus D. Zang

Mosaicism in Turner's syndrome pp. 569-569

David Skuse and Patricia Jacobs

In for a penny, off for a pound pp. 571-572

Richard Davenport-Hines

Elementary history pp. 572-572

Robert Hedges

Insects bite back pp. 573-573

Lawrence M. Hanks

Reliable recipes pp. 573-574

Richard D. Wood

Experimental quantum teleportation pp. 575-579

Dik Bouwmeester, Jian-Wei Pan, Klaus Mattle, Manfred Eibl, Harald Weinfurter and Anton Zeilinger

Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi pp. 580-586

Claire M. Fraser, Sherwood Casjens, Wai Mun Huang, Granger G. Sutton, Rebecca Clayton, Raju Lathigra, Owen White, Karen A. Ketchum, Robert Dodson, Erin K. Hickey, Michelle Gwinn, Brian Dougherty, Jean-Francois Tomb, Robert D. Fleischmann, Delwood Richardson, Jeremy Peterson, Anthony R. Kerlavage, John Quackenbush, Steven Salzberg, Mark Hanson, Rene van Vugt, Nanette Palmer, Mark D. Adams, Jeannine Gocayne, Janice Weidman, Teresa Utterback, Larry Watthey, Lisa McDonald, Patricia Artiach, Cheryl Bowman, Stacey Garland, Claire Fujii, Matthew D. Cotton, Kurt Horst, Kevin Roberts, Bonnie Hatch, Hamilton O. Smith and J. Craig Venter

Increasing X-ray emissions and periodic outbursts from the massive star η Carinae pp. 587-589

Michael F. Corcoran, Kazunori Ishibashi, Jean H. Swank, Kris Davidson, Robert Petre and Jurgen H. M. M. Schmitt

Controlling the sign of quantum interference by tunnelling from quantum wells pp. 589-591

Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso, Carlo Sirtori, Ken W. West and L. N. Pfeiffer

Emergence of symbiosis in peptide self-replication through a hypercyclic network pp. 591-594

David H. Lee, Kay Severin, Yohei Yokobayashi and M. Reza Ghadiri

Kinetic limitations on droplet formation in clouds pp. 594-596

P. Y. Chuang, R. J. Charlson and J. H. Seinfeld

Vanishing atomic migration barrier in SiO2 pp. 596-599

Michael J. Aziz, Susan Circone and Carl B. Agee

Nonlinear ground-motion amplification by sediments during the 1994 Northridge earthquake pp. 599-602

Edward H. Field, Paul A. Johnson, Igor A. Beresnev and Yuehua Zeng

Absence of contour linking in peripheral vision pp. 602-604

Robert F. Hess and Steven C. Dakin

Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala pp. 604-607

Michael T. Rogan, Ursula V. Stäubli and Joseph E. LeDoux

Fear conditioning induces a lasting potentiation of synaptic currents in vitro pp. 607-611

M. G. McKernan and P. Shinnick-Gallagher

How opioids inhibit GABA-mediated neurotransmission pp. 611-614

C. W. Vaughan, S. L. Ingram, M. A. Connor and M. J. Christie

A Schwann cell mitogen accompanying regeneration of motor neurons pp. 614-618

Frederick J. Livesey, John A. O'Brien, Meng Li, Austin G. Smith, Liam J. Murphy and Stephen P. Hunt

Role of cytosolic phospholipase A2 in allergic response and parturition pp. 618-622

Naonori Uozumi, Kazuhiko Kume, Takahide Nagase, Noriaki Nakatani, Satoshi Ishii, Fumi Tashiro, Yoshinori Komagata, Kazushige Maki, Koichi Ikuta, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Jun-ichi Miyazaki and Takao Shimizu

Reduced fertility and postischaemic brain injury in mice deficient in cytosolic phospholipase A2 pp. 622-625

Joseph V. Bonventre, Zhihong Huang, M. Reza Taheri, Eileen O'Leary, En Li, Michael A. Moskowitz and Adam Sapirstein

Miranda directs Prospero to a daughter cell during Drosophila asymmetric divisions pp. 625-629

Hiroko Ikeshima-Kataoka, James B. Skeath, Yo-ichi Nabeshima, Chris Q. Doe and Fumio Matsuzaki

Antiproliferative action of interferon-α requires components of T-cell-receptor signalling pp. 629-632

Emanuel F. Petricoin, Satoshi Ito, Brandi L. Williams, Susette Audet, Louis F. Stancato, Ana Gamero, Kathleen Clouse, Philip Grimley, Arthur Weiss, Judy Beeler, David S. Finbloom, Elizabeth W. Shores, Robert Abraham and Andrew C. Larner

Cdc42 and Rac1 induce integrin-mediated cell motility and invasiveness through PI(3)K pp. 632-636

Patricia J. Keely, John K. Westwick, Ian P. Whitehead, Channing J. Der and Leslie V. Parise

An extended microtubule-binding structure within the dynein motor domain pp. 636-639

Melissa A. Gee, John E. Heuser and Richard B. Vallee

Structure of the proteasome activator REGα (PA28α) pp. 639-643

J. Randolph Knowlton, Steven C. Johnston, Frank G. Whitby, Claudio Realini, Zhiguo Zhang, Martin Rechsteiner and Christopher P. Hill

CTL induction by a tumour-associated antigen octapeptide derived from a murine lung carcinoma pp. 643-643

Ofer Mandelboim, Gideon Berke, Mati Fridkin, Michael Feldman, Miriam Eisenstein and Lea Eisenbach

Imaging is not everything pp. 644-646

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 390, articles 6659

US offers possible compromise at start of climate treaty talks pp. 429-429

Asako Saegusa and Ehsan Masood

Transgenic patents a step closer in Europe pp. 429-429

Alison Abbott

Germany tightens grip on misconduct⃛ pp. 430-430

Alison Abbott

⃛while US students own up to cheating pp. 430-430

Ehsan Masood

NASA looks to extended balloon flights pp. 431-431

Tony Reichhardt

Female scientists wanted — apply to UK research councils pp. 431-431

David Dickson

Governments and environmentalists split over forests pp. 432-432

Ehsan Masood

Canadian inquiry calls for ‘safety first’ blood agency pp. 432-432

David Spurgeon

European grants to face ethics scrutiny pp. 433-433

Declan Butler

Seven-year watch on transgenic maize pp. 433-433

Declan Butler

Yeltsin voices concern over ‘brain-drain’ pp. 434-434

Carl Levitin

US air base in Japan increases monitoring of local dioxin threat pp. 434-434

Asako Saegusa

UK plans for coping with plutonium waste fail to impress pp. 435-435

Ehsan Masood

Staff resist ‘streamlining’ at top Australian institute pp. 435-435

Peter Pockley

No evidence of sexism in peer review pp. 438-438

Jonathan Grant, Simon Burden and Gillian Breen

The hole truth pp. 438-438

Bob Wells

Multi-ringed revelation pp. 439-440

H. J. Melosh

Be diverse, be predictable pp. 440-441

Ilkka Hanski

Twice in a blue moon pp. 441-443

Jane Luu

The enzyme at the end of the food chain pp. 443-444

Richard Cammack

Going halves over Hudson Bay pp. 445-447

Jerry X. Mitrovica

Climate's carbonate cypher pp. 445-445

Philip Newton

Do males rely on female hormones? pp. 447-448

Richard M. Sharpe

Big storms make little storms pp. 448-449

George Siscoe

Poor prospects for oiled birds pp. 449-450

Chris Mead

The ultimate Sun-block pp. 450-450

David Jones

Albers's abstracts pp. 451-451

Martin Kemp

Caterpillar kinematics pp. 453-453

John Brackenbury

No ‘nanofossils’ in martian meteorite pp. 454-455

J. P. Bradley, R. P Harvey, H. Y. McSween, Everett Gibson, Kathie Thomas-Keprta and H. Vali

No ‘nanofossils’ in martian meteorite pp. 455-456

David S. McKay

Travelling waves in vole population dynamics pp. 456-456

Esa Ranta and Veijo Kaitala

Second careers of the Nazis' doctors pp. 457-458

Marco Finetti

Emotional displays pp. 458-459

Stuart Sutherland

The steeple people pp. 459-460

David Ritson

In retrospect chosen by Kevin Padian pp. 460-460

Kevin Padian

Real-time seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation pp. 461-464

Hiroo Kanamori, Egill Hauksson and Thomas Heaton

TGF-β signalling from cell membrane to nucleus through SMAD proteins pp. 465-471

Carl-Henrik Heldin, Kohei Miyazono and Peter ten Dijke

Size and morphology of the Chicxulub impact crater pp. 472-476

Jo Morgan, Mike Warner, the Chicxulub Working Group, John Brittan, Richard Buffler, Antonio Camargo, Gail Christeson, Paul Denton, Alan Hildebrand, Richard Hobbs, Hamish Macintyre, Graeme Mackenzie, Peter Maguire, Luis Marin, Yosio Nakamura, Mark Pilkington, Virgil Sharpton, Dave Snyder, Gerardo Suarez and Alberto Trejo

A conserved RNA-binding protein that regulates sexual fates in the C. elegans hermaphrodite germ line pp. 477-484

Beilin Zhang, Maria Gallegos, Alessandro Puoti, Eileen Durkin, Stanley Fields, Judith Kimble and Marvin P. Wickens

The Evershed effect in sunspots as a siphon flow along a magnetic flux tube pp. 485-487

Benjamín Montesinos and John H. Thomas

Critical currents approaching the depairing limit at a twin boundary in YBa2Cu3O7−δ pp. 487-490

Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Christophe Renner, Andreas Erb, Eric Walker and Øystein Fischer

Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction from laser-heated organic films pp. 490-492

Christian Rischel, Antoine Rousse, Ingo Uschmann, Pierre-Antoine Albouy, Jean-Paul Geindre, Patrick Audebert, Jean-Claude Gauthier, Eckhart Fröster, Jean-Louis Martin and André Antonetti

Observation of magneto-chiral dichroism pp. 493-494

G. L. J. A. Rikken and E. Raupach

Complex pathways in dissociative adsorption of oxygen on platinum pp. 495-497

T. Zambelli, J. V. Barth, J. Wintterlin and G. Ertl

Effect of seawater carbonate concentration on foraminiferal carbon and oxygen isotopes pp. 497-500

Howard J. Spero, Jelle Bijma, David W. Lea and Bryan E. Bemis

Localization of the gravity field and the signature of glacial rebound pp. 500-504

Mark Simons and Bradford H. Hager

Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals pp. 504-507

David W. Krause, G. V. R. Prasad, Wighart von Koenigswald, Ashok Sahni and Frederick E. Grine

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem reliability pp. 507-509

Shahid Naeem and Shibin Li

A role for oestrogens in the male reproductive system pp. 509-512

Rex A. Hess, David Bunick, Ki-Ho Lee, Janice Bahr, Julia A. Taylor, Kenneth S. Korach and Dennis B. Lubahn

Radial optic flow induces vergence eye movements with ultra-short latencies pp. 512-515

C. Busettini, G. S. Masson and F. A. Miles

Defective limbic system in mice lacking the tailless gene pp. 515-517

A. P. Monaghan, D. Bock, P. Gass, A. Schwger, D. P. Wolfer, H.-P. Lipp and G. Schütz

Activation of peripheral CB1 cannabinoid receptors in haemorrhagic shock pp. 518-521

Jens A. Wagner, Kàroly Varga, Earl F. Ellis, Beverly A. Rzigalinski, Billy R. Martin and George Kunos

Leptin inhibits hypothalamic neurons by activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels pp. 521-525

D. Spanswick, M. A. Smith, V. E. Groppi, S. D. Logan and M. L. J. Ashford

RGS8 accelerates G-protein-mediated modulation of K+currents pp. 525-529

Osamu Saitoh, Yoshihiro Kubo, Yoshihide Miyatani, Tomiko Asano and Hiroyasu Nakata

Pore-forming segments in voltage-gated chloride channels pp. 529-532

Christoph Fahlke, Henry T. Yu, Carol L. Beck, Thomas H. Rhodes and Alfred L. George

Ammonia mediates communication between yeast colonies pp. 532-536

Zdena Palková, Blanka Janderová, Jir̂í Gabriel, Blanka Zikánová, Martin Pospíŝek and Jitka Forstová

Erratum: Action-potential propagation gated by an axonal IA-like K+conductance in hippocampus pp. 536-536

Dominique Debanne, Nathalie C. Guérineau, Beat H. Ghwiler and Scott M. Thompson

Erratum: Activation of the transcription factor Gli1 and the Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in skin tumours pp. 536-536

N. Dahmane, J. Lee, P. Robins, P. Heller and A. Ruiz i Altaba

1997, volume 390, articles 6658

Closure of primate lab angers both researchers and critics pp. 321-321

Colin Macilwain

Gingrich urges doubling of health funds pp. 321-321

Meredith Wadman

Nuclear debate splits open in France ⃛ pp. 322-322

Declan Butler

⃛ as new waste body is proposed for the UK pp. 322-322

Ehsan Masood

Australia plays hard to get pp. 323-323

Peter Pockley

Canada's line dents its green image pp. 323-323

David Spurgeon and Ehsan Masood

Indian PM under fire on Edinburgh deal pp. 323-323

Ehsan Masood

Wirth hands over leadership of US delegation pp. 323-323

Ehsan Masood

Ethical terms set for breast cancer test pp. 324-324

Meredith Wadman

NSF hires expert to tackle ‘millennium bug’ pp. 324-324

Steve Nadis

Lift spending cap or lose Mars mission, ESA panel warns pp. 325-325

Alison Abbott

NASA told to make greater use of ‘cheaper’ private data pp. 325-325

Tony Reichhardt

Better adherence vital in AIDS therapies pp. 326-326

Colin Macilwain

Sub-Saharan Africa hit hardest by epidemic pp. 326-326

Colin Macilwain

Japan to merge science with education pp. 327-327

Asako Saegusa

Australia annuls Roche's native Taq patent pp. 327-327

David Dickson

Problems of nomenclature pp. 329-329

Barry J. Whyte

Problems of nomenclature pp. 329-329

Sue Povey, Julia White, Joseph Nahmias and Hester Wain

Problems of nomenclature pp. 329-329

Lnc Puente, Srt Edmonds and Crp Arendt

Not playing the game pp. 329-329

César Nombela

Art and science pp. 330-330

Dahlia W. Zaidel

Art and science pp. 330-330

Ernst Peter Fischer

A different perspective pp. 331-331

P. B. Soul

Saving British science pp. 331-331

J. H. Mulvey

Soddy's economics undervalued pp. 331-331

Violet MacDermot

Zen and the art of climate maintenance pp. 332-334

Steve Rayner and Elizabeth L. Malone

A cancer therapy resistant to resistance pp. 335-336

Robert S. Kerbel

For the living there is hope pp. 337-339

David A. Tirrell

Homing in on vertebrates pp. 339-340

Joseph L. Kirschvink

From Mesmer to animal magnetism pp. 340-340

Joseph L. Kirschvink

The big splash pp. 340-341

Jan Smit

Unravelling gene interactions pp. 343-343

Sarah P. Otto

Silicon self-analysis pp. 344-344

Robert W. Cahn

Myosin trapped but not tamed pp. 345-346

Clive R. Bagshaw

The case of the missing ellipticals pp. 346-347

Guinevere Kauffmann

Shrinking or swelling? pp. 347-347

David Jones

Stubbs' seeing pp. 348-348

Martin Kemp

Melanocortin receptors in leptin effects pp. 349-349

Randy J. Seeley, Keith A. Yagaloff, Stewart L. Fisher, Paul Burn, Todd E. Thiele, Gertjan van Dijk, Denis G. Baskin and Michael W. Schwartz

Transcriptional squelching re-examined pp. 349-350

S. Natesan, V. M. Rivera, E. Molinari and M. Gilman

Immunosuppressive effects of apoptotic cells pp. 350-351

Reinhard E. Voll, Martin Herrmann, Edith A. Roth, Christian Stach, Joachim R. Kalden and Irute Girkontaite

Why parent birds play favourites pp. 351-352

Scott Forbes, Suzanne Thornton, Barb Glassey, Margaret Forbes and Neil J. Buckley

Watching the sex detective pp. 353-354

Lesley A. Hall

Dogma or debate? pp. 354-355

George Klein

Painting by numbers pp. 356-356

Samuel Y. Edgerton

Geological record and reconstruction of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern Ocean pp. 357-363

R. Gersonde, F. T. Kyte, U. Bleil, B Diekmann, J. A. Flores, K. Gohl, G. Grahl, R. Hagen, G. Kuhn, F. J. Sierro, D. Völker, A Abelmann and J. A. Bostwick

The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus pp. 364-370

Hans-Peter Klenk, Rebecca A. Clayton, Jean-Francois Tomb, Owen White, Karen E. Nelson, Karen A. Ketchum, Robert J. Dodson, Michelle Gwinn, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, Delwood L. Richardson, Anthony R. Kerlavage, David E. Graham, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Robert D. Fleischmann, John Quackenbush, Norman H. Lee, Granger G. Sutton, Steven Gill, Ewen F. Kirkness, Brian A. Dougherty, Keith McKenney, Mark D. Adams, Brendan Loftus, Scott Peterson, Claudia I. Reich, Leslie K. McNeil, Jonathan H. Badger, Anna Glodek, Lixin Zhou, Ross Overbeek, Jeannine D. Gocayne, Janice F. Weidman, Lisa McDonald, Teresa Utterback, Matthew D. Cotton, Tracy Spriggs, Patricia Artiach, Brian P. Kaine, Sean M. Sykes, Paul W. Sadow, Kurt P. D'Andrea, Cheryl Bowman, Claire Fujii, Stacey A. Garland, Tanya M. Mason, Gary J. Olsen, Claire M. Fraser, Hamilton O. Smith, Carl R. Woese and J. Craig Venter

Structure and function of the vertebrate magnetic sense pp. 371-376

Michael M. Walker, Carol E. Diebel, Cordula V. Haugh, Patricia M. Pankhurst, John C. Montgomery and Colin R. Green

Formation of elliptical galaxies at moderate redshifts pp. 377-379

Stephen E. Zepf

Layering of a liquid metal in contact with a hard wall pp. 379-381

Willem Jan Huisman, Joost F. Peters, Michel J. Zwanenburg, Steven A. de Vries, Trevor E. Derry, Douglas Abernathy and J. Friso van der Veen

Superconductivity at 10–17 K in compressed sulphur pp. 382-384

Viktor V. Struzhkin, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao and Yuri A. Timofeev

Controlling the size, structure and orientation of semiconductor nanocrystals using metastable phase recrystallization pp. 384-386

J. D. Budai, C. W. White, S. P. Withrow, M. F. Chisholm, J. Zhu and R. A. Zuhr

Facile synthesis of block copolypeptides of defined architecture pp. 386-389

Timothy J. Deming

Interrelated influence of iron, light and cell size on marine phytoplankton growth pp. 389-392

William G. Sunda and Susan A. Huntsman

Anisotropic upper-mantle stratigraphy and architecture of the Slave craton pp. 392-395

M. G. Bostock

Test of synergistic interactions among deleterious mutations in bacteria pp. 395-398

Santiago F. Elena and Richard E. Lenski

Antisaccade performance predicted by neuronal activity in the supplementary eye field pp. 398-401

Madeleine Schlag-Rey, Nelly Amador, Henry Sanchez and John Schlag

Nicotine activates and desensitizes midbrain dopamine neurons pp. 401-404

Volodymyr I. Pidoplichko, Mariella DeBiasi, John T. Williams and John A. Dani

Antiangiogenic therapy of experimental cancer does not induce acquired drug resistance pp. 404-407

Thomas Boehm, Judah Folkman, Timothy Browder and Michael S. O'Reilly

A plastid organelle as a drug target in apicomplexan parasites pp. 407-409

Maria E. Fichera and David S. Roos

Interaction of Wnt and a Frizzled homologue triggers G-protein-linked phosphatidylinositol signalling pp. 410-413

Diane C. Slusarski, Victor G. Corces and Randall T. Moon

Synergistic anti-apoptotic activity between Bcl-2 and SMN implicated in spinal muscular atrophy pp. 413-417

Hiromi Iwahashi, Yutaka Eguchi, Noriko Yasuhara, Toshiaki Hanafusa, Yuji Matsuzawa and Yoshihide Tsujimoto

Molecular identification of a volume-regulated chloride channel pp. 417-421

Dayue Duan, Cathy Winter, Suzanne Cowley, Joseph R. Hume and Burton Horowitz

Mobility of photosynthetic complexes in thylakoid membranes pp. 421-424

Conrad W. Mullineaux, Mark J. Tobin and Gareth R. Jones

NMR structure of a receptor-bound G-protein peptide pp. 424-424

Edward A. Dratz, Julie E. Furstenau, Christophe G. Lambert, Dennis L. Thireault, Helen Rarick, Theresa Schepers, Sergei Pakhlevaniants and Heidi E. Hamm

DNA antisense therapy for asthma in an animal model pp. 424-424

Jonathan W. Nyce and W. James Metzger

Nucleic acid testing pp. 425-426

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 390, articles 6657

NATO science programme feels the heat over funds and goals pp. 207-207

Declan Butler and David Spurgeon

US carbon emissions forecast to rocket pp. 207-207

Colin Macilwain

NASA space station chief resigns pp. 208-208

Tony Reichhardt

Funding delay looms for EU Framework programme pp. 208-208

Alison Abbott

Wellcome Trust to coordinate drive against malaria pp. 209-209

Declan Butler

French agency agrees to publication of asbestos report pp. 209-209

Declan Butler

Greenhouse emission cuts ‘in China's own interests’ pp. 209-209

Ehsan Masood

Bavarian universities set to gain autonomy pp. 210-210

Quirin Schiermeier

Lower budget deficit offers hope of research bonus in Canada pp. 210-210

David Spurgeon

NIH to abandon young investigator grants pp. 211-211

Meredith Wadman

Mixed experience with R29 ‘baby grants’ pp. 211-211

Meredith Wadman

Australia told that universities need greater competition pp. 212-212

Peter Pockley

Synchrotron delays ‘put at risk’ Europe's leading role pp. 212-212

Declan Butler

Korea holds firm to biotech expansion pp. 213-213

David Swinbanks

Troubled reactor wins five-year reprieve pp. 213-213

Asako Saegusa

Kyoto meeting will seek to build bridge over troubled water pp. 215-216

Colin Macilwain

Equity is the key criterion for developing nations pp. 216-217

Ehsan Masood

Waning influence provokes green groups' frustration pp. 218-218

Ehsan Masood

Joint actions may hold the vital formula pp. 219-219

Colin Macilwain

What to look for at Kyoto pp. 219-220

Ehsan Masood

Obstacles to an agreement pp. 220-220

Ehsan Masood

Support for genetic diversity project pp. 221-221

William J. Schull, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Walter Bodmer and Jean Dausset

Patients and patents pp. 221-221

Mildred K. Cho and Jon F. Merz

Health effects of tropical smoke pp. 222-223

Forrest M. Mims

Progress on bioethics blocked in Japan pp. 223-223

Jiro Nudeshima

Climate-change research after Kyoto pp. 225-226

Klaus Hasselmann

The great debate on CO2 emissions pp. 227-228

Kilaparti Ramakrishna

The worm keeps turning pp. 228-229

Bruce Bowerman

Not just a load of bolometers pp. 229-231

Neil Mathur

Feeding patterns on forest floors pp. 231-232

Peter D. Moore

Magnetic trace of a giant henge pp. 232-233

Elizabeth Aveling

Diffusion in a different direction pp. 233-235

David A. Weitz

Galileo through the Sun's streamers pp. 235-235

Karen Southwell

Illicit viral DNA pp. 235-236

Robin A. Weiss and Paul Kellam

More mutations in males pp. 236-237

Kate Lessells

Panspermia, spores and the Bacillus subtilisgenome pp. 237-238

James A. Hoch and Richard Losick

Congealed fat pp. 238-238

David Jones

Bill's bands pp. 239-239

Martin Kemp

A prion-linked psychiatric disorder pp. 241-241

Helena B. Samaia, Jair de Jesus Mari, Homero P. Vallada, Ricardo P. Moura, Andrew J. G. Simpson and Ricardo R. Brentania

Trapping speciation pp. 241-242

Silvia Garagna, Maurizio Zuccotti, Carlo Alberto Redi and Ernesto Capanna

Sex ratio unaffected by parental age gap pp. 242-243

Fred Arnold, Shea Rutstein, W. H. James and Charles E. Boklage

Active uptake of bicarbonate by diatoms pp. 243-244

Philippe D. Tortell, John R. Reinfelder and Francois M. M. Morel

An atom-focusing mirror pp. 244-244

Bodil Holst and William Allison

When the Cold War reached boiling point pp. 245-246

David Holloway

Ape people pp. 246-247

Marc D. Hauser

A fan writes pp. 248-248

Oliver Morton

The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis pp. 249-256

F. Kunst, N. Ogasawara, I. Moszer, A. M. Albertini, G. Alloni, V. Azevedo, M. G. Bertero, P. Bessières, A. Bolotin, S. Borchert, R. Borriss, L. Boursier, A. Brans, M. Braun, S. C. Brignell, S. Bron, S. Brouillet, C. V. Bruschi, B. Caldwell, V. Capuano, N. M. Carter, S.-K. Choi, J.-J. Codani, I. F. Connerton, N. J. Cummings, R. A. Daniel, F. Denizot, K. M. Devine, A. Düsterhöft, S. D. Ehrlich, P. T. Emmerson, K. D. Entian, J. Errington, C. Fabret, E. Ferrari, D. Foulger, C. Fritz, M. Fujita, Y. Fujita, S. Fuma, A. Galizzi, N. Galleron, S.-Y. Ghim, P. Glaser, A. Goffeau, E. J. Golightly, G. Grandi, G. Guiseppi, B. J. Guy, K. Haga, J. Haiech, C. R. Harwood, A. Hénaut, H. Hilbert, S. Holsappel, S. Hosono, M.-F. Hullo, M. Itaya, L. Jones, B. Joris, D. Karamata, Y. Kasahara, M. Klaerr-Blanchard, C. Klein, Y. Kobayashi, P. Koetter, G. Koningstein, S. Krogh, M. Kumano, K. Kurita, A. Lapidus, S. Lardinois, J. Lauber, V. Lazarevic, S.-M. Lee, A. Levine, H. Liu, S. Masuda, C. Mauël, C. Médigue, N. Medina, R. P. Mellado, M. Mizuno, D. Moestl, S. Nakai, M. Noback, D. Noone, M. O'Reilly, K. Ogawa, A. Ogiwara, B. Oudega, S.-H. Park, V. Parro, T. M. Pohl, D. Portetelle, S. Porwollik, A. M. Prescott, E. Presecan, P. Pujic, B. Purnelle, G. Rapoport, M. Rey, S. Reynolds, M. Rieger, C. Rivolta, E. Rocha, B. Roche, M. Rose, Y. Sadaie, T. Sato, E. Scanlan, S. Schleich, R. Schroeter, F. Scoffone, J. Sekiguchi, A. Sekowska, S. J. Seror, P. Serror, B.-S. Shin, B. Soldo, A. Sorokin, E. Tacconi, T. Takagi, H. Takahashi, K. Takemaru, Masami Takeuchi, A. Tamakoshi, T. Tanaka, P. Terpstra, A. Tognoni, V. Tosato, S. Uchiyama, M. Vandenbol, F. Vannier, A. Vassarotti, A. Viari, R. Wambutt, E. Wedler, H. Wedler, T. Weitzenegger, P. Winters, A. Wipat, H. Yamamoto, K. Yamane, K. Yasumoto, K. Yata, K. Yoshida, H.-F. Yoshikawa, E. Zumstein, H. Yoshikawa and A. Danchin

The optically dark side of galaxy formation pp. 257-259

Bruno Guiderdoni, Franois R. Bouchet, Jean-Loup Puget, Guilaine Lagache and Eric Hivon

Phase transitions in individual sub-micrometre superconductors pp. 259-262

A. K. Geim, I. V. Grigorieva, S. V. Dubonos, J. G. S. Lok, J. C. Maan, A. E. Filippov and F. M. Peeters

Giant fluctuations in a free diffusion process pp. 262-265

Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio

A manganese oxyiodide cathode for rechargeable lithium batteries pp. 265-267

Jaekook Kim and Arumugam Manthiram

Implications of recent CO2 emission-limitation proposals for stabilization of atmospheric concentrations pp. 267-270

T. M. L. Wigley

Influence of socioeconomic inertia and uncertainty on optimal CO2-emission abatement pp. 270-273

Minh Ha-Duong, Michael Grubb and J.-C. Hourcade

The uniform and low 3He/4He ratios of HIMU basalts as evidence for their origin as recycled materials pp. 273-276

Takeshi Hanyu and Ichiro Kaneoka

The seed-storing corvid Clark's nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks pp. 276-279

Alan C. Kamil and Juli E. Jones

The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions pp. 279-281

Steven J. Luck and Edward K. Vogel

A role for the Ras signalling pathway in synaptic transmission and long-term memory pp. 281-286

Riccardo Brambilla, Nerina Gnesutta, Liliana Minichiello, Gail White, Alistair J. Roylance, Caroline E. Herron, Mark Ramsey, David P. Wolfer, Vincenzo Cestari, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud, Seth G. N. Grant, Paul F. Chapman, Hans-Peter Lipp, Emmapaola Sturani and Rdiger Klein

Short-range control of cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root meristem pp. 287-289

Claudia van den Berg, Viola Willemsen, Giel Hendriks, Peter Weisbeek and Ben Scheres

Mice lacking factor VII develop normally but suffer fatal perinatal bleeding pp. 290-294

Elliot D. Rosen, Joyce C. Y. Chan, Esohe Idusogie, Frédéric Clotman, George Vlasuk, Thomas Luther, Louise R. Jalbert, Sybille Albrecht, Liang Zhong, Ann Lissens, Luc Schoonjans, Lieve Moons, Désiré Collen, Francis J. Castellino and Peter Carmeliet

Binary specification of the embryonic lineage in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 294-298

Titus Kaletta, Heinke Schnabel and Ralf Schnabel

A non-retroviral RNA virus persists in DNA form pp. 298-301

Paul Klenerman, Hans Hengartner and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Regulation of CFTR chloride channels by syntaxin and Munc18 isoforms pp. 302-305

Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Deborah J. Nelson, Weiwen Xie, Biljana Jovov, Jonathan Pevsner, Mark K. Bennett, Dale J. Benos, Michael W. Quick and Kevin L. Kirk

Caenorhabditis elegans CED-9 protein is a bifunctional cell-death inhibitor pp. 305-308

Ding Xue and H. Robert Horvitz

CRM1 is responsible for intracellular transport mediated by the nuclear export signal pp. 308-311

Makoto Fukuda, Shiro Asano, Takahiro Nakamura, Makoto Adachi, Minoru Yoshida, Mitsuhiro Yanagida and Eisuke Nishida

DNA binding and transcriptional repression by DAX-1 blocks steroidogenesis pp. 311-315

Emmanuel Zazopoulos, Enzo Lalli, Douglas M. Stocco and Paolo Sassone-Corsi

Erratum: The optical counterpart of the isolated neutron star RX J185635−3754 pp. 315-315

Frederick M. Walter and Lynn D. Matthews

Erratum: Imaging of radiocarbon-labelled tracer molecules in neural tissue using accelerator mass spectrometry pp. 315-315

R. E. M. Hedges, Z. X. Jiang, C. Bronk Ramsey, A. Cowey, J. D. B. Roberts and P. Somogyi

Erratum: Structure of the inhibitory receptor for human natural killer cells resembles haematopoietic receptors pp. 315-315

Qing R. Fan, Lidia Mosyak, Christine C. Winter, Nicolai Wagtmann, Eric O. Long and Don C. Wiley

Erratum: Crystal structures of fragment D from human fibrinogen and its crosslinked counterpart from fibrin pp. 315-315

Glen Spraggon, Stephen J. Everse and Russell F. Doolittle

No deficiency in immunology tools pp. 316-318

Brendan Horton

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Interference threatens Indian radiotelescope pp. 103-103

K. S. Jayaraman

Astronomers fight incursion of phones into radio frequencies pp. 103-104

Alison Abbott

Congress moves swiftly to protect academy's independence pp. 104-104

Tony Reichhardt

Japan ties the industry/university knot pp. 105-105

Asako Saegusa

British study will assess risks of vCJD blood transmission pp. 105-105

Declan Butler

Greenhouse talks fail to smoke out US Kyoto strategy pp. 106-106

Asako Saegusa and Ehsan Masood

Russian parliament ratifies chemical weapons treaty pp. 106-106

Carl Levitin

US panel proposes joint ‘pathogens initiative’ pp. 106-106

Colin Macilwain

Malaysia backs ‘gag’ on haze scientists pp. 107-107

Ehsan Masood

Largest-ever study contests radiation role in childhood cancers pp. 107-107

Helen Gavaghan

‘Mind body’ claims put NIH on defensive pp. 108-108

Meredith Wadman

India drafts law to protect bioresources pp. 108-108

K. S. Jayaraman

Australia urged to revise Antarctic efforts pp. 109-109

Peter Pockley

‘Disappointing lack of action’ over illegal fishing pp. 109-109

Peter Pockley

Dangers of hyperbole in climate prediction pp. 111-111

John Maddox

Alphabetical listing pp. 111-111

Vasily Vlassov

Headless tadpoles and an informed public pp. 111-111

Jonathan Slack

Mercury mining: profit or loss? pp. 112-113

Javier Garcia-Guinea and Matthew Harffy

Getting rid of mosquitoes pp. 113-113

Karamjit S. Rai

Funding fault pp. 113-113

Henry Haslam

Galaxies take the distance record pp. 115-116

Kenneth Lanzetta

A Bad kinase makes good pp. 116-117

Thomas F. Franke and Lewis C. Cantley

Sudden end of an interglacial pp. 117-119

Scott Lehman

Accordioning with thorium pp. 119-119

Scott Lehman

Ecce Homo — behold mankind pp. 120-121

Bernard Wood

Fungal foray pp. 120-120

Orla Smith

Doubly magical gamma decays pp. 121-122

Philip Woods

Inositol lipid pathways turn turtle pp. 123-124

Kath Hinchliffe and Robin Irvine

The Vs and Qs of optical microcavities pp. 125-125

Pauline Rigby and Thomas F. Krauss

An interview with Daedalus pp. 126-127

David Jones

Piero's perspective pp. 128-128

Martin Kemp

Submarine columns of ikaite tufa pp. 129-130

Bjørn Buchardt, Paul Seaman, Gabrielle Stockmann, Marie Vous, Uffe Wilken, Lene Düwel, Aase Kristiansen, Christopher Jenner, Michael J. Whiticar, Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Godtfred H. Petersen and Lone Thorbjørn

Saccades without eye movements pp. 130-131

Iain D. Gilchrist, Valerie Brown and John M. Findlay

Site of particle selection in a bivalve mollusc pp. 131-132

J. Evan Ward, Jeffrey S. Levinton, Sandra E. Shumway and Terry Cucci

In-store music affects product choice pp. 132-132

Adrian C. North, David J. Hargreaves and Jennifer McKendrick

The illusion of choice in patient power pp. 133-134

Georges Annas

Chemist as catalyst pp. 134-135

Kostas Gavroglu

Signs of the times pp. 135-136

Donald Yeomans

Diamonds in spades pp. 135-135

Alison Mitchell

Getting down to business pp. 136-136

William Bains

A new symmetrodont mammal from China and its implications for mammalian evolution pp. 137-142

Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Zhexi Luo and Chuankui Li

Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides pp. 143-145

J. S. Foresi, P. R. Villeneuve, J. Ferrera, E. R. Thoen, G. Steinmeyer, S. Fan, J. D. Joannopoulos, L. C. Kimerling, Henry I. Smith and E. P. Ippen

Branched fractal patterns in non-equilibrium electrochemical deposition from oscillatory nucleation and growth pp. 145-148

Vincent Fleury

Discovery of a second family of bismuth-oxide-based superconductors pp. 148-150

S. M. Kazakov, C. Chaillout, P. Bordet, J. J. Capponi, M. Nunez-Regueiro, A. Rysak, J. L. Tholence, P. G. Radaelli, S. N. Putilin and E. V. Antipov

Chemical composition of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean pp. 150-154

Matthew McCarthy, Tom Pratum, John Hedges and Ronald Benner

Variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the last interglacial period pp. 154-156

Jess F. Adkins§, Edward A. Boyle, Lloyd Keigwin and Elsa Cortijo

Displacement rates of normal faults pp. 157-159

A. Nicol‡, J. J. Walsh, J. Watterson and J. R. Underhill

Pb, U and Th diffusion in natural zircon pp. 159-162

James K. W. Lee†, Ian S. Williams and David J. Ellis

Biodiversity regulates ecosystem predictability pp. 162-165

Jill McGrady-Steed, Patricia M. Harris and Peter J. Morin

Mice lacking bombesin receptor subtype-3 develop metabolic defects and obesity pp. 165-169

Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki, Kei Watase, Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Hiroo Ogura, Mariko Yamano, Kazuyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Maeno, Junko Imaki, Sakae Kikuyama, Etsuko Wada and Keiji Wada

Math1 is essential for genesis of cerebellar granule neurons pp. 169-172

Nissim Ben-Arie, Hugo J. Bellen, Dawna L. Armstrong, Alanna E. McCall, Polina R. Gordadze, Qiuxia Guo, Martin M. Matzuk and Huda Y. Zoghbi

Impaired mast cell-dependent natural immunity in complement C3-deficient mice pp. 172-175

Andrey P. Prodeus, Xiaoning Zhou, Marcus Maurer, Stephen J. Galli and Michael C. Carroll

A homologue of the TNF receptor and its ligand enhance T-cell growth and dendritic-cell function pp. 175-179

Dirk M. Anderson, Eugene Maraskovsky, William L. Billingsley, William C. Dougall, Mark E. Tometsko, Eileen R. Roux, Mark C. Teepe, Robert F. DuBose, David Cosman and Laurent Galibert

DAP kinase links the control of apoptosis to metastasis pp. 180-184

Boaz Inbal, Ofer Cohen, Sylvie Polak-Charcon, Juri Kopolovic, Ezra Vadai, Lea Eisenbach and Adi Kimchi

Herpes viral cyclin/Cdk6 complexes evade inhibition by CDK inhibitor proteins pp. 184-187

Charles Swanton, David J. Mann, Bernhard Fleckenstein, Frank Neipel, Gordon Peters and Nic Jones

Osmotic stress activates phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate synthesis pp. 187-192

Stephen K. Dove, Frank T. Cooke, Michael R. Douglas, Lee G. Sayers, Peter J. Parker and Robert H. Michell

A new pathway for synthesis of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate pp. 192-196

Lucia E. Rameh, Kimberley F. Tolias, Brian C. Duckworth and Lewis C. Cantley

Folding dynamics and mechanism of β-hairpin formation pp. 196-199

Victor Muñoz, Peggy A. Thompson, James Hofrichter and William A. Eaton

Erratum: K+channel regulation of signal propagation in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons pp. 199-199

Dax A. Hoffman, Jeffrey C. Magee, Costa M. Colbert and Daniel Johnston

Passion and prejudice in research pp. 201-202

Scot Stevenson

Remaining at the bottom of the UK league pp. 201-201

Helen Gavaghan

Along the leaky pipeline pp. 202-203

Potter Wickware

Waiting for a head count pp. 202-202

Scot Stevenson

In defence of small science pp. 203-203

Frederick Sachs

“Invasion of dragons” needed pp. 203-204

Helen Gavaghan

Equality not taken for granted pp. 204-204

Alison Abbott

1997, volume 390, articles 6655

Ariane-5 saves Europe's place in space pp. 3-3

Declan Butler

Admission on Gulf War vaccines spurs debate on medical records pp. 3-4

Declan Butler

Critics claim US inquiry was ‘irreparably flawed’ pp. 4-4

Meredith Wadman

Fusion results ‘confirm the scientific case for ITER’ pp. 5-5

David Dickson

Monsanto links up with Millenium on genome research pp. 5-5

Steve Nadis

NIH heads for 7.1 per cent budget growth pp. 6-6

Meredith Wadman

Canada ‘still has a long way to go’ in effective control of acid rain pp. 6-6

David Spurgeon

World Bank fund finds allies and sceptics pp. 7-7

Ehsan Masood

Kyoto ‘dress rehearsal’ ends in deadlock pp. 7-7

Ehsan Masood

Space science projects may be grounded pp. 8-8

Alison Abbott

Millennium Moon mission seeks private funds pp. 8-8

Alison Abbott

Dutch reforms raise alarm in universities pp. 9-9

Alison Abbott

South Africa increases central control of higher education pp. 9-9

Michael Cherry

Institutes top UK science league table pp. 12-12

Ben Miflin

The U, J and L of bird flight pp. 13-13

R. McNeill Alexander

Oxygen bridges in molten glass pp. 14-15

Ian Farnan

How integrins are activated pp. 15-17

Laurence A. Lasky

A photon in solitary confinement pp. 17-18

Yoshihisa Yamamoto

New mice for old questions pp. 18-19

George M. Martin and I. Saira Mian

Sex and synergism pp. 19-21

Emily J. Lyons

Night lights pp. 21-21

Karen Southwell

Fins made for walking pp. 21-22

Oleg A. Lebedev

A radical steam-trap pp. 22-22

David Jones

Galileo at Jupiter — meetings with remarkable moons pp. 23-26

William B. McKinnon

Derges's designs pp. 27-27

Martin Kemp

Of fingers, toes and penises pp. 29-29

Takashi Kondo, József Zákány, Jeffrey W. Innis and Denis Duboule

Chaperoning extended life pp. 30-30

Marc Tatar, Aziz A. Khazaeli and James W. Curtsinger

Probabilities of conspecificity pp. 30-31

J. F. Thackeray

Xenoturbella 's molluscan relatives⃛ pp. 31-32

Michael Norén and Ulf Jondelius

⃛and molluscan embryogenesis pp. 32-32

Olle Israelsson

Discrimination down to a science pp. 33-33

Kevin Davies

The fragile contract pp. 34-35

Harvey Brooks

A bluffer's guide pp. 35-36

Walter Gratzer

Life's dead letter pp. 36-36

Benno Müller-Hill

Après lui le déluge pp. 37-37

Philippe Janvier

Students rule pp. 38-38

Daniel S. Greenberg

Credit control pp. 39-40

Mary J. Dobson

Heavyweight history pp. 40-40

Graham Farmelo

Inner visions pp. 41-41

Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

Future present pp. 42-43

Martin Campbell-Kelly

No direction known pp. 42-42

Huw Price

Incomplete theorems pp. 43-44

Ivar Ekeland

O brave new world that has Prozac in't! pp. 44-44

Chris McManus

Mutation of the mouse klotho gene leads to a syndrome resembling ageing pp. 45-51

Makoto Kuro-o, Yutaka Matsumura, Hiroki Aizawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Suga, Toshihiro Utsugi, Yoshio Ohyama, Masahiko Kurabayashi, Tadashi Kaname, Eisuke Kume, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Akihiro Iida, Takako Shiraki-Iida, Satoshi Nishikawa, Ryozo Nagai and Yo-ichi Nabeshima

A subsurface flow of material from the Sun's equator to its poles pp. 52-54

P. M. Giles, T. L. Duvall, P. H. Scherrer and R. S. Bogart

Metamorphosis of a quantum wire into quantum dots pp. 54-57

Joel Hasen, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Aron Pinczuk, Song He, Ken W. West and Brian S. Dennis

Large magnetoresistance in non-magnetic silver chalcogenides pp. 57-60

R. Xu, A. Husmann, T. F. Rosenbaum, M.-L. Saboungi, J. E. Enderby and P. B. Littlewood

NMR evidence for excess non-bridging oxygen in an aluminosilicate glass pp. 60-62

Jonathan F. Stebbins and Zhi Xu

Observation of stratospheric ozone depletion in rocket exhaust plumes pp. 62-64

M. N. Ross, J. R. Benbrook, W. R. Sheldon, P. F. Zittel and D. L. McKenzie

Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion pp. 65-67

Christian France-Lanord and Louis A. Derry

Mechanical power output of bird flight pp. 67-70

K. P. Dial, A. A. Biewener, B. W. Tobalske and D. R. Warrick

Impaired odour discrimination on desynchronization of odour-encoding neural assemblies pp. 70-74

Mark Stopfer, Seetha Bhagavan, Brian H. Smith and Gilles Laurent

Prion (PrPSc)-specific epitope defined by a monoclonal antibody pp. 74-77

C. Korth, B. Stierli, P. Streit, M. Moser, O. Schaller, R. Fischer, W. Schulz-Schaeffer, H. Kretzschmar, A. Raeber, U. Braun, F. Ehrensperger, S. Hornemann, R. Glockshuber, R. Riek, M. Billeter, K. Wüthrich and B. Oesch

The prostaglandin receptor EP4 triggers remodelling of the cardiovascular system at birth pp. 78-81

MyTrang Nguyen, Todd Camenisch, John N. Snouwaert, Elizabeth Hicks, Thomas M. Coffman, Page A. W. Anderson, Nadia N. Malouf and Beverly H. Koller

Complementation of dominant suppression implicates CD98 in integrin activation pp. 81-85

Csilla A. Fenczik, Tariq Sethi, Joe W. Ramos, Paul E. Hughes and Mark H. Ginsberg

Inhibitory and activating functions for MAPK Kss1 in the S. cerevisiae filamentous- growth signalling pathway pp. 85-88

Jeanette Gowen Cook, Lee Bardwell and Jeremy Thorner

Switching of the coupling of the β2-adrenergic receptor to different G proteins by protein kinase A pp. 88-91

Yehia Daaka, Louis M. Luttrell and Robert J. Lefkowitz

Tyrosine phosphorylation of the EGF receptor by the kinase Jak2 is induced by growth hormone pp. 91-96

Toshimasa Yamauchi, Kohjiro Ueki, Kazuyuki Tobe, Hiroyuki Tamemoto, Nobuo Sekine, Mitsufumi Wada, Masaru Honjo, Michio Takahashi, Tokiharu Takahashi, Hisamaru Hirai, Toshio Tushima, Yasuo Akanuma, Toshiro Fujita, Issei Komuro, Yoshio Yazaki and Takashi Kadowaki

Peptide bond formation by in vitro selected ribozymes pp. 96-100

Biliang Zhang and Thomas R. Cech

Erratum: Synthesis of epothilones A and B in solid and solution phase pp. 100-100

K. C. Nicolaou, N. Winssinger, J. Pastor, S. Ninkovic, F. Sarabia, Y. He, D. Vourloumis, Z. Yang, Tongzhe Li, P. Giannakakou and E. Hamel

Retraction Note to: High levels of genetic change in rodents of Chernobyl pp. 100-100

Robert J. Baker, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, Amanda J. Wright, Lara E. Wiggins, Meredith J. Hamilton, Erin P. Reat, Michael H. Smith, Michael D. Lomakin and Ronald K. Chesser