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1997, volume 389, articles 6654

Clinton struggles to appease all sides over climate proposals pp. 893-893

Colin Macilwain

Australia eases path to Kyoto agreement pp. 893-894

Ehsan Masood

Climate panel to expand its membership pp. 894-894

Ehsan Masood

Controversy flares over AIDS prevention trials in third world pp. 894-894

Meredith Wadman

CNRS wants more competition for grants pp. 895-895

Declan Butler

Nuclear agency may absorb physics institute pp. 895-895

Declan Butler

UK tightens regime for animal research pp. 896-896

Ehsan Masood

Astronomers review options after fire ravages gamma array pp. 896-896

Alison Abbott

Japan's universities resist ‘agency’ plan pp. 897-897

Asako Saegusa

Inquiry investigates ‘hiding’ of unspent funds pp. 897-897

Asako Saegusa

Genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease ‘not appropriate’ pp. 898-898

Sally Lehrman

NIH pilots faster feedback for grant resubmissions pp. 898-898

Meredith Wadman

Does low cost mean low-value missions? pp. 899-899

Tony Reichhardt

Visiting researchers in France promised ‘fast-track permits’ pp. 900-900

Philip Campbell

Recent trends in the BSE epidemic pp. 903-903

C. A. Donnelly, A. C. Ghani, N. M. Ferguson and R. M. Anderson

Rules needed on authorship pp. 903-903

C. Esser

No red alert over conservation Red Lists pp. 904-904

David Brackett and Eugene Lapointe

Methyl bromide not so bad pp. 904-904

Ralph Cicerone

Surgical leadership pp. 904-904

Timothy G. Buchman

The ocean's productive deserts pp. 905-906

Scott C. Doney

Be social, live longer pp. 906-907

Ross H. Crozier

Invisible circuits pp. 907-908

Gordon Thomas

Rhomantic interludes raise blood pressure pp. 909-911

A. P. Somlyo

Mostly in the mind pp. 911-912

Tim Lincoln

A pavement of pearl pp. 912-913

L. Addadi and S. Weiner

Smashed into shape pp. 913-913

Karen Southwell

Swimming against the current pp. 915-916

R. Glenn Northcutt

Another surprise from two dimensions pp. 916-917

T. Maurice Rice

Deep roots for the Neanderthals pp. 917-918

G. Philip Rightmire

Galactic whirlpools pp. 918-918

David Jones

Gabo's geometry pp. 919-919

Martin Kemp

Burrowing saves Lake Erie clams pp. 921-921

S. Jerrine Nichols and Douglas A. Wilcox

Mixed blessings for middle-aged mothers pp. 922-922

Kathleen M. Egan, Edward Giovannucci, Linda Titus-Ernstoff, Polly Newcomb and Meir Stampfer

Mixed blessings for middle-aged mothers pp. 922-922

Philipp Heeb and Martin W. G. Brinkhof

Mixed blessings for middle-aged mothers pp. 922-922

Lev M. Berstein

Tree-ring dating the 1700 Cascadia earthquake pp. 922-923

David K. Yamaguchi, Brian F. Atwater, Daniel E. Bunker, Boyd E. Benson and Marion S. Reid

Thermal contraction pp. 923-924

Arthur W. Sleight

Gene flow from transgenic crops pp. 924-924

Anne-Marie Chèvre, Frédérique Eber, Alain Baranger and Michel Renard

Reasoning in the social sciences pp. 925-925

A. G. Maddock

The data day pp. 926-926

John Heilbron

Duke of hazards pp. 926-927

Bill McGuire

Methods and madness pp. 927-928

John Burnham

Contribution of Southern Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period pp. 929-935

Roger François, Mark A. Altabet, Ein-Fen Yu, Daniel M. Sigman, Michael P. Bacon, Martin Frank, Gerhard Bohrmann, Gilles Bareille and Laurent D. Labeyrie

Quantum oscillations in a confined electron gas pp. 937-939

Ch. Würsch, C. Stamm, S. Egger, D. Pescia, W. Baltensperger and J. S. Helman

P-type electrical conduction in transparent thin films of CuAlO2 pp. 939-942

Hiroshi Kawazoe, Masahiro Yasukawa, Hiroyuki Hyodo, Masaaki Kurita, Hiroshi Yanagi and Hideo Hosono

Low-field magnetoresistance in the pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7 pp. 942-944

H. Y. Hwang and S.-W. Cheong

A combinatorial approach to the discovery and optimization of luminescent materials pp. 944-948

Earl Danielson, Josh H. Golden, Eric W. McFarland, Casper M. Reaves, W. Henry Weinberg and Xin Di Wu

Ordered macroporous materials by emulsion templating pp. 948-951

A. Imhof and D. J. Pine

Experimental determination of the organic carbon flux from open-ocean surface waters pp. 951-954

S. Emerson, P. Quay, D. Karl, C. Winn, L. Tupas and M. Landry

Ice–volcano interaction of the 1996 Gjálp subglacial eruption, Vatnajökull, Iceland pp. 954-957

Magnú T. Gudmundsson, Freysteinn Sigmundsson and Helgi Björnsson

Extraordinary lifespans in ants: a test of evolutionary theories of ageing pp. 958-960

Laurent Keller and Michel Genoud

The lateral line can mediate rheotaxis in fish pp. 960-963

John C. Montgomery, Cindy F. Baker and Alexander G. Carton

Mutation of an axonemal dynein affects left–right asymmetry in inversus viscerum mice pp. 963-966

Dorothy M. Supp, David P. Witte, S. Steven Potter and Martina Brueckner

Wnt signalling required for expansion of neural crest and CNS progenitors pp. 966-970

Makoto Ikeya, Scott M. K. Lee, Jane E. Johnson, Andrew P. McMahon and Shinji Takada

Ataxin-1 with an expanded glutamine tract alters nuclear matrix-associated structures pp. 971-974

Pamela J. Skinner, Beena T. Koshy, Christopher J. Cummings, Ivan A. Klement, Kara Helin, Antonio Servadio, Huda Y. Zoghbi and Harry T. Orr

The cerebellar leucine-rich acidic nuclear protein interacts with ataxin-1 pp. 974-978

Antoni Matilla, Beena T. Koshy, Christopher J. Cummings, Toshiaki Isobe, Harry T. Orr and Huda Y. Zoghbi

Cutaneous lymphocyte antigen is a specialized form of PSGL-1 expressed on skin-homing T cells pp. 978-981

Robert C. Fuhlbrigge, J. David Kieffer, Dieter Armerding and Thomas S. Kupper

Macrophage-tropic HIV and SIV envelope proteins induce a signal through the CCR5 chemokine receptor pp. 981-985

Drew Weissman, Ronald L. Rabin, James Arthos, Andrea Rubbert, Mark Dybul, Ruth Swofford, Sundararajan Venkatesan, Joshua M. Farber and Anthony S. Fauci

Polyisoprenyl phosphates in intracellular signalling pp. 985-990

Bruce D. Levy, Nicos A. Petasis and Charles N. Serhan

Calcium sensitization of smooth muscle mediated by a Rho-associated protein kinase in hypertension pp. 990-994

Masayoshi Uehata, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Hiroyuki Satoh, Takashi Ono, Toshio Kawahara, Tamami Morishita, Hiroki Tamakawa, Keiji Yamagami, Jun Inui, Midori Maekawa and Shuh Narumiya

The Fork head transcription factor DAF-16 transduces insulin-like metabolic and longevity signals in C. elegans pp. 994-999

Scott Ogg, Suzanne Paradis, Shoshanna Gottlieb, Garth I. Patterson, Linda Lee, Heidi A. Tissenbaum and Gary Ruvkun

Structure of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p19Ink4d pp. 999-1003

Frederich Y. Luh, Sharon J. Archer, Peter J. Domaille, Brian O. Smith, Darerca Owen, Deborah H. Brotherton, Andrew R. C. Raine, Xu Xu, Leonardo Brizuela, Stephen L. Brenner and Ernest D. Laue

Erratum: Chromatin-remodelling factor CHRAC contains the ATPases ISWI and topoisomerase II pp. 1003-1003

Patrick D. Varga-Weisz, Matthias Wilm, Edgar Bonte, Katia Dumas, Matthias Mann and Peter B. Becker

1997, volume 389, articles 6653

Fusion researchers seek US role as partner in EU's JET facility pp. 769-769

Colin Macilwain

Cassini mission blasts off for Saturn pp. 769-769

Tony Reichhardt

Nobel prizes honour atom-trappers ⃛ pp. 770-770

Philip Ball

⃛ and biologists’ work on protein energy converters pp. 771-771

Christopher Surridge

Faulty solar panel jeopardizes Mars mapping project pp. 772-772

Tony Reichhardt

Genome research strategy splits Japanese scientists pp. 772-772

Asako Saegusa

Launch of Lunar Prospector delayed pp. 772-772

Tony Reichhardt

Spanish budget raises postdoc job hopes pp. 773-773

Alison Abbott

University rectors join task force on reforms pp. 773-773

Alison Abbott

Genome study maps chemical sensitivity pp. 774-774

Meredith Wadman

Diversity project ‘does not merit federal funding’ pp. 774-774

Colin Macilwain

Bioethics needs better input from public pp. 775-775

Declan Butler

Nobel backing for alternative health journal pp. 775-775

Meredith Wadman

How to make Kyoto a success pp. 777-777

David G. Victor, Gordon J. MacDonald and Michael Jefferson

All sorts of authorship pp. 777-777

Eugene Garfield

Pest adaptation pp. 778-778

Bruce Tabashnik

Value for money in US laboratories pp. 778-779

Robert D. Nicholls

A probable paradox pp. 779-779

P. T. Landsberg and J. N. Dewynne

Harried hen harriers pp. 780-780

Chris Mead

Greenpeace and BP pp. 780-780

Peter Melchett

Natural selection and the sex ratio pp. 780-780

A. W. F. Edwards

Testing the nuclear test-ban treaty pp. 781-782

Paul G. Richards and Won-Young Kim

Some like it hot: spicing up ion channels pp. 783-784

David E. Clapham

Sensors New age crystals pp. 784-785

David G. Grier

Genomic imprinting Disomy and disease resolved? pp. 785-787

Nicholas Hastie

Atmospheric chemistry A bad winter for Arctic ozone pp. 788-789

Richard Stolarski

Fluid dynamics How coffee leaves its mark pp. 788-788

Philip Ball

Developmental neurobiology Neurotrophins moving forward pp. 789-791

John V. Heymach and Barbara A. Barres

Synapses Plastic plasticity pp. 791-792

John H. Byrne

Earth science Probe of a plate interior pp. 792-793

Bruce Yardley

Daedalus Floating on nothing pp. 793-793

David Jones

Obituary Hans Jurgen Eysenck (1916-97) pp. 794-794

Jeffrey Gray

Prion research: the next frontiers pp. 795-798

Adriano Aguzzi and Charles Weissmann

Lisa's laws pp. 799-799

Martin Kemp

Antibiotic resistance spread in food pp. 801-802

Vincent Perreten, Franziska Schwarz, Luana Cresta, Marianne Boeglin, Gottfried Dasen and Michael Teuber

Sex on the brain pp. 801-801

S. Marc Breedlove

Targeted disruption in Arabidopsis pp. 802-803

Sherry A. Kempin, Sarah J. Liljegren, Laura M. Block, Steven D. Rounsley, Martin F. Yanofsky and Eric Lam

Speciation in the open ocean pp. 803-804

Masaki Miya and Mutsumi Nishida

Extraterrestrial handedness pp. 804-804

Stephen F. Mason

Bringing order to mental disorders pp. 805-806

Roy Porter

Where has the billion trillion gone? pp. 806-807

I. J. Good

Dangerous liaisons pp. 807-808

Jack Cohen

Toy review Smaller, cheaper, more plasticky pp. 807-807

Stephen Battersby

Sun, sea and life pp. 808-808

Egil Sakshaug

Transactivation of Igf2 in a mouse model of Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome pp. 809-815

Fang-Lin Sun, Wendy L. Dean, Gavin Kelsey, Nicholas D. Allen and Wolf Reik

The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway pp. 816-824

Michael J. Caterina, Mark A. Schumacher, Makoto Tominaga, Tobias A. Rosen, Jon D. Levine and David Julius

Ambient acoustic imaging in helioseismology pp. 825-827

Hsiang-Kuang Chang, Dean-Yi Chou, Barry LaBonte and the TON Team

Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops pp. 827-829

Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont, Greb Huber, Sidney R. Nagel and Thomas A. Witten

Polymerized colloidal crystal hydrogel films as intelligent chemical sensing materials pp. 829-832

John H. Holtz and Sanford A. Asher

Solvent-assisted proton transfer in catalysis by zeolite solid acids pp. 832-835

James F. Haw, Teng Xu, John B. Nicholas and Patrick W. Goguen

Prolonged stratospheric ozone loss in the 1995–96 Arctic winter pp. 835-838

Markus Rex, Neil R. P. Harris, Peter von der Gathen, Ralph Lehmann, Geir O. Braathen, Eberhard Reimer, Alexander Beck, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Reimond Alfier, Marc Allaart, Fiona O'Connor, Horst Dier, Valery Dorokhov, Hans Fast, Manuel Gil, Esko Kyrö, Zenobia Litynska, Ib Steen Mikkelsen, Mike G. Molyneux, Hideaki Nakane, Justus Notholt, Markku Rummukainen, Pierre Viatte and John Wenger

Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change pp. 838-841

C. Hofmann, V. Courtillot, G. Féraud, P. Rochette, G. Yirgu, E. Ketefo and R. Pik

Vanadium partitioning and the oxidation state of Archaean komatiite magmas pp. 842-845

Dante Canil

Spatial invariance of visual receptive fields in parietal cortex neurons pp. 845-848

Jean-René Duhamel, Frank Bremmer, Suliann Ben Hamed and Werner Graf

False perception of motion in a patient who cannot compensate for eye movements pp. 849-852

Thomas Haarmeier, Peter Thier, Marc Repnow and Dirk Petersen

Ligand-induced changes in integrin expression regulate neuronal adhesion and neurite outgrowth pp. 852-856

M. L. Condic and P. C. Letourneau

Anterograde transport of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its role in the brain pp. 856-860

C. Anthony Altar, Ning Cai, Tricia Bliven, Melissa Juhasz, James M. Conner, Ann L. Acheson, Ronald M. Lindsay and Stanley J. Wiegand

Metaplasticity at identified inhibitory synapses in Aplysia pp. 860-865

Thomas M. Fischer, Diana E. J. Blazis, Naomi A. Priver and Thomas J. Carew

Absence of excitotoxicity-induced apoptosis in the hippocampus of mice lacking the Jnk3 gene pp. 865-870

Derek D. Yang, Chia-Yi Kuan, Alan J. Whitmarsh, Mercedes Rinócn, Timothy S. Zheng, Roger J. Davis, Pasko Rakic and Richard A. Flavell

Identification and characterization of the vesicular GABA transporter pp. 870-876

Steven L. McIntire, Richard J. Reimer, Kim Schuske, Robert H. Edwards and Erik M. Jorgensen

Activation of the transcription factor Gli1 and the Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in skin tumours pp. 876-881

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

A SNARE involved in protein transport through the Golgi apparatus pp. 881-884

Stephen Loucian Lowe, Frank Peter, V. Nathan Subramaniam, Siew Heng Wong and Wanjin Hong

Crystallographic structure of the T domain–DNA complex of the Brachyury transcription factor pp. 884-888

Christoph W. Müller and Bernhard G. Herrmann

1997, volume 389, articles 6652

French ministries in argument over release of asbestos report pp. 649-650

Declan Butler

US energy official departs with a ‘get real’ warning pp. 650-650

Colin Macilwain

Transatlantic talks on space telescope pp. 651-651

Tony Reichhardt

Political crisis threatens delay to revitalized Italian programme pp. 651-651

Alison Abbott

Mentally disabled research subjects ‘need protection’ pp. 652-652

Meredith Wadman

Row over alternative medicine's status at NIH pp. 652-652

Meredith Wadman

‘No need for haste’ on Japan's fast reactor pp. 653-653

Robert Triendl

World's biggest synchrotron open for business pp. 653-653

Asako Saegusa

Islanders contest report on nuclear risks pp. 654-654

Ehsan Masood

Brazil to sequence ‘first plant pathogen’ pp. 654-654

Ricardo Bonalumé

Vaccine institute treads out a wary path pp. 655-655

David Swinbanks

Business booms for guides to biology's moral maze pp. 658-659

Meredith Wadman

Russia warned: act now or regret it later pp. 659-659

Carl Levitin

Germany's past still casts a long shadow pp. 660-660

Alison Abbott

France reaps benefits and costs of going by the book pp. 661-662

Declan Butler

Japan's bioethics debate lags behind thinking in the West pp. 661-661

Asako Saegusa

UK takes pride in ‘principled pragmatism’ pp. 663-663

David Dickson

Policing ethical codes in India proves tough pp. 663-663

K. S. Jayaraman

Pre-empting the arrival of a dark lord pp. 665-665

Yuh Nung Jan

There are ‘two cultures’ pp. 665-665

Friedrich Katscher

Technology and the single electron pp. 667-667

Marc Kastner

Unscrambling a disabled brain pp. 668-669

André M. Goffinet

Making sense or antisense? pp. 669-671

Wolf Reik and Miguel Constancia

Panning for gold at the K stream pp. 671-673

Frank Wilczek

The arginine finger strikes again pp. 673-674

Henry R. Bourne

How converging fingers keep GTP in line pp. 674-674

Henry R. Bourne

Tough cookery pp. 675-677

Derek Thompson

The ins and outs of amyloid-β pp. 677-678

Konrad Beyreuther and Colin L. Masters

A magnetic reversal record pp. 678-679

Ronald T. Merrill

Insights from the echinoderms pp. 679-680

Eric H. Davidson

Seeing round corners pp. 680-680

David Jones

Two sets of human-tropic pig retrovirus pp. 681-682

Paul Le Tissier, Jonathan P. Stoye, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Clive Patience and Robin A. Weiss

Rock-eating fungi pp. 682-683

A. G. Jongmans, N. van Breemen, U. Lundström, P. A. W. van Hees, R. D. Finlay, M. Srinivasan, T. Unestam, R. Giesler, P.-A. Melkerud and M. Olsson

Sex in giant squid pp. 683-684

Mark D. Norman and C. C. Lu

Homeotic transformation in Drosophila pp. 684-684

B. Starling Emerald and J. K. Roy

Betrayers of a global truth pp. 685-686

Tim O'Riordan

From cats to computers pp. 686-687

Alastair I. M. Rae

At a glance pp. 687-687

Stephen Moorbath, Douglas Palmer and Thomas A. Moore

In retrospect chosen by Philippe Janvier pp. 688-688

Philippe Janvier

An intracellular protein that binds amyloid-β peptide and mediates neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease pp. 689-695

Shi Du Yan, Jin Fu, Claudio Soto, Xi Chen, Huaijie Zhu, Futwan Al-Mohanna, Kate Collison, Aiping Zhu, Eric Stern, Takaomi Saido, Masaya Tohyama, Satoshi Ogawa, Alex Roher and David Stern

Detection of Geminga as a radio pulsar pp. 697-699

V. M. Malofeev and O. I. Malov

A single-electron transistor made from a cadmium selenide nanocrystal pp. 699-701

David L. Klein, Richard Roth, Andrew K. L. Lim, A. Paul Alivisatos and Paul L. McEuen

A tough SiAlON ceramic based on α-Si3N4 with a whisker-like microstructure pp. 701-704

I-Wei Chen and Anatoly Rosenflanz

Synthesis of microporous transition-metal-oxide molecular sieves by a supramolecular templating mechanism pp. 704-706

Tao Sun and Jackie Y. Ying

A synthetic peptide ligase pp. 706-709

Kay Severin, David H. Lee, Alan J. Kennan and M. Reza Ghadiri

Severe chemical ozone loss in the Arctic during the winter of 1995–96 pp. 709-712

Rolf Müller, Paul J. Crutzen, Jens-Uwe Grooβ, Christoph Bürhl, James M. Russell, Hartwig Gernandt, Daniel S. McKenna and Adrian F. Tuck

The last two geomagnetic polarity reversals recorded in high-deposition-rate sediment drifts pp. 712-715

J. E. T. Channell and B. Lehman

El Niño Southern Oscillation and tuna in the western Pacific pp. 715-718

P. Lehodey, M. Bertignac, J. Hampton, A. Lewis and J. Picaut

Radical alterations in the roles of homeobox genes during echinoderm evolution pp. 718-721

Christopher J. Lowe and Gregory A. Wray

Serrate2 is disrupted in the mouse limb-development mutant syndactylism pp. 722-725

Arend Sidow, Monique S. Bulotsky, Anne W. Kerrebrock, Roderick T. Bronson, Mark J. Daly, Mary P. Reeve, Trevor L. Hawkins, Bruce W. Birren, Rudolf Jaenisch and Eric S. Lander

Severe neuropathies in mice with targeted mutations in the ErbB3 receptor pp. 725-730

Dieter Riethmacher, Eva Sonnenberg-Riethmacher, Volker Brinkmann, Tomoichiro Yamaai, Gary R. Lewin and Carmen Birchmeier

Scrambler and yotari disrupt the disabled gene and produce a reeler -like phenotype in mice pp. 730-733

Michael Sheldon, Dennis S. Rice, Gabriella D'Arcangelo, Hiroyuki Yoneshima, Kazunori Nakajima, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Brian W. Howell, Jonathan A. Cooper, Dan Goldowitz and Tom Curran

Neuronal position in the developing brain is regulated by mouse disabled-1 pp. 733-737

Brian W. Howell, Richard Hawkes, Philippe Soriano and Jonathan A. Cooper

A CD4+T-cell subset inhibits antigen-specific T-cell responses and prevents colitis pp. 737-742

Hervé Groux, Anne O'Garra, Mike Bigler, Matthieu Rouleau, Svetlana Antonenko, Jan E. de Vries and Maria Grazia Roncarolo

Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein is required to combat a murine Gram-negative bacterial infection pp. 742-745

Robert S. Jack, Xiaolong Fan, Martin Bernheiden, Gabriele Rune, Monika Ehlers, Albert Weber, Gerhard Kirsch, Renate Mentel, Birgit Fürll, Marina Freudenberg, Gerd Schmitz, Felix Stelter and Christine Schütt

Imprinted expression of the Igf2r gene depends on an intronic CpG island pp. 745-749

Anton Wutz, Oskar W. Smrzka, Norbert Schweifer, Karl Schellander, Erwin F. Wagner and Denise P. Barlow

Activation of ATP P2X receptors elicits glutamate release from sensory neuron synapses pp. 749-753

Jianguo G. Gu and Amy B. MacDermott

Molecular basis of agonism and antagonism in the oestrogen receptor pp. 753-758

Andrzej M. Brzozowski, Ashley C. W. Pike, Zbigniew Dauter, Roderick E. Hubbard, Tomas Bonn, Owe Engström, Lars Öhman, Geoffrey L. Greene, Jan-Åke Gustafsson and Mats Carlquist

Structure at 1.65 Å of RhoA and its GTPase-activating protein in complex with a transition-state analogue pp. 758-762

Katrin Rittinger, Philip A. Walker, John F. Eccleston, Stephen J. Smerdon and Steven J. Gamblin

1997, volume 389, articles 6651

Nobel panel rewards prion theory after years of heated debate pp. 529-529

Harriet Coles

Congress warns NASA not to raid science funds pp. 530-530

Tony Reichhardt

UK's greenhouse reduction target ‘hard but feasible’ pp. 530-530

Ehsan Masood

US target ‘likely to equal 1990 emissions’ pp. 531-531

Colin Macilwain

Public rejects sceptics' line on global warming pp. 531-531

Colin Macilwain

Cash-strapped ANZAAS is set for closure pp. 532-532

Peter Pockley

Plagiarism claims turn spotlight on US Navy's misconduct policy pp. 532-532

Rex Dalton

French labs funded by ‘big science’ cuts pp. 533-533

Declan Butler

German research agencies feel the pinch pp. 533-533

Quirin Schiermeier

NCI apologizes for fallout study delay pp. 534-534

Meredith Wadman

Gene-modified crop sabotaged in Ireland pp. 534-534

Anthony Garvey

Shortcircuit leads India to abandon Internet satellite pp. 535-535

K. S. Jayaraman

Head of Third World biotechnology centre in Delhi resigns pp. 535-535

K. S. Jayaraman

Asia-Pacific forum backs life science network pp. 535-535

David Swinbanks

Monkey business in space pp. 537-537

David O. Wiebers, Andrzej Elzanowski, Paul W. Gikas, Jennifer Leaning and Roger D. White

Bet you didn't know that pp. 537-537

Raymond Fink

Definition of a gene pp. 537-537

Christopher D. Epp

Science studies misjudged? pp. 538-538

Andrew Pickering

Narrowness in science pp. 538-539

G. Wilse Robinson and Vera Bongertz

Duplications in nomenclature pp. 539-539

Michael Hortsch

Patterns in the sand pp. 541-542

Paul Umbanhowar

Finding homes at synapses pp. 542-543

Mark Mayer

Volcanic sulphur in the balance pp. 543-544

Michael R. Carroll

The language steamrollers pp. 544-546

Jared M. Diamond

Straight and wiggly affinities pp. 546-547

Peter A. Lawrence

On the crest of a spiral wave pp. 547-547

Alison Mitchell

Bursts make new waves pp. 548-549

Bohdan Paczyski and Chryssa Kouveliotou

Feedback from inhibitory SMADs pp. 549-551

Malcolm Whitman

The end-replication problem pp. 551-551

David Wynford-Thomas and David Kipling

Cancer and the knockout mouse pp. 551-552

David Wynford-Thomas and David Kipling

Smooth ascent pp. 552-552

David Jones

Systemic signalling in gene silencing pp. 553-553

Olivier Voinnet and David C. Baulcombe

Conical beams from open nanotubes pp. 554-555

Yahachi Saito, Koji Hamaguchi, Koichi Hata, Kunio Uchida, Yoshiharu Tasaka, Fumikazu Ikazaki, Motoo Yumura, Atsuo Kasuya and Yuichiro Nishina

A pandemic warning? pp. 554-554

J. C. de Jong, E. C. J. Claas, A. D. M. E. Osterhaus, R. G. Webster and W. L. Lim

DNA fingerprinting from single cells pp. 555-556

I. Findlay, A. Taylor, P. Quirke, R. Frazier and A. Urquhart

Archaeopteryx -like skull in Enantiornithine bird pp. 556-556

Larry D. Martin and Zhonghe Zhou

Mental modules on the brain pp. 557-558

P. N. Johnson-Laird

Old views of the past pp. 558-559

Nicholas J. Saunders

Wing commanders pp. 559-559

Ernst Hafen

Doing the right thing? pp. 560-560

John Galloway

Molecular motors: structural adaptations to cellular functions pp. 561-567

Joe Howard

Constraints on flux rates and mantle dynamics beneath island arcs from Tonga–Kermadec lava geochemistry pp. 568-573

Simon Turner and Chris Hawkesworth

Competition between randomizing impacts and inelastic collisions in granular pattern formation pp. 574-576

Troy Shinbrot

Induced long-range order in crosslinked ‘one-dimensional’ stacks of fluid monolayers pp. 576-579

Gerald C. L. Wong, Wim H. de Jeu, Henry Shao, Keng S. Liang and Rudolf Zentel

Origin of rubber-like behaviour in metal alloys pp. 579-582

Xiaobing Ren and Kazuhiro Otsuka

Bending and buckling of carbon nanotubes under large strain pp. 582-584

M. R. Falvo, G. J. Clary, R. M. Taylor, V. Chi, F. P. Brooks, S. Washburn and R. Superfine

Synthesis of cadmium sulphide superlattices using self-assembled bacterial S-layers pp. 585-587

Wayne Shenton, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B. Sleytr and Stephen Mann

Convergent total synthesis of a tumour-associated mucin motif pp. 587-591

Dalibor Sames, Xiao-Tao Chen and Samuel J. Danishefsky

Magma mixing as a source for Pinatubo sulphur pp. 591-593

Victor Kress

Fitness loss and germline mutations in barn swallows breeding in Chernobyl pp. 593-596

Hans Ellegren, Gabriella Lindgren, Craig R. Primmer and Anders Pape Møller

How the brain learns to see objects and faces in an impoverished context pp. 596-599

R. J. Dolan, G. R. Fink, E. Rolls, M. Booth, A. Holmes, R. S. J. Frackowiak and K. J. Friston

A hippocampal GluR5 kainate receptor regulating inhibitory synaptic transmission pp. 599-603

Vernon R. J. Clarke, Barbara A. Ballyk, Ken H. Hoo, Allan Mandelzys, Andrew Pellizzari, Catherine P. Bath, Justyn Thomas, Erica F. Sharpe, Ceri H. Davies, Paul L. Ornstein, Darryle D. Schoepp, Rajender K. Kamboj, Graham L. Collingridge, David Lodge and David Bleakman

Amyloidogenic role of cytokine TGF-β1 in transgenic mice and in Alzheimer's disease pp. 603-606

Tony Wyss-Coray, Eliezer Masliah, Margaret Mallory, Lisa McConlogue, Kelly Johnson-Wood, Carol Lin and Lennart Mucke

An epithelial serine protease activates the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel pp. 607-610

Vronique Vallet, Ahmed Chraibi, Hans-Peter Gaeggeler, Jean-Daniel Horisberger and Bernard C. Rossier

Protection from obesity-induced insulin resistance in mice lacking TNF-α function pp. 610-614

K. Teoman Uysal, Sarah M. Wiesbrock, Michael W. Marino and Gkhan S. Hotamisligil

Control of compartmental affinity boundaries by Hedgehog pp. 614-618

Isabel Rodriguez and Konrad Basler

Opposing BMP and EGF signalling pathways converge on the TGF-β family mediator Smad1 pp. 618-622

Marcus Kretzschmar, Jacqueline Doody and Joan Massagu

Smad6 inhibits signalling by the TGF-β superfamily pp. 622-626

Takeshi Imamura, Masao Takase, Ayako Nishihara, Eiichi Oeda, Jun-ichi Hanai, Masahiro Kawabata and Kohei Miyazono

Daughters against dpp modulates dpp organizing activity in Drosophila wing development pp. 627-631

Kazuhide Tsuneizumi, Takuya Nakayama, Yuko Kamoshida, Thomas B. Kornberg, Jan L. Christian and Tetsuya Tabata

Identification of Smad7, a TGFβ-inducible antagonist of TGF-β signalling pp. 631-635

Atsuhito Nakao, Mozhgan Afrakhte, Anita Morn, Takuya Nakayama, Jan L. Christian, Rainer Heuchel, Susumu Itoh, Masahiro Kawabata, Nils-Erik Heldin, Carl-Henrik Heldin and Peter ten Dijke

Survival of FimH-expressing enterobacteria in macrophages relies on glycolipid traffic pp. 636-639

David M. Baorto, Zhimin Gao, Ravi Malaviya, Michael L. Dustin, Anton van der Merwe, Douglas M. Lublin and Soman N. Abraham

Mitotic chromatin regulates phosphorylation of Stathmin/Op18 pp. 640-643

Søren S. L. Andersen, Anthony J. Ashford, Rgis Tournebize, Olivier Gavet, Andr Sobel, Anthony A. Hyman and Eric Karsenti

1997, volume 389, articles 6650

Seismologists claim quake data being ‘mis-read’ as bomb test pp. 425-425

Colin Macilwain

Russian researchers brace for more cuts pp. 425-425

Carl Levitin

US dispute over live AIDS vaccine trials pp. 426-426

Meredith Wadman

German minister tipped to head UN body pp. 426-426

Ehsan Masood

‘Policy vacuum’ worry as Australian minister quits pp. 427-427

Peter Pockley

Nobel laureates face libel suits from ‘water memory’ researcher pp. 427-427

Declan Butler

NIH inquiry fails to find culprit of contamination pp. 428-428

Meredith Wadman

UK nuclear waste company gets extended lease of life pp. 428-428

Ehsan Masood

Government should decide on disposal site pp. 428-428

Ehsan Masood

No net cost in cutting carbon emissions pp. 429-429

Tony Reichhardt

Japan's ministries argue over greenhouse target pp. 429-429

Asako Saegusa

Czech science fights against flood costs pp. 430-430

Alison Abbott

Academy focuses on bringing laser into use pp. 430-430

Alison Abbott

Irreproducible pursues the improbable pp. 431-431

Steve Nadis

Netanyahu bolsters opposition to dismemberment of ministry pp. 431-431

Haim Watzman

Cloning and bioethical thinking pp. 433-433

John Harris

European centres for disease control pp. 433-433

Michel Tibayrenc

Straight talking pp. 433-433

Siddhartha C. Kadia and Xiaoqin Wang

More than just a name pp. 434-434

Margaret Penston and Robin Catchpole

Nonfalsifiable hypothesis pp. 434-435

A. K. Dewdney

Soil without life? pp. 435-435

Daniel Markewitz

The lost ape pp. 435-435

Terry Harrison

IUCN's credibility critically endangered pp. 436-436

N. Mrosovsky

Human BSE pp. 437-438

Jeffrey Almond and John Pattison

‘Protein only’ prions? pp. 438-438

Jeffrey Almond and John Pattison

The puzzle of the South Pacific pp. 439-440

Norman Sleep

Pelvic problems for mammals pp. 440-441

Robert Presley

Optimal paths and irreversibility pp. 441-442

Mark Millonas

Pretty Polly, Polly, Polly, Polly, Polly ⃛ pp. 442-442

Jeremy J. D. Greenwood

PERpetuating the PASt pp. 443-444

Paolo Sassone-Corsi

Shades of the sea pp. 444-444

Karen Southwell

One skull does not a species make pp. 445-446

Eric Delson

The ears have it pp. 446-446

David Jones

Porous silica via colloidal crystallization pp. 447-448

O. D. Velev, T. A. Jede, R. F. Lobo and A. M. Lenhoff

A Velociraptor wishbone pp. 447-447

Mark A. Norell, Peter Makovicky and James M. Clark

The same prion strain causes vCJD and BSE pp. 448-450

Andrew F. Hill, Melanie Desbruslais, Susan Joiner, Katie C. L. Sidle, Ian Gowland, John Collinge, Lawrence J. Doey and Peter Lantos

‘Male-stuffing’ in wasp societies pp. 450-450

Philip T. Starks and Emily S. Poe

Return of the repressed pp. 451-452

Ziauddin Sardar

Stormtrooper in stilettos pp. 452-453

Henry Gee

A practical approach to bodybuilding pp. 453-453

Nicholas A. Peppas

The living and the dead pp. 454-454

Bill Chaloner

Crystal structures of fragment D from human fibrinogen and its crosslinked counterpart from fibrin pp. 455-462

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

Irreversibility of classical fluctuations studied in analogue electrical circuits pp. 463-466

D. G. Luchinsky and P. V. E. McClintock

Light amplification in organic thin films using cascade energy transfer pp. 466-469

M. Berggren, A. Dodabalapur, R. E. Slusher and Z. Bao

A chiral spherical molecular assembly held together by 60 hydrogen bonds pp. 469-472

Leonard R. MacGillivray and Jerry L. Atwood

Correlation between rate of sea-level change and frequency of explosive volcanism in the Mediterranean pp. 473-476

W. J. McGuire, R. J. Howarth, C. R. Firth, A. R. Solow, A. D. Pullen, S. J. Saunders, I. S. Stewart and C. Vita-Finzi

The effect of sedimentary cover on the flexural strength of continental lithosphere pp. 476-479

Luc L. Lavier and Michael S. Steckler

Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands pp. 479-482

M. K. McNutt, D. W. Caress, J. Reynolds, K. A. Jordahl and R. A. Duncan

Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia pp. 483-486

Michael J. Novacek, Guillermo W. Rougier, John R. Wible, Malcolm C. McKenna, Demberelyin Dashzeveg and Inés Horovitz

The origin of the dog-like borhyaenoid marsupials of South America pp. 486-489

Christian de Muizon, Richard L. Cifelli and Ricardo Céspedes Paz

The first skull of Australopithecus boisei pp. 489-492

Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Tim D. White, Shigehiro Katoh, Shinji Nagaoka, Hideo Nakaya, Kazuhiro Uzawa, Paul Renne and Giday WoldeGabriel

Decrease of cardiac chaos in congestive heart failure pp. 492-495

Chi-Sang Poon and Christopher K. Merrill

A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust pp. 495-498

M. L. Phillips, A. W. Young, C. Senior, M. Brammer, C. Andrew, A. J. Calder, E. T. Bullmore, D. I. Perrett, D. Rowland, S. C. R. Williams, J. A. Gray and A. S. David

Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent pp. 498-501

M. E. Bruce, R. G. Will, J. W. Ironside, I. McConnell, D. Drummond, A. Suttie, L. McCardle, A. Chree, J. Hope, C. Birkett, S. Cousens, H. Fraser and C. J. Bostock

AMPA receptor-mediated regulation of a Gi-protein in cortical neurons pp. 502-504

Yizheng Wang, Daniel L. Small, Danica B. Stanimirovic, Paul Morley and Jon P. Durkin

Prolonged photoresponses in transgenic mouse rods lacking arrestin pp. 505-509

Jun Xu, Robert L. Dodd, Clint L. Makino, Melvin I. Simon, Denis A. Baylor and Jeannie Chen

The exocytotic event in chromaffin cells revealed by patch amperometry pp. 509-512

A. Albillos, G. Dernick, H. Horstmann, W. Almers, G. Alvarez de Toledo and M. Lindau

Circadian oscillation of a mammalian homologue of the Drosophila period gene pp. 512-516

Hajime Tei, Hitoshi Okamura, Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, Chiaki Fukuhara, Ritsuko Ozawa, Matsumi Hirose and Yoshiyuki Sakaki

Head induction by simultaneous repression of Bmp and Wnt signalling in Xenopus pp. 517-519

Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Darya Onichtchouk, Claudia Blumenstock and Christof Niehrs

Protein memory through altered folding mediated by intramolecular chaperones pp. 520-522

U. P. Shinde, J. J. Liu and M. Inouye

Two-dimensional structure of plant photosystem II at 8-Å resolution pp. 522-526

Kyong-Hi Rhee, Ed P. Morris, Daniela Zheleva, Ben Hankamer, Werner Kühlbrandt and James Barber

Unaltered susceptibility to BSE in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein pp. 526-526

John Collinge, Mark S. Palmer, Katie C. L. Sidle, Andrew F. Hill, Ian Gowland, Julie Meads, Emmanuel Asante, Ray Bradley, Lawrence J. Doey and Peter L. Lantos

1997, volume 389, articles 6649

EPA to be sued over gene-modified crops pp. 317-317

Meredith Wadman

Scientists close in on ‘cell from hell’ lurking in Chesapeake Bay pp. 317-318

Colin Macilwain

Cancer scientist takes on top job at Wellcome Trust pp. 318-318

David Dickson

£10 million pledged for UK synchrotron source pp. 318-318

David Dickson

US biologists adopt cloning moratorium pp. 319-319

Meredith Wadman

End agreed for ozone-destroying pesticide pp. 319-319

David Spurgeon

German physicists honour Planck pp. 320-320

Alison Abbott

NASA to fund life science beam line at Brookhaven? pp. 320-320

Tony Reichhardt

France asked to drop N-test simulations pp. 320-320

Eric Glover

Forest fires cause pollution crisis in Asia pp. 321-321

David Swinbanks

Air pollution index indicates danger levels pp. 321-321

David Swinbanks

Jewish leaders seek genetic guidelines⃛ pp. 322-322

Sally Lehrman

⃛ as Israel offers to test adopted children pp. 322-322

Haim Watzman

Creationist appeal told that Ark claims ‘were scientific’ pp. 323-323

Peter Pockley

Scientists criticize review of Indian research institute pp. 323-323

K. S. Jayaraman

Fat (and thin) rats distort results pp. 326-326

Angelo Turturro, Julian Leakey, William T. Allaben and Ronald W. Hart

Whodunnit? pp. 326-326

Benjamin White

Nepotism and sexism in peer-review pp. 326-326

Gillian Breen

It's not easy to make the Moon pp. 327-328

Jack J. Lissauer

Cuddling up to channel activation pp. 328-329

Christopher Miller

The importance of being selective pp. 329-330

John T. Groves

The hen harrier and the grouse pp. 330-331

Robert M. May

All stressed out pp. 331-333

Mark Robbins

Molecular trees for green chemistry pp. 333-334

Joan F. Brennecke

Anaesthetics set their sites on ion channels pp. 334-335

N. P. Franks and W. R. Lieb

Probing Earth's dynamo pp. 337-338

Peter Olson

The structure of starch pp. 338-339

Paul Calvert

The light rolls in pp. 339-339

David Jones

John Cowdery Kendrew (1917-97) pp. 340-340

K. C. Holmes

A clupeid fish can detect ultrasound pp. 341-341

David A. Mann, Zhongmin Lu and Arthur N. Popper

How accurate are satellite ‘thermometers’? pp. 342-342

John R. Christy, Roy W. Spencer and William D. Braswell

How accurate are satellite ‘thermometers’? pp. 342-342

Kevin E. Trenberth and James W. Hurrell

Frogs reabsorb glucose from urinary bladder pp. 343-344

Jon P. Costanzo, Phyllis A. Callahan, Richard E. Lee and Michael F. Wright

Parental age gap skews child sex ratio pp. 344-344

J. T. Manning, R. H. Anderton and M. Shutt

Tapping a rich vein of medical history pp. 345-346

David Weatherall

Killing and culture pp. 346-347

Henrietta Wilson

Let it shine pp. 347-348

William Shea

Truth on the outside pp. 348-348

Roald Hoffmann

Histone acetylation in chromatin structure and transcription pp. 349-352

Michael Grunstein

Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk pp. 353-357

Shigeru Ida, Robin M. Canup and Glen R. Stewart

The optical counterpart of the isolated neutron star RX J185635−3754 pp. 358-360

Frederick M. Walter and Lynn D. Matthews

A general boundary condition for liquid flow at solid surfaces pp. 360-362

Peter A. Thompson and Sandra M. Troian

Laser action in organic semiconductor waveguide and double-heterostructure devices pp. 362-364

V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulović, P. E. Burrows and S. R. Forrest

Continuous formation of supported cubic and hexagonal mesoporous films by sol–gel dip-coating pp. 364-368

Yunfeng Lu, Rahul Ganguli, Celeste A. Drewien, Mark T. Anderson, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Weilang Gong, Yongxing Guo, Hermes Soyez, Bruce Dunn, Michael H. Huang and Jeffrey I. Zink

Extraction of a hydrophilic compound from water into liquid CO2 using dendritic surfactants pp. 368-371

A. I. Cooper, J. D. Londono, G. Wignall, J. B. McClain, E. T. Samulski, J. S. Lin, A. Dobrynin, M. Rubinstein, A. L. C. Burke, J. M. J. Fréchet and J. M. DeSimone

An Earth-like numerical dynamo model pp. 371-374

Weijia Kuang and Jeremy Bloxham

Acute stimulation of glucose metabolism in mice by leptin treatment pp. 374-377

Seika Kamohara, Rémy Burcelin, Jeffrey L. Halaas, Jeffrey M. Friedman and Maureen J. Charron

Retinal direction selectivity after targeted laser ablation of starburst amacrine cells pp. 378-382

Shigang He and Richard H. Masland

Cellular mechanism for anti-analgesic action of agonists of the κ-opioid receptor pp. 382-385

Z. Z. Pan, S. A. Tershner and H. L. Fields

Sites of alcohol and volatile anaesthetic action on GABAA and glycine receptors pp. 385-389

S. John Mihic, Qing Ye, Marilee J. Wick, Vladimir V. Koltchine, Matthew D. Krasowski, Suzanne E. Finn, Maria Paola Mascia, C. Fernando Valenzuela, Kirsten K. Hanson, Eric P. Greenblatt, R. Adron Harris and Neil L. Harrison

Single cyclic nucleotide-gated channels locked in different ligand-bound states pp. 389-392

MariaLuisa Ruiz and Jeffrey W. Karpen

G-protein deactivation is rate-limiting for shut-off of the phototransduction cascade pp. 392-395

Mandeep S. Sagoo and Leon Lagnado

Somatic linker histones cause loss of mesodermal competence in Xenopus pp. 395-399

Oliver C. Steinbach, Alan P. Wolffe and Ralph A.W. Rupp

Transcription factor TFIID recruits factor CPSF for formation of 3′ end of mRNA pp. 399-402

Jean-Christophe Dantonel, Kanneganti G. K. Murthy, James L. Manley and Laszlo Tora

Visualization of elongation factor Tu on the Escherichia coli ribosome pp. 403-406

Holger Stark, Marina V. Rodnina, Jutta Rinke-Appel, Richard Brimacombe, Wolfgang Wintermeyer and Marin van Heel

Haem-ligand switching during catalysis in crystals of a nitrogen-cycle enzyme pp. 406-412

Pamela A. Williams, Vilmos Fülöp, Elspeth F. Garman, Neil F. W. Saunders, Stuart J. Ferguson and Janos Hajdu

Erratum: Measurements of elastic anisotropy due to solidification texturing and the implications for the Earth's inner core pp. 412-412

Michael I. Bergman

Erratum: cAMP-induced switching in turning direction of nerve growth cones pp. 412-412

Hong-jun Song, Guo-li Ming and Mu-ming Poo

Erratum: Synthesis and X-ray structure of dumb-bell-shaped C120 pp. 412-412

Guan-Wu Wang, Koichi Komatsu, Yasujiro Murata and Motoo Shiro

Erratum: The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori pp. 412-412

Jean-F. Tomb, Owen White, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Rebecca A. Clayton, Granger G. Sutton, Robert D. Fleischmann, Karen A. Ketchum, Hans Peter Klenk, Steven Gill, Brian A. Dougherty, Karen Nelson, John Quackenbush, Lixin Zhou, Ewen F. Kirkness, Scott Peterson, Brendan Loftus, Delwood Richardson, Robert Dodson, Hanif G. Khalak, Anna Glodek, Keith McKenney, Lisa M. Fitzegerald, Norman Lee, Mark D. Adams, Erin K. Hickey, Douglas E. Berg, Jeanine D. Gocayne, Teresa R. Utterback, Jeremy D. Peterson, Jenny M. Kelley, Matthew D. Cotton, Janice M. Weidman, Claire Fujii, Cheryl Bowman, Larry Watthey, Erik Wallin, William S. Hayes, Mark Borodovsky, Peter D. Karp, Hamilton O. Smith, Claire M. Fraser and J. Craig Venter

Software solutions pp. 413-416

Brendan Horton

Bioinformatics in a post-genomics age pp. 417-418

Diane Gershon

Crossover in interest and skill pp. 418-420

Brendan Horton

Common language of bioinformatics pp. 418-418

Bruno W. S. Sobral

Running to catch up in Europe pp. 420-421

Helen Gavaghan

Choices and challenges pp. 420-420

Potter Wickware

Germany on the trail of the Americans pp. 421-421

Matthias Strobl

Useful Web sites for bioinformatics in Europe pp. 422-422

Helen Gavaghan

1997, volume 389, articles 6648

Subjectivity, objectivity and the insights they bring pp. 213-213

Philip Campbell

Chip-making equipment industry warns of threat from Intel deal pp. 215-215

Colin Macilwain

Brussels slims down advisory body pp. 215-215

Alison Abbott

India opens up its nuclear reactors to foreign inspection pp. 216-216

K. S. Jayaraman

Uncertain aims delay start of Internet research effort pp. 216-216

Colin Macilwain

Science to stay on top at French museum pp. 217-217

Declan Butler

NASA looks to overhaul grants process pp. 218-218

Tony Reichhardt

Lack of cash for instruments ‘threatens ESA science missions’ pp. 218-218

Alison Abbott

Ozone treaty ‘must tackle CFC smuggling’ pp. 219-219

David Spurgeon

‘Surprising success’ of the Montreal Protocol pp. 219-219

David Spurgeon

Australia eyes role in Gemini telescopes pp. 220-220

Peter Pockley

New research chief faces multiple challenges pp. 220-220

Peter Pockley

Image of Newton reopens historic divide pp. 221-221

Ehsan Masood

Italy needs its an NIH of its own pp. 224-224

Giuseppe Benagiano

Cheques and balances pp. 224-224

Douglas B. Kell and David McA. McKirdy

Credit where it's due pp. 224-224

Sanjay A. Pai

Climate science and insurance risk pp. 225-227

Anthony Michaels, Ann Close, David Malmquist and Anthony Knap

Efficient fish not faint-hearted pp. 229-230

Elizabeth Brainerd

Exotic meson plays hard-to-get pp. 230-231

Frank Close

The nucleosome core all wrapped up pp. 231-232

Daniela Rhodes

A left-handed Solar System? pp. 234-235

Christopher F. Chyba

Seeing in reverse pp. 235-237

Ian P. Howard

Clues in the p53 murder mystery pp. 237-238

Andrew Wyllie

Back to the womb pp. 238-238

David Jones

Gene therapy - promises, problems and prospects pp. 239-242

Inder M. Verma and Nikunj Somia

Superconductivity enhanced by Hg fission pp. 243-243

L. Krusin-Elbaum, D. Lopez, J. R. Thompson, R. Wheeler, J. Ullmann, C. W. Chu and Q. M. Lin

Glycerol generates turgor in rice blast pp. 244-244

Joke C. de Jong, Barbara J. McCormack, Nicholas Smirnoff and Nicholas J. Talbot

Reptile relationships turn turtle⃛ pp. 245-245

Michael S. Y. Lee

⃛and turn back again pp. 246-246

James E. Platz and J. Michael Conlon

The business of sustainability pp. 247-248

Robert Day

Emergent learning pp. 248-248

Eugenie C. Scott

Fins, legs, fins pp. 249-249

Michael W. Caldwell

Axioms for biology pp. 250-250

Paul E. Griffiths

When the rains come pp. 250-250

Julia Slingo

Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution pp. 251-260

Karolin Luger, Armin W. Mäder, Robin K. Richmond, David F. Sargent and Timothy J. Richmond

The radio afterglow from the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997 pp. 261-263

D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni, L. Nicastro, M. Feroci and G. B. Taylor

Position and parallax of the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997 pp. 263-265

G. B. Taylor, D. A. Frail, A. J. Beasley and S. R. Kulkarni

Isotopic evidence for extraterrestrial non- racemic amino acids in the Murchison meteorite pp. 265-268

M. H. Engel and S. A. Macko

Creating electrical contacts between metal particles using directed electrochemical growth pp. 268-271

Jean-Claude Bradley, Hsuing-Ming Chen, Jeffrey Crawford, Jennifer Eckert, Karima Ernazarova, Thomas Kurzeja, Muduo Lin, Michael McGee, Wolfgang Nadler and Samuel G. Stephens

The interplay between binding energy and catalysis in the evolution of a catalytic antibody pp. 271-275

Helle D. Ulrich, Emily Mundorff, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Edward M. Driggers, Raymond C. Stevens and Peter G. Schultz

Sources and contribution of terrigenous organic carbon to surface sediments in the Gulf of Mexico pp. 275-278

Miguel A. Goñi, Kathleen C. Ruttenberg and Timothy I. Eglinton

Trade-off between parasitoid resistance and larval competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster pp. 278-280

A. R. Kraaijeveld and H. C. J. Godfray

Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception pp. 280-283

B. G. Cumming and A. J. Parker

Vergence eye movements in response to binocular disparity without depth perception pp. 283-286

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

Action-potential propagation gated by an axonal IA-like K+ conductance in hippocampus pp. 286-289

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

Phospholipase C isozymes selectively couple to specific neurotransmitter receptors pp. 290-293

Daesoo Kim, Ki Sun Jun, Seong Beom Lee, Nae-Gyu Kang, Do Sik Min, Young-Hoon Kim, Sung Ho Ryu, Pann-Ghill Suh and Hee-Sup Shin

Stimulation of CFTR activity by its phosphorylated R domain pp. 294-296

Michael C. Winter and Michael J. Welsh

Direct stimulation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase by Gq-protein α-subunit pp. 296-299

Kendra Bence, Wei Ma, Tohru Kozasa and Xin-Yun Huang

A model for p53-induced apoptosis pp. 300-305

Kornelia Polyak, Yong Xia, Jay L. Zweier, Kenneth W. Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein

Self-organization of microtubules and motors pp. 305-308

F. J. Ndlec, T. Surrey, A. C. Maggs and S. Leibler

Structure of a viral procapsid with molecular scaffolding pp. 308-313

Terje Dokland, Robert McKenna, Leodevico L. Ilag, Brian R. Bowman, Nino L. Incardona, Bentley A. Fane and Michael G. Rossmann

1997, volume 389, articles 6647

Gene therapist accused of fraud to seek redress in German court pp. 105-105

Quirin Schiermeier

Accidents prompt Los Alamos closure pp. 105-105

Sally Lehrman

Santa Fe centre seeks second wind pp. 106-107

Colin Macilwain

Japan struggles towards emissions targets pp. 107-107

Robert Triendl

‘Slick’ new company eyes medical diagnostics market pp. 107-107

Sally Lehrman

Respite for NASA's troubled data system pp. 108-108

Tony Reichhardt

Earth scientists count the cost of loss of Lewis demo satellite pp. 108-108

Tony Reichhardt

UK reaffirms commitment to independent food agency pp. 109-109

Ehsan Masood

DNA fingerprinting evidence questioned pp. 109-109

K. S. Jayaraman

Australia plans new research reactor but no reprocessing pp. 109-109

Peter Pockley

Bidder for Brookhaven centre bails out pp. 110-111

Colin Macilwain

US DoE laboratories need ‘compelling’ missions pp. 111-111

David Kramer

Thalidomide is not a mutagen pp. 118-118

John Ashby

Contaminated water pp. 118-118

Lynn Jones

No politics, please pp. 118-118

David Gershon

As others see us pp. 118-118

Michael Gro

A shot in the arm for fractional charge pp. 119-120

Charles L. Kane and Matthew P. A. Fisher

A blueprint for life pp. 120-121

E. Richard Moxon and Christopher F. Higgins

Functions for orphan genes pp. 120-120

E. Richard Moxon and Christopher F. Higgins

Percolation frustrated pp. 121-122

Robert W. Cahn

Killer in search of a motive? pp. 122-123

Bruce Clurman and Mark Groudine

Defining tumour-suppressor genes pp. 123-123

Bruce Clurman and Mark Groudine

Pipelines to the planets pp. 125-126

Donald M. Hunten

In search of perennial solutions pp. 126-127

Stuart L. Pimm

Statistics given a spin pp. 127-129

Jason Twamley

Guides to 95 new angles pp. 129-130

B. Edward H. Maden

Venus firefly traps pp. 130-130

Allison Mitchell

Droplets of gas pp. 131-131

David Jones

Eugene M. Shoemaker (1928-97) pp. 132-132

Thomas J. Ahrens

Has BCG attenuated to impotence? pp. 133-134

Marcel A. Behr and Peter M. Small

Middle-aged mothers live longer pp. 133-133

Thomas T. Perls, Laura Alpert and Ruth C. Fretts

Inhibition of carcinogenesis by tea pp. 134-135

Chung S. Yang

A plant cold-induced uncoupling protein pp. 135-136

Maryse Laloi, Mathieu Klein, Jörg W. Riesmeier, Bernd Müller-Röber, Christophe Fleury, Frédéric Bouillaud and Daniel Ricquier

Caffeine alters plasma adenosine levels pp. 136-136

Lydia A. Conlay, Jeffrey A. Conant, Fred deBros and Richard Wurtman

Plugging into electronic journals pp. 137-138

James Porteous

Highways and byways in biology pp. 139-140

Lisa Satterwhite

More development than advertised pp. 140-140

Gary L. Westbrook

Fundamentals of fertility pp. 141-141

Roger Gosden

Cells in distress pp. 141-141

Helen Saibil and Peter Lund

Mind and molecules pp. 141-142

Leslie Iversen

Hearing and balance pp. 142-142

S. M. Khanna

Brain terrain pp. 142-142

Jonathan D. Cohen

Lateral thinking pp. 142-143

Dale Purves and Leonard E. White

On the move pp. 143-144

Peter D. Moore

Green shoots pp. 143-143

Axel Brennicke

Global control pp. 144-144

Lawrence M. Hanks

Find that molecule pp. 144-144

Neal S. Burres

A suitable treatment pp. 144-145

Robin A. Weiss

Development ladder pp. 145-146

Ziauddin Sardar

Out of Africa pp. 145-145

Robert Desowitz

What's it all worth? pp. 146-146

Neil Adger

Physics matters pp. 146-146

David Goodstein and Judith Goodstein

Opinions in science? pp. 147-147

Donald W. Murphy

Spice of life pp. 147-148

R. J. P. Williams

Bright spark pp. 148-148

Michael Rowan-Robinson

Journal reincarnate pp. 148-148

Duncan Steel

Regulation of transcription by proteins that control the cell cycle pp. 149-152

Brian D. Dynlacht

Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary pp. 153-158

Thure E. Cerling, John M. Harris, Bruce J. MacFadden, Meave G. Leakey, Jay Quade, Vera Eisenmann and James R. Ehleringer

External supply of oxygen to the atmospheres of the giant planets pp. 159-162

H. Feuchtgruber, E. Lellouch, T. de Graauw, B. Bézard, T. Encrenaz and M. Griffin

Direct observation of a fractional charge pp. 162-164

R. de-Picciotto, M. Reznikov, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, G. Bunin and D. Mahalu

Application of scanning SQUID petrology to high-pressure materials science pp. 164-167

Bruce A. Scott, John R. Kirtley, David Walker, Bai-Hao Chen and Yanhui Wang

Smectic ordering in solutions and films of a rod-like polymer owing to monodispersity of chain length pp. 167-170

Seungju M. Yu, Vincent P. Conticello, Guanghui Zhang, Christoph Kayser, Maurille J. Fournier, Thomas L. Mason and David A. Tirrell

Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover pp. 170-173

Margaret S. Torn, Susan E. Trumbore, Oliver A. Chadwick, Peter M. Vitousek and David M. Hendricks

Eclogite xenoliths in west African kimberlites as residues from Archaean granitoid crust formation pp. 173-176

Hugh Rollinson

Stochastic seasonality and nonlinear density-dependent factors regulate population size in an African rodent pp. 176-180

Herwig Leirs, Nils Chr. Stenseth, James D. Nichols, James E. Hines, Ron Verhagen and Walter Verheyen

Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans pp. 180-183

Leonardo G. Cohen, Pablo Celnik, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Brian Corwell, Lala Faiz, James Dambrosia, Manabu Honda, Norihiro Sadato, Christian Gerloff, M. Dolores Catala´ and Mark Hallett

Defective platelet activation in Gαq-deficient mice pp. 183-186

Stefan Offermanns, Christopher F. Toombs, Yi-Hui Hu and Melvin I. Simon

Arrest of the cell cycle by the tumour-suppressor BRCA1 requires the CDK-inhibitor p21WAF1/CiPl pp. 187-190

Kumaravel Somasundaram, Hongbing Zhang, Yi-Xin Zeng, Yariv Houvras, Yi Peng, Hongxiang Zhang, Gen Sheng Wu, Jonathan D. Licht, Barbara L. Weber and Wafik S. El-Deiry

p73 is a human p53-related protein that can induce apoptosis pp. 191-194

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

Steroid receptor coactivator-1 is a histone acetyltransferase pp. 194-198

Thomas E. Spencer, Guido Jenster, Mark M. Burcin, C. David Allis, Jianxin Zhou, Craig A. Mizzen, Neil J. McKenna, Sergio A. Onate, Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai and Bert W. O'Malley

Molecular mechanics of calcium–myristoyl switches pp. 198-202

James B. Ames, Rieko Ishima, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Lubert Stryer and Mitsuhiko Ikura

Arrangement of rhodopsin transmembrane α-helices pp. 203-206

Vinzenz M. Unger, Paul A. Hargrave, Joyce M. Baldwin and Gebhard F. X. Schertler

Surface of bacteriorhodopsin revealed by high-resolution electron crystallography pp. 206-211

Yoshiaki Kimura, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Atsuo Miyazawa, Akinori Kidera, Masaaki Matsushima, Kaoru Mitsuoka, Kazuyoshi Murata, Teruhisa Hirai and Yoshinori Fujiyoshi

Cofilin promotes rapid actin filament turnover in vivo pp. 211-211

Pekka Lappalainen and David G. Drubin

1997, volume 389, articles 6646

Relocation of geological survey ‘could free funds for scientists' pp. 3-3

Laura Garwin

Exonerated researcher settles for $3m pp. 3-3

Meredith Wadman

Modest increases prevail in Japanese budget bids pp. 4-4

Robert Triendl

Scripps Institute plan would boost research space pp. 4-4

Rex Dalton

Biodiversity boss to stay, averting crisis pp. 5-5

Ehsan Masood

Animal researchers should ‘start talking’ to anti-vivisectionists pp. 5-5

Ehsan Masood

Consortium aims to revive sterile-mosquito project pp. 6-6

K. S. Jayaraman

US patent office withdraws patent on Indian herb pp. 6-6

K. S. Jayaraman

Curbs on B6 highlight dietary dilemmas pp. 7-7

Alison Abbott

Flood control strategy agreed for Oder pp. 7-7

Matthias Strobl

Library tries to rebuild flooded collection pp. 8-8

Laura Garwin

Eugenics scandal reveals silence of Swedish scientists pp. 9-9

Declan Butler

Gourmet cannibalism in New Guinea tribe pp. 11-11

Richard Rhodes

Pseudo-authorship pp. 11-11

A. J. van Loon

Fraud foreseen pp. 11-11

Horacio Rivera

Scientific advance thrives on openness pp. 11-11

Robert M. May

Achieving low-cost emissions targets pp. 13-14

Stephen H. Schneider and Lawrence H. Goulder

Reversing the kinesin ratchet — a diverting tail pp. 15-16

R. A. Cross

What you eat is how many you are pp. 16-17

Ivar Ekeland

Green light for Golgi traffic pp. 17-19

Hugh R. B. Pelham

Icy message from the Antarctic pp. 20-21

Eugene Murphy and John King

A human germ project? pp. 21-23

John Danesh, Robert Newton and Valerie Beral

Down the sunspot plughole pp. 23-23

Karen Southwell

No-party democracy pp. 24-24

David Jones

Anandamide may mediate sleep induction pp. 25-26

Raphael Mechoulam, Ester Fride, Lumir Hanu, Tzviel Sheskin, Tiziana Bisogno, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Michael Bayewitch and Zvi Vogel

Odour conveys status on cockroaches pp. 25-25

Patricia J. Moore, Nancy L. Reagan-Wallin, Kenneth F. Haynes and Allen J. Moore

Salamander with a ballistic tongue pp. 27-28

Stephen M. Deban, David B. Wake and Gerhard Roth

How hosts control worms pp. 27-27

M. J. Stear, K. Bairden, J. L. Duncan, P. H. Holmes, Q. A. McKellar, M. Park, S. Strain, M. Murray, S. C. Bishop and G. Gettinby

Everyday tales of ordinary madness pp. 29-29

John C. Marshall

Scales of progress pp. 30-30

John Long

A sense of place pp. 31-32

Jared M. Diamond

Winged wonders pp. 32-32

Michael Cherry

The origin and early evolution of plants on land pp. 33-39

Paul Kenrick and Peter R. Crane

Structure of Cre recombinase complexed with DNA in a site-specific recombination synapse pp. 40-46

Feng Guo, Deshmukh N. Gopaul and Gregory D. Van Duyne

Evidence for a downward mass flux in the penumbral region of a sunspot pp. 47-49

C. Westendorp Plaza, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, B. Ruiz Cobo, V. Martínez Pillet, B. W. Lites and A. Skumanich

A ductile ceramic eutectic composite with high strength at 1,873 K pp. 49-52

Y. Waku, N. Nakagawa, T. Wakamoto, H. Ohtsubo, K. Shimizu and Y. Kohtoku

Oxidative acylation using thioacids pp. 52-54

Rihe Liu and Leslie E. Orgel

RNA-catalysed carbon–carbon bond formation pp. 54-57

Theodore M. Tarasow, Sandra L. Tarasow and Bruce E. Eaton

Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records pp. 57-60

William K. de la Mare

Measurements of electric anisotropy due to solidification texturing and the implications for the Earth's inner core pp. 60-63

Michael I. Bergman

An intrinsic frequency limit to the cochlear amplifier pp. 63-66

Jonathan E. Gale and Jonathan F. Ashmore

Modulation of neuronal activity by target uncertainty pp. 66-69

Michele A. Basso and Robert H. Wurtz

PrP-expressing tissue required for transfer of scrapie infectivity from spleen to brain pp. 69-73

Thomas Blättler, Sebastian Brandner, Alex J. Raeber, Michael A. Klein, Till Voigtländer, Charles Weissmann and Adriano Aguzzi

The mouse Dazla gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein essential for gametogenesis pp. 73-77

Matteo Ruggiu, Robert Speed, Mary Taggart, Stewart J. McKay, Fiona Kilanowski, Philippa Saunders, Julia Dorin and Howard J. Cooke

Mechanism of inhibition of the human matrix metalloproteinase stromelysin-1 by TIMP-1 pp. 77-81

Franz-Xaver Gomis-R¨th, Klaus Maskos, Michael Betz, Andreas Bergner, Robert Huber, Ko Suzuki, Naoki Yoshida, Hideaki Nagase, Keith Brew, Gleb P. Bourenkov, Hans Bartunik and Wolfram Bode

ER-to-Golgi transport visualized in living cells pp. 81-85

John F. Presley, Nelson B. Cole, Trina A. Schroer, Koret Hirschberg, Kristien J. M. Zaal and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Smad4 and FAST-1 in the assembly of activin-responsive factor pp. 85-89

Xin Chen, Ellen Weisberg, Valerie Fridmacher, Minoru Watanabe, Grace Naco and Malcolm Whitman

Actin-dependent localization of an RNA encoding a cell-fate determinant in yeast pp. 90-93

Peter A. Takizawa, Anita Sil, Jason R. Swedlow, Ira Herskowitz and Ronald D. Vale

Reversal in the direction of movement of a molecular motor pp. 93-96

Ulrike Henningsen and Manfred Schliwa

Structure of the inhibitory receptor for human natural killer cells resembles haematopoietic receptors pp. 96-100

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

Erratum: Neurotactin, a membrane-anchored chemokine upregulated in brain inflammation pp. 100-100

Yang Pan, Clare Lloyd, Hong Zhou, Sylvia Dolich, Jim Deeds, Jose-Angel Gonzalo, Jim Vath, Mike Gosselin, Jingya Ma, Barry Dussault, Elizabeth Woolf, Geoff Alperin, Janice Culpepper, Jose Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos and David Gearing

Keeping growth under control pp. 101-102

Brendan Horton