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1997, volume 388, articles 6645

Radical restructuring in Japan merges science and education pp. 815-815

Richard Nathan and Robert Triendl

New roles for science and technology council pp. 815-815

Richard Nathan and Robert Triendl

Greenpeace defiant in face of threat from oil company pp. 816-816

Ehsan Masood

Karolinska Institute disowns work of cancer researcher pp. 816-816

Declan Butler

Dispute over insect resistance to crops pp. 817-817

Meredith Wadman

Swiss research resting on its laurels pp. 817-817

Quirin Schiermeier

Mir's problems could mean scale-down for science pp. 818-818

Tony Reichhardt

State seeks independence in science policy pp. 818-818

Peter Pockley

NAS president hints he may run again pp. 819-819

Colin Macilwain

Cooperative Centres fight cuts proposal pp. 819-819

Peter Pockley

Peer review is a two-way process pp. 822-822

Alistair Fielder, Hannah Vinyard and David Grant

Sacred circle pp. 822-822

Roger Matthews

Space can’t wait pp. 823-823

Mary E. Musgrave and Richard Hopkin

Time and motion pp. 823-823

Stuart Sherman

Identity crisis pp. 823-823

J.-H. Klemme

Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic pp. 825-826

Stefan Rahmstorf

Wrapping the armadillo's penis pp. 826-827

Richard Wassersug

Atoms that agree to differ pp. 827-829

D. Bouwmeester and A. Zeilinger

Silencing and DNA repair connect pp. 829-830

Stephen P. Jackson

A molecular contortionist pp. 830-831

Jennifer A. Doudna

Retrovirus as trigger, precipitator or marker? pp. 833-834

Christophe Benoist and Diane Mathis

Cold comfort for anglers and toxicologists pp. 833-833

Tim Lincoln

Calcium turns turquoise into gold pp. 834-835

Tullio Pozzan

A biased solid pp. 835-835

David Jones

Hubert Horace Lamb (1913-97) pp. 836-836

Mick Kelly

Sources of the Maelstrom pp. 837-838

B. Gjevik, H. Moe and A. Ommundsen

Morbillivirus in monk seal mass mortality pp. 838-839

Albert Osterhaus, Jan Groen, Hubert Niesters, Marco van de Bildt, Byron Martina, Lies Vedder, Joseph Vos, Hans van Egmond, Ba Abou Sidi and Mohamed Ely Ould Barham

α-Synuclein in Lewy bodies pp. 839-840

Maria Grazia Spillantini, Marie Luise Schmidt, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, Ross Jakes and Michel Goedert

Endogenous proviruses as “mementos”? pp. 840-840

Charles H. Langley and Brian Charlesworth

Endogenous proviruses as “mementos”? pp. 840-840

Jonathan Stoye

Transforming the theatre of surgery pp. 841-841

Fred S. Rosen

Everyman physics pp. 842-843

Edwin L. Thomas

Research remedies pp. 842-842

Iain Smith

Oceans of truth pp. 843-843

John Shepherd

Flights and fights pp. 843-843

Paul Duffy

Design and synthesis of chromophores and polymers for electro-optic and photorefractive applications pp. 845-851

Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen, Alex K.-Y. Jen and Nasser Peyghambarian

A direct image of the obscuring disk surrounding an active galactic nucleus pp. 852-854

Jack F. Gallimore, Stefi A. Baum and Christopher P. O'Dea

Core formation on Mars and differentiated asteroids pp. 854-857

Lee Der-Chuen and Alex N. Halliday

Effect of microgravity on the crystallization of a self-assembling layered material pp. 857-860

Homayoun Ahari, Robert L. Bedard, Carol L. Bowes, Neil Coombs, Omer Dag, Tong Jiang, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Srebri Petrov, Igor Sokolov, Atul Verma, Gregory Vovk and David Young

Biodegradable block copolymers as injectable drug-delivery systems pp. 860-862

Byeongmoon Jeong, You Han Bae, Doo Sung Lee and Sung Wan Kim

Influence of CO2 emission rates on the stability of the thermohaline circulation pp. 862-865

Thomas F. Stocker and Andreas Schmittner

Critical behaviour and the evolution of fault strength during earthquake cycles pp. 865-868

Moritz Heimpel

The Late Precambrian fossil Kimberella is a mollusc-like bilaterian organism pp. 868-871

Mikhail A. Fedonkin and Benjamin M. Waggoner

A neuronal population code for sound localization pp. 871-874

Douglas C. Fitzpatrick, Ranjan Batra, Terrence R. Stanford and Shigeyuki Kuwada

Loose-patch recordings of single quanta at individual hippocampal synapses pp. 874-878

Lia Forti, Mario Bossi, Andrea Bergamaschi, Antonello Villa and Antonio Malgaroli

Microglial activation by Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein and modulation by apolipoprotein E pp. 878-881

Steven W. Barger and Ashley D. Harmon

Fluorescent indicators for Ca2+based on green fluorescent proteins and calmodulin pp. 882-887

Atsushi Miyawaki, Juan Llopis, Roger Heim, J. Michael McCaffery, Joseph A. Adams, Mitsuhiko Ikura and Roger Y. Tsien

Kinetochores distinguish GTP from GDP forms of the microtubule lattice pp. 888-891

Fedor F. Severin, Peter K. Sorger and Anthony A. Hyman

Mutant analysis links the translocon and BiP to retrograde protein transport for ER degradation pp. 891-895

Richard K. Plemper, Sigrun Böhmler, Javier Bordallo, Thomas Sommer and Dieter H. Wolf

Marking of active genes on mitotic chromosomes pp. 895-899

Emil F. Michelotti, Suzanne Sanford and David Levens

Silencing factors participate in DNA repair and recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 900-903

Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Jun-ichi Kato and Hideo Ikeda

Crystal structure of the breakage–reunion domain of DNA gyrase pp. 903-906

Joo H. Morais Cabral, Andrew P. Jackson, Clare V. Smith, Nita Shikotra, Anthony Maxwell and Robert C. Liddington

Radical fringe positions the apical ectodermal ridge at the dorsoventral boundary of the vertebrate limb pp. 906-906

Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, John W. R. Schwabe, Jennifer De La Peña, Bryon Foys, Brian Eshelman and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte

DNA technology pp. 907-908

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 388, articles 6644

Funding assured for international malaria sequencing project pp. 701-701

Declan Butler

Europe's poorer regions woo researchers pp. 701-701

Alison Abbott

UK watchdog boosts science credentials pp. 702-702

David Dickson

Management problems prompt Canadian utility to shut reactors pp. 702-702

David Spurgeon

$100m payout after drug data withheld pp. 703-703

Meredith Wadman

Action needed to counter bioterrorism pp. 703-703

Meredith Wadman

Ecologists urged to ‘win climate debate’ pp. 704-704

Colin Macilwain

Miami AIDS researcher denies charges over billing irregularities pp. 704-704

Rex Dalton

US-Cuba row over insects goes to weapons meeting pp. 705-705

Declan Butler

Royal observatory could return to Greenwich site pp. 705-705

Ehsan Masood

Public-sector patents on human DNA pp. 709-709

S. M. Thomas, N. Birtwistle, M. Brady and J. F. Burke

Keeping a balance pp. 709-709

Hermann Bondi

Wisdom in physiology pp. 709-709

Alexander Maryanovich

Ain't misbehavin’ pp. 710-710

Jim Stevenson

Faraway Faraday pp. 710-710

John Meurig Thomas

Skewed citations pp. 710-710

Martin Rees

Natural name selection pp. 710-710

James Murray

Australian innovation under threat pp. 711-711

Ian Lowe

The right sort of roughness pp. 713-714

Peter Carpenter

Apoptosis CED-4 is a stranger no more pp. 714-715

Michael O. Hengartner

Microporous solids Cobalt caged for catalysis pp. 715-716

Robert L. Bedard

Neurodegeneration A silent channel opens its gates pp. 716-717

Peter H. Seeburg

Atomic physics Shaping atoms in optical lattices pp. 719-720

Christopher Monroe

Galactic structure Bar serves cosmic scorpion pp. 719-719

Karen Southwell

Protein folding Folding with a two-stroke motor pp. 720-721

George Lorimer

Demography Death and the demon drink in Russia pp. 723-723

Tim Lincoln

Immunology Inside the gearbox of the dendritic cell pp. 724-724

Colin Watts

Daedalus Magnetic autoeroticism pp. 725-725

David Jones

Obituary John Zachary Young (1907-97) pp. 726-726

John Messenger

Hyperactive antifreeze protein from beetles pp. 727-728

Laurie A. Graham, Yih-Cherng Liou, Virginia K. Walker and Peter L. Davies

Role of CED-4 in the activation of CED-3 pp. 728-729

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Divya Chaudhary, Karen O'Rourke, Eugene V. Koonin and Vishva M. Dixit

Vaccination onto bare skin pp. 729-730

Tang De-chu, Zhongkai Shi and T. Curiel David

Seeing where your hands are pp. 730-730

Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Elisabetta Làdavas and Alessandro Farné

New narratives of creation pp. 731-731

Andrew H. Knoll

Fabric of the Universe pp. 732-732

F. D. Kahn

Tomato-watching in a dark corner pp. 733-733

Michael Morgan

Mind over chatter pp. 734-734

David Poeppel

Hydrothermal syntheses and structural characterization of zeolite analogue compounds based on cobalt phosphate pp. 735-741

Pingyun Feng, Xianhui Bu and Galen D. Stucky

The crystal structure of the asymmetric GroEL–GroES–(ADP)7 chaperonin complex pp. 741-750

Zhaohui Xu, Arthur L. Horwich and Paul B. Sigler

Faint X-ray sources in the core of the globular cluster M28 pp. 751-753

R. Danner, S. R. Kulkarni, Y. Saito and N. Kawai

Turbulent drag reduction by passive mechanisms pp. 753-755

L. Sirovich and S. Karlsson

Large-scale production of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the electric-arc technique pp. 756-758

C. Journet, W. K. Maser, P. Bernier, A. Loiseau, M. Lamy de la Chapelle, S. Lefrant, P. Deniard, R. Lee and J. E. Fischer

Enantioseparation using apoenzymes immobilized in a porous polymeric membrane pp. 758-760

Brinda B. Lakshmi and Charles R. Martin

Torsional oscillations and the magnetic field within the Earth's core pp. 760-763

Stephen Zatman and Jeremy Bloxham

Self-similarity of extinction statistics in the fossil record pp. 764-767

Ricard V. Solé, Susanna C. Manrubia, Michael Benton and Per Bak

Genetic tagging of humpback whales pp. 767-769

Per J. Palsbøll, Judith Allen, Martine Bérube´, Phillip J. Clapham, Tonnie P. Feddersen, Philip S. Hammond, Richard R. Hudson, Hanne Jørgensen, Steve Katona, Anja Holm Larsen, Finn Larsen#, Jon Lien, David K. Mattila, Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Richard Sears, Tim Smith, Renate Sponer, Peter Stevick and Nils Øien

Neurodegeneration in Lurcher mice caused by mutation in δ2 glutamate receptor gene pp. 769-773

Jian Zuo, Philip L. De Jager, Kanji A. Takahashi, Weining Jiang, David J. Linden and Nathaniel Heintz

A second endogenous cannabinoid that modulates long-term potentiation pp. 773-778

Nephi Stella, Paul Schweitzer and Daniele Piomelli

Placental abnormalities in mouse embryos lacking the orphan nuclear receptor ERR-β pp. 778-782

Jiangming Luo, Robert Sladek, Jo-Ann Bader, Annie Matthyssen, Janet Rossant and Vincent Giguère

Inflammatory stimuli induce accumulation of MHC class II complexes on dendritic cells pp. 782-787

Marina Cella, Anneke Engering, Valerie Pinet, Jean Pieters and Antonio Lanzavecchia

Developmental regulation of MHC class II transport in mouse dendritic cells pp. 787-792

Philippe Pierre, Shannon J. Turley, Evelina Gatti, Michael Hull, Joseph Meltzer, Asra Mirza, Kayo Inaba, Ralph M. Steinman and Ira Mellman

Distinct actions of cis and trans ATP within the double ring of the chaperonin GroEL pp. 792-798

Hays S. Rye, Steven G. Burston, Wayne A. Fenton, Joseph M. Beechem, Zhaohui Xu, Paul B. Sigler and Arthur L. Horwich

DNA renaturation activity of the SMC complex implicated in chromosome condensation pp. 798-801

Takashi Sutani and Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Metal ion catalysis during splicing of premessenger RNA pp. 801-805

Erik J. Sontheimer, Sengen Sun and Joseph A. Piccirilli

A second catalytic metal ion in a group I ribozyme pp. 805-808

Lara B. Weinstein, B. C. N. M. Jones, Richard Cosstick and Thomas R. Cech

Correction CO2 fixation and photoevolution of H2 and O2 in a mutant of Chlamydomonas lacking photosystem I pp. 808-808

E. Greenbaum, J. W. Lee, C. V. Tevault, S. L. Blankinship and L. J. Mets

Molecular means and methods pp. 809-809

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 388, articles 6643

Fight over Italian research policy threatens chance for reform pp. 609-610

Alison Abbott

Government considers plans to create biomedical research institute pp. 609-609

Alison Abbott

Universities rally against cuts in Pentagon-funded research pp. 610-610

Colin Macilwain

US to tighten protection of medical data pp. 611-611

Meredith Wadman

Pathfinder probes the weather on Mars pp. 612-612

Stephen Battersby

‘Neutral’ mechanism sought to fund environmental research pp. 612-612

Tony Reichhardt

Independence, but no Nobel winners for India since then pp. 613-613

K. S. Jayaraman

Make marijuana research easier, panel urges NIH pp. 613-613

Sally Lehrman

Greenhouse talks edge towards targets pp. 614-614

Quirin Schiermeier and Robert Triendl

Head of French leukaemia inquiry quits after partisan remarks pp. 614-614

Eric Glover

Japan tightens focus in space research pp. 615-615

Robert Triendl

A permanent decline in oil production? pp. 618-618

Hendrik Houthakker and Craig Bond Hatfield

Russian science misrepresented pp. 618-618

Eugen F. Makarov

What cannot be said in science pp. 619-620

Mott T. Greene

Will solid hydrogen ever be a metal? pp. 621-622

Peter P. Edwards and Friedrich Hensel

Even-toed fingerprints on whale ancestry pp. 622-623

Michel C. Milinkovitch and J. G. M. Thewissen

Knockouts anxious for new therapy pp. 624-624

Solomon H. Snyder

Ozone clouds over the Atlantic pp. 625-626

Paul Crutzen and Mark Lawrence

Fusion induces tumour rejection pp. 626-627

Ian Hart and Camilo Colaco

Global change through invasion pp. 627-628

Gábor L. Lövei

Unwanted and wanted sound pp. 628-628

Thomas D. Rossing

Calcium cages, acid baths and recycling receptors pp. 629-630

Michael S. Brown, Joachim Herz and Joseph L. Goldstein

Command performance pp. 630-630

David Jones

Framboidal pyrites in antique books pp. 631-631

Javier Garcia-Guinea, Jesus Martinez-Frias, Rafael Gonzalez-Martin and Luis Zamora

Intercropping increases parasitism of pests pp. 631-632

Z. R. Khan, K. Ampong-Nyarko, P. Chiliswa, A. Hassanali, S. Kimani, W. Lwande, W. A. Overholt, W. A. Overholt, J. A. Picketta, L. E. Smart and C. M. Woodcock

Stochastic resonance at the single-cell level pp. 632-633

R. Dean Astumian, R. K. Adair and James C. Weaver

Stochastic resonance at the single-cell level pp. 633-633

Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy

Sequence-specific RNA binding by Bicoid pp. 634-634

Siu-Kwong Chan and Gary Struhl

I'll be judge, I'll be jury pp. 635-635

Sheila Jasanoff

Motion of the heavens pp. 636-637

Jacques Laskar

On the horns of a dilemma pp. 636-636

Brian Bertram

Aliens, lies and videotape pp. 637-637

Leslie Sage

Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs pp. 639-648

Neil Shubin, Cliff Tabin and Sean Carroll

Deep winds on Jupiter as measured by the Galileo probe pp. 649-650

David H. Atkinson, Andrew P. Ingersoll and Alvin Seiff

Wind speeds measured in the deep jovian atmosphere by the Galileo probe accelerometers pp. 650-652

A. Seiff, R. C. Blanchard, T. C. D. Knight, G. Schubert, D. B. Kirk, D. Atkinson, J. D. Mihalov and R. E. Young

Spontaneous polarization in dense hydrogen pp. 652-655

B. Edwards and N. W. Ashcroft

Resonant pattern formation in achemical system pp. 655-657

Valery Petrov, Qi Ouyang and Harry L. Swinney

Plasticity and avalanche behaviour in microfracturing phenomena pp. 658-660

Stefano Zapperi, Alessandro Vespignani and H. Eugene Stanley

Ozone-rich transients in the upper equatorial Atlantic troposphere pp. 661-663

K. Suhre, J.-P. Cammas, P. Nédelec, R. Rosset, A. Marenco and H. G. J. Smit

Conspecific sperm precedence in Drosophila pp. 663-666

Catherine S. C. Price

Molecular evidence from retroposons that whales form a clade within even-toed ungulates pp. 666-670

Mitsuru Shimamura, Hiroshi Yasue, Kazuhiko Ohshima, Hideaki Abe, Hidehiro Kato, Toshiya Kishiro, Mutsuo Goto, Isao Munechika and Norihiro Okada

Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide pp. 670-674

K. M. Kendrick, R. Guevara-Guzman, J. Zorrilla, M. R. Hinton, K. D. Broad, M. Mimmack and S. Ohkura

Aggressiveness, hypoalgesia and high blood pressure in mice lacking the adenosine A2a receptor pp. 674-678

Catherine Ledent, Jean-Marie Vaugeois, Serge N. Schiffmann, Thierry Pedrazzini, Malika El Yacoubi, Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen, Jean Costentin, John K. Heath, Gilbert Vassart and Marc Parmentier

Altered pain perception and inflammatory response in mice lacking prostacyclin receptor pp. 678-682

Takahiko Murata, Fumitaka Ushikubi, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Masakazu Hirata, Atsushi Yamasaki, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Atsushi Ichikawa, Yoshiya Aze, Takashi Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida, Akinori Ueno, Sachiko Oh-ishi and Shuh Narumiya

Crustacean appendage evolution associated with changes in Hox gene expression pp. 682-686

Michalis Averof and Nipam H. Patel

Recruitment of functional GABAA receptors to postsynaptic domains by insulin pp. 686-690

Q. Wan, Z. G. Xiong, H. Y. Man, C. A. Ackerley, J. Braunton, W. Y. Lu, L. E. Becker, J. F. MacDonald and Y. T. Wang

Molecular basis of familial hypercholesterolaemia from structure of LDL receptor module pp. 691-693

Deborah Fass, Stephen Blacklow, Peter S. Kim and James M. Berger

Crystal structure of a small G protein in complex with the GTPase-activating protein rhoGAP pp. 693-697

Katrin Rittinger, Philip A. Walker, John F. Eccleston, Kurshid Nurmahomed, Darerca Owen, Ernest Laue, Steven J. Gamblin and Stephen J. Smerdon

Erratum: A new chromosomal protein essential for mitotic spindle assembly pp. 697-697

Jing-Ping Yeo, Frank Alderuccio and Ban-Hock Toh

Erratum: RNA recognition and translational regulation by a homeodomain protein pp. 697-697

Josh Dubnau and Gary Struhl

Erratum: Synapse specificity of long-term potentiation breaks down at short distances pp. 698-698

Florian Engert and Tobias Bonhoeffer

1997, volume 388, articles 6642

Delays at Brookhaven reactor worsen US ‘neutron drought’ pp. 503-504

Colin Macilwain

Women researchers take on ‘old boys’ network' pp. 504-504

Colin Macilwain

Backing for anti-cloning bill reopens embryo debate pp. 505-505

Meredith Wadman

US grants support teraflop computing simulations pp. 506-506

David Kramer

Endangered species bill faces battle against property lobby pp. 506-506

Tony Reichhardt

Modest increase proposed for EU research budget pp. 506-506

Alison Abbott

New DFG head vows to back Germany's young scientists — and genetics research pp. 507-507

Alison Abbott

Energy laboratories to open joint DNA sequence ‘factory’ pp. 507-507

Sally Lehrman

Unesco text will target gene techniques pp. 508-508

Meredith Wadman

Australian policy review backs huge cuts in research funding pp. 509-509

Peter Pockley

Cloning, dignity and ethical reasoning pp. 511-511

David Shapiro

Back to basics pp. 511-511

Jukka Heinonen

Alphabetical orders pp. 511-511

Tom Tregenza

Turning back the harmful red tide pp. 513-514

Donald M. Anderson

A bug with excess gastric avidity pp. 515-516

Russell F. Doolittle

Eros's extended family pp. 516-517

Richard P. Binzel

The ties that bind pp. 517-518

David Read

A fractal world of cloistered waves pp. 518-519

Peter G. Baines

IκB kinase all zipped up pp. 520-521

Alain Israë

Is the ocean at the helm? pp. 521-522

Mike McCartney

Inside the black box pp. 522-523

Richard Norby

Counting on the truth pp. 523-523

David Jones

Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931-97) pp. 524-524

Robert S. White

Acoustic alarms reduce porpoise mortality pp. 525-525

Scott D. Kraus, Andrew J. Read, Andrew Solow, Ken Baldwin, Trevor Spradlin, Eric Anderson and John Williamson

UK birds are laying eggs earlier pp. 526-526

Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Caroline Dudley, David E. Glue and David L. Thomson

CO2 increases oceanic primary production pp. 526-527

Mette Hein and Kaj Sand-Jensen

Structural biology and phylogenetic estimation pp. 527-528

Gavin J. P. Naylor and Wesley M. Brown

The planetary piggy bank pp. 529-530

Mary Power

Science in the service of the Raj pp. 530-532

Ehsan Masood

A private function pp. 532-532

Alison Jolly

The role of nitrogen fixation in biogeochemical cycling in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean pp. 533-538

D. Karl, R. Letelier, L. Tupas, J. Dore, J. Christian and D. Hebel

The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori pp. 539-547

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

A cytokine-responsive IκB kinase that activates the transcription factor NF-κB pp. 548-554

Joseph A. DiDonato, Makio Hayakawa, David M. Rothwarf, Ebrahim Zandi and Michael Karin

A rotating disk of gas and dust around a young counterpart to β Pictoris pp. 555-557

Vincent Mannings, David W. Koerner and Anneila I. Sargent

Observation of an internal wave attractor in a confined, stably stratified fluid pp. 557-561

Leo R. M. Maas, Dominique Benielli, Joël Sommeria and Frans-Peter A. Lam

Discovery of a reactive azeotrope pp. 561-563

W. Song, R. S. Huss, M. F. Doherty and M. F. Malone

Decadal predictability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature and climate pp. 563-567

R. T. Sutton and M. R. Allen

Orbitally paced climate oscillations across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary pp. 567-570

James C. Zachos, Benjamin P. Flower and Hilary Paul

Geodynamic estimates of the viscosity of the Earth's inner core pp. 571-573

Bruce A. Buffett

Deep marine biosphere fuelled by increasing organic matter availability during burial and heating pp. 573-576

Peter Wellsbury, Kim Goodman, Tanja Barth, Barry A. Cragg, Stephen P. Barnes and R. John Parkes

The fate of carbon in grasslands under carbon dioxide enrichment pp. 576-579

Bruce A. Hungate, Elisabeth A. Holland, Robert B. Jackson, F. Stuart Chapin, Harold A. Mooney and Christopher B. Field

Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field pp. 579-582

Suzanne W. Simard, David A. Perry, Melanie D. Jones, David D. Myrold, Daniel M. Durall and Randy Molina

Dissociating prefrontal and hippocampal function in episodic memory encoding pp. 582-585

R. J. Dolan and P. C. Fletcher

Absence of opiate rewarding effects in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors pp. 586-589

Rafael Maldonado, Adolfo Saiardi, Olga Valverde, Tarek A. Samad, Bernard P. Roques and Emiliana Borrelli

Rab3A is essential for mossy fibre long-term potentiation in the hippocampus pp. 590-593

Pablo E. Castillo, Roger Janz, Thomas C. Sdhof, Thanos Tzounopoulos, Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll

Rim is a putative Rab3 effector in regulating synaptic-vesicle fusion pp. 593-598

Yun Wang, Masaya Okamoto, Frank Schmitz, Kay Hofmann and Thomas C. Südhof

Chromatin-remodelling factor CHRAC contains the ATPases ISWI and topoisomerase II pp. 598-602

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

Modelling teleconnections between the North Atlantic and North Pacific during the Younger Dryas pp. 602-602

Uwe Mikolajewicz, Thomas J. Crowley, Andreas Schiller and Reinhard Voss

The breakdown on bioinformatics pp. 603-603

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 388, articles 6641

Clinton pulls out the stops in bid to win backing for carbon cuts pp. 407-407

Colin Macilwain

NASA urged to extend all solar satellites pp. 408-408

Tony Reichhardt

Three weeks into mission, Sojourner dusts off Mars' secrets pp. 408-408

Stephen Battersby

Japan seeks funding for new drilling ship pp. 409-409

David Swinbanks

German truce on genome data access pp. 409-409

Quirin Schiermeier

US warned about complacency on Japanese economy pp. 410-410

Colin Macilwain

‘Skewed medical goals’ revealed by Indian survey pp. 410-410

K. S. Jayaraman

FDA seeks to close xenotransplant gap pp. 411-411

Colin Macilwain

University settles with patients over trade in ‘stolen’ embryos pp. 411-411

Sally Lehrman

US and Europe may link up planned arrays pp. 412-412

Tony Reichhardt

Austria to go private in novel solution to grant distribution pp. 412-412

Quirin Schiermeier

UK universities told: ‘think strategically’ pp. 413-413

David Dickson

US support for malaria research pp. 416-416

Harold Varmus

EMBO fellows go home pp. 416-416

Frank Gannon, Jennifer Norman, Mare Kriis, Anne Walter and Lars Breimer

Nightmare antibiotics pp. 416-416

Chris F. Inglehearn

The democracy of the genes pp. 417-418

Matt McGue

A warm future in the past pp. 418-419

William R. Howard

Reading, writing and redesigning pp. 419-420

Michael Gro and Kevin W. Plaxco

Irregular scientific conjugations pp. 420-420

John Hodgson

Whistles from superfluid helium pp. 421-423

Peter McClintock

Now you see it, now you don't pp. 423-424

W. J. Betz and J. K. Angleson

The price of language? pp. 424-425

John Maddox

Trees to trap photons pp. 425-427

Shaul Mukamel

Long-distance long-term depression pp. 427-428

Roger A. Nicoll and Robert C. Malenka

From RAGs to stitches pp. 428-429

David T. Weaver and Fredrick W. Alt

Clearing the air pp. 429-429

David Jones

Martin Schwarzschild (1912-97) pp. 430-430

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Light-induced amphiphilic surfaces pp. 431-432

Rong Wang, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Akira Fujishima, Makota Chikuni, Eiichi Kojima, Atsushi Kitamura, Mitsuhide Shimohigoshi and Toshiya Watanabe

S-nitrosylation regulates apoptosis pp. 432-433

Gerry Melino, Francesca Bernassola, Richard A. Knight, Maria Tiziana Corasaniti, Giuseppe Nistic and Alessandro Finazzi-Agr

Thermal-expansion materials not so new pp. 433-433

Rustum Roy and Dinesh Agrawal

Season of birth predicts mortality in rural Gambia pp. 434-434

Sophie E. Moore, Timothy J. Cole, Elizabeth M. E. Poskitt, Bakary J. Sonko, Roger G. Whitehead, Ian A. McGregor and Andrew M. Prentice

Rise and eclipse of an elusive planet pp. 435-435

Joseph N. Tatarewicz

Home is the hunter pp. 436-436

Asako Saegusa

Messages in melody pp. 436-437

Christopher Longuet-Higgins

Born to science pp. 437-438

Peter Bryant

At a glance pp. 438-438

Nicholas C. Handy and Douglas Palmer

Propagation of activity-dependent synaptic depression in simple neural networks pp. 439-448

Reiko Maki Fitzsimonds, Hong-jun Song and Mu-ming Poo

Quantum oscillations between two weakly coupled reservoirs of superfluid 3He pp. 449-451

S. V. Pereverzev, A. Loshak, S. Backhaus, J. C. Davis and R. E. Packard

Graphitic cones and the nucleation of curved carbon surfaces pp. 451-454

A. Krishnan, E. Dujardin, M. M. J. Treacy, J. Hugdahl, S. Lynum and T. W. Ebbesen

Photoisomerization in dendrimers by harvesting of low-energy photons pp. 454-456

Dong-Lin Jiang and Takuzo Aida

Past ultraviolet radiation environments in lakes derived from fossil pigments pp. 457-459

Peter R. Leavitt, Rolf D. Vinebrooke, David B. Donald, John P. Smol and David W. Schindler

Predicted reduction in basal melt rates of an Antarctic ice shelf in a warmer climate pp. 460-462

K. W. Nicholls

Laboratory simulations of sustained volcanic eruptions pp. 462-464

H. M. Mader, E. E. Brodsky, D. Howard and B. Sturtevant

The advantage of sex in evolving yeast populations pp. 465-468

Clifford Zeyl and Graham Bell

The heritability of IQ pp. 468-471

B. Devlin, Michael Daniels and Kathryn Roeder

Second-order fear conditioning prevented by blocking NMDA receptors in amygdala pp. 471-474

Jonathan C. Gewirtz and Michael Davis

Transport, docking and exocytosis of single secretory granules in live chromaffin cells pp. 474-478

J. A. Steyer, H. Horstmann and W. Almers

Optical detection of a quantal presynaptic membrane turnover pp. 478-482

Timothy A. Ryan, Harald Reuter and Stephen J Smith

Cloning and characterization of a mammalian proton-coupled metal-ion transporter pp. 482-488

Hiromi Gunshin, Bryan Mackenzie, Urs V. Berger, Yoshimi Gunshin, Michael F. Romero, Walter F. Boron, Stephan Nussberger, John L. Gollan and Matthias A. Hediger

Cell-free V(D)J recombination pp. 488-491

Dale A. Ramsden, Tanya T. Paull and Martin Gellert

Activity of DNA ligase IV stimulated by complex formation with XRCC4 protein in mammalian cells pp. 492-495

Ulf Grawunder, Matthias Wilm, Xiantuo Wu, Peter Kulesza, Thomas E. Wilson, Matthias Mann and Michael R. Lieber

Yeast DNA ligase IV mediates non-homologous DNA end joining pp. 495-498

Thomas E. Wilson, Ulf Grawunder and Michael R. Lieber

Light fare pp. 499-500

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 388, articles 6640

Pressure grows for inquiry into welfare of transgenic animals pp. 311-312

Ehsan Masood

CNRS gets first woman director general pp. 311-311

Declan Butler

NSF urged to increase plant genome sequencing effort pp. 312-312

Colin Macilwain

Call for human subjects monitoring body pp. 313-313

Sally Lehrman

Collins' student sanctioned over ‘most severe’ case of fraud pp. 313-313

Rex Dalton

…but parliament wants closer scrutiny pp. 314-314

Alison Abbott

Euro-vote lifts block on biotech patents pp. 314-315

Alison Abbott

Swiss researchers facing ‘anti-transgenics’ vote pp. 315-315

Quirin Schiermeier

Russian minister tells academy: streamlining must continue pp. 315-315

Carl Levitin

Tokyo officials are told to agree on carbon strategy pp. 316-316

Richard Nathan

Australia to rejoin space race with satellite project pp. 316-316

Peter Pockley

NIH and genome project set for more funds pp. 316-316

Colin Macilwain

Talks start on policing bio-weapons ban… pp. 317-317

Declan Butler

…as ‘designer weapons’ threat is disputed pp. 317-317

Declan Butler

The serious business of listing authors pp. 320-320

Christopher Stubbs

Cloning, dignity and ethical revisionism pp. 320-320

Axel Kahn

Salmonella or Smithella? pp. 320-320

Friedrich Katscher

Fat rats and carcinogenesis screening pp. 321-322

Michael F. W. Festing

Seeking wisdom in innate immunity pp. 323-324

Douglas T. Fearon

Gravity waves with a new spin pp. 324-325

Douglas Gough

Fossil muzzles and other puzzles pp. 327-328

Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà

What's best on the banks? pp. 328-329

David R. Montgomery

The difference with prokaryotes pp. 329-331

Mary-Jane Gething

Earth rocked by combination punch pp. 331-332

Dieter Stöffler and Philippe Claeys

On the trail of dioxygen activation pp. 332-333

Craig L. Hill and Ira A. Weinstock

An artist of the floating world pp. 333-333

Kate McGeown

A personal thermostat pp. 333-333

David Jones

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-97) pp. 334-334

Roger Cans

Recent subsidence of the northern Suez canal pp. 335-336

Daniel J. Stanley and Glenn A. Goodfriend

Clouds without supersaturation pp. 336-337

Markku Kulmala, Ari Laaksonen, Robert J.Charlson and Pekka Korhonen

A new west African chimpanzee subspecies? pp. 337-337

M. Katherine Gonder, John F. Oates, Todd R. Disotell, Michael R. J. Forstner, Juan Carlos Morales and Don J. Melnick

Imaging individual green fluorescent proteins pp. 338-338

Daniel W. Pierce, Nora Hom-Booher and Ronald D. Vale

On the trail of the transistor pp. 339-340

Frederick Seitz

Ceaseless fluctuations pp. 340-341

Ian Aitchison

In retrospect chosen by John L. Casti pp. 341-341

John L. Casti

Correction pp. 341-341

Stuart Sutherland

Recombination of protein domains facilitated by co-translational folding in eukaryotes pp. 343-349

William J. Netzer and F. Ulrich Hartl

A magnetic switch that determines the speed of astrophysical jets pp. 350-352

D. L. Meier, S. Edgington, P. Godon, D. G. Payne and K. R. Lind

A ruthenium-substituted polyoxometalate as an inorganic dioxygenase for activation of molecular oxygen pp. 353-355

Ronny Neumann and Mazal Dahan

On/off blinking and switching behaviour of single molecules of green fluorescent protein pp. 355-358

Robert M. Dickson, Andrew B. Cubitt, Roger Y. Tsien and W. E. Moerner

The soil production function and landscape equilibrium pp. 358-361

Arjun M. Heimsath, William E. Dietrich, Kunihiko Nishiizumi and Robert C. Finkel

Experimental and theoretical identification of a new high-pressure phase of silica pp. 362-365

L. S. Dubrovinsky, S. K. Saxena, P. Lazor, R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, J. M. Wills and B. Johansson

The age of the Popigai impact event and its relation to events at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary pp. 365-368

Richard Bottomley, Richard Grieve, Derek York and Victor Masaitis

Earliest known Old World monkey skull pp. 368-371

Brenda R. Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin

Apparent competition structures ecological assemblages pp. 371-373

M. B. Bonsall and M. P. Hassell

Genetic interaction between male mating strategy and sex ratio in a marine isopod pp. 373-377

Stephen M. Shuster and Clay Sassaman

Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala pp. 377-380

Simon Killcross, Trevor W. Robbins and Barry J. Everitt

Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks pp. 381-382

Christine L. Stager and Janet F. Werker

Laminar fine structure of frequency organization in auditory midbrain pp. 383-386

Christoph E. Schreiner and Gerald Langner

Kinesin hydrolyses one ATP per 8-nm step pp. 386-390

Mark J. Schnitzer and Steven M. Block

Coupling of kinesin steps to ATP hydrolysis pp. 390-393

Wei Hua, Edgar C. Young, Margaret L. Fleming and Jeff Gelles

A human homologue of the Drosophila Toll protein signals activation of adaptive immunity pp. 394-397

Ruslan Medzhitov, Paula Preston-Hurlburt and Charles A. Janeway

A protein related to splicing factor U2AF35 that interacts with U2AF65 and SR proteins in splicing of pre-mRNA pp. 397-400

Hlne Tronchre, Jiwu Wang and Xiang-Dong Fu

Erratum: Expression of Radical fringe in limb-bud ectoderm regulates apical ectodermal ridge formation pp. 400-400

Ed Laufer, Randall Dahn, Olivia E. Orozco, Chang-Yeol Yeo, Jacqueline Pisenti, Domingos Henrique, Ursula K. Abbott, John F. Fallon and Cliff Tabin

Using GFP to study virus invasion and spread in plant tissues pp. 401-402

Karl J. Oparka, Alison G. Roberts, Simon Santa Cruz, Petra Boevink, Denton A.M. Prior and Anna Smallcombe

Microscopy and image analysis pp. 403-404

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 388, articles 6639

Asian economies lead increase in carbon dioxide emissions pp. 213-213

Ehsan Masood

Technology programme thinks small pp. 213-213

Colin Macilwain

NASA seeks ‘fair exchange’ of technical data pp. 214-214

Tony Reichhardt

Canada wins biotech boost of cancer vaccine project pp. 214-214

David Spurgeon

US funds for ITER safe for one more year pp. 214-214

Colin Macilwain

Mars rover meets rock with complex past pp. 215-215

Stephen Battersby

NASA ‘must fill gaps’ to finalize streamlined plans for human expedition pp. 215-215

Tony Reichhardt

Japan's life sciences take integrated road pp. 216-216

Robert Triendl and David Swinbanks

Clinton backs Congressional efforts on genetic discrimination pp. 216-216

Sally Lehrman

USA should fund half transatlantic links pp. 217-217

Alison Abbott and Colin Macilwain

NIH urged to address chimp care ‘crisis’ pp. 218-218

Colin Macilwain

Small increase planned in German budget pp. 218-218

Alison Abbott

Malaria meeting charts rocky path ahead pp. 219-219

Declan Butler

Limit the number of grants per person pp. 222-222

Frederick Sachs

True to Tony Blair pp. 222-222

Anne Campbell

Getting ahead of one's self pp. 222-222

Giorgio G. C. Palumbo

Capital Letters pp. 222-222

G. P. Findlay

Need for change in Japan's universities pp. 223-223

Yoshinori Kumazawa

A molecular handle on the Neanderthals pp. 225-226

Ryk Ward and Chris Stringer

The giant Popocatépetl stirs pp. 227-227

Servando De la Cruz-Reyna and Claus Siebe

Tracking turncoat prion proteins pp. 228-229

Colin L. Masters and Konrad Beyreuther

Making light work of adaptation pp. 229-230

Robert W. Buddemeier

Spoilt for choice of co-receptors pp. 230-231

Paul R. Clapham and Robin A. Weiss

The awakening of α-synuclein pp. 232-233

Michel Goedert

Made of craters pp. 232-232

Stephen Battersby

Guided lightning pp. 233-233

David Jones

Dorothy Hill (1907-97) pp. 234-234

Peter A. Jell

Entropy difference between crystal phases pp. 235-236

P. G. Bolhuis, D. Frenkel, Siun-Choun Mau and David A. Huse

Fatigue, alcohol and performance impairment pp. 235-235

Drew Dawson and Kathryn Reid

Entropy difference between crystal phases pp. 236-236

L. V. Woodcock

Metallothionein in snail Cd and Cu metabolism pp. 237-238

Reinhard Dallinger, Burkhard Berger, Peter Hunziger and Jeremias H. R. Kgi

A new SIV co-receptor, STRL33 pp. 238-238

Ghalib Alkhatib, Fang Liao, Edward A. Berger, Joshua M. Farber and Keith W. C. Peden

Tales of memory and imagination pp. 239-239

Stuart Sutherland

Inside knowledge pp. 240-240

Andrew Whiten

Ways of seeing pp. 240-242

John M. Kennedy

Metallurgy — and other animals pp. 242-242

Paul Calvert

A multivalent PDZ-domain protein assembles signalling complexes in a G-protein-coupled cascade pp. 243-249

Susan Tsunoda, Jimena Sierralta, Yumei Sun, Ruth Bodner, Emiko Suzuki, Ann Becker, Michael Socolich and Charles S. Zuker

A high deuterium abundance at redshift z = 0.7 pp. 250-252

J. K. Webb, R. F. Carswell, K. M. Lanzetta, R. Ferlet, M. Lemoine, A. Vidal-Madjar and D. V. Bowen

Chaotic dynamics of falling disks pp. 252-254

Stuart B. Field, M. Klaus, M. G. Moore and Franco Nori

Conductivity enhancement in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles doped with K and Br pp. 255-257

R. S. Lee, H. J. Kim, J. E. Fischer, A. Thess and R. E. Smalley

Evidence for charge transfer in doped carbon nanotube bundles from Raman scattering pp. 257-259

A. M. Rao, P. C. Eklund, Shunji Bandow, A. Thess and R. E. Smalley

Seismological evidence for three-dimensional melt migration beneath the East Pacific Rise pp. 259-262

Robert A. Dunn and Douglas R. Toomey

Nearly synchronous climate change in the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial termination pp. 263-265

Larry Benson, James Burdett, Steve Lund, Michaele Kashgarian and Scott Mensing

Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching pp. 265-269

Rob Rowan, Nancy Knowlton, Andrew Baker and Javier Jara

A polymorphism maintained by opposite patterns of parasitism and predation pp. 269-272

John E. Losey, Jason Harmon, Ford Ballantyne and Carrie Brown

Multistability of cognitive maps in the hippocampus of old rats pp. 272-275

Carol A. Barnes, Matthew S. Suster, Jiemin Shen and Bruce L. McNaughton

cAMP-induced switching in turning direction of nerve growth cones pp. 275-279

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

Synapse specificity of long-term potentiation breaks down at short distances pp. 279-284

Florian Engert and Tobias Bonhoeffer

Molecular assessment of the potential transmissibilities of BSE and scrapie to humans pp. 285-288

Gregory J. Raymond, James Hope, David A. Kocisko, Suzette A. Priola, Lynne D. Raymond, Alex Bossers, James Ironside, Robert G. Will, Shu G. Chen, Robert B. Petersen, Pierluigi Gambetti, Richard Rubenstein, Mari A. Smits, Peter T. Lansbury and Byron Caughey

A minK–HERG complex regulates the cardiac potassium current IKr pp. 289-292

Thomas V. McDonald, Zhihui Yu, Zhen Ming, Eugen Palma, Marian B. Meyers, Ke-Wei Wang, Steve A. N. Goldstein and Glenn I. Fishman

P. falciparum rosetting mediated by a parasite-variant erythrocyte membrane protein and complement-receptor 1 pp. 292-295

J. Alexandra Rowe, Joann M. Moulds, Christopher I. Newbold and Louis H. Miller

Expression cloning of new receptors used by simian and human immunodeficiency viruses pp. 296-300

HongKui Deng, Derya Unutmaz, Vineet N. KewalRamani and Dan R. Littman

X-linked IAP is a direct inhibitor of cell-death proteases pp. 300-304

Quinn L. Deveraux, Ryosuke Takahashi, Guy S. Salvesen and John C. Reed

Drosophila Mad binds to DNA and directly mediates activation of vestigial by Decapentaplegic pp. 304-308

Jaeseob Kim, Kirby Johnson, Hui Ju Chen, Sean Carroll and Allen Laughon

Differential activation of transcription factors induced by Ca2+ response amplitude and duration pp. 308-308

Ricardo E. Dolmetsch, Richard S. Lewis, Christopher C. Goodnow and James I. Healy

Erratum: Large-scale tectonic deformation inferred from small earthquakes pp. 308-308

Falk Amelung and Geoffrey King

1997, volume 388, articles 6638

After 322 years, royal observatory loses out to Scottish rival pp. 105-106

Ehsan Masood

Loss of Japanese satellite deals blow to remote sensing efforts pp. 105-105

Robert Triendl

Political interference skewed scientific advice on fish stocks pp. 106-106

David Spurgeon

NRC backs open access to test-ban data pp. 107-107

Laura Garwin

El Niño forecast fails to convince sceptics pp. 108-108

Ehsan Masood

Indian monsoon ‘progressing normally’ pp. 108-108

K. S. Jayaraman

EU helps to save science jobs in Berlin pp. 109-109

Quirin Schiermeier

Tariff waiver would aid instrument imports pp. 109-109

Tony Reichhardt

CNRS returns fire on ethics review panel pp. 110-110

Declan Butler

US budget plans jeopardize role in ITER pp. 110-110

Colin Macilwain

Mentors seek to prove value for money pp. 111-111

Colin Macilwain

Is magnetic fusion heading for ignition or meltdown? pp. 115-116

Colin Macilwain

Japanese industry fights budget setback pp. 116-117

Robert Triendl

Rivals that might oust the tokamak pp. 118-118

Colin Macilwain

European passions cool as bill increases pp. 119-119

Alison Abbott

Mine waste pollutes Mediterranean pp. 120-120

Jesús Martinez-Frias

French research needs pp. 120-120

Xavier Michalet

Just follow the acid chain pp. 121-122

Gottfried Schatz

New insights into old earthquakes pp. 122-123

Paul Segall

Placing death under control pp. 123-125

David Wallach

How one galaxy can be a cluster pp. 126-127

Richard Mushotzky

Neon signs mark Australian plume pp. 127-129

Bernard Marty

Volatile hardware pp. 129-129

David Jones

Alfred Hershey (1908-97) pp. 130-130

John Cairns

Latent pigments activated by heat pp. 131-132

J. S. Zambounis, Z. Hao and A. Iqbal

Photosynthesis or planktonic respiration? pp. 132-132

Richard J. Geider

Photosynthesis or planktonic respiration? pp. 132-133

Paul A. del Giorgio and Jonathan J. Cole

Lifetime of plasma cells in the bone marrow pp. 133-134

Rudolf A. Manz, Andreas Thiel and Andreas Radbruch

Importance of ancestral DNA ages pp. 134-134

J. F. Y. Brookfield

Inventor who turned his back on riches pp. 135-136

L. Pearce Williams

House of cards pp. 136-137

Peter T. Landsberg

In retrospect chosen by Euan Nisbet pp. 137-137

Euan Nisbet

Up the cosmos pp. 138-138

William H. Press

Men behaving badly pp. 138-138

Steven Rose

Proximal–distal axis formation in the Drosophila leg pp. 139-145

Thomas Lecuit and Stephen M. Cohen

A dark cluster of galaxies at redshift z = 1 pp. 146-148

M. Hattori, Y. Ikebe, I. Asaoka, T. Takeshima, H. Böhringer, T. Mihara, D. M. Neumann, S. Schindler, T. Tsuru and T. Tamura#

Properties of ideal composite knots pp. 148-151

Vsevolod Katritch, Wilma K. Olson, Piotr Pieranski, Jacques Dubochet and Andrzej Stasiak

The dynamics of partially extended single molecules of DNA pp. 151-154

Stephen R. Quake, Hazen Babcock and Steven Chu

Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period pp. 154-158

Stephen Stokes, David S. G. Thomas and Richard Washington

Sensitivity of earthquake cycles on the San Andreas fault to small changes in regional compression pp. 158-161

Chi-yuen Wang and Yongen Cai

Plume-like neon in a metasomatic apatite from the Australian lithospheric mantle pp. 162-164

Takuya Matsumoto, Masahiko Honda, Ian McDougall, Igor Yatsevich and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

How aggressive ant-guards assist seed-set in Acacia flowers pp. 165-167

P. G. Willmer and G. N. Stone

Evolution of genetic redundancy pp. 167-171

Martin A. Nowak, Maarten C. Boerlijst, Jonathan Cooke and John Maynard Smith

Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages pp. 171-174

Karl H. S. Kim, Norman R. Relkin, Kyoung-Min Lee and Joy Hirsch

Representation of motion boundaries in retinotopic human visual cortical areas pp. 175-179

John B. Reppas, Sourabh Niyogi, Anders M. Dale, Martin I. Sereno and Roger B. H. Tootell

The synaptic activation of kainate receptors pp. 179-182

Michel Vignes and Graham L. Collingridge

Kainate receptors mediate a slow postsynaptic current in hippocampal CA3 neurons pp. 182-186

Pablo E. Castillo, Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll

Muscle force is generated by myosin heads stereospecifically attached to actin pp. 186-190

Sergey Y. Bershitsky, Andrey K. Tsaturyan, Olga N. Bershitskaya, Gregory I. Mashanov, Paul Brown, Ronald Burns and Michael A. Ferenczi

Inhibition of death receptor signals by cellular FLIP pp. 190-195

Martin Irmler, Margot Thome, Michael Hahne, Pascal Schneider, Kay Hofmann, Véronique Steiner, Jean-Luc Bodmer, Michael Schröter, Kim Burns, Chantal Mattmann, Donata Rimoldi, Lars E. French and Jürg Tschopp

Tom5 functionally links mitochondrial preprotein receptors to the general import pore pp. 195-200

Klaus Dietmeier, Angelika Hönlinger, Ulf Bömer, Peter J. T. Dekker, Christoph Eckerskorn, Fritz Lottspeich, Michael Kübrich and Nikolaus Pfanner

X-chromosome-counting mechanisms that determine nematode sex pp. 200-204

Monique Nicoll, Chantal C. Akerib and Barbara J. Meyer

Erratum: Structure of the adenylyl cyclase catalytic core pp. 204-204

Gongyi Zhang, Yu Liu, Arnold E. Ruoho and James H. Hurley

Oligosaccharide sequencing technology pp. 205-207

Pauline M. Rudd, Geoffrey R. Gulle, Bernhard Küster, David J. Harvey, Ghislain Opdenakker and Raymond A. Dwek

New on the market pp. 208-208

Brendan Horton

Erratum: Integrin–ligand binding properties govern cell migration speed through cell–substratum adhesiveness pp. 210-210

Sean P. Palecek, Joseph C. Loftus, Mark H. Ginsberg, Douglas A. Lauffenburger and Alan F. Horwitz

Erratum: Total synthesis of the potential anticancer vaccine KH-1 adenocarcinoma antigen pp. 210-210

Prashant P. Deshpande and Samuel J. Danishefsky

1997, volume 388, articles 6637

Molecular biologists in Asia and Pacific plan research network pp. 3-3

David Swinbanks

Promising signs for NSF budget increase pp. 3-3

Colin Macilwain

Quake panel admits prediction is ‘difficult’ pp. 4-4

David Swinbanks

German law could boost prospects for organ transplants pp. 4-4

Alison Abbott

US air pollution rules stir up a stink about research pp. 5-5

Tony Reichhardt

President of UN summit ‘sobered’ by outcome pp. 5-5

Colin Macilwain

Cloning for research ‘should be allowed’ pp. 6-6

Meredith Wadman

European biotech industry plans ethics panel pp. 6-6

Declan Butler

France puts big science under scrutiny pp. 7-7

Declan Butler

Uncertainty over fate of Mir experiments pp. 8-8

Tony Reichhardt

Australian science review defends diversity and overlaps pp. 8-8

Peter Pockley

Asian tiger claws its way up the ratings pp. 9-10

Philip Campbell

Even sociologists need science pp. 13-13

Jonathan R. Ellis

More danger in doctrine than in genetics pp. 13-13

Christopher Badcock

George Wald believed in Apocalypse now pp. 13-13

Thomas H. Jukes

Alphabetical listing and citation rates pp. 14-14

Mark Shevlin and Mark N. O. Davies

CJD transmission pp. 14-15

F.-X. Meslin

Greek is the word pp. 15-15

Andreas Arvanitogiannis

Don't leave dignity out of the cloning debate pp. 15-15

Karim Labib

The reform of Russian science pp. 16-18

Boris G. Saltykov

Predicting where we walk pp. 19-20

Michael Batty

Bridging the gap by AAA ATPases pp. 20-21

Tony Rowe and William E. Balch

Oddly ordinary seaborgium pp. 21-22

Ron Lougheed

Colouring the cortex pp. 23-24

Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Not-so-cosmic rays pp. 24-25

Peter L. Biermann

Back at the last interglacial pp. 25-27

Joël Guiot

Environmental engineering pp. 27-27

Tim Lincoln

Mad about SMADs pp. 28-29

Jeff Wrans and Tony Pawson

Do the twist to get fit pp. 29-30

Pauline Rigby

The watch on the line pp. 30-30

David Jones

Electronic properties of carbon toroids pp. 31-32

R. C. Haddon

Inhibition of ICE slows ALS in mice pp. 31-31

Robert M. Friedlander, Robert H. Brown, Valeria Gagliardini, Joy Wang and Junying Yuan

Vision in dim light pp. 32-33

David H. Hubel

A polymerase I palm in adenylyl cyclase? pp. 33-34

Peter J. Artymiuk, Andrew R. Poirrette, David W. Rice and Peter Willett

A polymerase I palm in adenylyl cyclase? pp. 34-34

Stephen H. Bryant, Tom Madej, Joel Janin, Yu Liu, Arnold E. Ruoho, Gongyi Zhang and James H. Hurley

The health of a nation pp. 35-36

W. F. Bynum

The higher idiocy pp. 36-37

Walter Gratzer

Riddles in the sky pp. 37-38

Wendy Freedman

Science and salvation pp. 38-38

George Marsden

Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations pp. 39-44

Robert Kaufmann and David Stern

Detection of ozone on Saturn's satellites Rhea and Dione pp. 45-47

K. S. Noll, T. L. Roush, D. P. Cruikshank, R. E. Johnson and Y. J. Pendleton

Modelling the evolution of human trail systems pp. 47-50

Dirk Helbing, Joachim Keltsch and Péter Molnár

Current switching of resistive states in magnetoresistive manganites pp. 50-52

A. Asamitsu, Y. Tomioka, H. Kuwahara and Y. Tokura

Controlled production of aligned-nanotube bundles pp. 52-55

M. Terrones, N. Grobert, J. Olivares, J. P. Zhang, H. Terrones, K. Kordatos, W. K. Hsu, J. P. Hare, P. D. Townsend, K. Prassides, A. K. Cheetham, H. W. Kroto and D. R. M. Walton

Chemical properties of element 106 (seaborgium) pp. 55-57

M. Schädel, W. Brüchle, R. Dressler, B. Eichler, H. W. Gäggeler, R. Günther, K. E. Gregorich, D. C. Hoffman, S. Hübener, D. T. Jost, J. V. Kratz, W. Paulus, D. Schumann, S. Timokhin, N. Trautmann, A. Türler, G. Wirth and A. Yakuschev

Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr pp. 57-61

Cathy Whitlock and Patrick J. Bartlein

Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic tree pp. 61-64

Mark S. Springer, Gregory C. Cleven, Ole Madsen, Wilfried W. de Jong, Victor G. Waddell, Heather M. Amrine and Michael J. Stanhope

Hypothermia in foraging king penguins pp. 64-67

Y. Handrich, R. M. Bevan, J.-B. Charrassin, P. J. Butler, K. Ptz, A. J. Woakes, J. Lage and Y. Le Maho

Colour tuning in human visual cortex measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging pp. 68-71

Stephen Engel, Xuemei Zhang and Brian Wandell

Hippocampal GABAAchannel conductance increased by diazepam pp. 71-75

M. Eghbali, J. P. Curmi, B. Birnir and P. W. Gage

p47 is a cofactor for p97-mediated membrane fusion pp. 75-78

Hisao Kondo, Catherine Rabouille, Richard Newman, Timothy P. Levine, Darryl Pappin, Paul Freemont and Graham Warren

Cofilin promotes rapid actin filament turnover in vivo pp. 78-82

Pekka Lappalainen and David G. Drubin

Mutations increasing autoinhibition inactivate tumour suppressors Smad2 and Smad4 pp. 82-87

Akiko Hata, Roger S. Lo, David Wotton, Giorgio Lagna and Joan Massagué

A structural basis for mutational inactivation of the tumour suppressor Smad4 pp. 87-93

Yigong Shi, Akiko Hata, Roger S. Lo, Joan Massagué and Nikola P. Pavletich

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