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1997, volume 386, articles 6627

Austrian gene food petition puts pressure on European partners pp. 745-745

Alison Abbott

US advisory panel backs ITER design pp. 745-745

David Kramer

Scientists dispute wisdom of Canada reopening fishery pp. 746-746

David Spurgeon

Accident fall-out threatens Japan's nuclear company pp. 746-746

David Swinbanks

Baylor backed over 'falsified data' claims pp. 747-747

Rex Dalton

Patent office replies to fears over ESTs pp. 747-747

Meredith Wadman

LHC and space station get funding strings pp. 748-748

Meredith Wadman

Creationist 'Ark' trial closes early after judge narrows focus pp. 748-748

Peter Pockley

Labour keeps its supporters guessing pp. 749-749

David Dickson

Return to Unesco beckons for Britain pp. 749-749

David Dickson

Computer sanctions 'could affect US weapons research' pp. 750-750

David Kramer

Human origins centre pulls up roots in move to Arizona pp. 750-750

Sally Lehrman

India takes French route to genome project pp. 750-750

K. S. Jayaraman

Germany divided on a single academy pp. 751-751

Quirin Schiermeier

No lack of individuality pp. 754-754

P.-L. Chau and W. Y. Chau

Sequence is all there pp. 754-754

Takashi Horiuchi

Contract researchers still out in the cold pp. 754-754

Tina Yates

Value-added Frontiers programme pp. 755-755

Tom Blundell

Ginkgo thrives pp. 755-755

Wilhelm Schmid

Todd's achievement pp. 755-755

Raphael Mechoulam

A man for our season pp. 757-758

Peter A. Lawrence and Michael Locke

The AM and FM of calcium signalling pp. 759-760

Michael J. Berridge

Magnetic energy release on the Sun pp. 760-761

James A. Klimchuk

Gatekeepers and caretakers pp. 761-763

Kenneth W. Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein

Not from books but from dissections pp. 764-764

Stephen Battersby

Lights turning red on amber pp. 764-765

Bryan Sykes

Sighting the seas of Europa pp. 765-767

William B. McKinnon

Breaking the rule of three pp. 767-768

Jean-Louis Mandel

Towards a neuropathology of emotion and mood pp. 769-770

Antonio R. Damasio

Thought versus feeling pp. 770-770

David Jones

The one that got away pp. 771-772

Thomas P. Russell and Sanat K. Kumar

A fungal minisatellite pp. 771-771

Thomas H. Andersen and Torsten Nilsson-Tillgren

Transcriptional activation functions in BRCA2 pp. 772-773

Jonathan Milner, Bruce Ponder, Luke Hughes-Davies, Matthias Seltmann and Tony Kouzarides

Infrared detection in a beetle pp. 773-774

Helmut Schmitz, Horst Bleckmann and Manfred Mürtz

Pet cat hair implicates murder suspect pp. 774-774

Marilyn A. Menotti-Raymond, Victor A. David and Stephen J. O'Brien

Ten ground squirrels dancing pp. 775-775

Mark Pagel

Funding fathers pp. 776-777

Wolf-Hagen Krauth

Does this man ever sleep? pp. 776-776

Geoffrey K. Pullum

Soft cell pp. 778-778

Jeremy Hyams

Nucleocytoplasmic transport: signals, mechanisms and regulation pp. 779-787

Erich A. Nigg

Effect of orogeny, plate motion and land–sea distribution on Eurasian climate change over the past 30 million years pp. 788-795

Gilles Ramstein, Frédéric Fluteau, Jean Besse and Sylvie Joussaume

Phenotype of mice lacking functional Deleted in colorectal cancer (Dec) gene pp. 796-804

Amin Fazeli, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Michelle L. Hermiston, Robert V. Tighe, Robert G. Steen, Clayton G. Small, Esther T. Stoeckli, Kazuko Keino-Masu, Masayuki Masu, Helen Rayburn, Jonathan Simons, Roderick T. Bronson, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Robert A. Weinberg

Embryonic lethality and radiation hypersensitivity mediated by Rad51 in mice lacking Brca2 pp. 804-810

Shyam K. Sharan, Masami Morimatsu, Urs Albrecht, Dae-Sik Lim, Eva Regel, Christopher Dinh, Arthur Sands, Gregor Eichele, Paul Hasty and Allan Bradley

Bi-directional plasma jets produced by magnetic reconnection on the Sun pp. 811-813

D. E. Innes, B. Inhester, W. I. Axford and K. Wilhelm

An X-ray-induced insulator–metal transition in a magnetoresistive manganite pp. 813-815

V. Kiryukhin, D. Casa, J. P. Hill, B. Keimer, A. Vigliante, Y. Tomioka and Y. Tokura

Fingering in granular flows pp. 816-817

O. Pouliquen, J. Delour and S. B. Savage

Rapid climate change in the North Atlantic during the Younger Dryas recorded by deep-sea corals pp. 818-820

Jodie E. Smith, Michael J. Risk, Henry P. Schwarcz and Ted A. McConnaughey

Hydrothermal gold mineralization in the Witwatersrand basin pp. 820-824

A. C. Barnicoat, I. H. C. Henderson, R. J. Knipe, B. W. D. Yardley, R. W. Napier, N. P. C. Fox, A. K. Kenyon, D. J. Muntingh, D. Strydom, K. S. Winkler, S. R. Lawrence and C. Cornford

Subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in mood disorders pp. 824-827

Wayne C. Drevets, Joseph L. Price, Joseph R. Simpson, Richard D. Todd, Theodore Reich, Michael Vannier and Marcus E. Raichle

Relationship between subjective effects of cocaine and dopamine transporter occupancy pp. 827-830

N. D. Volkow, G.-J. Wang, M. W. Fischman, R. W. Foltin, J. S. Fowler, N. N. Abumrad, S. Vitkun, J. Logan, S. J. Gatley, N. Pappas, R. Hitzemann and C. E. Shea

Decreased striatal dopaminergic responsiveness in detoxified cocaine-dependent subjects pp. 830-833

N. D. Volkow, G.-J. Wang, J. S. Fowler, J. Logan, S. J. Gatley, R. Hitzemann, A. D. Chen, S. L. Dewey and N. Pappas

Vertebrate homologues of C. elegans UNC-5 are candidate netrin receptors pp. 833-838

E. David Leonardo, Lindsay Hinck, Masayuki Masu, Kazuko Keino-Masu, Susan L. Ackerman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne

The mouse rostral cerebellar malformation gene encodes an UNC-5-like protein pp. 838-842

Susan L. Ackerman, Leslie P. Kozak, Stefan A. Przyborski, Laurie A. Rund, Bert B. Boyer and Barbara B. Knowles

Calreticulin is essential for integrin-mediated calcium signalling and cell adhesion pp. 843-847

Marc G. Coppolino, Michael J. Woodside, Nicolas Demaurex, Sergio Grinstein, René St-Arnaud and Shoukat Dedhar

Dodecamer repeat expansion in cystatin B gene in progressive myoclonus epilepsy pp. 847-851

Maria D. Lalioti, Hamish S. Scott, Catherine Buresi, Colette Rossier, Armand Bottani, Michael A. Morris, Alain Malafosse and Stylianos E. Antonarakis

An achaete-scute homologue essential for neuroendocrine differentiation in the lung pp. 852-855

Michael Borges, R. Ilona Linnoila, Helgi J. K. van de Velde, Herbert Chen, Barry D. Nelkin, Mack Mabry, Stephen B. Baylin and Douglas W. Ball

Differential activation of transcription factors induced by Ca2+ response amplitude and duration pp. 855-858

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

Collected for separation pp. 859-860

Brendan Norton

1997, volume 386, articles 6626

Canada swaps robot arm for lab space pp. 633-633

David Spurgeon

Researchers find silver lining in delay to work on space station pp. 633-634

Tony Reichhardt

Journals joust over policy on authors' interests pp. 634-634

Meredith Wadman

UK astronomers hit out at funding council pp. 635-635

Ehsan Masood

Copyright treaties threaten information flow, says NRC pp. 635-635

Tony Reichhardt

Budget cuts force Sweden to consider CERN pull-out pp. 636-636

Alison Abbott

French law would help scientists to go into business pp. 636-636

Eric Glover

Library cuts bring tremors to geologists pp. 637-637

Laura Garwin

Medical centre repays 'overbilled' $15.5m pp. 637-637

Meredith Wadman

Fishermen fight rangers in conservation battle for Galápagos pp. 638-638

Alison Abbott

'Ark evidence' challenged in Sydney court pp. 638-638

Peter Pockley

Harmonizing European patent practice pp. 641-641

Alastair Kent, Nick Scott-Ram and Sandy Thomas

Patronomy pioneers pp. 641-641

Gerhard Haszprunar

Learning from history pp. 642-642

Mark Cantley

Deserving of trust pp. 642-643

Ahvie Herskowitz

Unequal letters pp. 643-643

K. Thorsten Jaekel

Problems with stockpile stewardship pp. 645-647

Ray E. Kidder

From the Labrador Sea to global change pp. 649-650

Bob Dickson

The first visible burst pp. 650-651

Bohdan Paczyński and Ralph Wijers

Genesis of snakes in exodus from the sea pp. 651-652

Nicholas C. Fraser

Charting orientation territories pp. 653-655

Rachel O.L. Wong

The cheetah's time has come pp. 653-653

Helen Phillips

Bog standards in Minnesota pp. 655-656

Peter D. Moore

Long drops in free fall pp. 656-656

Stephen Battersby

The importance of being unfolded pp. 657-659

Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Groβ

A greener north pp. 659-660

Inez Fung

Hosts and parasitoids in space pp. 660-661

H. C. J. Godfray and M. P. Hassell

Radical nutrition pp. 661-661

David Jones

Obituary: Edward M. Purcell (1912–97) Pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance and in radioastronomy pp. 662-662

Nicolaas Bloembergen

A prokaryotic phytochrome pp. 663-663

Jon Hughes, Tilman Lamparter, Franz Mittmann, Elmar Hartmann, Wolfgang Gärtner, Annegret Wilde and Thomas Börner

Circadian clock in Malpighian tubules pp. 664-664

Jadwiga M. Giebultowicz and David M. Hege

Carbon isotope evidence for early life pp. 665-665

J. M. Eiler, S. J. Mojzsis and G. Arrhenius

Clouds, precipitation and temperature range pp. 665-666

Aiguo Dai, Anthony D. Del Genio and Inez Y. Fung

Shrinking minds and swollen heads pp. 667-668

V. S. Ramachandran and J.J. Smythies

The cultures of genetics pp. 668-669

Benno Müller-Hill

Digging up the past pp. 669-670

Warwick Bray

In retrospect pp. 670-670

Keith Devlin

Mechanisms of angiogenesis pp. 671-674

Werner Risau

Surprisingly rapid spreading of newly formed intermediate waters across the North Atlantic Ocean pp. 675-679

Alexander Sy, Monika Rhein, John R. N. Lazier, Klaus Peter Koltermann, Jens Meincke, Alfred Putzka and Manfred Bersch

Disruption of orientation tuning visual cortex by artificially correlated neuronal activity pp. 680-685

Michael Weliky and Lawrence C. Katz

Transient optical emission from the error box of the γ-ray burst of 28 February 1997 pp. 686-689

J. van Paradijs, P. J. Groot, Titus Galama, C. Kouveliotou, R. G. Strom, J. Telting, R. G. M. Rutten, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Meegan, M. Pettini, N. Tanvir, J. Bloom, H. Pedersen, H. U. Nørdgaard-Nielsen, M. Linden-Vørnle, J. Melnick, G. van der Steene, M. Bremer, R. Naber, J. Heise, J. in't Zand, E. Costa, M. Feroci, L. Piro, F. Frontera, G. Zavattini, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, K. Bennet, L. Hanlon and A. Parmar

Momentum creation by vortices in superfluid 3He as a model of primordial baryogenesis pp. 689-692

T. D. C. Bevan, A. J. Manninen, J. B. Cook, J. R. Hook, H. E. Hall, T. Vachaspati and G. E. Volovik

Morphogenesis of shapes and surface patterns in mesoporous silica pp. 692-695

Hong Yang, Neil Coombs and Geoffrey A. Ozin

Conformational identification of individual adsorbed molecules with the STM pp. 696-698

T. A. Jung, R. R. Schlittler and J. K. Gimzewski

Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991 pp. 698-702

R. B. Myneni, C. D. Keeling, C. J. Tucker, G. Asrar and R. R. Nemani

Large-scale tectonic deformation inferred from small earthquakes pp. 702-705

Falk Amelung and Geoffrey King

A snake with legs from the marine Cretaceous of the Middle East pp. 705-709

Michael W. Caldwell and Michael S. Y. Lee

Insect parasitoid species respond to forest structure at different spatial scales pp. 710-713

Jens Roland and Philip D. Taylor

Arrest of spermatogenesis and defective breast development in mice lacking A-myb pp. 713-717

Antonio Toscani, Richard V. Mettus, Robert Coupland, Henry Simpkins, Judith Litvin, Joanne Orth, Kimi S. Hatton and E. Premkumar Reddy

Maintenance of somite borders in mice requires the Delta homologue Dll1 pp. 717-721

Martin Hrabě de Angelis, Joseph Mclntyre and Achim Gossler

NMDA-receptor regulation of substance P release from primary afferent nociceptors pp. 721-724

Hantao Liu, Patrick W. Mantyh and Allan I. Basbaum

Induction of sodium channel clustering by oligodendrocytes pp. 724-728

M. R. Kaplan, A. Meyer-Franke, S. Lambert, V. Bennett, I. D. Duncan, S. R. Levinson and B. A. Barres

Suppression of signalling through transcription factor NF-AT by interactions between calcineurin and Bcl-2 pp. 728-731

Futoshi Shibasaki, Eisaku Kondo, Tadaatsu Akagi and Frank McKeon

Functional interaction between DNA-PK and c-Abl in response to DNA damage pp. 732-735

Surender Kharbanda, Pramod Pandey, Shengfang Jin, Satoshi Inoue, Ajit Bharti, Zhi-Min Yuan, Ralph Weichselbaum, David Weaver and Donald Kufe

Drosophila CBP is a co-activator of cubitus interruptus in hedgehog signalling pp. 735-738

Hiroshi Akimaru, Yang Chen, Ping Dai, Hou De-Xing, Maki Nonaka, Sarah M. Smolik, Steve Armstrong, Richard H. Goodman and Shunsuke Ishii

Correction: Airborne signalling by methyl salicylate in plant pathogen resistance pp. 738-738

Vladimir Shulaev, Paul Silverman and Ilya Raskin

Correction: Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago pp. 738-738

S. J. Mojzsis, G. Arrhenius, K. D. McKeegan, T. M. Harrison, A. P. Nutman and C. R. L. Friend

Erratum: Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor-α pp. 738-738

Marcia L. Moss, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marcos E. Milla, D. Mark Bickett, William Burkhart, H. Luke Carter, Wen-Ji Chen, C. William, John R. Didsbury, Daniel Hassler, Christine R. Hoffman, Thomas A. Kost, Millard H. Lambert, M. Anthony Leesnitzer, Philip McCauley, Gerard McGeehan, Justin Mitchell, Mary Moyer, Gregory Pahel, Warren Rocque, Laurie K. Overton, Frank Schoenen, Theresa Seaton, Jui-Lan Su, Janet Warner, Derril Willard and J. David Becherer

Erratum: Stochastic resonance in non-dynamical systems without response thresholds pp. 738-738

Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy

1997, volume 386, articles 6625

EU programme should increase support for social sciences pp. 527-527

David Dickson

Fellowships seem likely to win out over basic research in Europe pp. 527-527

Alison Abbott

Clean car programme falling short of goal pp. 528-528

Colin Macilwain

US supercomputer centres to concentrate on networking pp. 528-528

Colin Macilwain

Creationism 'Ark' trial opens in Australia pp. 529-529

Peter Pockley

Biologists sound warning on species conservation pp. 530-530

Tony Reichhardt

Discoverer of comet bemoans lack of jobs pp. 530-530

Tony Reichhardt

'No consensus' on FDA role in gene tests pp. 531-531

Meredith Wadman

Nirex chief expected to lose seat on UK's nuclear waste panel pp. 531-531

Ehsan Masood

ESA agrees full re-fly for Cluster mission pp. 532-532

Alison Abbott

Europe outlines labelling rules for genetic modification seeds pp. 532-532

Alun Anderson

US privacy laws may curb access to medical data pp. 533-533

Meredith Wadman

Sandra Thurman named as new 'AIDS Czar' pp. 533-533

Meredith Wadman

India plans $200 million attack on malaria pp. 536-536

K.S. Jayaraman

Value for money pp. 542-542

J. P. Dean Goldring

History of parity violation experiment pp. 542-543

Richard L. Garwin and Leon M. Lederman

Science as a cultural construct pp. 545-547

Kurt Gottfried and Kenneth G. Wilson

Afterslip no longer an afterthought pp. 549-549

Charles DeMets

Where are the things we see? pp. 550-551

Joel M. Miller and Christopher Bockisch

Stars and ships and superfluids pp. 551-553

C.W.F. Everitt

Providing a little stability pp. 553-554

Peter E. Warburton and David Kipling

Ordering Up aMAC pp. 554-554

Peter E. Warburton and David Kipling

The monkeys' defence alliance pp. 555-557

Robin Dunbar

A lively debate pp. 557-558

Timothy J. McCoy

Tracking slabs in the lower mantle pp. 558-558

Guy Masters

Space and time in the mental universe pp. 559-560

Patricia Goldman-Rakic

Mutable mutations pp. 560-560

David Jones

Ammonia excretion by hummingbirds pp. 561-562

Marion R. Preest and Carol A. Beuchat

Socioeconomic factors and tropical deforestation pp. 562-563

Kamaljit S. Bawa and S. Dayanandan

Kinked DNA pp. 563-563

Wenhai Han, S. M. Lindsay, Mensur Dlakic and Rodney E. Harrington

Biochemical typing of scrapie strains pp. 564-564

Robert A. Somerville, Angela Chong, Orla U. Mulqueen, Christopher R. Birkett, Sophie C. E. R. Wood and James Hope

Biochemical typing of scrapie strains pp. 564-564

John Collinge, Andrew F. Hill, Katie C. L. Sidle and James Ironside

Journals of our plague years pp. 565-565

Robert Desowitz

Teachers should go back to school pp. 566-567

Cynthia M. Friend

You can see right through me pp. 567-568

John Mallard

Specialist books pp. 568-568

John G. Walsey

Specialist books pp. 568-568

Arun Holden

Specialist books pp. 568-568

Peter T. Landsberg

Transcriptional activation by recruitment pp. 569-577

Mark Ptashne and Alexander Gann

Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography pp. 578-584

R. D. van der Hilst, S. Widiyantoro and E. R. Engdahl

Detection of the Earth's rotation using superfluid phase coherence pp. 585-587

Keith Schwab, Niels Bruckner and Richard E. Packard

Non-volatile memory device based on mobile protons in SiO2 thin films pp. 587-589

K. Vanheusden, W. L. Warren, R. A. B. Devine, D. M. Fleetwood, J. R. Schwank, M. R. Shaneyfelt, P. S. Winokur and Z. J. Lemnios

Dynamics of glasses below the glass transition pp. 589-592

B. Jérôme and J. Commandeur

Inherently unstable climate behaviour due to weak thermohaline ocean circulation pp. 592-595

Eli Tziperman

Silent fault slip following an interplate thrust earthquake at the Japan Trench pp. 595-598

Kosuke Heki, Shin'ichi Miyazaki and Hiromichi Tsuji

Compression of visual space before saccades pp. 598-601

John Ross, M. Concetta Morrone and David C. Burr

Perceived geometrical relationships affected by eye-movement signals pp. 601-604

Rick H. Cai, Alexandre Pouget, Madeleine Schlag-Rey and John Schlag

Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task pp. 604-608

Jonathan D. Cohen, William M. Perlstein, Todd S. Braver, Leigh E. Nystrom, Douglas C. Noll, John Jonides and Edward E. Smith

Transient and sustained activity in a distributed neural system for human working memory pp. 608-611

Susan M. Courtney, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Katrina Keil and James V. Haxby

Allosteric activation and tuning of ligand efficacy in cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels pp. 612-615

Gareth R. Tibbs, Evan H. Goulding and Steven A. Siegelbaum

Release of gelatinase A during platelet activation mediates aggregation pp. 616-619

Grzegorz Sawicki, Eduardo Salas, Jesus Murat, Helena Miszta-Lane and Marek W. Radomski

Caspase-1 processes IFN-γ-inducing factor and regulates LPS-induced IFN- γ production pp. 619-623

Tariq Ghayur, Subhashis Banerjee, Margaret Hugunin, Deborah Butler, Linda Herzog, Adam Carter, Lucia Quintal, Les Sekut, Robert Talanian, Michael Paskind, Winnie Wong, Robert Kamen, Daniel Tracey and Hamish Alien

Genetic instability in colorectal cancers pp. 623-627

C. Lengauer, K. W. Kinzler and B. Vogelstein

Activation of prokaryotic transcription through arbitrary protein–protein contacts pp. 627-630

Simon L. Dove, J. Keith Joung and Ann Hochschild

1997, volume 386, articles 6624

Planning rejection leaves British nuclear waste plans in disarray pp. 423-424

Ehsan Masood

Japanese technology fund faces ministry criticism pp. 424-424

Asako Saegusa

Pay rises eat into South African budget pp. 425-425

Michael Cherry

France urged to head 'Rubbiatron' efforts pp. 426-426

Eric Glover

Closure looms for Hungarian institutes pp. 426-426

Quirin Schiermeier

New challenge to nuclear test facility pp. 427-427

Colin Macilwain

White House science office 'needs more focus', says panel pp. 427-427

Colin Macilwain

US National Science Board seeks a wider role in policy-making pp. 428-428

Colin Macilwain

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets pp. 431-431

Michael J. Taggart

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets pp. 431-431

Mike Fainzilber

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets pp. 431-431

Francis Galibert, Jacqueline Godet, Jean-Claude Kader and Jean-Antoine Lepesant

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets pp. 431-431

Giles Shaw and Jeremy Bray

Advantage of knowing nature's secrets pp. 431-431

Sidney Strickland

Unfair treatment pp. 432-432

V. D. R. Nathan

Unfair treatment pp. 432-432

Hernan Terenzi

Unfair treatment pp. 432-432

Christine Clayton

Life imitating art? pp. 432-433

Charles M. Strom

Not too old at 30 pp. 433-433

Gina Clayton

Scientists are still keeping the faith pp. 435-436

Edward J. Larson and Larry Witham

Cutting complexity down to size pp. 437-438

David I. Stuart and E. Yvonne Jones

SN1987A enters its second decade pp. 438-439

Richard McCray

Patterns of stress in crumpled sheets pp. 439-441

Gerhard Gompper

Scaling ridges pp. 441-441

Gerhard Gompper

Another opiate for the masses? pp. 442-442

David Julius

The origin of maize branches out pp. 443-445

Rob Martienssen

Diagnostics of the power supply pp. 445-446

Willem A. Baan

Viral decoy vetoes killer cell pp. 446-447

Klas Kärre and Raymond M. Welsh

Water, Water everywhere pp. 447-447

David Jones

Robert Henry Dicke (1916–97) Physicist whose work led to the discovery of the cosmic microwave background pp. 448-448

P. J. E. Peebles and D. T. Wilkinson

Source of volcanic glass for ancient Andean tools pp. 449-450

Sarah Osgood Brooks, Michael D. Glascock and Martín Giesso

Infanticide caused by hunting of male bears pp. 450-451

Jon E. Swenson, Finn Sandegren, Arne Söderberg, Anders Bjärvall, Robert Franzén and Petter Wabakken

A plant cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor gene pp. 451-452

Hong Wang, Larry C. Fowke and William L. Crosby

Determining cortical landscapes pp. 452-452

Jack W. Scannell

The policy intellectual pp. 453-454

Howard P. Segal

Darwin on the brain pp. 454-455

Steven Rose

Back to the roots of botany in China pp. 455-456

Mark F. Watson

A revolution in evolution pp. 456-456

Svante Pääbo

Mind over matter pp. 456-456

Philip W. Anderson

Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals pp. 457-462

Kimberly A. Hammond and Jared Diamond

Structure of 20S proteasome from yeast at 2.4Å resolution pp. 463-471

Michael Groll, Lars Ditzel, Jan Löwe, Daniela Stock, Matthias Bochtler, Hans D. Bartunik and Robert Huber

A starburst origin of the OH-megamaser emission from the galaxy Arp220 pp. 472-474

C. J. Skinner, H. A. Smith, E. Sturm, M. J. Barlow, R. J. Cohen and G. J. Stacey

Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires pp. 474-477

Sander J. Tans, Michel H. Devoret, Hongjie Dai, Andreas Thess, Richard E. Smalley, L. J. Geerligs and Cees Dekker

Control of spatial orientation and lifetime of scroll rings in excitable media pp. 477-480

Michael Vinson, Sergey Mironov, Scott Mulvey and Arkady Pertsov

Distribution and cycling of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in the ocean pp. 480-482

Stephen Opsahl and Ronald Benner

Effect of mechanical interactions on the scaling of fracture length and aperture pp. 482-484

C. E. Renshaw and J. C. Park

The evolution of apical dominance in maize pp. 485-488

John Doebley, Adrian Stec and Lauren Hubbard

A common precursor for primitive erythropoiesis and definitive haematopoiesis pp. 488-493

Marion Kennedy, Meri Firpo, Kyunghee Choi, Charles Wall, Scott Robertson, Neil Kabrun and Gordon Keller

More hippocampal neurons in adult mice living in an enriched environment pp. 493-495

Gerd Kempermann, H. Georg Kuhn and Fred H. Gage

Deactivation and reactivation of somatosensory cortex after dorsal spinal cord injury pp. 495-498

Neeraj Jain, Kenneth C. Catania and Jon H. Kaas

A potent and selective endogenous agonist for the µ-opiate receptor pp. 499-502

James E. Zadina, Laszlo Hackler, Lin-Jun Ge and Abba J. Kastin

Protease-activated receptor 3 is a second thrombin receptor in humans pp. 502-506

Hiroaki Ishihara, Andrew J. Connolly, Dewan Zeng, Mark L. Kahn, Yao Wu Zheng, Courtney Timmons, Tracy Tram and Shaun R. Coughlin

A second serine protease associated with mannan-binding lectin that activates complement pp. 506-510

Steffen Thiel, Thomas Vorup-Jensen, Cordula M. Stover, Wilhelm Schwaeble, Steen B. Laursen, Knud Poulsen, Anthony C. Willis, Paul Eggleton, Søren Hansen, Uffe Holmskov, Kenneth B. M. Reid and Jens C. Jensenius

Inhibition of natural killer cells by a cytomegalovirus MHC class I homologue in vivo pp. 510-514

H. E. Farrell, H. Vally, D. M. Lynch, P. Fleming, G. R. Shellam, A. A. Scalzo and N. J. Davis-Poynter

The class I MHC homologue of human cytomegalovirus inhibits attack by natural killer cells pp. 514-517

Hugh T. Reyburn, Ofer Mandelboim, Mar Valés-Gómez, Daniel M. Davis, Laszlo Pazmany and Jack L. Strominger

Viral FLICE-inhibitory proteins (FLIPs) prevent apoptosis induced by death receptors pp. 517-521

Margot Thome, Pascal Schneider, Kay Hofmann, Helmut Fickenscher, Edgar Meinl, Frank Neipel, Chantal Mattmann, Kim Burns, Jean-Luc Bodmer, Michael Schröter, Carsten Scaffidi, Peter H. Krammer, Marcus E. Peter and Jürg Tschopp

Erratum: Ras signalling linked to the cell-cycle machinery by the retinoblastoma protein pp. 521-521

Daniel S. Peeper, Todd M. Upton, Mohamed H. Ladha, Elizabeth Neuman, Juan Zalvide, René Bernards, James A. DeCaprio and Mark E. Ewen

1997, volume 386, articles 6623

US academy warns of disaster if required to open up panels pp. 309-309

Colin Macilwain

Ulster violence leads to university cuts pp. 310-310

Alison Abbott

Consensus grows on risk assessment pp. 310-310

Ayala Ochert

Multibeam survey sweeps galaxies pp. 311-311

Peter Pockley

'Less bureaucracy' pledge for Italian space agency pp. 311-311

Alison Abbott

Bottled radar pays tribute to Sagan pp. 312-312

Steve Nadis

NIH is likely to challenge genetic 'probe' patents pp. 312-312

Meredith Wadman

Law urged to check genetic discrimination pp. 312-312

Meredith Wadman

Tokamak closure leaves a hole at centre pp. 313-313

Colin Macilwain

UK parties differ on means, not ends pp. 314-315

David Dickson

Little change in the politics of science – but closer links with industry? pp. 315-315

David Dickson

Not the fault of Confucius pp. 318-318

Klim King, Young-Sun Lin and Hong N. Yeung

No lack of interest pp. 318-318

Etienne Davignon

Unclothed emperor pp. 318-318

Viktor Holoubek

Misplaced complacency about energy resources pp. 319-319

R. S. Scorer

Misplaced complacency about energy resources pp. 319-319

Douglas Axe

Habitable moons pp. 319-319

Oliver Morton

Malicious referees pp. 319-319

R. P. Clarke

Worldwide ageing programme needed pp. 320-320

Angelo Azzi

Data available pp. 320-320

Joseph J. Ferretti, David W. Dyer and Bruce A. Roe

Worthless ranking pp. 320-320

David Colquhoun

Marijuana as a medicine pp. 320-320

Sumner Burstein

Hantavirus in Argentina pp. 320-320

Carlos M. Barclay and Gabriela Rubinstein

Language that dare not speak its name pp. 321-322

Geoffrey K. Pullum

From Cinderella's dilemma to rock slides pp. 323-324

Jay Fineberg

Chick limbs, fly wings and homology at the fringe pp. 324-325

Stephen J. Gaunt

Blessed dams or damned dams? pp. 325-327

John D. Milliman

Leaning trees on sloping ground pp. 327-328

R. McNeill Alexander

Shaking in the USA pp. 328-328

John VanDecar

New break for archaeal enzyme pp. 329-331

James C. Wang

Hot winds stay in the plane pp. 331-331

Fred Hamann

The right size for a mammal pp. 332-333

Andy Purvis and Paul H. Harvey

Its all in the mind pp. 333-333

David Jones

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–97) Experimental physicist, co-discoverer of parity violation pp. 334-334

T. D. Lee

Rediscovery of the wild pig Sus bucculentus pp. 335-335

Colin P. Groves, George B. Schaller, George Amato and Khamkhoun Khounboline

Bacterial DNA causes septic shock pp. 336-337

Tim Sparwasser, Thomas Miethke, Grayson Lipford, Katrin Borschert, Hans Häcker, Klaus Heeg and Hermann Wagner

Modern human origins backdated pp. 337-338

Günter Bräuer, Yuji Yokoyama, Christophe Falguères and Emma Mbua

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase and LTP pp. 338-338

Rachel I. Wilson, Jevgenij Yanovsky, Axel Gödecke, David R. Stevens, Jürgen Schrader and Helmut L. Haas

Human destinies and ultimate causes pp. 339-340

Colin Renfrew

Hitch–hiker's guide to the Solar System pp. 340-341

Carl D. Murray

Custom-made beast of burden pp. 341-342

Marian Stamp Dawkins

A plague of weapons pp. 342-342

Alastair Hay

Die either on the gallows, or of the pox pp. 343-343

William Bynum

The hunting of the helix pp. 344-345

Walter Gratzer

The solution to pollution? pp. 345-345

John Houghton

A shrinking discipline pp. 346-346

John C. Marshall

Engineering just-so stories pp. 347-347

David Jones

Deadly mushrooms pp. 348-349

Hubert Curien

Gladiator for science pp. 349-350

Crispin Tickell

Roots theories and racist interpretations pp. 350-350

Leslie C. Alello

Nitride-based semiconductors for blue and green light-emitting devices pp. 351-359

F. A. Ponce and D. P. Bour

Radical fringe positions the apical ectodermal ridge at the dorsoventral boundary of the vertebrate limb pp. 360-366

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

Expression of Radical fringe in limb-bud ectoderm regulates apical ectodermal ridge formation pp. 366-373

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

Anomalously small magnetic field in the local interstellar cloud pp. 374-377

George Gloeckler, L. A. Fisk and Johannes Geiss

Storage of hydrogen in single-walled carbon nanotubes pp. 377-379

A. C. Dillon, K. M. Jones, T. A. Bekkedahl, C. H. Kiang, D. S. Bethune and M. J. Heben

Spontaneous stratification in granular mixtures pp. 379-382

Hernán A. Makse, Shlomo Havlin, Peter R. King and H. Eugene Stanley

Closure of the Central American Isthmus and its effect on deep-water formation in the North Atlantic pp. 382-385

Kevin W. Burton, Hong-Fei Ling and R. Keith O'Nions

Effect of Danube River dam on Black Sea biogeochemistry and ecosystem structure pp. 385-388

Christoph Humborg, Venugopalan Ittekkot, Adriana Cociasu and Bodo v. Bodungen

Evidence for a selectively favourable reduction in the mutation rate of the X chromosome pp. 388-392

Gilean T. McVean and Laurence D. Hurst

Modular decomposition in visuomotor learning pp. 392-395

Zoubin Ghahramani and Daniel M. Wolpert

Protective effect of encapsulated cells producing neurotrophic factor CNTF in a monkey model of Huntington's disease pp. 395-399

Dwaine F. Emerich, Shelley R. Winn, Philippe M. Hantraye, Marc Peschanski, Er-Yun Chen, Yaping Chu, Patricia McDermott, E. Edward Baetge and Jeffrey H. Kordower

The Pax4 gene is essential for differentiation of insulin-producing β cells in the mammalian pancreas pp. 399-402

Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, Kamal Chowdhury, Miguel Torres, Guillermo Oliver and Peter Gruss

Abnormal angiogenesis and responses to glucose and oxygen deprivation in mice lacking the protein ARNT pp. 403-407

Emin Maltepe, Jennifer V. Schmidt, David Baunoch, Christopher A. Bradfield and M. Celeste Simon

Sensitization of diabetic and obese mice to insulin by retinoid X receptor agonists pp. 407-410

Ranjan Mukherjee, Peter J. A. Davies, Diane L. Crombie, Eric D. Bischoff, Rosemary M. Cesario, Lily Jow, Lawrence G. Hamann, Marcus F. Boehm, Carl E. Mondon, Alex M. Nadzan, James R. Paterniti and Richard A. Heyman

Biologically erodable microspheres as potential oral drug delivery systems pp. 410-414

Edith Mathiowitz, Jules S. Jacob, Yong S. Jong, Gerardo P. Carino, Donald E. Chickering, Pravin Chaturvedi, Camilla A. Santos, Kavita Vijayaraghavan, Sean Montgomery, Michael Bassett and Craig Morrell

An atypical topoisomerase II from archaea with implications for meiotic recombination pp. 414-417

Agnès Bergerat, Bernard de Massy, Danielle Gadelle, Paul-Christophe Varoutas, Alain Nicolas and Patrick Forterre

Trans-activation of group II intron splicing by nuclear U5 snRNA pp. 417-420

Martin Hetzer, Gabriele Wurzer, Rudolf J. Schweyen and Manfred W. Mueller

1997, volume 386, articles 6622

Panel seeks 'fundamental' shift in handling of observation data pp. 203-203

Tony Reichhardt

Senate bill seeks controls on genetic data pp. 203-203

Meredith Wadman

US senators urge caution on cloning ban pp. 204-204

Meredith Wadman

EU research ministers lean on Brussels pp. 205-205

David Dickson and Alison Abbott

Political constraints restrict moves to conserve fish stocks pp. 205-205

Ehsan Masood

Harvard faces questions on missing data pp. 206-206

Rex Dalton

Reform follows discontent at Tata institute pp. 206-206

K. S. Jayaraman

Protests and promises grow in Russia as science spending falls pp. 207-207

Carl Levitin

Lab director exits bloody but unbowed pp. 207-208

Colin Macilwain

A window of opportunity is opened for Italian reforms pp. 208-208

Alison Abbott

Nuclear debate goes critical in Japan pp. 209-209

Robert Triendl

Smaller grants for more Canadians? pp. 212-212

Alexander A. Berezin and Richard Gordon

Brussels backs research pp. 212-212

Antonio Ruberti

The first elementary particle pp. 213-215

Steven Weinberg

Real engines of creation pp. 217-218

Steven M. Block

Breaking in computers pp. 219-220

Michael Marder

Cooperative bonding affords a holesome story pp. 220-221

Michael J. Zaworotko

Glutamate receptors put in their place pp. 221-223

Morgan Sheng

The cloning of GABAB receptors pp. 223-224

Norman G. Bowery and David A. Brown

Time to trap an ytterbium ion pp. 225-225

Pauline Rigby

An ice age in the tropics pp. 227-228

Alan J. Kaufman

Remodelling chromatin with RNA pp. 228-229

Huntington F. Willard and Helen K. Salz

New forms of phase segregation pp. 229-230

John B. Goodenough and J.-S. Zhou

Superficial relaxation pp. 230-230

David Jones

A hormonal mechanism for parental favouritism pp. 231-231

Hubert Schwabl, Douglas W. Mock and Jennifer A. Gieg

Self-recognition by proteoglycans pp. 231-232

Octavian Popescu and Gradimir N. Misevic

Typing prion isoforms pp. 232-233

P. Parchi, S. Capellari, S. G. Chen, R. B. Petersen, P. Gambetti, N. Kopp, P. Brown, T. Kitamoto, J. Tateishi, A. Giese and H. Kretzschmar

Typing prion isoforms pp. 233-234

John Collinge, Andrew F. Hill, Katie C. L. Sidle and James Ironside

Medaka fish for mutant screens pp. 234-234

Y. Ishikawa, Y. Hyodo-Taguchi and K. Tatsumi

Natural selection bias? pp. 234-234

Tom Tregenza and Nina Wedell

A night at the operon pp. 235-235

Sydney Brenner

A force in physical chemistry pp. 236-236

Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds

Plagues past and present pp. 236-237

Valerius Geist

Bodies in mind pp. 237-238

Margaret A. Boden

In deep water pp. 238-238

Tony Rice

Expression cloning of GABAB receptors uncovers similarity to metabotropic glutamate receptors pp. 239-246

Klemens Kaupmann, Katharina Huggel, Jakob Heid, Peter J. Flor, Serge Bischoff, Stuart J. Mickel, Gary McMaster, Christof Angst, Helmut Bittiger, Wolfgang Froestl and Bernhard Bettler

Structure of the adenylyl cyclase catalytic core pp. 247-253

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

Chaotic variations in the eccentricity of the planet orbiting 16 Cygni B pp. 254-256

Matthew Holman, Jihad Touma and Scott Tremaine

Evidence for magnetic polarons in the magnetoresistive perovskites pp. 256-259

J. M. De Teresa, M. R. Ibarra, P. A. Algarabel, C. Ritter, C. Marquina, J. Blasco, J. García, A. del Moral and Z. Arnold

Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric β-sheet tapes pp. 259-262

A. Aggeli, M. Bell, N. Boden, J. N. Keen, P. F. Knowles, T. C. B. McLeish, M. Pitkeathly and S. E. Radford

Low-latitude glaciation in the Palaeoproterozoic era pp. 262-266

D. A. Evans, N. J. Beukes and J. L. Kirschvink

Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate pp. 266-269

Suzan van der Lee and Guust Nolet

Hydrostatic locomotion in a limbless tetrapod pp. 269-272

James C. O'Reilly, Dale A. Ritter and David R. Carrier

Xist has properties of the X-chromosome inactivation centre pp. 272-275

Laura B. K. Herzing, Justyna T. Romer, Jacqueline M. Horn and Alan Ashworth

Long-range cis effects of ectopic X-inactivation centres on a mouse autosome pp. 275-279

Jeannie T. Lee and Rudolf Jaenisch

GRIP: a synaptic PDZ domain-containing protein that interacts with AMPA receptors pp. 279-284

Hualing Dong, Richard J. O'Brien, Eric T. Fung, Anthony A. Lanahan, Paul F. Worley and Richard L. Huganir

Homer: a protein that selectively binds metabotropic glutamate receptors pp. 284-288

P. R. Brakeman, A. A. Lanahan, Richard O'Brien, K. Roche, C. A. Barnes, R. L. Huganir and P. F. Worley

Activation of Statl by mutant fibroblast growth-factor receptor in thanatophoric dysplasia type II dwarfism pp. 288-292

Wu-Chou S. Su, Motoo Kitagawa, Ninrong Xue, Bing Xie, Silvio Garofalo, Jay Cho, Chuxia Deng, William A. Horton and Xin-Yuan Fu

A role for macrophage scavenger receptors in atherosclerosis and susceptibility to infection pp. 292-296

Hiroshi Suzuki, Yukiko Kurihara, Motohiro Takeya, Nobuo Kamada, Motoyukl Kataoka, Kouichi Jishage, Otoya Ueda, Hisashl Sakaguchi, Takayuki Higashi, Tsukasa Suzuki, Yoshiaki Takashima, Yoshiki Kawabe, Osamu Cynshi, Youichiro Wada, Makoto Honda, Hiroki Kurihara, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Takefumi Doi, Akiyo Matsumoto, Sadahiro Azuma, Tetsuo Noda, Yutaka Toyoda, Hiroshige Itakura, Yoshio Yazaki, Seikoh Horiuchi, Kiyoshi Takahashi, J. Kar Kruijt, Theo J. C. van Berkel, Urs P. Steinbrecher, Shun Ishibashi, Nobuyo Maeda, Siamon Gordon and Tatsuhiko Kodama

Activation of the transcription factor MEF2C by the MAP kinase p38 in inflammation pp. 296-299

J. Han, Y. Jiang, Z. Li, V. V. Kravchenko and R. J. Ulevitch

Direct observation of the rotation of F1-ATPase pp. 299-302

Hiroyuki Noji, Ryohei Yasuda, Masasuke Yoshida and Kazuhiko Kinosita

Erratum: Spatio–temporal frequency domains and their relation to cytochrome oxidase staining in cat visual cortex pp. 302-302

Doron Shoham, Mark Hübener, Silke Schulze, Amiram Grinvald and Tobias Bonhoeffer

Correction: Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle pp. 302-302

R. M. Anderson, C. A. Donnelly, N. M. Ferguson, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. J. Watt, H. J. Udy, S. MaWhinney, S. P. Dunstan, T. R. E. Southwood, J. W. Wilesmith, J. B. M. Ryan, L. J. Hoinville, J. E. Hillerton, A. R. Austin and G. A. H. Wells

1997, volume 386, articles 6621

Texan goes gunning for US role in LHC pp. 97-97

Colin Macilwain

Politicians accused of 'shooting from the hip' on human cloning pp. 97-98

Meredith Wadman

UK embryo research law 'may need changes' pp. 98-98

David Dickson

ESA pulls back from 'fair shares' funding pp. 99-99

Alison Abbott

Mars risks are low but not zero, says NRC pp. 99-99

Tony Reichhardt

Japan bids to widen brain research funds pp. 100-100

Richard Nathan

Task force will review US science policy pp. 100-100

Colin Macilwain

BSE surveillance and safety measures still found wanting pp. 101-101

Declan Butler

'Poor security' blamed for loss of Russian fossils pp. 101-101

Carl Levitin

Physicist takes top Korean science post pp. 102-102

David Swinbanks

California agency charged with delaying toxin reports pp. 102-102

Sally Lehrman

CERN raises funds for antimatter detector pp. 102-102

Alison Abbott

Economic impact of MIT spin-offs larger than Thailand's GDP pp. 103-103

Steve Nadis

US seeks greenhouse gas cuts from the Third World pp. 103-103

Ehsan Masood

Fisheries science: all at sea when it comes to politics? pp. 105-106

Ehsan Masood

Scientists set sail in search of influence pp. 106-106

Ehsan Masood

Canada's cod leaves science in hot water pp. 107-107

David Spurgeon

Researchers bring fishermen on board pp. 108-108

Steve Nadis

Aquaculture: a solution, or source of new problems? pp. 109-109

Ehsan Masood

Fishing by numbers reveals its limits pp. 110-110

Ehsan Masood

Plant modification needs more discussion pp. 111-111

John R. Porter

Plutonium disposal pp. 111-111

Maurizio Martellini

Japanese grant system needs more resources pp. 112-112

Fumimaro Takaku

Alphabets and citations pp. 112-113

Jan Alexander and Julian Andrews

No knife needed pp. 113-113

L. D. Hyslop

Public support for medical research pp. 114-114

Mary Woolley

Passing the buck pp. 114-114

Ambuj Sagar and Paul de Sa

Novel paper titles pp. 114-114

Jeremy Sanders

The earliest Americans pp. 114-114

Frederick Hadleigh West

Woodstock of physics revisited pp. 115-118

Paul M. Grant

Clone mammals... clone man? pp. 119-119

Axel Kahn

True vision of a quantum state pp. 121-122

Matthias Freyberger and Wolfgang P. Schleich

Look but don't touch, or vice versa pp. 122-123

Michael Shadlen

Fractal resistance in a transistor pp. 123-125

Mark Fromhold

100 years ago pp. 126-126

Arthur Keith

Proviruses pose potential problems pp. 126-127

Jonathan P. Stoye

The negative side of crystal growth pp. 127-129

Paul Calvert and Stephen Mann

Lipids beyond the bilayer pp. 129-130

Ben de Kruijff

Think the good thought! pp. 130-130

David Jones

The use and abuse of climate models pp. 131-133

Kevin E. Trenberth

Electroluminescence in polymer films pp. 135-135

David G. Lidzey, Donal D. C. Bradley, Santos F. Alvarado and Paul F. Seidler

Adaptation of colour vision to sunlight pp. 135-136

G. Jordan and J. D. Mollon

Assembly of Borromean rings from DNA pp. 137-138

Chengde Mao, Weiqiong Sun and Nadrian C. Seeman

Is scrapie solely a genetic disease? pp. 137-137

N. Hunter, D. Cairns, J. D. Foster, G. Smith, W. Goldmann and K. Donnelly

The war against cancer pp. 139-140

John Cairns

The comet cometh pp. 140-141

Alan Fitzsimmons

Ribozymes to the fore pp. 141-142

Bob Symons

Through a glass, historically pp. 141-141

G.l'E. Turner

Photonic crystals: putting a new twist on light pp. 143-149

J. D. Joannopoulos, Pierre R. Villeneuve and Shanhui Fan

Measurement of the Wigner function of an ensemble of helium atoms pp. 150-153

Ch. Kurtsiefer, T. Pfau and J. Mlynek

Origin of asteroid rotation rates in catastrophic impacts pp. 154-156

Stanley G. Love and Thomas J. Ahrens

Colossal magnetoresistance in Cr-based chalcogenide spinels pp. 156-159

A. P. Ramirez, R. J. Cava and J. Krajewski

Clocking transient chemical changes by ultrafast electron diffraction pp. 159-162

J. Charles Williamson, Jianming Cao, Hyotcherl Ihee, Hans Frey and Ahmed H. Zewail

Three-dimensional self-assembly of millimetre-scale components pp. 162-164

Andreas Terfort, Ned Bowden and George M. Whitesides

Spurious trends in satellite MSU temperatures from merging different satellite records pp. 164-167

James W. Hurrell and Kevin E. Trenberth

Coding of intention in the posterior parietal cortex pp. 167-170

L. H. Snyder, A. P. Batista and R. A. Andersen

Self-centring activity of cytoplasm pp. 170-173

Vladimir I. Rodionov and Gary G. Borisy

A proton-gated cation channel involved in acid-sensing pp. 173-177

Rainer Waldmann, Guy Champigny, Frédéric Bassilana, Catherine Heurteaux and Michel Lazdunski

Ras signalling linked to the cell-cycle machinery by the retinoblastoma protein pp. 177-181

Daniel S. Peeper, Todd M. Upton, Mohamed H. Ladha, Elizabeth Neuman, Juan Zalvide, René Bernards, James A. DeCaprio and Mark E. Ewen

A family of proteins that inhibit signalling through tyrosine kinase receptors pp. 181-186

Alexei Kharitonenkov, Zhengjun Chen, Irmi Sures, Hongyang Wang, James Schilling and Axel Ullrich

Phosphorylation of RNA-binding protein controls cell cycle switch from mitotic to meiotic in fission yeast pp. 187-190

Yoshinori Watanabe, Satoko Shinozaki-Yabana, Yuji Chikashige, Yasushi Hiraoka and Masayuki Yamamoto

Crystal structure of the type-I interleukin-1 receptor complexed with interleukin-1β pp. 190-194

Guy P. A. Vigers, Lana J. Anderson, Patricia Caffes and Barbara J. Brandhuber

A new cytokine-receptor binding mode revealed by the crystal structure of the IL-1 receptor with an antagonist pp. 194-200

Herman Schreuder, Chantal Tardif, Susanne Trump-Kallmeyer, Adolfo Soffientini, Edoardo Sarubbi, Ann Akeson, Terry Bowlin, Stephen Yanofsky and Ronald W. Barrett

Erratum: Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells pp. 200-200

I. Wilmut, A. E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A. J. Kind and K. H. S. Campbell

1997, volume 386, articles 6620

Tritium leak at US reactor sparks crisis for neutron source users pp. 3-3

Colin Macilwain

British universities face up to their day of reckoning pp. 4-4

David Dickson

Heat rises over Brussels FP5 proposals pp. 5-5

Alison Abbott

Lack of focus 'holds back European research' pp. 5-5

Alun Anderson

AIDS drug row embroils health minister pp. 6-6

Michael Cherry

Data network threatens patient privacy pp. 6-6

Declan Butler

NASA head predicts space station delay pp. 7-7

Tony Reichhardt

US scientists rally around call for seven per cent pp. 7-7

Colin Macilwain

India proposes first increase for six years pp. 7-7

K. S. Jayaraman

Calls for cloning ban sell science short pp. 8-9

Declan Butler and Meredith Wadman

Putting the lid on Pandora's box of genetics pp. 9-9

Declan Butler and Meredith Wadman

Flawed reasoning about oil and gas pp. 12-12

Maurice B. Dusseault

Roslin unfunded pp. 12-12

Grahame Bulfield

Footloose managers run away from research pp. 13-13

Robert L. Fleischer

One for the fairies? pp. 13-13

Ralph Estling

No Greenpeace 'hijack' pp. 13-13

Chris Rose

Humour should be taken seriously pp. 14-14

Audrey Wells

The's' in Unesco pp. 14-14

Michel Batisse

Science and emotion pp. 14-14

Mark A. Gillman

Contending for the dead pp. 15-16

D. Gareth Jones and Robyn J. Harris

Memorizing the floral ABC pp. 17-17

Gerd Jürgens

Growing up in a two-parent family? pp. 18-19

Jack J. Lissauer

Predicting the present pp. 19-21

Patrick Cavanagh

Very small arrays pp. 21-22

Devens Gust

The how and why of thermal contraction pp. 22-23

Robert W. Cahn

Mice perform a human repertoire pp. 25-26

Michael Neuberger and Marianne Brüggemann

Who needs crystals anyway? pp. 26-27

David J. De Rosier

The uses of strong and weak lenses pp. 27-28

Joachim Wambsganss

Thinking makes it so! pp. 28-28

David Jones

Human haemoglobin from transgenic tobacco pp. 29-30

Wilfrid Dieryck, Josée Pagnier, Claude Poyart, Michael C. Marden, Véronique Gruber, Philippe Bournat, Sylvie Baudino and Bertrand Mérot

Natural and artificial 'singing' sands pp. 29-29

Douglas E. Goldsack, Marcel F. Leach and Cindi Kilkenny

Laser measurements of coral growth pp. 30-31

R. Vago, E. Gill and J. C. Collingwood

DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts pp. 31-32

Vit Lauermann

DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts pp. 32-32

James E. Haber and J. Kent Moore

DNA repair by recycling reverse transcripts pp. 32-32

Shu-Chun Teng and Abram Gabriel

Cinemagmatic mayhem pp. 33-33

Jonathan Fink

The golden age of chemistry pp. 34-34

David Knight

Elementary cycling pp. 35-36

Mike Whitfield

In retrospect chosen by Keith Stewart Thomson pp. 35-35

Keith Stewart Thomson

Microbes writ large pp. 36-36

Roger Whittenbury

The physics of microwave background anisotropies pp. 37-43

Wayne Hu, Naoshi Sugiyama and Joseph Silk

A Polycomb-group gene regulates homeotic gene expression in Arabidopsis pp. 44-51

Justin Goodrich, Preeya Puangsomlee, Marta Martin, Deborah Long, Elliot M. Meyerowitz and George Coupland

A candidate dust disk surrounding the binary stellar system BD+31°643 pp. 52-54

Paul Kalas and David Jewitt

High-energy ions produced in explosions of superheated atomic clusters pp. 54-56

T. Ditmire, J. W. G. Tisch, E. Springate, M. B. Mason, N. Hay, R. A. Smith, J. Marangos and M. H. R. Hutchinson

Assembly of ordered colloidal aggregrates by electric-field-induced fluid flow pp. 57-59

Syun-Ru Yeh, Michael Seul and Boris I. Shraiman

Predominance of vertical loss of carbon from surface waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean pp. 59-61

Dennis A. Hansell, Nicholas R. Bates and Craig A. Carlson

GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya pp. 61-64

Roger Bilham, Kristine Larson and Jeffrey Freymueller

Confined subsurface microbial communities in Cretaceous rock pp. 64-66

Lee R. Krumholz, James P. McKinley, Glenn A. Ulrich and Joseph M. Suflita

Visual decomposition of colour through motion extrapolation pp. 66-69

Romi Nijhawan

Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale pp. 69-73

Stelios M. Smirnakis, Michael J. Berry, David K. Warland, William Bialek and Markus Meister

An endothelial receptor for oxidized low-density lipoprotein pp. 73-77

Tatsuya Sawamura, Noriaki Kume, Takuma Aoyama, Hideaki Moriwaki, Hajime Hoshikawa, Yuichi Aiba, Takeshi Tanaka, Soichi Miwa, Yoshimoto Katsura, Toru Kita and Tomoh Masaki

Spontaneous calcification of arteries and cartilage in mice lacking matrix GLA protein pp. 78-81

Guangbin Luo, Patricia Ducy, Marc D. McKee, Gerald J. Pinero, Evelyne Loyer, Richard R. Behringer and Gérard Karsenty

Osteopetrosis in mice lacking haematopoietic transcription factor PU.1 pp. 81-84

M. M. Tondravi, S. R. McKercher, K. Anderson, J. M. Erdmann, M. Quiroz, R. Maki and S. L. Teitelbaum

Homeosis and intestinal tumours in Cdx2 mutant mice pp. 84-87

K. Chawengsaksophak, R. James, V. E. Hammond, F. Köntgen and F. Beck

Determination of the fold of the core protein of hepatitis B virus by electron cryomicroscopy pp. 88-91

B. Böttcher, S. A. Wynne and R. A. Crowther

Visualization of a 4-helix bundle in the hepatitis B virus capsid by cryo-electron microscopy pp. 91-94

J. F. Conway, N. Cheng, A. Zlotnick, P. T. Wingfield, S. J. Stahl and A. C. Steven