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1997, volume 385, articles 6619

Confidentiality of academy panel challenged by environmentalists pp. 755-755

David Kramer

US decision 'will not limit gene patents' pp. 755-755

Claire O'Brien

Marijuana research gets backing at NIH pp. 756-756

Meredith Wadman

High-level ethics committee 'needed to guide genetics policy' pp. 756-756

Meredith Wadman

Cloning technique 'reveals legal loophole' pp. 757-757

Ehsan Masood

Japan decides to burn plutonium stocks pp. 757-757

David Swinbanks

Abortion foe blamed for research head upset in Australia pp. 758-758

Peter Pockley

Holland picks 'superleague' plan, despite criticisms pp. 758-758

Declan Butler

Basic research gets bipartisan treatment pp. 759-759

Colin Macilwain

Budget 'windfall' may tempt Canadian researchers back home pp. 759-759

David Spurgeon

Russian rocket offer holds key to Cluster relaunch pp. 760-760

Alison Abbott

Germany may relax animal experiment rules pp. 760-760

Alun Anderson

Abbott sues Chiron over 'secrets' in heads of recruits pp. 760-760

Sally Lehrman

Culture clash tarnishes the image of star laboratory pp. 761-761

Quirin Schiermeier

Beyond the language barrier pp. 764-764

G. Fewer

Beyond the language barrier pp. 764-764

Sachi Sri Kantha

Beyond the language barrier pp. 764-764

N. Umakantha

Beyond the language barrier pp. 764-764

Janet Carter-Sigglow

A call to action from the lab bench pp. 765-765

Michelle Peckham

The world's oldest spears pp. 767-768

Robin Dennell

New physics at last? pp. 768-769

David Miller

An udder way of making lambs pp. 769-771

Colin Stewart

Why lizards can't turn a blind eye pp. 771-771

Alison Mitchell

Many fingers make light work pp. 772-772

Jonathon Mamin

Mutations make enzyme polymerize pp. 773-775

M. F. Perutz

One of our planets is missing pp. 775-776

Gordon Walker

Heard the one about the guinea pig? pp. 776-776

Alison Mitchell

Case studies of extinction pp. 776-777

Paul H. Harvey and Robert M. May

The sap also bubbles pp. 777-777

David Jones

Clyde Tombaugh (1906-97) Astronomer who discovered the Solar System's ninth planet pp. 778-778

S. Alan Stern

A new look at old sharks pp. 779-780

John G. Maisey and Marcelo R. de Carvalho

Fullerene 'crop circles' pp. 780-781

Jie Liu, Hongjie Dai, Jason H. Hafner, Daniel T. Colbert, Richard E. Smalley, Sander J. Tans and Cees Dekker

A pivotal Archaea group pp. 780-780

S. Burggraf, P. Heyder and N. Eis

Plants combat infection by gene silencing pp. 781-782

Simon N. Covey, Nadia S. Al-Kaff, Amagoia Lángara and David S. Turner

Evening carbon atom oddities pp. 782-782

Matthew Kaser

Evening carbon atom oddities pp. 782-782

Peter G. Stanley

Struggles to beat the system pp. 783-784

David Joravsky

All done by mirrors pp. 785-785

Simon Altmann

Crunchy brains pp. 785-786

Stephen J. Simpson

Infinite possibilities pp. 786-786

Joseph Silk

Instability, unfolding and aggregation of human lysozyme variants underlying amyloid fibrillogenesis pp. 787-793

David R. Booth, Margaret Sunde, Vittorio Bellotti, Carol V. Robinson, Winston L. Hutchinson, Paul E. Fraser, Philip N. Hawkins, Christopher M. Dobson, Sheena E. Radford, Colin C. F. Blake and Mark B. Pepys

Absence of a planetary signature in the spectra of the star 51 Pegasi pp. 795-796

David F. Gray

Uniform elemental analysis of materials by sputtering and photoionization mass spectrometry pp. 797-799

Chun He, Julian N. Basler and Christopher H. Becker

Induction of molecular asymmetry by a remote chiral group pp. 799-801

Patrick Linnane, Nicholas Magnus and Philip Magnus

Eccentricity forcing of Pliocene–Early Pleistocene climate revealed in a marine oxygen-isotope record pp. 801-804

Steven C. Clemens and Ralf Tiedemann

Vegetation-induced warming of high-latitude regions during the Late Cretaceous period pp. 804-807

Bette L. Otto-Bliesner and Garland R. Upchurch

Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany pp. 807-810

Hartmut Thieme

Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells pp. 810-813

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

Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children pp. 813-815

Lori Markson and Paul Bloom

A cGMP-gated cation channel in depolarizing photoreceptors of the lizard parietal eye pp. 815-819

J. T. Finn, E. C. Solessio and K.-W. Yau

Insensitivity to anaesthetic agents conferred by a class of GABAA receptor subunit pp. 820-823

Paul A. Davies, Mike C. Hanna, Tim G. Hales and Ewen F. Kirkness

Mechanism of resistance of African trypanosomes to cytotoxic human HDL pp. 823-826

Kristin M. Hager and Stephen L. Hajduk

Hrs-2 is an ATPase implicated in calcium-regulated secretion pp. 826-829

Andrew J. Bean, Roland Seifert, Yu A. Chen, Rachel Sacks and Richard H. Scheller

pangolinencodes a Lef-1 homologue that acts downstream of Armadillo to transduce the Wingless signal in Drosophila pp. 829-833

Erich Brunner, Oliver Peter, Liang Schweizer and Konrad Basler

Crystal structure of the anthrax toxin protective antigen pp. 833-838

Carlo Petosa, R. John Collier, Kurt R. Klimpel, Stephen H. Leppla and Robert C. Liddington

1997, volume 385, articles 6618

Japan's successful launch paves way for interplanetary missions pp. 663-663

David Swinbanks

Europe reshuffles its scientific committees following BSE crisis pp. 664-664

Declan Butler

Chemists urge US to ratify weapons pact pp. 664-664

Tony Reichhardt

EU research plan fails to charm critics pp. 665-665

Alison Abbott

EMBO panel gives biology in Finland a pat on the back pp. 666-666

Alison Abbott

... as privatization windfall fills research coffers pp. 666-666

Alun Anderson

Chair of GMO panel resigns over maize pp. 667-667

Declan Butler

Sceptics and salmon challenge scientists pp. 668-668

Colin Macilwain

Whistleblowers face blast of hostility pp. 669-669

Colin Macilwain

Marconi's daughter sends out distress call about collection pp. 669-669

Claire O'Brien

Patent threat to research pp. 672-672

Howard Dalton, Brian Goodwin, Mae-Wan Ho, Jacqueline McGlade, Ghillean Prance, Peter Saunders, David Sherratt, John Maynard Smith and Roger Whittenbury

Not such a bad book pp. 672-672

David M.J. Lilley

Improvement welcome pp. 672-672

Peter Morley

Improvement welcome pp. 672-672

Philip W. Anderson

A crisis in scientific morale pp. 673-674

Robert Pollack

A new age for type-II superconductors? pp. 675-676

David R. Nelson

Different means to common ends pp. 676-677

David Shore

The nose leads the eye pp. 677-679

Geoffrey H. Gold and Edward N. Pugh

Plus c'est le même chews pp. 679-679

Stephen Battersby

Memory floxed pp. 680-681

Richard G. M. Morris and Roger J. Morris

Restricting gene inactivation to a subset of neurons pp. 680-680

Richard G. M. Morris and Roger J. Morris

Cool tropical punch of the ice ages pp. 681-683

Christopher Charles

Blocking adenoslne with antisense pp. 684-685

Peter J. Richardson

The amazing atom laser* pp. 685-686

Keith Burnett

Sheets of light pp. 686-686

David Jones

Giant female or dwarf male spiders? pp. 687-688

Jonathan A. Coddington, Gustavo Hormiga and Nikolaj Scharff

A gene family of silicon transporters pp. 688-689

Mark Hildebrand, Benjamin E. Volcani, Walter Gassmann and Julian I. Schroeder

Giant female or dwarf male spiders? pp. 688-688

Fritz Vollrath and Geoff A. Parker

Hydration in electrical double layers pp. 689-690

S. Marc̆elja

Hydration in electrical double layers pp. 690-690

J. N. Israelachvili and H. Wennerström

Genius triumphs over jealousy pp. 691-692

Joseph Silk

Flying yellow kangaroos pp. 692-692

Jared M. Diamond

Out of the shadow of the guillotine pp. 693-694

David Cahan

The framework of feelings pp. 694-694

Raymond J. Dolan

Influence of ocean heat transport on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum pp. 695-699

Robert S. Webb, David H. Rind, Scott J. Lehman, Richard J. Healy and Daniel Sigman

Visibility of scattered broad-line emission in Seyfert 2 galaxies pp. 700-702

Charlene A. Heisler, Stuart L. Lumsden and Jeremy A. Bailey

Magneto-optical observation of twisted vortices in type-II superconductors pp. 702-705

M. V. Indenbom, C. J. van der Beek, V. Berseth, W. Benoit, G. D'Anna, A. Erb, E. Walker and R. Flükiger

Abrupt changes in early Holocene tropical sea surface temperature derived from coral records pp. 705-707

J. Warren Beck, Jacques Récy, Fred Taylor, R. Lawrence Edwards and Guy Cabioch

Interhemispheric synchrony of the last deglaciation inferred from alkenone palaeothermometry pp. 707-710

Edouard Bard, Frauke Rostek and Corinne Sonzogni

Direct observation of complete miscibility in the albite–H2O system pp. 710-712

Andy H. Shen and Hans Keppler

Multituberculate and other mammal hair recovered from Palaeogene excreta pp. 712-714

Jin Meng and André R. Wyss

Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution pp. 715-718

Farish A. Jenkins, Stephen M. Gatesy, Neil H. Shubin and William W. Amaral

Airborne signalling by methyl salicylate in plant pathogen resistance pp. 718-721

Vladimir Shulaev, Paul Silverman and Ilya Raskin

DNA antisense therapy for asthma in an animal model pp. 721-725

Jonathan W. Nyce and W. James Metzger

Mechanism of odorant adaptation in the olfactory receptor cell pp. 725-729

Takashi Kurahashi and Anna Menini

A metalloproteinase disintegrin that releases tumour-necrosis factor-α from cells pp. 729-733

Roy A. Black, Charles T. Rauch, Carl J. Kozlosky, Jacques J. Peschon, Jennifer L. Slack, Martin F. Wolfson, Beverly J. Castner, Kim L. Stocking, Pranitha Reddy, Subhashini Srinivasan, Nicole Nelson, Norman Boiani, Kenneth A. Schooley, Mary Gerhart, Raymond Davis, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Richard S. Johnson, Raymond J. Paxton, Carl J. March and Douglas Pat Cerretti

Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor-α pp. 733-736

Marcia L. Moss, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marcos E. Milla, William Burkhart, H. Luke Carter, Wen-Ji Chen, William C. Clay, 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

Editing of ubiquitin conjugates by an isopeptidase in the 26S proteasome pp. 737-740

Y. Amy Lam, Wei Xu, George N. DeMartino and Robert E. Cohen

Control of telomere length by the human telomeric protein TRF1 pp. 740-743

Bas van Steensel and Titia de Lange

Regulation of telomere length and function by a Myb-domain protein in fission yeast pp. 744-747

Julia Promisel Cooper, Elaine R. Nimmo, Robin C. Allshire and Thomas R. Cech

According to the code pp. 749-752

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 385, articles 6617

Outlook brightens for science in US budget proposals for 1998 pp. 565-565

Colin Macilwain

Japanese increases include support for CERN's Large Hadron Collider pp. 565-565

Richard Nathan and David Swinbanks

Heat rises over UCSD 'misconduct' charge pp. 566-566

Rex Dalton

UK universities urged to join forces to boost research pp. 567-567

David Dickson

Congress turns the microscope on science spending pp. 567-567

Tony Reichhardt

Congress vows to contest 'unacceptable' NIH plans pp. 568-568

Meredith Wadman

Despite cutbacks, NASA pulls out of a threatened long-term nosedive pp. 568-568

Tony Reichhardt

NSF greets 'a good budget' pp. 569-569

Colin Macilwain

Green light sought for laser fusion and LHC pp. 569-569

Colin Macilwain

Medicinal plants threatened by over-use pp. 570-570

Ehsan Masood

Breach of embryo ban leads to resignation pp. 570-570

Meredith Wadman

France takes gentler approach to reforms pp. 571-571

Declan Butler

Canadian Red Cross seeks to reform itself pp. 574-574

Antonio Giulivi

Freedom of choice pp. 574-574

Colin Berry

Patronomy and conservation pp. 574-574

Thomas Brooks

Parity and chivalry in nuclear physics pp. 575-575

Nicholas Kurti and Christine Sutton

An oblique slant on deep-sea biodiversity pp. 577-578

Michael A. Rex

An emerging pathophysiology pp. 578-579

Eric J. Nestler

How far can sequences diverge? pp. 579-581

Cyrus Chothia and Mark Gerstein

A safer hiding hole pp. 583-583

Stephen Battersby

New impressions of Src and Hck pp. 583-585

Tony Pawson

A problem dissolved pp. 585-585

David Jones

Melvin Calvin (1911–97) Chemist who elucidated the biochemical basis of photosynthesis pp. 586-586

Vivian Moses

Volcanic iron, CO2, ocean productivity and climate pp. 587-588

Andrew J. Watson

Common mechanism of infection by lentiviruses pp. 587-587

Brian J. Willett, Margaret J. Hosie, James C. Neil, Julie D. Turner and James A. Hoxie

Hox genes misled by local environments pp. 588-589

Ralf Schnabel and Heinke Schnabel

The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod pp. 589-590

Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram and David M. Martill

D2 dopamine receptors and personality traits pp. 590-590

Lars Farde, J. Petter Gustavsson and Erik Jönsson

The campaign for biodiversity pp. 591-592

Paul Colinvaux

Complex physics pp. 592-592

Chris Philippidis

Seeing is believing pp. 593-594

Stephen G. Brush

The health of nations pp. 594-594

John Galloway

Three-dimensional structure of the tyrosine kinase c-Src pp. 595-602

Wenqing Xu, Stephen C. Harrison and Michael J. Eck

Crystal structure of the Src family tyrosine kinase Hck pp. 602-609

Frank Sicheri, Ismail Moarefi and John Kuriyan

A massive black hole at the centre of the quiescent galaxy M32 pp. 610-612

Roeland P. van der Marel, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Hans-Walter Rix and Gerald D. Quinlan

Asymmetric synthesis by enantiomer-selective activation of racemic catalysts pp. 613-615

Koichi Mikami and Satoru Matsukawa

Acoustic observations of heat content across the Mediterranean Sea pp. 615-617

U. Send, G. Krahmann, D. Mauuary, Y. Desaubies, F. Gaillard, T. Terre, J. Papadakis, M. Taroudakis, E. Skarsoulis and C. Millot

Basin-scale ocean circulation from combined altimetric, tomographic and model data pp. 618-621

Dimitris Menemenlis, Tony Webb, Carl Wunsch, Uwe Send and Chris Hill

Rheology of the continental lithosphere inferred from sedimentary basins pp. 621-624

Robert Newman and Nicky White

Orbital forcing of deep-sea benthic species diversity pp. 624-627

T. M. Cronin and M. E. Raymo

Evolutionary origin of insect wings from ancestral gills pp. 627-630

Michalis Averof and Stephen M. Cohen

Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors pp. 630-634

Massimo Scanziani, Paul A. Salin, Kaspar E. Vogt, Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll

Decreased prefrontal dopamine D1 receptors in schizophrenia revealed by PET pp. 634-636

Yoshiro Okubo, Tetsuya Suhara, Kazutoshi Suzuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Osamu Inoue, Omi Terasaki, Yasuhiro Someya, Takeshi Sassa, Yasuhiko Sudo, Eisuke Matsushima, Masaomi Iyo, Yukio Tateno and Michio Toru

Bax suppresses tumorigenesis and stimulates apoptosis in vivo pp. 637-640

Chaoying Yin, C. Michael Knudson, Stanley J. Korsmeyer and Terry Van Dyke

A new class of membrane-bound chemokine with a CX3C motif pp. 640-644

J. Fernando Bazan, Kevin B. Bacon, Gary Hardiman, Wei Wang, Ken Soo, Devora Rossi, David R. Greaves, Albert Zlotnik and Thomas J. Schall

CCR3 and CCR5 are co-receptors for HIV-1 infection of microglia pp. 645-649

Jianglin He, Youzhi Chen, Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe, Asa Ohagen, Suzanne Gartner, Jorge Busciglio, Xiaoyu Yang, Wolfgang Hofmann, Walter Newman, Charles R. Mackay, Joseph Sodroski and Dana Gabuzda

Activation of the Sire-family tyrosine kinase Hck by SH3 domain displacement pp. 650-653

Ismail Moarefi, Michelle LaFevre-Bernt, Frank Sicheri, Morgan Huse, Chi-Hon Lee, John Kuriyan and W. Todd Miller

Interaction between the C. elegans cell-death regulators CED-9 and CED-4 pp. 653-656

Mona S. Spector, Serge Desnoyers, Daniel J. Hoeppner and Michael O. Hengartner

Diverse opportunities for immunologists pp. 657-658

Brendan Horton and Orla Smith

Watch the Internet for careers update pp. 657-657

Brendan Holton

The dos and don'ts of grant writing pp. 658-659

Diane Gershon

Molecular biology skills in demand in Europe pp. 659-660

Claire O'Brien

Bright prospects for British biotech pp. 660-660

Gabor Steigler

1997, volume 385, articles 6616

Tunnelling techniques hold key to prospects for giant accelerator pp. 471-471

Colin Macilwain

Prime minister heads Indian science panel pp. 471-471

K. S. Jayaraman

Entire E. coli genome sequenced–at last pp. 472-472

Claire O'Brien

Peña plays it straight to keep on course for US energy secretary pp. 472-472

David Kramer

UK calls a halt to moves to privatize laboratories pp. 473-473

David Dickson

First national review in Australia looks at 'gaps and overlaps' pp. 473-473

Peter Pockley

UK seeks to appease food safety critics pp. 474-474

Declan Butter

AIDS 'cure' scientists go to top for funds pp. 474-474

Michael Cherry

University teaching hospitals battle for scarce funds in Berlin pp. 475-475

Quirin Schiermeier

Mellow mood fosters marijuana research pp. 475-475

Sally Lehrman

Medical network pioneers live 3-D surgical images pp. 476-476

David Swinbanks

Top FDA official named as 'de facto' chief pp. 476-476

Meredith Wadman

In-flight service will let Hubble see red pp. 476-476

Tony Reichhardt

US urged to monitor some genetic tests pp. 477-477

Meredith Wadman

Russian budget falls short of 'legal level' pp. 477-477

Carl Levitin

Darwin a better name than Wallace? pp. 480-480

Tom Tregenza

A novel paradigm pp. 480-480

Simon H. Friedman and Jens O. M. Karlsson

Alternative therapy bias pp. 480-480

E. Ernst and M.H. Pittler

How do memories leave their mark? pp. 481-482

Mark F. Bear

The amazing atom laser pp. 482-483

Keith Burnett

100 years ago pp. 483-483

G.P.S. Occhlallni and C.F. Powell

Diamonds from warm water pp. 485-485

R.C. DeVries

Birds face sexual discrimination pp. 486-487

Patricia Adair Gowaty

Bubbling over pp. 486-486

Karl Ziemelis

See-saw sea pp. 487-489

James A. Carton

How to keep a head in order pp. 489-490

Per Erik Ahlberg

The Earth's mantle remodelled pp. 490-491

Ross Angel

Visionary spectacles pp. 491-491

David Jones

AlexTodd (1907–97) Organic chemist, and mover-and-shaker in British science policy pp. 492-492

John Maddox

Politicians' uniquely simple personalities pp. 493-493

Gian Vittorio Caprara, Claudio Barbaranelli and Philip G. Zimbardo

Ant soldiers are not modified queens pp. 494-495

Philip S. Ward

Synergy between synthetic oestrogens? pp. 494-494

J. Ashby, P. A. Lefevre, J. Odum, C. A. Harris, E. J. Routledge and J. P. Sumpter

HIV-1 tropism and co-receptor use pp. 495-496

Matthias T. Dittmar, Áine McKnight, Graham Simmons, Paul R. Clapham, Robin A. Weiss and Peter Simmonds

The ascent of ideas in evolution pp. 497-498

David L. Hull

Selling science pp. 498-499

John Ziman

Play-safe politics pp. 499-500

Timothy O'Riordan

Nature versus nurture at 60 MHz pp. 499-499

Ayala Ochert

Measurement of tectonic surface uplift rate in a young collisional mountain belt pp. 501-507

Lon D. Abbott, Eli A. Silver, Robert S. Anderson, Randall Smith, James C. Ingle, Stanley A. Kling, David Haig, Eric Small, Joseph Galewsky and William S. Sliter

Duration of the superwind phase of asymptotic giant branch stars pp. 509-510

T. Tanabé, S. Nishida, S. Matsumoto, T. Onaka, Y. Nakada, T. Soyano, T. Ono, K. Sekiguchi and I. S. Glass

Dendritic growth of electro-hydrodynamic convection in a nematic liquid crystal pp. 511-513

J. T. Gleeson

Hydrothermal growth of diamond in metal–C–H2O systems pp. 513-515

Xing-Zhong Zhao, Rustum Roy, Kuruvilla A. Cherian and Andrzej Badzian

A decadal climate variation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from thermodynamic air-sea interactions pp. 516-518

Ping Chang, Link Ji and Hong Li

Triggering basaltic volcanic eruptions by bubble-melt separation pp. 518-520

Andrew W. Woods and Silvana S. S. Cardoso

Potential collapse of North Sea cod stocks pp. 521-522

R. M. Cook, A. Sinclair and G. Stefánsson

Extreme adaptive modification in sex ratio of the Seychelles warbler's eggs pp. 522-525

Jan Komdeur, Serge Daan, Joost Tinbergen and Christa Mateman

Female infertility in mice lacking connexin 37 pp. 525-529

Alexander M. Simon, Daniel A. Goodenough, En Li and David L. Paul

Spatio–temporal frequency domains and their relation to cytochrome oxidase staining in cat visual cortex pp. 529-533

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

Synaptic tagging and long-term potentiation pp. 533-536

Uwe Frey and Richard G. M. Morris

Integrin-ligand binding properties govern cell migration speed through cell-substratum adhesiveness pp. 537-540

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

MAP3K-related kinase involved in NF-KB induction by TNF, CD95 and IL-1 pp. 540-544

Nikolai L. Malinin, Mark P. Boldin, Andrei V. Kovalenko and David Wallach

Suppression of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by Ras signalling through PI(3)K and PKB pp. 544-548

Andrea Kauffmann-Zeh, Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana, Eugen Ulrich, Christopher Gilbert, Paul Coffer, Julian Downward and Gerard Evan

The nuclear receptor homologue Ftz-F1 and the homeodomain protein Ftz are mutually dependent cofactors pp. 548-552

Antoine Guichet, John W. R. Copeland, Miklós Erdélyi, Daniela Hlousek, Péter Závorszky, Jacqueline Ho, Susan Brown, Anthony Percival-Smith, Henry M. Krause and Anne Ephrussi

The nuclear hormone receptor Ftz-F1 is a cofactor for the Drosophila homeodomain protein Ftz pp. 552-555

Yan Yu, Willis Li, Kai Su, Miyuki Yussa, Wei Han, Norbert Perrimon and Leslie Pick

Correction: Structural basis for the binding of a globular antifreeze protein on ice pp. 555-555

Zongchao Jia, Carl I. DeLuca, Heman Chao and Peter L. Davies

Correction: Structural basis for selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 by anti-inflammatory agents pp. 555-555

Ravi G. Kurumbail, Anna M. Stevens, James K. Gierse, Joseph J. McDonald, Roderick A. Stegeman, Jina Y. Pak, Daniel Gildehaus, Julie M. Miyashiro, Thomas D. Penning, Karen Seibert, Peter C. Isakson and William C. Stallings

How to find, identify and quantitate the sugars on proteins pp. 557-559

Andrew A. Gooley and Keith L. Williams

1997, volume 385, articles 6615

Republican senators promote a doubling of funds for research pp. 375-375

Tony Reichhardt

Insurance levy could fund medical centres pp. 375-375

Meredith Wadman

Health scientists strike over cuts at Argentinian labs pp. 376-376

Ehsan Masood

Study discloses financial interests behind papers pp. 376-376

Meredith Wadman

UCSF settles lawsuit over research costs pp. 377-377

Rex Dalton

UK's top research groups win extra funds pp. 377-377

Claire O'Brien

French museum 'in decay' fights for its life pp. 378-378

Declan Butler

Pig heart transplant surgeon held in jail pp. 378-378

K. S. Jayaraman

Japan's demography poses questions for old and young alike pp. 379-379

David Swinbanks

Canada and France fall out over the risks of asbestos pp. 379-379

Declan Butler and David Spurgeon

ESA plans put solar science out of orbit pp. 380-380

Alison Abbott

The 'Sokal affair' takes transatlantic turn pp. 381-381

David Dickson

Peer reviewers could do much better pp. 384-384

Simon Wain-Hobson

Unitary construction pp. 384-384

Jeffrey B. Miller

Not 0 but O pp. 384-384

Friedrich Katscher

Ways to surmount the language barrier pp. 385-385

David S. Moulder

NO prizes pp. 385-385

Magdi Yacoub and Julia M. Polak

South Africa pp. 385-385

Luis B. Honwana

Ground rules pp. 385-385

Eugenio L. de Hostos

Stone Age confusion pp. 385-385

A. John MacLennan

Jet propulsion is essential for young stars pp. 387-388

David A. Clarke

New wrinkles in cytokinesis pp. 388-389

Julie A. Theriot and Lisa L. Satterwhite

Bottom line for hydrocarbons pp. 389-390

Ian R. MacDonald

Structure of a molecular hole-punch pp. 390-391

Mark S. P. Sansom

Help from within for damaged axons pp. 391-393

Yves-Alain Barde

Near to the edge of an ice sheet pp. 393-394

Steven W. Hostetler

Integration hot-spot gets hotter pp. 395-397

Kathleen Dunlap

A kinase with keen eyes pp. 397-398

Jonathan D. G. Jones

Creation in silicon pp. 399-399

John L. Casti

Celestial torque pp. 399-399

David Jones

Carl Sagan (1934–96)Astronomer and popularizer of science pp. 400-400

Joseph A. Burns

Oldest record of a bisexual plant pp. 401-401

Monique Feist and Raimund Feist

Blindsight in normal subjects? pp. 401-402

M. J. Morgan, A. J. S. Mason and J. A. Solomon

Heritabilities and paradigm shifts pp. 402-403

Rauno V. Alatalo, Johanna Mappes and Mark A. Elgar

Almost airborne pp. 403-404

Melissa G. Kramer and James H. Marden

Nitrification in Antarctic soils pp. 404-404

K. Wilson, J. I. Sprent and D. W. Hopkins

When superstition displaces science pp. 405-406

Martin Gardner

One of the greats pp. 406-407

J. C. R. Hunt

After the Ark pp. 407-408

Martin Rudwick

Take a nature walk on the ocean floor pp. 408-408

Peter G. Brewer

Episodic jets from black holes and protostars pp. 409-414

Rachid Ouyed, Ralph E. Pudritz and James M. Stone

Large-scale magnetic fields in the outflow from the young stellar object T Tauri S pp. 415-417

T. P. Ray, T. W. B. Muxlow, D. J. Axon, A. Brown, D. Corcoran, J. Dyson and R. Mundt

Phase measurement in a quantum dot via a double-slit interference experiment pp. 417-420

R. Schuster, E. Buks, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky and Hadas Shtrikman

Bacterial templating of ordered macrostructures in silica and silica-surfactant mesophases pp. 420-423

Sean A. Davis, Sandra L. Burkett, Neil H. Mendelson and Stephen Mann

Exceptionally steep north–south gradients in lake temperatures during the last deglaciation pp. 423-426

André J. Levesque, Les C. Cwynar and Ian R. Walker

Direct measurement of in situ methane quantities in a large gas-hydrate reservoir pp. 426-428

Gerald R. Dickens, Charles K. Paull and Paul Wallace

A new Late Eocene anthropoid primate from Thailand pp. 429-431

Yaowalak Chaimanee, Varavudh Suteethorn, Jean-Jacques Jaeger and Stéphane Ducrocq

Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses pp. 432-434

Risto Näätänen, Anne Lehtokoski, Mietta Lennes, Marie Cheour, Minna Huotilainen, Antti Iivonen, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Aavo Luuk, Jüri Allik, Janne Sinkkonen and Kimmo Alho

Bcl-2 promotes regeneration of severed axons in mammalian CNS pp. 434-439

Dong Feng Chen, Gerald E. Schneider, Jean-Claude Martinou and Susumu Tonegawa

Competitive binding of α-actinin and calmodulin to the NMDA receptor pp. 439-442

Michael Wyszynski, Jerry Lin, Anuradha Rao, Elizabeth Nigh, Alan H. Beggs, Ann Marie Craig and Morgan Sheng

Crosstalk between G proteins and protein kinase C mediated by the calcium channel α1 subunit pp. 442-446

Gerald W. Zamponi, Emmanuel Bourinet, Donald Nelson, Joel Nargeot and Terry P. Snutch

Direct binding of G-protein βλ complex to voltage-dependent calcium channels pp. 446-450

Michel De Waard, Hongyan Liu, Denise Walker, Victoria E. S. Scott, Christina A. Gurnett and Kevin P. Campbell

Traction forces of cytokinesis measured with optically modified elastic substrata pp. 450-454

Kevin Burton and D. Lansing Taylor

HOX11 interacts with protein phosphatases PP2A and PP1 and disrupts a G2/M cell-cycle checkpoint pp. 454-458

Takumi Kawabe, Anthony J. Muslin and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

The structure of the GTPase-activating domain from p50rhoGAP pp. 458-461

Tracey Barrett, Bing Xiao, Eleanor J. Dodson, Guy Dodson, Steven B. Ludbrook, Kurshid Nurmahomed, Steven J. Gamblin, Andrea Musacchio, Stephen J. Smerdon and John F. Eccleston

Crystal structure of colicin Ia pp. 461-464

Michael Wiener, Douglas Freymann, Partho Ghosh and Robert M. Stroud

1997, volume 385, articles 6614

Third world agricultural centres face a wave of redundancies pp. 281-282

K.S. Jayaraman and Ehsan Masood

Nuclear waste peer review 'needs more transparency' pp. 282-282

Ehsan Masood

'Real' fall in US research funding revealed pp. 283-283

Colin Macilwain

Science advisers face 'credibility crisis' pp. 284-284

Tony Reichhardt

Staff cuts proposed to energy Department pp. 284-284

David Kramer

Change for Europe's science committees pp. 285-285

Declan Butler

German politicians break research pledge pp. 285-285

Alison Abbott

The 's' in Unesco seeks out a new role pp. 286-286

Declan Butler

Canada calls in US nuclear power experts to boost performance pp. 287-287

David Spurgeon

Japan fishes for more space launches pp. 287-287

David Swinbanks

Pros and cons of foreign genes in crops pp. 290-290

Bengt O. Bengtsson

Pros and cons of foreign genes in crops pp. 290-290

Donald R. Ort

Climate of mistrust pp. 290-290

Clive Bates

Too quiet to hear a whisper pp. 291-291

Philip Jung and K. Wiesenfeld

The oldest whodunnit in the world pp. 292-293

Bernard Wood

Mantles were battered to bits pp. 293-295

Clark R. Chapman

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh,no! pp. 295-296

Jared M. Diamond

Pirated genes in Kaposi's sarcoma pp. 296-299

Philip M. Murphy

The business of fructification pp. 299-300

Roy Watling

A commotion over turbulence pp. 300-301

Benjamin A. Carreras

Shear calm pp. 301-301

Benjamin A. Carreras

The dark is light enough pp. 301-301

David Jones

Yulii Khariton (1904–96) pp. 302-302

David Holloway

Successful cultivation of the golden chanterelle pp. 303-303

Eric Danell and Francisco J. Camacho

Thalidomide's chirality pp. 303-304

Stephan Wnendt and Kai Zwingenberger

Energy saving in huddling penguins pp. 304-305

André Ancel, Henk Visser, Yves Handrich, Dirkjan Masman and Yvon Le Maho

Fugu genome is not a good mammalian model pp. 305-306

Jonathan Gilley, Niall Armes and Mike Fried

Emplacement of Taupo ignimbrite pp. 306-307

C. J. N. Wilson

Emplacement of Taupo ignimbrite pp. 307-308

W. Brian Dade and Herbert E. Huppert

Sound alters visual motion perception pp. 308-308

Robert Sekuler, Allison B. Sekuler and Renee Lau

Genius, scandal and the first seaclocks pp. 309-310

Desmond King-Hele

Backcloth of mystery pp. 310-310

Robert Hedges

The short-range forces of nature pp. 310-311

John C. Taylor

In retrospect pp. 311-311

Steve Jones

Dubious revolution pp. 312-312

William Shea

A tension-based theory of morphogenesis and compact wiring in the central nervous system pp. 313-318

David C. Van Essen

Stochastic resonance in non-dynamical systems without response thresholds pp. 319-321

Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy

Template-directed colloidal crystallization pp. 321-324

Alfons van Blaaderen, Rene Ruel and Pierre Wiltzius

Current-induced organization of vortex motion in type-II superconductors pp. 324-326

S. N. Gordeev, P. A. J. de Groot, M. Oussena, A. V. Volkozub, S. Pinfold, R. Langan, R. Gagnon and L. Taillefer

Spreading-rate dependence of the extent of mantle melting beneath ocean ridges pp. 326-329

Yaoling Niu and Roger Hékinian

Corrugated slip surfaces formed at ridge–transform intersections on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge pp. 329-332

J. R. Cann, D. K. Blackman, D. K. Smith, E. McAllister, B. Janssen, S. Mello, E. Avgerinos, A. R. Pascoe and J. Escartin

2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia pp. 333-336

S. Semaw, P. Renne, J. W. K. Harris, C. S. Feibel, R. L. Bernor, N. Fesseha and K. Mowbray

Circumsporozoite protein is required for development of malaria sporozoites in mosquitoes pp. 336-340

Robert Ménard, Ali A. Sultan, Claudio Cortes, Rita Altszuler, Melissa R. van Dijk, Chris J. Janse, Andrew P. Waters, Ruth S. Nussenzweig and Victor Nussenzweig

Cleavage of syntaxin prevents G-protein regulation of presynaptic calcium channels pp. 340-343

E. F. Stanley and R. R. Mirotznik

Regulation by insulin of a unique neuronal Ca2+ pool and of neuropeptide secretion pp. 343-346

Elizabeth A. Jonas, Ronald J. Knox, T. Caitlin M. Smith, Nancy L. Wayne, John A. Connor and Leonard K. Kaczmarek

Human herpesvirus KSHV encodes a constitutively active G-protein-coupled receptor linked to cell proliferation pp. 347-350

Leandros Arvanitakis, Elizabeth Geras-Raaka, Anjali Varma, Marvin C. Gershengorn and Ethel Cesarman

Stress-signalling kinase Sek1 protects thymocytes from apoptosis mediated by CD95 and CD3 pp. 350-353

Hiroshi Nishina, Klaus D. Fischer, Laszlo Radvanyi, Arda Shahinian, Razqallah Hakem, Elizabeth A. Rubie, Alan Bernstein, Tak W. Mak, James R. Woodgett and Josef M. Penninger

Bcl-xL forms an ion channel in synthetic lipid membranes pp. 353-357

Andy J. Minn, Patricio Vélez, Sharon L. Schendel, Heng Liang, Steven W. Muchmore, Stephen W. Fesik, Michael Fill and Craig B. Thompson

The C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II couples mRNA processing to transcription pp. 357-361

Susan McCracken, Nova Fong, Krassimir Yankulov, Scott Ballantyne, Guohua Pan, Jack Greenblatt, Scott D. Patterson, Marvin Wickens and David L. Bentley

Structure of the conserved GTPase domain of the signal recognition particle pp. 361-364

Douglas M. Freymann, Robert J. Keenan, Robert M. Stroud and Peter Walter

Crystal structure of the NG domain from the signal-recognition particle receptor FtsY pp. 365-368

Guillermo Montoya, Cecilia Svensson, Joen Luirink and Irmgard Sinning

A new look for the market pp. 369-372

Brendan Norton

1997, volume 385, articles 6613

US claims of 'no chemical links' to Gulf War illnesses under fire pp. 187-187

Meredith Wadman

Rio review to rejuvenate green initiatives pp. 188-188

Colin Macilwain

Industrial apathy 'hampers climate schemes pp. 188-188

K. S. Jayaraman

Investment analysts paint rosy prospect for biotech pp. 189-189

Sally Lehrman

Glaxo Wellcome turns to worms for guidance on genes pp. 189-189

Sally Lehrman

Embryo researcher is sanctioned for using NIH resources pp. 190-190

Meredith Wadman

Russian space module 'in need of more protection' pp. 190-190

Tony Reichhardt

Oil spill threatens Japanese nuclear plants pp. 191-191

David Swinbanks

Australia maintains commitment to joint research centres pp. 191-191

Peter Pockley

Europe seeks to rally regional research pp. 192-193

Alison Abbott

Molecular biology reaps the benefits pp. 193-193

Alun Anderson

Optical telescopes – biggest is best? pp. 196-196

David Leverington

Unequivocal spelling for brimstone pp. 196-196

David F. Cram and W. John Cram

A fortune awaits pp. 196-196

Harry Miller

Predicting the CJD epidemic in humans pp. 197-198

S. N. Cousens, E. Vynnycky, M. Zeidler, R. G. Will and P. G. Smith

Cope's rule as psychological artefact pp. 199-200

Stephen Jay Gould

Epidemic or false alarm? pp. 200-200

David C. G. Skegg

Life on other moons pp. 201-201

Christopher F. Chyba

Molecular fish on chips pp. 202-203

André Goffeau

When like charges attract pp. 203-204

Cherry A. Murray

Phosphotransfer hinges in PGK pp. 204-205

Colin Blake

Anaemia reveals star's great age pp. 205-206

Mike Bolte

Youth in age pp. 206-206

David Jones

Computation and the single neuron pp. 207-210

Christof Koch

News and Views Feature pp. 210-210

Christof Koch

Carbon beads with protruding cones pp. 211-212

Ronald L. Jacobsen and Marc Monthioux

Pair bonding in spotted poison frogs pp. 211-211

Janalee P. Caldwell

DNA analysis reveals the sex of infanticide victims pp. 212-213

Marina Faerman, Gila Kahila, Patricia Smith, Charles Greenblatt, Lawrence Stager, Dvora Filon and Ariella Oppenheim

Medicinal alkaloid as a sex pheromone pp. 213-213

Walter Scares Leal, Paulo H. G. Zarbin, Hubert Wojtasek, Shigefumi Kuwahara, Makoto Hasegawa and Yasuo Ueda

Glucagon-like peptide-1 and satiety pp. 214-214

G. van Dijk, T. E. Thiele, R. J. Seeley, S. C. Woods and I. L. Bernstein

Glucagon-like peptide-1 and satiety pp. 214-214

S. R. Bloom

How to succeed in science pp. 215-216

W. F. Bynum

Walking wounded pp. 216-217

Alistair Hay

Unified views pp. 217-218

Frank Wilczek

In retrospect chosen by John C. Marshall pp. 217-217

John C. Marshall

Mantle geochemistry: the message from oceanic volcanism pp. 219-229

A. W. Hofmann

Like-charge attractions in metastable colloidal crystallites pp. 230-233

Amy E. Larsen and David G. Grier

Habitable moons around extrasolar giant planets pp. 234-236

Darren M. Williams, James F. Kasting and Richard A. Wade

Evidence for polaronic supercarriers in the copper oxide superconductors La2–xSrxCuO4 pp. 236-239

Guo-meng Zhao, M. B. Hunt, H. Keller and K. A. Müller

Conversion of light energy to proton potential in liposomes by artificial photosynthetic reaction centres pp. 239-241

Gali Steinberg-Yfrach, Paul A. Liddell, Su-Chun Hung, Ana L. Moore, Devens Gust and Thomas A. Moore

Low-latitude glacial cooling in the Southern Hemisphere from amino-acid racemization in emu eggshells pp. 241-244

Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee and A. J. T. Jull

Seismic structure of the Iceland mantle plume pp. 245-247

Cecily J. Wolfe, Ingi Th. Bjarnason, John C. VanDecar and Sean C. Solomon

Nest and egg clutches of the dinosaur Troodon formosus and the evolution of avian reproductive traits pp. 247-250

David J. Varricchio, Frankie Jackson, John J. Borkowski and John R. Horner

Body-size evolution in Cretaceous molluscs and the status of Cope's rule pp. 250-252

David Jablonski

Habitat heterogeneity as a determinant of mammal species richness in high-energy regions pp. 252-254

Jeremy T. Kerr and Laurence Packer

Impaired auditory recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions pp. 254-257

Sophie K. Scott, Andrew W. Young, Andrew J. Calder, Deborah J. Hellawell, John P. Aggleton and Michael Johnsons

Independent requirement for ISL1 in formation of pancreatic mesenchyme and islet cells pp. 257-260

Ulf Ahlgren, Samuel L. Pfaff, Thomas M. Jessell, Thomas Edlund and Helena Edlund

Distinct functions of nuclear and cytoplasmic calcium in the control of gene expression pp. 260-265

Giles E. Hardingham, Sangeeta Chawla, Claire M. Johnson and Hilmar Bading

Actin polymerization is induced by Arp 2/3 protein complex at the surface of Listeria monocytogenes pp. 265-269

Matthew D. Welch, Akihiro Iwamatsu and Timothy J. Mitchison

Extension of chromatin accessibility by nuclear matrix attachment regions pp. 269-272

Thomas Jenuwein, William C. Forrester, Luis A. Fernández-Herrero, Götz Laible, Maude Dull and Rudolf Grosschedl

NMR structure of inactivation gates from mammalian voltage-dependent potassium channels pp. 272-275

Christof Antz, Matthias Geyer, Bernd Fakler, Markus K. Schott, H. Robert Guy, Rainer Frank, Johann Peter Ruppersberg and Hans Robert Kalbitzer

Synergistic effects of substrate-induced conformational changes in phosphoglycerate kinase activation pp. 275-278

Bradley E. Bernstein, Paul A. M. Michels and Wim G. J. Hol

1997, volume 385, articles 6612

Political will and cash 'needed to speed up removal of landmines' pp. 101-101

Steve Nadis

BSE inquiry could prompt censure vote pp. 101-101

Declan Butler

UK studies grapple with school science pp. 102-102

Ehsan Masood

... as teachers try hand at research pp. 102-102

Ehsan Masood

White House backs US contribution to LHC pp. 103-103

Colin Macilwain

Science bodies seek 7.1 per cent increase for NSF pp. 103-103

Colin Macilwain

France says goodbye to the fast-breeder as Superphénix takes on new role pp. 104-105

Declan Butler

Japan's science spending climbs again pp. 104-104

Richard Nathan

'Misconduct' dispute raises fears of litigation pp. 105-105

Rex Dalton

Biodiversity projects face funding challenge pp. 106-107

Ehsan Masood

Safety of transgenic corn pp. 109-109

Juan J. Estruch, Mary-Dell Chilton, Richard Lotstein and Wallace Beversdorf

Live universes pp. 109-109

M. G. Bjornerud

Live universes pp. 109-109

Graeme Suthers

Out of context pp. 109-109

Steve Fuller

Confucianism oversimplified pp. 110-110

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

Bias in Japanese university awards? pp. 110-110

Noriyoshi Takei

Italian grants pp. 110-110

Piergiorgio Strata

Coding DNA substitutions pp. 111-111

Paul M. Sharp

In search of molecular darwinism pp. 111-112

Paul M. Sharp

The Universe as a lattice pp. 112-113

Robert Kirshner

Betas are brought into the fold pp. 113-115

Brent L. Iverson

How hard spheres stack up pp. 115-116

Roberto Car

In line for a new mission pp. 116-117

Peter J. T. Leonard

Compton telescopes pp. 117-117

Peter Leonard

Myxobacterial bounty pp. 117-117

John Mann

The alphabet of weight control pp. 119-120

Jeffrey M. Friedman

A vision over time and space pp. 120-121

Glyn W. Humphreys

Fit-to-shrink materials pp. 121-121

Stephen Battersby

Microbial breathing lessons pp. 121-122

David L Kirchman

God plays dice pp. 122-122

David Jones

p53 and treatment of bladder cancer pp. 123-124

Richard J. Cote, David Esrig, Susan Groshen, Peter A. Jones and Donald G. Skinner

Serotonin in the spotlight pp. 123-123

Plamen D. Penev, Phyllis C. Zee and Fred W. Turek

p53 and treatment of bladder cancer pp. 124-125

Scott W. Lowe and Tyler Jacks

Y-chromosome variation in great apes pp. 125-126

Wes Burrows and Oliver A. Ryder

Biological activition of hydrogen pp. 126-126

Randolph P. Happe, Winfried Roseboom, Antonio J. Pierik, Simon P. J. Albracht and Kimberly A. Bagley

Evolution's evolution pp. 127-128

Kevin Padian

Bridge to the past pp. 128-129

Paul G. Bahn

Hazards ahead in the disasters game pp. 129-130

David Sumner

Foray beyond Fourier pp. 130-130

Francois G. Meyer

Magnetic fields in galaxies and beyond pp. 131-136

Ellen G. Zweibel and Carl Heiles

A high deuterium abundance in the early Universe pp. 137-139

Antoinette Songaila, E. Joseph Wampler and Lennox L. Cowie

A 120-Mpc periodicity in the three-dimensional distribution of galaxy superclusters pp. 139-141

J. Einasto, M. Einasto, S. Gottlöber, V. Müller, V. Saar, A. A. Starobinsky, E. Tago, D. Tucker, H. Andernach and P. Frisch

Entropy difference between the face-centred cubic and hexagonal close-packed crystal structures pp. 141-143

L. V. Woodcock

Single-molecule spectral fluctuations at room temperature pp. 143-146

H. Peter Lu and X. Sunney Xie

Silurian hydrothermal-vent community from the southern Urals, Russia pp. 146-148

Crispin T. S. Little, Richard J. Herrington, Valeriy V. Maslennikov, Noel J. Morris and Viktor V. Zaykov

Respiration rates in bacteria exceed phytoplankton production in unproductive aquatic systems pp. 148-151

Paul A. del Giorgio, Jonathan J. Cole and André Cimbleris

Episodic adaptive evolution of primate lysozymes pp. 151-154

Walter Messier and Caro-Beth Stewart

Abnormal temporal dynamics of visual attention in spatial neglect patients pp. 154-156

Masud Husain, Kimron Shapiro, Jesse Martin and Christopher Kennard

Visuomotor integration is associated with zero time-lag synchronization among cortical areas pp. 157-161

Pieter R. Roelfsema, Andreas K. Engel, Peter König and Wolf Singer

In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in neocortical pyramidal neurons pp. 161-165

Karel Svoboda, Winfried Denk, David Kleinfeld and David W. Tank

Role of melanocortinergic neurons in feeding and the agouti obesity syndrome pp. 165-168

Wei Fan, Bruce A. Boston, Robert A. Kesterson, Victor J. Hruby and Roger D. Cone

Phosphotyrosine-dependent activation of Rac-1 GDP/GTP exchange by the vav proto-oncogene product pp. 169-172

Piero Crespo, Kornel E. Schuebel, Amy A. Ostrom, J. Silvio Gutkind and Xosé R. Bustelo

Unusual Rel-like architecture in the DNA-binding domain of the transcription factor NFATc pp. 172-176

Scot A. Wolfe, Pei Zhou, Volker Dötsch, Lin Chen, Angie You, Steffan N. Ho, Gerald R. Crabtree, Gerhard Wagner and Gregory L. Verdine

Structure of the single-stranded-DNA-binding domain of replication protein A bound to DNA pp. 176-181

Alexey Bochkarev, Richard A. Pfuetzner, Aled M. Edwards and Lori Frappier

Making 'antisense' of amplification pp. 183-184

Brendan Horton

1997, volume 385, articles 6611

Austria bans gene-modified maize pp. 3-3

Ehsan Masood

Staff pay cost of keeping CERN collider on target pp. 4-4

Alison Abbott

Russian scientists name 'donor of the year' pp. 4-4

Carl Levitin

Destruction order for transgenic crop after breach of guidelines pp. 4-4

K. S. Jayaraman

How BSE crisis forced Europe out of its complacency pp. 6-7

Declan Butler

Climate panel forecasts way ahead pp. 7-7

Ehsan Masood

UK policy learns about risk the hard way pp. 8-8

David Dickson

German resistance to genetic engineering diminishes pp. 8-9

Alison Abbott

Blood scandal and E. coli raise questions in Japan pp. 9-9

David Swinbanks

Voice of US science struggles to be heard pp. 10-11

Colin Macilwain

Unequal struggle in South Africa pp. 12-12

Peter F. Scogings

The modern ape pp. 12-12

Gregory G. Dimijian

Postdoc woes pp. 12-12

Emanuel Vassiliadis

Eighteen-ninety-seven and all that pp. 13-16

J. L. Heilbron and W. F. Bynum

Quantum security is spookily certain pp. 17-18

Richard J. Hughes

A protein-making motor protein pp. 18-19

R. A. Cross

Long odds on prediction pp. 19-20

Ian Main

Squirt smugly, scallop! pp. 21-22

Steven Vogel

A well-fed black hole pp. 22-23

Mitchell C. Begelman and Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Axons follow Reelin routes pp. 23-24

Anirvan Ghosh

Igneous ferment at Hamersley pp. 25-26

Cornelis Klein

Plant–microbial interactions pp. 26-27

Valerie T. Eviner and F. Stuart Chapin

Beam alignment pp. 27-27

David Jones

Mary Leakey 1913–96 pp. 28-28

Bernard Wood

Biology's new Rosetta stone pp. 29-30

Sudeshna Das, Lihua Yu, Chrysanthe Gaitatzes, Robert Rogers, James Freeman, Jadwiga Bienkowska, R. Mark Adams, Temple F. Smith and James Lindelien

Induced synthesis of plant volatiles pp. 30-31

P. W. Paré and J. H. Tumlinson

Y chromosomes of Jewish priests pp. 32-32

Karl Skorecki, Sara Selig, Shraga Blazer, Robert Bradman, Neil Bradman, P. J. Waburton, Monica Ismajlowicz and Michael F. Hammer

Artificial laboratories pp. 33-33

Michael Berry

Travels of a neuro-romantic pp. 34-34

Chris McManus

Current affairs pp. 35-35

George Philander

The sky isn't falling! pp. 36-36

Peter Ward

Hydrolysis of GTP by elongation factor G drives tRNA movement on the ribosome pp. 37-41

Marina V. Rodnina, Andreas Savelsbergh, Vladimir I. Katunin and Wolfgang Wintermeyer

Dynamical evolution of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids pp. 42-44

Harold F. Levison, Eugene M. Shoemaker and Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Ray and wave chaos in asymmetric resonant optical cavities pp. 45-47

Jens U. Nöckel and A. Douglas Stone

Quantum cryptography on multiuser optical fibre networks pp. 47-49

Paul D. Townsend

Acceleration of a Diels–Alder reaction by a self-assembled molecular capsule pp. 50-52

Jongmin Kang and Julius Rebek

Infrared remote sensing of breaking waves pp. 52-55

A. T. Jessup, C. J. Zappa, M. R. Loewen and V. Hesany

Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2.45 billion years ago pp. 55-58

M. E. Barley, A. L. Pickard and P. J. Sylvester

Conifer root discrimination against soil nitrate and the ecology of forest succession pp. 59-61

Herbert J. Kronzucker, M. Yaeesh Siddiqi and Anthony D. M. Glass

High rates of nitrification and nitrate turnover in undisturbed coniferous forests pp. 61-64

John M. Stark and Stephen C. Hart

The Drosophila protein Wunen repels migrating germ cells pp. 64-67

Nian Zhang, Jiaping Zhang, Karen J. Purcell, Yan Cheng and Ken Howard

Regulation of neuronal diversity in the Xenopus retina by Delta signalling pp. 67-70

Richard I. Dorsky, Wesley S. Chang, David H. Rapaport and William A. Harris

A role for Cajal–Retzius cells and reelin in the development of hippocampal connections pp. 70-74

José A. Del Río, Bernd Heimrich, Víctor Borrell, Eckart Förster, Alexander Drakew, Soledad Alcántara, Kazunori Nakajima, Takaki Miyata, Masaharu Ogawa, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Paul Derer, Michael Frotscher and Eduardo Soriano

Frequency detection and temporally dispersed synaptic signal association through a metabotropic glutamate receptor pathway pp. 74-77

Andrew M. Batchelor and John Garthwaite

Potent antitumour activity of a new class of tumour-specific killer cells pp. 78-80

Si.-Yi Chen, An-Gang Yang, Ji-Dai Chen, Timothy Kute, C. Richter King, John Collier, Yanping Cong, Changping Yao and Xue F. Huang

P- and E-selectin mediate recruitment of T-helper-1 but not T-helper-2 cells into inflamed tissues pp. 81-83

Frank Austrup, Dietmar Vestweber, Eric Borges, Max Löhning, Rolf Bräuer, Udo Herz, Harald Renz, Rupert Hallmann, Alexander Scheffold, Andreas Radbruch and Alf Hamann

Selective modulation of protein kinase C-Θ during T-cell activation pp. 83-86

Colin R. F. Monks, Hannah Kupfer, Idan Tamir, Avlin Barlow and Abraham Kupfer

RAIDD is a new 'death' adaptor molecule pp. 86-89

Hangjun Duan and Vishva M. Dixit

Brain acetylhydrolase that inactivates platelet-activating factor is a G-protein-like trimer pp. 89-93

Yew S. Ho, Lora Swenson, Urszula Derewenda, Laurence Serre, Yunyi Wei, Zbyszek Dauter, Mitsuharu Hattori, Tomoya Adachi, Junken Aoki, Hiroyuki Arai, Keizo Inoue and Zygmunt S. Derewenda

Regulatory intramolecular association in a tyrosine kinase of the Tec family pp. 93-97

Amy Hamilton Andreotti, Stephen C. Bunnell, Sibo Feng, Leslie J. Berg and Stuart L. Schreiber

Correction: Identification of the homologous beige and Chediak–Higashi syndrome genes pp. 97-97

Maria D. F. S. Barbosa, Quan A. Nguyen, Velizar T. Tchernev, Jennifer A. Ashley, John C. Detter, Susan M. Blaydes, Stephen J. Brandt, Dipti Chotai, Charles Hodgman, Roberto C. E. Solari, Michael Lovett and Stephen F. Kingsmore