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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5283, Sep. 27, 1996
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Front Matter (21 pp.)
Editorial: Science Education in Japan, p. 15
- Hiroo Imura
Letters
- Comparative Sequencing, pp. 17-18
- William Jacobs; Patrick Brennan; George Curlin; Ann Ginsberg; Mark Adams; Robert Fleischmann; Claire Fraser; J. Craig Venter; Thomas Shinnick; William Bishai; Hamilton Smith; Ken Stover; Graham Hatfull
- The Advent of Menopause, pp. 18-20
- Ernst Knobil; Samuel S. C. Yen; Phyllis M. Wise; Kristine M. Krajnak; Michael L. Kashon
- Programmed Cell Death, pp. 20-21
- Jan Noval; Alice B. Fulton; Jean Claude Ameisen
Corrections and Clarifications: RNA Editing: A Mechanism for gRNA-Specified Uridylate Insertion into Precursor mRNA, p. 21
Corrections and Clarifications: Past Life on Mars?, p. 21
Corrections and Clarifications: New Oonline Tools for Scholars: 2, p. 21
Corrections and Clarifications: Interaction of U2AF 65 RS Region with pre-mRNA Branch Point and Promotion of Base Pairing with U2 snRNA, p. 21
Corrections and Clarifications: Genes vs. Teams: Weighing Group Tactics in Evolution, p. 21
ScienceScope, p. 23
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News and Comment
- DOE to Industry: So Long, Partner, pp. 24-26
- Andrew Lawler
- New Funding Helps MITI Reform Labs, pp. 26-27
- Dennis Normile
- Congress: Biomedical Research Wins Big, pp. 27-28
- Eliot Marshall; Andrew Lawler
- Tobacco Funding Debate Smolders, p. 28
- Nigel Williams
- Estonian Researchers Lead the Way in Science Reform, pp. 29-30
- Richard Stone
- First Global Sequencing Effort Begins, p. 30
- Jocelyn Kaiser
Research News
- The Peopling of the Americas, pp. 31-33
- Ann Gibbons
- Art Stirs Uproar Down Under, pp. 33-34
- Constance Holden
- Between the Sheets: Why do Protein Strands Line Up?, pp. 34-35
- Robert F. Service
- Ice-Age Rain Forest Found Moist, Cooler, pp. 35-36
- Richard A. Kerr
- All-in-One Detectors for the Faintest Objects, pp. 36-38
- Steve Nadis
- Search Narrows for Gamma-Ray Bursts, p. 38
- Govert Schilling
Random Samples, pp. 39+41
- Constance Holden
Science in Japan: Competition on Campus
News
- [Introduction], p. 43
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Universities Step Up to the Challenge, pp. 44-47
- Dennis Normile
- Schools Scramble for Niche to Keep Up with Competition, pp. 47-48
- June Kinoshita
- System's Rigidity Reduces Lure of Science as a Career, pp. 49-52
- June Kinoshita
- Corporate Concerns and Cost Clamp Down on Ph.D. Output, pp. 52-53
- Dennis Normile
- Gaijin Find Balmy Climate for Cutting-Edge Science, pp. 54+56
- Dennis Normile
- Risky Career Move Pays Off, p. 54
- Marc Lamphier
- Many Japanese Say West is Still to Their Liking, pp. 55-56
- June Kinoshita
- Search for Truth Points to America, p. 55
- Naomi Fukai
- Reformers Fight to Draw More Students into Science, pp. 56-57
- Dennis Normile
Book Reviews
- The Pesticide Regulation Treadmill, pp. 61-62
- Our Children's Toxic Legacy. How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides.
- John Wargo
- Review author[s]: Edward Groth III
- Multipurpose Organelles, p. 62
- The Peroxisome. A Vital Organelle.
- Colin Masters; Denis Crane
- Review author[s]: Sidney Goldfischer
- Reprints of Books Previously Reviewed, p. 62
Policy Forum
- Knowing the Earth's Biodiversity: Challenges for the Infrastructure of Systematic Biology, pp. 63-64
- Stephen Blackmore
Perspectives
- Mechanochemistry, p. 65
- John J. Gilman
- How Did Replicating and Coding RNAs First Get Together?, pp. 66-67
- Hugh D. Robertson
- Hierarchical Control of Lymphocyte Survival, pp. 67-68
- Lawrence H. Boise; Craig B. Thompson
Cold Dark Matter, pp. 69-75
- Scott Dodelson; Evalyn I. Gates; Michael S. Turner
Reports
- Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, the Pacific Cold Tongue, and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, pp. 76-78
- F.-F. Jin
- Intracrystalline Transformation of Olivine to Wadsleyite and Ringwoodite Under Subduction Zone Conditions, pp. 79-81
- Ljuba Kerschhofer; Thomas G. Sharp; David C. Rubie
- Time-Domain Observations of a Slow Precursor to the 1994 Romanche Transform Earthquake, pp. 82-85
- Jeffrey J. McGuire; Pierre F. Ihmlé; Thomas H. Jordan
- A Long Pollen Record from Lowland Amazonia: Forest and Cooling in Glacial Times, pp. 85-88
- P. A. Colinvaux; P. E. De Oliveira; J. E. Moreno; M. C. Miller; M. B. Bush
- Achievement of Thermal Stability by Varying Metabolic Heat Production in Flying Honeybees, pp. 88-90
- Jon F. Harrison; Jennifer H. Fewell; Stephen P. Roberts; H. Glenn Hall
- A Cellular Homolog of Hepatitis Delta Antigen: Implications for Viral Replication and Evolution, pp. 90-94
- Robert Brazas; Don Ganem
- Phenotypic Analysis of Antigen-Specific T Lymphocytes, pp. 94-96
- John D. Altman; Paul A. H. Moss; Philip J. R. Goulder; Dan H. Barouch; Michael G. McHeyzer-Williams; John I. Bell; Andrew J. McMichael; Mark M. Davis
- RAG Mutations in Human B Cell-Negative SCID, pp. 97-99
- Klaus Schwarz; George H. Gauss; Leopold Ludwig; Ulrich Pannicke; Zhong Li; Doris Lindner; Wilhelm Friedrich; Reinhard A. Seger; Thomas E. Hansen-Hagge; Stephen Desiderio; Michael R. Lieber; Claus R. Bartram
- Correlative Memory Deficits, Aβ Elevation, and Amyloid Plaques in Transgenic Mice, pp. 99-102
- Karen Hsiao; Paul Chapman; Steven Nilsen; Chris Eckman; Yasuo Harigaya; Steven Younkin; Fusheng Yang; Greg Cole
- Promotion of Mitochondrial Membrane Complex Assembly by a Proteolytically Inactive Yeast Lon, pp. 103-106
- Martijn Rep; Jan Maarten van Dijl; Kitaru Suda; Gottfried Schatz; Leslie A. Grivell; Carolyn K. Suzuki
- Requirement for Invariant Chain in B Cell Maturation and Function, pp. 106-108
- Idit Shachar; Richard A. Flavell
- Chattering Cells: Superficial Pyramidal Neurons Contributing to the Generation of Synchronous Oscillations in the Visual Cortex, pp. 109-113
- Charles M. Gray; David A. McCormick
- Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension, pp. 114-116
- Marcel Adam Just; Patricia A. Carpenter; Timothy A. Keller; William F. Eddy; Keith R. Thulborn
Technical Comments
- Calcification Rates in Corals, pp. 117-118
- David B. Carlon; Thomas J. Goreau; Nora I. Goreau; Robert K. Trench; Raymond L. Hayes; A. T. Marshall
- Imaging Substrate-Mediated Interactions, pp. 118-119
- M. M. Kamna; S. J. Stranick; P. S. Weiss
Back Matter (25 pp.)
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