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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 277, No. 5332, Sep. 12, 1997
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Front Matter (42 pp.)
Editorial: Finding Patterns in International Assessments, p. 1743
- Marcia C. Linn
Letters
- Basic Responsibilities, p. 1745
- William B. Herrmannsfeldt
- Evidence of Cannibalism?, pp. 1745-1746
- Peter Y. Bullock; Margaret H. Jones
- World Population and Food Supplies, p. 1746
- Albert A. Bartlett
- Maximizing U.S. Population?, pp. 1746-1747
- B. Meredith Burke
- Defining "Microbiology", pp. 1747-1748
- Arnost Cepica; Evelyn J. Strauss; Stanley Falkow
- Timing of Permian-Triassic Anoxia, pp. 1748-1749
- Gregory J. Retallack; William T. Holser; Yukio Isozaki
Corrections and Clarifications: Pathways to Macroscale Order in Nanostructured Block Copolymers, p. 1749
Corrections and Clarifications: Protein Transport by Purified Yeast Sec Complex and Kar2p Without Membranes, p. 1749
Corrections and Clarifications: Archaeologists Rediscover Cannibals, p. 1749
Corrections and Clarifications: Highspeed Materials Design, p. 1749
ScienceScope, p. 1751
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News and Comment
- Snipping Away at Genome Patenting, pp. 1752-1753
- Eliot Marshall
- From Science Fiction to Ethics Quandary, pp. 1753-1754
- Gretchen Vogel
- A Plan to Register Unpublished Studies, p. 1754
- Gary Taubes
- Satcher Tapped for Top Health Posts, p. 1755
- Jocelyn Kaiser
- USGS Chief Resigns After Tough Tenure, pp. 1755-1756
- Jocelyn Kaiser
- Company Targets Asteroid-and Profits, p. 1756
- Andrew Lawler
- Netherlands Pulls Top Teams' Funding, p. 1757
- Michael Balter
- Privacy Rules Set No New Research Curbs, p. 1757
- Jocelyn Kaiser
Research News
- Mastering the Nonlinear Brain, pp. 1758-1760
- James Glanz
- Oldest Mound Complex Found at Louisiana Site, pp. 1761-1762
- Heather Pringle
- Gene for Mammals' Body Clocks Found, p. 1762
- Michael Balter
- Researchers Get Their First Good Look at the Nucleosome, pp. 1763-1764
- Carol Featherstone
- Polymer Folds Just Like a Protein, p. 1764
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Gene Found for the Fading Eyesight of Old Age, pp. 1765-1766
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Slicing an Electron's Charge Into Three, p. 1766
- David Ehrenstein
Random Samples, pp. 1767+1769
- Constance Holden
Book Reviews
- Ecological Accountancy, p. 1783
- Nature's Services. Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems.
- Gretchen C. Daily
- Review author[s]: David Pearce
- Cells and Replicons, pp. 1783-1784
- Eukaryotic DNA Replication.
- J. Julian Blow
- Review author[s]: Carol Newlon
Perspectives
- Versatile Collagens in Invertebrates, pp. 1785-1786
- Jürgen Engel
- Light-Induced Anisotropy in Amorphous Chalcogenides, pp. 1786-1787
- Kazunobu Tanaka
- Organic Solid-State Lasers: Past and Future, pp. 1787-1788
- A. Dodabalapur; E. A. Chandross; M. Berggren; R. E. Slusher
- Creating Isoprenoid Diversity, pp. 1788-1789
- James C. Sacchettini; C. Dale Poulter
Reports
- An Electrochemical Coulomb Staircase: Detection of Single Electron-Transfer Events at Nanometer Electrodes, pp. 1791-1793
- Fu-Ren F. Fan; Allen J. Bard
- Solvophobically Driven Folding of Nonbiological Oligomers, pp. 1793-1796
- James C. Nelson; Jeffery G. Saven; Jeffrey S. Moore; Peter G. Wolynes
- A Mound Complex in Louisiana at 5400-5000 Years Before the Present, pp. 1796-1799
- Joe W. Saunders; Rolfe D. Mandel; Roger T. Saucier; E. Thurman Allen; C. T. Hallmark; Jay K. Johnson; Edwin H. Jackson; Charles M. Allen; Gary L. Stringer; Douglas S. Frink; James K. Feathers; Stephen Williams; Kristen J. Gremillion; Malcolm F. Vidrine; Reca Jones
- Reversible Nanocontraction and Dilatation in a Solid Induced by Polarized Light, pp. 1799-1802
- P. Krecmer; A. M. Moulin; R. J. Stephenson; T. Rayment; M. E. Welland; S. R. Elliott
- Association of Mutations in a Lysosomal Protein with Classical Late- Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, pp. 1802-1805
- David E. Sleat; Robert J. Donnelly; Henry Lackland; Chang-Gong Liu; Istvan Sohar; Raju K. Pullarkat; Peter Lobel
- Mutation of the Stargardt Disease Gene (ABCR) in Age-Related Macular Degeneration, pp. 1805-1807
- Rando Allikmets; Noah F. Shroyer; Nanda Singh; Johanna M. Seddon; Richard Alan Lewis; Paul S. Bernstein; Andy Peiffer; Norman A. Zabriskie; Yixin Li; Amy Hutchinson; Michael Dean; James R. Lupski; Mark Leppert
- Cichlid Fish Diversity Threatened by Eutrophication That Curbs Sexual Selection, pp. 1808-1811
- Ole Seehausen; Jacques J. M. van Alphen; Frans Witte
- Structure and Function of a Squalene Cyclase, pp. 1811-1815
- K. Ulrich Wendt; Karl Poralla; Georg E. Schulz
- Structural Basis for Cyclic Terpene Biosynthesis by Tobacco 5-Epi- Aristolochene Synthase, pp. 1815-1820
- Courtney M. Starks; Kyoungwhan Back; Joseph Chappell; Joseph P. Noel
- Crystal Structure of Pentalenene Synthase: Mechanistic Insights on Terpenoid Cyclization Reactions in Biology, pp. 1820-1824
- Charles A. Lesburg; Guangzhi Zhai; David E. Cane; David W. Christianson
- Toroidal Structure of λ-Exonuclease, pp. 1824-1827
- Rhett Kovall; Brian W. Matthews
- 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 1a-Hydroxylase and Vitamin D Synthesis, pp. 1827-1830
- Ken-ichi Takeyama; Sachiko Kitanaka; Takashi Sato; Masato Kobori; Junn Yanagisawa; Shigeaki Kato
- Extensible Collagen in Mussel Byssus: A Natural Block Copolymer, pp. 1830-1832
- Kathryn J. Coyne; Xiao-Xia Qin; J. Herbert Waite
Technical Comments
- Highly Variable Mutation Rates in Commensal and Pathogenic Escherichia coli, pp. 1833-1834
- Ivan Matic; Miroslav Radman; François Taddei; Bertrand Picard; Catherine Doit; Edouard Bingen; Erick Denamur; Jacques Elion; J. Eugene LeClerc; Thomas A. Cebula
Tech.Sight
- Probing the Future, pp. 1845-1847
- Mervyn Miles
- Primary Target, p. 1848
- Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters
- Just One Word.Plastics, p. 1849
- Richard Peters; Robert Sikorski
- Tech Traps, pp. 1849-1851
- Robert Silorski; Richard Peters
Back Matter (41 pp.)
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