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Science, New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5439, Oct. 15, 1999


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Front Matter (51 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 371
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Varmus to Leave NIH in December to Run Sloan-Kettering, p. 382
Eliot Marshall
Kourilsky Takes Helm at the Pasteur Institute, pp. 382-383
Michael Balter
Neptune's Icy Cold Satellite Comes to Life, pp. 383+385
Richard A. Kerr
Another Distant Consort for the Sun?, pp. 385-386
Richard A. Kerr
ScienceScope, pp. 385+387
Congress Boosts NSF, Reverses NASA Cuts, pp. 386-387
Andrew Lawler
Scientific Groups Endorse Test Ban, pp. 387-388
Eliot Marshall
New Insights Into Cystic Fibrosis Ion Channel, pp. 388-389
Michael Hagmann
Words Writ-Very-Small by a Nanopen, pp. 389+391
Robert F. Service
A Misconduct Definition That Finally Sticks?, p. 391
Jocelyn Kaiser
Gibbons Joins Effort to Boost Science at State, p. 391
David Malakoff


News Focus
10 Years after the Wall, Science Revives in Eastern Germany, pp. 392-395
Robert Koenig
Links between Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts Strengthen, pp. 395+397
Govert Schilling
Japanese Faculty Show Signs of Catching Start-Up Fever, pp. 397-398
Dennis Normile
Physics Meets the Hideous Bog Beast, pp. 398-399
Mark Sincell


Random Samples, p. 401
Laura Helmuth


Science's Compass


Editorial
Are Genetic Tests Adequately Regulated?, p. 409
Neil A. Holtzman


Letters
Keeping Calm About Kansas, p. 411
Robert L. Bowden; M. Lee Allison
Postdoc Advice, pp. 411+413
Daniel M. Zuckerman; Gudrun Ihrke; Dan Ferber
Problems with the Polygraph, p. 413
Michael Phillips
Evolution Flies, pp. 413-414
David B. Dusenbery; T. Ryan Gregory; Joseph J. Schall


Policy Forum
Less Geology in the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste, pp. 415+417
Rodney C. Ewing


Books et al.
How Much Caution in the Fields?, pp. 418-419
Hazard Identification of Agricultural Biotechnology. Finding Relevant Questions.
Ad van Dommelen
Review author[s]: Donald N. Duvick


Perspectives
Defensins and Host Defense, pp. 420-421
Tomas Ganz
In Search of Low-k Dielectrics, pp. 421+423
Robert D. Miller
The Constant Junction, pp. 424-425
Miriam M. Salpeter
The Complexity of Stellar Death, pp. 425-426
Yervant Terzian


Tech.Sight
Gels and Genomes, p. 429
Jane Rogers
An Eye for the Abstract, pp. 430+432
Phase.
Review author[s]: Perla B. Balbuena
TechSightings, pp. 433-434
Kevin Ahern; Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters


Genomes
Genome Prospecting, p. 443
Barbara R. Jasny; Pamela J. Hines


News
Do-it-Yourself Gene Watching, pp. 444-447
Eliot Marshall
Keeping Genome Databases Clean and Up to Date, pp. 447-450
Elizabeth Pennisi


Viewpoints
Genomic Views of Human History, pp. 451-453
Kelly Owens; Mary-Claire King
Biosequence Exegesis, pp. 453-455
Mark S. Boguski
The Mammalian Gene Collection, pp. 455-457
Robert L. Strausberg; Elise A. Feingold; Richard D. Klausner; Francis S. Collins


Reviews
The Promise of Comparative Genomics in Mammals, pp. 458-462+479-481
Stephen J. O'Brien; Marilyn Menotti-Raymond; William J. Murphy; William G. Nash; Johannes Wienberg; Roscoe Stanyon; Neal G. Copeland; Nancy A. Jenkins; James E. Womack; Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Genome Map: Comparative Genomics-Mammalian Radiations, pp. 470-478
Stephen J. O'Brien; John F. Eisenberg; Michael Miyamoto; S. Blair Hedges; Sudhir Kumar; Don E. Wilson; Marilyn Menotti-Raymond; William J. Murphy; WilliEam G. Nash; Leslie A. Lyons; Joan C. Menninger; Roscoe Stanyon; Johannes Wienberg; Neal G. Copeland; Nancy A. Jenkins; Joel Gellin; Martine Yerle; Leif Andersson; James Womack; Thomas Broad; John Postlethwait; Oleg Serov; Ernie Bailey; Michael R. James; Takeshi K. Watanabe; Matthew J. Wakefield; Jennifer Marshall Graves
Epigenetics: Regulation Through Repression, pp. 481-486
Alan P. Wolffe; Marjori A. Matzke
Pharmacogenomics: Translating Functional Genomics into Rational Therapeutics, pp. 487-491
William E. Evans; Mary V. Relling


Research


Research Articles
A Cyclic Antimicrobial Peptide Produced in Primate Leukocytes by the Ligation of Two Truncated α-Defensins, pp. 498-502
Yi-Quan Tang; Jun Yuan; George Ösapay; Klara Ösapay; Dat Tran; Christopher J. Miller; Andre J. Ouellette; Michael E. Selsted
Rapid and Reversible Effects of Activity on Acetylcholine Receptor Density at the Neuromuscular Junction In vivo, pp. 503-507
Mohammed Akaaboune; Susan M. Culican; Stephen G. Turney; Jeff W. Lichtman


Reports
Role of Metal-Oxide Interface in Determining the Spin Polarization of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions, pp. 507-509
Jose Maria de Teresa; Agnès Barthélémy; Albert Fert; Jean Pierre Contour; François Montaigne; Pierre Seneor
Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks, pp. 509-512
Albert-László Barabási; Réka Albert
Osmium Isotope Constraints on Ore Metal Recycling in Subduction Zones, pp. 512-516
Brent I. A. McInnes; Jannene S. McBride; Noreen J. Evans; David D. Lambert; Anita S. Andrew
Continuous Deformation Versus Faulting Through the Continental Lithosphere of New Zealand, pp. 516-519
Peter Molnar; Helen J. Anderson; Etienne Audoine; Donna Eberhart-Phillips; Ken R. Gledhill; Eryn R. Klosko; Thomas V. McEvilly; David Okaya; Martha Kane Savage; Tim Stern; Francis T. Wu
Slope Water Current Over the Laurentian Fan on Interannual to Millennial Time Scales, pp. 520-523
L. D. Keigwin; R. S. Pickart
Multiple Ink Nanolithography: Toward a Multiple-Pen Nano-Plotter, pp. 523-525
Seunghun Hong; Jin Zhu; Chad A. Mirkin
β-Defensins: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity Through Dendritic and T Cell CCR6, pp. 525-528
D. Yang; O. Chertov; S. N. Bykovskaia; Q. Chen; M. J. Buffo; J. Shogan; M. Anderson; J. M. Schröder; J. M. Wang; O. M. Z. Howard; J. J. Oppenheim
A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids, pp. 528-530
J.-J. Jaeger; Tin Thein; M. Benammi; Y. Chaimanee; Aung Naing Soe; Thit Lwin; Than Tun; San Wai; S. Ducrocq
Molecular Classification of Cancer: Class Discovery and Class Prediction by Gene Expression Monitoring, pp. 531-537
T. R. Golub; D. K. Slonim; P. Tamayo; C. Huard; M. Gaasenbeek; J. P. Mesirov; H. Coller; M. L. Loh; J. R. Downing; M. A. Caligiuri; C. D. Bloomfield; E. S. Lander
Sequencing Complex Polysaccharides, pp. 537-542
Ganesh Venkataraman; Zachary Shriver; Rahul Raman; Ram Sasisekharan
Stability and Variability in Competitive Communities, pp. 542-544
A. R. Ives; K. Gross; J. L. Klug
CFTR Chloride Channel Regulation by an Interdomain Interaction, pp. 544-548
Anjaparavanda P. Naren; Estelle Cormet-Boyaka; Jian Fu; Matteo Villain; J. Edwin Blalock; Michael W. Quick; Kevin L. Kirk
Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates, pp. 548-552
Elizabeth Gould; Alison J. Reeves; Michael S. A. Graziano; Charles G. Gross
Yeast Gene for a Tyr-DNA Phosphodiesterase that Repairs Topoisomerase I Complexes, pp. 552-555
Jeffrey J. Pouliot; Kevin C. Yao; Carol A. Robertson; Howard A. Nash


Back Matter (77 pp.)

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