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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 278, No. 5339, Oct. 31, 1997
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 278, No. 5341, Nov. 14, 1997
Front Matter (35 pp.)
Editorial: Cancer: What Should be Done?, p. 995
- J. Michael Bishop
Letters
- High Over the Permafrost, p. 997
- Vanessa Winchester
- Restoring Ecosystems, pp. 997-1001
- Wayne Richter; James Aronson; Richard Hobbs; Arthur M. Shapiro; Andy P. Dobson; A. D. Bradshaw; Jim Baker
- Rise in Asthma Cases, p. 1001
- Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills; Judith A. Woodfolk
Corrections and Clarifications: Odd Visitor from the Oort Cloud, p. 1001
ScienceScope, p. 1003
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News and Comment
- Apocalypse Not, pp. 1004-1006
- Gary Taubes
- NIH Plans One Grant for All Sizes, p. 1006
- Eliot Marshall
- Universities Balk at OMB Funding Rules, p. 1007
- Eliot Marshall
- Storm Aborts Antarctic Drilling Project, pp. 1007-1008
- Richard Stone
- Making the Most of a Short Life, p. 1008
- Gretchen Vogel
- Academics Fear Research Cuts to Pay Overhead Costs, p. 1009
- Nigel Williams
Research News
- The Dial-Up Sky, pp. 1010-1012
- Ann Finkbeiner
- X-rays Hint at Space Pirouette, pp. 1012-1013
- James Glanz
- Fast-Forward Aging in a Mutant Mouse?, p. 1013
- Wade Roush
- NMR Maps Giant Molecules as they Fold and Flutter, pp. 1014-1015
- Michael Balter
- Lining Up Proteins for NMR, pp. 1015-1016
- Robert F. Service
- Rain Forest Fragments Fare Poorly, p. 1016
- Nigel Williams
- Growth, Death, and Climate Featured in Salt Lake City, pp. 1017-1018
- Richard A. Kerr
Random Samples, pp. 1019-1021
- Constance Holden
Frontiers in Cancer Research
- [Introduction], p. 1035
- Paula Kiberstis; Jean Marx
News
- From Bench Top to Bedside, pp. 1036-1039
- Marcia Barinaga
- On the Biotech Pharm, a Race to Harvest New Cancer Cures, pp. 1039-1040
- Wade Roush
- Systems for Identifying New Drugs are Often Faulty, pp. 1041-1042
- Trisha Gura
- Human Cancer Syndromes: Clues to the Origin and Nature of Cancer, pp. 1043-1050
- Eric R. Fearon
- Genetic Testing for Cancer Risk, pp. 1050-1054
- Bruce Ponder
- Nucleic Acid-Based Methods for the Detection of Cancer, pp. 1054-1058
- David Sidransky
- Oncogenic Transcription Factors in the Human Acute Leukemias, pp. 1059-1064
- A. Thomas Look
- Integrating Genetic Approaches into the Discovery of Anticancer Drugs, pp. 1064-1068
- Leland H. Hartwell; Philippe Szankasi; Christopher J. Roberts; Andrew W. Murray; Stephen H. Friend
- Environment and Cancer: Who are Susceptible?, pp. 1068-1073
- Frederica P. Perera
- Recent Advances in Chemoprevention of Cancer, pp. 1073-1077
- Waun Ki Hong; Michael B. Sporn
Book Reviews
- The Machine Age in Medicine, p. 1082
- Beginnings Count. The Technological Imperative in American Health Care.
- David J. Rothman
- Review author[s]: Richard A. Rettig
- An Incipient Synthesis, p. 1083
- Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution.
- Robert L. Carroll
- Review author[s]: Kevin Padian
Perspectives
- Drilling Volcanoes, pp. 1084-1085
- John C. Eichelberger
- Death by Lethal Injection, pp. 1085-1086
- Thomas J. Silhavy
- Ion Channels and Locomotion, pp. 1087-1088
- Sten Grillner
- Quantum Nondemolition: Probing the Mystery of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 1088-1089
- Stephen R. Friberg
Webwatch, p. 1089
- David Voss
Policy Forum
- An Environmental Rationale for Retention of Endangered Chemicals, pp. 1090-1091
- Donald J. Wuebbles; James M. Calm
Research Articles
- Mapping the Inside of the Ribosome with an RNA Helical Ruler, pp. 1093-1098
- Simpson Joseph; Bryn Weiser; Harry F. Noller
- Age and Origin of the Moon, pp. 1098-1103
- Der-Chuen Lee; Alex N. Halliday; Gregory A. Snyder; Lawrence A. Taylor
Reports
- Observed Hemispheric Asymmetry in Global Sea Ice Changes, pp. 1104-1106
- D. J. Cavalieri; P. Gloersen; C. L. Parkinson; J. C. Comiso; H. J. Zwally
- Abiotic Selenium Redox Transformations in the Presence of Fe(II,III) Oxides, pp. 1106-1109
- S. C. B. Myneni; T. K. Tokunaga; G. E. Brown Jr.
- High-Pressure Transformation of AI2O3, pp. 1109-1111
- Nobumasa Funamori; Raymond Jeanloz
- Direct Measurement of Distances and Angles in Biomolecules by NMR in a Dilute Liquid Crystalline Medium, pp. 1111-1114
- Nico Tjandra; Ad Bax
- Lake Baikal Record of Continental Climate Response to Orbital Insolation During the Past 5 Million Years, pp. 1114-1117
- D. F. Williams; J. Peck; E. B. Karabanov; A. A. Prokopenko; V. Kravchinsky; J. King; M. I. Kuzmin
- Biomass Collapse in Amazonian Forest Fragments, pp. 1117-1118
- William F. Laurance; Susan G. Laurance; Leandro V. Ferreira; Judy M. Rankin-de Merona; Claude Gascon; Thomas E. Lovejoy
- A Euryarchaeal Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase: Resemblance to Class I Synthetases, pp. 1119-1122
- Michael Ibba; Susan Morgan; Alan W. Curnow; David R. Pridmore; Ute C. Vothknecht; Warren Gardner; Winston Lin; Carl R. Woese; Dieter Soll
- Role of Sensory-Evoked NMDA Plateau Potentials in the Initiation of Locomotion, pp. 1122-1125
- Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco; Edouard Pearlstein; Richard Robitaille; Réjean Dubuc
- Structural Plasticity in Remodeled Protein-Protein Interface, pp. 1125-1128
- Shane Atwell; Mark Ultsch; Abraham M. De Vos; James A. Wells
- A Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bond in the Catalytic Triad of Serine Proteases? Theory Versus Experiment, pp. 1128-1132
- Elissa L. Ash; James L. Sudmeier; Edward C. De Fabo; William W. Bachovchin
- Inhibition of Brain Gz GAP and Other RGS Proteins by Palmitoylation of G Protein a Subunits, pp. 1132-1135
- Yaping Tu; Jun Wang; Elliott M. Ross
- Areal Segregation of Face-Processing Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex, pp. 1135-1138
- Seamas P. Ó Scalaidhe; Fraser A. W. Wilson; Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
- Thermoregulation in the Mouths of Feeding Gray Whales, pp. 1138-1139
- John E. Heyning; James G. Mead
- A mRNA Signal for the Type III Secretion of Yop Proteins by Yersinia enterocolitica, pp. 1140-1143
- Deborah M. Anderson; Olaf Schneewind
Back Matter (49 pp.)
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