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Contents: Volume 4,
Number 1
 
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Educate or communicate? | Ring out the old, ring in the new.

Frank Gannon

EMBO reports 4, 1, 1 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor717
science and society
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The postdoctoral system under the spotlight.  A European Union Directive regulating fixed-term contracts has focused attention on scientific career structures and could have long-term effects on European science

Niall Dillon

EMBO reports 4, 1, 2–4 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor721
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A live issue and a moving target.  US scientists have largely pioneered the field of human embryonic stem cell research, but the current political situation in the USA is not kind to their work

Vicki Brower

EMBO reports 4, 1, 5–7 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor718
Computing with DNA.  Although DNA clearly outclasses any silicon-based computer when it comes to information storage and processing speed, a DNA-based PC is still a long way off

Jack Parker

EMBO reports 4, 1, 7–10 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor719
Back to the roots.  New knowledge and technologies are already improving plant breeding. But will it be enough to provide sufficient food for the world's growing population?

Holger Breithaupt

EMBO reports 4, 1, 10–12 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor720
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We are all molecular biologists now.

Andrew Travers

EMBO reports 4, 1, 13 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor724
The first lady of DNA.

Andrzej Stasiak

EMBO reports 4, 1, 14 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor723
reviews
meeting reports top go to top
Think like a bacterium.  Conference on Bacterial Neural Networks

Susan S. Golden

EMBO reports 4, 1, 15–17 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor702
A molecular dissection of nuclear function.  Conference on The Dynamic Nucleus: Questions and Implications

David L. Spector & Susan M. Gasser

EMBO reports 4, 1, 18–23 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor701
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Initiating inhibition.  Control of epidermal cell patterning in plants

M. David Marks & Jeffery J. Esch

EMBO reports 4, 1, 24–25 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor705
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A rotary pumping model for helicase function of MCM proteins at a distance from replication forks.

Ronald A. Laskey & Mark A. Madine

EMBO reports 4, 1, 26–30 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor706
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NF-kappaB activation by protein kinase C isoforms and B-cell function.

Jorge Moscat, María T. Diaz-Meco & Paul Rennert

EMBO reports 4, 1, 31–36 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor704
Strategies for helicase recruitment and loading in bacteria.

Igor Konieczny

EMBO reports 4, 1, 37–41 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor703
scientific reports
Human cytomegalovirus prevents replication licensing by inhibiting MCM loading onto chromatin.

Lüder Wiebusch, Ralf Uecker & Christian Hagemeier

EMBO reports 4, 1, 42–46 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor707
The Gam protein of bacteriophage Mu is an orthologue of eukaryotic Ku.

Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, Geoffrey R. Weller, Aidan J. Doherty & Stephen P. Jackson

EMBO reports 4, 1, 47–52 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF | Supplementary Information |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor709
The yeast counterparts of human 'MELAS' mutations cause mitochondrial dysfunction that can be rescued by overexpression of the mitochondrial translation factor EF-Tu.

M. Feuermann, S. Francisci, T. Rinaldi, C. De Luca, H. Rohou, L. Frontali & M. Bolotin-Fukuhara

EMBO reports 4, 1, 53–58 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF | Supplementary Information |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor713
Trithorax interacts with type 1 serine/threonine protein phosphatase in Drosophila.

Andrey Rudenko, Daimark Bennett & Luke Alphey

EMBO reports 4, 1, 59–63 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor712
DmMyD88 controls dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo.

Zakaria Kambris, Hana Bilak, Rosalba D'Alessandro, Marcia Belvin, Jean-Luc Imler & Maria Capovilla

EMBO reports 4, 1, 64–69 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor714
The ligand-sensitive gate of a potassium channel lies close to the selectivity filter.

Peter Proks, Jennifer F. Antcliff & Frances M. Ashcroft

EMBO reports 4, 1, 70–75 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embo708
A carboxy-terminal domain determines the subunit specificity of KCNQ K+ channel assembly.

Michael Schwake, Thomas J. Jentsch & Thomas Friedrich

EMBO reports 4, 1, 76–81 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor715
Lymphotoxin and lipopolysaccharide induce NF-kappaB-p52 generation by a co-translational mechanism.

Benjamin Mordmüller, Daniel Krappmann, Meral Esen, Elmar Wegener & Claus Scheidereit

EMBO reports 4, 1, 82–87 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor710
Cyclic AMP is sufficient for triggering the exocytic recruitment of aquaporin-2 in renal epithelial cells.

Dorothea Lorenz, Andrey Krylov, Daniel Hahm, Volker Hagen, Walter Rosenthal, Peter Pohl & Kenan Maric

EMBO reports 4, 1, 88–93 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF | Supplementary Information |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor711
The two alpha-tubulin isotypes in budding yeast have opposing effects on microtubule dynamics in vitro.

Claudia J. Bode, Mohan L. Gupta, Kathy A. Suprenant & Richard H. Himes

EMBO reports 4, 1, 94–99 (2003). | Abstract | Full Text | PDF |
Published online: January 2003 | doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor716
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