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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The first lady of DNA.
Andrzej Stasiak
EMBO reports 4, 1, 14 (2003). | Full Text | PDF |
doi:10.1038/sj.embor.embor723 |
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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 |
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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- B 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lymphotoxin and lipopolysaccharide induce NF- B-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 |
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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 |
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The two -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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