Volume 294 Issue 5843, 24 December 1981

British academic agony

What case for building Clinch River?

• David Dickson

Balance of US energy research attacked

• David Dickson

Data falsification: Harvard acts

• David Dickson

Christmas present for Heidelberg laboratory

• Robert Walgate

Molecular biology: Limited progress

• Robert Walgate

Polish crisis: Science in limbo

• Vera Rich

UK agricultural research: Endangered duo

• Judy Redfearn

High-energy physics: LEP marches on

• Robert Walgate

UK university funding: No reprieve

• Judy Redfearn

Recombiant DNA research: EEC safety dispute

• Jasper Becker

Electronic publishing: Journal plugs in

• Judy Redfearn

Creation science trial: Verdict awaited

• David Dickson

Voices from a wilderness

• L.A. DIKII
• G.A. FREIMAN
• V.N. SOYFER

SERC's plans

• B.W. OAKLEY

An acid test

• SIDNEY W. FOX

Literary anarchy

• G. MERTENS

Lymphokines on the move

• Verner Paetkau

A new view of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds

• David Clark

Are stress fibres contractile?

• Keith Burridge

Order or disorder in the structure of glass?

• S.R. Elliott

Calcium and calmodulin in Kyoto

• Robert S. Adelstein

100 years ago

Environmental nitrosamines and cancer

• Valda M. Craddock

Movement in membranes

• A.G. Lee

The gassiest comet?

• David W. Hughes

Long-term growth and cloning of non-transformed lymphocytes

• William E. Paul
• Benjamin Sredni
• Ronald H. Schwartz

The 1883 eruption of Krakatau

• Stephen Self
• Michael R. Rampino

Evaluation of the Seasat wind scatterometer

• W. L. Jones
• D. H. Boggs
• L. C. Schroeder

Pontnewydd Cave in Wales—a new Middle Pleistocene hominid site

• H. S. Green
• C. B. Stringer
• R. E. Bevins

Intragenic amplification and divergence in the mouse α-fetoprotein gene

• Fern Alexander Eiferman
• Peter R. Young
• Shirley M. Tilghman

Membrane asymmetry in epithelia: is the tight junction a barrier to diffusion in the plasma membrane?

• Paul R. Dragsten
• Robert Blumenthal
• Joseph S. Handler

Probable optical counterpart of a γ-ray burster

• Bradley E. Schaefer

A four-hour orbital period of the X-ray burster 4U/MXB1636—53

• Holger Pedersen
• Jan van Paradijs
• Walter H. G. Lewin

Intrinsic variations of the double quasar 0957 + 56 AB

• C. Lloyd

First remote sensing of the plasmapause by terrestrial myriametric radiation

• Dyfrig Jones

Atmospheric angular momentum and the length of day: a common fluctuation with a period near 50 days

• Richard B. Langley
• Robert W. King
• David A. Salstein

Solvated electrons in the upper atmosphere

• F. Arnold

Halocarbons in the stratosphere

• P. Fabian
• R. Borchers
• N. J. D. Prosser

Anomalous wind estimates from the Seasat scatterometer

• T. H. Guymer
• J. A. Businger
• R. H. Stewart

Determinations by Seasat of atmospheric water and synoptic fronts

• P. K. Taylor
• K. B. Katsaros
• R. G. Lipes

Anomalous magnetic directions recorded by laboratory-induced chemical remanent magnetization

• Monika E. Bailey
• Christopher J. Hale

Isotopic and biostratigraphical records of calcareous nannofossils in a Pleistocene core

• Thomas F. Anderson
• John C. Steinmetz

Extensive regulatory capabilities of a Drosophila imaginal disk blastema

• Gary H. Karpen
• Gerold Schubiger

Estimates of dinosaur speeds from a new trackway site in Texas

• James O. Farlow

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes induced by syngeneic mouse melanoma cells recognize human melanomas

• Seiji Wakabayashi
• Masaru Taniguchi
• Shoji Okamoto

Antigen-driven helper cell-independent cloned cytolytic T lymphocytes

• Michael B. Widmer
• Fritz H. Bach

Inward current channels activated by intracellular Ca in cultured cardiac cells

• D. Colquhoun
• E. Neher
• C. F. Stevens

Free Ca²⁺ increases in exponential phases during mouse oocyte activation

• K. S. Roy Cuthbertson
• D. G. Whittingham
• Peter H. Cobbold

β-Endorphin and dynorphin control serum luteinizing hormone level in immature female rats

• Rüdiger Schulz
• Annemarie Wilhelm
• Albert Herz

Effects of nifedipine on electrical and mechanical responses of rat and guinea pig vas deferens

• A. G. H. Blakeley
• D. A. Brown
• N. C. Scott

Vertical organization of neurones accumulating ³H-GABA in visual cortex of rhesus monkey

• P. Somogyi
• A. Cowey
• T. F. Freund

Agonist and antagonist benzodiazepine receptor interaction in vitro

• H. Möhler
• J. G. Richards

Immunohistochemical mapping of vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein in brain

• Sohan S. Jande
• L. Maler
• D. Eric M. Lawson

Evidence that types I and II interferons have different receptors

• Andrew A. Branca
• Corrado Baglioni

Type C virus particles in a cord T-cell line derived by co-cultivating normal human cord leukocytes and human leukaemic T cells

• Isao Miyoshi
• Ichiro Kubonishi
• Yorio Hinuma

Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein, p60^src, expressed in E. coli, functions as a protein kinase

• Tona M. Gilmer
• R. L. Erikson

Propagation of foreign DNA in plants using cauliflower mosaic virus as vector

• Bruno Gronenborn
• Richard C. Gardner
• Robert J. Shepherd

Role of the nifA gene product in the regulation of nif expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae

• V. Buchanan-Wollaston
• M. C. Cannon
• F. C. Cannon

cDNA sequences of human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase cloned in pBR322

• M. G. Persico
• D. Toniolo
• L. Luzzatto

Drawin through a purple haze

• A. J. Cain

Rare air of motion

• R. Hide

News from the petroleum geologists

• J. R. V. Brooks

Greater clarity in lens biology

• Christine Slingsby

Australia's biogeographical development

• Peter D. Moore

Anamorph anthology

• C. T. Ingold

Beyond mechanics in human reproduction

• R. V. Short

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