Volume 297 Issue 5861, 6 May 1982

Economic research?

National labs reach crossroads

• Deborah Shapley

Disarray on chemicals control

• Jasper Becker

How Dr Melamed lost his degree

• Vera Rich

Agricultural biotechnology: Soon to start

• Peter Newmark

University admissions: Still squeezed

• Judy Redfearn

US research support: Question of size

• Deborah Shapley

Polish Academy of sciences: Slow progress

• Vera Rich

Call from arms

• Deborah Shapley

Muscular dystrophy research: Positive move

• Jane Wynn

Musical chairs at the CEA

• Robert Walgate

Ecology in the sinai: Time of change

• Vera Rich

MRC research unit: Job vacancy

• Judy Redfearn

US Science education: Nearing a crisis

• Deborah Shapley

Sequence libraries

• GREG HAMM

“Useless” research?

• GRAHAM HILLS

Research accountant

• A.B.L. CLARKE

Not all cranks

• ANDREW FORESTER

April Fool!

• FRANK A. PITELKA

Creative energy

• GARTH BARBER

Institutional biosafety committees and public participation: assessing an experiment

• Diana B. Dutton
• John L. Hochheimer

New frequency standards from ultra-narrow Raman resonances?

• Peter Knight

Enhancing elements for activation of eukaryotic promoters

• Moshe Yaniv

The great galactic centre mystery

• Guenter R. Riegler

Are Sahelian droughts predictable?

• S.I. Rasool

Meteoritics: evidence for chemical fractionation in the early Solar System

• Robert Hutchison

The aging of the brain

• Patrick Rabbitt

Engineering organic molecular layers

• C.W. Pitt
• I.A. Shanks

100 years ago

Human body clocks and the timing of sleep

• Arthur T. Winfree

An explanation of ¹³C/¹²C variations in tree rings

• R. J. Francey
• G. D. Farquhar

Function of a tRNA gene promoter depends on nucleosome position

• Stephanie Wittig
• Burghardt Wittig

NGC5128—a galaxy with a recently formed disk

• Michel Marcelin
• Jacques Boulesteix
• Bruno Milliard

Field stimulated exoelectron emission from borosilicate glass

• Terence M. Roberts
• D. Brynn Hibbert

Helium isotopic systematics of oceanic islands and mantle heterogeneity

• M. D. Kurz
• W. J. Jenkins
• S. R. Hart

Scaling rules in rock fracture and possible implications for earthquake prediction

• C. J. Allègre
• J. L. Le Mouel
• A. Provost

Cobalt in north-east Pacific waters

• G. A. Knauer
• J. H. Martin
• R. M. Gordon

Beryllium in the water column of the central North Pacific

• C.I. Measures
• J. M. Edmond

Hindered bedload settling as a model of sand bed planation by water waves

• Robert J. Hallermeier

Acid rain on Bermuda

• Timothy Jickells
• Anthony Knap
• John Miller

Radiations and extinctions of plankton in the late Proterozoic and early Cambrian

• Gonzalo Vidal
• Andrew H. Knoll

Mating and song sharing in the great tit

• P. K. McGregor
• J. R. Krebs

Male Eufriesia purpurata, a DDT-collecting euglossine bee in Brazil

• Donald R. Roberts
• Wilson D. Alecrim
• Jose B. Lima

Erythrocytes deficient in glycophorin resist invasion by the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum

• G. Pasvol
• J. S. Wainscoat
• D. J. Weatherall

Virus-induced diabetes mellitus: autoimmunity and polyendocrine disease prevented by immunosuppression

• Takashi Onodera
• Usha R. Ray
• Abner Louis Notkins

Attenuated reovirus type 3 strains generated by selection of haemagglutinin antigenic variants

• Dale R. Spriggs
• Bernard N. Fields

Non-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies can prevent lethal alphavirus encephalitis

• A. L. Schmaljohn
• E. D. Johnson
• G. A. Cole

Specific opiate receptors on isolated mammalian gastric smooth muscle cells

• K. N. Bitar
• G. M. Makhlouf

Opiate receptor subclasses differ in their conformational requirements

• Peter W. Schiller
• John DiMaio

Dopamine modulates a Ca²⁺-activated potassium conductance in mammalian hippocampal pyramidal cells

• Larry S. Benardo
• David A. Prince

Lipid-soluble toxins thought to be specific for Na⁺ channels block Ca²⁺ channels in neuronal cells

• Georges Romey
• Michel Lazdunski

Expression of eukaryotic coding sequences in Methylophilus methylotrophus

• John F. Hennam
• Angela E. Cunningham
• Keith T. Atherton

Evidence that a human β-tubulin pseudogene is derived from its corresponding mRNA

• C. Deborah Wilde
• Carol E. Crowther
• N. J. Cowan

The illusory quest for primary colours

• J. D. Mollon

François Jacob on possible worlds

• P.B. Medawar

Marine microfossils

• B. M. Funnell

Muscle laid bare to the bone

• R.M. Simmons

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