Table of contents
Volume 397 Number 6715 pp89-182
In this issue (14 January 1999)
Opinion
Can physics deliver another biological revolution? p89
Cultural, institutional, conceptual and linguistic barriers are being overcome as physicists and biologists recognize the scientific stimulus they can gain from each other. The United States is showing the way.
doi:10.1038/16298
News
US biologists propose launch of electronic preprint archive p91
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/16300
Indian scientist sues over spying charge p91
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/16303
Future of German neutron source hangs in the balance p92
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/16305
Japanese centre will study the origins of the Universe p92
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/16307
China signs up for participation in EU's Framework p93
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/16310
Energy department revises terms of Venter deal after complaints p93
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/16312
Brazil brings in reforms of science funding agency p93
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/16314
Gene therapy pushes on, despite doubts p94
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/16316
Senator seeks reassurance on NIH budget p94
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/16318
US astronomers contest building project p95
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/16321
Fuel additives put under scrutiny — again p96
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/16325
Russian physicists may pay price of success p96
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/16328
Global 'eco-survey' plan gets a rough ride p97
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/16330
Correspondence
French reforms would disrupt research p101
Alain Bucheton, (President)
doi:10.1038/16335
Lab guidelines aim to prevent misconduct p101
Torben Clausen
doi:10.1038/16337
Did agriculture cause the population explosion? p101
Stephen G. Warren
doi:10.1038/16339
News and Views
Traffic lights at the Beringian crossroads p103
Andrei Sher
doi:10.1038/16341
Cell cycle: Checkpoint on the nuclear frontier p104
Jonathon Pines
doi:10.1038/16344
Atomic physics: A new twist in 
-decay p105
Wolfgang Stoeffl
doi:10.1038/16347
100 and 50 years ago p108
doi:10.1038/16351
Neurobiology: Modulation minimizes masking p108
Brian C. J. Moore
doi:10.1038/16353
Signal transduction: An anchor for activation p109
Peter ten Dijke and Carl-Henrik Heldin
doi:10.1038/16357
Daedalus: A cultured brain p111
David Jones
doi:10.1038/16360
Obituary: Alan Hodgkin (1914-98) p112
Trevor Lamb
doi:10.1038/16362
Scientific Correspondence
Lizards took express train to Polynesia p113
Christopher C. Austin
doi:10.1038/16365
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The first true inorganic fullerenes? p114
P. A. Parilla, A. C. Dillon, K. M. Jones, G. Riker, D. L. Schulz, D. S. Ginley and M. J. Heben
doi:10.1038/16368
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Length of tail streamers in barn swallows p115
Anders Hedenström and Anders Pape Møller
doi:10.1038/16371
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Reply: Length of tail streamers in barn swallows p115
Matthew R. Evans
doi:10.1038/16374
Sign language 'heard' in the auditory cortex p116
Hiroshi Nishimura, Kazuo Hashikawa, Katsumi Doi, Takako Iwaki, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Hideo Kusuoka, Tsunehiko Nishimura and Takeshi Kubo
doi:10.1038/16376
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Book Reviews
Thinking about consciousness p117
Paul E. Griffiths reviews Consciousness and Human Identity edited by John Cornwell
doi:10.1038/16379
Getting to know you p118
doi:10.1038/16382
Ornithologist-watching p119
John W. Fitzpatrick reviews A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon by Mark V. Barrow, Jr
doi:10.1038/16385
Mediaeval cures and casualties p119
Vivian Nutton reviews Medicine in the English Middle Ages by Faye Getz
doi:10.1038/16388
New in paperback p120
doi:10.1038/16391
Review
Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers p121
R. H. Friend, R. W. Gymer, A. B. Holmes, J. H. Burroughes, R. N. Marks, C. Taliani, D. D. C. Bradley, D. A. Dos Santos, J. L. Brédas, M. Lögdlund and W. R. Salaneck
doi:10.1038/16393
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (301K)
Article
A single myosin head moves along an actin filament with regular steps of 5.3 nanometres p129
Kazuo Kitamura, Makio Tokunaga, Atsuko Hikikoshi Iwane and Toshio Yanagida
doi:10.1038/16403
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Letters to Nature
The thermal imprint of galaxy formation on X-ray clusters p135
Trevor J. Ponman, Damian B. Cannon and Julio F. Navarro
doi:10.1038/16410
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Detection of environmental fine structure in the low-energy -decay
spectrum of 187Re p137
F. Gatti, F. Fontanelli, M. Galeazzi, A. M. Swift and S. Vitale
doi:10.1038/16414
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Lateral drag of spin coherence in gallium arsenide p139
J. M. Kikkawa and D. D. Awschalom
doi:10.1038/16420
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Entropic trapping of macromolecules by mesoscopic periodic voids in a polymer hydrogel p141
Lei Liu, Pusheng Li and Sanford A. Asher
doi:10.1038/16426
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A nanomechanical device based on the B–Z transition of DNA p144
Chengde Mao, Weiqiong Sun, Zhiyong Shen and Nadrian C. Seeman
doi:10.1038/16437
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Sulphidic Mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation p146
Hilde F. Passier, Hendrik-Jan Bosch, Ivar A. Nijenhuis, Lucas J. Lourens, Michael E. Böttcher, Anke Leenders, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Gert J. de Lange and Jan W. Leeuw
doi:10.1038/16441
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Evidence for an early opening of the Bering Strait p149
Louie Marincovich, Jr and Andrey Yu. Gladenkov
doi:10.1038/16446
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Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee p151
Boris Baer and Paul Schmid-Hempel
doi:10.1038/16451
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Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds p154
Israel Nelken, Yaron Rotman and Omer Bar Yosef
doi:10.1038/16456
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Kainate receptors mediate synaptic transmission between cones and 'Off' bipolar cells in a mammalian retina p157
Steven H. DeVries and Eric A. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/16462
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Kainate-receptor-mediated sensory synaptic transmission in mammalian spinal cord p161
Ping Li, Timothy J. Wilding, Susan J. Kim, Amelita A. Calejesan, James E. Huettner and Min Zhuo
doi:10.1038/16469
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The oncogene and Polycomb-group gene bmi-1 regulates cell proliferation and senescence through the ink4a locus p164
Jacqueline J. L. Jacobs, Karin Kieboom, Silvia Marino, Ronald A DePinho and Maarten van Lohuizen
doi:10.1038/16476
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Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis p168
U. Alon, M. G. Surette, N. Barkai and S. Leibler
doi:10.1038/16483
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Nuclear localization of Cdc25 is regulated by DNA damage and a 14-3-3 protein p172
Antonia Lopez-Girona, Beth Furnari, Odile Mondesert and Paul Russell
doi:10.1038/16488
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Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori p176
Richard A. Alm, Lo-See L. Ling, Donald T. Moir, Benjamin L. King, Eric D. Brown, Peter C. Doig, Douglas R. Smith, Brian Noonan, Braydon C. Guild, Boudewijn L. deJonge, Gilles Carmel, Peter J. Tummino, Anthony Caruso, Maria Uria-Nickelsen, Debra M. Mills, Cameron Ives, Rene Gibson, David Merberg, Scott D. Mills, Qin Jiang, Diane E. Taylor, Gerald F. Vovis and Trevor J. Trust
doi:10.1038/16495
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New on the Market
Cubes, cameras and chromatography p181
The year's first crop of new products is eclectic as ever, including
a clutch of HPLC columns, a trio of high-speed cameras and a pair of gloves.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
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