Volume 332 Issue 6161, 17 March 1988

Legislation on vitamin D patent makes waves

• John Maddox

Stanford still on top

• Marcia Barinaga

Pharmaceutical companies profit from Japan's blood boom

• David Swinbanks

Launch of Ariane boosts flagging telecommunications

• Peter Coles

New strategy sought for UK postgraduate medical research

• Simon Hadlington

Exotic cows born from Indian surrogates

• K. S. Jayaraman

AIDS workers going for computer link

• Carol Ezzell

International science education gets bad grades

• Carol Ezzell

AIDS agreement

• Simon Hadlington

Japan's high-tech planners dream of Australia's beaches

• Charles Morgan

Prospects looking up for new remote-sensing satellite

• Joseph Palca

Earnings up

• Simon Hadlington

ESA's Olympus set to launch a new satellite era

• Simon Hadlington

Hope for collaboration – brain meets mind in the midwest

• Joseph Palca

South African institutes restructured

• Michael Cherry

India and the United States agree on vaccine programme

• K. S. Jayaraman

Change of heart in West German bacterial release debate

• Steven Dickman

CNRS strengthens links with industry

• Peter Coles

Phillips defends three-tier model for UK academic science

• Simon Hadlington

Darwin's "claw", not "paw"!

• JOHN FAULKNER

An ethical dilemma

• D. R. FORSDYKE

Wrong bird

• ANDREW O. M. WILKIE

Global ozone trends reassessed

• Clive Rodgers

Embryos in dinosaur nests

• David B. Norman

Oncogenes and cell control

• Matilda Katan
• Peter J. Parker

Old behaviour in new materials

• Timothy R. Dinger
• Stanley W. Tozer

100 years ago

Increased tropospheric ozone

• S. A. Penkett

One source not many

• Eric Delson

Easy transformations in glasses

• Raymond Jeanloz

Views of unity and diversity

• C. S. Downes

Lamprophyres a source of gold

• D. Wyman
• R. Kerrich

Arrest the offenders!

• David Jones

Magnetic reversal rate and sea level

• R. A. MULLER
• D. E. MORRIS

Punctuated equilibrium prevails

• NILES ELDREDGE
• STEPHEN JAY GOULD

Energy conversion by gravitational waves

• H. BONDI
• F. A. E. PIRANI

Taming fission's bastard

• Alvin M. Weinberg

Why do they do it?

• Michael Bulmer

Unveiling the face of Selene

• S. R. Taylor

Those old familiar edifices

• Fiona Steele

Circular reasoning

• Thomas J. Kindt

Peptide growth factors are multifunctional

• Michael B. Sporn
• Anita B. Roberts

Non-seasonal changes in total column ozone from satellite observations, 1970–86

• Donald F. Heath

Possible demographic consequences of AIDS in developing countries

• R. M. Anderson
• R. M. May
• A. R. McLean

Gravitational radiation and gravitational lensing as a source of electromagnetic bursts

• B. McBreen
• L. Metcalfe

Transport and optical studies of single crystals of the 80-K Bi–Sr–Ca–Cu–O superconductor

• H. Takagi
• H. Eisaki
• S. Tanaka

Significance of plane versus chain sites in high-temperature oxide superconductors

• Gang Xiao
• M. Z. Cieplak
• J. A. Gotaas

Evaluation of the Montsouris series of ozone measurements made in the nineteenth century

• Andreas Volz
• Dieter Kley

Carbon monoxide in the Earth's atmosphere: indications of a global increase

• M. A. K. Khalil
• R. A. Rasmussen

Wet and dry deposition of Chernobyl releases

• M. J. Clark
• F. B. Smith

Two new three-dimensional twelve-ring zeolite frameworks of which zeolite beta is a disordered intergrowth

• M. M. J. Treacy
• J. M. Newsam

Evidence from X-ray absorption for network-forming Fe²⁺ in molten alkali silicates

• G. A. Waychunas
• G. E. Brown Jr
• W. E. Jackson

Do lamprophyres carry gold as well as diamonds?

• Nicholas M. S. Rock
• David I. Groves

A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs

• John R. Horner
• David B. Weishampel

Phylogenetic trees support the coevolution of parasites and their hosts

• Mark S. Hafner
• Steven A. Nadler

Control of nitrogen fixation by oxygen depletion in surface-associated microzones

• Hans W. Paerl
• Richard G. Carlton

pH-sensitive activation of the intracellular-pH regulation system in squid axons by ATP-γ-S

• W. F. Boron
• E. Hogan
• J. M. Russell

Identification and characterization of E. coli type-1 pilus tip adhesion protein

• Mark S. Hanson
• Charles C. Brinton Jr

Von Hippel–Lindau disease maps to the region of chromosome 3 associated with renal cell carcinoma

• B. R. Seizinger
• G. A. Rouleau
• J. F. Gusella

Sequence similarity of phospholipase C with the non-catalytic region of src

• Mark L. Stahl
• Catherine R. Ferenz
• John L. Knopf

A novel viral oncogene with structural similarity to phospholipase C

• Bruce J. Mayer
• Michinari Hamaguchi
• Hidesaburo Hanafusa

A Harvey-ras responsive transcription element is also responsive to a tumour-promoter and to serum

• J. L. Imler
• C. Schatz
• B. Wasylyk

Spontaneous mutation rates to new length alleles at tandem-repetitive hypervariable loci in human DNA

• Alec J. Jeffreys
• Nicola J. Royle
• Zilla Wong

Regulation of the Drosophila segmentation gene hunchback by two maternal morphogenetic centres

• Diethard Tautz

Zinc-finger motifs expressed in E. coli and folded in vitro direct specific binding to DNA

• Kiyoshi Nagai
• Yukinobu Nakaseko
• Daniela Rhodes

The iscom antigen-presenting system

• B. Morein

MAbs on the market

• Carol Ezzell