Volume 17 Issue 3, March 1999

More gods and monsters

Feeding the world, harmoniously

• Tom Crompton

Keeping the biotechnology of antisense in context

• C.A. Stein

Shorter is better

• M. Raafat El-Gewely

Spin science

• Ronald W. Eastman

Spin science

Erratum

Warner-Lambert acquires speculative Agouron pipeline

• Emma Dorey

IPOs increase in Europe

• Adam Michael

Cortech relists

• Vicki Brower

India sequences chickpea

• KS Jayaraman

Shaman switches gears

• Vicki Brower

Marimastat fails again

• Adam Michael

Japan easy on gene therapy

• Asako Saegusa

First US–German start-up

• Adam Michael

Entremed's stock seesaws

• Emma Dorey

New plant to desulfurize oil

• Stephen Cass

Research collaborations

Controlled-release microchip

• Margret Einarson

Muscling in on bone formation

• LeeAnn Leshko

Reprogramming neural stem cells

• Alex Castellino

Sizing up DNA

• LeeAnn Leshko

Priming axon regeneration

• Aseem Ansari

Antitumor vaccines with punch

• Natalie DeWitt

Building better promoters

• Robert Frederickson

Invading diagnostics

• Robert Frederickson

Stress relief for plants

• Robert Frederickson

Iron-fortified rice

• Natalie DeWitt

A synthetic IL-10 mimic

• Natalie DeWitt

Evolving thymidine kinase

• Natalie DeWitt

Stealthy RNases

• Robert Frederickson

Making antibodies more human

• Natalie DeWitt

Reprogramming messages

• Robert Frederickson

Stem cell transformations proliferate

• Vicki Brower

UK government supports biotech

• Adam Michael

USDA appeases organic lobby

• Jeffrey L. Fox

Synergen lineage may finally pay off

• Joseph Alper

Overview of FY 2000 US federal budget request

• Jeffrey L. Fox

Cancer Pathways' target not validated by clinical results

• Mark Ratner

Pharma strategies extend drug lives

• Debra Robertson

Return of the Neuer Markt

• Ingeborg Fürst

A new routine in molecular gymnastics

• Ryszard Kole

Piecing together more efficient gene expression

• Nikunj V. Somia
• Tal Kafri
• Inder M. Verma

Extending genetic vaccines with chemokines

• Thomas Kipps
• Robert Mendoza

Smartbombs and cloaking devices

• Richard W. Wagner
• Dasa Lipovsek

DREB takes the stress out of growing up

• Nicholas Smirnoff
• John A. Bryant

Pumping iron

• Michael R. Sussman

Proteomics: translating genomics into products?

• Alan Dove

Drug approval in Europe

• Gary Walsh

Synthetic muscle promoters: activities exceeding naturally occurring regulatory sequences

• Xuyang Li
• Eric M. Eastman
• Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

Spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing as a tool for gene therapy

• M. Puttaraju
• Sharon F. Jamison
• Lloyd G. Mitchell

Genetic fusion of chemokines to a self tumor antigen induces protective, T-cell dependent antitumor immunity

• Arya Biragyn
• Kenji Tani
• Larry W. Kwak

Directed evolution of thymidine kinase for AZT phosphorylation using DNA family shuffling

• Fred C. Christians
• Leonardo Scapozza
• Willem P.C. Stemmer

Engineering receptor-mediated cytotoxicity into human ribonucleases by steric blockade of inhibitor interaction

• Motoshi Suzuki
• Shailendra K. Saxena
• Richard J. Youle

A synthetic mimic of a discontinuous binding site on interleukin-10

• Ulrich Reineke
• Robert Sabat
• Jens Schneider-Mergener

A recombinant, fully human monoclonal antibody with antitumor activity constructed from phage-displayed antibody fragments

• Gerwin A. Huls
• Ingmar A.F.M. Heijnen
• Ton Logtenberg

Iron fortification of rice seed by the soybean ferritin gene

• Fumiyuki Goto
• Toshihiro Yoshihara
• Fumio Takaiwa

Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor

• Mie Kasuga
• Qiang Liu
• Kazuo Shinozaki

Polymorphism identification and quantitative detection of genomic DNA by invasive cleavage of oligonucleotide probes

• Victor Lyamichev
• Andrea L. Mast
• Mary Ann D. Brow

Have you bargained away patent rights?

• Breffni Baggot

Recent antibody-related patents

Displacement chromatography for biopolymer separation

• Ruth Freitag

Electric genes

• Terry Gaasterland

Web PCR

• Stacey McCann

People

New products

Mental disorder drug discovery

• Aris Persidis
• Rachel M. Copen