Volume 18 Issue 6, June 2000

In praise of pessimism

Organization becomes cause in the matter

• Richard C. Strohman

How important is genetic engineering to European seed firms?

• Anthony Arundel
• Matthias Hocke
• Joyce Tait

Total RNA and array-based expression monitoring

• Björn Carlsson
• Margareta Jernås
• Lena M.S. Carlsson

Reply to ‘Total RNA and array-based expression monitoring’

Integrated pararetroviral sequences

• M.A. Matzke
• M.F. Mette
• A.J.M. Matzke

Gene therapy guidelines

• Julie Grisham

Structural genomics deal

• Asako Saegusa

Ruling favors Amgen

• Debra Robertson

Japan's cloning law fails

• Asako Saegusa

Cartoon

GMO roundup

• John Hodgson

EU biosciences panel

• Sabine Louët

Eco-terrorism penalties

• Eric Niiler

EPA rejects Greenpeace

• Alan Dove

India okays Bt cotton

• KS Jayaraman

Human fly bites rub Celera

• Alan Dove

EU's new orphan drug regulations

• Sabine Louët

Bioprospecting deal OK

• Julie Grisham

Stem cell hearing

• Jeffrey Fox

US House biotech report

• Jeffrey Fox

Research Collaborations

Vaccinia's interactions

• Robert Frederickson

Cold fusion for eggs

• Julie Grisham

Soluble receptor against lupus?

• Alan Dove

Surrogate β-cells

• Andrew Marshall

High-affinity TCRs

• Alan Dove

Engineering heparin-independent FGF

• Meeghan Sinclair

In vivo correction of muscular dystrophy

• Judy Jamison

Massively massive parallel analysis

• Natalie DeWitt

Metallothionein biomediator

• Judy Jamison

Surface vaccine combo

• Meeghan Sinclair

A beetle biopesticide

• Judy Jamison

Targeting gene therapy to airway epithelia

• Meeghan Sinclair

Imaging neuronal activity in small animals

• Meeghan Sinclair

Healthier ketchup?

• Judy Jamison

Reconstituting active G-coupled receptors on magnetic beads

• Natalie DeWitt

Retroviral vector for quiescent cells?

• Meeghan Sinclair

Technical Reports

• Natalie DeWitt

Technical Reports

• Meeghan Sinclair

Review

• Andrew Marshall

Industry still fears political opposition to European Union GM legislation

• John Hodgson

Local efforts to enforce GM food labeling are thwarted

• Eric Niiler

Lukewarm reception for US biotech proposals

• Jeffrey L. Fox

IPOs, not follow-ons, proceed

• Emma Dorey

Small success for gene therapy

• Alan Dove

Cloned cows turn back the cellular clock

• Vicki Glaser

Protein biopesticide may be next wave in pest control

• Julie Grisham

Taking a census of mRNA populations with microbeads

• Sanjay Tyagi

Laying hold on eternal life?

• Ian Wilmut
• John Clark
• Calvin B. Harley

Microbes with a mettle for bioremediation

• Derek R. Lovley
• Jon R. Lloyd

Silencing Morpheus awakens transgenes

• Vicki L. Chandler
• Richard Jorgensen

European exploitation of biotechnology—do government policies help?

• Jacqueline Senker
• Christien Enzing
• Thomas Reiss

Who's your neighbor? New computational approaches for functional genomics

• Michael Y. Galperin
• Eugene V. Koonin

In vivo targeted repair of a point mutation in the canine dystrophin gene by a chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotide

• Richard J. Bartlett
• Sabine Stockinger
• Joe N. Kornegay

Spleen necrosis virus-derived C-type retroviral vectors for gene transfer to quiescent cells

• Zahida Parveen
• Anna Krupetsky
• Ralph Dornburg

Gene expression analysis by massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) on microbead arrays

• Sydney Brenner
• Maria Johnson
• Kevin Corcoran

G-protein-coupled receptors as targets for gene transfer vectors using natural small-molecule ligands

• Silvia M. Kreda
• Raymond J. Pickles
• Richard C. Boucher

Engineering of an FGF–proteoglycan fusion protein with heparin-independent, mitogenic activity

• Atsuko Yoneda
• Masahiro Asada
• Toru Imamura

Surface-displayed viral antigens on Salmonella carrier vaccine

• Jong-Soo Lee
• Kwang-Soon Shin
• Chul-Joong Kim

Paramagnetic proteoliposomes containing a pure, native, and oriented seven-transmembrane segment protein, CCR5

• Tajib Mirzabekov
• Harry Kontos
• Joseph Sodroski

In vivo imaging of neuronal activation and plasticity in the rat brain by high resolution positron emission tomography (microPET)

• Harley I. Kornblum
• Dalia M. Araujo
• Simon R. Cherry

Engineering a mouse metallothionein on the cell surface of Ralstonia eutropha CH34 for immobilization of heavy metals in soil

• Marc Valls
• Sílvia Atrian
• Luis A. Fernández

Elevation of the provitamin A content of transgenic tomato plants

• Susanne Römer
• Paul D. Fraser
• Peter M. Bramley

Transgenic avidin maize is resistant to storage insect pests

• Karl J. Kramer
• Thomas D. Morgan
• John A. Howard

Efficient generation of midbrain and hindbrain neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells

• Sang-Hun Lee
• Nadya Lumelsky
• Ron D. McKay

Genome-directed primers for selective labeling of bacterial transcripts for DNA microarray analysis

• Adel M. Talaat
• Preston Hunter
• Stephen Albert Johnston

Patents on genes: clarifying the issues

• R. Stephen Crespi

Recent patents in genomics

Job compensation in the biotechnology core laboratory

• Debra A. McMillen
• William M. Old
• Satya P. Yadav

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