Volume 14 Issue 10, October 1996

Editorial

The genome rush of 1996

Editorial 01 Oct 1996

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Commentary

A new paradigm for drug discovery in tropical rainforests

Todd L. Capson
Phyllis D. Coley
Thomas A. Kursar
Commentary 01 Oct 1996

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Correspondence

Abundance and competition in PCR

Ursula H.A. Schlichter
David Bertioli
Correspondence 01 Oct 1996
Abundance and competition in PCR

Carlos López-Nieto
Sanjay K. Nigam
Correspondence 01 Oct 1996
Erratum

Correspondence 01 Oct 1996

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Business and Regulatory News

Business & Regulatory News

Business and Regulatory News 01 Oct 1996

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Nature Biotechnology Research

Nature Biotechnology Research

Nature Biotechnology Research 01 Oct 1996

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Analysis

PGS-AgrEvo deal stirs up plant biotechnology

Mike Ward
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
FBI forensics tries mtDNA

Jeffrey L. Fox
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Another genome, another kingdom, another set of surprises

Jeffrey L. Fox
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Bulgaria gets Eastern Europe's first gene release body

John Hodgson
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Ecogen Israel gets second approval

Vicki Brower
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Mabs: A new lease on life for transplant patients?

Barbara Nasto
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Making tolerance permanent

Barbara Nasto
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Gene therapy's other investment window

Emma Johnson
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Can ReoPro repolish tarnished monoclonal therapeutics?

Vicki Glaser
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Structure and fluorescence mechanism of GFP

Douglas C. Youvan
Maria E. Michel-Beyerle
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Cellular probes on the move

Sanford M. Simon
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Super hormones

Raymond W. Ruddon
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Sleeping satellites: A risky prospect

Mark Tepfer
Mireille Jacquemond
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
Genetic tests for familial hypercholesterolemia

Ian Day
Steve Humphries
Analysis 01 Oct 1996
The specificity of protein aggregation

Jeannine M. Yon
Analysis 01 Oct 1996

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Feature

Moving beyond the genome projects

Does the future of genomics-based drug discovery lie with the mouse?

Glenn A. Friedrich
Feature 01 Oct 1996

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Research Review

Engineering antibody Fv fragments for cancer detection and therapy: Bisulfide-stabilized Fv fragments

Yoram Reiter
Ulrich Brinkmann
Ira Pastan
Research Review 01 Oct 1996

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Research Article

The molecular structure of green fluorescent protein

Fan Yang
Larry G. Moss
George N. Phillips Jr.
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Spatial dynamics of GFP-tagged proteins investigated by local fluorescence enhancement

Hiroko Yokoe
Tobias Meyer
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Engineering human glycoprotein hormone superactive analogues

Mariusz W. Szkudlinski
Nenita G. Teh
Bruce D. Weintraub
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Spontaneous change of a benign satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus to a pathogenic variant

Peter Palukaitis
Marilyn J. Roossinck
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Stability of food allergens to digestion in vitro

James D. Astwood
John N. Leach
Roy L. Fuchs
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
The similarities of bar and pat gene products make them equally applicable for plant engineers

Axel Wehrmann
Adri Van Vliet
Arno Schulz
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA) for the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia

Heike Baron
Steven Fung
Herbert Schuster
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Specific aggregation of partially folded polypeptide chains: The molecular basis of inclusion body composition

Margaret A. Speed
Daniel I. C. Wang
Jonathan King
Research Article 01 Oct 1996
Modifying the insect cell N-glycosylation pathway with immediate early baculovirus expression vectors

Donald L. Jarvis
Eric E. Finn
Research Article 01 Oct 1996

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Book Review

Plumbing the inner secrets of R&D

Robert Teitelman
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Bioethics made too simple

Genetic Engineering: Dreams and Nightmares by Enzo Russo and David Cove. W.H. Freeman, New York, 1995, pp. 243, $22.95, (hbk); DNA & Destiny: Nature & Nurture in Human Behavior by R. Grant Steen. Plenum Publishing, New York and London, 1996, pp. 295, $28.95, (hbk); Double-Edged Sword: The Promises and Risks of the Genetic Revolution by Karl A. Drlica. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, New York, 1994, pp.241, $20.00, (hbk).

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Politically correct PCR

Harvey Bialy
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Underdeveloped territories of bioinformatics

Molecular Bioinformatics: Algorithms and Applications by Steffan Schulze-Kremer. Walter de Gruyter, New York, 1995, $98.00, (hbk).

John C. Wootton
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Application better than principles

Nucleic Add Analysis: Principles and Bioapplications, Charles A. Dangler (Ed.). John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996, pp. 284, $89.95, (hbk).

Graham R. Taylor
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
A convention unmasked

The Biodiversity Convention: A Negotiating History by Fiona McConnell. International Environmental Law & Policy Series, Kluwer Law International, 1996, pp. 223, $114.00, £77.00, (hbk).

L. Val Giddings
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Genethics and eugenics

The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy by Leroy Walter and Julie Gage Palmer. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, pp.195,(hbk).

Robert Pollack
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Enzymes and industry: A tasty compendium

Industrial Enzymology, Second Edition, Tony Godfrey and Stuart West (eds.). Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, UK, 1996, pp. 609, £110.00, (hbk).

Bruce P. Wasserman
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Furniture for the shelves?

Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, Vol. 1–3 (Letters A through M), Robert Meyers (ed.). VCH Publishers, New York, 1996, pp. 520, $330.00, (hbk).

William Bains
Book Review 01 Oct 1996
Changing the world

Evolution Isn't What it Used to Be by Walter Truett Anderson, W.H. Freeman, New York, 1996, pp. 223, $22.95, (hbk).

Bernard Dixon
Book Review 01 Oct 1996

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Patents

Prior art considerations when patenting DNA sequences

Prior disclosure of corresponding protein sequences or uncharacterized DNA sequences may impact your chances to patent a newly discovered DNA.

Cheryl H. Agris
Patents 01 Oct 1996

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In the Laboratory

Automated solid phase synthesis of small organic molecules

A new instrument promises to automate a broad range or chemical synthetic procedures.

Paul D Hoeprich Jr.
In the Laboratory 01 Oct 1996