Volume 318 Issue 6047, 19 December 1985

Holding to tenure

Poor solstice

UK research councils: Science council thinks ahead

British research: A little more all round

• Maxine Clarke

Strategic Defense initiative: Congress questions UK pact

• Tim Beardsley

European military technology: France veers towards integration

• Robert Walgate

Japanese ethics: Edging towards transplants

• Alun Anderson

Discretion dispute on viewing time

• Tim Beardsley

Electron-beam lithography: How to make chips to order

• Bill Johnstone

Creationism: California sells out on textbooks

• Tim Beardsley

Aleksandrov's fate?

• Vera Rich

French space: Will US Congress fill vacuum?

• Robert Walgate

Soviet science: Making policy by TV camera

• Vera Rich

British research: Catalogue of steady decline

US panel split on guidelines

• Tim Beardsley

Deep-sea drilling: Britain rejoins programme

Japanese energy: Go-go go for nuclear power

• Alun Anderson

Polish science: Congress delay

• Vera Rich

AIDS: Pasteur sues over patent

• Tim Beardsley

The cause of university education

• A.N. MALVIYA

PhD theses

• DANA L. ROTH

Greenhouse dilemma

• BRUCE DENNESS

Metric system

• MARK W. STEELE

Calculating the orbits of comets

• John Maddox

Membrane proteins: Structure of a bacterial photosynthetic reaction centre

• Richard Henderson

Planetary science: Hidden carbon dioxide on Mars

• Robert M. Haberle

Geophysics: Transient mantle rheology

• J. Weertman

Plant tumours: Wounds activate attackers

• John E. Beringer
• Colin M. Lazarus

News and Views ‘Picture Story’

Biophysics: XANES spectroscopy and the crystallographic imperative

• John Galloway

Ecology: Rats as agents of extermination

• Jared Diamond

100 years ago

Astrophysics: Bipolar wind from young stars

• James P. Emerson

Drosophila development: Homing in on homoeo boxes

• Geoffrey North

Quasiperiodic order in dissipative systems

• D. WALGRAEF
• G. DEWEL
• P. BORCKMANS

The cosmic connection of catastrophism?

• R. M. MACINTYRE

How did we get to here from there?

• Richard Wilson

Searching for their selves

• Stuart Sutherland

Different biology

• Alan Bittles

Feeding and flocking

• C.M. Lessells

Isolated objectives

• C.J. Marshall

Localizing active sites in zeolitic catalysts: neutron powder profile analysis and computer simulation of deuteropyridine bound to gallozeolite-L

• Paul A. Wright
• John M. Thomas
• Andreas K. Nowak

New constraints on transient lower mantle rheology and internal mantle buoyancy from glacial rebound data

• W. R. Peltier

Structure of the protein subunits in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3Å resolution

• J. Deisenhofer
• O. Epp
• H. Michel

Identification of the signal molecules produced by wounded plant cells that activate T-DNA transfer in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

• Scott E. Stachel
• Eric Messens
• Patricia Zambryski

The Drosophila developmental gene, engrailed, encodes a sequence-specific DNA binding activity

• Claude Desplan
• James Theis
• Patrick H. O'Farrell

Primary structure and expression of a functional human glucocorticoid receptor cDNA

• Stanley M. Hollenberg
• Cary Weinberger
• Ronald M. Evans

A 12.6-ms pulsar in Cygnus X-3

• P. M. Chadwick
• N. A. Dipper
• M. Walmsley

Optical polarization observations of circumsolar dust during the 1983 solar eclipse

• Syuzo Isobe
• Tomohiro Hirayama
• Noriaki Miura

Decay of the cometary bow shock

• M. K. Wallis
• M. Dryer

Underwater noise caused by precipitation

• Joseph A. Scrimger

Polymerization of silicate anions in solutions at low concentrations

• Robustiano Alvarez
• Donald L. Sparks

Laboratory models for aromatization and isomerization of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins

• G. D. Abbott
• C. A. Lewis
• J. R. Maxwell

Palaeoclimatic and tectonic implications of Neogene microflora from the Northwestern Ethiopian highlands

• Kedamawit Yemane
• Raymonde Bonnefille
• Hugues Faure

Archaebacterial lipids in hot-spring microbial mats

• D. M. Ward
• S. C. Brassell
• G. Eglinton

Complementary DNA sequences of ovarian follicular fluid inhibin show precursor structure and homology with transforming growth factor-β

• Anthony J. Mason
• Joel S. Hayflick
• Peter H. Seeburg

Epidermal growth factor receptor occupancy inhibits vaccinia virus infection

• Deborah A. Eppstein
• Y. Vivienne Marsh
• John J. Nestor Jr

Characterization of receptors for human tumour necrosis factor and their regulation by γ-interferon

• Bharat B. Aggarwal
• Thomas E. Eessalu
• Philip E. Hass

Selective immortalization of murine macrophages from fresh bone marrow by a raf/myc recombinant murine retrovirus

• Elisabetta Blasi
• Bonnie J. Mathieson
• Ulf R. Rapp

Domain structure of human glucocorticoid receptor and its relationship to the v-erb-A oncogene product

• Cary Weinberger
• Stanley M. Hollenberg
• Ronald M. Evans

Cloning of the breakpoint of an X;21 translocation associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

• Peter N. Ray
• Bonnie Belfall
• Ronald G. Worton

An intron in the 23S ribosomal RNA gene of the archaebacterium Desulfurococcus mobilis

• Jørgen Kjems
• Roger A. Garrett

Near-reciprocal phenotypes caused by inactivation or indiscriminate expression of the Drosophila segmentation gene ftz

• Gary Struhl

Simian virus 40-mediated cis induction of the Xenopus β-globin DNase I hypersensitive site

• Tariq Enver
• Alison C. Brewer
• Roger K. Patient

Assembly of microtubules from nucleotide-depleted tubulin

• P. M. Bayley
• E. J. Manser

The CO bond angle of carboxymyoglobin determined by angular-resolved XANES spectroscopy

• A. Bianconi
• A. Congiu-Castellano
• S. Phillips

Erratum: Phosphatidylinositol is the membrane-anchoring domain of the Thy-1 glycoprotein

• M. G. Low
• P. W. Kincade

Erratum: More help required on T and B cells

• J. Shifflett

Erratum: Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry: The molecular biology revolution

• A. Anderson

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