Volume 334 Issue 6182, 11 August 1988

More missed chances

New programme for neural network computers?

• Alun Anderson

Shuttle test failure

• Joseph Palca

Molecular ageing

• Christine McGourty

Frog suit croaks

• Marcia Barinaga

Ciba head appointed

• Christine McGourty

Atmosphere may rise to the top of the West German agenda

• Steven Dickman

Lords urge strict measures for CFCs

• Christine McGourty

Congress investigates 'six-pack rings'

• Elizabeth Ebbert

Reagan's U-turn on acid rain seen as election strategy

Gorbachev rallies the Soviet academy

• Vera Rich

SERC support for materials research

• Christine McGourty

Proposed AIDS screening causes political turmoil in France

• Peter Coles

Companies to pay in toxic clean-up accord

• Seth Shulman

Nuclear waste policy attacked

• Christine McGourty

Japan announces its "special distinguished grants" for 1989

• David Swinbanks

West Germany calls for ocean clean-up

• Steven Dickman

Devil-may-care policies attacked

• Peter Coles

Big is beautiful for survival of higher education in Australia

• Charles Morgan

Spanish Cabinet in science reshuffle

• Pedro Puigdoménech

UK universities turning more and more to private funding

• Christine McGourty

South Africa continues to put off signing nuclear treaty

• Michael Cherry

Even conservatives share conservationist view of Soviet lake

• Vera Rich

US/Soviet proposal to ban nuclear power in Earth orbit

• Marcia Barinaga

Rights of patients to immortalized cells

• Alun Anderson

Failed satellite to crash soon

• Marcia Barinaga

Whither British science?

• ARTHUR J. KAHN

Polar observatories

• H. C. SPRUIT
• A. M. TITLE
• R. C. PETERSON

Wrong number

• WAGNER IOTOV

Solar systems beyond our own

• David Lindley

Deep-sea carbon, a burning issue

• J.R. Toggweiler

In search of a template

• Nancy Maizels
• Alan Weiner

The heritability of migration

• William J. Sutherland

Silicates flushed with copper

• Spencer R. Titley

Evolution of plague virulence

• Richard E. Lenski

Body building in the solar nebula

• Colin A. Norman
• Harold A. Weaver

A family of killer proteins

• Keith Stanley
• Paul Luzio

Ocean currents

• David Jones

Designing databases for molecular biology

• C. J. RAWLINGS

Lod score Redivivus

• N.E. MORTON

Enlarged family of putative helicases

• DAVID LANE

Schistosomiasis vaccine

• ALAN SHER
• EDWARD J. PEARCE

Two chimps, too few

• BART HOLLAND

The 4.9 per cent solution

• Laura Garwin

A wild social life

• Adrian Lister

Back together again

• C.J.H. Hartnady

Reading palms

• Peter H. Raven

With a little bit of magic

• M.J.A. Tanner

Modelling the future: a joint venture

• David Rind
• Arthur Rosenzweig
• Cynthia Rosenzweig

Solar neutrinos: a field in transition

• John N. Bahcall
• Raymond Davis Jr
• Lincoln Wolfenstein

Phosphorylation-induced binding and transcriptional efficacy of nuclear factor CREB

• K. K. Yamamoto
• G. A. Gonzalez
• M. R. Montminy

Regulation of calcium influx by second messengers in rat mast cells

• Reinhold Penner
• Gary Matthews
• Erwin Neher

Probable optical counterpart of the eclipsing millisecond pulsar system, 1957 + 20

• S. R. Kulkarni
• S. Djorgovski
• A. S. Fruchter

Time delay of the PeV gamma ray burst after the October 1985 radio flare of Cygnus X-3

• V. S. Berezinsky

Nitrogen and helium enhancement in the progenitor of supernova 1987 A

• Hideyuki Saio
• Ken'ichi Nomoto
• Mariko Kato

A new high-T_c TlBa₂Ca₃Cu₄O₁₁ superconductor with T_c >120K

• H. Ihara
• R. Sugise
• T. Shimomura

Internal seiches and subaqueous landforms in lacustrine cohesive sediments

• J. McManus
• R. W. Duck

Episodic aseismic earthquake precursors

• Alan T. Linde
• Kiyoshi Suyehiro
• Akio Takagi

Copper inclusions in sheet silicates from porphyry Cu deposits

• Eugene S. Ilton
• David R. Veblen

Anaerobic magnetite production by a marine, magnetotactic bacterium

• Dennis A. Bazylinski
• Richard B. Frankel
• Holger W. Jannasch

Ribosomal RNA sequence shows Pneumocystis carinii to be a member of the Fungi

• Jeffrey C. Edman
• Joseph A. Kovacs
• Mitchell L. Sogin

Increased virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis by two independent mutations

• Roland Rosqvist
• Mikael Skurnik
• Hans Wolf-Watz

Homology of perforin to the ninth component of complement (C9)

• Yoichi Shinkai
• Koji Takio
• Ko Okumura

The molecular evolution of genes and proteins: a tale of two serines

• Sydney Brenner

T cells can present antigens such as HIV gp120 targeted to their own surface molecules

• Antonio Lanzavecchia
• Eddy Roosnek
• Sergio Abrignani

Identification of a protein encoded by the vpu gene of HIV-1

• Eric A. Cohen
• Ernest F. Terwilliger
• William A. Haseltine

Transcriptional activation of c-jun during the G₀/G₁ transition in mouse fibroblasts

• R.-P. Ryseck
• S. I. Hirai
• R. Bravo

Epidermal growth factor stimulates transcription of the c-jun proto-oncogene in rat fibroblasts

• Béatrice Quantin
• Richard Breathnach

Thyroid hormone receptor α isoforms generated by alternative splicing differentially activate myosin HC gene transcription

• Seigo Izumo
• Vijak Mahdavi

The function and structure of the metal coordination sites within the glucocorticoid receptor DNA binding domain

• Leonard P. Freedman
• Ben F. Luisi
• Keith R. Yamamoto

Fetal bovine serum alternatives

• D.W. Jayme
• D.A. Epstein
• D.R. Conrad

Cell biologists convene in Canada

• Carol Ezzell