Volume 358 Issue 6388, 20 August 1992

Slump in seed-corn

Managing Rio's treaties

African National Congress drafts blueprint for South African science

• Michael Cherry

NSF opens up long-range plan to public comments

• Christopher Anderson

Superconductivity devices are headed into space

• Tony Reichhardt

NSF unmoved by politics of relocation

• Christopher Anderson

Korea begins funding projects to catch up with rest of world

• David Swinbanks

G-7 is wake-up call for KIST

• David Swinbanks

Defence scientist quits Indian post for US academic job

• K. S. Jayaraman
• Traci Watson

Bovine growth hormone meets new safety concerns

• Diane Gershon

Dutch flower may be too safe to test new biotechnology laws

• Ian Mundell

University scientists to be investigated for conflicts of interest

• Traci Watson

US government asked to fund more industrial research

• Christopher Anderson

News in Brief

Frustrated by regulatory delays at FDA, biotech companies warm to user fees

• Diane Gershon

Scientists deny alleged support of company's 'new nuclear science'

• Traci Watson

Offspring of scientists

• R. A. Beck

Offspring of scientists

• R. C. Connolly

NIH patent rights

• Thoru Pederson

Leeds inquiry

• Chris Chapman

Defining consciousness

• Brian D. Josephson
• Beverly A. Rubik
• David Lorimer

Defining consciousness

• Oliver Sacks

Frontiers future

• Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini

Motes and beams

• John B. Carter

Dam facts

• Bryant Mather

The mysterious virus called "isn't"

• Barbara J. Culliton

The tell-tail trigger

• Michael Gregory Peterson
• Robert Tjian

Towards energy storage

• Prabir Dutta

Airblast scars on Venus

• H. J. Melosh

NO release for good measure

• Solomon H. Snyder

Spectral breaks for theorists

• Matthew G. Baring

Fishing in Src-infested waters

• Gregory A. Petsko

Knocking out memory's door

• Daniel V. Madison

Mice and flies head to head

• Peter Holland
• Philip Ingham
• Stefan Krauss

Billing Big Brother

• David Jones

Hydrothermal supermounds

• B. J. Murton
• C. R. German

CH⁺ in the Red Rectangle

• David I. Hall
• Janet R. Miles
• Stephen J. Fossey

Coley's vaccine and TNF therapy

• P. G. G. Brouckaert
• W. Fiers

Moving with the times

• J. R. S. Fincham

Defending the immune system

• David W. Scott

An ideal Universe?

• A. Rupert Hall

Growing pains

• P. E. Bryant

Formation of harzburgite by pervasive melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle

• Peter B. Kelemen
• Henry J. B. Dick
• James E. Quick

Human general transcription factor IIH phosphorylates the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

• Hua Lu
• Leigh Zawel
• Danny Reinberg

Crystal structure of the phosphotyrosine recognition domain SH2 of v-src complexed with tyrosine-phosphorylated peptides

• Gabriel Waksman
• Dorothea Kominos
• John Kuriyan

Evidence for single-temperature dust in the Crab nebula from a reanalysis of its infrared spectrum

• Richard G. Strom
• Harm Greidanus

Stable photoinduced charge separation in layered viologen compounds

• Lori A. Vermeulen
• Mark E. Thompson

Spectroscopic observation of a catalyst surface in a reactive atmosphere at high pressure

• Geoffrey D. Moggridge
• Trevor Rayment
• Richard M. Lambert

Bromoform emission from Arctic ice algae

• W. T. Sturges
• G. F. Cota
• P. T. Buckley

Oil and combustion-product contamination of the Gulf marine environment following the war

• J. W. Readman
• S. W. Fowler
• L. D. Mee

Enhanced ventilation of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre thermocline during the last glaciation

• Niall C. Slowey
• William B. Curry

Optical imaging of epileptiform and functional activity in human cerebral cortex

• Michael M. Haglund
• George A. Ojemann
• Daryl W. Hochman

Bicalyx is a natural homeotic floral variant

• V. S. Ford
• L. D. Gottlieb

Identification by mutagenesis of a Mg²⁺ -block site of the NMDA receptor channel

• Hisashi Mori
• Hisashi Masaki
• Masayoshi Mishina

Nitric oxide release from a single cell measured in situ by a porphyrinic-based microsensor

• Tadeusz Malinski
• Ziad Taha

Point mutation of an FGF receptor abolishes phosphatidylinositol turnover and Ca²⁺ flux but not mitogenesis

• Kevin G. Peters
• Jacky Marie
• Lewis T. Williams

Point mutation in FGF receptor eliminates phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis without affecting mitogenesis

• M. Mohammadi
• C. A. Dionne
• J. Schlessinger

Structure of an SH2 domain of the p85α subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase

• Grant W. Booker
• Alexander L. Breeze
• Iain D. Campbell

Nested expression domains of four homeobox genes in developing rostral brain

• Antonio Simeone
• Dario Acampora
• Edoardo Boncinelli

Regulation of focal adhesion-associated protein tyrosine kinase by both cellular adhesion and oncogenic transformation

• Jun-Lin Guan
• David Shalloway

Fast sequencing of oligosaccharides using arrays of enzymes

• Christopher Edge
• Raj Parekh
• Raymond Dwek

What's hot and what's not in Washington

• Diane Gershon