Volume 15 Issue 13, December 1997

The yeast genome yields its secrets

Drug Development: The role of innovation in drug development

• Jürgen Drews
• Stefan Ryser

Public Perception: Behind the color code of “no”

• Torben Hviid Nielsen

Molecular Evolution: Recombinant approaches for accessing biodiversity

• Jay M. Short

Insect resistance to Bt revisited

• Bruce Tabashnik

Paradigm lost?

• Max Brady

Business and Regulatory News

Research News

This Month In Nature BioTechnology

Euro indecision triggers food anarchy

• John Hodgson

Firms sleuth out transgenic foods

• Douglas Steinberg

Rhône-Poulenc rounds up DeKalb and Monsanto

• Jeffrey L Fox

Minicrash tests biotechnology investors and companies as market fluctuates

• Emma Dorey

Millennium signs away plant kingdom to Monsanto

• Andrew Marshall

Financing doubts surround hundreds of German companies

• Adam Michael

Debate on patentability of research tools reopens

• Kenneth Chahine

Amgen hangs hopes on hepatitis C

• Vicki Brower

“NIH-money-for-drug-patent-life” proposal rejected

• Jeffrey L Fox

Another Genentech–Novo battle looms in the hGH patent war

• Vicki Glaser

Swiss Federal Council sets June date for gene referendum

• Ingeborg Fürst

Legislation to tie loose ends in 1995 federal securities reform

• Jim Kling

Complete genome expression monitoring: The human race

• Arthur B. Pardee

Seedless hopes bode well for winter vegetables

• Dwight T. Tomes

Spectrometry senses more than a small difference

• Michael Egholm

A systems perspective begins to emerge in Alzheimer's

• Alexander Castellino

Shock toxicology with transgenics

• Ronald E. Cannon
• Raymond W. Tennant

Classic drug targets

• Jürgen Drews
• Stefan Ryser

Stress tolerance: The key to effective strains of industrial baker's yeast

• Paul V. Attfield

Genome-wide expression monitoring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

• Lisa Wodicka
• Helin Dong
• David J. Lockhart

Genetic analysis by peptide nucleic acid affinity MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

• Timothy J. Griffin
• Wei Tang
• Lloyd M. Smith

A cell surface tethered enzyme improves efficiency in gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy

• Richard Marais
• Robert A. Spooner
• Caroline J. Springer

The endocrine secretion of human insulin and growth hormone by exocrine glands of the gastrointestinal tract

• Ira D. Goldfine
• Michael S. German
• Stephen S. Rothman

Adenoviral preterminal protein stabilizes mini-adenoviral genomes in vitro and in vivo

• André Lieber
• Chen-Yi He
• Mark A. Kay

Sustainable cutaneous gene delivery

• Helen Deng
• Qun Lin
• Paul A. Khavari

A transgenic mouse model for the detection of cellular stress induced by toxic inorganic compounds

• Maria Grazia Sacco
• Luigi Zecca
• Paolo Vezzoni

Genetic engineering of parthenocarpic plants

• Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino
• Elena Perri
• Angelo Spena

As a matter of scientific fact: Applying the inherency doctrine in biotechnology

• Eugene Moroz
• Mark J. Schildkraut

Patent applications using centrifugation

Microbial biocatalysis and biodegradation informatics

• Lynda B.M. Ellis
• Lawrence P. Wackett

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Biotechnologies to watch

• Aris Persidis