Volume 20 Issue 5, May 2002

Editorial

Turning back the clock

Editorial 01 May 2002

Advertisement

Top of page ⤴

Business and Regulatory News

Investors remain wary after first quarter downturn

Liz Fletcher
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
NIH outlines goals to counter bioterror

Brian B. Reid
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
India approves GM cotton

K.S. Jayaraman
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
Mexico to relax rDNA ban?

John Hodgson
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
Rice data release signals industry willingness to share data

Jeffrey L. Fox
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
Industry opposes genomic legislation

Ken Chahine
Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002
In Brief

Business and Regulatory News 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Commentary

Rethinking somatic stem cell plasticity

Ihor Lemischka
Commentary 01 May 2002
A more astonishing hypothesis

Ron McKay
Commentary 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Fools Corner

Elan's attack of Enronitis

Tom Jacobs
Fools Corner 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Correspondence

Protecting careers, not lives

Henry Miller
Correspondence 01 May 2002
Searching for alternatives

Ray Greek
Jean Greek
Correspondence 01 May 2002
Cloning similarities

Enrico Baldini
Correspondence 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Feature

Biotechnology in the Medicon Valley

Although the new Øresund bridge physically links southern Sweden and Denmark, it will take some time to establish good working relations between their biotechnology clusters.

Lone Frank
Feature 01 May 2002
Finnish biotechnology—built on solid foundations

Committed investment in research infrastructure has laid the foundations for a vibrant biotechnology community in Finland.

Riku Lähteenmäki
Feature 01 May 2002
Time for consolidation in Germany

Commercial biotechnology in Germany has taken off during the past decade, but creating a viable sector may require a change in strategy in the future.

Christian Müller
Armin Rump
Feature 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

News & Views

Nuclear reprogramming—alchemy or analysis?

A new strategy for nuclear reprogramming using cell extracts induces fibroblasts to express hematopoietic and neuronal responses.

Patrick S. Western
M. Azim Surani
News & Views 01 May 2002
Expanding small RNA interference

Several reports describe vector systems capable of producing small interfering RNAs for downregulating gene expression in mammalian cells.

Thomas Tuschl
News & Views 01 May 2002
Bringing picomolar protein detection into proximity

Combining target recognition by two aptamers, enzymatic ligation, and PCR, the proximity ligation method enables the detection of minute amounts of proteins.

Michael Famulok
News & Views 01 May 2002
A new blueprint for plant pathogen resistance

A signaling cascade downstream of a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase identified in Arabidopsis offers new options for engineering crop disease resistance.

Heribert Hirt
News & Views 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

News in Brief

In Brief

News in Brief 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Article

Male and female mice derived from the same embryonic stem cell clone by tetraploid embryo complementation

Kevin Eggan
Anja Rode
Rudolf Jaenisch
Article 01 May 2002
Reprogramming fibroblasts to express T-cell functions using cell extracts

Anne-Mari Håkelien
Helga B. Landsverk
Philippe Collas
Article 01 May 2002
Human erythroid cells produced ex vivo at large scale differentiate into red blood cells in vivo

Thi My Anh Neildez-Nguyen
Henri Wajcman
Luc Douay
Article 01 May 2002
Protein detection using proximity-dependent DNA ligation assays

Simon Fredriksson
Mats Gullberg
Ulf Landegren
Article 01 May 2002
An array of target-specific screening strains for antibacterial discovery

Joseph A. DeVito
Jonathan A. Mills
David L. Pompliano
Article 01 May 2002
Large scale production of recombinant human lactoferrin in the milk of transgenic cows

Patrick H.C. van Berkel
Mick M. Welling
Peter H. Nibbering
Article 01 May 2002
An HGF–MSP chimera disassociates the trophic properties of scatter factors from their pro-invasive activity

Paolo Michieli
Silvia Cavassa
Paolo M. Comoglio
Article 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Technical Report

U6 promoter–driven siRNAs with four uridine 3′ overhangs efficiently suppress targeted gene expression in mammalian cells

Makoto Miyagishi
Kazunari Taira
Technical Report 01 May 2002
Expression of small interfering RNAs targeted against HIV-1 rev transcripts in human cells

Nan Sook Lee
Taikoh Dohjima
John Rossi
Technical Report 01 May 2002
Effective expression of small interfering RNA in human cells

Cynthia P. Paul
Paul D. Good
David R. Engelke
Technical Report 01 May 2002
Using the transcriptome to annotate the genome

Saurabh Saha
Andrew B. Sparks
Victor E. Velculescu
Technical Report 01 May 2002
Quantitative proteome analysis by solid-phase isotope tagging and mass spectrometry

Huilin Zhou
Jeffrey A. Ranish
Ruedi Aebersold
Technical Report 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Patents

Patenting bioinformatic inventions: Emerging trends in Europe

A look at the European Patent Office's past stance on bioinformatics patents informs recent proposals for reform.

Steven J. Hultquist
Robert Harrison
Yongzhi Yang
Patents 01 May 2002
Recent patents in tissue engineering

Patents 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

People

People

People 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

New on the Market

Mass spectrometry and gene therapy

New on the Market 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Careers and Recruitment

To recruit the best R&D professionals, understand what drives them

Scientific integrity and community standing, maybe more than dollars, attract the best R&D professionals.

Charlene Reed
Careers and Recruitment 01 May 2002

Top of page ⤴

Volume 20 Issue 5, May 2002

Editorial

Business and Regulatory News

Commentary

Fools Corner

Correspondence

Feature

News & Views

News in Brief

Article

Technical Report

Patents

People

New on the Market

Careers and Recruitment

Search

Quick links