| Nature 1992 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 32P, 33P and 35S: selecting a label for nucleic acid analysis. (radioisotopes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael R. Evans, Christopher A. Read |
| A 600-day periodicity in solar coronal holes. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.S. McIntosh, R.J. Thompson, E.C. Willock |
| A better mousetrap. (geochemistry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William H. Casey |
| A boost for high flyers. (cosmic rays) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gary Zank |
| A brief history of pulsar time. (glitches in pulsar frequencies cause speculation on neutron star structure) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.D. Blandford |
| Abrogation by c-myc of G1 phase arrest induced by RB protein but not by p53. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wen-Hwa Lee, David W. Goodrich |
| Absence of aluminium in neuritic plaque cores in Alzheimer's disease. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B. McDonald, J.P. Landsberg, F. Watt |
| Absorption of flue gases by water. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Radojevic, D.A. Tressider |
| A case of missing metals. (stellar chemistry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Howard E. Bond |
| A case of missing water. (glaciation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John T. Andrews |
| Acceleration of the rate of nitrite oxidation by freezing in aqueous solution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yasuaki Maeda, Norimichi Takenaka, Akihiro Ueda |
| A cell line that can induce thymocyte positive selection. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrice Hugo, John W. Kappler, Dale I. Godfrey, Phillippa C. Marrack |
| A champion thallus. (discovery of an Armillaria fungus believed to weigh over 10,000 kilograms and to be about 1,500 years old) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Clive Brasier |
| A closer look at E2F. (cellular DNA-binding protein involved in transcriptional regulation is cloned) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joseph R. Nevins |
| A cluster of protogalaxies at redshift 3.4? | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kandaswamy Subramanian, Govind Swarup |
| Actin cables and epidermal movement in embryonic wound healing. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul Martin, Julian Lewis |
| Actin in cell attachment. (response to Joseph Sanger and Jean Sanger, Nature, vol. 357, p. 442, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stuart Knutton, Tom Baldwin, Peter Williams, Joseph Sanger, Jean Sanger |
| Action spectrum for DNA damage in alfalfa lowers predicted impact of ozone depletion. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F.E. Quaite, B.M. Sutherland, J.C. Sutherland |
| Activism's toll: the US Congress must reverse its growing tendency to play the role of peer reviewer. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Addition and subtraction by human infants. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Karen Wynn |
| A decrease in the growth rates of atmospheric halon concentrations. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B.D. Hall, J.H. Butler, J.W. Elkins, S.O. Cummings, S.A. Montzka |
| A different kind of Universe. (review of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory's first 18 months) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Giovanni F. Bignami |
| A direct inversion method for surface structure determination from LEED intensities. (low-energy electron diffraction surface crystallography) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.A. King, Peijun Hu |
| A disappearing speciation event? (response to J.A. Coyne, Nature, vol. 355, p. 511, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeremy B. Searle, Heidi C. Hauffe |
| A farewell to arms. (enzyme complexes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David J. DeRosier |
| A fine time for contractual alterations. (muscle physiology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Fielding Huxley Sir |
| African National Congress drafts blueprint for South African science. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael Cherry |
| A functional barrier to movement of lipids in polarized neurons. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Toshihide Kobayashi, Brian Storrie, Kai Simons, Carlos G. Dotti |
| Age and the unisexual lineage. (clonal histories) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Maynard Smith |
| Agenda for a US president. (likely impact of the election on domestic and international research) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| AIDS and sexual behaviour in France. (survey by Analyse des Comportements Sexuels en France investigators) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| AIDS and virginity: the New York City Board of Education is in the dark ages, demanding that AIDS education emphasize abstinence. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Airblast scars on Venus. (evidence for meteoric impacts on the surface of Venus) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H.J. Melosh |
| Al Gore's future: a science-minded politician has appeared on the Democrats' ticket for the US election - in the nick of time. (vice-presidential candidate) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| A little heat goes a long way. (heat detection) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John T. Yates Jr. |
| A little rain must fall. (groundwater flow and ore geology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew P. Gize |
| Allelic exclusion model questioned. (response to K. Rajewsky, A. Ehlich, W. Muller, S. Taki and D. Kitamura, Nature, vol. 356, p. 154, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthias Wabl, Charles Steinberg, Adriana Oancea, Marc J. Shulman, K. Rajewsky, A. Ehlich, W. Muller, S. Taki, D. Kitamura |
| A looming Arctic ozone hole? | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.D. Mahlman |
| Alpha-inhibin is a tumour-suppressor gene with gonadal specificity in mice. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Allan Bradley, Milton J. Finegold, Martin M. Matzuk, Jyan-Gwo J. Su, Aaron J.W. Hsueh |
| Alpha-particles and leukaemia. (response to M.A. Kadhim and Eric Wright, Nature, vol. 355, p. 738, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | K. Sankaranarayanan, R.H. Mole, K.F. Baverstock, Eric Wright |
| Alternative blood substitutes. (using perfluorochemicals) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kenneth C. Lowe, Clive Washington |
| Aluminium and global warming. (sources of greenhouse gases) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dean Abrahamson |
| Alzheimer's - a correction. (beta-amyloid precursor protein mutation)(response to G. Lucotte, S. Berriche and F. David, Nature, vol. 351, p. 530, 1991) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Hardy, Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin, Mike Mullan, Fiona Crawford, Andre Delacourte, Genevieve Arnott |
| Amantadine blocks the channel. (influenza virus, the anti-influenza drug amantadine and ion channels) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.J. Skehel |
| A mantle metasomatic injection event linked to late Cretaceous kimberlite magmatism. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.D. Kinny, J.B. Dawson |
| A mantle thermometer. (seismology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Shearer |
| A matter of give and take. (influence of melt segregation and migration on magmatic composition) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard W. Carlson |
| A meiotic gene conversion gradient opposite to the direction of transcription. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert E. Malone, Steven Bullard, Steven Lundquist, Sangkyu Kim, Trudee Tarkowski |
| A mess of red pottage. (the blanche fleur cultivar of Vicia sativa is a potentially toxic mimic of the red lentil) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Max E. Tate, Dirk Enneking |
| Amino acids from coal gasification? (an alternative explanation for amino acids at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Denmark) (response to M. Zhao and J.L. Bada, Nature, vol. 339, p. 463, 1989) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edwin S. Olson |
| A model for the global variation in oceanic depth and heat flow with lithospheric age. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Seth Stein, Carol A. Stein |
| A molecular growth industry. (pathway for pituitary growth hormones) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gary Ruvkun |
| Amyloid beta-peptide is produced by cultured cells during normal metabolism. (pathology of Alzheimer's Disease) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dennis J. Selkoe, Christian Haass, Edward H. Koo, Ivan Lieberburg, Dale Schenk, Michael G. Schlossmacher, Albert Y. Hung, Carmen Vigo-Pelfrey, Angela Mellon, Beth L. Ostaszewski, David B. Teplow |
| An air-conditioned greenhouse. (climate feedbacks, sea surface temperature and atmospheric circulation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Graeme Stephens, Tony Slingo |
| Anatomy of a transcription factor important for the Start of the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (yeast culture formation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kim Nasmyth, Michael Primig, Shanthini Sockanathan, Herbert Auer |
| ... And some even hotter. (response to R. Wehner, A.C. Marsh and S. Wehner, Nature, vol. 357, p. 586, 1992) (thermotolerances of marine organisms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James J. Childress, Pierre Chevaldonne, Daniel Desbruyeres |
| And still there is no pulsar. (pulsar not observed following explosion of supernova SN1987A) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roger A. Chevalier |
| An earthquake mechanism based on rapid sealing of faults. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael L. Blanpied, David A. Lockner, James D. Byerlee |
| An element of recycling. (movement of trace elements into the Earth's mantle) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Julian Pearce |
| A new hydrocarbon cage. (synthesis of a new molecule, called spheriphane) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leonard F. Lindoy |
| A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrzej Elzanowski, Peter Wellnhofer |
| A new presentation pathway? (antigen processing) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alain Townsend |
| A new tropomyosin essential for cytokinesis in the fission yeast S. pombe. (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sean M. Hemmingsen, David M. Helfman, Mohan K. Balasubramanian |
| Angiogenic factor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Shin-Ichi Akiyama, Akihiko Yoshimura, Tatsuhiko Furukawa, Tomoyuki Sumizawa, Misako Haraguchi, Kiyoshi Fukui, Minoru Ishizawa, Yuji Yamada |
| Another election soon. (science and Britain's election campaign) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Another phoenix? The SSC is not dead (yet), but the US Congress may yet force a truly international effort in high-energy physics. (Superconducting Super Collider) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Another protein out in the cold. (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Armstrong |
| Another route to a vaccine? (against malaria) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F.E.G. Cox |
| Another taboo bites the dust. (French and British surveys show a new willingness to do research on how AIDS is transmitted sexually) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Antarctic ice sheets at risk? (evidence of melting due to global warming during the Pliocene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Sugden |
| Anthropogenic influence on the distribution of tropospheric sulphate aerosol. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J. Langner, H. Rodhe, P.J. Crutzen, P. Zimmermann |
| Antibodies from libraries. (response to E. Gherardi and C. Milstein, Nature, vol. 357, p. 201, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dennis R. Burton, Carlos F. Barbas III |
| Anti-environment Bush. (President Bush decides to let companies exceed their air pollution permits) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Antisense c-myb oligonucleotides inhibit intimal arterial smooth muscle cell accumulation in vivo. (proto-oncogene c-myb) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert D. Rosenberg, Michael Simons, Robert Langer, Elazer R. Edelman, Jean-Luc DeKeyser |
| An unusual feature revealed by the crystal structure at 2.2A resolution of human transforming growth factor-beta-2. (angstrom) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael P. Schlunegger, Markus G. Grutter |
| An uplifting experience. (relationship between the rise of mountain ranges and climatic changes during the Tertiary Period) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Rind |
| APC mutations occur early during colorectal tumorigenesis. (APC tumor suppressor gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Stanley R. Hamilton, Steven M. Powell, Nathan Zilz, Yasmin Beazer-Barclay, Tracy M. Bryan, Stephen N. Thibodeau |
| A phantom of the ocean. (a marine dinoflagellate organism that kills fish by secreting a toxin) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Theodore J. Smayda |
| A photoionization instability in the early intergalactic medium. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Craig J. Hogan |
| A plus-end-directed motor enzyme that moves antiparallel microtubules in vitro localizes to the interzone of mitotic spindles. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Corey Nislow, Vivian A. Lombillo, Ryoko Kuriyama, J. Richard McIntosh |
| A polarity in European research. (criticism of the European Commission's Human Capital and Mobility program) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lennart Philipson |
| Apoptotic cell death induced by c-myc is inhibited by bcl-2. (c-myc proto-oncogene, bcl-2 gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas R. Green, Reid P. Bissonnette, Fernando Echeverri, Artin Mahboubi |
| A protein kinase homologue controls phosphorylation of ganciclovir in human cytomegalovirus-infected cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Davis, V. Sullivan, C.L. Talarico, S.C. Stanat, D.M. Coen, K.K. Biron |
| A refractory HIMU component in the sources of island-arc magma. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rosemary Hickey-Vargas |
| Are superconductors really superconducting? | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David A. Huse, Matthew P.A. Fisher, Daniel S. Fisher |
| A rete in the right whale. (organ for dissipating heat discovered) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | T.J. Ford Jr., S.D. Kraus |
| A retrograde step forward. (positive-feedback mechanism discovered in neurotransmission) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David G. Nicholls |
| Are vertebrate exons scanned during splice-site selection? | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Maho Niwa, Clinton C. MacDonald, Susan M. Berget |
| Arithmetic in the cradle. (evidence that babies can do simple arithmetic) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.E. Bryant |
| A role for ADP-ribosylation factor in nuclear vesicle dynamics. (adenosine diphosphate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Annette L. Boman, Timothy C. Taylor, Paul Melancon, Katherine L. Wilson |
| Arterial hardening in mice. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James Scott |
| A second-generation linkage map of the human genome. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Guy Vaysseix, Jean Weissenbach, Alain Vignal, Gabor Gyapay, Colette Dib, Jean Morissette, Philippe Millasseau, Mark Lathrop |
| A sense of something missing. (a new model of how natural killer cells lyse tumor cells) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David H. Raulet |
| Asexual deviants take over. (how malarial parasites evade the body's defenses) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Russell J. Howard |
| A sharp and flat section of the core-mantle boundary. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John E. Vidale, Harley M. Benz |
| A signal chain of events. (molecular signals at a cell surface) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Thomas M. Roberts |
| A single amino-acid difference confers major pharmacological variation between human and rodent 5-HT (sub 1B) receptors. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Brian F. O'Dowd, Scot A. Marsters, Donna Oksenberg, Hui Jin, Sona Havlik, Stephen J. Peroutka, Avi Ashkenazi |
| A single point mutation is the cause of the Greek form of hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Frank Grosveld, Niall Dillon, Meera Berry |
| A small metalloribozyme with a two-step mechanism. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tao Pan, Olke C. Uhlenbeck |
| Association between GTPase activators for Rho and Ras families. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert A. Weinberg, Jeffrey Settleman, Charles F. Albright, Lauren C. Foster |
| Association of dystrophin-related protein with dystrophin-associated proteins in mdx mouse muscle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James M. Ervasti, Kay Ohlendieck, Steven D. Kahl, Kevin P. Campbell, Kiichiro Matsumura |
| Association of the Shc and Grb2/Sem5 SH2-containing proteins is implicated in activation of the Ras pathway by tyrosine kinases. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W. Li, S. Thomas, J. Schlessinger, M. Rozakis-Adcock, J. McGlade, G. Mbamalu, G. Pelicci, R. Daly, A. Batzer, J. Brugge, P.G. Pelicci, T. Pawson |
| A strategy tinged with chauvinism. (National Institutes of Health's strategic plan) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Astrophysical 7Li as a product of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and galactic cosmic-ray spallation. (lithium) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Keith A. Olive, David N. Schramm |
| A tale of two families. (how glutamate transporters differ from other neurotransmitter transporters) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Susan G. Amara |
| A test of reciprocal X-Y interactions as a cause of hybrid sterility in Drosophila. (chromosomes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Norman A. Johnson, Daniel E. Perez, Eric L. Cabot, Hope Hollocher, Chung-I Wu |
| At grips with interactions. (T-cell receptors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan F. Williams, Albertus D. Beyers |
| Atherogenesis in transgenic mice expressing human apolipoprotein(a). | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edward M. Rubin, Robert E. Hammer, Giulia Chiesa, Richard M. Lawn, Judy G. Verstuyft, David P. Wade |
| A three-dimensional periodic table. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Y. Magarshak, J. Malinsky |
| Atmospheric cellular convection. (response to R. David Baker II and Gerald Schubert, Nature, vol. 355, p. 710. 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.S. Scorer, R. David Baker II, Gerald Schubert |
| Atomic structure of a human MHC molecule presenting an influenza virus peptide. (major histocompatibility complex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Don C. Wiley, Jack L. Strominger, Hwai-Chen Guo, Michael L. Silver |
| A tool for transgenesis. (vertebrate development) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cheryll Tickle |
| ATP and chloride conductance. (adenosine triphosphate and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeffrey J. Wine, Samuel C. Silverstein |
| ATP joins the fast lane. (adenosine triphosphate identified as a neurotransmitter) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C.D. Benham |
| ATP receptor-mediated synaptic currents in the central nervous system. (adenosine 5'-triphosphate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Frances A. Edwards, Alasdair J. Gibb, David Colquhoun |
| A truncated activin receptor inhibits mesoderm induction and formation of axial structures in Xenopus embryos. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou, Douglas A. Melton |
| Autoimmune diabetes as a consequence of locally produced interleukin-2. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bernd Arnold, William R. Heath, Janette Allison, Matthias W. Hoffmann, Gunther Schonrich, Gunter Hammerling, Jacques F.A.P. Miller |
| Automated real-time immunoassay of biomolecules. (ImmunoDetection) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N.B. Afeyan, N.F. Gordon, F.E. Regnier |
| A vertebrate actin-related protein is a component of a multisubunit complex involved in microtubule-based vesicle motility. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James P. Lees-Miller, David M. Helfman, Trina A. Schroer |
| Avoiding a permanent ice age. (solar luminosity and paleoclimatology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William R. Kuhn |
| A welcome animal model. (mouse model for human cystic fibrosis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Francis Collins, James M. Wilson |
| A whole genome approach to in vivo DNA-protein interactions in E. coli. (Escherichia coli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | George M. Church, Ming X. Wang |
| Back to a frightening future. (molecular genetic research on drug-resistant tuberculosis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Barry R. Bloom |
| Back to the drawing board. (fullerene superconductors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter W. Stephens |
| Bacteria and eukaryotes. (response to P. Forterre, Nature, vol. 355, p. 305, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | T. Cavalier-Smith |
| Bacteria and the Midas touch. (bacterial biomineralization and the origin of gold placer deposits) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen Mann |
| Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). (Nobel Prize-winning geneticist) (Obituary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerald R. Fink |
| Beads, bacteria and actin. (cell surface motility) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joseph W. Sanger, Jean M. Sanger |
| Beating the code breakers. (quantum cryptography) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Artur Ekert |
| Behavioural evidence for use of a light-dependent magnetoreception mechanism by a vertebrate. (red-spotted newts, Notophthalmus viridescens) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John B. Phillips, S. Chris Borland |
| Better government for Europe? (Maastricht Treaty will not improve Europe's government) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Between Stockholm and Rio. (global environmental conferences from 1972 to 1992) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Solly Zuckerman |
| Beyond apartheid - on the cheap. (how the break-down of apartheid is affecting South African scientists' ties with other scientists) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael Cherry |
| Beyond silver staining. (isolating subpicogram quantities of proteins using radioactivation of silver-treated protein molecules) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Wallace, Hanspeter Saluz |
| Bicalyx is a natural homeotic floral variant. (variant of the wild flower Clarkia concinna of Point Reyes, California) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V.S. Ford, L.D. Gottlieb |
| Big Bang brouhaha: caution in celebrating last week's announcement of anisotropies in the microwave background would be wise. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Big Bang contd.... (response to P.J.E. Peebles, E.C. Turner, D.N. Schramm and R.G. Kron, Nature, vol. 352, p. 769, 1991) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H.C. Arp, G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle, J.V. Narlikar, P.J.E. Peebles, E.C. Turner, D.N. Schramm, R.G. Kron |
| Big genes and little genes and deadlines for transcription. (developmental genetics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick H. O'Farrell |
| Biodiversity supported: funding for a new programme, with only $1.5 million for grants, is hardly enough to scratch the surface. (International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Blade-shaped conodont elements functioned as cutting teeth. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark A. Purnell, Peter H. von Bitter |
| Blastocyst implantation depends on maternal expression of leukaemia inhibitory factor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colin L. Stewart, Petr Kaspar, Lisa J. Brunet, Harshida Bhatt, Inder Gadi, Frank Kontgen, Susan J. Abbondanzo |
| Blood substitutes and infection. (response to D. Looker, Nature, vol. 356, p. 258, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B.R. Otto, A.M.J.J. Verweij-van Vught, D.M. MacLaren |
| Bone and haematopoietic defects in mice lacking c-fos. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Erwin F. Wagner, Ulrich Ruther, Zhao-Qi Wang, Catherine Ovitt, Agamemnon E. Grigoriadis, Uta Mohle-Steinlein |
| Brain-derived neurotrophic factor prevents the death of motoneurons in newborn rats after nerve section. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Sendtner, H. Thoenen, B. Holtmann, R. Kolbeck, Y.-A. Barde |
| Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rescues developing avian motoneurons from cell death. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Qiao Yan, Ronald W. Oppenheim, Yin Qin-Wei, David Prevette |
| Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rescues spinal motor neurons from axotomy-induced cell death. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Qiao Yan, Jeffrey Elliott, William D. Snider |
| Breast may well be best. (an immune response to cows' milk may trigger autoimmune diabetes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anne Cooke, Alan G. Baxter |
| Brefeldin A inhibits Golgi membrane-catalysed exchange of guanine nucleotide onto ARF protein. (adenosine diphosphate-ribosylation factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Julie G. Donaldson, Richard D. Klausner, Dario Finazzi |
| Brilliance without black holes. (star formation produces active galactic nuclei) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andy Robinson |
| Bring back Tsongas. (Paul Tsongas) (poor showing of presidential candidates' representatives at a Council on Research and Technology forum) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Britain's new chance. (the British government's relations with British science) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| British are helping to build Amazonian research station. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ricardo Bonalume |
| British say Pasteur Institute slighted their help on AIDS test. (Britain's Institute of Cancer Research contends it helped French institute develop an AIDS blood test) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bernard Seytre |
| Broadcasting science: the renewal of the BBC's charter demands the intervention of others than mere broadcasters. (British Broadcasting Corp.) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Bromoform emission from Arctic ice algae. (loss of surface ozone in the Arctic) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W.T. Sturges, G.F. Cota, P.T. Buckley |
| Bubbles in volcanic systems. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.L. Sahagian, A.A. Proussevitch |
| C60 chemistry expands. (buckminsterfullerene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leonard F. Lindoy |
| Calcineurin mediates inhibition by FK506 and cyclosporin of recovery from alpha-factor arrest in yeast. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Forrest Foor, Stephen A. Parent, Nancy Morin, Arlene M. Dahl, Naasa Ramadan, Gary Chrebet, Keith A. Bostian, Jennifer B. Nielsen |
| Calcium-dependent immediate feedback control of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced Ca2+ release. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Makoto Endo, Masamitsu Iino |
| Californians feel the tension. (recent earthquakes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tom Henyey |
| Candidate proto-oncogene bcl-3 encodes a subunit-specific inhibitor of transcription factor NF-kappa-B. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F. Gregory Wulczyn, Michael Naumann, Claus Scheidereit |
| Can Europe's dream now come true? (European unity and the Maastricht Treaty) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Can research benefits be proved? (Representative George Brown and federal support for basic research) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Can there be life without LIF? (leukemia inhibitory factor and uterine defects that prevent embryonic implantation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John K. Heath |
| Capillary array electrophoresis: an approach to high-speed, high-throughput DNA sequencing. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard A. Mathies, Xiaohua C. Huang |
| Capillary electrophoresis: the promise and the practice. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ira S. Krull, Jeff R. Mazzeo |
| Carbon isotope evidence for the stepwise oxidation of the Proterozoic environment. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.M. Hayes, David J. Des Marais, Roger E. Summons, Harald Strauss |
| Carbon onions introduce new flavor to fullerene studies. (concentric shells of carbon atoms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Harold W. Kroto |
| Casting more light on light. (high-energy physics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David J. Miller |
| Catalytic conversions. (carbon cycle) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.R. Toggweiler |
| Catching photons from hell. (gamma-ray astronomy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Francis Halzen |
| Cause of wild dog deaths. (African wild dogs) (response to R. Burrows, Nature, vol. 359, p. 277, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Scott Creel, D.W. Macdonald |
| CD1b restricts the response of human CD4-8- T lymphocytes to a microbial antigen. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael B. Brenner, Steven Porcelli, Craig T. Morita |
| CD21 is a ligand for CD23 and regulates IgE production. (immunoglobulin E) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jean-Pierre Aubry, Sibylle Pochon, Pierre Graber, Kathrin U. Jansen, Jean-Yves Bonnefoy |
| Cell-free expression of functional Shaker potassium channels. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert L. Rosenberg, Joan E. East |
| Cell-to-cell spread of calcium signals mediated by ATP receptors in mast cells. (adenosine triphosphate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yuri Osipchuk, Michael Cahalan |
| Cell transformation and activation of pp60c-src by overexpression of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. (tumorigenesis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yue Wang, Xin Min Zheng, Catherine J. Pallen |
| CENP-E is a putative kinetochore motor that accumulates just before mitosis. (protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Don W. Cleveland, Tim J. Yen, Gang Li, Bruce T. Schaar, Illya Szilak |
| Centractin is an actin homologue associated with the centrosome. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sean W. Clark, David I. Meyer |
| Changes in static stress on southern California faults the 1992 Landers earthquake. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ruth A. Harris, Robert W. Simpson |
| Changes in surface salinity of the North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.C. Duplessy, L. Labeyrie, M. Arnold, M. Paterne, J. Duprat, T.C.E. van Weering |
| Changes in the hydrochemistry of the Black Sea inferred from water density profiles. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Suleyman Tugrul, Ozden Basturk, Cemal Saydam, Aysen Yilmaz |
| Chaperones classified. (molecular chaperones) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Webb, Louis A. Sherman |
| Characteristic size of relief. (landscape characteristics and geomorphology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas W. Burbank |
| Checkpoint policing by p53. (response to D.P. Lane, Nature, vol. 358, p. 15, 1992) (includes reply) (tumor-suppressor protein p53) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan R. Lehmann, D.P. Lane, Antony M. Carr, Michael H.L. Green |
| Chemical evidence for ancient beer. (the Sumerians of the fourth millennium B.C.) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick E. McGovern, Rudolph H. Michel, Virginia R. Badler |
| Chemistry prize. (Nobel Prizes Go to Caltech Chemist, CERN Physicist) (the California Institute of Technology and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Finn |
| Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus. (effects of Chernobyl nuclear accident) (response to V.S. Kazakov, E.P. Demidchik, L.N. Astakhova and K. Baverstock, Nature, vol. 359, p. 21, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Valerie Beral, Gillian Reeves, I. Shigematsu, J.W. Thiessen |
| China juggles economic growth and basic research. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | You Qin Li |
| China relaxes rules for visiting citizens. (Chinese citizens working in other countries) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | You Qin Li |
| CH+ in the Red Rectangle. (biconical nebula) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David I. Hall, Janet R. Miles, Peter J. Sarre, Stephen J. Fossey |
| Chlamydomonas surrenders. (conference on the molecular biology of a unicellular alga) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Karen P. VanWinkle-Swift |
| Chloride channels revisited. (genetics of cystic fibrosis pathophysiology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Chris Higgins |
| CHON as a component of dust from comet Halley. (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark E. Lawler, D.E. Brownlee |
| Choosing the limits to life. (improving health through the study of age distribution of diseases and causes of death) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J. Ashby, P.H.M. Lohman, K. Sankaranarayanan |
| Chromosomal instability. (response to M.A. Kadhim, Nature, vol. 335, p. 738, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Laure Sabatier, Bernard Dutrillaux, Maria Berta Martin |
| Chromosomes and genes dissected. (contents of the first issue of 'Nature Genetics,' a new research journal) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Ciliary neurotrophic factor prevents degeneration of motor neurons in mouse mutant progressive motor neuronopathy. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Sendtner, H. Schmalbruch, K.A. Stockli, P. Carroll, G.W. Kreutzberg, H. Thoenen |
| Circumstellar disks deduced from sub-arcsecond polarization observations of two young stars. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V. Piirola, F. Scaltriti, G.V. Coyne |
| Cirrus-cloud thermostat for tropical sea surface temperatures tested using satellite data. (response to V. Ramanathan and W. Collins, Nature, vol. 351, p. 27, 1991) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rong Fu, Anthony D. Del Genio, William B. Rossow, W. Timothy Liu |
| Clams before Columbus? (clams brought to Europe by Vikings) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | K.S. Petersen, K.L. Rasmussen, J. Heinemeier, N. Rud |
| Clarity in ion traps. (atomic physics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard Thompson, Daniel Segal |
| Clinton on science (fetal tissue research and AIDS research) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Cloning and characterization of a new intercellular adhesion molecule ICAM-R. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rosemay Vazeux, Patricia A. Hoffman, Judy K. Tomita, Edna S. Dickinson, Richard L. Jasman, Tom St. John, W. Michael Gallatin |
| Cloning and expression of a rat brain L-glutamate transporter. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gilia Pines, Niels C. Danbolt, Magnar Bjoras, Yumin Zhang, Annie Bendahan, Lars Eide, Hermann Koepsell, Jon Storm-Mathisen, Erling Seeberg, Baruch I. Kanner |
| Clues to early Solar System history from chromium isotopes in carbonaceous chondrites. (chondrite meteorites) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Monica Rotaru, Jean Louis Birck, Claude J. Allegre |
| Coalescence reactions of fullerenes. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert L. Whetten, Chahan Yeretzian, Klavs Hansen, Francois Diederich |
| Coelacanth fins and evolution. (fish) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.E. Ahlberg |
| Cold dark matter under a cloud. (evidence against cold dark matter cosmology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James Binney |
| Coley's toxins in perspective. (vaccine developer William B. Coley and tumor necrosis factor's potential as a cancer treatment) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charlie O. Starnes |
| Coley's toxins. (response to P.G.G. Brouckaert, W. Fiers and F.J. Lejeune, Nature, vol. 358, p. 630, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charlie O. Starnes |
| Coley's vaccine and TNF therapy. (tumor necrosis factor) (response to C.O. Starnes, Nature, vol. 357, p. 11, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.G.G. Brouckaert, W. Fiers, F.J. Lejeune |
| Collision complexes clocked in real time. (collision intermediates of chemical reactions) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roger Grice |
| Columns for visual features of objects in monkey inferotemporal cortex. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Keiji Tanaka, Ichiro Fujita, Minami Ito, Kang Cheng |
| Communal nesting patterns in mice implicate MHC genes in kin recognition. (major histocompatibility complex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C. Jo Manning, Edward K. Wakeland, Wayne K. Potts |
| Competitive PCR. (competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul D. Siebert, James W. Larrick |
| Connectivity of chemosensory neurons is controlled by the gene poxn in Drosophila. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eugenie Nottebohm, Christine Dambly-Chaudiere, Alain Ghysen |
| Consciousness on the scientific agenda. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeffrey Gray |
| Continents ring the changes. (continents' movements may have controlled the origin of metallic mineral deposits) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Kerrich |
| Continuous beds: high-resolving, cost-effective chromatographic matrices. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stellan Hjerten, Yi-Ming Li, Jia-Li Liao, Jamil Mohammad, Ken'ichi Nakazato, Goran Pettersson |
| Continuum of overlapping clones spanning the entire human chromosome 21q. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yoshiyuki Sakaki, David Cox, Daniel Cohen, Ilya Chumakov, Philippe Rigault, Sophie Guillou, Pierre Ougen, Alain Billaut, Ghislaine Guasconi, Patricia Gervy, Isabelle LeGall, Pascal Soularue, Laurent Grinas, Lydie Bougueleret, Christine Bellanne-Chantelot, Bruno Lacroix, Emmanuel Barillot, Philippe Gesnouin, Stuart Pook, Guy Vaysseix, Gerard Frelat, Annette Schmitz, Jean-Luc Sambucy, Assumpcio Bosch, Xavier Estivill, Jean Weissenbach, Alain Vignal, Harold Riethman, David Patterson, Kathleen Gardiner, Masahira Hattori, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Misao Ohki, Denis Le Paslier, Roland Heilig, Stylianos Antonarakis |
| Control of CFTR chloride conductance by ATP levels through non-hydrolytic binding. (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, adenosine triphosphate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.M. Quinton, M.M. Reddy |
| Control of RNase E-mediated RNA degradation by 5'-terminal base pairing in E. coli. (Escherichia coli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joel G. Belasco, Philippe Bouvet |
| Convection brought to a focus. (continuum mechanics and the solidification of liquid alloys) (includes information on the linearized equation of state) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Loper |
| Convergence of 9-cis retinoic acid and peroxisome proliferator signalling pathways through heterodimer formation of their receptors. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ronald M. Evans, Kazuhiko Umesono, Steven A. Kliewer, Daniel J. Noonan, Richard A. Heyman |
| Conveying that sinking feeling. (carbon dioxide and Atlantic Ocean circulation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Watson |
| Cooling and freshening of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since the 1960s. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.F. Read, W.J. Gould |
| Cooperative interaction between c-myc and bcl-2 proto-oncogenes. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerard I. Evan, Abdallah Fanidi, Elizabeth A. Harrington |
| Copernican Columbus? Columbus, for all the criticism of the past few weeks, deserves his place in history. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Copernican revolution declared. (crystallography) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.L. Mackay |
| Correlations in intronless DNA. (response to C.-K. Peng, Nature, vol. 356, p. 168, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V.V. Prabhu, J.-M. Claverie |
| Cosmology back to the beginning. (microwave background radiation and the Big Bang) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joseph Silk |
| Counter-rotating gaseous disks in the "Evil Eye" galaxy NGC4826. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Braun, Rene A.M. Walterbos, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. |
| Creative blocks: cell-cycle checkpoints and feedback controls. (includes review of recent cell cycle research) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew W. Murray |
| Creep, compaction and the weak rheology of major faults. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Norman H. Sleep, Michael L. Blanpied |
| Cross-pollination. (response to T. Madsen, R. Shine, J. Loman and T. Hakansson, Nature, vol. 355, p. 440, 1992, and to G.A. Parker, Nature, vol. 355, p. 395, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mary V. Price, Nickolas M. Waser, Robert I. Bertin |
| Crumbling of dacite dome lava and generation of pyroclastic flows at Unzen volcano. (Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hiroaki Sato, Toshitsugu Fujii, Setsuya Nakada |
| Crust in mantle overdrive. (mountain building and the Earth's interior) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Molnar |
| Crystallization by centrifugation. (response to Jim E. Pitts, Nature, vol. 355, p. 117, 1992)(includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cele Abad-Zapatero, Jim E. Pitts |
| Crystallographic structure and functional implications of the nitrogenase molybdenum-iron protein from Azobacter vinelandii. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jongsun Kim, D.C. Rees |
| Crystal structure at 1.7 A of the bovine papillomavirus-1 E2 DNA-binding domain bound to its DNA target. (angstroms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rashmi S. Hegde, Steven R. Grossman, Laimonis A. Laimins, Paul B. Sigler |
| Crystal structure at 2.8 angstrom resolution of a soluble form of the cell adhesion molecule CD2. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David I. Stuart, Simon J. Davis, Alan F. Williams, E. Yvonne Jones, Karl Harlos |
| Crystal structure of a Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrea Musacchio, Martin Noble, Richard Pauptit, Rik Wierenga, Matti Saraste |
| Crystal structure of a streptococcal protein G domain bound to an Fab fragment. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dale B. Wigley, Jeremy P. Derrick |
| Crystal structure of staphylococcal enterotoxin B, a superantigen. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S. Swaminathan, William Furey, James Pletcher, Martin Sax |
| Crystal structure of TFIID TATA-box binding protein. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen K. Burley, Masami Horikoshi, Robert G. Roeder, Dimitar B. Nikolov, Shu-Hong Hu, Judith Lin, Alexander Gasch, Alexander Hoffmann, Nam-Hai Chua |
| Crystal structure of the met repressor-operator complex at 2.8A resolution reveals DNA recognition by beta-strands. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William S. Somers, Simon E.V. Phillips |
| Crystal structure of the phosphotyrosine recognition domain SH2 of v-src complexed with tyrosine-phosphorylated peptides. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Baltimore, Bruce J. Mayer, John Kuriyan, Gabriel Waksman, Dorothea Kominos, Scott C. Robertson, Nalin Pant, Raymond B. Birge, David Cowburn, Hidesaburo Hanafusa, Michael Overduin, Marilyn D. Resh, Carlos B. Rios, Lauren Silverman |
| Crystal structures explain functional properties of two E. coli porins. (Escherichia coli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.W. Cowan, T. Schirmer, G. Rummel, M. Steiert, R. Ghosh, R.A. Pauptit, J.N. Jansonius, J.P. Rosenbusch |
| Crystals with a light. (using lasers to control the quantized motion of atoms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Steane, Christopher Foot |
| Cuckoldry through stored sperm in the sequentially polyandrous spotted sandpiper. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lewis W. Oring, Robert C. Fleischer, J. Michael Reed, Katherine E. Marsden |
| Curling and closure of graphitic networks under electron-beam irradiation. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel Ugarte |
| Curved saplings at Mt St Helens. (response to M.I. Bursik and A.W. Woods, Nature, vol. 355, p. 594, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David K. Yamaguchi, Richard B. Waitt |
| Cystic fibrosis in the mouse by targeted insertional mutagenesis. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rosa S.P. Beddington, Stewart Fleming, Julia R. Dorin, Paul Dickinson, Eric W.F.W. Alton, Stephen N. Smith, Duncan M. Geddes, Barbara J. Stevenson, Wendy L. Kimber, Alan R. Clarke, Martin L. Hooper, Louise Anderson, David J. Porteous |
| Cytosolic chaperonin confirmed. (protein folding) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Ellis |
| Cytosolic free calcium mediates red light-induced photomorphogenesis. (plant physiology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.S. Shacklock, N.D. Read, A.J. Trewavas |
| Damage-limitation exercises. (DNA defects causing two diseases, Fanconi's anemia and xeroderma pigmentosum, and DNA repair) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Deborah E. Barnes |
| Dangers of disappointment at Rio. (the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Dark matter versus magnetism. (magnetism competes with dark matter to explain the rotational velocity of gas orbiting spiral galaxies) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James Binney |
| Darkness can illuminate. (solar eclipses) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Foukal |
| Dating supernova remnants. (pulsar linked with the supernova seen by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.N. Manchester |
| David Bohm (1917-1992). (Obituary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.L.G. Redhead |
| Decaying neutrino theory. (response to A.F. Davidsen, Nature, vol. 351, p. 128, 1991) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dennis W. Sciama, Paolo Salucci, Massimo Persic |
| Deep ocean circulation puzzle. (influence on climate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rainer Zahn |
| Deep origin of mid-ocean-ridge seismic velocity anomalies. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wei-jia Su, Robert L. Woodward, Adam M. Dziewonski |
| Deep-sea amphipod swarms. (crustaceans at vent sites in the East Pacific Rise) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cindy Lee Van Dover, Stein Kaartvedt, Stephen M. Bollens, Peter H. Wiebe, Joel W. Martin, Scott C. France |
| Defective regulation of outwardly rectifying Cl- channels by protein kinase A corrected by insertion of CFTR. (chloride, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Pamela L. Zeitlin, William B. Guggino, Marie Egan, Terence Flotte, Sandra Afione, Rikki Solow, Barrie J. Carter |
| Deficiency of the 50K dystrophin-associated glycoprotein in severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kevin P. Campbell, Kiichiro Matsumura, Fernando M.S. Tome, Huguette Collin, Kemal Azibi, Malika Chaouch, Jean-Claude Kaplan, Michel Fardeau |
| Defining misconduct: US Academy offers strict definitions but ducks other urgent issues. (National Academy of Sciences report on research and scientific fraud) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Deflection and fragmentation of near-Earth asteroids. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan W. Harris, Thomas J. Ahrens |
| Degeneration in vitro of post-mitotic neurons overexpressing the Alzheimer amyloid protein precursor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kazuaki Yoshikawa, Takako Aizawa, Yokichi Hayashi |
| Deletion polymorphism in the gene for angiotensin-converting enzyme is a potent risk factor for myocardial infarction. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Philippe Amouyel, Alun Evans, Florent Soubrier, Jean-Marie Bard, Francois Cambien, Odette Poirier, Laure Lecerf, Jean-Pierre Cambou, Dominique Arveiler, Gerald Luc, Lucienne Bara, Sylvain Ricard, Laurence Tiret, Francois Alhenc-Gelas |
| Density-dependent populations. (response to Robert M. May, Nature, vol. 338, p. 16, 1989)(includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert M. May, M.D. Mountford, P. Rothery |
| Deriving global climate sensitivity from palaeoclimate reconstructions. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Curt Covey, Martin I. Hoffert |
| Detection of TeV photons from the active galaxy Markarian 421. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Y. Jiang, C. Wilson, M. Punch, C.W. Akerlof, M.F. Cawley, M. Chantell, D.J. Fegan, S. Fennell, J.A. Gaidos, J. Hagan, A.M. Hillas, A.D. Kerrick, R.C. Lamb, M.A. Lawrence, D.A. Lewis, D.I. Meyer, G. Mohanty, K.S. O'Flaherty, P.T. Reynolds, A.C. Rovero, M.S. Schubnell, G. Sembroski, T.C. Weekes, T. Whitaker |
| Determination of complex structures by combined neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anthony K. Cheetham, Russell E. Morris, William T.A. Harrison, Jacqueline M. Nicol, Angus P. Wilkinson |
| Deviant TATA-box binding protein. (response to D.B. Nikolov, Nature, vol. 360, p. 40, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John E. Hyde, Paul F.G. Sims, Martin Read, Michael B. McAndrew |
| Devious devices of Salmonella. (the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium's ability to invade host cells by stimulating their receptors for epidermal growth factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel A. Portnoy, Gregory A. Smith |
| Diamonds at the K/T boundary. (evidence for a meteorite impact at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Brez Carlisle |
| Different beta-subunits determine G-protein interaction with transmembrane receptors. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C. Kleuss, H. Scherubl, J. Hescheler, George P. Shultz, B. Wittig |
| Different length peptides bind to HLA-Aw68 similarly at their ends but bulge out in the middle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William S. Lane, Don C. Wiley, Jack L. Strominger, Hwai-Chen Guo, Theodore S. Jardetzky, Thomas P.J. Garrett |
| Diminishing oxygen. (interferometric technique for measuring atmospheric oxygen content) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wallace S. Broecker, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus |
| Dipolar reversal states of the geomagnetic field and core-mantle dynamics. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kenneth A. Hoffman |
| Direct evidence for extensive paternal mitochondrial DNA inheritance in the marine mussel Mytilus. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eleftherios Zouros, Kenneth R. Freeman, Amy Oberhauser Ball, Grant H. Pogson |
| Direct measurement of potassium-promoted change in heat of adsorption of CO on Ni(100). (carbon monoxide, nickel-100) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.A. King, N. Sarraf, J.T. Stuckless |
| Direct measurement of the optical depth in a spiral galaxy. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Raymond E. White III, William C. Keel |
| Disappearance of coronal X-ray emission in stars with cool dense winds. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.H.M.M. Schmitt, Bernhard Haisch, A.C. Fabian |
| Dispersal of juveniles and variable recruitment in sessile marine species. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark D. Bertness, Steven D. Gaines |
| Disposal of SO2 in sea water. (response to Miroslav Radojevic and D.A. Tressider, Nature, vol. 356, p. 391, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Helge Drange, Peter M. Haugan, J.J. Colls, Miroslav Radojevic |
| Dissociation between mental imagery and object recognition in a brain-damaged patient. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gordon Winocur, Marlene Behrmann, Morris Moscovitch |
| DNA correlations. (intron-containing gene sequences) (response to C.-K. Peng, Nature, vol. 356, p. 168, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter J. Munson, Ronald C. Taylor, George S. Michaels, Wentian Li, Kunihiko Kaneko |
| DNA electrophoresis in microlithographic arrays. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W.D. Volkmuth, R.H. Austin |
| DNA fingerprinting transforms the art of cell authentication. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Glyn N. Stacey, Bryan J. Bolton, Alan Doyle |
| DNA fingerprints of cell lines. (response to Glyn N. Stacey, Bryan J. Bolton and Alan Doyle, Nature, vol. 357, p. 261, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Glyn N. Stacey, Bryan J. Bolton, Alan Doyle, Roderick A.F. MacLeod |
| DNA recognition, warts and all. (structure of transcription factors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen K. Burley, John Kuriyan |
| Does science leave room for soul? (comment on the attack on science in the book 'Understanding the Present' by Bryan Appleyard) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Does the mid-crust flow? (evidence that the Earth's mid-to-lower crust deforms plastically) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wayne Thatcher |
| Down the straight and narrow. (large-scale synthesis of carbon nanotubes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.S. Dresselhaus |
| Drawing upon the mind's eye. (a case of associative visual agnosia and neuropsychology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John C. Marshall, Jennifer M. Gurd |
| Drosophila wingless generates cell type diversity among engrailed expressing cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen DiNardo, Scott Dougan |
| Ducking big problems is cowardly. (lack of action on GATT at the Group of Seven summit in Munich, Germany in July 1992) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Dust from short-period comet P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 and replenishment of the interplanetary dust cloud. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Fulle |
| Earliest Homo debate. (response to Andrew Hill, Steven Ward, Alan Deino, Garniss Curtis and Robert Drake, Nature, vol. 355, p. 719, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Hill, Craig S. Feibel, Dean Falk, Eric Baker, Steven Ward, Alan Deino, Garniss Curtis, Robert Drake |
| Earthquake scaling. (response to J.F. Pacheco, C.H. Scholz and L.R. Sykes, Nature, vol. 355, p. 71, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ian Main |
| Earth's core not so hot. (core temperatures may be lower than previously thought) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Al Duba |
| Ecdysone and the onion. (gene regulation in insects by the steroid ecdysone) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Greg Guild, Geoff Richards |
| Echoes of D4 receptor repeats. (dopamine receptor) (response to Jay B. Lichter, Kenneth J. Livak, Jeffery Rogers, James L. Kennedy and Hubert H.M. Van Tol, Nature, vol. 358, p. 149, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James L. Kennedy, Hubert H.M. Van Tol, A.J. Makoff, Jay B. Lichter, Kenneth J. Livak, Jeffery Rogers |
| Ecology of globular clusters. (stellar evolution) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas C. Heggie |
| Ectopic mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos caused by widespread expression of a Brachyury homologue. (Brachyury or T gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V. Cunliffe, J.C. Smith |
| Effects of an Rb mutation in the mouse. (retinoblastoma) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert A. Weinberg, Tyler Jacks, Roderick T. Bronson, Amin Fazeli, Earlene M. Schmitt, Margaret A. Goodell |
| Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gordon B. Bonan, David Pollard, Starley L. Thompson |
| Electrical bursting of islet beta cells. (response to C. Ammala and others, Nature, vol. 353, p. 849, 1991) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel L. Cook, Patrik Rorsman, Per-Olof Berggren |
| Electrical conductivity of carbon-bearing granulite at raised temperatures and pressures. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul W.J. Glover, F.J. Vine |
| Electrical signalling and systemic proteinase inhibitor induction in the wounded plant. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.C. Wildon, J.F. Thain, P.E.H. Minchin, I.R. Gubb, A.J. Reilly, Y.D. Skipper, H.M. Doherty, P.J. O'Donnell, D.J. Bowles |
| Electron density fluctuations in the local interstellar bubble. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.A. Phillips, Andrew W. Clegg |
| Elements of visual perception. (neurobiology of visual memory) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael P. Stryker |
| Elongation factor-1-alpha gene determines susceptibility to transformation. (malignant transformation of cells) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hiroto Okayama, Masaaki Tatsuka, Hiromi Mitsui, Morimasa Wada, Akihisa Nagata, Hiroshi Nojima |
| Endangered species and the law. (ungulate taxonomy shows the importance of classification for laws on conservation) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Valerius Geist |
| End of the 'Uniramia' taxon. (insect fossils and the arthropods' evolutionary origin) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William A. Shear |
| Energy researchers fight for their survival. (Science in Texas) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kathryn Jones |
| Engineering galactose-binding activity into a C-type mannose-binding protein. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kurt Drickamer |
| Enhanced dissipation of kinetic energy beneath surface waves. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Y.C. Agrawal, E.A. Terray, M.A. Donelan, P.A. Hwang, A.J. Williams III, W.M. Drennan, K.K. Kahma, S.A. Kitaigorodskii |
| Enhanced ventilation of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre thermocline during the last glaciation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Niall C. Slowey, William B. Curry |
| Enhancement of polymerization rates for rigid rod-like molecules by shearing. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | U.S. Agarwal, D.V. Khakhar |
| Enhancements in biologically effective ultraviolet radiation following volcanic eruptions. (El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.M. Vogelmann, T.P. Ackerman, R.P. Turco |
| Enhancing protein C interaction with thrombin results in a clot-activated anticoagulant. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark A. Richardson, Bruce Gerlitz, Brian W. Grinnell |
| Enterotoxin residues determining T-cell receptor V-beta binding specificity. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael J. Irwin, Keith R. Hudson, John D. Fraser, Nicholas R.J. Gascoigne |
| Eppur si non muove: the Vatican's half-hearted rehabilitation of Galileo will not prevent the recurrence of errors of the same kind. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Eradication of rabies in Europe. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Flamand, P. Coulon, F. Lafay, A. Kappeler, M. Artois, M. Aubert, J. Blancou, A.I. Wandeler |
| Escherichia coli cell-division gene ftsZ encodes a novel GTP-binding protein. (filamentation temperature sensitive gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Debabrata RayChaudhuri, James T. Park |
| Eukaryotic initiation rites. (DNA replication) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joachim J. Li, Bruce M. Alberts |
| Europe's recalcitrant offshore island. (Britain, the Maastricht Treaty and the devaluation of the pound) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Eusociality in Australian gall thrips. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bernard J. Crespi |
| Even larger organisms. (quaking aspen may be the largest living organism) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeffry B. Mitton, Michael C. Grant, Yan. B. Linhart |
| Every motion has its motor. (cell spindles, motor proteins and chromosome segregation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jonathan M. Scholey, Vladimir I. Gelfand |
| Evidence for a viral superantigen in humans. (nucleocapsid of the rabies virus) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Monique Lafon, Mireille Lafage, Amalia Martinez-Arends, Rafael Ramirez, Francoise Vuillier, Dominique Charron, Vincent Lotteau, Daniel Scott-Algara |
| Evidence for basal marine ice in the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf. (West Antarctic ice sheet) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H. Oerter, J. Kipfstuhl, J. Determann, H. Miller, D. Wagenbach, A. Minikin, W. Graf |
| Evidence for cooperative interactions in potassium channel gating. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jan Tytgat, Peter Hess |
| Evidence for dipolar fields during the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic polarity reversals. (Cobb Mountain subchron from the western Pacific) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bradford M. Clement |
| Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic ocean during the last glacial period. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerard Bond, Harmut Heinrich, Wallace Broecker, Laurent Labeyrie, Jerry McManus, John Andrews, Sylvain Huon, Ruediger Jantschik, Silke Clasen, Christine Simet, Kathy Tedesco, Mieczyslawa Klas, Georges Bonani, Susan Ivy |
| Evidence for melt segregation towards fractures in the Horoman mantle peridotite complex. (Horoman complex in Hokkaido, Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Natsuko Takahashi |
| Evidence for photochemical control of ozone concentrations in unpolluted marine air. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.W. Gillett, G.P. Ayers, S.A. Penkett, B. Bandy, I.E. Galbally, C.P. Meyer, C.M. Elsworth, S.T. Bentley, B.W. Forgan |
| Evidence for single-temperature dust in the Crab nebula from a reanalysis of its infrared spectrum. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard G. Strom, Harm Greidanus |
| Evidence for some hot dark matter? (based on microwave background anisotropy detected in space) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert K. Schaefer, Qaisar Shafi |
| Evidence for sub-millisecond structure in a gamma-ray burst. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.N. Bhat, G.J. Fishman, C.A. Meegan, R.B. Wilson, M.N. Brock, W.S. Paciesas |
| Evidence from coupled 147Sm-143Nd and 146Sm-142 Nd systematics for very early (4.5-Gyr) differentiation of the Earth's mantle. (samarium, neodymium, 4.5 billion years ago) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stein B. Jacobsen, Charles L. Harper Jr. |
| Evidence from nitrogen isotope ratios for enhanced productivity during formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels. (organic-rich sediment) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.E. Calvert, B. Nielsen, M.R. Fontugne |
| Evidence from Re-Os isotopes for plume-lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis. (rhenium-osmium) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.W. Carlson, R.M. Ellam, S.B. Shirey |
| Evidence from ultra-high-pressure marbles for recycling of sediments into the mantle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Harry Becker, Rainer Altherr |
| Evidence of a transition temperature for the optimum deposition of grafted monolayer coatings. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.B. Brzoska, N. Shahidzadeh, F. Rondelez |
| Evidence that Hensen's node is a site of retinoic acid synthesis. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Brigid L.M. Hogan, Gregor Eichele, Christina Thaller |
| Evolution and environment in the Hominoidea. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Andrews |
| Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. (new analysis of the Prisoners' Dilemma) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert M. May, Martin A. Nowak |
| Evolution of sex determination and the Y chromosome: SRY-related sequences in marsupials. (SRY gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Desmond W. Cooper, Andrew H. Sinclair, Jamie W. Foster, Robin Lovell-Badge, Peter N. Goodfellow, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Francine E. Brennan, Gregory K. Hampikian, Lynne Selwood, Marilyn B. Renfree |
| Evolution on fast-forward. (research on RNA catalysis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William P. Jencks |
| Exact tracking of pollen transfer and mating in plants. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | L. Anders Nilsson, Elisabeth Rabakonandrianina, Borge Pettersson |
| Exchange rate mechanisms. (signal transduction) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Julian Downward |
| Excitation of true polar wander by subduction. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Giorgio Spada, Yanick Ricard, Roberto Sabadini |
| Excited-state enhancement of optical nonlinearities in linear conjugated molecules. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.C. Rodenberger, J.R. Heflin, A.F. Garito |
| Excrement analysis by PCR. (polymerase chain reaction used in genetic analysis of the endangered European brown bear's droppings) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthias Hoss, Michael Kohn, Svante Paabo, Felix Knauer, Wolfgang Schroder |
| Exocytotic fusion is activated by Rab3a peptides. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William E. Balch, Andres F. Oberhauser, Jonathan R. Monck, Julio M. Fernandez |
| Experimentally produced oscillatory zoning in the (Ba, Sr)SO4 solid solution. (barium, strontium) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Manuel Prieto, Andrew Putnis, Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz |
| Explosive start to last ice age. (the Toba volcano's eruption 73,500 years ago may have speeded up the last ice age) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V. Ramaswamy |
| Expression cloning of a human DNA repair gene involved in xeroderma pigmentosum group C. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Randy Legerski, Carolyn Peterson |
| Expression of Hox-7.1 in myoblasts inhibits terminal differentiation and induces cell transformation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kening Song, Yaoqi Wang, David Sassoon |
| Extreme weather events. (El Nino and the Southern Oscillation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Christian L. Keppenne, Michael Ghil |
| Familiar strangers. (similarity of protein structures) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alexey G. Murzin |
| Fast forward in the MHC. (the major histocompatibility complex and the molecular genetics of North and South American Indians) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jonathan Howard |
| Fast process, slow progress. (new explanation for the internal structure of galaxies) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.G. Edmunds |
| Fast pulsations in a Wolf-Rayet star. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Blecha, G. Schaller, A. Maeder |
| Fast sequencing of oligosaccharides using arrays of enzymes. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Christopher Edge, Raj Parekh, Thomas Rademacher, Mark Wormald, Raymond Dwek |
| Fatal attraction to cyanobacteria? (animal deaths due to eating toxic cyanobacteria) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C. Edwards, G.A. Codd, K.A. Beattie, W.M. Barr, G.J. Gunn |
| FEMA's testing time: the US federal agency with responsibility for national emergencies has flunked again. (Federal Emergency Management Agency) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Ferroelectricity in oxides. (response to R.E. Cohen, Nature, vol. 358, p. 136, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Buttner |
| Ferroelectric liquid crystals from achiral molecules. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J. Simon, F. Tournilhac, L.M. Blinov, S.V. Yablonsky |
| Finding circumstellar disks. (new stars around which planetary systems may be forming) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen E. Strom |
| Fire burn and cauldron bubble. (remnants of bubbles of hot gas detected in the Milky Way Galaxy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leo Blitz |
| Fishing in Src-infested waters. (SH2 domain of the Src tyrosine kinase and signal transduction) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gregory A. Petsko |
| Flashing giants forge fluorine. (evidence that red giant stars produce fluorine) (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G.J. Mathews |
| Flattening of the sea-floor depth-age curve as a response to asthenospheric flow. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jason Phipps Morgan, Walter H.F. Smith |
| Flowering inferno. (research on grassland burning of African savannas) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roland Pease |
| Folding in the egg white. (protein folding) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roger H. Pain |
| Following iceberg footprints. (evidence for climatic change) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eystein Jansen |
| Foothold in Bosnia: the world's diffidence at intervention in Bosnia is understandable, but should not be taken to extremes. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Foraging behaviour of emperor penguins as a resource detector in winter and summer. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Ancel, G.L. Kooyman, P.J. Ponganis, J.-P. Gendner, J. Lignon, X. Mestre, N. Huin, P.H. Thorson, P. Robisson, Y. Le Maho |
| Formation of dwarf galaxies in tidal tails. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lars Hernquist, Joshua E. Barnes |
| Formation of haematopoietic microenvironment and haematopoietic stem cells from single human bone marrow stem cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Shiang Huang, W.M.M. Leon Terstappen |
| Formation of harzburgite by pervasive melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Henry J.B. Dick, Peter B. Kelemen, James E. Quick |
| For our eyes only. (biological results of losing a functional retinoblastoma gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ed Harlow |
| France's blood scandal draws blood. (four government officials are convicted of allowing the use of HIV-contaminated blood) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Frequency variations of the Earth's obliquity and the 100-kyr ice-age cycles. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Han-Shou Liu |
| Fresh start for photonics. (making optical materials practical) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Larry R. Dalton |
| Friction measurements on phase-separated thin films with a modified atomic force microscope. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.M. Overney, E. Meyer, J. Frommer, D. Brodbeck, R. Luthi, L. Howald, H.-J. Guntherodt, M. Fujihira, H. Takano, Y. Gotoh |
| Frog ponds and ocean iron. (ecological effects of altering plant productivity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stuart L. Pimm |
| From cell line to brain. (neurobiology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Joshua R. Sanes, Jeff W. Lichtman |
| Functional localization and lateralization of human olfactory cortex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan C. Evans, Robert J. Zatorre, Marilyn Jones-Gotman, Ernst Meyer |
| Function of a truncated dihydropyridine receptor as both voltage sensor and calcium channel. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kurt G. Beam, Brett A. Adams, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Shosaku Numa, Tsutomu Tanabe |
| Further up the kinetic pathway. (protein folding) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roger Pain |
| Fusion reactor finds delay is price of global cooperation. (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dave Kramer |
| Gamma-ray bursts from high-velocity neutron stars. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hui Li, Charles D. Dermer |
| Geminga joins the class. (gamma-ray source identified as a pulsar) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charles D. Bailyn |
| Geminga: new period, old gamma-rays. (gamma-ray source Geminga identified with the Einstein X-ray source 1E0630+178) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G.F. Bignami, P.A. Caraveo |
| Gene-for-gene coevolution between plants and parasites. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeremy J. Burdon, John N. Thompson |
| Gene fusion with an ETS DNA-binding domain caused by chromosome translocation in human tumours. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gilles Thomas, Olivier Delattre, Guy Rouleau, Jessica Zucman, Beatrice Plougastel, Chantal Desmaze, Thomas Melot, Martine Peter, Heinrich Kovar, Isabelle Joubert, Pieter de Jong, Alain Aurias |
| Gene manipulation on plastic plates. (oligonucleotide-immobilized plastic plates as a tool in messenger RNA research) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Masato Mitsuhashi, Cylia Keller, Tatsuo Akitaya |
| Gene patents: the decision of the US Patent Office not to protect gene fragments is welcome, but questions remain. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Genes map the migratory route. (genetic basis for bird migration) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William J. Sutherland |
| Genetic divergence, speciation and morphological stasis in a lineage of African cichlid fishes. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Axel Meyer, Christian Sturmbauer |
| Genetics and geography. (human origins and mitochondrial DNA) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N.H. Barton, N. Goldman |
| Genetics and the public interest. (ethical problems of genetic screening) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Geochemical evidence for melt migration and reaction in the upper mantle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E. Takazawa, F.A. Frey, N. Shimizu, M. Obata, J.L. Bodinier |
| Geochronological evidence supporting Antarctic deglaciation three million years ago. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.J. Barrett, C.J. Adams, W.C. McIntosh, C.C. Swisher III, G.S. Wilson |
| Geomagnetic reversal paths. (response to J.P. Valet, P. Tucholka, V. Courtillot and L. Meynadier, Nature, vol. 356, p. 400, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Carlo Laj, Alain Mazaud, Robin Weeks, Michael Fuller, Emilio Herrero-Bervera |
| Getting into the liver. (function of the malaria parasite's circumsporozoite protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F.E.G. Cox |
| Glaciation and denudation rates. (response to M.A. Summerfield and M.P. Kirkbride, Nature, vol. 355, p. 306, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jon Harbor, Jeff Warburton |
| Global environmental engineering. (plans for reversing global ozone depletion merit serious consideration) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ralph J. Cicerone, Scott Elliott, Richard P. Turco |
| Global warming, ocean cooling. (North Atlantic is colder and less salty now than in the 1960s) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Allyn Clarke |
| GM-CSF and TNF-alpha cooperate in the generation of dendritic Langerhans cells. (granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor, tumor necrosis factor-alpha) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C. Caux, C. Dezutter-Dambuyant, D. Schmitt, J. Banchereau |
| Gravitational wakes in Saturn's rings. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H. Salo |
| Greasing the fault. (mechanical effects of fluids and pressure on geologic faults) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Brian Evans |
| Growing with environmental care. (the World Bank's annual report on achieving environmentally safe economic development) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Growth in jobs with a green tinge. (employment opportunities for scientists in conservation-related fields) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sandra MacPherson |
| Guides to experiments. (RNA editing) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Barbara Sollner-Webb |
| Halogen lamp carcinogenicity. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Silvio De Flora, Francesco D'Agostini |
| Hard-pressed molecular clouds. (Galactic Center) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark (American dancer) Morris |
| Healy in a hurry. (National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy and the resignation of Human Genome Project director James D. Watson) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Hidden lymphocytes. (autoimmunity and autoimmune disease) (includes information on how B-1 cells originate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anthony L. DeFranco |
| Hiding from the midday Sun. (controlling ozone layer depletion) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| High brain densities of the immunophilin FKBP colocalized with calcineurin. (FK506 binding protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ted M. Dawson, Solomon H. Snyder, Joseph P. Steiner, Majid Fotuhl, Charles E. Glatt, Adele M. Snowman, Noam Cohen |
| High-energy cosmic-ray origin. (response to D.A. Bryant, G.I. Powell and C.H. Perry, Nature, vol. 356, p. 582, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colin Norman, X. Chi, C. Dahanayake, J. Wdowczyk, A.W. Wolfendale, Lewis Ball, Don Melrose, D.A. Bryant, G.I. Powell, C.H. Perry |
| High hopes of a trophic factor. (motor neuron diseases) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.W. Oppenheim |
| High lithium abundance in the secondary of the black-hole binary system V404 Cygni. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R. Rebolo, E.L. Martin, J. Casares, P.A. Charles |
| Highly ionized gas in the nucleus of the active galaxy MCG-6-30-15. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | K. Nandra, K.A. Pounds |
| High outcrossing rates maintain male and hermaphrodite individuals in populations of the flowering plant Datisca glomerata. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Loren H. Rieseberg, Peter Fritsch |
| High time for the circuses to stop. (NASA should cancel the Freedom space station in favor of Solar System research) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Hippocampus-dependent learning facilitated by a monoclonal antibody or D-cycloserine. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lucien T. Thompson, Joseph R. Moskal, John F. Disterhoft |
| His father's Oldsmobile. (National Science Foundation chief Walter Massey and National Institutes of Health chief Bernadine Healy plan their agencies' futures) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| HIV: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate? (why Albert Sabin is wrong to doubt that an HIV vaccine is possible) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gordon Ada, Bob Blanden, Arno Mullbacher |
| HLA-DR molecules from an antigen-processing mutant cell line are associated with invariant chain peptides. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Cresswell, Janice M. Riberdy, John R. Newcomb, Michael J. Surman, James A. Barbosa |
| HMG has DNA wrapped up. (interactions of the high-mobility group protein 1 with DNA) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David M.J. Lilley |
| Homeotic transformation of the occipital bones of the skull by ectopic expression of a homeobox gene. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Pierre Chambon, Marianne LeMeur, Pascal Dolle, Thomas Lufkin, Manuel Mark, Charles P. Hart |
| Homing in on the homeobox. (developmental biology and the homeobox DNA sequence) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Guy Riddihough |
| Homodimer formation of retinoid X receptor induced by 9-cis retinoic acid. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James (Director) Cameron, Xiao-kun Zhang, Gerhart Graupner, Magnus Pfahl, Jurgen Lehmann, Birgit Hoffmann, Marcia I. Dawson, Thomas Hermann, Paul Tran |
| How cells know their place. (cell specialization developmental biology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Helen M. Blau |
| How does variation count? (variation and molecular evolution of viruses) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John M. Coffin, Alice S. Huang |
| Hsp90 chaperones protein folding in vitro. (heat-shock protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hans Wiech, Johannes Buchner, Richard Zimmermann, Ursula Jakob |
| HTLV-II among pygmies. (human T-cell lymphotrophic viruses among central African pygmies) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jan Desmyter, Patrick Goubau, Joseph Ghesquiere, Busaka Kasereka |
| Human cytomegalovirus UL97 open reading frame encodes a protein that phosphorylates the antiviral nucleoside analogue ganciclovir. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edward Littler, Amanda D. Stuart, Mark S. Chee |
| Human frontiers in rough water. (future of the Human Frontier Science Program, an international research project) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Human general transcription factor IIH phosphorylates the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jean-Marc Egly, Danny Reinberg, Hua Lu, Leigh Zawel, Laurent Fisher |
| Human infection by genetically diverse SIVsm-related HIV-2 in West Africa. (simian immunodeficiency viruses infecting sooty mangabey monkeys and human immunodeficiency virus type 2 in Liberia) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul M. Sharp, Bruce M. Greene, George M. Shaw, Aloysius P. Hanson, Beatrice H. Hahn, Albert T. White, Feng Gao, Ling Yue, Peter G. Pappas, Joseph Barchue |
| Human origins. (analysis of human mitochondrial tree)(response to R.L. Cann, M. Stoneking and A.C. Wilson, Nature, vol. 325, p. 31, 1987) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Christopher Wills |
| Hunt for the magnetoreceptor. (research on how geomagnetism influences animal behavior) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rudiger Wehner |
| Hydrothermal supermounds. (Reykjanes Ridge, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge near Iceland) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B.J. Murton, C.R. German |
| Ice-age atmospheric concentration of nitrous oxide from an Antarctic ice core. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Markus Leuenberger, Ulrich Siegenthaler |
| Ice-crystal growth and lectins. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B. Rubinsky, R. Coger, K.V. Ewart, G.L. Fletcher |
| Identification by mutagenesis of a Mg2+-block site of the NMDA receptor channel. (N-methyl-D-aspartate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hisashi Mori, Hisashi Masaki, Tomohiro Yamakura, Masayoshi Mishina |
| Identification of an amino acid-base contact in the GCN4-DNA complex by bromouracil-mediated photocrosslinking. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard H. Ebright, Yon W. Ebright, Erich E. Blatter |
| Identification of the nebula G70.7+1.2 as a bow shock powered by a pulsar/Be-star binary. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.R. Kulkarni, Z. Wang, S.N. Vogel, D.O.S. Wood |
| Identification of V1017 Sgr as a cataclysmic variable binary system with unusually long period. (remnant of nova Sagitarii 1919) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kazuhiro Sekiguchi |
| Ignition of X-ray flares. (radiation from galactic nuclei) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthew G. Baring |
| Implications for global warming of intercycle solar irradiance variations. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael E. Schlesinger, Navin Ramankutty |
| Importance of habitat saturation and territory quality for evolution of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jan Komdeur |
| Imprinting in leukaemia. (genomic imprinting) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wolf Reik |
| Inactivation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium channel by protein kinase. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jixin Wang, Philip M. Best |
| Increased ultraviolet radiation in New Zealand (45 degrees S) relative to Germany (48 degrees N). | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G. Seckmeyer, R.L. McKenzie |
| Inducing concentric worm holes. (anchor-cell signalling molecule of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans identified) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert K. Herman |
| Induction and all that. (developmental biology conference on the frog Xenopus) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jonathan Cooke |
| Induction of germ cell formation by oskar. (Drosophila gene) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anne Ephrussi, Ruth Lehmann |
| Inefficient positive selection of T cells directed by haematopoietic cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark Bix, David Raulet |
| Infection breaks T-cell tolerance. (infection with the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Martin Rocken, Joseph F. Urban, Ethan M. Shevach |
| Infectious diseases are not banished. (Institute of Medicine report) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Influence of Southern Ocean waters on the cadmium-phosphate properties of the global ocean. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Russell D. Frew, Keith A. Hunter |
| Inhibition by brefeldin A of a Golgi membrane enzyme that catalyses exchange of guanine nucleotide bound to ARF. (adenosine diphosphate-ribosylation factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James E. Rothman, J. Bernd Helms |
| Inhibition of furin-mediated cleavage activation of HIV-1 glycoprotein gp160. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hans-Dieter Klenk, Sabine Hallenberger, Valerie Bosch, Herbert Angliker, Elliott Shaw, Wolfgang Garten |
| In search of the soluble. (the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Hardy, Mike Mullan |
| Intense hydrolytic enzyme activity on marine aggregates and implications for rapid particle dissolution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Farooq Azam, Meinhard Simon, David C. Smith, Alice L. Alldredge |
| Interactions between food-web structure and nutrients on pond organisms. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mathew A. Leibold, Henry M. Wilbur |
| Intercalation of sodium heteroclusters into the C60 lattice. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.E. Fischer, O. Zhou, T. Yildirim, N. Bykovetz, R.A. Strongin, M.A. Cichy, A.B. Smith III, C.L. Lin, R. Jelinek |
| Interference imaging of daily growth bands in massive corals. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.J. Risk, T.H. Pearce |
| Interpreting DNA fingerprints. (response to John Brookfield, Nature, vol. 355, p. 207, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter D'Eustachio, John Brookfield |
| In the pink (and yellow). (evolutionary genetics and natural selection of land snails) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeremy J.D. Greenwood |
| Introns in sequence tags. (response to Mark D. Adams, Chris Fields and J. Craig Venter, Nature, vol. 355, p. 632, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark D. Adams, J. Craig Venter, Thomas R. Burglin, Thomas M. Barnes, Chris Fields |
| Invisible radioactivity. (detection of a rare form of nuclear beta-decay) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W.R. Phillips |
| IPCC strategies unfair to the South. (intergovernmental panel on climate change, convened at the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jyoti K. Parikh |
| Irregular glacial interstadials recorded in a new Greenland ice core. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P. Iversen, S.J. Johnsen, H.B. Clausen, W. Dansgaard, K. Fuhrer, N. Gundestrup, C.U. Hammer, J. Jouzel, B. Stauffer, J.P. Steffensen |
| Irregular oscillations of the West Antarctic ice sheet. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas R. MacAyeal |
| Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). (Obituary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Carl Sagan |
| Is it "oui or nous ne savons pas"? (uncertain results of the French referendum on European union) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Isolation and quantification of soluble Alzheimer's beta-peptide from biological fluids. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dale Schenk, Dave Davis, Peter Seubert, Michael Lee, Carmen Vigo-Pelfrey, Fred Esch, Harry Dovey, Sukanto Sinha, Michael Schlossmacher, Justine Whaley, Cathy Swindlehurst, Robert McCormack, Robert Wolfert, Dennis Selkoe, Ivan Liederburg |
| Isoprenylation in regulation of signal transduction by G-protein-coupled receptor kinases. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert J. Lefkowitz, Marc G. Caron, James Inglese, Walter J. Koch |
| Isozyme-selective stimulation of phospholipase C-beta-2 by G protein beta-gamma-subunits. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Montserrat Camps, Amanda Carozzi, Petra Schnabel, Alexander Scheer, Peter J. Parker, Peter Gierschik |
| Is the Antarctic ice sheet growing? | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.S. Jacobs |
| Is yeast TCP1 a chaperonin? (response to G. North, Nature, vol. 354, p. 434, 1991) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D. Ursic, M.R. Culbertson |
| Jobs in the computer industry. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael Dempsey |
| Journals as policeman. (Congress and the regulation of scientific journals) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Jury returns on structure prediction. (protein structure revealed by X-ray crystallography) (response to S.A. Benner, M.A. Cohen and D. Gerloff, Nature, vol. 359, p. 781, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander |
| Just a fraction of a moment. (magnetic moment of microscopic clusters of aligned atoms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tony Stace |
| Keeping the Sun in proportion. (evidence against solar variability as a cause of global warming) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew A. Lacis, Barbara E. Carlson |
| Keeping zoos alive. (London Zoological Society's management of the London Zoo) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Killer acid at the K/T boundary. (planetary geology and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William B. McKinnon |
| Knocking out memory's door. (long-term potentiation and memory) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel V. Madison |
| Lack of nitrogen cycling in the Atacama Desert. (Chile) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James R. Ehleringer, Harold A. Mooney, Philip W. Rundel, R. David Evans, Beatrice Palma, Jose Delatorre |
| Large anisotropic thermal conductivity in synthetic diamond films. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S. Jin, J.E. Graebner, G.W. Kammlott, J.A. Herb, C.F. Gardinier |
| Large-scale structure in a universe with mixed hot and cold dark matter. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Marc Davis, F.J. Summers, David Schlegel |
| Last resting place of a thylacine. (Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.N. Paddle |
| Lead isotope evidence for young trace element enrichment in the oceanic upper mantle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alex N. Halliday, Gareth R. Davies, Der-Chuen Lee, Simone Tommasini, Cassi R. Paslick, J. Godfrey Fitton, Dodie E. James |
| Leave the man alone: the argument between researchers and the animal rights movements go back a long way. (Charles Darwin's comments on animal experimentation) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Leeds disunited: there is no substitute for openness in the handling of allegations of scientific misconduct. (University of Leeds, England) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Lessons from past climates. (global climate change) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eric J. Barron |
| Let the French sue: a lawsuit against the US over the AIDS patent would finally bring all of the hard facts into open court. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Leukaemia/Drosophila homology. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Antonio Daga, Jane E. Tighe, Franco Calabi |
| Leukocyte accumulation promoting fibrin deposition is mediated in vivo by P-selectin on adherent platelets. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bruce Furie, Barbara C. Furie, Theresa Palabrica, Roy Lobb, Mark Aronovitz, Christopher Benjamin, Yen-Ming Hsu, Susan A. Sajer |
| Life and the rock cycle. (evolution of the biosphere and the ocean-atmosphere system) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jan Veizer |
| Life in a test tube. (evolutionary chemistry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Laurence D. Hurst, Richard Dawkins |
| Lifespan of human lymphocyte subsets defined by CD45 isoforms. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colin A. Michie, Angela McLean, Christopher Alcock, Peter C.L. Beverley |
| Light in the dark. (plant genetics and phototransduction) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Elliot M. Meyerowitz |
| Li in V404 Cygni. (lithium found in the spectrum of a star possibly orbiting a black hole) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | George Wallerstein |
| Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein alpha-subunit. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Koichi Kokame, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toru Yoshizawa |
| Lithium given and taken away. (large amounts of lithium detected near the possible black-hole binary system V404 Cygni) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerry Gilmore |
| London Zoo crippled by misjudgement. (the London Zoological Society's plan to close the zoo in September, 1992) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Long-term proliferation of mouse primordial germ cells in culture. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James L. Resnick, Lynn S. Bixler, Linzhao Cheng, Peter J. Donovan |
| Long-term solar brightness changes estimated from a survey of Sun-like stars. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G.W. Lockwood, Brian A. Skiff, Sallie L. Baliunas, Richard R. Radick |
| Long time series reveal density dependence. (population biology of aphids and moths) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H.C.J. Godfray, M.P. Hassell |
| Looking inside quantum dots. (solid state physics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | L. Eaves |
| Lord Ashby (1904-1992). (Obituary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Frank H.T. Rhodes |
| Loss of gene function through rapid mitotic cycles in the Drosophila embryo. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mike Rothe, Michael Pehl, Heike Taubert, Herbert Jackle |
| Lost numbers game. (the National Science Foundation's forecast of a shortage of scientists found to be poorly researched) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Low-mass stars in the spheroid of our Galaxy. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Harvey B. Richer, Gregory G. Fahlman |
| Maastricht, Sarajevo and Rostock. (the French referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on European monetary union and Europe's future) (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia and Rostock, Germany) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Magnetic fields as an alternative explanation for the rotation curves of spiral galaxies. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E. Battaner, J.L. Garrido, M. Membrado, E. Florido |
| Magnets get their act together. (macroscopic magnets and quantum mechanics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Philip Stamp |
| Make or break with fullerenes. (high-pressure physics and carbon allotropes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Steve Duclos |
| Making and breaking bonds. (surface chemistry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.W. Kleyn |
| Making light work with optical tweezers. (manipulating microscopic objects with focused beams of infrared laser light) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Steven M. Block |
| Making networks work. (electronic publishing and electronic networking) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Phil Barden |
| Mapping antibody binding sites on protein antigens. (using deuterium-exchange labeling and two-dimensional 1H nuclear magnetic resonance) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yvonne Paterson |
| Mapping the way ahead. (Human Genome Project publishes two chromosome maps) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Little |
| Marine isotope evolution. (reply to J. McArthur, J. Burnett and J. Hancock, Nature, vol. 355, p. 28, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter D. Ward, Bruce K. Nelson, Kenneth G. MacLeod |
| Market ideology. (British government's mistaken energy policy) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Marsupial Y chromosome encodes a homologue of the mouse Y-linked candidate spermatogenesis gene Ube1y. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael J. Mitchell, Diane R. Woods, Steven A. Wilcox, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Colin E. Bishop |
| Mats of giant sulphur bacteria on deep-sea sediments due to fluctuating hydrothermal flow. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bo Barker Jorgensen, Jens K. Gundersen, Einer Larsen, Holger W. Jannasch |
| Mechanical detection of magnetic resonance. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D. Rugar, C.S. Yannoni, J.A. Sidles |
| Mediterranean vegetation, lake levels and palaeoclimate at the Last Glacial Maximum. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | I. Colin Prentice, Joel Guiot, Sandy P. Harrison |
| Megaprojects galore: Europe seems keen on construction projects with benefits for the environment: will environmentalists agree? (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Melting of wet lithosphere. (flood basalts) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard W. Carlson |
| Mercury and gold pollution. (Wales) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ronald Fuge, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, William T. Perkins |
| Mercury pollution in Brazil. (pollution of the Madeira River due to gold mining) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Olaf Malm, Jerome O. Nriagu, Wolfgang C. Pfeiffer, Cristina Magalhaes de Souza, Gregory Mierle |
| Merely the tip of the ice core. (Greenland Ice Core Project and paleoclimatology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Peel |
| Metallic solid silicon. (materials science) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert W. Cahn |
| Metasomatism of the sub-arc mantle inferred from trace elements in Philippine xenoliths. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rene C. Maury, Marc J. Defant, Jean-Louis Joron |
| Mice and flies head to head. (resemblance between Drosophila genes and mouse homologues) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stefan Krauss, Peter Holland, Philip Ingham |
| Mice deficient for Rb are nonviable and show defects in neurogenesis and haematopoiesis. (retinoblastoma) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Allan Bradley, Eva Y.-H.P. Lee, Wen-Hwa Lee, Chi-Yao Chang, Nanpin Hu, Yi-Chun J. Wang, Chen-Ching Lai, Karl Herrup |
| Mice with half a mind. (effect of retinoic acid on brain development) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Malcolm Maden, Nigel Holder |
| Microtubule-motor activity of a yeast centromere-binding protein complex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.A. Hyman, K. Middleton, M. Centola, T.J. Mitchison, J. Carbon |
| Middle atmosphere cooling. (global climatic change) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Rolando R. Garcia |
| Mir for the crystallographers' money. (carrying out protein-crystal growth research aboard Russia's Mir space station) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Barry L. Stoddard, Roland K. Strong, Anthony Arrott, Gregory K. Farber |
| Mirror script. (leftward eye movements and ancient scripts) (response to V. Smetacek, Nature, vol. 354, p. 118, 1991) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John R. Skoyles |
| Mitotic domains in the early embryo of the zebrafish. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Donald A. Kane, Rachel M. Warga, Charles B. Kimmel |
| Mitotic spindle organization by a plus-end-directed microtubule motor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kenneth E. Sawin, Katherine LeGuellec, Michel Philippe, Timothy J. Mitchison |
| Mixed parvocellular and magnocellular geniculate signals in visual area V4. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Vincent P. Ferrera, Tara A. Nealey, John H.R. Maunsell |
| Modelling the hydrological cycle in assessments of climate change. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D. Rind, C. Rosenzweig, R. Goldberg |
| Model of anomalous transport with backreacting localized perturbations. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.A. Dubois, P. Beaufume, B. Fromont |
| Modules for molecules. (neurobiology and the olfactory glomeruli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gordon M. Shepherd |
| Molecular analysis of the association of HLA-B53 and resistance to severe malaria. (human leukocyte antigen) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Adrian V.S. Hill, Brian M. Greenwood, Andrew J. McMichael, Masafumi Takiguchi, John Elvin, Anthony C. Willis, Michael Aidoo, Catherine E.M. Allsopp, Frances M. Gotch, X. Ming Gao, Alain R.M. Townsend, Hilton C. Whittle |
| Molecular and genetic damage in humans from environmental pollution in Poland. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kari Hemminki, Christopher Dickey, Frederica P. Perera, Ewa Gryzbowska, Grazyna Motykiewicz, Jadwiga Michalska, Regina M. Santella, Tie-Lan Young, Paul Brandt-Rauf, Immaculata DeVivo, William Blaner, Wei-Yann Tsai, Mieczyslaw Chorazy |
| Molecular characterization of the Arabidopsis floral homeotic gene APETALA1. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Beth Savidge, Martin F. Yanofsky, M. Alejandra Mandel, Cindy Gustafson-Brown |
| Molecular cloning of ICAM-3, a third ligand for LFA-1, constitutively expressed on resting leukocytes. (intercellular adhesion molecule) (leukocyte function-associated antigen) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kevin C. Gatter, David Y. Mason, Jonathan Fawcett, Claire L.L. Holness, Lindsey A. Needham, Helen Turley, David L. Simmons |
| Molecular genetics arrives on the farm. (identifying genetic causes of veterinary diseases) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James E. Womack |
| Molecular identification of the gene responsible for congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Walter Rosenthal, Anita Seibold, Anaid Antaramian, Michele Lonergan, Marie-Francoise Arthus, Geoffrey N. Hendy, Mariel Birnbaumer, Daniel G. Bichet |
| Molecular mimicry in liver disease. (primary biliary cirrhosis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew K. Burroughs, Patrice Butler, Michael J.E. Sternberg, Harold Baum |
| Molecular neurology comes of age. (conference on The Brain in Well-Being and Disease, November 12-13, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Nicholas Short |
| Molecular potential. (epidemiology of carcinogens) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colin Garner |
| Molecular structure of the acyl-enzyme intermediate in beta-lactam hydrolysis at 1.7 angstrom resolution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Natalie C.J. Strynadka, Susan E. Jensen, Hiroyuki Adachi, Kathy Johns, Anita Sielecki, Christian Betzel, Kazuo Sutoh, Michael N.G. James |
| Molecules record sea change. (650,000-year record of sea-surface temperature changes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mitchell Lyle |
| Money turmoil poses awkward questions. (causes of troubles in the world's foreign currency exchanges) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| More from the modellers. (a new mouse model for cystic fibrosis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Francis Collins, James M. Wilson |
| More on motor neurons. (response to G. Vrbova, L. Greensmith, K. Sieradzan, Nature, vol. 360, p. 216, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick Carroll, Georg W. Kreutzberg, Hans Thoenen, Michael Sendtner, Kurt A. Stockli, Henning Schmalbruch |
| Motor learning in a recurrent network model based on the vestibulo-ocular reflex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.G. Lisberger, T.J. Sejnowski |
| Motor neuron disease model. (response to M. Sendtner, Nature, vol. 358, p. 502, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerta Vrbova, Linda Greensmith, Katarzyna Sieradzan |
| Mount Unzen rumbles on. (volcano in Japan is likely to erupt again) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jonathan Fink |
| Muddled carbon tax. (European Commission's proposals for restricting greenhouse gas emissions) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Multiple dopamine D4 receptor variants in the human population. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hubert H.M. Van Tol, James R. Bunzow, Olivier Civelli, Philip Seeman, Caren M. Wu, Hong-Chang Guan, Koichi Ohara, James Kennedy |
| Multiplicity of migrants. (EC legislation on migration of contaminants from food packaging to food) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | L.L. Katan |
| Multi-talented stem cells? (bone marrow hematopoiesis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mike Dexter, Terry Allen |
| Mutation of the beta-amyloid precursor protein in familial Alzheimer's disease increases beta-protein production. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dennis J. Selkoe, Christian Haass, Ivan Lieberburg, Lisa McConlogue, Peter Seubert, Tilman Oltersdorf, Albert Y. Hung, Carmen Vigo-Pelfrey, Martin Citron |
| Mutations in T-cell antigen receptor genes alpha and beta block thymocyte development at different stages. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Susumu Tonegawa, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Peter Mombaerts, Juan J. Lafaille, Rudolf Jaenisch, Alan R. Clarke, Martin L. Hooper, Michael A. Rudnicki, John Iacomini, Lili Wang, Yoshiaki Ichikawa |
| Mutations in the channel domain of a neuronal nicotinic receptor convert ion selectivity from cationic to anionic. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jean-Luc Galzi, Anne Devillers-Thiery, Nicolas Hussy, Sonia Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Daniel Bertrand |
| Myc and Max proteins possess distinct transcriptional activities. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert N. Eisenman, Leo Kretzner, Elizabeth M. Blackwood |
| Myths of the German atom bomb. (Farm Hall transcripts and Germany's World War II nuclear research) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mark Walker |
| Nanostructures come of age. (international conference on nanostructure materials) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert W. Cahn |
| NASA carves up science program. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Lawler |
| NASA on a tether: the space agency may be trying to do too much by trying to combine research with experimental technology. (failure of a space technology experiment) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Natural inhibitor of transforming growth factor-beta protects against scarring in experimental kidney disease. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wayne A. Border, Erkki Ruoslahti, Nancy A. Noble, Tatsuo Yamamoto, John R. Harper, Yu Yamaguchi, Michael D. Pierschbacher |
| Natural Josephson junctions. (high-temperature superconductivity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colin Pegrum |
| Nested expression domains of four homeobox genes in developing rostral brain. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anna Stornaiuolo, Antonio Simeone, Dario Acampora, Massimo Gulisano, Edoardo Boncinelli |
| Network-modifying ions in glass. (response to B. Vessal, Nature, vol. 356, p. 504, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.R. Elliott |
| Neural correlates of perceptual motion coherence. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Thomas D. Albright, Gene R. Stoner |
| Neural networks and olive oil. (new technique for detecting the adulteration of olive oil) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas B. Kell, Royston Goodacre, Giorgio Bianchi |
| Neural subsystems for object knowledge. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Hart Jr., Barry Gordon |
| New cytoskeletal liaisons. (cellular roles and make-up of microtubules and actin microfilaments) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Ron D. Vale |
| New drug law to speed scientific review. (Food and Drug Administration's drug approval process) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| New genes sweep clean. (evolutionary biology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Brian Charlesworth |
| New government, old problems. (prospects for better science policy under the re-elected Conservative British government) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| New head of NEC research institute in US hopes to change our view of computers. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Elizabeth Corcoran |
| New light on nitrogenase. (photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.N.F. Thorneley |
| New links between the Chicxulub impact structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. (possible crater in northern Yucatan, Mexico) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Virgil L. Sharpton, G. Brent Dalrymple, Luis E. Marin, Graham Ryder, Benjamin C. Schuraytz, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi |
| New paths from dead ends. (protein structure) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Willie Taylor |
| New 'phantom' dinoflagellate is the causative agent of major estuarine fish kills. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Howard B. Glasgow Jr., JoAnn M. Burkholder, Edward J. Noga, Cecil H. Hobbs |
| New spectroscopic frontiers. (using squeezed light to reduce noise levels below the quantum limit) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen M. Barnett |
| NF is enough of GAP. (neurofibromatosis, GTPase-activating protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Frank McCormick, Gideon Bollag |
| Nitric oxide release from a single cell measured in situ by a porphyrinic-based microsensor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tadeusz Malinski, Ziad Taha |
| NMR study of parallel-stranded tetraplex formation by the hexadeoxynulceotide d(TG4T). (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David M.J. Lilley, Fareed Aboul-ela, Alastair I.H. Murchie |
| Nobel Prizes go to Caltech chemist, CERN physicist: physics prize. (the California Institute of Technology and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Laura Garwin |
| No contractile obligations. (two new materials that swell when stretched) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R. Lakes |
| No evidence for variable duration of sympatry between the great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jesus M. Zuniga, Tomas Redondo |
| No muscles, but what a brain. (role of activins in forming the mesoderm of Xenopus embryos) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick Lemaire |
| No Palaeocene 'mammal-like reptile.' (response to R.C. Fox, G.P. Youzwyshyn and D.W. Krause, Nature, vol. 358, p. 233, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hans-Dieter Sues |
| NO release for good measure. (nitric oxide and biosensors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Solomon H. Snyder |
| Not on the agenda. (British science and the April 9, 1992 election) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Novel field-induced asymmetry in the remanent magnetization of the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N.P. Ong, D.A. Brawner, Z.Z. Wang |
| Oak tree mortality in Iberia. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C.M. Brasier |
| Objective analysis of the topological organization of the primate cortical visual system. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Malcolm P. Young |
| Observation and possible causes of new ozone depletion in Antarctica in 1991. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S. Solomon, D.J. Hofmann, S.J. Oltmans, J.M. Harris, T. Deshler, B.J. Johnson |
| Observation of an electronic bound state above a potential well. (quantum wells) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Federico Capasso, Carlo Sirtori, Jerome Faist, Deborah L. Sivco, Sung-Nee G. Chu, Alfred Y. Cho |
| Of mice and the MHC. (major histocompatibility complex and kin recognition in mice) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan Grafen |
| Oil and combustion-product contamination of the Gulf marine environment following the war. (Persian Gulf War) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.W. Readman, S.W. Fowler, J.-P. Villeneuve, C. Cattini, B. Oregioni, L.D. Mee |
| One thousand families for the molecular biologist. (most proteins may come from about 1,000 families) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cyrus Chothia |
| On prisoners and cells. (new views of the Prisoner's Dilemma model for evolutionary dynamics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Karl Sigmund |
| On to molecular mechanisms. (NMDA receptors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charles F. Stevens |
| Optical imaging of epileptiform and functional activity in human cerebral cortex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael M. Haglund, George A. Ojemann, Daryl W. Hochman |
| Optical tests of Galileo's lenses. (telescopic lenses) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Vincenzo Greco, Giuseppe Molesini, Franco Quercioli |
| Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C.T. Kresge, M.E. Leonomicz, W.J. Roth, J.C. Vartuli, J.S. Beck |
| Original and artificial antibodies. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cesar Milstein, Ermanno Gherardi |
| Origin of ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ronald E. Cohen |
| Origins of rodents and guinea-pigs. (response to M. Hasegawa, Y. Cao, J. Adachi and T.-A. Yano, Nature, vol. 355, p. 595, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wen-Hsiung Li, Winston A. Hide, Dan Graur |
| Ornithine decarboxylase activity is critical for cell transformation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leif C. Andersson, Merja Auvinen, Aino Paasinen, Erkki Holtta |
| Ornithine decarboxylase is degraded by the 26S proteasome without ubiquitination. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Keiji Tanaka, Yasuko Murakami, Senya Matsufuji, Takaaki Kameji, Shin-ichi Hayashi, Kazuei Igarashi, Tomohiro Tamura, Akira Ichihara |
| Oscillating global temperature. (reply to M.R. Allen, P.L. Read, L.A. Smith, Nature, vol. 355, p. 686, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.A. Tsonis, J.B. Elsner |
| Oxidative stress and heat shock induce a human gene encoding a protein-tyrosine phosphatase. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen M. Keyse, Elizabeth A. Emslie |
| Ozone depletion in the upper stratosphere estimated from satellite and Space Shuttle data. (Nimbus-7 satellite) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ernest Hilsenrath, Richard P. Cebula, Charles H. Jackman |
| p53, guardian of the genome. (p53 protein and cancer) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.P. Lane |
| Packing away carbon isotopes. (climate change) (includes information on carbon isotopes and carbon cycling) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robin Keir |
| Palaeocene therapsid debate. (response to H.-D. Sues, Nature, vol. 359, p. 278, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David W. Krause, Richard C. Fox, Gordon P. Youzwyshyn |
| Palaeo-CO2 and climate. (methods for estimating ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide levels) (response to J.F. Kasting, Nature, vol. 355, p. 676, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert A. Berner |
| Parasitizing the cytokine system. (schistosomiasis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan Sher |
| Parental origin of chromosomes involved in the translocation t(9;22). | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Oskar A. Haas, Anthi Argyriou-Tirita, Thomas Lion |
| Parent-offspring conflict. (response to Stephen T. Emlen and Peter H. Wrege, Nature, vol. 356, p. 331, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jerram L. Brown, Stephen T. Emlen, Peter H. Wrege |
| Parents suppress reproduction and stimulate dispersal in opposite-sex juvenile white-footed mice. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jerry O. Wolff |
| Patents for genomes? The United States could (and should) do more to prevent the confusion caused by genome patenting. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Patterns of elevated free calcium and calmodulin activation in living cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Klaus Hahn, Robbin DeBiasio, D. Lansing Taylor |
| Patterns of shrinking gels. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eriko Sato Matsuo, Toyoichi Tanaka |
| Patterns of species diversity in the deep sea as a function of sediment particle size diversity. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ron J. Etter, J. Frederick Grassle |
| Peptides bound to MHC. (response to Charles A. Janeway, Jr., Alexander Yu Rudensky and Paula Preston-Hurlburt, Nature, vol. 353, p. 622, 1991) (includes reply) (major histocompatibility complex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charles A. Janeway Jr., Johannes M. van Noort, Alexander Yu Rudensky, Paula Preston-Hurlburt |
| Per - no link to gap junctions. (Drosophila gene per) (response to T.A. Bargiello, Nature, vol. 328, p. 686, 1987) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael W. Young, Mary K. Baylies, Lino Saez, Gregory Gasic, Thaddeus A. Bargiello, David C. Spray |
| Peter Mitchell (1920-1992). (biochemist and Nobel laureate for chemistry in 1978) (Obituary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Garland |
| Petrogenesis of an augite-bearing melt rock in the Chicxulub structure and its relationship to K/T impact spherules in Haiti. (Cretaceous/Tertiary) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David A. Kring, William V. Boynton |
| Phase behaviour of metastable water. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Francesco Sciortino, H. Eugene Stanley, Peter H. Poole, Ulrich Essmann |
| Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Simon E.V. Phillips, Zsolt Bocskei, Colin R. Groom, Darren R. Flower, Charles E. Wright, Andrea Cavaggioni, John B.C. Findlay, Anthony C.T. North |
| Phosphorylation of the S. cerevisiae Cdc25 in response to glucose results in its dissociation from Ras. (Sacchromyces cerevisiae) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eitan Gross, Doron Goldberg, Alexander Levitzki |
| Phosphorylation of transcription factor p62TCF by MAP kinase stimulates ternary complex formation at c-fos promoter. (mitogen-activated protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hendrik Gille, Andrew D. Sharrocks, Peter E. Shaw |
| Physiological and behavioural thermoregulation in bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus). | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kim N. Holland, Richard W. Brill, Randolph K.C. Chang, John R. Sibert, David A. Fournier |
| Phytoplankton productivity in the North Pacific ocean since 1900 and implications for absorption of anthropogenic CO2. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cara Wilson, Paul G. Falkowski |
| Pit-1-dependent expression of the receptor for growth hormone releasing factor mediates pituitary cell growth. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael G. Rosenfeld, Chijen Lin, Sheng-Cai Lin, Chia-Ping Chang |
| Platelet-derived growth factor stimulates synthesis of PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 by activating a PtdIns(4,5)P2 3-OH kinase. (phosphatidylinositol-bisphosphate) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.T. Hawkins, T.R. Jackson, L.R. Stephens |
| Playing upon both sides. (superantigens and virus infectivity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Parham, Ursula Esser |
| Point mutation in FGF receptor eliminates phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis without affecting mitogenesis. (fibroblast growth factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W. Li, M. Mohammadi, C.A. Dionne, N. Li, T. Spivak, A.M. Honegger, M. Jaye, J. Schlessinger |
| Point mutation of an FGF receptor abolishes phosphatidylinositol turnover and Ca2+ flux but not mitogenesis. (fibroblast growth factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kevin G. Peters, Jacky Marie, Emily Wilson, Harlan E. Ives, Jaime Escobedo, Mercedita Del Rosario, Daniel Mirda, Lewis T. Williams |
| Poking holes in the network. (cytokines) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William E. Paul |
| Polar path in geomagnetic reversals. (hypothesis that a conducting layer at the core-mantle boundary explains geomagnetic reversals' track) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.K. Runcorn |
| Pol of gag-pol fusion protein required for encapsidation of viral RNA of yeast L-A virus. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tsutomu Fujimura, Juan C. Ribas, Alexandr M. Makhov, Reed B. Wickner |
| Polyhedral and cylindrical structures of tungsten disulphide. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G. Hodes, R. Tenne, L. Margulis, M. Genut |
| Positive feedback of glutamate exocytosis by metabotropic presynaptic receptor stimulation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Immaculada Herrero, M. Teresa Miras-Portugal, Jose Sanchez-Prieto |
| Positive selection of T-lymphocytes induced by intrathymic injection of a thymic epithelial cell line. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael J. Bevan, Stanislav Vukmanovic, Andres G. Grandea III, Susan J. Faas, Barbara B. Knowles |
| Possibility of an Arctic ozone hole in a doubled-CO2 climate. (carbon dioxide) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Neal Butchart, John (English writer) Austin, Keith P. Shine |
| Possible blindsight in infants lacking one cerebral hemisphere. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Oliver Braddick, Janette Atkinson, Bruce Hood, William Harkness, Graeme Jackson |
| Possible cataclysmic variable in the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Francesco Paresce, Guido De Marchi, Francesco R. Ferraro |
| Post-depositional mobility of platinum, iridium and rhenium in marine sediments. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edward A. Boyle, Debra C. Colodner, John M. Edmond, John Thomson |
| Post-rifting stress relaxation at the divergent plate boundary in Northeast Iceland. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G.R. Foulger, C.-H. Jahn, G. Seeber, P. Einarsson, B.R. Julian, K. Heki |
| Potential awareness of plants. (electrical signalling among plant cells) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Keith Roberts |
| Practical Schrodinger's cats. (Erwin Schrodinger and quantum optics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Knight |
| Predictable eye-head coordination during driving. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael F. Land |
| Predicted response of stream chemistry to acid loading tested in Canadian catchments. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James W. Kirchner, Peter J. Dillon, Bruce D. LaZerte |
| Predicting El Nino events. (climate switches affecting the Pacific basin and beyond) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C.F. Ropelewski |
| Predicting hurricane tracks. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Bennett, C. Hagelberg, L. Leslie |
| Prediction of the structure of a receptor-protein complex using a binary docking method. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel E. Koshland Jr., Barry L. Stoddard |
| Predominant naturally processed peptides bound to HLA-DR1 are derived from MHC-related molecules and are heterogeneous in size. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William S. Lane, Roman M. Chicz, Robert G. Urban, Joan C. Gorga, Lawrence J. Stern, Dario A.A. Vignali, Jack L. Strominger |
| Preserved figure-ground segregation and symmetry perception in visual neglect. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jon Driver, Gordon C. Baylis, Robert D. Rafal |
| Preserving a sense of direction. (evidence for the stability of Earth's rotation axis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.R. Dickman |
| Presynaptic release probability influences the locus of long-term potentiation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan Larkman, Timo Hannay, Ken Stratford, Julian Jack |
| Priceless proposals. (proposals for U.S. government's role in environmental research, without attention to costs) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Primary production in the glacial North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Constance Sancetta |
| Primary structure and functional characterization of a high-affinity glutamate transporter. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthias A. Hediger, Yoshikatsu Kanai |
| Primary structure of dystrophin-related protein. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | G.K. Suthers, K.E. Davies, D.R. Love, B.C. Byth, J.M. Tinsley, D.J. Blake, A. Roche, U. Fairbrother, J. Riss, A.E. Knight, J. Kendrick-Jones, Y.H. Edwards |
| Probing met repressor-operator recognition in solution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Simon E.V. Phillips, Yi-Yuan He, Teresa McNally, Iain Manfield, Oldrich Navratil, Iain G. Old, Isabelle Saint-Girons, Peter G. Stockley |
| Probing the transition state. (chemical kinetics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ian W.M. Smith |
| Problems delay emergence of Moscow research centre. (includes related article on U.S. assistance for Russian research centers) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeffrey Mervis, Vladimir Pokrovsky |
| Processing of mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is temperature-sensitive. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthew P. Anderson, Alan E. Smith, Michael J. Welsh, John (Supreme Court justice) Marshall, Gerene M. Denning, Jane F. Amara |
| Production of sperm reduces nematode lifespan. (Caenorhabditis elegans) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wayne A. Van Voorhies |
| Progress by poisoning. (cellular effects of the tetanus and botulinum-B toxins) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dan Cutler |
| Projection domains of MAP2 and tau determine spacings between microtubules in dendrites and axons. (microtubule-associated protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N. Hirokawa, J. Chen, Y. Kanai, N.J. Cowan |
| Proteases: to each his own. (enzymology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dagmar Ringe |
| Proteasome subunits encoded by the major histocompatibility complex are not essential for antigen processing. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jacques Neefjes, Peter Walden, Frank Momburg, Vianney Ortiz-Navarrete, Els Goulmy, Yvonne van de Wal, Hergen Spits, Simon J. Powis, Jeffrey W. Butcher, Jonathan C. Howard, Gunter J. Hammerling |
| Proteasome subunits encoded in the MHC are not generally required for the processing of peptides bound by MHC class I molecules. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eric Hughes, James Driscoll, Peter Cresswell, Daniele Arnold, Matthew Androlewicz, Thomas Spies |
| Protein images obtained by STM, AFM and TEM. (scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hideo Arakawa, Kazuo Umemura, Atsushi Ikai |
| Protein model building using structural homology. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard H. Lee |
| Proterozoic depletion of the lithosphere recorded in mantle xenoliths from Inner Mongolia. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F.-L. Deng, J.D. Macdougall |
| Protest by barricade. (opposition by French truck drivers and farmers complicates French relations with the E.C.) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Proto-vav and gene expression. (proto-oncogene product) (response to X.R. Bustelo, J.A. Ledbetter and M. Barbacid, Nature, vol. 356, p. 69, 1992 and to B. Margolis, Nature, vol. 356, p. 71, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | George S. Michaels, Mark S. Boguski, Amos Bairoch, T.K. Attwood |
| PrP and the scrapie agent. (protein PrP's role in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as scrapie) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bruce Chesebro |
| Pulsar emissions. (hard photons from a radio pulsar) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | F.C. Michel, C.D. Dermer |
| Pulsar glitches as probes of neutron star interiors. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bennett Link, Richard I. Epstein, Kenneth A. Van Riper |
| Pulsar planets. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E.P.J. van den Heuvel |
| Pulsar's double period confirmed. (pulsar PSR1257+12 may be orbited by two planetary-mass companions) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D. Backer, S. Sallmen, R. Foster |
| Pulsars to star in forthcoming UK music festival. (pulsar provides tempo for concert at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roland Pease |
| Pulsed high-energy gamma-rays from the radio pulsar PSR1706-44. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.L. Bertsch, D.J. Thompson, R.C. Hartman, Y.C. Lin, A.G. Lyne, R.N. Manchester, G. Kanbach, Z. Arzoumanian, K.T.S. Brazier, N. D'Amico, C.E. Fichtel, J.M. Fierro, S.D. Hunter, S. Johnston, V.M. Kaspi, D.A. Kniffen, J.R. Mattox, H.A. Mayer-Hasselwander, P.F. Michelson, C. v. Montigny, H.I. Nel, D. Nice, P.L. Nolan, K. Pinkau, H. Rothermel, E.J. Schneid, M. Sommer, P. Sreekumar, J.H. Taylor |
| Puritans and cavaliers. (gamma-ray bursts may originate from neutron stars within the Milky Way Galaxy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charles Bailyn |
| Putting a price on Maastricht. (failure of the EC summit at Lisbon shows that Europe needs better government) (Maastricht Treaty) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Puzzling pulsations explained. (X-ray pulsations from the binary V471 Tauri) (includes related article on the Whole Earth Telescope) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edward M. Sion |
| Pyroelectric X-ray generator. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James D. Brownridge |
| Quantal transmitter secretion from myocytes loaded with acetylcholine. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Yang Dan, Mu-ming Poo |
| Queen activation of lazy workers in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hudson K. Reeve |
| Rac and Rho in tune. (cytoskeleton, signal transduction and GTP-binding proteins) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Julian Downward |
| Raf-1 activates MAP kinase-kinase. (mitogen-activated protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John M. Kyriakis, Harald App, Xian-feng Zhang, Papia Banerjee, David L. Brautigan, Ulf R. Rapp, Joseph Avruch |
| Raf functions downstream of Ras1 in the Sevenless signal transduction pathway. (Drosophila eye development) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ernst Hafen, Barry Dickson, Frank Sprenger, Deborah Morrison |
| Rapid microevolution of migratory behaviour in a wild bird species. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P. Berthold, A.J. Helbig, G. Mohr, U. Querner |
| Rates of collapse and evaporation of globular clusters. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Piet Hut, S. Djorgovski |
| Rational disposal of chemical weapons. (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen Black, Benoit Morel |
| Rat liver protein linking chemical and immunological detoxification systems. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lawrence P. Wackett, Patrick M. Schlievert, Frank A. Blocki |
| Reagents for the site-specific cleavage of megabase DNA. (chromosome mapping) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter B. Dervan |
| Real and optimal neural images in early vision. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.H. van Hateren |
| Realities behind riots. (educational opportunities for blacks and the Los Angeles riots of April, 1992) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Real-time observation of vortex lattices in a superconductor by electron microscopy. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A. Tonomura, K. Harada, T. Matsuda, J. Bonevich, M. Igarashi, S. Kondo, G. Pozzi, U. Kawabe |
| Rebuild research now: the temptation to cut back on research in the current financial crisis should be resisted. (Britain) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Receding from our grasp. (origin and evolution of gamma-ray bursts) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kevin Hurley |
| Recent inactivity in African rift. (East African rift) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Roger Bilham, Michael (American pop singer) Jackson, Laike M. Asfaw, Paul Mohr |
| Reconciling particulate organic carbon flux and sediment community oxygen consumption in the deep North Pacific. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | K.L. Smith Jr., R.J. Baldwin, P.M. Williams |
| Reflections of a whistle-blower. (personal account of a fraud case involving academic Michael Briggs of Deakin University in Australia) (includes text of letter by Briggs) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E.J.R. Rossiter |
| Regeneration in sea lilies. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Shonan Amemiya, Tatsuo Oji |
| Regional trends in mercury distribution across the Great Lakes states, north central USA. (Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Edward A. Nater, David F. Grigal |
| Regions involved in the opening of CIC-2 chloride channel by voltage and cell volume. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Thomas J. Jentsch, Stefan Grunder, Astrid Thiemann, Michael Pusch |
| Regulation of focal adhesion-associated protein tyrosine kinase by both cellular adhesion and oncogenic transformation. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jun-Lin Guan, David Shalloway |
| Removal of sulphur from the marine boundary layer by ozone oxidation in sea-salt aerosols. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Y. Kim, H. Sievering, J. Boatman, E. Gorman, L. Anderson, G. Ennis, M. Luria, S. Pandis |
| Reopening the solar neutrino question. (why the sun puts out fewer neutrinos than expected) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lawrence M. Krauss |
| Report backs whistleblower. (Department of Energy sides with James A. Smith, formerly an Argonne National Laboratory metallurgist) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Kramer |
| Requirement for a functional Rb-1 gene in murine development. (retinoblastoma) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anton Berns, Alan R. Clarke, Martin L. Hooper, Els Robanus Maandag, Marian van Roon, Nathalie M.T. van der Lugt, Martin van der Valk, Hein te Riele |
| Requirement of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-biphosphate for alpha-actinin function. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tadaomi Takenawa, Kiyoko Fukami, Kiyoshi Furuhashi, Masaki Inagaki, Takeshi Endo, Sadashi Hatano |
| Resolution of magnetic flux tubes on the Sun. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C.U. Keller |
| Resolution of the circumstellar gas around the Be star Psi Persei. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.M. Dougherty, A.R. Taylor |
| Restoring shine on the Big Apple. (Commission on Biomedical Research and Development formed in New York City) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mimi Bluestone |
| Retinoic acid alters hindbrain Hox code and induces transformation of rhombomeres 2/3 into a 4/5 identity. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robb Krumlauf, Heather Marshall, Stefan Nonchev, Mai Har Sham, Ian Muchamore, Andrew Lumsden |
| Retrograde transport of endocytosed Shiga toxin to the endoplasmic reticulum. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Kirsten Sandvig, Oystein Garred, Kristian Prydz, Juri V. Kozlov, Steen H. Hansen, Bo van Deurs |
| Reversal ideas up-ended. (geomagnetic reversals) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Phil McFadden |
| Reversal of pathology in murine mucopolysaccharidosis type VII by somatic cell gene transfer. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John F. Wolfe, Mark S. Sands, Jane E. Barker, Babette Gwynn, Lucy B. Rowe, Carole A. Vogler, Edward H. Birkenmeier |
| Rich pickings for astronomers. (diamonds detected in the dust clouds around nascent stars) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | I.P. Wright |
| Ridge segmentation, faulting and crustal thickness in the Atlantic Ocean. (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter R. Shaw |
| Riding high on the TATA box. (structure of the TATA-box binding protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jack Greenblatt |
| RNA substrate binding site in the catalytic core of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anna Marie Pyle, Felicia L. Murphy, Thomas Cech |
| Role of pore fluids in the generation of seismic precursors to shear fracture. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.R. Sammonds, P.G. Meredith, I.G. Main |
| Rumblings grow about Parkfield in wake of first earthquake prediction. (the Geological Survey's Parkfield Prediction Experiment at Parkfield, California) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Finn |
| Running out of steam.... (slow growth in research spending in Spain) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Oscar G. Segurado |
| Running rings around modellers. (theorists challenged by data on planetary rings) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Larry W. Esposito |
| Running without regulators. (disputed role of myogenic determination genes in muscle development) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Simon M. Hughes |
| Russian research may be put on lean diet. (Russian governmental support for science) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Vladimir Pokrovsky |
| Saharan exploitation of plants 8,000 years BP. (before present) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Fred Wendorf, Angela E. Close, Romuald Schild, Krystyna Wasylikowa, Rupert A. Housley, Jack R. Harlan, Halina Krolik |
| Sandoz-funded research from Rhine spill suggests blockages are worse than toxins. (research on river pollution) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alison Abbott, Oliver Klaffke |
| Saving on health: two prosperous countries in the West - Germany and the United States - are in trouble over health costs. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Science and sentimentality. (the attempt by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee to set limits on commercial whaling) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.S. Butterworth |
| Science on hit-list: the White House and Congress vie with each other in their ignorant attacks on science. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Sea-level rise or fall? (response to S. Schneider, Nature, vol. 356, p. 11, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel M. Kammen, Alexander I. Shlyakhter |
| Seasonal and interannual variations in atmospheric oxygen and implications for the global carbon cycle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen R. Shertz |
| Seasonal cycle of surface ozone over the western North Atlantic. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Samuel J. Oltmans, Hiram Levy II |
| Seasonal distribution of African savanna fires. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Donald R. Cahoon Jr., Brian J. Stocks, Joel S. Levine, Wesley R. Cofer III, Katherine P. O'Neill |
| Seawater carbon measurement. (response to H. Ogawa and N. Ogura, Nature, vol. 356, p. 696, 1992) (includes reply) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John I. Hedges, Brian A. Bergamaschi, H. Ogawa, N. Ogura |
| SEC21 is a gene required for ER to Golgi transport that encodes a subunit of a yeast coatomer. (endoplasmic reticulum) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Midori Hosobuchi, Thomas Kreis, Randy Schekman |
| Second gorilla or third chimp? (the fossil ape Dryopithecus and the evolutionary relationship of gorillas, chimps and humans) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Dean, Eric Delson |
| Seismic gaps and grizzly bears. (evidence against the seismic-gap hypothesis for predicting earthquakes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Seth Stein |
| Self-cleaning of the Gulf. (Arabian or Persian Gulf oil pollution during the Gulf War) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Naser Sorkhoh, Redha Hasan, Thomas Hopner, Samir Radwan |
| Selfish genes move sideways. (evolutionary genetics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael E.N. Majerus, Laurence D. Hurst, Gregory D.D. Hurst |
| Sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to forcing parameters and implications for its evolution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John E. Kutzbach, Warren L. Prell |
| Sex and the male stick insect. (reproductive biology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Piero P. Giorgi |
| Sexual dimorphism and distorted sex ratios in spiders. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Fritz Vollrath, Geoff A. Parker |
| Sexual identity and smut. (microbial genetics and mating-type genes in the common corn smut) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard Egel |
| Sexual lifestyles and HIV risk. (survey on sexual practices in Britain) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anne M. Johnson, Jane Wadsworth, Kaye Wellings, Sally Bradshaw, Julia Field |
| Shear-wave splitting and small-scale convection in the continental upper mantle. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | L.I. Makeyeva, L.P. Vinnik, S.W. Roecker |
| Shigella flexneri induces apoptosis in infected macrophages. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Arturo Zychlinsky, Marie Christine Prevost, Philippe J. Sansonetti |
| Shipwrecked tube worms. (discovery of vestimentiferan tube worms in a sunken cargo ship) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.R. Dando, A.J. Southward, E.C. Southward, D.R. Dixon, A. Crawford, M. Crawford |
| Short alanine-based peptides may form 3-10-helices and not alpha-helices in aqueous solution. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Siobhan M. Miick, Gary V. Martinez, Wayne R. Fiori, A. Paul Todd, Glenn L. Millhauser |
| Short residence time of colloids in the upper ocean estimated from 238U-234Th disequilibria. (uranium, thorium) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S. Bradley Moran, Ken O. Buesseler |
| Sibling rivalry and brood sex ratios in polyembryonic wasps. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael R. Strand, Miodrag Grbic, Paul J. Ode |
| Signalling through the MHC class II cytoplasmic domain is required for antigen presentation and induces B7 expression. (major histocompatibility complex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N. Nabavi, G.J. Freeman, A. Gault, D. Godfrey, L.M. Nadler, L.H. Glimcher |
| Signal-sequence recognition by an Escherichia coli ribonucleoprotein complex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Tollervey, Joen Luirink, Stephen High, Heather Wood, Angelika Giner, Bernhard Dobberstein |
| Single atoms as transistors. (electronics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sean Washburn |
| Single-electron transfer in metallic nanostructures. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michel H. Devoret, Daniel Esteve, Cristian Urbina |
| Sizing single DNA molecules. (by optical contour maximization) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David C. Schwartz, Xuan-Hui Guo, Edward J. Huff |
| Skirmishes on the border. (interaction between the pathogenic bacteria Yersinia and noninvasive bacteria Escherichia coli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John E. Donelson, Alice B. Fulton |
| Slick solution for oil spills. (using titanium dioxide-coated glass beads and sunlight) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Ollis |
| Slimline magma chambers. (mid-ocean ridges) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E. Y. Meyer, Sherman Bloomer |
| Slowly unwinding in 3He. (helium and superfluidity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.V.E. McClintock |
| Slump in seed-corn: British enrolments in science courses are responding to market forces - and falling. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Social contracts in wasp societies. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hudson K. Reeve, Peter Nonacs |
| Solar cycle length, greenhouse forcing and global climate. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | T.M.L. Wigley, P.M. Kelly |
| Some like it hot.... (response to R. Wehner, A.C. Marsh and S. Wehner, Nature, vol. 357, p. 586, 1992) (foraging temperature range of the Saharan silver ant) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anindya Sinha, K. Chandrashekara |
| Sound embryo ruling: a Tennessee court accepts that an eight-cell blastomere is not advanced enough to be considered a person. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Space science in Texas means basic research as well as support for manned flights. (Science in Texas) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alcestis Oberg |
| Spatial and temporal variability in the geochemistry of basalts from the East Pacific Rise. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jennifer R. Reynolds, Charles H. Langmuir, John F. Bender, Kim A. Kastens, William B.F. Ryan |
| Species and speciation. (response to J.A. Coyne, Nature, vol. 355, p. 511, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alexey S. Kondrashov, Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb |
| Specific binding of the transcription factor sigma-54 to promoter DNA. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Martin Buck, Wendy Cannon |
| Spectral breaks for theorists. (astronomical gamma-ray bursts) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Matthew G. Baring |
| Spectroscopic observation of a catalyst surface in a reactive atmosphere at high pressure. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard M. Lambert, Geoffrey D. Moggridge, Trevor Rayment, R. Mark Ormerod, Michael A. Morris |
| Spin-up and recovery in the 1989 glitch of the Crab pulsar. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.G. Lyne, F. Graham Smith, R.S. Pritchard |
| Spliced leader RNAs from lower eukaryotes are trans-spliced in mammalian cells. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tom Maniatis, James P. Bruzik |
| Sponges to wipe away pain. (natural products from marine organisms) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J. Mann |
| Spreading of T-cell autoimmunity to cryptic determinants of an autoantigen. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul V. Lehmann, Alexander Miller, Thomas Forsthuber, Eli E. Sercarz |
| Spring phytoplankton blooms in the absence of vertical water column stratification. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David W. Townsend, Maureen D. Keller, Michael E. Sieracki, Steven G. Ackleson |
| Stabilization of sea urchin flagellar microtubules by histone H1. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Luc Multigner, Jean Gagnon, Alain Van Dorsselaer, Didier Job |
| Stable dye-DNA intercalation complexes as reagents for high-sensitivity fluorescence detection. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alexander N. Glazer, Hays S. Rye |
| Stable isotope evidence for entry of sewage-derived organic material into a deep-sea food web. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cindy Lee Van Dover, J.F. Grassle, Brian Fry, Robert H. Garritt, Victoria R. Starczak |
| Stable photoinduced charge separation in layered viologen compounds. (storing solar energy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lori A. Vermeulen, Mark E. Thompson |
| Starbursts in the nuclei of shell galaxies. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lars Hernquist, Melinda L. Weil |
| Stardust memories. (meteoritics) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | I.P. Wright |
| Star formation and the origin of stellar masses. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Philipp Podsiadlowski, Nigel M. Price |
| Stars arriving two by two. (stellar evolution and binary stars) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Cathie Clarke |
| Stars at the quantum limit. (quantum effects on white dwarf stars) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul C. Joss |
| Statistics of chronic disease control. (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard Peto |
| Stellar opacities in a flash. (laboratory estimates of the opacity of matter in stars) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D.B. Guenther |
| Stepping up the pressure. (molecular cloning of V2 vasopressin receptors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mohammed Sharif, Michael R. Hanley |
| Still poles apart on reversals? (how the Earth's magnetic field changes polarity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andy Jackson |
| Still waters run still deeper. (water's unusual properties) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Christopher M. Sorensen |
| Stitch in time saves design. (electronic model of vestibulo-ocular reflex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.J. Judge |
| Strength in disunity. (a new class of fine-scale polymer composites) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul Calvert |
| Strife among siblings. (evolutionary biology of the parasitoid wasps) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H.C.J. Godfray |
| Structural basis of blue-colour development in flower petals from Commelina communis. (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tadao Kondo, Kumi Yoshida, Atsushi Nakagawa, Takatoshi Kawai, Hirotoshi Tamura, Toshio Goto |
| Structure of a C-type mannose-binding protein complexed with an oligosaccharide. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William I. Weis, Kurt Drickhamer, Wayne A. Hendrickson |
| Structure of an SH2 domain of the p85-alpha subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase. (src-homology 2) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Grant W. Booker, Alexander L. Breeze, A. Kristina Downing, George Panayotou, Ivan Gout, Michael D. Waterfield, Iain D. Campbell |
| Structure of astacin and implications for activation of astacins and zinc-ligation of collagenases. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | W. Bode, F.X. Gomis-Ruth, R. Huber, R. Zwilling, W. Stocker |
| Structure of hisactophilin is similar to interleukin-1-beta and fibroblast growth factor. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J. Habazettl, D. Gondol, R. Wiltscheck, J. Otlewski, M. Schleicher, T.A. Holak |
| Structure of porphobilinogen deaminase reveals a flexible multidomain polymerase with a single catalytic site. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gordon V. Louie, Paul D. Brownlie, Richard Lambert, Jonathan B. Cooper, Tom L. Blundell, Steve P. Wood, Martin J. Warren, Sarah C. Woodcock, Peter M. Jordan |
| Structure of stratospheric intrusions into the troposphere. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | C. Appenzeller, H.C. Davies |
| Structure of the pancreatic lipase-procolipase complex. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Herman van Tilbeurgh, Louis Sarda, Robert Verger, Christian Cambillau |
| Struggles to correct published errors. (peer review process breaks down) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Fredric M. Menger, Albert Haim |
| Struggling with hieroglyphics. (possible detection of a newly forming galaxy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leo Blitz |
| Subunits beta-gamma of heterotrimeric G protein activate beta-2 isoform of phospholipase C. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Melvin I. Simon, Arieh Katz, Dianqing Wu |
| Super-absorbency and phase transition of gels in physiological salt solutions. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Toyoichi Tanaka, Yong-Qing Zhang, Mitsuhiro Shibayama |
| Superconductivity in barium fulleride. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.P. Ramirez, A.R. Kortan, N. Kopylov, S. Glarum, E.M. Gyorgy, R.M. Fleming, O. Zhou, F.A. Thiel, P.L. Trevor, R.C. Haddon |
| Superfluid gyroscope. (using superfluid-helium gyroscopes to measure the Earth's rotation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | George B. Hess |
| Suppression with a difference. (tumor suppression) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Mike Clemens |
| Surface ozone depletion in Arctic spring sustained by bromine reactions on aerosols. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Song-Miao Fan, Daniel J. Jacob |
| Surfaces versus features in visual search. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Zijiang J. He, Ken Nakayama |
| Surviving subduction. (evidence that the crust loses mass to the mantle through subduction) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | William M. White |
| Susceptibility of the early Earth to irreversible glaciation caused by carbon ice clouds. (includes information on energy-balance climate model) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James F. Kasting, Ken Caldeira |
| Swallowing ornamental asymmetry. (response to A.P. Moller, Nature, vol. 357, p. 238, 1992) (reproductive success of male swallows) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Adrian Thomas, Andrew Balmford, A.P. Moller |
| Swiss vote for biotechnology, with controls. (new law regulating reproductive medicine and biotechnology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Oliver Klaffke |
| Synaptic vesicle-associated Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is a binding protein for synapsin I. (calcium) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul Greengard, Fabio Benfenati, Flavia Valtorta, James L. Rubenstein, Fred S. Gorelick, Andrew J. Czernik |
| Synchrotron beamlines open as plans are laid for repairs. (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Susan Biggin |
| Tainted academics: eastern Germany is making needless heavy weather over the status of academics. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Targeted disruption of the mouse transforming growth factor-beta-1 gene results in multifocal inflammatory disease. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Marcia M. Shull, Ilona Ormsby, Ann B. Kier, Sharon Pawlowski, Ronald J. Diebold, Moying Yin, Ruth Allen, Charles Sidman, Gabriele Proetzel, Dawn Calvin, Nikki Annunziata, Thomas Doetschman |
| Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M.E. Raymo, W.F. Ruddiman |
| Telephone roundabouts. (influence of cellular telephones on telecommunications industry) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Tender morsels for microbes. (polymers) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul Calvert |
| Tetanus and botulinum-B neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release by proteolytic cleavage of synaptobrevin. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Fabio Benfenati, Giampietro Schiavo, Bernard Poulain, Ornella Rossetto, Patrizia Polverino de Laureto, Bibhuti DasGupta, Cesare Montecucco |
| The ACE of hearts. (angiotensin converting enzyme and heart attack) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Theodore W. Kurtz |
| The algal breath of life. (a Precambrian fossil alga and atmospheric oxygen evolution) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Riding |
| The best global warming treaty yet. (misplaced despondency over the draft treaty to control greenhouse gas emissions) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| The big accelerator in the sky. (high-energy astronomy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | E.S. Phinney |
| The candidate oncoprotein Bcl-3 is an antagonist of p50/NF-kappa-B-mediated inhibition. (oncogene and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ulrich Siebenlist, Guido Franzoso, Kathleen Kelly, Vincent Bours, Sun Park, Michiyo Tomita-Yamaguchi |
| The case against a massive black hole at the Galactic Centre. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R.H. Sanders |
| The catalase-peroxidase gene and isoniazid resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Douglas Young, Ying Zhang, Beate Heym, Bryan Allen, Stewart Cole |
| The decade of the brain: arguments that research support for neuroscience should quadruple miss the point and are not convincing. (National Foundation for Brain Research report) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| The deep-six fix again. (disposing of carbon dioxide in the ocean bottom found to be feasible) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James C. Orr |
| The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula. (Ethiopian archaeological region) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tim D. White, Giday WoldeGabriel, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa, Robert C. Walter, Tesfaye Yemane |
| The E. coli ffh gene is necessary for viability and efficient protein export. (Escherichia coli) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gregory J. Phillips, Thomas J. Silhavy |
| The end of political gridlock, at last? (science and technology policy in the Bill Clinton's administration) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| The essential bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ is a GTPase. (filamentation temperature sensitive) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Piet de Boer, Robin Crossley, Lawrence Rothfield |
| The exception is the rule. (earthquakes) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Heidi Houston |
| The 'far east' of biological ethics. (Japan and the Human Genome Project) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Darryl Macer |
| The formation of binary and multiple star systems. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Simon Chapman, Helen Pongracic, Michael Disney, Alistair Nelson, Jacob Turner, Anthony Whitworth |
| The gene lin-3 encodes an inductive signal for vulval development in C. elegans. (Caenorhabditis elegans) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul W. Sternberg, Russell J. Hill |
| The genomic mutation rate for fitness in Drosophila. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | B. Charlesworth, D. Houle, D.K. Hoffmaster, S. Assimacopoulos |
| The geometric phase. (quantum systems) (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jeeva Anandan |
| The germ of the issue. (developmental biology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Susan Strome |
| The glial cell glutamate uptake carrier countertransports pH-changing anions. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Muriel Bouvier, Marek Szatkowski, Alessandra Amato, David Attwell |
| The growing inaccessibility of science. (evidence for the increasing incomprehensibility of scientific literature) (includes information on text analysis) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Donald P. Hayes |
| The hydrological cycle and its influence on climate. (includes information on the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Moustafa T. Chahine |
| The infectiousness of pompous prose. (in scientific writing) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Martin W. Gregory |
| The life span of the biosphere revisited. (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | James F. Kasting, Ken Caldeira |
| The O/C abundance ratio in absorbing gas clouds at high redshift. (oxygen/carbon ratio in intergalactic clouds) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | D. Reimers, S. Vogel, H.-J. Hagen, D. Engels, D. Groote, W. Wamsteker, J. Clavel, M.R. Rosa |
| The Pas2 protein essential for peroxisome biogenesis is related to ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Franziska F. Wiebel, Wolf-H. Kunau |
| The perception of heading during eye movements. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Constance S. Royden, Martin S. Banks, James A. Crowell |
| The philosopher for science. (tribute to Karl Popper as he marks his 90th birthday on July 28, 1992) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Hermann Bondi |
| The planform of compositional convection and chimney formation in a mushy layer. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen Tait, Katia Jahrling, Claude Jaupart |
| The protein kinase A-regulated cardiac Cl- channel resembles the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. (chloride) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David C. Gadsby, Angus C. Nairn, Georg Nagel, Tzyh-Chang Hwang, Kent L. Nastiuk |
| The quest for immortality. (prolonging the growth of germ cells in culture) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Anne McLaren |
| Thermal skin effect of the surface ocean and its implications for CO2 uptake. (carbon dioxide) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.J. Watson, J.E. Robertson |
| Thermostat and global warming. (response to J.M. Wallace, Nature, vol. 357, p. 230, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V. Ramanathan, W. Collins |
| The spatial arrangement of cones in the primate fovea. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.D. Mollon, J.K. Bowmaker |
| The spectrum of cosmological density fluctuations and nature of dark matter. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.N. Taylor, M. Rowan-Robinson |
| The structure of ribosomal protein S5 reveals sites of interaction with 16S rRNA. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | V. Ramakrishnan, Stephen W. White |
| The structure of smart fluids. (electro-rheological fluids) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | M. Whittle, W.A. Bullough |
| The subunit story thickens. (G proteins) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert J. Lefkowitz |
| The target sets the tempo. (G protein and cell signature research) (includes related article on GTP signals) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Henry R. Bourne, Lubert Stryer |
| The tell-tail trigger. (new general transcription factor) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Robert Tjian, Michael Gregory Peterson |
| The three-dimensional structure of an intact monoclonal antibody for canine lymphoma. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alexander McPherson, Steven B. Larson, Lisa J. Harris, Karl W. Hasel, John Day, Aaron Greenwood |
| The universe expands. (RNA catalysis) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter B. Moore |
| The work that muscles can do. (measuring a muscle's natural performance) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | R. McNeill Alexander |
| The zoo that has to close. (the London Zoo at Regent's Park, due in part to the lack of public funds) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Solly Zuckerman |
| Thirty years back: Britain's new government has an unexpectedly intelligent recipe for managing research. (reorganization of support for science) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Threats from debris avalanches. (landslide deposits at Mount St. Augustine in Alaska) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Lee Siebert |
| Three-dimensional illusory contours and surfaces. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | George J. Carman, Leslie Welch |
| Three-dimensional image of the solar corona from white-light observations of the 1991 eclipse. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Serge Koutchmy, Michael M. Molodensky |
| Three's a crowd in California. (three strong earthquakes in northern California in April, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Andrew Michael |
| Thyroid cancer after Chernobyl. (effects of 1986 Soviet nuclear power plant disaster in Belarus) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Aldo Pinchera, Vasili S. Kazakov, Evgeni P. Demidchik, Larisa N. Astakhova, Keith Baverstock, Bruno Egloff, Charles Ruchti, Dillwyn Williams |
| Thyroid cancer incidence. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jay Lubin, Arthur B. Schneider, Elaine Ron |
| Tilt and northward offset of Cordilleran batholiths resolved using igneous barometry. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jay J. Ague, Mark T. Brandon |
| Time travel on a string. (a time machine based on gravitation and cosmic strings) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bruce Allen, Jonathan Simon |
| Towards energy storage. (halide-viologen complex for storing solar energy) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Prabir Dutta |
| Tracing great fluid migrations. (geochemistry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dimitri A. Sverjensky, Grant Garven |
| Trade and environment: alarms about the risk of food contaminants may become a powerful non-tariff restraint on trade. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Transcriptional activation by the human c-Myc oncoprotein in yeast requires interaction with Max. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Bruno Amati, Stephen Dalton, Mary W. Brooks, Trevor D. Littlewood, Gerard I. Evan, Hartmut Land |
| Transcriptional transgressions. (gene regulation by transcription factors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael R. Green |
| Trapped in mid-air. (quantum well experiments) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sean Washburn |
| Travelling by TRAM. (endoplasmic reticulum membrane glycoprotein and protein translocation) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Walter |
| Trial and error in the Highlands. (red deer situation in Scotland suggests guidelines for managing increasing deer populations) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | T.H. Clutton-Brock, S.D. Albon |
| Truncation variants of peptides isolated from MHC class II molecules suggest sequence motifs. (major histocompatibility complex) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Charles A. Janeway Jr., Paula Preston-Hurlburt, Alexander Yu. Rudensky, Basel K. Ramadi, Jonathan Rothbard |
| Trying times for human insulin. (evidence that human insulin causes 'hypoglycemia unawareness' in diabetics) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Simon P. Wolff |
| Tumours and Coley's toxins. (response to C.O. Starnes, Nature, vol. 357, p. 11, 1992) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Graham Rook |
| Twenty-first century crops. (genetic engineering in agriculture) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jim Peacock |
| Two successful weeks at Rio. (the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Uncoupling of hypomyelination and glial cell death by a mutation in the proteolipid protein gene. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Klaus-Armin Nave, Peter Kennedy, Ian Griffiths, Armin Schneider, Paul Montague, Monica Fanarraga, Peter Brophy |
| Under the skin of Nazca. (new radiocarbon technique finds that the Nazca lines in Peru date from between 190 B.C. and A.D. 600) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Warwick Bray |
| Universal cellular tropism? (HIV-1 virus) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jaap Goudsmit, Peter Nara, Wen-Po Tsai, Hsiang-Fu Kung, Anton Minassian, Robert Garrity, Gustaaf Rimmelzwaan |
| Unloved academics: British university teachers, already badly paid, have been done out of a pay-rise they deserved. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Unmixing of hot inorganic melts. (evidence for phase separation with rising temperatures of oxide liquids) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alexandra Navrotsky |
| Unreasonable hope for Rio fades. (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June, 1992 will probably be a disappointment) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Upset for Milankovitch theory. (evidence against variations in the Earth's orbit as a cause of the ice ages) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Wallace S. Broecker |
| US muddles policy on fetal tissue. (Congress fails to override President Bush's veto of a bill allowing fetal tissue research) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| US politics: campaigns as usual. (Democratic and Republican platforms lack detail on science and technology policy) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Variable oxygen airglow on Venus as a probe of atmospheric dynamics. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Allen, David Crisp, Vikki Meadows |
| Variation is now the theme. (new genetic linkage maps show the progress of the Human Genome Project) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | P.N. Goodfellow |
| Vascular endothelial growth factor induced by hypoxia may mediate hypoxia-initiated angiogenesis. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Dorit Shweiki, Ahuva Itin, Dov Soffer, Eli Keshet |
| Vascular endothelial growth factor is a potential tumour angiogenesis factor in human gliomas in vivo. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Karl H. Plate, Georg Breier, Herbert A. Weich, Werner Risau |
| Vascular pipe dreams. (a fossil plant, Cooksonia pertoni, is confirmed to be vascular) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Alan R. Hemsley |
| Vestiges of a beginning? (geology of the early Earth and Moon) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stuart Ross Taylor |
| Virulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii comprise a single clonal lineage. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John C. Boothroyd, L. David Sibley |
| Viscous fingering of HCl through gastric mucin. (hydrochloric acid) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | H. Eugene Stanley, J. Thomas LaMont, K. Ramakrishnan Bhaskar, Peter Garik, Bradley S. Turner, James Douglas Bradley, Rama Bansil |
| Visual differences. (transducin and G protein) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick Casey |
| Vocabulary for fuzzy symmetry. (chemical structure) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Patrick W. Fowler |
| Volcanic aerosols implicated. (thinning of stratospheric ozone) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Guy Brasseur |
| Volcanic winter and accelerated glaciation following the Toba super-eruption. (on Sumatra 73,500 years ago) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael R. Rampino, Stephen Self |
| Waldegrave's dilemma. (William Waldegrave and plans for reorganizing government-supported science in Britain) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Wandering across time. (fossils of a new mammal-like reptile discovered) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Michael J. Novacek |
| Wandering on a leash. (orbit of asteroid 522 Helga may be an example of stable chaotic motion) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Carl D. Murray |
| Wang goes bust: the bankruptcy of Wang Laboratories is sad - and confirmation that even the best cannot stand still. (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| War against famine, for nutrition. (famine in Somalia, nutrition in the US) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Water in mantle minerals. (Earth's mantle) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David R. Bell |
| Weakly damped Alfven waves as drivers of solar chromospheric spicules. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Gerhard Haerendel |
| Weakness amidst strength. (model for the earthquake cycle in the San Andreas fault) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Christopher H. Scholz |
| Welcoming Wellcome: not every day (worse luck) is the equivalent of a new research council magicked into being. (Wellcome Foundation) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Westhof's rule. (Eric Westhof, hydrogen bonds and nucleotides) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eric Westhof |
| What frontiers for Frontier? (on the future of Japan's Human Frontier Science Program) (Column) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Akiyoshi Wada |
| What future for Europe's universities? (the Maastricht Treaty for European Union and education policy) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| What goes up could come down. (what causes volcanic eruption columns to rise or fall) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Jonathan Fink |
| What the sperm count costs. (sperm production and evolutionary biology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Linda Partridge, Paul H. Harvey |
| What to do about European union. (in response to Denmark's rejection of the Maastricht Treaty) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| When climate and life finally devolve. (demise of the biosphere due to Sun's increasing luminosity) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Tyler Volk |
| Where should GATT go next? (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Which accelerator will be next? (Superconducting Super Collider and plans for a collider in Europe) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Which D4 do you have? (polymorphic forms of the brain dopamine receptor D4) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Leslie Iversen |
| Which histone kinase? (misidentification of histone H2A.X as H3) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Eva Cano, Michael J. Barratt, Louis C. Mahadevan |
| White dwarfs as quantum crystals. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N.W. Ashcroft, Gilles Chabrier, H.E. DeWitt |
| Why not plutonium? (Japan's plan to use plutonium from Soviet nuclear weapons to fuel fast reactors) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Why the recession is still here. (lack of action from the Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Will there ever be peace in Europe? (settling Yugoslavia's tribal wars) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Wing bone stresses in free flying bats and the evolution of skeletal design for flight. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Sharon M. Swartz, Michael B. Bennett, David R. Carrier |
| Winged Late Devonian seeds. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | N.P. Rowe |
| Winning a nuclear test-ban by stealth? (Congress inserts a test-ban provision into a domestic spending bill) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Women in science: discrimination against women in science is wrong but so is a quota system. (the National Science Foundation's policy of not financing conferences that exclude women as speakers) (Editorial) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | |
| Working in the chemical industry. (employment prospects for chemists) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Colleen Shannon |
| World population. (analysis of predictions based on the Verhulst's logistic, malthusian and gompertzian models) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Henry C. Tuckwell, James A. Koziol |
| Worlds of difference. (differences in color perception linked to a single nucleotide in the X chromosome) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | John Mollon |
| X-ray detection of the eclipsing millisecond pulsar PSR1957+20. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | S.R. Kulkarni, E.S. Phinney, C.R. Evans, G. Hasinger |
| X-ray flares from runaway pair production in active galactic nuclei. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | J.G. Kirk, A. Mastichiadis |
| X-rays from the eclipsing pulsar 1957+20. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | A.S. Fruchter, J. Bookbinder, M.R. Garcia, C.D. Bailyn |
| Yangtze project dammed with faint praise. (debate over the proposed Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Peter Gwynne, You Qin Li |
| Yeast branches out. (fungal physiology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ira Herskowitz |
| Yeast retrotransposon revealed. (chromosome III of the yeast Arabidopsis thaliana) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Daniel F. Voytas, Jef D. Boeke |
| You can pile it only so high. (the possibility that Italy's Mount Etna may collapse) (includes information on the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Paul T. Delaney |
| Z and the insoluble answer. (Z variant of human alpha 1-antitrypsin forms insoluble homopolymers in the endoplasmic reticulum) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Richard N. Sifers |
| Zebrafish pax(b) is involved in the formation of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Stephen W. Wilson, Stefan Krauss, Malcolm Maden, Nigel Holder |
| Zinc standard for economy. (DNA transcription) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | Ben Luisi |
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