Science 1993 - Abstracts

Science 1993
TitleSubjectAuthors
AAAS's very own Red Scare (Army warnings of Communist leaning of American Association for the Advancement of Science)Science and technologyWayne Biddle
A clouded future for IBM research.Science and technologyDavid H. Freedman
Aging twins offer clues to late-onset illness. (National Academy of Sciences' database on twins) (includes related article)Science and technologyDavid Ansley
AIDS 1993: unanswered questions. (Editorial)Science and technologyBarbara R. Jasny
AI helps researchers find meaning in molecules. (artificial intelligence used in gene sequencing) (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyDavid Freedman
Animals, cages, and handling equipment. (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Apoptosis in AIDS. (cell death) (AIDS: The Unanswered Questions)Science and technologyLuc Montagnier, Marie-Lise Gougeon
A Senate victory would turn the tide after House defeat. (funding for the Superconducting Super Collider)Science and technologyJeffrey Mervis, Karen Fox
A strategy for prophylactic vaccination against HIV. (vaccination strategy should ensure that a cell-mediated response occurs in response to HIV exposure) (AIDS: The Unanswered Questions)Science and technologyMario Clerici, Jonas E. Salk, Gene M. Shearer, Peter A. Bretscher, Peter L. Salk
A truncated erythropoietin receptor and cell death. (includes response)Science and technologyRalph Schwall, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Yukio Nakamura
At Tokyo University, a parting shot. (panel of scientists criticize Tokyo University)Science and technologyFred Myers
Beyond databases and E-mail. (expanding uses of the Internet; includes related article on the Worm Community System) (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyRobert Pool
Biodiversity and biotechnology. (Column)Science and technologyDan L. Burk, Kenneth Barovsky, Gladys H. Monroy
Biologicals, chemicals, instruments and accessories. (part 1: abrasives through metallographic equipment) (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Biologicals, chemicals, instruments and accessories. (part 2: metals, high-purity through yeast extracts) (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Blue whale population may be increasing off California.Science and technologyYvonne Baskin
Breaching industry-university barriers. (research in Japan)Science and technologyDennis Normile
Bridges of science. (Arctic and North Pacific conference planned for 1994)Science and technology 
Brown turns up the heat on pork. (Rep. George Brown attacks pork-barrel funding of science projects) (1993 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting)Science and technologyColin Norman
Called 'Trimates,' three bold women shaped their field. (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Baldikes and the study of primates; includes 3 related articles on cell biologist Mary Osborn in Germany, physicist Fumiko Yonezama, geochemist Katsuko Sarhashi of Japan) (Women in Science '93: Gender & Culture) (Cover Story)Science and technologyDennis Normile, Virginia Morell, Patricia Kahn, Toomas Koppel
Can sustainable farming win the battle of the bottom line? (includes related article) (special report: Environment and the Economy) (Cover Story)Science and technologyBob Holmes
Catalytic antibodies and disfavored reactions.Science and technologySamuel Danishefsky
Cells in stress: transcriptional activation of heat shock genes.Science and technologyRichard Morimoto
Chaperones: helpers along the pathways to protein folding.Science and technologyElizabeth A. Craig
Chemistry: laurels for a late-night brainstorm. (Kary Mullis wins 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry)Science and technologyTim Appenzeller
Compositional interpretations of medfly mortality. (Technical Comments)Science and technologyJames W. Vaupel, James R. Carey
Composition limits of Fe/x~O and the Earth's lower mantle. (comment and reply)Science and technologyRobert M. Hazen, Raymond Jeanloz, Catherine McCammon
Computers, software and databases. (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Computing at the speed of light. (optical computer)Science and technologyM. Mitchell Waldrop
Computing's controversial patron. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)Science and technologyElizabeth Corcoran
Controversial vaccine shows promise. (malaria vaccine)Science and technologyJohn Maurice
Current approaches to breast cancer prevention. (Special Report: Breast Cancer Research)Science and technologyMaureen Henderson
Cyclic ADP-ribose: a new way to control calcium. (adenosine diphosphate)Science and technologyAntony Galione
Cyclic ADP-ribose in beta cells. (adenosine diphosphate-ribose)(includes response)Science and technologyPer-Olof Berggren, Antony Galione, Md. Shahidul Islam, Olof Larsson
Cytokines and estrogen in bone: anti-osteoporotic effects.Science and technologyMark C. Horowitz
Dark matter and the equivalence principle.Science and technologyJoshua A. Frieman, Ben-Ami Gradwohl
Dating of the Devils Hole calcite vein. (includes response)Science and technologyR. Lawrence Edwards, Christina D. Gallup, K.R. Ludwig, K.R. Simmons, I.J. Winograd, B.J. Szabo, A.C. Riggs
Delivery of Na+,K+-ATPase in polarized epithelial cells. (includes response)Science and technologyEnrique Rodriguez-Boulan, W. James Nelson, Cara J. Gottardi, Michael J. Caplan, Kathleen A. Siemers, Alice Duncan, Robert W. Mays, Timothy A. Ryan, Debra A. Wollner, Chiara Zurzolo
DNA repair and transcription: the helicase connection.Science and technologyStephen Buratowski
Does E. coli have a nose?Science and technologyJohn S. Parkinson, David F. Blair
Drugs and people threaten diversity in Andean forests. (montane forests along Andes mountains)Science and technologyBilly Goodman
Ear stones speak volumes to fish researchers. (rings on otoliths contain information about fish environment and behavior)Science and technologySuzanne Kingsmill
Ecologists put some life into models of a changing world. (includes related article)Science and technologyYvonne Baskin
Economics: a subdiscipline comes in from the cold. (Robert Fogel and Douglass North win 1993 Nobel Prize in economics)Science and technologyAnne Simon Moffatt
Effect of scale on the food web structure. (Technical Comments; includes response)Science and technologyNeo D. Martinez, Karl Havens
Entrepreneurs say: 'It's better to be the boss.' (Women in Science '93: Gender & Culture) (Cover Story)Science and technologyPatricia Culotta
European elites envy American cohesion. (organization of the scientific community) (Science in Europe) (Cover Story)Science and technologyDavid Bradley
Evidence for homosexuality gene. (research)Science and technologyRobert Pool
Evidence of genetic heterogeneity in the long QT syndrome.Science and technologyJesaia Benhorin, Yoram M. Kalman, Aharon Medina, Jeffrey Towbin, Naama Rave-Harel, Thomas D. Dyer, John Blangero, Jean E. MacCluer, Bat sheva Kerem
Evolving in a dynamic world. (new field of behavioral ecology)Science and technologyPaul H. Harvey, Andrew F. Read
Explaining fruit fly longevity. (Technical Comments; includes response)Science and technologyThomas B.L. Kirkwood, Axel Kowald, J.M. Robine, K. Ritchie, J.R. Carey, J.W. Curtsinger, J.W. Vaupel
Fallout from paper on working mothers.Science and technologyRobert Crease
Fitting planet Earth into a user-friendly database. (Earth Observing System Data and Information System)(includes related article on the problems with storing and processing data from the ERS-1 satellite) (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyDaniel Clery, Elliot Marshall
Foreign invaders. (marine fauna transported by humans disrupt foreign ecosystems)Science and technologyJoel W. Hedgpeth
Forging an asteroid-meteorite link.Science and technologyMichael J. Gaffey
French scientists may face charges over CJD outbreak. (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)Science and technologyMichael Balter
Frustrated with Fortran? Bored by Basic? Try OOP! (object-oriented programming) (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyM. Mitchell Waldrop
Geneticists attack NRC report as scientifically flawed. (National Research Council)Science and technologyPeter Aldhouse
Genetic 'master switch' for left-right symmetry found. (organ positioning in mice)Science and technologyTania Ewing
Genetic models for studying cancer susceptibility.Science and technologyStephen Friend
Gigamolecules in flatland. (polymer molecule design)Science and technologyEdwin L. Thomas
Glowing avalanches: new research on volcanic density currents.Science and technologyGreg A. Valentine, Richard V. Fisher
GTP hydrolysis in protein synthesis: two for Tu? (guanosine triphosphate)Science and technologyPaul Schimmel
Health care cost containment: some implications of global budgets. (capping costs)Science and technologyCarl M. Stevens
How do particles put on weight? (includes related article)Science and technologyPaul Selvin
How much do we know about mantle thermochemistry?Science and technologyAlexandra Navrotsky
IL-12: initiation cytokine for cell-mediated immunity. (interleukin-12)Science and technologyPhillip Scott
Immuno-PCR with a commercially available aviden system. (immuno-polymerase chain reaction) (Technical Comments; includes response)Science and technologyTakeshi Sano, Charles R. Cantor, Viktor Ruzicka, Winfried Marz, Andreas Russ, Werner Gross, Cassandra L. Smith
Inflamed debate over neurotoxin. (role in brain disease probed; includes related article on quinolinic acid)Science and technologyDavid Holzman
Integrated assessment of climate change. (research findings)Science and technologyM. Granger Morgan, Hadi Dowlatabadi
Is Japan a boon or a burden to U.S. industry's leadership? (biotechnology industry)Science and technologyJune Kinoshita
Is "primordial" helium really extraterrestrial?Science and technologyK.A. Farley
Jack Gibbons: plugging into the power structure. (Bill Clinton's science adviser)Science and technologyColin Norman, Christopher Anderson
'Java Man' gains (and loses) a consort. (age of skull recanted)Science and technologyFelix Eijgenraam
Jenny Harrison finally gets tenure in math at Berkeley. (University of California, Berkeley)Science and technologyPaul Selvin
Joining forces to probe environment-health links. (international funding for environmental health research in Eastern Europe) (includes related article on coal-pollution study in Teplice, Czech Republic)Science and technologyMichael Balter
Keystone's blunt message; 'It's the virus, stupid." (Keystone Symposium on AIDS research)Science and technologyJob Cohen
Kohl replaces science minister. (Helmut Kohl replaces Heinz Riesenhuber with Matthias Wissmann)Science and technologyPeter Aldous
Laboratory furniture, glassware, hardware and equipment. (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Late Triassic extinctions and the origin of dinosaurs. (debate over singular on multiple extinction events)Science and technologyMichael J. Benton
Life science jobs in a global market: careers in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. (includes related articles) (Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyJim Timpane
Making modular memories.Science and technologyRobert F. Service
Making room for women in the culture of science. (five examples of hands-on science programs for girls only) (Women in Science '93: Gender & Culture) (Cover Story)Science and technology 
Mantle melting at high pressure.Science and technologyJ. Michael Brown
Manufacturers index. (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Directory)Science and technology 
Marine sciences in the coming decades.Science and technologyCarl Wunsch
Measuring single protein motors at work.Science and technologyRonald D. Vale
Medical centers of excellence and health reform. (Column)Science and technologyMichael E. DeBakey
Metal-metal bonds in bimetallic surfaces. (includes response)Science and technologyD. Wayne Goodman, Jose A. Rodriquez, G.K. Wertheim, J.E. Rowe
Methylation and imprinting: from host defense to gene regulation?Science and technologyDenise P. Barlow
Mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, receptors and response elements.Science and technologyJohn W. Funder
Molecular advances in cardiovascular biology. (new research in treatment of heart disease)Science and technologyKenneth R. Chien
Molecular muscle. (actin-myosin model of muscle contraction explained)Science and technologyEdwin W. Taylor
Naked DNA points way to vaccines.Science and technologyJohn Cohen
Natural selection at work on the surface of virus-infected cells.Science and technologyAndrew McMichael
New Alzheimer's therapy suggested. (disease treated as a chronic inflammatory disorder with indomethacin)Science and technologyJim Schnabel
New intracellular targets for therapeutic drug design. (designing drugs to interfere with specific cellular processes)Science and technologyJoan S. Brugge
NIH funding mechanisms need little defense. (National Institutes of Health)Science and technologyLawrence M. Lichtenstein
NIST: measuring up to a new task. (National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide funding for civilian research and development)Science and technologyJerome Cramer
Nod factors and nodulation in plants.Science and technologyIrma Vijn, Lucinda das Neves, Ab van Kammen, Henk Franssen, Tom Bisseling
Old school ties: Watson, Crick, and 40 years of DNA. (James Watson, Francis Crick)Science and technologyStephen S. Hall
Organic synthesis of prostaglandins: advancing biology.Science and technologyRyoji Noyori, Masaaki Suzuki
Paths to higher temperature superconductors.Science and technologyTheodore H. Geballe
Polyethylene bags and solar ultraviolet radiation. (microbial sample containers)Science and technologyE. Walter Helbling, Osmund Holm-Hansen, Barbara B. Prezelin, Raymond C. Smith
Postmodernism. (antiscience attitudes) (Editorial)Science and technologyRichard S. Nicholson
Predicting useful materials. (from first-principles theory)Science and technologyMarvin L. Cohen
President's lecture: the need for scientific communication with the public. (presidential address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science) (Transcript)Science and technologySherwood F. Rowland
Protein prenylation: a mediator of protein-protein interactions.Science and technologyChristopher Marshall
Radio program teaches kids about science.Science and technology 
Recognizing handwriting in context. (context-based computer handwriting recognition)Science and technologyDavid H. Freedman
Research community swats grasshopper control trial. (fungus and predator wasp control methods stopped)Science and technologyBilly Goodman
Research on volcanic hazards in Europe. (Science in Europe) (Cover Story)Science and technologyPaolo Gasparini
RNA polymerase marching backward. (chain-retracting process)Science and technologyGeorge A. Kassavetis, E. Peter Geiduschek
ROSAT - a new look at the X-ray sky. (Roentgen Satellite)Science and technologyJoachim Trumper
Science and society. (science and government should cooperate) (Editorial)Science and technologyDaniel E. Koshland
Science and technology in government. (Editorial)Science and technologyPhilip H. Abelson, Richard S. Nicholson
Science and the new administration. (Clinton administration)Science and technologyMarc Kirschner, Harold E. Varmus, J. Michael Bishop
'Science' in Europe. (Science magazine expands operations in Europe) (Editorial)Science and technologyRichard B. Gallagher
Science reunification in Germany: a crash program. (Science in Europe) (Cover Story)Science and technologyBernhard A. Sabel
Searching for clues to ancient carbon dioxide. (explaining climatic changes) (Special Section: Evolution of Atmospheres)Science and technologyTim Appenzeller
Services. (special supplement: Guide to Scientific Products, Instruments and Services.) (Buyers Guide)Science and technology 
Slowing the spread of HIV: agenda for the 1990s. (AIDS: The Unanswered Questions)Science and technologyMichael Merson
Social learning in invertebrates. (includes response)Science and technologyD. Hall, Gerald Biederman, Valerie A. Davey, M.D. Suboski, D. Muir
Splice-site selection and decoding: are they related?Science and technologyRenee Schroeder, Barbara Streicher, Herbert Wank
Stand and deliver: getting peptide drugs into the body. (alternative drug delivery methods)Science and technologyBrigid M. Wallace, Jill S. Lasker
Statistical evaluation of DNA fingerprinting: a critique of the NRC's report. (National Research Council)Science and technologyNeil Risch, B. Devlin, Kathryn Roeder
Superstructures and superconductivity.Science and technologyZachary Fisk, Gabriel Aeppli
Supramolecular chemistry. (study of intermolecular interactions)Science and technologyJean-Marie Lehn
The biological history of a seaway. (populations of marine species separated by a land bridge)Science and technologyGeerat J. Vermeij
The carved Stela from La Mojarra, Veracruz, Mexico.Science and technologyGeorge E. Stuart
The cell's nucleus shapes up: cell biologists are getting a better view of how the internal structure of the nucleus may influence gene replication and activity. (includes related article on nuclear matrix proteins and cancer)Science and technologyMichelle Hoffman, John Travis
The collaboratory opportunity. (National Research Council report 'National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research') (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyWilliam A. Wulf
The definition of misconduct in science: a view from NSF. (National Science Foundation)Science and technologyDonald E. Buzzelli
The development of biological therapies for breast cancer. (Special Report: Breast Cancer Research)Science and technologyMarc E. Lippman
The ever-present packaging challenge. (supercomputer architecture) (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyLloyd M. Thorndike, John P. Riganati
The future of DNA sequencing.Science and technologyLloyd M. Smith
The Greenland Ice Core Project. (European paleoclimatology research project)Science and technologyBernhard Stauffer
The high cost of biodiversity.Science and technologyCharles C. Mann, Mark L. Plummer
The life history of galaxy clusters. (includes related article)Science and technologyAnn Finkbeiner
The many roads that lead to ras. (cancer-causing ras genes)Science and technologyLarry A. Fieg
Theorists to the quantum mechanical wave: 'Get real.'Science and technologyDavid H. Fredman
The parallel beta helix of pectate lyase C: something to sneeze at.Science and technologyFred E. Cohen
The pluses of subtraction. (representational difference analysis)Science and technologyRichard M. Myers
The polar coordinate model goes molecular. (Drosophila genes)Science and technologyPeter J. Bryant
The political debate about health care: are we losing sight of quality? (Column)Science and technologyEleanor Chelimsky
The role of water in hemoglobin function and stability.Science and technologyDonald C. Rau, V. Adrian Parsegian, D. Bulone, P.L. San Biagio, M.B. Palma-Vittorelli, M.U. Palma, Marcio F. Columbo
The stalemate in food and agricultural research, teaching and extension. (new role for land-grant universities) (Column)Science and technologyJames H. Meyer
Things start getting sticky for a cell surface enzyme.Science and technologyFelix Eijgenraam
To fold or not to fold.... (protein folding)Science and technologyDavid Agard
Tritium and radiocarbon dating of Canada Basin deep waters. (Technical comment)Science and technologyR.W. MacDonald, E.C. Carmack
Ulcers as infectious diseases.Science and technologyJoseph Alper
Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: lessons from history.Science and technologyDonald Ludwig, Ray Hilborn, Carl Walters
Unusual mutational mechanisms and evolution.Science and technologyRichard E. Lenski, Laurence D. Hurst, John E. Mittler, Alan Grafen, Paul Rainey, Richard Moxon, David A. Watson
Vancomycin resistance: decoding the molecular logic. (antibiotic-resistant microbes)Science and technologyChristopher T. Walsh
Wake-up call for sleep research. (federal funding )Science and technologyConstance Holden
What are the correlates of protection? (developing an AIDS vaccine) (AIDS: The Unanswered Questions)Science and technologyRon Cohen
What does utility-subsidized energy efficiency really cost?Science and technologyPaul L. Joskow, Donald B. Marron
What is misconduct in science? (Column)Science and technologyHoward K. Schachman
Where are the nuclear pions?Science and technologyGeorge F. Bertsch, Leonid Frankfurt, Mark Strikman
Who are the Europeans? (population genetics and language evolution in Europe)Science and technologyAlberto Piazza
Will future computers be all wet? (self-assembling supermolecules) (includes related article on molecular sieves)Science and technologyIvan Amato, David Bradley
Workstation clusters rise and shine. (Computing in Science) (Cover Story)Science and technologyBill Buzbee
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