Science 1998 - Abstracts

Science 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
150th bash draws a crowd.(American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting briefs)Science and technologyAnn Gibbons, Robert F. Service, Jocelyn Kaiser, Gretchen Vogel, Martin Enserink, David Malakoff, Amy Adams
A book for all seasons. (creating a permanent record of civilization)(Column)Science and technologyJ.E. Lovelock
A bridge to control. (control of oxidative damage caused by aerobic metabolism)Science and technologyBruce Demple
Absolute Ages Aren't Exactly.(need for calibration of the geologic time scale to improve accuracy of radioisotopic dating methods )Science and technologyPaul R. Renne, Kenneth R. Ludwig, Daniel B. Karner
A celebration of difference: science and democracy in India.Science and technologyShiv Visvanathan
A Cellular Striptease Act.Science and technologyZena Werb, Yibing Yan
After the end: recovery from extinction.(mass extinctions of the Cretaceous period)Science and technologyDouglas H. Erwin
A Glimpse of the Holy Grail?(amino acid sequence )Science and technologyHerman J. C. Berendsen
An alliance for progress, 150 years young.(annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998)(includes related articles)(AAAS News and Notes)Science and technologyS.L. Byrand
An Essential Role for Ectodomain Shedding in Mammalian Development.Science and technologyWilliam E. Russell, Richard S. Johnson, David C. Lee, Jacques J. Peschon, Susan W. Sunnarborg, Douglas Pat Cerretti, Roy A. Black, Charles T. Rauch, Carl J. Kozlosky, Jennifer L. Slack, Martin F. Wolfson, Beverly J. Castner, Kim L. Stocking, Pranitha Reddy, Nicole Nelson, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Raymond J. Paxton, Carl J. March, Rogely W. Boyce
A New Type of Hydrogen Bond.(dihydrogen bond)Science and technologyRobert H. Crabtree
An independent perspective on the Human Genome Project.(Science's Compass - Policy: Biomedicine)(Industry Overview)Science and technologySteven E. Koonin
An RNA-based information superhighway in plants.(plant genetics)Science and technologyWilliam J. Lucas, Richard L.S. Forster, Richard A. Jorgensen, Ross G. Atkinson
A recipe for cellulose. (new findings in synthesis)Science and technologyNicholas Carpita, Claudia Vergara
A road map for U.S. carbon reductions. (greenhouse gas emissions)Science and technologyMark Levine, Eric Petersen, Joseph Romm, Marilyn Brown
Art: Evolution or Revolution?(research on prehistoric art)Science and technologyTIM APPENZELLER
A Short Circuit in Thermohaline Circulation: A Cause for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation?(Isthmus of Panama closing may have lead to Northern Hemisphere Glaciation 2.7 million years ago)(Abstract)Science and technologyN. W. Driscoll, G. H. Haug
A Surprising Function for the PTEN Tumor Suppressor.(cancer tumor suppressor protein)Science and technologyKAREN HOPKIN
A Tale of Two Cities.(quantum teleportation )Science and technologyCarlton M. Caves
Atom laser shows that it is worthy of the name.(matter wave amplification)(includes related article on a trap to confine Bose-Einstein condensates)Science and technologyAlexander Hallemans
Auxin-Dependent Cell Expansion Mediated by Overexpressed Auxin-Binding Protein 1.Science and technologyAlan M. Jones, Im Kyung-Hoam, Michael A. Savka, Wu Ming-Jing, N. Gregory Dewitt, Raymond Shillito, Andrew N. Binns
Auxin Transport: Down and Out and Up Again.Science and technologyAlan M. Jones
A Welcome Mat for Leprosy and Lassa Fever.Science and technologyPatricia G. Spear
Badgers and bovine TB: conflicts between conservation and health.Science and technologyJ.R. Krebs
Beefed-Up NIH Center Probes Unconventional Therapies.(National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine)Science and technologyJENNIFER COUZIN
Between foraging and farming. (research into agricultural origins)Science and technologyBruce D. Smith
Bid for Better Beef Gives Japan a Leg Up on Cattle.(cloning experiments on cattle)Science and technologyDENNIS NORMILE
Binding of Hepatitis C Virus to CD81.Science and technologyMichael Houghton, Sergio Abrignani, Yasushi Uematsu, Guido Grandi, Giuliano Galli, Piero Pileri, Susanna Campagnoli, Fabiana Falugi, Roberto Petracca, Amy J. Weiner, Domenico Rosa
Biological Hydrogen Production: Not So Elementary.Science and technologyMichael W. W. Adams, Edward I. Stiefel
Biological Weapons Control.(inspection of suspected biological weapons manufacturing sites)(Brief Article)Science and technologyThomas P. Monath, Johannes Rath, Bernhard Jank, Lance K. Gordon
Bridging the racial divide on the Internet.(access along racial, income and education lines)Science and technologyThomas P. Novak, Donna L. Hoffamn
Bringing the Mountain to Mohammed.(DNA chromosomes may travel to fixed replication centers)Science and technologyLucy Shapiro, Richard Losick
Buffeted Community Braces for More Change.(science community in Sweden)Science and technologyANNIKA NILSSON, JOANNA ROSE
Carbon Dioxide Emission from European Estuaries.(carbon dioxide levels high)(Abstract)Science and technologyMichel Frankignoulle, Gwenael Abril, Alberto Borges, Isabelle Bourge, Christine Canon, Bruno Delille, Emile Libert, Jean-Marie Theate
Cell division gatekeepers identified.(kinetochores)Science and technology 
Changes in the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Plots.(carbon dioxide levels in tropical rain forests)(Abstract)Science and technologyJohn Grace, William F. Laurance, Susan G. Laurance, Sandra Brown, Niro Higuchi, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Percy V. Nunez, Rodolfo M. Vasquez, Leandro V. Ferreira, Margaret Stern
Chiral order from achiral molecules.Science and technologyDirk Moro, Gerd Heppke
Chlamydia: Old Ideas Crushed, New Mysteries Bared.Science and technologyThomas Hatch
Cocaine Exposure and Children: The Meaning of Subtle Effects.Science and technologyRonald Seifer, Barry M. Lester, Linda L. LaGasse
Coming to Grips With The Golgi.(research on the Golgi apparatus)Science and technologyCAROL FEATHERSTONE
Conservation targets: do they help? (percentages of ecosystems earmarked for protection may be insufficient)Science and technologyMichael E. Soule, M.A. Sanjayan
Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests.(biodiversity preservation)(Abstract)Science and technologyJ.J. Armesto, R. Rozzi, C. Smith-Ramirez, M. T. K. Arroyo
Containment of antibiotic resistance.Science and technologyDavid L. Heymann, Rosamund J. Williams
Controlling Artificial Atoms.(semiconductor quantum dots )Science and technologyAntigoni Alexandrou, Francois H. Julien
Control of Neonatal Tolerance to Tissue Antigens by Peripheral T Cell Trafficking.Science and technologyBernd Arnold, Anna Tafuri, Gunter J. Hammerling, Dietmar Vestweber, Judith Alferink, Rupert Hallmann
Data Desk 6.0.(Evaluation)Science and technologyBrian R. Shmaefsky
Death by dozens of cuts. (research on apoptosis or cell death)(includes a related article on research on the inhibitors of caspases enzymes)Science and technologyMarcia Barinaga
Demographic Consequences of Declining Fertility.Science and technologyJohn Bongaarts
Developmental Options.(dendritic cells )Science and technologyKen Shortman, Eugene Maraskovsky
Exciting Times for [PIP.sub.2].(membrane phospholipids)(Abstract)Science and technologyFrances M. Ashcroft
Expansion of the allelic exclusion principle.(monoallelic expression)Science and technologyAndrew Chess
Exploring how to get at - and eradicate - hidden HIV.Science and technologyJohn Cohen
FDA scientists resist cuts in in-house research positions.(budget '99)Science and technologyBruce Agnew
Fomenting a Revolution, in Miniature.(micro-electromechanical systems)Science and technologyIVAN AMATO
Fossil Fuels Without [CO.sub.2] Emissions.(carbon management techniques and their implications for global climate policies)(Abstract)Science and technologyE.A. Parson, D.W. Keith
From Army of Hackers, an Upstart Operating System.(Linux)Science and technologyJOSEPH ALPER
From Solitaire, a Clue to the World of Prime Numbers.(study may help prove Riemann hypothesis )Science and technologyDANA MACKENZIE
Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.Science and technologyRobert Bindschadler
Gathering Glycine Receptors at Synapses.Science and technologyStanley C. Froehner
Gene Construction Kit 2. (Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyTheo Dreher, Daiki Matsuda
Global nitrogen overload problem grows critical.Science and technologyAnne Simon Moffat
Going against the flow in China. (construction of the Three Gorges Dam)(includes a related article on the dam's ecological ramifications)Science and technologyXiong Lei
Gravity Measurements Close in on Big G.(six groups of researchers come up with similar values for gravity)Science and technologyDAVID KESTENBAUM
Healer needed for World Health body.(selection of new head of World Health Organization)(includes profiles of front-runners and related article on Polio Eradication Program)Science and technologyMichael Balter, Lisa Schlein
Heterocyst Pattern Formation Controlled by a Diffusible Peptide.Science and technologyJames W. Golden, Yoon Ho-Sung
Hidden Models in Biopolymers.(hidden Markov model is useful, but has limitations)Science and technologyMor Amitai
HIV's Early Home And Inner Life.(presentations at Swiss AIDS conference )Science and technologyMICHAEL BALTER
How Cyanobacteria Count to 10.Science and technologyRobert Haselkorn
How old is the flower and the fly? (origin of pollination)Science and technologyConrad C. Labandeira
How to Compact DNA.(condensin proteins influence chromosome condensation)Science and technologyAndrew W. Murray
Inner workings of a transcription factor partnership.Science and technologyBarbara J. Graves
Just the Facts of Chromatin Transcription.Science and technologySam John, Jerry L. Workman
Keeping up with Rita Colwell. (nominee for director of the Natl Science Foundation)Science and technologyJeffrey Mervis
Kennewick Man's trials continue. (remains of a 9300-year-old man discovered near Kennewick, WA)(includes a related article on the study of the earliest Americans)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Knowledge of Number: Its Evolution and Ontogeny.Science and technologySusan Carey
Large-Scale Sprouting of Cortical Connections After Peripheral Injury in Adult Macaque Monkeys.Science and technologyJon H. Kaas, Sherre L. Florence, Hilary B. Taub
Life Sciences Win Bulk Of Cash Bonanza.(Great Britain)Science and technologyNIGEL WILLIAMS
Lipid-regulated kinases: some common themes at last.Science and technologyJulian Downward
Listening in on the brain.(neurophysiologists using data from multiple electrodes observe synchrony in neural firing)Science and technologyMarcia Barinaga
Long-Term Change of Mind.(change in cerebral cortex of amputees parallels pain)(Abstract)Science and technologyMichael Merzenich
Making Sense of Active Galaxies.(symposium in Armenia honors astrophysicist Victor Ambartsumian)Science and technologyDaniel W. Weedman
Mapping the sensory mosaic. (sensory cortex of the brain)Science and technologySharon L. Juliano
Medical consequences of antibiotic use in agriculture.Science and technologyWolfgang Witte
MELTS.(geology software)(Evaluation)Science and technologyGlenn A. Gaetani
Memory and awareness. (explicit and implicit memory)Science and technologyDaniel L. Schacter
Metallic Reflections.(metal finds help explain ancient Peru's metallurgy)(Abstract)Science and technologyJeffrey Quilter
Meteor Shower Sets Off Scientific Storm.(meteors threatening satellites)Science and technologyANDREW LAWLER
Microsoft researches its future.(company spending $200 million per year on research in theoretical physics and mathematics)(includes related article on NP-hard problems)Science and technologyDana Mackenzie
Midlife crisis threatens center for semiarid crops: agricultural research.(International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT)Science and technologyPallava Bagla
Mitotic arrest: Mad2 prevents sleepy from waking up the APC.Science and technologyStephen J. Elledge
Mixed Grades for NSF's Bold Reform of Statewide Education.(National Science Foundation )Science and technologyJEFFREY MERVIS
Molecular Origin of Species.(reproductive isolation in abalone and fruitflies)Science and technologyJianzhi Zhang, Masatoshi Nei
Nature's Subsidies to Shrimp and Salmon Farming.Science and technologyRosamond L. Naylor, Rebecca J. Goldburg, Nils Kautsky, Jason Clay, Carl Folke, Jane Lubchenco, Harold Mooney, Malcolm Beveridge, Jurgenne Primavera, Meryl Williams
New DOE Research Program To Boost Sagging Industry.(Nuclear Energy Research Initiative created by US Department of Energy)Science and technologyDAVID MALAKOFF
New finds explode old views of the American Southwest. (findings of a primitive culture)Science and technologyMark Muro
New Minister Sets Lofty Goals.Science and technologyRICHARD STONE
New Potential for Human Embryonic Stem Cells.(pluripotential stem cells)(Abstract)Science and technologyJohn Gearhart
New Ways to Probe the Molecules of Life.(papers delivered at 1998 'After the Genome' meeting)Science and technologyEVELYN STRAUSS
NIH Wins Big as Congress Lumps Together Eight Bills.(National Institutes of Health funding for 1999)Science and technologyDAVID MALAKOFF, ELIOT MARSHALL
Nine Scientists Get the Call to Stockholm.(nobel laureates)Science and technology 
No Last Word on Language Origins.(includes related article on Neanderthal speech)Science and technologyCONSTANCE HOLDEN
No Need to Isolate Genetics.(inbreeding in greater prairie chickens)Science and technologyMichael E. Soule, L. Scott Mills
North America's wars: new analyses suggest that prehistoric North America, once considered peaceful, was instead a bitter battlefield where tribes fought over land and water.(includes related article on a 1325 massacre in South Dakota)Science and technologyHeather Pringle
Nuclear Functions Charge Ahead.(tRNA processing research)Science and technologyAnita K. Hopper
Ocean Drilling Floats Ambitious Plans for Growth.Science and technologyRICHARD A. KERR, DENNIS NORMILE
Ocean scientists find life, warmth in the seas.(Ocean Sciences meeting briefs)Science and technologyRobert Irion
OMIGA 1.1.(Software Review)(Abstract)(Evaluation)Science and technologyJames P. Calvet
One of three Cambrian radiations?Science and technologyAndre Adoutte, Guillaume Balavoine
On World AIDS Day, a Shadow Looms Over Southern Africa.(concern over increase in number of HIV cases)Science and technologyMICHAEL BALTER
Opals in a New Light.Science and technologyAlfons van Blaaderen
Partnership between South and North crystallizes around malaria.(Policy: Biomedicine)Science and technologyBarend Mons, Thomas Nchinda
Photochemistry of ozone: surprises and recent lessons.Science and technologyM. Kawasaki, A.R. Ravishankara, G. Hancock, Y. Matsumi
Planning for biodiversity.(global habitat preservation proposals)Science and technologyStuart L. Pimm, John H. Lawton
Popular Interest Fuels a Dinosaur-Research Boom.Science and technologyERIK STOKSTAD
Progress in progressive hearing loss.Science and technologyKaren P. Steel
Pumping Iron Through Celt Membranes.Science and technologyVolkmar Braun
Recipe for a kilogram. (absolute standard for the kilogram)Science and technologyDavid Kestenbaum
Rethinking solution NMR.Science and technologyWarren S. Warren
RNAi in C. elegans: Soaking in the Genome Sequence.(RNA interference)Science and technologyAlla Grishok, Craig C. Mello, Hiroaki Tabara
Role of Mouse Cryptochrome Blue-Light Photoreceptor in Circadian Photoresponses.Science and technologyJoseph S. Takahashi, Oliver Smithies, Aziz Sancar, Aleksey Kazantsev, Martha Hotz Vitaterna, Randy J. Thresher, Yasuhide Miyamoto, David S. Hsu, Claude Petit, Christopher P. Selby, Lale Dawut
Russian outpost readies for otherworldly quest. (glaciology in the Antarctic)(includes a related article on the McMurdo Dry Valleys)Science and technologyRichard Stone
Science catches Clinton's eye.(Pres. Clinton requests massive increase in 1999 biomedical and basic science funding)(includes related article on cancer research funding)Science and technologyEliot Marshall, Andrew Lawler
Science funding: up in smoke?(research funds linked to revenues from penalties on tobacco)(budget '99)Science and technologyEliot Marshall
Scientists flock to explore China's 'site of the century.' (archaeological site)Science and technologyJustin Wang
Scientists who fund themselves.(includes related article on history of self-funded amateur scientists)Science and technologyJon Cohen
Searching for a partner.(research on meiotic recombination)Science and technologyJames E. Haber
Sound and fracture. (effects of sound on fracture dynamics)Science and technologyFernando Lund
Sparse crystals. (Coulombic solids)Science and technologyJohn Schiffer
Spinosaurs as Crocodile Mimics.Science and technologyThomas R. Holtz Jr.
Stargazing from the end of the Earth. (Antarctica)Science and technologyRichard Stone
T cells on the mucosal frontline. (role of maverick T cells in immune response)(includes a related article on intestinal T cells)Science and technologyNigel Williams
Teaching the spinal cord to walk.(research on training spinal cord patients to walk)(includes related article on spinal cord's walking circuits)Science and technologyIngrid Wickelgren
Technology, experimentation, and the quality of survey data. (computers in social science research)Science and technologyDavid E. Bloom
Temperate Forests Gain Ground.Science and technologyANNE SIMON MOFFAT
The AAAS Celebrates Its 150th.(Association for the Advancement of Science)Science and technologyMILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS
The Abominable Mystery.(evolutionary biology of flowering plants)Science and technologyWilliam L. Crepet
The Artistic Side Of Intermolecular Forces.Science and technologyGunter Reiter
The Causes of Haldane's Rule.Science and technologyMichael Turelli
The Enigmas of Kaposi's Sarcoma.Science and technologyRobert C. Gallo
The future of human longevity: a demographer's perspective.Science and technologyJohn R. Wilmoth
The great asymmetry.(science and morality)(Essays on Science and Society)(Cover Story)Science and technologyStephen Jay Gould
The highest attainable standard: ethical issues in AIDS vaccines.Science and technologyBarry R. Bloom
The Kyoto negotiations on climate change: a science perspective.Science and technologyBert Bolin
Thermodynamics of Calcite Growth: Baseline for Understanding Biomineral Formation.Science and technologyChristine A. Orme, Henry H. Teng, Patricia M. Dove, James J. De Yoreo
The Rotary Enzyme of the Cell: The Rotation of F1-ATPase.Science and technologyHiroyuki Noji
The Science and Technology--Bereft Department of State.Science and technologyAnne Keatley Solomon
The Sulfur Cycle and Atmospheric Oxygen.(isotopic composition provides clues to history of atmoshpere)Science and technologyRobert A. Berner, Steven T. Petsch
The third culture.(the new culture of technology and its practitioners)Science and technologyKevin Kelly
The ultimate spectroscopic matrix?Science and technologyG. Scoles, K. K. Lehmann
The universe shows its age.(improved cosmological models help researchers measure expansion rate of the universe more accurately)Science and technologyAndrew Watson
The vision of the pore. (ion channels in cell membranes)Science and technologyClay Armstrong
The When and Where of Floor Plate Induction.(histological features of floor plate cells )Science and technologyThomas M. Jessell, Jane Dodd, Marysia Placzek
Toting Up the Early Harvest Of Transgenic Plants.(genetic engineering of plants)Science and technologyANNE SIMON MOFFAT
Tropical Paradise at the Cretaceous Poles?Science and technologyBrian T. Huber
What Can We Really Learn from TIMSS?(Third International Mathematics and Science Study )Science and technologyWilliam H. Schmidt, Curtis C. McKnight
What is the role of science in developing countries?(Essays on Science and Society)Science and technologyJose Goldemberg
What the wild things are. (observations on active galactic nuclei)Science and technologyJames H. Buckley
What we don't know does hurt us. How scientific illiteracy hobbles society.Science and technologyNorman R. Augustine
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