Science 1999 - Abstracts

Science 1999
TitleSubjectAuthors
A Clock for the Ages.(variability of circadian rhythms)Science and technologyRobert Y. Moore
A Deadly Double Life.Science and technologyNancy Maizels, Alan M. Weiner
A Lesson from Ceramics.(using ceramic perovskites to study Earth's mantle)Science and technologyAlexandra Navrotsky
All Creatures Great and Small.(controlling cell growth)Science and technologySally J. Leevers
Amateur Science-Strong Tradition, Bright Future.Science and technologyForrest M. III Mims
A New Human Ancestor?(Hominoid fossils found in Ethiopia)Science and technologyELIZABETH CULOTTA
A New Look at MHC and Autoimmune Disease.(major histocompatibility complexes)Science and technologyC. Garrison Fathman, William M. Ridgway, Marcella Fasso
A New Molecular Window on Early Life.(boundary between the Archean and Proterozoic eons)Science and technologyAndrew H. Knoll
Anthropologists Probe Bones, Stones, and Molecules.(1999 meeting of the American Association for Physical Anthropology)Science and technologyELIZABETH CULOTTA
A Rational Approach to Labeling Biotech-Derived Foods.(biotechnology)Science and technologyHenry I. Miller
Are Pathogens Felling Frogs?Science and technologyVIRGINIA MORELL
Are the Foreign Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?Science and technologyPaula E. Stephan, Levin. Sharon G.
A Seismic Look Under the Continents.Science and technologyKaren M. Fischer, Rob D. van der Hilst
A Solution to Concerns Over Public Access to Scientific Data.(suggestions to improve process under Freedom of Information Act)Science and technologyRobert W. Hahn, Linda R. Cohen
A Species' Fate, By the Numbers.(population viability analysis)Science and technologyCHARLES C. MANN, MARK L. PLUMMER
As Salmon Stage Disappearing Act, Dams May Too.(Snake River dams, Washington)Science and technologyRICHARD A. LOVETT
A Symphony of Bacterial Voices.Science and technologyEVELYN STRAUSS
A Tale of Big Game and Small Bugs.(fluctuations in numbers of animal and plant populations in Canada)Science and technologyEsa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala, Per Lundberg
A Tale of Two Cities: Architecture and the Digital Revolution.(influence of computer-aided design on construction)Science and technologyWilliam J. Mitchell
Australian Center Develops Tools for Developing World.Science and technologyELIZABETH FINKEL
A World With Two Suns.Science and technologyMARK SINCELL
Beating the Odds with Big K.Science and technologyShai D. Silberberg, Karl L. Magleby
Behaviorists Listen In as Animals Call and Croak.Science and technologyPALLAVA BAGLA
Being an Absolute Skeptic.(scientific philosophy)Science and technologyDavid Miller
Beyond Sloth--Physical Activity and Weight Gain.Science and technologyEric Ravussin, Elliot Jr. Danforth
Biomolecule Mass Spectrometry.Science and technologyMark A. Lewis, Roman A. Zubarev, Fred W. McLafferty, Einar K. Fridriksson, David M. Horn
Brain, Heal Thyself.(central nervous system can heal itself, according to research)Science and technologyDaniel H. Lowenstein, Jack M. Parent
Building Population Genetics Resources Using the U.K. NHS.(United Kingdom's National Health Service)Science and technologyGeorge Poste, Robin Fears
Bunches of Photons--Antibunches of Electrons.Science and technologyMarkus Buttiker
Call for `Sustainability' in Forests Sparks a Fire.(forest preservation)Science and technologyCHARLES C. MANN, MARK L. PLUMMER
Carbon Nanotube Muscles.(electromechanical, electrochemical research)Science and technologyOlle Inganas, Ingemar Lundstrum
Carbon Sequestration in Soils.(increasing soil organic matter contributes to carbon dioxide emissions)(ST)Science and technologyWilliam H. Schlesinger
Celebrating a Century of Physics, en Masse.(100th anniversary of the American Physical Society)Science and technologyJames Glanz, Robert Irion
ChemOffice.(Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyAndreas Madlung
China's Science Reforms: The View From the Top.(Interview)Science and technologyDENNIS NORMILE, XIONG LEI
Chinese Center Sues Over Study Coverage.(aging study)Science and technologyDAN ZHANG, XIONG LEI
Cladistics and Early Hominid Phylogeny.Science and technology 
Clampex 7.0.Science and technologyKathy E. Mitchell, Brute D. Schultz
Climate and Health.(how extreme weather can be a threat to public health)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyPaul R. Epstein
Close Encounters--An Artist Shows that Size Affects Shape.(works of Chuck Close used in perception study)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyDenis G. Pelli
Coherent Excitation in the Antenna Complex.(antenna complex LH2)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyM. Orrit
Computation Without Current.Science and technologyCharles G. Smith
Creative Sparks.(computer's ideas judged more creative than humans')Science and technologyJacob Goldenberg, David Mazursky, Sorin Solomon
Crop Engineering Goes South.(South American transgenic crop research)Science and technologyANNE SIMON MOFFAT
Dancing the Immunological Two-Step.Science and technologyBernard Malissen
Database Protection: Is It Broken and Should We Fix It?Science and technologyStephen M. Maurer, Suzanne Scotchmer
Death by the Numbers.(mathematically playing the securities market)Science and technologyDAVID KESTENBAUM
Debating Extinction.(research on mass extinction in Australia)Science and technologyTimothy F. Flannery
Deconstructing Vancomycin.(drug-resistance and antibiotic research)Science and technologyChristopher Walsh
Deep Green Rewrites Evolutionary History of Plants.Science and technologyKATHRYN S. BROWN
Dirty Transcripts from Clean DNA.Science and technologyBryn A. Bridges
Do Infants Learn Grammar with Algebra or Statistics?(response to 'Rule learning by seven-month-old infants, Science January 1, 1999)Science and technologyMark S. Seidenberg, Peter D. Eimas, Gary F. Marcus, Michiro Negishi
Driven Liquids.(research on liquid motion on surfaces)Science and technologyMichael Grunze
Ecology Returns to Speciation Studies.(researchers embracing Darwin's model)Science and technologyVIRGINIA MORELL
Effective Mass and Color Change.Science and technologyG. Blumberg, M.V. Klein
Effects of Medical Research on Health Care and the Economy.Science and technologyHerbert Pardes, Eric S. Lander, Kenneth G. Manton, H. Dennis Tolley, Arthur D. Ullian, Hans Palmer
Engineering Metabolism For Commercial Gains.(use of genetically engineered microbes in chemical production)Science and technologyJOSEPH ALPER
Engineering Plants to Cope With Metals.(testing crops that can thrive in metal-rich soils)Science and technologyANNE SIMON MOFFAT
Ethical Considerations in Leaping from Bench to Bedside.Science and technologyJeremy Sugarman
European Ministers Back Commerce Over Space Science.(meeting of European Space Agency)Science and technologyHELEN GAVAGHAN
Exon Shuffling in Retrospect.Science and technologyTom Eickbush
Exploring the Proton Sea.(proton particles)Science and technologyANDREW WATSON
Extrasolar Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs.(technology advances study of substellar objects)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyAdam Burrows
Finding a New Home for BESSY in the Middle East.(placement of synchrotron poses challenge)Science and technologyOLIVER MORTON
Forcible Entry.(fungal pathogens on plants)Science and technologyNicholas J. Talbot
Forests on Fire.(fire is big problem for tropical forests)Science and technologyJohann G. Goldammer
Forging a Link Between Biofilms and Disease.Science and technologyCAROL POTERA
For the Latest Information, Tune to Channel KcsA.Science and technologyBojan Zagrovic, Aldrich Aldrich
Free Copper Ions in the Cell?(Lou Gehrig's disease and copper in the body)Science and technologyStephen J. Lippard
From Junk Bond King To Cancer Crusader.(Michael Milken)Science and technologyERIK STOKSTAD
From the Bioweapons Trenches, New Tools for Battling Microbes.(1999 meeting of the Biotechnology Industry Organization)Science and technologyJOSEPH ALPER
Function Is Structure.Science and technologyAnders Liljas
Fusion Power From a Floating Magnet?(levitated dipole to be used in fusion research)Science and technologyJAMES RIORDON
GAD, a Single Autoantigen for Diabetes.(glutamic acid decarboxylase )Science and technologyHarald von Boehmer, Adelaida Sarukhan
Gaps, Pseudogaps, and Occam's Razor.(angle-resolved photoemission and new phenomena)Science and technologyA. J. Arko
Genetic Enhancement in Humans.Science and technologyJon W. Gordon
GeneTool 1.0.(gene sequence analysis software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyDarryl Nishimura
Getting to the Front of the Bus.(postdoctoral fellows band together for changes in the system)Science and technologyDAN FERBER
Giant Lava Flows, Mass Extinctions, and Mantle Plumes.Science and technologyPaul E. Olsen
Hawaiian Plume Dynamics.(study on layered mantle convection)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyJohn Lassiter
Health Care Costs.(the role of scientific research)Science and technology 
Heeding the Warning in Biodiversity's Basic Law.Science and technologyMichael L. Rosenzweig
Highly Visible, Curiously Intangible.(modern human origins research)Science and technologyG. A. Clark
Hole-istic Medicine.(virus uses protein to change cell membrane)Science and technologyJoshua Zimmerberg
How Chaperones Protect Virgin Proteins.Science and technologyDavid Eisenberg
How Chromatin Changes Its Shape.Science and technologyMICHAEL HAGMANN
How Does the Ground Shake?(earthquake ground motion)Science and technologyArthur D. Frankel
How Serpins Are Shaping Up.(protein family)Science and technologyRobin W. Carrell
How Stimulant Drugs May Calm Hyperactivity.Science and technologyJEAN MARX
How the Sun's Corona Gets Hot.(correlation between solar wind and corona heating)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyH. S. Hudson, T. Kosugi
Hubble Telescope Settles Cosmic Distance Debate--Or Does It?Science and technologyANN FINKBEINER
Hungry Herbivores Seek a Warmer World.(complex relationship between plants and herbivores)Science and technologyPhyllis D. Coley
Ice Age Temperatures and Geochemistry.Science and technologyEdouard Bard
Imaging Molecular Chemistry with Infrared Microscopy.(Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy)Science and technologyDavid L. Wetzel, Steven M. LeVine
Institutes Reinvent Themselves As Part of Well-Funded Reform.(Chinese Academy of Sciences becoming national model for research)Science and technologyLi Hui
Instruction, Selection, or Tampering with the Odds?(lymphocytes)Science and technologyRobert L. Coffman, Steven L. Reiner
Interfering with Water.(water photodissociation channels)Science and technologyDavid C. Clary
Is the Deep Sea on a Diet?(research on food supply and demand on the deep-sea floor)Science and technologyBruce H. Robison, Ellen R. M. Druffel
Is the Universe Fractal?(controversy over cosmological principles continues)Science and technologyVicent J. Martinez
Is This Why [T.sub.c] Is So Low?(high-transition temperature superconductors)Science and technologyA.V. Balatsky, Z.-X. Shen
Joint Projects Allow a Peek Into an Impoverished System.Science and technologyMICHAEL BAKER
Lab-Grown Organs Begin To Take Shape.(branching strategies and use of biodegradeable plastics in growing organs)Science and technologyDAN FERBER
Landscape Changes Make Regional Climate Run Hot and Cold.Science and technologyJENNIFER COUZIN
Life in Ice-Covered Oceans.(evaluation of possibility of life on Europa)Science and technologyEric J. Gaidos, Kenneth H. Nealson, Joseph L. Kirschvink
Looking for a Few Good Mutants.(Medically important fungi)Science and technologyWilliam E. Goldman
Lynx and Biologists Try to Recover After Disastrous Start.(a Colorado reintroduction program)Science and technologyKEITH KLOOR
Maintaining a Nuclear Deterrent Under the Test Ban Treaty.(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)Science and technologyRaymond Jeanloz, Sidney Drell, Bob Peurifoy
Making Brain Circuits Listen.Science and technologyJosef P. Rauschecker
Making the Stuff of The Big Bang.(big bang copied)Science and technologyDAVID VOSS
Mathematics Gets Institutionalized--Again.(National Science Foundation's mathematics program)Science and technologyBARRY CIPRA
Methane in the Deep Blue Sea.(n)(atural gas hydrates)Science and technologyBilal U. Haq
Microfluidic Diffusion-Based Separation and Detection.Science and technologyPaul Yager, Bernhard H. Weigl
Mineralogy at a Crossroads.Science and technologyRussell J. Hemley
Mining the Genome for Drugs.(Human Genome Sciences Inc. )Science and technologyINGRID WICKELGREN
Mix and Match in the Tree of Life.(genetic research on evolution)Science and technologyMaria C. Rivera, James A. Lake, Ravi Jain
Molecules on a Space Odyssey.(polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons may have contributed to origin of life on Earth)Science and technologyPascale Ehrenfreund
Narcolepsy Genes Wake Up the Sleep Field.Science and technologyJoseph S. Takahashi
Nature's Gold Factory.(gold vein deposits)Science and technologyRobert Kerrich
New Clues to the Habits of Heavyweights.(neutron stars and black holes)Science and technologyJAMES GLANZ, ROBERT IRION
New Clues to Why Size Equals Destiny.(nutrient distribution may be reason larger organisms live longer)Science and technologyDANA MACKENZIE
New Drills Augur a Great Leap Downward.Science and technologyKEVIN KRAJICK
New Findings Point to an Abundance of Cellular Riches.(Salmonella typhimurium, titin, sperm receptors)(meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology)Science and technologyELIZABETH PENNISI, EVELYN STRAUSS
New Leads to Cancer, Arthritis Therapies.Science and technologyMICHAEL HAGMANN
`New Physics' Finds a Haven At the Patent Office.Science and technologyDAVID VOSS
NIH Invites Activists Into The Inner Sanctum.(National Institutes of Health adds patient representatives to peer review panels)Science and technologyBRUCE AGNEW
Nobel Foundation Seeks Looser Financial Reins.Science and technologyANNIKA NILSSON, JOANNA ROSE
No Ice on the Moon?(reaction and response to ice on the moon study)Science and technology 
No Winners in Patent Shootout.(deadlock in Genentech patent infringement suit)Science and technologyMARCIC BARINAGA
Nuclear Fusion of Signaling Pathways.(intracellular signal transduction pathways)Science and technologyTony Hunter, Ralf Janknecht
Nurture Helps Mold Able Minds.(environmental influences on intelligence levels)Science and technologyINGRID WICKELGREN
One Ring to Rule a Superfamily of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases.Science and technologyMike Tyers, Andrew R. Willems
Otter-Eating Orcas.(killer whale predation on sea otters may be key to declining otter populations)Science and technologyJames A. Estes, David L. Garshelis, Charles B. Johnson
Out of the Minds of Babes.(how we process ideas through association)Science and technologySteven Pinker
PCR Detection of Bacteria in Seven Minutes.(polymerase chain reaction)Science and technologyPhillip Belgrader, William Benett, Dean Hadley, James Richards, Paul Stratton, Raymond Jr. Mariella, Fred Milanovich
Peptool.Science and technologyBeth Basham
Physician-Scientists--Endangered and Essential.(decline in number of physician-scientists)Science and technologyLeon E. Rosenberg
Planting the Seeds of New Antimalarial Drugs.Science and technologyRobert G. Ridley
Plants and Temperature-[CO.sub.2] Uncoupling.Science and technologySharon A. Cowling
Playing Tricks with Light.Science and technologyJohn Pendry
Polyploidy--More Is More or Less.Science and technologyPhilip Hieter, Tony Griffiths
Prescribing Heroin.(response and rebuttal to heroin study findings)Science and technologySue Rusche, William Caltrider
Primordial Water.Science and technologyRobert N. Clayton
Privacy in a Quantum World.(quantum cryptography)Science and technologyCharles H. Bennett, Peter W. Shor
Prospects for Giant Pores.(porous materials)Science and technologyAnthony K. Cheetham, Gerard Ferey
Protein Interaction Methods--Toward an Endgame.Science and technologyRoger Brent, Andrew R. Mendelsohn
Proteins in Motion.(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyCyrus Chothia, Mark Gerstein
Pushing the Limits.(integrated circuits run into limits due to transistors)Science and technologyPaul A. Packan
Putting Stem Cells to Work.Science and technologyDavor Solter, John Gearhart
Redesigning Evolution?Science and technology 
Regulation of "Nutraceuticals.Science and technologySteven H. Zeisel
Reinventing the Science Master's Degree.(experiment to offer undergrads Ph.D. alternative degree)Science and technologyMARI N. JENSEN
Remembrance of Things Past.(how the brain stores and retrieves memories)Science and technologyDaniel L. Schacter, Anthony D. Wagner
Report of the 1999 Council Meeting.(American Association for the Advancement of Science)(includes related articles on various aspects of the association)Science and technologyTiffany Ayers
Respiration Without [O.sub.2].(fumarate reductase research)Science and technologyLars Hederstedt
Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities.(media portrayals of scientists)Science and technologyMichael Crichton
RNA, Whither Goest Thou?(nerve cell synaptic memory)Science and technologyFloyd E. Bloom, Henri Tiedge, Dietmar Richter
Sadtler Suite.(CD-ROM)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyBrian Shmaefsky
Science Blueprint Is High on Ideals, Light on Details.(World Conference on Science in Budapest, Hungary)Science and technology 
Science Hopes to Rebound In Post-Cold War Era.(Mongolia develops relations with Western nations to improve its scientific research)Science and technologyANDREW LAWLER
Scientists--and Climbers--Discover Cliff Ecosystems.Science and technologyKEVIN KRAJICK
Sediments Reveal Their Age.Science and technologyMartin J. Whitehouse
Seeking Ligands for Lonely Orphan Receptors.(nuclear receptors)Science and technologyJan-Ake Gustafsson
Selfish Sentinels.(research on African mongoose behavior)Science and technologyDaniel T. Blumstein
Sex and Repression.(protein complex subunits and dosage compensation in nematodes)Science and technologyRichard L. Kelley, Mitzi I. Kuroda
Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction.Science and technologyCarl Djerassi
Shining Soft X-rays on Magnetic Structures.(method allows detailed analysis)Science and technologyUlrich Hillebrecht
Shoebox-Sized Space Probes Take to Orbit.(small satellites)Science and technologyJAMES R. RIORDON
Small Is Beautiful.(research on small samples of magnetic materials)Science and technologyAndre Thiaville, Jacques Miltat
Snapshots of Alien Worlds--The Future of Interferometry.(extrasolar planets)Science and technologyAntoine Labeyrie
Soap Films Reveal Whirling Worlds of Turbulence.(two-dimensional turbulence studied in soap film)Science and technologyROBERT IRION
Software Solution For Bio-Medicine.(InforMax Software Solution for BioMedicine )(Evaluation)Science and technologyPavel Simakov
Software Solution For Bio-Medicine.(Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyPavel Simakov
Spontaneous Activity: Signal or Noise?Science and technologyDavid A. McCormick
Statistica 5.1 for Windows.(Evaluation)Science and technologyBruce McCallum
Stopping DNA Replication in Its Tracks.Science and technologyJames E. Cleaver
String Theorists Find a Rosetta Stone.(gedanken black holes and the theory of everything)Science and technologyGARY TAUBES
Students with Disabilities Launch Careers in Science and Engineering.Science and technology 
Subsidy Helps New Grads Find First Science Jobs.(South Korea)Science and technologyMICHAEL BAKER
Summer in the Stratosphere.(ozone holes over the Antarctic)Science and technologyD. W. Fahey, A. R. Ravishankara
Tack--a Sticky Subject.Science and technologyT. P. Russell, H. C. Kim
Taking Transgenic Plants with a Pinch of Salt.(genetically engineered salt-tolerant plants)Science and technologyWolf B. Frommer, Uwe Ludewig, Doris Rentsch
TB Vaccines: Global Solutions for Global Problems.(tuberculosis)Science and technologyDouglas B. Young, Brian D. Robertson
T Cells and Dendritic Cells Get Intimate.(dendritic cells activate T cells)Science and technologyKim Bottomly
Test Tube Evolution Catches Time in a Bottle.(generations of microbes help answer evolutionary questions)Science and technologyTIM APPENZELLER
The 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake.(earthquake in Turkey)Science and technologyAykut Barka
The Art of the Orbit.(innovations in spacecraft navigation and trajectories)Science and technologyGARY TAUBES
The Benefits of Recycling.Science and technologyKaren P. Steel
The Buzz of General Relativity.(new measurements by NASA satellite)Science and technologyMichiel van der Klis
The Courts--A Challenge to Health Technology Assessment.Science and technologyElina Hemminki, Meri Koivusalo, David Hailey
The Difficulty in Separating Sisters.(Esp 1 and sister chromatids)Science and technologyTerry L. Orr-Weaver
The Heroin Prescribing Debate: Integrating Science and Politics.(how to treat heroin addicts)Science and technologyJohn Strang, Anja Dobler-Mikola, Gabriele Bammer, Philip M. Fleming, Ambros Uchtenhagen
The Internet of Tomorrow.(Internet must grow to accommodate new technologies and data types)Science and technologyDavid Clark
The Male's Dilemma.(link between immune response and size of sexual ornamentation in male chickens)Science and technologyRICHARD B. GALLAGHER
The Mystery of the Migrating Galaxy Clusters.Science and technologyALEXANDER HELLEMANS
The Not-So-Big U.S. Carbon Sink.Science and technologyInez Y. Fung, Christopher B. Field
The Science of Signal Transduction.(understanding the complexities of biochemical mechanisms which regulate cellular physiology; includes related article on forthcoming Web site for Science's Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)Science and technologyL. BRYAN RAY
The Y2K Problem.Science and technologyRobert F. Bennett
Through an Hourglass Darkly.(radioactive isotopes and the history of the solar sytem)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyBradley S. Meyer
To Mars, En Masse.Science and technologyOLIVER MORTON
Toward a 24-Hour Economy.(the social effects of nonstandard work weeks)(ST)Science and technologyHarriet B. Presser
Toward Greener Chemistry.(innovation in catalysts)Science and technologyWilliam Tumas, R. Thomas Baker
T. rex Was Fierce, Yes, But Feathered, Too.Science and technologyTIM APPENZELLER
Ultrafast Glimpses at Water and Ice.Science and technologyEdwin J. Heilweil
Unresponsiveness to Cannabinoids and Reduced Addictive Effects of Opiates in [CB.sub.1] Receptor Knockout Mice.Science and technologyBernard P. Roques, Gilbert Vassart, Catherine Ledent, Marc Parmentier, Olga Valverde, Thierry Pedrazzini, Gregorio Cossu, Francois Petitet, Jean-Francois Aubert, Francoise Beslot, Georg A. Bohme, Assunta Imperato, Walter Fratta
Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee.(syphilis and social injustice in Tuskegee, Alabama)Science and technologyRonald Bayer, Amy L. Fairchild
U.S. Sanctions Block People But Not Goods From India.(science and technology sanctions)Science and technologyPALLAVA BAGLA
Vertical Couplings.(new model needed to fully study atmosphere)Science and technologyMichael E. Summers
Visualizing Quasi-Particle Scattering Resonances.Science and technologyA.H. MacDonald, W.A. Atkinson
Warm, Warm on the Range.(climatic change's effect on vegetation)Science and technologyJerry M. Melillo
Who's Balancing the Federal Research Portfolio and How?(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyMichael McGeary, Stephen A. Merrill
Will the Job Market Ever Get Better?(prospects for employment as research professors are slim)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyKAREN SCHMIDT
Xenografts and Retroviruses.(porcine endogenous retrovirus )Science and technologyRobin A. Weiss
You Are What You Eat.Science and technologyMatthew J. Kohn
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