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Abstracts: Unspinning the web. General transcription factors bind promoters repressed by Polycomb group proteins. A Drosophila Polycomb group complex includes Zest and dTAFII proteins
Abstracts: Unsung heroes. Belka's longshot. USDA gets its "Act" together
Abstracts: Unsung heroes: Ed Blotzer. Second-chance seniors
Abstracts: Unsung heroes. In memoriam: Roger A. Caras
Abstracts: Untethered satellite still produced data. Workshop prepares ground for human proteome project. Earliest malaria DNA found in Roman baby graveyard
Abstracts: Unusual clustering of carboxyl side chains in the core of iron-free ribonucleotide reductase. Naturally occurring antibodies devoid of light chains
Abstracts: Unusually dynamic sex roles in a fish. Seasonal change in female choice for male size in the two-spotted goby
Abstracts: Unusual phonation covarying song characteristics and song preferences in female zebra finches. Are good ornaments bad armaments? Male chaffinch perception of songs with varying flourish length
Abstracts: Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Structural insight into antibiotic fosfomycin biosynthesis by a mononuclear iron enzyme
Abstracts: Unusual thermal defence by a honeybee against mass attack by hornets. Components of giant hornet alarm pheromone
Abstracts: Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia. Climate variability 50,000 years ago in mid-latitude Chile as reconstructed from tree rings
Abstracts: Unveiling the limitations of scat surveys to monitor social species: A case study on river otters. Biopsying southern right whales: Their reactions and effects on reproduction
Abstracts: Up and coming. A career at the museum. Developing themes
Abstracts: Up close and personal to atoms. One dimensional tunnel reactivity in catalysis with the scanning tunneling microscope
Abstracts: Updated distribution of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit. Population density of the endangered Florida Key deer. Hurricane impacts on Key deer in the Florida Keys
Abstracts: Upper Palaeolithic infant burials. Jewish inspiration of Christian catacombs. Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Israel
Abstracts: Uprooting the human family tree. Return to the planet of the apes. Mitrates on the move
Abstracts: Ups and downs of ancient oxygen. Oxygen's rise reduced. Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago
Abstracts: Upset for Milankovitch theory. Evidence for a higher pH in the glacial ocean from boron isotopes in foraminifera
Abstracts: Uptake of apoptotic cells drives the growth of a pathogenic trypanosome in macrophages. Phagocytosis and clearance of apoptotic cells is mediated by MER
Abstracts: Up the magnetic pressure. Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae. Shear madness
Abstracts: Upward transport of oceanic nitrate by migrating diatom mats. Nitrogen transport by vertically migrating diatom mats in the North Pacific Ocean
Abstracts: Uranium-oxide-based catalysts for the destruction of volatile chloro-organic compounds. Urban myths of organic farming
Abstracts: Urban benzene and population exposure: People arn't just at risk from carcinogenic benzene when they are out on city streets
Abstracts: Urban currawongs. Bird Brains. Shy albatross
Abstracts: Urinary chemical cues affect light avoidance behaviour in male laboratory mice, Mus musculus. The motivation of group-housed laboratory mice, Mus musculus, for additional space
Abstracts: Urine luck. Alligator mississippiensistuck. Fisher 47: a mother's contribution to the next generation
Abstracts: Urine luck. Meet the beetles. The big chill
Abstracts: US academy warns of disaster if required to open up panels. 'Science and reason' forum finds enemies all around
Abstracts: US accused of 'cover-up' in defence of Gallo claims. Hard times for high tech. Sweden streamlines research administration
Abstracts: US aid to Russian weapons labs defended. US researchers losing battle to hide their data from prying eyes. Battle lines drawn for make-or-break vote on the future of the SSC
Abstracts: US Army to use peer review in breast cancer programme. Bush spins tall tale of technology transfer. Debate over animals is given a personal touch
Abstracts: US backs revamp of nuclear warheads. Enough warheads, already. Dreaming of clean nukes
Abstracts: US bill supports research in marine biotechnology. Biomedical trust fund is proposed to support basic research at NIH
Abstracts: US bioethics panel poised to judge local review boards. Seismologists claim quake data being 'mis-read' as bomb test
Abstracts: US biologists propose launch of electronic preprint archive. Celera in talks to launch private sector human proteome project
Abstracts: US cancer institute shifts funds to external research. Senate seeks $750m for NIH to rebuild ageing biomedical labs
Abstracts: US challenge to AZT patent. Job prospects are better than ever (but were never as bad as made out). NSF pays price for success
Abstracts: US claims of 'no chemical links' to Gulf War illnesses under fire. 'Unrealistic' misconduct plans under fire
Abstracts: US company comes under fire over patent on umbilical cord cells. The petaflop challenge
Abstracts: US company's gene therapy trial is first to bypass RAC for approval. US Senate votes to overturn research ban
Abstracts: US Congress urged to back further Agent Orange studies. NIH urged to address chimp care 'crisis'. NIH urged to cap profits made on publicly funded research
Abstracts: US court backs authors infight over article reproduction rights. The history man
Abstracts: US court challenge may limit use of data in DNA banks. Coalition plans challenge to genetic patenting in the US
Abstracts: US court gives original owners the right to deep-sea treasure. Filling in the gaps
Abstracts: US court tests the breadth of patent protection on proteins. Spitzer sues drug giant for deceiving doctors
Abstracts: US-Cuba row over insects goes to weapons meeting. Calls for cloning ban sell science short. Lost in translation
Abstracts: USDA falls 90% short of the job. Wildlife photographer accused of staging scenes. Eric Mills: man of action
Abstracts: US drug industry's research support. A changing drug supply. Mission possible
Abstracts: Use and misuse of multiple comparisons in animal experiments. Voluntary intake and ingestive behavior of steers grazing Johnstone or endophyte-infected Kentucky-31 tall fescue
Abstracts: Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors. Stargazin regulates synaptic targeting of AMPA receptors by two distinct mechanisms
Abstracts: Usefulness of the Umbrella Species Concept as a Conservation Tool. Conservation Status as a Biodiversity Trend Indicator: Recommendations from a Decade of Listing Species at Risk in British Columbia
Abstracts: US electronic highway needs consensus more than dollars. Outlook brightens for science in US budget proposals for 1998
Abstracts: US energy department backs down on plan for A-bomb victim studies. Mood of space station partners lifts
Abstracts: US energy official departs with a 'get real' warning. Collapse of real sharpens Brazil's contrasts. Campuses ring to a stormy clash over truth and reason
Abstracts: US energy official departs with a 'get real' warning. Stability offers unique opportunity for research. Access issues may determine whether agri-biotech will help the world's poor
Abstracts: US environment projects may merge efforts. Cuts force telescope closures at Kitt Peak. Taking the voters' pulse
Abstracts: Use of behavioural stochastic resonance by paddle fish for feeding. Balancing the unbalanced
Abstracts: Use of dredged material substrates by nesting terns and black skimmers. Detectability analysis in transect surveys
Abstracts: Use of dredged material substrates by nesting terns and black skimmers. part 2 Habitat use and nest success of overwater nesting ducks in westcentral Minnesota
Abstracts: Use of electrorecption during foraging by the Australian lungfish. Recognition of contentment call spectral characteristics by mallard ducklings: evidence for a consistent perceptual process
Abstracts: Use of experimenter-given cues during object-choice tasks by capuchin monkeys. Grooming down the hierarchy: allogrooming in captive brown capuchin monkeys
Abstracts: Use of foraging trails by Norway rats. Inter-sexual signalling and the functions of female coloration in the tropidurid lizard Microlophus occipitalis
Abstracts: Use of habitats by female northern pintails wintering in southwestern Louisiana. Survival of female northern pintails wintering in Southwestern Louisiana
Abstracts: Use of implanted radiotransmitters to estimate survival of greater sage-grouse chicks. Total plasma protein and re nesting by greater sage-grouse
Abstracts: Use of landscape ecosystems for species inventory and conservation. Spotted owl protection: unintentional evolution toward ecosystem management
Abstracts: Use of population viability analysis to evaluate management options for the endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbit
Abstracts: Use of ratio estimators to estimate the size of common eider populations in winter. Finding common ground: conservationists and regulated interests pursue ESA reform together
Abstracts: Use of silk in ancient Egypt. Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts. Preserved for the afterlife
Abstracts: Use of solicited bands and separation of hunting and natural mortality: a comment. Logic and science in wildlife biology
Abstracts: Use of tree stumps as roosts by the western long-eared bat. Fine-scale analysis of Mount Graham red squirrel habitat following disturbance
Abstracts: Use of vision in prey detection by brown long-eared bats, Plecotus auritus. Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: Forest-dwelling big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, conform to the fission-fusion model
Abstracts: Use of visual cover by domestic fowl: a Venetian blind effect? Direction of predator approach and the decision to flee to a refuge
Abstracts: Use of warm-season food plots by white-tailed deer. Nutrient enrichment, tannins, and thorns: Effects on browsing of shrub seedlings
Abstracts: US extends security clearance for scholars. UK 'terrorist' fights science-course ban. Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling
Abstracts: US fast-breeder reactor fights for survival after Clinton trims budget. Reactors and compromise
Abstracts: US firm's bid to sequence rice genome causes stir in Japan.... Edgy Japan wants a new reconnaissance satellite
Abstracts: US government and utilities revive California solar project. California looks to science partnerships...
Abstracts: US health politics may give insurers a respite on genetic information. Genetic resistance spread to consumers
Abstracts: US increases health funds but ducks AIDS allocation. Ageing population of voters backs Alzheimer's funding. NIH heads for 7.1 per cent budget growth
Abstracts: US increases health funds but ducks AIDS allocation. Financial doubts over future of chimp lab. NIH institute limits scope of 'AIDS research.'
Abstracts: Using age structure to detect impacts on threatened populations: a case study with Steller sea lions. Factors Related to Fecal Corticosterone Levels in California Spotted Owls: Implications for Assessing Chronic Stress
Abstracts: Using anal gland secretion to determine sex in beaver. Sibling recognition in the beaver: a field test for phenotype matching
Abstracts: Using antibodies to perturb the coordination sphere of a transition metal complex. Characterization of a functionally important mobile domain of GroES
Abstracts: Using character concordance to define taxonomic and conservation units. Molecular variation and evolutionarily significant units in the endangered Gila topminnow
Abstracts: Using Decision Modeling with Stakeholders to Reduce HumanuWildlife Conflict: a RaptoruGrouse Case Study. Dynamics of Hybridization and Introgression in Red Wolves and Coyotes
Abstracts: Using fecal glucocorticoids to access stress levels in captive river otters. Reversible chemical restraint of fishers with medetomidine-ketamine and atipamezole
Abstracts: Using hair to screen for breast cancer. Papillomavirus and p53. P53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer
Abstracts: Using historical data to assess changes in Wyoming's fish fauna. Strategies for the conservation of Asteraceae in Mexico
Abstracts: Using partitioned mahalanobis D(super 2)(k) to formulate a GIS-based model of timber rattlesnake hibernacula. Population density-physical condition relationships in white-tailed deer
Abstracts: Using Population Viability Analysis to Predict the Effects of Climate Change on the Extinction Risk of an Endangered Limestone Endemic Shrub, Arizona Cliffrose
Abstracts: Using public sighting information to investigate coyote use of urban habitat. Comparison of two techniques for surveying headwater stream d
Abstracts: Using radar to estimate populations and assess habitat associations of marbled murrelets. Power to detect trends in marbled murrelet breeding populations using audio visual and radar surveys
Abstracts: Using randomization techniques to analyse behavioural data. Assessing the robustness of randomization tests: examples from behavioral studies
Abstracts: Using remote sensing to reassess the mass mortality of Diadema antillarum 1983-1984. High dams and marine-freshwater linkages: effects on native and introduced fauna in the Caribbean
Abstracts: Using taxonomy to predict success among introduced avifauna: relative importance of transport and establishment
Abstracts: Using the cross point of demand functions to assess animal priorities. Access to enriched housing is rewarding to rats as reflected by their anticipatory behaviour
Abstracts: US legislator warns of hollow promises on research spending. US think-tank queries cost of 'stockpile stewardship' programme
Abstracts: US military accommodates astronomers. Small telescopes may be auctioned off under US 'privatization' plan. US astronomers draw up their wish list for a decade of funding
Abstracts: US military to sponsor lunar space mission. Planetary defence mission to yield pay-off for research. Science comes second as NASA makes lunar plans
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