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Abstracts: US muddles policy on fetal tissue. Fetal implants put to the test. A revived opportunity for fetal research
Abstracts: U.S. National Wetland Inventory classifications as predictors of the occurrence of Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) and Pacific treefrogs (Hyla regilla)
Abstracts: US offers possible compromise at start of climate treaty talks. The road from Rio
Abstracts: US panel backs new approach to risk. World Bank backs Third World centres of excellence plan. White House science office 'needs more focus', says panel
Abstracts: US panel rejects hiding source of allegations of misconduct. NSF's proposed conflict-of-interest rules place burden on applicant and institution
Abstracts: US physicists greet promise of open access to CERN's hadron collider. German lab unveils plan to build physicists' next particle collider
Abstracts: US plan to scrap DNA panel splits genetic researchers. Gene panel reprieved after public outcry.... Genome study maps chemical sensitivity
Abstracts: 'US politicians have fallen in love with basic research.'. Carnegie completes review of science-government ties
Abstracts: US politics: campaigns as usual. Who should fund basic technology? Research, innovation and politics
Abstracts: US progressives fight for a voice in bioethics. Cut the climate antics. Election fireworks
Abstracts: US proposal for carbon cuts offers compromise. The carbon cycle ride. Congress grills officials over biosafety boom
Abstracts: U.S. proves a wet blanket at international climate meeting. Climate of opportunity. Developing nations offer hope in climate talks
Abstracts: US radiation report prompts bioethics move. Key legislator collides with US officials on backing for CERN. Key statistician ousted as Waxman enters gp160 fray
Abstracts: US regulation threat over business links ... as government seeks more ethics training. Researchers take a gamble on the human genome
Abstracts: US researchers push network of massive spectrometers. Politics dampens summit on Chernobyl's anniversary. The Arizona experiment
Abstracts: US research safety system 'in jeopardy'. Board games. Drive for drugs lead to baby clinical trials
Abstracts: US sanctions hurt basic research in India. Scientists criticize review of Indian research institute. 'Skewed medical goals' revealed by Indian survey
Abstracts: US seeks fair deal for biologists on synchrotron source access. Climate critics claim access blocked to unpublished data
Abstracts: US Senate gets tough on animal activists. US faces increasing demand for funds to replace ageing equipment. Higher status for 'research risks' office?
Abstracts: US senators urge caution on cloning ban. NCI apologizes for fallout study delay. Bid to limit prices on drugs using 'public' discoveries
Abstracts: US sends mixed message in GM debate. Parasitoid behavior and Bt plants. Insecticidal toxin in root exudates from Bt corn
Abstracts: US set to endorse human pesticide testing. Foreign students face extra UK security checks. Ban on triazine herbicides likely to reduce but not negate relative benefits of GMHT maize cropping
Abstracts: US societies fear clamp-down on visits by foreign scientists. White House rejects proposal for Department of Science
Abstracts: US State Department gets cold feet about cold fusion. Everglades plan flawed, claim ecologists. Monitoring plan gets low marks, low budget
Abstracts: US stem-cell pioneers buy 'Dolly' cloning company. NIH to abandon young investigator grants. US panel to back longer cloning ban, ducks thornier questions
Abstracts: US teams join hands to build dexterous robots. The self 'out there.'. Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms
Abstracts: US technology support under the microscope. US plans large funding boost to support nanotechnology boom. US geological survey picks up the NBS pieces
Abstracts: US to rule on research patent. Should conservation biologists push policies? . Patent reform prompts intellectual tug-of-war
Abstracts: US/UK statement on genome data prompts debate on 'free access.'. Celera turns to public genome data to speed up endgame...
Abstracts: US universities create bridges between physics and biology. Scientists seek support from Mexican public. Nobel Prizes go to Caltech chemist, CERN physicist: physics prize
Abstracts: US universities find that demand for botanists exceeds supply. Bioprospects less than golden
Abstracts: US warms to carbon sequestration research. Kansas kicks evolution out of the classroom. Technology will assist the fight against terrorism
Abstracts: Uterine and umbilical blood flows and net nutrient uptake by fetuses and uteroplacental tissues of cows gravid with either single or twin fetuses
Abstracts: Utility of North Atlantic right whale museum specimens for assessing changes in genetic diversity. Conservation genetics of freshwater mussels: comments on Mulvey et al
Abstracts: UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male eastern bluebirds. Correlated changes in male plumage coloration and female mate choice in cardueline finches
Abstracts: UV-B radiation and soil microbial communities. Myocardin and ternary complex factors compete for SRF to control smooth muscle gene expression
Abstracts: UV-B radiation and soil microbial communities. Strong correlation between levels of tropospheric hydroxyl radicals and solar ultraviolet radiation
Abstracts: V1 spinal neurons regulate the speed of vertebrate locomotor outputs. Parallel colour- opponent pathways to primary visual cortex
Abstracts: Vaccine institute treads out a wary path. Japan's successful launch paves way for interplanetary missions. University challenges plagiarism judgment
Abstracts: Vaccine research: WHO calls the shots. WHO to aid Eastern Europe. Greens oppose EPO plant
Abstracts: Vaccines for the third world. Natural and synthetic non-peptide antigens recognized by human gamma delta T-cells
Abstracts: Vaccines on trial. The tiger's retreat. Future shock
Abstracts: Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity. Transformation and control of ultra-short pulses in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibers
Abstracts: Validation of 22 Sodium to estimate food intake of bears. Dynamics of intertidal foraging by coastal brown bears in southwestern Alaska
Abstracts: Validation tests of a spatially explicit habitat effectiveness model for Rocky Mountain elk. Elk and hunter space-use sharing in South Dakota
Abstracts: Value-free nanotech? Efforts to gauge public attitudes to nanotechnology reveal concerns that can be readily addressed
Abstracts: Variability and repeatability of female mating preference in the guppy. Female mate choice under predation risk in the guppy
Abstracts: Variability in call structure and pairing success of male field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus: the effects of age, size and parasite load
Abstracts: Variability in vegetation effects on density and nesting success of grassland birds. Patch size and landscape effects on density and nesting success of grassland birds
Abstracts: Variability of inorganic and organic phosphorus turnover rates in the coastal ocean. Short residence time of colloids in the upper ocean estimated from 238U-234Th disequilibria
Abstracts: Variability of the path of the Kuroshio ocean current over the past 25,000 years. Low variability in a Y-linked plant gene and its implications for Y-chromosome evolution
Abstracts: Variable cell number in nematodes. Simple worms, complex genes. Specification of sense-organ identity by a Caenorhabditis elegans Pax-6 homologue
Abstracts: Variable oxygen airglow on Venus as a probe of atmospheric dynamics. The four final rotation states of Venus
Abstracts: Variants in common disease. A genome-wide association study identifies novel risk loci for type 2 diabetes. Broad sweep of genome zeroes in on diabetes
Abstracts: Variation and consistency of female preferences for simulated courtship songs in Drosophila virilis. Behavioural isolation between two closely related Hawaiian Drosophila species: the role of courtship
Abstracts: Variation and vaccination. Getting into the liver. That vaccine passes a trial
Abstracts: Variation in conciliatory tendency and relationship quality across groups of pigtail macaques. A modest proposal: displacement activities as an indicator of emotions in primates
Abstracts: Variation in genetic diversity across the range of North American brown bears. Effectiveness of a Regional Corridor in Connecting Two Florida Black Bear Populations
Abstracts: Variation in sexual selection on male body size within and between populations of the soapberry bug. Provisioned Parastrachia japonensis (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) nymphs gain access to food and protection from predators
Abstracts: Variation in sperm precedence during mating in male flies, Dryomyza anilis. Male perception of female mating status: its effect on copulation duration, sperm defence and female fitness
Abstracts: Variation in styles of rifting in the Gulf of California. Spreading-rate dependence of melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges from mantle seismic refraction data
Abstracts: Variations in mercury deposition to Antarctica over the past 34,000 years. Meteoric smoke fallout over the Holocene epoch revealed by iridium and platinum in Greenland ice
Abstracts: Variations on the theme of movement. Control of CFTR chloride conductance by ATP levels through non-hydrolytic binding
Abstracts: Vascular biology: Vessel guidance. Delivering the future. Temporal targeting of tumour cells and neovasculature with a nanoscale delivery system
Abstracts: Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr. See-saw sea
Abstracts: Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr. part 2 Green-wave phenology
Abstracts: Vegetation and soil feedbacks on the response of the African monsoon to orbital forcing in the early to middle Holocene
Abstracts: Vegetation effects on the isotope composition of oxygen in atmospheric CO2. Fluxes of CO2 and water between terrestrial vegetation and the atmosphere estimated from isotope measurements
Abstracts: Vegetation-induced warming of high-latitude regions during the Late Cretaceous period. Temperature trends over the past five centuries reconstructed from borehole temperatures
Abstracts: 'Vegetative' patient shows signs of conscious thought. The big push. Missing gas saps plant theory
Abstracts: VEGF delivery with retrogradely transported lentivector prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model. Creating unique blood vessels
Abstracts: Venom metering by juvenile prairie rattlesnakes, Crotalus v. viridis: effects of prey size and experience. Strike-induced chemosensory searching and trailing behaviour in neonatal rattlesnakes
Abstracts: Venter's venture. Exposing the human nude phenotype. Complex traits on the map
Abstracts: Venture capitalists tackle Chinese hurdles. Chinese network to start trials of spinal surgery. China struggles to square growth and emissions
Abstracts: Verdict: Hwang's human stem cells were all fakes. A seismic shift in thinking. Whale of a catch blows hole in family tree
Abstracts: Verdict in French blood trial shames science. Uproar greets new blood scandal indictment. French appeal court sends Allain to jail
Abstracts: Vergence eye movements in response to binocular disparity without depth perception. A role for stereoscopic depth cues in the rapid visual stabilization of the eyes
Abstracts: Verl M. Thomas. Relationship of milk production, milk expected progeny difference, and calf weaning weight in Angus and Simmental cow-calf pairs
Abstracts: Vernalization requires epigenetic silencing of FLC by histone methylation. Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3
Abstracts: Vertebrate embryo handedness. Induction and all that. Dismantling the organizer
Abstracts: Vertebrate homologues of C. elegans UNC-5 are candidate netrin receptors. Neural regulation of thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans
Abstracts: Very long carbon nanotubes. Encapsulated C60 in carbon nanotubes. Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes
Abstracts: Very low breaking index for the Vela pulsar. Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars. Evidence for free precession in a pulsar
Abstracts: Very mild muscular dystrophy associated with the deletion of 46 percent of dystrophin. Deficiency of the 50K dystrophin-associated glycoprotein in severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy
Abstracts: Vesicle assembly in microtubes. Toxin-induced activation of the G protein p21 Rho by deamidation of glutamine
Abstracts: Viability of Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon. Influence of complex sex determination on demographic stochasticity and population viability
Abstracts: Vibrational directionality in the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), is mediated by female song. Female canaries are sexually responsive to special song phrases
Abstracts: Vibrations in the memory. An invisible hand. Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots
Abstracts: Victor and victim. Back to the future from 1888. The tracks of thought
Abstracts: Victor Arthur Rice, 1890-1964: a brief biography. Sleeter Bull, 1887-1968: a brief biography. Lyman J. Bratzler, 1905-1976: a brief biography
Abstracts: Video surveillance to assess highway underpass use by elk in Arizona. Effects of traffic on elk use of wildlife underpasses in Arizona
Abstracts: Views collide over fate of accelerator. That's no laser, it's a particle accelerator. Revamped accelerator seeks quark's secrets
Abstracts: Vigilance as a benefit of intermittent locomotion in small mammals. Head raising during foraging and pausing during intermittent locomotion as components of antipredator vigilance in chipmunks
Abstracts: Vigilance in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus, in Costa Rica. Male dispersal patterns in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Part 1: patterns and causes of natal emigration
Abstracts: Violent motions in galactic core. A disk of dust and molecular gas around a high-mass protostar. Active galactic nuclei as scaled-up Galactic black holes
Abstracts: Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1
Abstracts: Viral FLICE-inhibitory proteins (FLIPs) prevent apoptosis induced by death receptors. CD95's deadly mission in the immune system
Abstracts: Viral hijack of receptors. angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus. The ribosome talks back
Abstracts: Viral infection swithces non-plasmacytoid dendritic cells into high interferon producers. Toll-like receptor 3 promotes cross-priming to virus-infected cells
Abstracts: Virulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii comprise a single clonal lineage. Smart single-chip gas sensor microsystem
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