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Abstracts: Lawyers call for science to clear AIDs nurses in Libya. When science and the theology meet. Sound and vision
Abstracts: Laying down the law: every living thing obeys the rules of scaling discovered by Max Kleiber. Magic beans
Abstracts: Laying hens do not discriminate between video images of conspecifics. Food allocation in crimson rosella broods: parents differ in their responses to chick hunger
Abstracts: Laying hens do not discriminate between video images of conspecifics. part 2 Distance and the presentation of visual stimuli to birds
Abstracts: Leading-edge vortices in insect flight. Rubber bands reduce the cost of carrying loads. Flying and swimming animals cruise at a strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency
Abstracts: Leading scientists still reject God. Scientists have a head start in IT. Scientists are still keeping the faith
Abstracts: Lead isotope evidence for young trace element enrichment in the oceanic upper mantle. Inside the cosmic blender
Abstracts: Leaf caching in the leafcutting ant Atta colombica: organizational shift, task partitioning and making the best of a bad job
Abstracts: 'Leak' rumours fuel debate on gene patent. Legal fight looms over patent bid on human/animal chimaeras. Sparks continue to fly in Taq patent dispute
Abstracts: Leaning trees on sloping ground. The U, J and L of bird flight. Smokescreen lifted on insect flight
Abstracts: Leapfrog birds. Turning turtle. Arsenic and Bogongs
Abstracts: Leaping lemurs! San Francisco Zoo's new Lipman Family Lemur Forest is the largest outdoor exhibit for these primates
Abstracts: Learning from others' mistake: a paradox revisited. Producer-scrounger foraging games in starlings: a test of rate-maximizing and risk-sensitive models
Abstracts: Learning from the past. Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost. Critical politics of carbon sinks
Abstracts: Learning how the brain learns. A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning. Erythropoietin-mediated neuroproection involves crosstalk between Jak2 and NF-kB signalling cascades
Abstracts: Learning threat-sensitive predator avoidance: how do fathead minnows incorporate conflicting information? The role of learning in the development of threat-sensitive predator avoidance by fathead minnows
Abstracts: Learning to mentor. Count on it. Discovery in the dirt
Abstracts: Learning to suppress responses to the larger of two rewards in two species of lemurs, Eulemur fulvus and E. macaco
Abstracts: Leave the man alone: the argument between researchers and the animal rights movements go back a long way. Saccades without eye movements
Abstracts: Leeds disunited: there is no substitute for openness in the handling of allegations of scientific misconduct. Gallo on the rack: the latest government pronouncement raises questions about the office itself as well as about Gallo
Abstracts: Left-right asymmetric expression of the TGF-beta-family member lefty in mouse embryos. Control of root growth and development by cyclin expression
Abstracts: Left, right, left ... turn. Cripto-analysis of embryonic codes. Yeast cell-type regulation of DNA repair
Abstracts: Legacy of mercury pollution. Mercury and gold pollution. Mercury pollution in Brazil
Abstracts: Legal recourse. Postdocs reject academic research. US minorities stake their claim in science and engineering
Abstracts: Legal restrictions block NASA 'institutes.' Researchers find silver lining in delay to work on space station. No takers so far for NASA science institutes
Abstracts: Leg autotomy in a spider has minimal costs in competitive ability and development. Social and environmental factors modulate the learning of pine-cone stripping techniques by black rats, Rattus rattus
Abstracts: Leg feathers in an early cretaceous bird. First fossil chimpanzee. Preserved organs of devonian harvestmen
Abstracts: Legislative progress for animals: state by state, vote by vote. Making the grade
Abstracts: Leipzig professor's death stirs bitter feeling. Germany's past still casts a long shadow. German minister bemoans weak response
Abstracts: Lek locations and patterns of female movement and distribution in a neotropical frugivorous bird. Black hole models of ungulate lek size and distribution
Abstracts: Lemurs and the regeneration of dry deciduous forest in Madagascar. Error propagation in spatially explicit population models: a reassessment
Abstracts: Lending a hand to Maine's island birds. A wish takes wing. Maine takes lead for Atlantic salmon
Abstracts: Length of tail streamers in barn swallows. Pulling the fly's leg. How 'bad genes' survive
Abstracts: Leprosy researchers lament suppression of Indian paper. Indian biotech centre rocked by controversy. Indian research budget favours defence
Abstracts: Leptin activation in hypothalamus. Some heat but not enough light. Leptin inhibits hypothalamic neurons by activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels
Abstracts: Leptin modulates the T-cell immune response and reverses starvation-induced immunosuppression. Immunological agnosia
Abstracts: Leptin regulation of bone resorption by the sympathetic nervous system and CART. The complexities of skeletal biology
Abstracts: 'Less bureaucracy' pledge for Italian space agency. Germany extends academic-industry competition plans. Conservationists seek compromise over new threat to Galapagos
Abstracts: Less choosy or different preference? Impact of hypoxia on hermit crab shell assessment and selection. Motivational change during shell fights in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus
Abstracts: Lesser scaup winter foraging and nutrient reserve acquisition in east-central Florida. Survival rates of Australasian shoveler ducks in New Zealand
Abstracts: Lessons for the future of journals: science journals can continue to thrive because they provide major benefits
Abstracts: Lessons from BSE for public confidence. 'Mad cow' scare threatens political link between food and agriculture
Abstracts: Lessons from Iraq on bioweapons. More focused agenda for Unesco. Foothold in Bosnia: the world's diffidence at intervention in Bosnia is understandable, but should not be taken to extremes
Abstracts: Lessons from past climates. Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo
Abstracts: Lessons of a limestone cave. Stealth missiles. The antbed parrot
Abstracts: Let all the voices be heard. Biofuelling the future. Earth science and society
Abstracts: Lethal beta-thalassaemia in mice lacking the erythroid CACCC-transcription factor EKLF. Absence of blood formation in mice lacking the T-cell leukaemia oncoprotein tal-1/SCL
Abstracts: Let's replicate. Kyoto for commuters. Carbon tax lite
Abstracts: Letter from Belize. Hurricane Mitch. Behind the scenes
Abstracts: Letter from Brazil. Spirits of the forest
Abstracts: Letter from Gabon. Whale of a fish tale. Destination Gabon
Abstracts: Letter from India. Portraits in conservation. A sweeter home for swans
Abstracts: Letter from Indonesia. Letter from Peru. To catch a frog
Abstracts: Letter from Kenya. The Congo connection. Difficult choices
Abstracts: Letter from Kenya (update on Kenyan Wildlife Service's elephant conservation efforts) Feeling the heat: wildlife conservation in the face of global climate change
Abstracts: Letter from Patagonia. Letter from the Pacific Northwest. River of birds
Abstracts: Letter from Rwanda. Uganda revisited: a look at the changes two decades can bring. Letter from Uganda
Abstracts: Letter from Venezuela. Letter from Patagonia. Letter from Zaire
Abstracts: Let the games begin. Oscillatory dependence of current-driven magnetic domain wall motion on current pulse length
Abstracts: Let the spirits move you. Bonnie Raphael, zoo vet. Let them eat caviomorphs!
Abstracts: Let us go forth and safely multiply. Starting at the top: Scientific elites retain a severe gender imbalance. Studies of faith
Abstracts: Leukaemia/Drosophila homology. Polarization of the anterior-posterior axis of C.elegans is a microtubule-directed process
Abstracts: Leukaemia increase sets puzzle. Dispute over monitoring. UK physicians demand action
Abstracts: Leukemia cases linked to fathers' radiation dose. Call for further study of alleged leukaemia link. Living with nuclear radiation
Abstracts: Level of nutrition and visceral organ protein synthetic capacity and nucleicacid content in sheep. Effects of ruminally degradable and escape protein supplements on steers grazing summer native range
Abstracts: Leverage and sustainable communities: overcoming policy obstacles at the local level. Misunderstanding Neo-Darwinism: a reaction to Daly
Abstracts: Leverage. Rewriting the ten commandments of American politics. Walking north on a southbound train
Abstracts: Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses. Optimizing the success of random searches. Revisiting Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer
Abstracts: Lgl, pins and aPKC regulate neuroblast self-renewal versus differentiation. From embryo to axon
Abstracts: Liability clause blocks talks on biosafety protocol. World Bank invests in global science base. African 'flexibility' may open path to biosafety agreement
Abstracts: Libya's travesty. Libya and human values. 'A shocking lack of evidence'
Abstracts: Licensing fees slow advance of stem cells. California dreaming. War of words escalates in run-up to California's vote on stem cells
Abstracts: Lie back and think of science. Catch a falling star. Buried treasure
Abstracts: Lie probes to continue at US weapons labs. Deep science strikes gold after latest site is named. Physics poised for sizeable gains in energy department's wish-list
Abstracts: Life after killer waves: The tsunami struck already troubled environments. Tapping for survival
Abstracts: Life and death in a FLASH. Death deceiver. Placing death under control
Abstracts: Life at extremely low pH. Independent virus development outside a host. Gene capture in archaeal chromosomes
Abstracts: Life at the cutting edge. Primates in the frame. China launches primate centre to broaden medical use of monkeys
Abstracts: Life at the sea floor. Self-cleaning of the Gulf. Evidence for non-selective preservation of organic matter in sinking marine particles
Abstracts: Life-history effects of chemical immobilization and radiocollars on mountain goats. Population dynamics and harvest potential of mountain goat herds in Alberta
Abstracts: Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities. Father knows best
Abstracts: Life imitates art: a whale of a tale. USDA gets its "Act" together. Providing volumes of care
Abstracts: Life in a wombat burrow. Green-thighed frog. Digging up the dirt on giant burrowing frogs
Abstracts: Life in a wombat burrow. Mainland quokkas. Q&A
Abstracts: Life in the hot zone around Chernobyl. Thyroid cancer after Chernobyl. Infant leukaemia after the Chernobyl accident
Abstracts: Life in the upper crust. Invertebrates and mycophagy. Too much of a good thing
Abstracts: Lifelong patterns of forager behavior in a tropical swarm-founding wasp: effects of specialization and activity level on longevity
Abstracts: Life on the edge of catastrophe. High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Is a doomsday catastrophe likely?
Abstracts: Life on the moon. Sea kraits of Vanuatu. Not too flashy
Abstracts: Life's downs and ups. Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest
Abstracts: Lifespan of human lymphocyte subsets defined by CD45 isoforms. Evidence for a viral superantigen in humans
Abstracts: Lifespan of human lymphocyte subsets defined by CD45 isoforms. part 2 Sticking to the point
Abstracts: Lifestyles of the rich and famous? Sharks: myth and mystery. Iceland, naturally
Abstracts: Life-sustaining planets in interstellar space? A new spin on Saturn. Volcanoes on Quaoar?
Abstracts: Lifetime mating opportunities and male mating behaviour in sexually cannibalistic praying mantids. Water-finding in adult turtles: random search or oriented behaviour?
Abstracts: Lifetime mating success in a marginal population of a damselfly, Coenagrion mercuriale. Female reproductive decisions and parasite burden in a calopterygid damselfly (Insecta: Odonata)
Abstracts: Lifetime of the P-selectin-carbohydrate bond and its response to tensile force in hydrodynamic flow. Adhesion through L-selectin requires a threshold hydrodynamic shear
Abstracts: Life without leptin. Cardiac and adipose tissue abnormalities but not diabetes in mice deficient in GLUT4. Role of leptin in fat regulation
Abstracts: Life without neuropeptide Y. Crystal structure of the obese protein leptin-E100. The role of neuropeptide Y in the antiobesity action of the obese gene product
Abstracts: Life without parents. Stress-proofed sea turtles. Curly cues
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