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Abstracts: Row over plan to treat plants as 'pesticides.' Genome panel defends researchers' - and families' - interests. $100m payout after drug data withheld
Abstracts: Royal roots. Wild tigers. Rhino program breeds success: ... at San Diego's Wild Animal Park
Abstracts: RPA involvement in the damage-recognition and incision steps of nucleotide excision repair. Cloning of a new cytokine that induces IFN-gamma production by T cells
Abstracts: Rubber hands 'feel' touch that eyes see. Action plans used in action observation. Feeling bumps and holes
Abstracts: Rubbery solid electrolytes with dominant cationic transport and high ambient conductivity. A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids
Abstracts: Rude paleoanthropology: Controversies over Homo floresiensis reflect a flourishing science. Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis
Abstracts: Ruffed grouse consumption and detoxification of evergreen leaves. Ruffed grouse brood habitat use in mixed softwood-hardwood Nordic-temperature forests, Quebec, Canada
Abstracts: Ruffed grouse population ecology in the Appalachian region. Factors affecting habitat use by Appalachian ruffed grouse
Abstracts: Rufus F. Cox, 1901-1982: a brief biography. John H. Knox, 1898-1979: a brief biography. William Lewis Henning, 1900-1981: a brief biography
Abstracts: Rule change curbs grants to European labs. Space science projects may be grounded. Catalonia increases spending but wants Madrid to help
Abstracts: Rules for the manipulation of polyketides. Myxobacterial bounty. Nature's anticancer agents
Abstracts: Rules rule. Gene therapy rising? Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops
Abstracts: Ruling brings cash windfall in US fraud case. 'Misconduct' dispute raises fears of litigation. Heat rises over UCSD 'misconduct' charge
Abstracts: Ruling makes it harder to convict dig thieves. Author of anti-encryption program faces jail. Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue
Abstracts: Ruling makes it harder to convict dig thieves. Ecologists seek to turn tide on Colorado river. Private investigations
Abstracts: Rumblings from the fringe. Conservers plead for funds to protect Europe's heritage. Virologists call for vaccination in bid to beat bird flu epidemic
Abstracts: Rumblings grow about Parkfield in wake of first earthquake prediction. Chemistry prize
Abstracts: Runaway telomere elongation caused by telomerase RNA gene mutations. Testing telomerase
Abstracts: Running on natural gas. Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications. Materials for fuel-cell technologies
Abstracts: Running rings around modellers. The enigma of Jupiter's ring. Gravitational wakes in Saturn's rings
Abstracts: Running rings around modellers. The structure and dynamics of Jupiter's ring. Neptune's misbehaving rings
Abstracts: Running rings around RNA. Regulation of alternative splicing by RNA editing. Metal-ion coordination by U6 small nuclear RNA contributes to catalysis in the spliceosome
Abstracts: Running to catch the ball. Semaphorin 7A promotes axon outgrowth through integrins and MAPKs. How fielders arrive in time to catch the ball
Abstracts: Running without regulators. Oncogene ect2 is related to regulators of small GTP-binding proteins. Expression of Hox-7.1 in myoblasts inhibits terminal differentiation and induces cell transformation
Abstracts: Running with the buffaloes. Without a license to kill. Terracotta herbivores
Abstracts: Rush rescue programme has achieved mixed results. Germany's rectors call for pay by results. Pressing for better results
Abstracts: Russia at forefront of Arctic land-grab. The next land rush. Airgun ban halts seismic tests
Abstracts: Russian academy institutes told to set priorities. Vacuum at the heart of Europe: A sudden withdrawal of support by the European Union for key scientific institutes could be a major setback for the continent's biological research and is yet another example of a lack of scientific vision at the European level
Abstracts: Russian academy makes deal with US company on journals. Nature in 2003. Publishers go head-to-head over search tool
Abstracts: Russian documents set out 'tectonic weapon' research. Russian miners add weight to protests by scientists. 'Poor security' blamed for loss of Russian fossils
Abstracts: Russian space module 'in need of more protection.' Space centrifuge deal may mean job losses at NASA. Superconductivity devices are headed into space
Abstracts: Russian summer hopes dwarf doubts. Making sense of dwarf-star evolution. Russia's summer bout of optimism
Abstracts: Russian waste goes to ground. $6bn package to cut US carbon emissions comes under attack. US launches probe into sales of unapproved transgenic corn
Abstracts: Russia pins its hopes on 'nano'. Brought down to Earth. Russia's prize fighter
Abstracts: Russia: Under lock and key. Peter Korevaar. The long road from Kyoto
Abstracts: Rust marks second-hand crust. Helium not in store. Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot
Abstracts: Rutherford and Daresbury labs to merge as 'self-standing institution.' (Britain's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory)
Abstracts: Ryanodine receptor gene is a candidate for predisposition to malignant hyperthermia. Pumping ions
Abstracts: Sacred cows, science and uncertainties. Prediction of future BSE spread. Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle
Abstracts: Safe and sound? A firm response to AIDS. Silicon down to the wire
Abstracts: Safeguarding diversity: challenges in developing a genome resource bank for the California sea otter. Monitoring the status of the wild sea otter population: field studies and techniques
Abstracts: Safe harbors. Lending a helping hand. Metropolitan-Bakersfield HCP
Abstracts: Safe harbors. Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Cooperative projects aid Hawaiian wildlife
Abstracts: Safe harbor. What a waste: storks in Sharm's way. Turtles in trouble
Abstracts: Safe passage. US scraps plan to license foreign scientists. Scientists urged to end feud with White House
Abstracts: SAGA interacting factors confine sub-diffusion of transcribed genes to the nuclear envelope. Cks1-dependent proteasome recruitment and activation of CDC20 transcription in budding yeast
Abstracts: Saline solutions? Creeping and climbing. Flowers from wood
Abstracts: Salmonella strikes a balance. Epidemics - in- waiting. Pathogenic strategies of enteric bacteria
Abstracts: Salt enhances flavour by suppressing bitterness. Neutrophil rolling altered by inhibition of L-selectin shedding in vitro
Abstracts: Salt-resistant hypertension in mice lacking the guanylyl cyclase-A receptor for atrial natriuretic peptide. Structure of the dimerized hormone-binding domain of a guanylyl-cyclase-coupled receptor
Abstracts: Salt sellers challenge US health agency using data-quality act. Dolly: A decade on
Abstracts: Salty brines on the Mediterranean sea floor. Large changes in oceanic nutrient inventories from glacial to interglacial periods
Abstracts: Salvage Logging in the Montane Ash Eucalypt Forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria and Its Potential Impacts on Biodiversity
Abstracts: Same clock, different works. CLOCK-mediated acetylation of BMAL1 controls circadian function. Metabolic clockwork
Abstracts: Same-sex mating and the origin of the Vancouver Island Cryptococcus gattii outbreak. Sexual reproduction between partners of the same mating type in Cryptococcus neoformans
Abstracts: Sampling and information acquisition by western scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica. Long-range visibility of greater sage grouse leks: a GIS-based analysis
Abstracts: Sampling and statistical analysis of snow-urine allantoin-creatinine ratios. Effects of winter road grooming on bison in Yellowstone National Park
Abstracts: Sampling design and bias in DNA-based capture-mark-recapture population and density estimates of Grizzly Bears
Abstracts: San Antonio aims for spot on high-technology map. To complement its recently launched GelBase software package, Ultra Violet Products has introduced GelSeq
Abstracts: Sandoz-funded research from Rhine spill suggests blockages are worse than toxins. Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab
Abstracts: Sandpit initiative digs deep to bring disciplines together. Safety clause. Iraqis draw up blueprint for revitalized science academy
Abstracts: San Francisco: baywatch. Northern exposure. Rising star Northern England
Abstracts: Santa Ana Mountains California. To everything a season. The Northern Forest Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont
Abstracts: Santa Rosa plants gain new lease on life. Mexican wolf returns to the wild. Yellowstone wolves bear pups
Abstracts: Satellite mapping of enhanced BrO concentrations in the troposphere. Bromine explosion
Abstracts: Satellite maps ozone destroyer. Surface ozone depletion in Arctic spring sustained by bromine reactions on aerosols
Abstracts: Satellite ozone monitoring error. The crucial measurement. Shrill notes from the stars
Abstracts: Satellite tags give fresh angle on tuna quota. War of words erupts over fossil dig. A wing and a prayer
Abstracts: Satellite tracking of white-faced whistling ducks in a semiarid region of South Africa. Individual turnover among wintering teal in Camargue: a mark-recapture study
Abstracts: Satellite tracking of white-faced whistling ducks in a semiarid region of South Africa. part 2 Predicting early mortality of newborn guanacos by birth mass and hematological parameters: a provisional model
Abstracts: Satin bowerbird displays are not extremely costly. Ornament colour selection, visual contrast and the shape of colour preference functions in great bowerbirds, Chlamydera nuchalis
Abstracts: Saturn's bared mini-moons. Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures
Abstracts: Save Down House. Save our swamp. All is not lost: By resurrecting extinct infodiversity, we may save our own culture
Abstracts: Save the children. Knockout malaria vaccine? Genetically modified Plasmodium parasites as a protective experimental malaria vaccine
Abstracts: Save the children. Strength in unity. Taking aim at mosquitoes
Abstracts: Saving endangered species on Indian lands. AZA Species Survival Plan profile: The Snow Leopard. Eglin Air Force Base and sea turtle nesting: a success story
Abstracts: Saving Italian science. Prolific ecologist vows to fight Danish misconduct verdict. Whistles blow in vain on bad practice in German research
Abstracts: Saving on health: two prosperous countries in the West - Germany and the United States - are in trouble over health costs
Abstracts: Saving Sasha. Pacheco after PETA: Seeking a humane America. The abuse of animal 'actors.' (includes related articles on the American Humane Assn. and animal abuse in circuses)
Abstracts: Saving the sea otter population in California: contemporary problems and future pitfalls. The role of rehabilitation in sea otter conservation efforts
Abstracts: Saving the supermarket of the sea. Centennial perspective. A magnificent seal increases magnificently
Abstracts: Saving Trudy. Behind the walls of the beagle factory. Purrfect outcome for Hillgrove cats
Abstracts: Say it with leaves. Arsenic and Bogongs. Magpie mimicry
Abstracts: Say it with leaves. The fuzzy frontier: the story of how feathers evolved is far from over. Butch Fossa
Abstracts: Scalable multiparticle entanglement of trapped ions. Entanglement hits the big time. Many lives in many worlds
Abstracts: Scaled-down Cluster mission aims for relaunch in 1999. Cluster relaunch looks to minisatellites. Costs curtail but do not kill European space laboratory
Abstracts: Scale dependency of rarity, extinction risk, and conservation priority. Regeneration of Native Trees in the Presence of Invasive Saltcedar in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico
Abstracts: Scales and stock markets. Scaling behaviour of heartbeat intervals obtained by wavelet-based time-series analysis
Abstracts: Scales, feathers and dinosaurs. A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers
Abstracts: Scales of thelodont and shark-like fishes from the Ordovician of Colorado. Extensive MHC variability in cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi
Abstracts: Scaling, energetics and diversity. Competition and coexistence. Marine viruses and their biogeochemical and ecological effects
Abstracts: Scaling in athletic world records. Scaling and criticality in a stochastic multi-agent model of a financial market
Abstracts: Scaling of the critical slip distance for seismic faulting with shear strain in fault zones. Shaking faults loose
Abstracts: Scandal of crystal design.... Towards the synthetic dragonfly. Life's lessons in design
Abstracts: Scarlet Macaws threatened: WCS biologists report on perils of the Peten. Operation snow leopard: protecting the world's most elusive cat
Abstracts: Scat dogs: Man's best friend sniffs out endangered feces. Conservation hotline: Yellowstone wolves decline. Tuning in to cougars
Abstracts: Scavenger receptor-mediated adhesion of microglia to beta-amyloid fibrils. Another protein out in the cold
Abstracts: Scavenging by Pheidole pallidula: a key for understanding decision-making systems in ants. How do ants assess food volume?
Abstracts: Sceptics course seeks to stem 'tide of irrationalism.'(removing irrational beliefs about paranormal phenomena)
Abstracts: Schistosomiasis: The mouse that wasn't immune. Variation and vaccination. Another route to a vaccine?
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