From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Jan 23 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!peerfeed.ncal.verio.net!Supernews60!supernews.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: prismx@scienceweek.com (Claire Haller) Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience,bionet.biophysics,bionet.cellbiol,bionet.general,sci.misc Subject: SCIENCE-WEEK: Headlines (23 Jan 98) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 05:02:21 GMT Organization: SCIENCE-WEEK Lines: 52 Message-ID: <6abgl7$q1q@suriname.earthlink.net> Reply-To: prismx@scienceweek.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.35.114.184 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: biosci bionet.neuroscience:21210 bionet.biophysics:3936 bionet.cellbiol:8728 bionet.general:29202 SCIENCE-WEEK is a free weekly Email digest of the news of science read each week by 50,000+ people in the scientific community in more than 30 countries. News briefs from the major journals are amplified with enough background material to make them intelligible to nonspecialists: the biology is detailed for physicists and chemists, and the physics and chemistry are detailed for biologists. Each issue contains 15 to 20 news reports, plus annotated listings of new books in the sciences. The SW complete weekly news reports are available free via Email. To subscribe, send SUB SW to . Contents of the Latest Issue Jan 23, 1998: 1. A Problematic Double Standard in Bioethics 2. AIDS Research in Poor Countries: Bioethics Revisited 3. Another View of the Swiss Gene Technology Referendum 4. Biology Funding vs. Physics Funding: Unease Expressed 5. US Space Agency to Organize an Astrobiology Institute 6. Further Evidence for a Planet Orbiting Star 51 Pegasi 7. On the Evolution of String Theory to Membrane Theory 8. Theoretical Implications of Neutrino Deficits 9. Surface Self-Trapping of Electrons 10. Kondo Effect in a Single Electron Transistor 11. Unimolecular Reactions Activated by Black-Body Radiation 12. A New Method for Synthesis of Nanowires 13. Control of Polymer Shape in Synthetic Self-Assembly Systems 14. On the Origins of Birds and Bird-Flight 15. Therapod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Feathers 16. A Caspase Involvement in Oogenesis Apoptosis 17. Analysis of Decoding of Intracellular Calcium Oscillations 18. On the Specificity of Individual Olfactory Receptors 19. Evidence for Protein Assembly Errors in Alzheimer's Disease 20. Long Term Effects of Physiological Response to Stress Book Notes Notices - Positions Available Notices - Miscellaneous SCIENCE-WEEK is a free retransmission educational resource, which means this headline notice and each issue of SCIENCE-WEEK itself can be retransmitted if intact by any installation. All back issues of SCIENCE-WEEK are available at the URL below. Current issues are posted at the URL 2 to 5 days after first publication. The Editors SCIENCE-WEEK A Free Weekly Digest of the News of Science prismx@scienceweek.com http://scienceweek.com .