From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 04 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!digex!ais.net!uunet!in3.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 (6 Feb 98) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 19:25:24 GMT Organization: SCIENCE-WEEK Lines: 52 Message-ID: <6bd3nh$lnk@argentina.earthlink.net> Reply-To: prismx@scienceweek.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.35.114.193 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: biosci bionet.neuroscience:21308 bionet.biophysics:3968 bionet.cellbiol:8779 bionet.general:29307 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 Feb 6, 1998: 1. Swiss Government to Preempt Gene Technology Referendum 2. More Controversy Concerning Policy on Xenotransplants 3. Apparent Extensive Plagiarism by Polish Scientist 4. Historical Evidence of Deception by Wireless Inventor Marconi 5. Mounting Evidence for a Sub-Surface Ocean on Jupiter's Europa 6. A Simulation Model for Modern and Glacial Climates 7. Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma 8. A Method for the Synthesis of Durable Organic Gels 9. A Functional Non-Protein Model for an Enzyme Catalyst 10. Rho Enzymes and the Actin Cytoskeleton 11. Intermediate Filaments and Intracellular Scaffolding 12. Motor Proteins and Organelle Transport 13. On the Function of Unconventional Myosins 14. A Criticism of the Prion Hypothesis 15. A New Protein That Acts as an Embryological Head Inducer 16. On the Chemistry and Neurophysiological Action of Vanilloids 17. The Role of Visual Experience in Development of Visual Cortex 18. Phantom Sensations Evoked by Human Thalamic Microstimulation 19. An HIV Protein That Protects the Host Cell Against T-Cells 20. Evidence for Axonal Transection in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions 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 .