From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 08 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news1.chicago.iagnet.net!iagnet.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 (9 Jan 98) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 01:13:27 GMT Organization: SCIENCE-WEEK Lines: 54 Message-ID: <693tje$ors@ecuador.earthlink.net> Reply-To: prismx@scienceweek.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.35.118.75 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: biosci bionet.neuroscience:21085 bionet.biophysics:3886 bionet.cellbiol:8640 bionet.general:29082 SCIENCE-WEEK is a free weekly Email digest of the news of science read each week by 40,000+ 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 is detailed for biologists. The result is a unique summary of the news of science. Each issue contains 15 to 20 news reports a week, plus annotated listings of new books in the sciences -- and it's absolutely free. The SW complete weekly news reports are available free via Email. To subscribe, send SUB SW to . Contents of the Latest Issue Jan 9, 1998: 1. Obesity and Mortality: Spinning Science News 2. Cancer: Questions Concerning Research Non-Treatment in India 3. Another Scientific Fraud Scandal in Germany 4. Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology 5. Gamma Ray Bursts and Possible Terrestrial Disaster 6. Semiconductor-Polymer Interface Tunable Diode 7. Localization of Light in a Disordered Medium 8. Quantum-Confined Stark Effect in Crystallite Quantum Dots 9. A Method for Patterning of Orientated Mesoscopic Domains 10. Analysis of Monolayer Film Catalysis 11. Synthesis of Multidimensional Large-Cage Zeolite Structures 12. Selection of Broad-Scope Enzymes by Antibody Catalysis 13. Analysis of Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms 14. Abscisic Acid Signaling in Plants 15. Evidence for Cyclic AMP Signaling in Higher Plants 16. Transgenic Sheep Expressing Human Clotting Factor Protein 17. More Evidence that Prion Protein Binds Copper In Vivo 18. Involvement of Immune System B-Cells in a Prion Disease 19. Regeneration of Axons in Central Nervous System White Matter 20. Animal Models of HIV-1 Disease 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 .