From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 20 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!awabi.library.ucla.edu!208.134.241.18!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.217.77.43!newsfeed1.earthlink.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 March 20, 1998 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 01:42:27 GMT Organization: SCIENCE-WEEK Lines: 67 Message-ID: <6ev5us$jki@argentina.earthlink.net> Reply-To: prismx@scienceweek.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.35.114.151 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: biosci bionet.neuroscience:21680 bionet.biophysics:4083 bionet.cellbiol:9078 bionet.general:29588 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 40 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, annotated listings of new books in the sciences, a Positions Available section, and other notices of interest to science professionals. The SW complete weekly news reports are available free via Email. To subscribe, send SUB SW to . The weekly edition of SW is also available free at URL: . The Email edition is an ASCII transmission of the weekly web posting, and is suitable for both plain text file readers (and Email software) and web browsers. A daily science news edition of SCIENCE-WEEK is available free at URL: . Many, but not all, reports in the daily edition appear in forthcoming weekly editions. The daily edition is not available via Email. Contents of the current weekly edition of SCIENCE-WEEK (March 20, 1998) ------------------------------------------------------ 1. On Intellectual Property and the American University 2. Xenotransplantation: A Group of Letters 3. Near-Closure of a University Chemist Plagiarism Case 4. Women Now Substantial Portion of All New US Chemists 5. A Global Approximation Technique for Multivariate Systems 6. On Black Holes as Real Astronomical Objects 7. On the Geological Evolution of Venus 8. On Quantum Theory Without Observers 9. Subsurface Charge Accumulation in a Quantum Hall Liquid 10. A New Technique for Size Separation of Macromolecules 11. Hydrogen Hypothesis for the First Eukaryote 12. Polyketide Synthases as Modular Enzymes 13. A Model for the Mechanism of a Human Topoisomerase 14. Host Derived Amino Acids Support Symbiotic Bacteria 15. Identification of a Cell Membrane Nucleic Acid Channel 16. Plant Performance and Induced Responses to Herbivory 17. Single Neuron Control of Synaptic Efficacy 18. Characterization of an In Vitro Blood-Brain Barrier 19. Muscle Regeneration by Bone-Marrow-Derived Cells 20. Genetic Traces of Ancient Demography Book Notes Notices - Positions Available Notices - Miscellaneous SCIENCE-WEEK is a free retransmission educational resource, which means this headline notice and each weekly 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. The Editors SCIENCE-WEEK A Free Weekly Digest of the News of Science editors@scienceweek.com http://scienceweek.com .