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Science 8 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5485, p. 1687
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5485.1687a
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Regarding the evolving ties between academia and industry, a reader comments, "By taking the 'technology transfer' business away from the faculty, universities are...sending out the wrong signal to their faculties--that the marketing of their research is an academic mission." The haemodynamics of the crocodilian heart as it pertains to the analysis of the recently found fossilized dinosaur heart and to what dinosaur metabolic rates might have been is discussed. And in response to the Pathways of Discovery "Infectious history" essay by Joshua Lederberg, the contributions of plant scientists to the germ theory of disease are outlined, and clarification is offered of the current leading causes of hepatitis C infection.

Letters in This Issue

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[Letter] Academia and Industry Need A New Marriage Contract
Spyros Andreopoulos
[Letter] At the Crocodilian Heart of the Matter
Craig Franklin, Frank Seebacher, Gordon C. Grigg, Michael Axelsson. Response Dale A. Russell, Michael K. Stoskopf, Paul E. Fisher, Reese E. Barrick
[Letter] U.S. National Missile Defense: Looking at the Whole Package
André Gsponer
[Letter] Early Germinative Ideas on the Origins of Infectious Disease
Arthur Kelman, Luis Sequeira, Eugene W. Nester; Arthur J. Silvergleid. Response Joshua Lederberg
[Letter] Still Havens for Coral Reefs
Walter Starck
[Letter] Corrections and Clarifications


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