Issues in Nanotechnology

Taking the Initiative

Robert Coontz and Phil Szuromi
Science 24 November 2000: 1523.
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News

Atom-Scale Research Gets Real

Robert F. Service
Science 24 November 2000: 1524-1531.
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Coaxing Molecular Devices to Build Themselves

Dennis Normile
Science 24 November 2000: 1524-1525.
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Is Nanotechnology Dangerous?

Robert F. Service
Science 24 November 2000: 1526-1527.
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Powering the Nanoworld

Robert F. Service
Science 24 November 2000: 1528.
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Cantilever Tales

Alexander Hellemans
Science 24 November 2000: 1529.
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NanoManipulator Lets Chemists Go Mano a Mano With Molecules

Mark Sincell
Science 24 November 2000: 1530.
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Strange Behavior at One Dimension

Dennis Normile
Science 24 November 2000: 1531.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Staffing Science Policy-Making

Daryl Chubin and Jane Maienschein
Science 24 November 2000: 1501.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 AAAS News & Notes

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 Gordon Research Conferences

Science 24 November 2000: 1600-1601.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 24 November 2000: 1603-1604.

News of the Week

LABORATORY ANIMALS:
Researchers Pained by Effort to Define Distress Precisely

Constance Holden
Science 24 November 2000: 1474-1475.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Unlocking the Secrets of the Grim Reaper

Kathryn Brown
Science 24 November 2000: 1475.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Ligand Chip Helps Manipulate Cells

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 24 November 2000: 1477-1478.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Color-Changing Protein Times Gene Activity

Marina Chicurel
Science 24 November 2000: 1478-1479.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Stem Cells Hear Call of Injured Tissue

Laura Helmuth
Science 24 November 2000: 1479-1481.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Armenia Wants Second Mideast Synchrotron

Robert Koenig
Science 24 November 2000: 1481.
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PHILANTHROPY:
Moore Foundation Targets Science

David Malakoff
Science 24 November 2000: 1481.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
The Enigma of West Nile

Martin Enserink
Science 24 November 2000: 1482-1484.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
West Nile Drugs, Vaccine Still Years Away

Martin Enserink
Science 24 November 2000: 1483.
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IRANIAN SCIENCE:
Iran's Scientists Cautiously Reach Out to the World

Robert Koenig
Science 24 November 2000: 1484-1487.
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IRANIAN SCIENCE:
Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science

Robert Koenig
Science 24 November 2000: 1485.
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IRANIAN SCIENCE:
Earthquake Researchers Prepare for the Next Big One

Robert Koenig
Science 24 November 2000: 1486.
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KIP THORNE:
The Shaman of Space and Time

Robert Irion
Science 24 November 2000: 1488-1491.
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PARASITOLOGY:
Close Encounters: Good, Bad, and Ugly

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 November 2000: 1491-1493.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 24 November 2000: 1503.
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 Microorganisms Should Be High on DNA Preservation List

John A. Fuerst and Philip Hugenholtz
Science 24 November 2000: 1503.
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 Figuring the Odds

William H. Jefferys
Science 24 November 2000: 1503-1504.
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 Examining Priorities for a Primate Genome Project

John L. VandeBerg, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Bennett Dyke, Jeffrey Rogers;, Edwin H. McConkey, and Ajit Varki
Science 24 November 2000: 1504-1505.
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 Transgenic Crops in China

Bao-Hong Zhang
Science 24 November 2000: 1505-1506.
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 Unite Efforts and Conquer Mysteries of Artificial Genetics

Steven A. Benner
Science 24 November 2000: 1506.
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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
The Essential Anti-Essentialist

Richard A. Shweder
Science 24 November 2000: 1511-1512.
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ASTRONOMY:
Films: Be Awed, Be Very Awed

Linda Rowan
Science 24 November 2000: 1512.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
The Case for Deemphasizing Genomics in Malaria Control

C. F. Curtis
Science 24 November 2000: 1508.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Research (Genomics) Is Crucial to Attacking Malaria

Stephen L. Hoffman
Science 24 November 2000: 1509.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: Water's Role in Making Stars

Brunella Nisini
Science 24 November 2000: 1513-1514.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Earth Under Strain

Stephen Mackwell and David Rubie
Science 24 November 2000: 1514-1515.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
An Arresting Start for MAPK

Jacques Pouysségur
Science 24 November 2000: 1515-1518.
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GENETICS:
Reprogramming X Inactivation

Philippe Clerc and Philip Avner
Science 24 November 2000: 1518-1519.
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SURFACE SCIENCE:
How to Power a Nanomotor

Flemming Besenbacher and Jens K. Nørskov
Science 24 November 2000: 1520.
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Reviews

Nanoelectromechanical Systems

H. G. Craighead
Science 24 November 2000: 1532-1535.
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From Micro- to Nanofabrication with Soft Materials

Stephen R. Quake and Axel Scherer
Science 24 November 2000: 1536-1540.
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Microfabricating Conjugated Polymer Actuators

Edwin W. H. Jager, Elisabeth Smela, and Olle Inganäs
Science 24 November 2000: 1540-1545.
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Reports

Resistance Spikes at Transitions Between Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, S. J. Papadakis, and M. Shayegan
Science 24 November 2000: 1546-1549.
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Magnetic Clusters on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Kondo Effect in a One-Dimensional Host

Teri W. Odom, Jin-Lin Huang, Chin Li Cheung, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 24 November 2000: 1549-1552.
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Modulated Chemical Doping of Individual Carbon Nanotubes

Chongwu Zhou, Jing Kong, Erhan Yenilmez, and Hongjie Dai
Science 24 November 2000: 1552-1555.
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Powering an Inorganic Nanodevice with a Biomolecular Motor

Ricky K. Soong, George D. Bachand, Hercules P. Neves, Anatoli G. Olkhovets, Harold G. Craighead, and Carlo D. Montemagno
Science 24 November 2000: 1555-1558.
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Mechanisms of Ordering in Striped Patterns

Christopher Harrison, Douglas H. Adamson, Zhengdong Cheng, John M. Sebastian, Srinivasan Sethuraman, David A. Huse, Richard A. Register, and P. M. Chaikin
Science 24 November 2000: 1558-1560.
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Alloying at Surfaces by the Migration of Reactive Two-Dimensional Islands

A. K. Schmid, N. C. Bartelt, and R. Q. Hwang
Science 24 November 2000: 1561-1564.
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High Shear Strain of Olivine Aggregates: Rheological and Seismic Consequences

M. Bystricky, K. Kunze, L. Burlini, and J.-P. Burg
Science 24 November 2000: 1564-1567.
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Quantitative Imaging of Lateral ErbB1 Receptor Signal Propagation in the Plasma Membrane

Peter J. Verveer, Fred S. Wouters, Andrew R. Reynolds, and Philippe I. H. Bastiaens
Science 24 November 2000: 1567-1570.
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Biochemical Basis of Oxidative Protein Folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Benjamin P. Tu, Siew C. Ho-Schleyer, Kevin J. Travers, and Jonathan S. Weissman
Science 24 November 2000: 1571-1574.
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-Arrestin 2: A Receptor-Regulated MAPK Scaffold for the Activation of JNK3

Patricia H. McDonald, Chi-Wing Chow, William E. Miller, Stéphane A. Laporte, Michael E. Field, Fang-Tsyr Lin, Roger J. Davis, and Robert J. Lefkowitz
Science 24 November 2000: 1574-1577.
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X-Chromosome Inactivation in Cloned Mouse Embryos

Kevin Eggan, Hidenori Akutsu, Konrad Hochedlinger, William Rideout, III, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, and Rudolf Jaenisch
Science 24 November 2000: 1578-1581.
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Gamma Oscillations and Object Processing in the Infant Brain

G. Csibra, G. Davis, M. W. Spratling, and M. H. Johnson
Science 24 November 2000: 1582-1585.
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"Fluorescent Timer": Protein That Changes Color with Time

Alexey Terskikh, Arkady Fradkov, Galina Ermakova, Andrey Zaraisky, Patrick Tan, Andrey V. Kajava, Xiaoning Zhao, Sergey Lukyanov, Mikhail Matz, Stuart Kim, Irving Weissman, and Paul Siebert
Science 24 November 2000: 1585-1588.
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Oxygen Activation and Reduction in Respiration: Involvement of Redox-Active Tyrosine 244

Denis A. Proshlyakov, Michelle A. Pressler, Catherine DeMaso, Joseph F. Leykam, David L. DeWitt, and Gerald T. Babcock
Science 24 November 2000: 1588-1591.
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Control of SIV Rebound Through Structured Treatment Interruptions During Early Infection

Franco Lori, Mark G. Lewis, Jianqing Xu, Georg Varga, Donald E. Zinn, Jr., Carrol Crabbs, Wendeline Wagner, Jack Greenhouse, Peter Silvera, Jake Yalley-Ogunro, Carmine Tinelli, and Julianna Lisziewicz
Science 24 November 2000: 1591-1593.
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Disruption of Signaling by Yersinia Effector YopJ, a Ubiquitin-Like Protein Protease

Kim Orth, Zhaohui Xu, Mary Beth Mudgett, Zhao Qin Bao, Lance E. Palmer, James B. Bliska, Walter F. Mangel, Brian Staskawicz, and Jack E. Dixon
Science 24 November 2000: 1594-1597.
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