Volume 268 Issue 5620, 11 August 1977

The world balance: judge with care

• Robert Press

Man-made process

• Chris Sherwell

ICARDA gets down to business

• Alexander Dorozynski

USA: Pieces of action

• Sandy Grimwade

Scanning the universe

• Stuart Sharrock

USSR: Well provisioned

• Vera Rich

EEC: Halocarbon decision

Argentina: Scientist's plight

MLS international standard

• DAVID LL. HILLS

Wind power for the UK

• MARTIN RYLE

Enzymoimmunoassay: techniques and uses

• J. Landon

The puzzles of Hercules

• James Pringle

Towards some enzyme mechanisms

• C. C. F. Blake

Visiting Halley's Comet

• David W. Hughes

The Warsaw-Moscow soil structure project

• I. J. Smalley

Environmental mutagenesis

• Margaret Fox

Recombination at Nethybridge

A hundred years ago

Interstellar molecules

• B. Zuckerman

β-Sheet topology and the relatedness of proteins

• Jane S. Richardson

Nerve growth factor-induced increase in electrical excitability and acetylcholine sensitivity of a rat pheochromocytoma cell line

• Marc A. Dichter
• Arthur S. Tischler
• Lloyd A. Greene

Large number hypothesis and continuous creation cosmologies

• Ian W. Roxburgh

A line feature at 64 keV in the X-ray spectrum of Her X-1

• M. J. COE
• A. R. ENGEL
• C. S. DYER

Relation between metallicity and multiplicity for solar type stars

• DON C. BARRY

Cosmic rays and and ancient catastrophes

• J. WDOWCZYK
• A. W. WOLFENDALE

Tunguska's comet and non-thermal ¹⁴C production in the atmosphere

• JOHN C. BROWN
• DAVID W. HUGHES

Antarctic topography from balloons

• NADAV LEVANON
• PAUL R. JULIAN
• VERNER E. SUOMI

Evaporites from the lower Proterozoic of the East Arm, Great Slave Lake

• J. P. N. BADHAM
• C. W. STANWORTH

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in long-range transported aerosols

• GULBRAND LUNDE
• ALF BJORSETH

The microbe thermistor

• B. MATTIASSON
• P.-O. LARSSON
• K. MOSBACH

Interspecific competition between great and blue tit

• ANDRE A. DHONDT

Cercal ablation modifies tethered flight behaviour of cockroach

• PETER J. FRASER

Transfer of mitochondria by protoplast fusion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

• L. FERENCZY
• ANNA MARÁZ

Circular linkage map of Rhizobium meliloti chromosome

• A. KONDOROSI
• G. B. KISS
• Z. BANFALVI

Very close linkage between HLA-B and Bf inferred from allelic association

• A. ARNASON
• BODIL LARSEN
• P. TEISBERG

Factors from 3T3 cells stimulate proliferation of cultured vascular endothelial cells

• C. R. BIRDWELL
• D. GOSPODAROWICZ
• G. L. NICOLSON

A T cell-replacing factor specific for histocompatibility antigens in mice

• BERENICE KINDRED
• RONALD B. CORLEY

Magnitude of memory to the major histocompatibility complex

• B. M. HALL
• B. J. ROSER
• S. E. DORSCH

Sex steroid hormone regulation of IgA and IgG in rat uterine secretions

• CHARLES R. WIRA
• CAROLA P. SANDOE

Chemical structure of attachment sites for viruses on human erythrocytes

• BRADLEY J. ENEGREN
• ALFRED T. H. BURNESS

Synthesis of low molecular weight inhibitor of protein synthesis with enzyme from interferon-treated cells

• ARA G. HOVANESSIAN
• RONALD E. BROWN
• IAN M. KERR

Nature of inhibitor of cell-free protein synthesis formed in response to interferon and double-stranded RNA

• IAN M. KERR
• RONALD E. BROWN
• ARA G. HOVANESSIAN

Effects of sodium butyrate on synthesis of human chorionic gonadotrophin in trophoblastic and non-trophoblastic tumours

• JANICE Y. CHOU
• J. C. ROBINSON
• SHAW-SHYAN WANG

Potent prolactin and growth hormone releasing activity of more analogues of Met-enkephalin

• LIONEL CUSAN
• ANDRE DUPONT
• ANDREW V. SCHALLY

A synthetic enkephalin analogue with prolonged parenteral and oral analgesic activity

• DIETMAR ROEMER
• HEINZ H. BUESCHER
• RENE HUGUENIN

Opiate analgesics inhibit substance P release from rat trigeminal nucleus

• T. M. JESSELL
• L. L. IVERSEN

Alterations in dopamine receptor sensitivity by chronic ethanol treatment

• PAULA L. HOFFMAN
• BORIS TABAKOFF

Desensitisation does not selectively alter sodium channels

• D. H. LAMBERT
• P. M. SPANNBAUER
• R. L. PARSONS

Significance of extensive ‘leaky’ cell junctions in the avian salt gland

• RICHARD A. ELLIS
• CLARENCE C. GOERTEMILLER JR
• DAVID L. STETSON

Composition of sarcoplasmic reticulum in situ by electron probe X-ray microanalysis

• AVRIL V. SOMLYO
• HENRY SHUMAN
• ANDREW P. SOMLYO

Myoblast myosin phosphorylation is a prerequisite for actin-activation

• STYLIANOS P. SCORDILIS
• ROBERT S. ADELSTEIN

A synthetic polypeptide with antifreeze activity

• V. S. ANANTHANARAYANAN
• C. L. HEW

Effect of light on artificial lipid membranes modified by photoreceptor membrane fragments

• E. E. FESENKO
• A. L. LYUBARSKIY

Effect of aminoacylation on the conformation of yeast phenylalanine tRNA

• RUSSELL POTTS
• MAURILLE J. FOURNIER
• NORMAN C. FORD JR

The Star of Bethlehem

• ORMOND EDWARDS

The Star of Bethlehem

• STUART CAMPBELL

The Star of Bethlehem

• CICELY M. BOTLEY

The Star of Bethlehem

• NORMAN R. FLORES

The Star of Bethlehem

• T. J. PALMER

The Star of Bethlehem

• E. V. HULSE

The Star of Bethlehem (reply)

• DAVID W. HUGHES

Sodium and chloride in rainwater

• J. T. HUTTON

Sodium and chloride in rainwater (reply)

• M. P. PATERSON

Habitat values and endemicity in the vanishing rain forests of Sri Lanka

• F. R. SENANAYAKE

Physical space and time

• D. J. Raine

Intermediate astronomy

• Bernard Pagel

Viruses and cell surface changes

• P. C. Doherty

Mammalian cell membranes

• R. C. Hughes

Strange compendium

• John Gribbin

Beat the machine

• N. J. Holloway

Narrow gap semiconductors

• M. E. Ertl

Analysing pure substances

• T. S. West

Endocrinology yearbook

• T. Chard

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