The Scientist : Archives : February 2003

Supplements

Survey Series

The Scientist Daily

Science headlines delivered daily.
Register today.

Institutions

For Advertisers

2003

previous year | next year

February 10

February 24

February

article

Out of Agonists Comes an Antagonist

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Lewis and Clark Expedition, Fritillaria affinis 1804-1806

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The Worm that Turned

By David Bradley

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

What is your favorite or least favorite aspect of your work environment?

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The Null Hypothesis: More than Zero

By Steve Bunk

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Academic Largesse: Top-Ranked Institutions with Government Funding

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

So You Think You're Having a Bad Day?

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Science, Peace, and Understanding

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Neither History Nor Science

By Terry Melton

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Alternatives to Antibiotics

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Bedside Manner a Placebo Effect?

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Postdocs Pick Institutions that Build Community

By Paula Park, Alexander Grimwade, Hal Cohen, Sam Jaffe

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Quality of Life Trumps Prestige

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

New Pill Box Possibilities; Super Monkey Moms; Science Seen

By Mignon Fogarty, Harvey Black

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Breast Cancer: The Big Picture Emerges

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Does Tensegrity Make the Machine Work?

By Susan Jenkins

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Scientists Strike a Cord

By Rabiya Tuma

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Researchers Put Linkage Disequilibrium on the Map

By Leslie Pray

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Better Brewing Through Chemistry; A Peel-ing Cell Culture; Worm Researchers Reach for the Stars

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The State of the Microarray

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

State of the Microarray: Challenges and Concerns with Microarrays

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The State of the Microarray: Microarray Instrumentation

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The State of the Microarray: The Microarray in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

The State of the Microarray: Selected Suppliers of Microarray Chips, Spotters, and Readers

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Array Analysis Online

By Aileen Constans

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Automating Mammalian Cell Counting

By Susan Jenkins

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Playing iTag, Redux

By Amy Adams

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Make Your Lab the Best Place to Work; Disciplinary Action; That's Chancellor Clinton to you!

By Beverly Kaye, Hal Cohen, Philip Hunter

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

US Justice Department Investigates Researchers

By Peg Brickley

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Becoming a Political Postdoc

By Karen Young Kreeger

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

German Government Woos Young Scientists

By Martina Habeck

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Pursuing Practical Science

By Anthony Watts

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Picking a Postdoctoral Program

By Carol Manahan

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

A No-Show in Politics

By Daniel Greenberg

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

If I Were Not a Scientist...

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Look Out Broadway (or Maybe Not)

By Hal Cohen

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Susan Lindquist

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Better Rap for Bilirubin

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

The First Polymerase Chain Reaction

By Kary Mullis

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Collaborations Become Innate

By Brendan Maher

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Ribozymes

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

So They Say

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Postdocs: Truly, Les Miserables

By Richard Gallagher

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Keep Philanthropic Funding Distinct

By Susan Fitzpatrick

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Mechanisms of HIV Infection

By Jesse Creel

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

A Lesson from Enron

By Avital Schurr

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Keep on Going

By Alan Robinson

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

By Philip Hunter

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

The People's Biology

By Brendan Maher

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

The Alpha Project

By Steve Bunk

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

New Lead for Sporadic CJD Cause; Enlisting Evolutionary Help; Science Seen

By Mignon Fogarty, Philip Hunter

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

RNA Calls the Shots

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Special Delivery

By Laura Defrancesco

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Building an 'EvoBank'

By Christine Soares

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Arabidopsis thaliana, Meet Microarray Technology

By Jim Kling

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Golden Electroporation; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Rad! Volocity Goes Modular

By Jeffrey Perkel, Ivan Oransky

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

A Rosy Forecast for Precast Gels

By Josh Roberts

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Toward a Paperless Lab?

By Laura Bonetta

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Microarrays in a Microtube

By Aileen Constans

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

The Incredible Shrinking Scanner

By Aileen Constans

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

A Quantum Leap for Fluorescence

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Don't Leave it, Love it; Gene Grounding; Watson's Words: Advice to Young Scientists

By Joel Garfinkle, Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Biotechs Change to Stay Alive

By Susan Warner

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

The NIH: A Budget Appraisal

By Eugene Russo

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

UK Scientists Assess Planned Salary Raises

By Philip Hunter

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Systems Biology: A Pale Beacon For Biotechs

By Hal Cohen

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Start a Business, Don't Sell Out

By Simon Portman

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Cyber Scientist Ciphers Biology

By Terry Gaasterland

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Wriggling on a Pin

By Steve Bunk

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

How Scientists Get Their News

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

What Does the Manatee Say to the Aardvark? Ancient Auntie.

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Josef Penninger

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Phage integrase in mice

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 3rd February 2003]

article

APC protects against ischemia

By Tudor Toma

[Published 3rd February 2003]

article

Women scientists in Europe

By Andrew Scott

[Published 3rd February 2003]

article

Peer review under scrutiny

By Pat Hagan

[Published 3rd February 2003]

article

BioShield outlined

By Ted Agres

[Published 4th February 2003]

article

Funding 2004

By Ted Agres

[Published 4th February 2003]

article

Cell fate genes

By Tudor Toma

[Published 5th February 2003]

article

Life science in space

By Sam Jaffe

[Published 5th February 2003]

article

Smallpox@home

By Charles Choi

[Published 5th February 2003]

article

Six for brain growth

By Tudor Toma

[Published 6th February 2003]

article

Skin deep

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 6th February 2003]

article

Ain't got rhythm

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 6th February 2003]

article

Chloroplast transfer

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 6th February 2003]

article

Photosystem II macro-organization

By C Bishop

[Published 6th February 2003]

article

Fishing for a cancer cure

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

Endothelium spins cell communications

By Tudor Toma

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

Hepatitis B drug breakthrough

By Tudor Toma

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

And in this corner...

By Ted Agres

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

Changing of the guard

By Fred Powledge

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

EU funding inquiry opens

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 7th February 2003]

article

TRAILing autoimmune disease

By Tudor Toma

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Gain for science is history buffs' loss

By Mark Baard

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Liver protection

By Tudor Toma

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Creaming off HIV

By Tudor Toma

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Biotechs for biodefense

By Hannah Kamenetsky

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Climate for polar science

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 10th February 2003]

article

Coliforms crush colon cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 11th February 2003]

article

Virology pioneer dies

By Emma Hitt

[Published 11th February 2003]

article

Fortress US

By Peg Brickley

[Published 11th February 2003]

article

Essential clustering

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 12th February 2003]

article

Cutting-edge biology teaching

By Martina Habeck

[Published 12th February 2003]

article

Recycling PECAM

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Interleukins in inflammation

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

The right sort of kiss

By David Bruce

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Auxin regulated root growth

By C Bishop

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Dynein on the move

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

My love is like a blue, blue rose

By Barbara Nasto

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Bridging the digital divide in South East Europe

By Andrew Scott

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Putting the 'astro' in astrobiology

By Leonard David

[Published 13th February 2003]

article

Pheromonal thinking

By Tudor Toma

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

Harnessing cyanide

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

BOLD brain measurements

By Richard Robinson

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

Cytoskeletal exploitation

By Tudor Toma

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

Homeland science nominee

By Peg Brickley

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

The 2003 Crafoord Prize for Biosciences

By David Bruce

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

Trans-Atlantic food fight

By Ted Agres

[Published 14th February 2003]

article

Let your fingers do the walking

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 17th February 2003]

article

Blocker for diabetic retinopathy

By Tudor Toma

[Published 17th February 2003]

article

Reform US research

By Paula Park

[Published 17th February 2003]

article

Bringing in the Steves

By Steve Mirsky

[Published 17th February 2003]

article

New standards for publication of sensitive research

By Paula Park

[Published 17th February 2003]

article

NOTCH-ing up cancer genes

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

Getting to the heart of mitochondrial function

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

IL-1 switches on tumors

By Tudor Toma

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

Bt toxins kill worms too

By Tudor Toma

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

Spanish cardiovascular research boosted

By Xavier Bosch

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

Cut and thrust of parliamentary life

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 18th February 2003]

article

Final 2003 funding

By Ted Agres

[Published 19th February 2003]

article

Intracellular fat signals

By Tudor Toma

[Published 20th February 2003]

article

Remember: fire like this

By Richard Robinson

[Published 20th February 2003]

article

Canadian researchers cheer new funding

By Ed Ungar

[Published 20th February 2003]

article

European Research Council gets thumbs up

By Laura Spinney

[Published 20th February 2003]

article

Phosphopeptide proteomics

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

A question of taste

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

Secrets of squirrel speciation

By Richard Robinson

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

Pruning the family tree

By Doug Broadfield

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

Thinking about Dolly

By Andrew Scott

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

UK extends GM crops debate deadline

By Pat Hagan

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

Free access costs money

By Peg Brickley

[Published 21st February 2003]

article

How bacteria induce stomach ulcers

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Tropheryma whipplei genome

By Tudor Toma

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Extracellular amyloid

By Tudor Toma

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

How tumor cells spread

By Andrea Rinaldi

[Published 24th February 2003]

article

Robert K. Merton dies

By Peg Brickley

[Published 25th February 2003]

article

Turning back the clock

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 27th February 2003]

article

Mediator of damage checkpoint

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 27th February 2003]

article

Gene exchange in trypanosomes

By Richard Robinson

[Published 27th February 2003]

article

Genetic analysis of bird flu

By Tabitha Powledge

[Published 27th February 2003]

article

Heart failure mutation

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

Antibodies - two for one

By Tudor Toma

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

Leaf curvature gene

By CL Bishop

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

Shadows provide illumination

By Richard Robinson

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

National lab investigation

By Peg Brickley

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

AIDSVAX trial not the end of the story

By Robert Walgate

[Published 28th February 2003]

article

House passes anti-cloning measure

By Ted Agres

[Published 28th February 2003]