David Baltimore A.A. Beg, D. Baltimore, "An essential role for NF-kappa B in preventing TNF-alpha -induced cell death," Science, 274:782-4, 1996. (Cited in more than 300 papers since publication.) Comments by David Baltimore, a professor of biology and president of the California Institute of Technology Apoptosis. Programmed cell death. Several proteins carry a signal that commands cells to commit suicide for the greater good of the organism. But if these portable time bombs are circulating

The genome. project... seems a ploy to raise money, a project justified by its public relations value, not its scientific value... We stand now at a moment of great opportunity. We have, a low-resolution map of much of the human genome and it is sure to improve. We have the skills to develop clone banks, high-resolution maps and rapid sequencing techniques. We can do what we have always done: each of us can apply these techniques as we see fit. We can distribute our efforts over various exper

EDITOR'S NOTE: In late May, the White House announced that it would not appoint an openly gay person to the president's new commission on acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Gary L. Bauer, the president's domestic policy adviser, said the administration was opposed to naming a member to the commission—recommended last year by the National Academy of Sciences—solely because he or she was gay. June Osborn, dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, organized a group o