In this issue
p. 0003

Need for national level aptitude tests
p. 0005 | Bhargava, S. C.

Deteriorating higher education: Heavy price for inaction
p. 0006 | Lakhotia, S. C.

Microbial pathogens - Identification and Surveillance
p. 0006 | Virdi, J. S.

Medical research in India
p. 0007 | Ramamurthi, B.

Commercial R&D companies to enjoy tax holiday
p. 0008

Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet
p. 0008

National seminar on conservation of endangered species and ecosystems: Biotechnological and ecological approaches -- A report
p. 0009 | Upadhyay, R. S.; Gaur, J. P.; Jaiswal, V. S.

Chronobiology hits pay dirt : the identification and cloning of the first circadian clock gene in mammals
p. 0011 | Chandrasekaran, M. K.

The riddle of the avian ancestry
p. 0014 | Sankaran, A. V.

Vaccines for the 21st century: The big picture
p. 0018 | Ramalingaswami, V.

An approach to geoscience education beyond 2000 AD
p. 0021 | Narain, Hari

Citral: a cytotoxic principle isolated from the essential oil of Cymbopogon citratus against P388 leukaemia cells
p. 0022 | Dubey, N. K.; Takeya, Koichi; Itokawa, Hideji

Vaccine research: A case for national innovation stratergy
p. 0025 | Madhavi, Y.

Some solid state chemistry with holes: Anion-cation redox competioin in solids
p. 0031 | Rouxel, Jean

Interactions of viral matrix protein and nucleoprotien with the host cell cytoskeletal actin influenza viral infection
p. 0040 | Husain, M.; Gupta, C. M.

Groundwater arsenic calamity in Bangladesh
p. 0048 | Dhar, Ratan Kr.; Biswas, Bhajan Kr.; Samanta, Gautam; Mandal, Badal Kr.; Chakraborthi, D.; Roy, Shibtosh; Jafar, Abu; Islam, Ariful; Ara, Gulshan; Kabir, Saiful; Khan, A. Wadud; Ahmed, S. Akther; Hadi, S. Abdul

Late Quaternary vegetational and climatic changes from tropical peats in southern india - An extended record up to 40,000 years BP
p. 0060 | Rajagopalan, Geeta; Sukumar, R.; Ramesh, R.; Pant, R. K.; Rajagopalan, G.

Hall angle in high-T_c cuprates : Anomalous temperature dependance and anisotropic scattering
p. 0064 | Kumar, N.

Direct electrochemistry of heme undecapeptide in aqueous surfactant solutions: The effect of hydrophobicity and axial ligation on redox potential of heme
p. 0065 | Chattopadhyay, Krishnananda; Mazumdar, Shymalava

Influence of flow on ordering characteristics of a bacterial biofilm
p. 0069 | Rao, T. S.; Kesavamoorthy, R.; Rao, C. Babu; Nair, K. V. K.

Experimental evidence for usefulness of real time high resolution ultrasonography in evalution of efficacy of microfilaricidal agent
p. 0075 | Shukla-dave, Amita; Fatma, Nigar; Gupta, R. K.; Chatterjee, R. K.

In vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to trifluoperazine
p. 0079 | Selvakumar, N.; Kumar, Vanaja; Krishnamurthy, P. V.; Prabhakar, R.; Murthy, P. S.

Application of RAPD fingerprinting in selection of micropropagated plants of Piper longum for conservation
p. 0081 | Parani, M.; Anand, Ajith; Parida, Ajay

Cyanobacterial mats from the Neoproterozoic Vaishnodevi Limestone, Jammu and Kashmir
p. 0083 | Venkatachala, B. S.; Kumar, Ashok

Annual review of Immunology 1996
p. 0088 | Manjunath, R.

Annual review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
p. 0090 | Maheshwari, S. C.

Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
p. 0092 | Arya, Vishwa Prakash

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
p. 0092

National Centre for Biological Sciences
p. 0093

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
p. 0094

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
p. 0096

Post-Doctoral Research Programme in Life Sciences and Biotechnology
p. 0096