Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 77 - Issue 5: 10 Sep, 1999
In this Issue
In this issue
p. 0619

Editorial
A century of science
p. 0621 | Balaram, P.

Correspondence
Pokhran II is subject to discussion
p. 0623 | Sunder, R.

What bugs the credibility of our awards?
p. 0624 | Bhattacharjee, S. K.

Indian science needs young blood
p. 0625 | Saxena, Neeraj

Phase transition in a scientist's life
p. 0625 | Nityananda, Rajaram

A few words of appreciation for editorials
p. 0626 | Shashidhar, V. R.

Why should the pollinators be conserved?
p. 0626 | Sihag, R. C.; Singh, Manju

Healing plants - Do they heal?
p. 0627 | Padayatty, Sebastian J.

Hypothyroidism
p. 0628 | Sridhar, G. R.

Hypothyroidism(Response)
p. 0628 | Gupta, B. B. P.

News
The Royal Institution celebrates bicentennial
p. 0629 | Satyanarayana, K.

NIH plans global electronic biomedical database
p. 0630 | Satyanarayana, K.

Research News
Cryptochromes: The novel circadian photoreceptors
p. 0632 | Chaurasia, S. S.; Gupta, P. D.

Opinion
Scientific misconduct: Disciplinary action
p. 0633 | Valluri, S. R.

Scientific Correspondence
Identity of subsequences of some pregnancy-associated proteins with SERPIN signature sites of some serine protease inhibitors and a carcinoma antigen
p. 0634 | Saxena, Hari Mohan

A rapid and efficient method for isolation of RNA from bark tissues of Hevea brasiliensis
p. 0635 | Venkatachalam, P.; Thanseem, I.; Thulaseedharan, A.

Molt-related limb loss in Macrobrachium nobilii
p. 0637 | Mariappan, P.; Balasundaram, Chellam

Record of skeletal remains of dinosaur from early Middle Jurassic of Kuar Bet, Kutch, Gujarat
p. 0639 | Satyanarayana, K.; Dasgupta, D. K.; Dave, Alok; Das, K. K.

Record of a nesting burrow from the Badhaura Formation (Permian), Rajasthan
p. 0641 | Kulkarni, Kantimati G.; Borkar, V. D.

General Articles
Some new initiatives in optical astronomy at UPSO, Nainital
p. 0643 | Sagar, Ram

Towards a hunger-free century
p. 0652 | Diouf, Jacques

Review Articles
Reactive oxygen species: Oxidative damage and pathogenesis
p. 0658 | Bandyopadhyay, Uday; Das, Dipak; Banerjee, Ranajit K.

Research Articles
A re-calculation of criticality property of 231Pa using new nuclear data
p. 0667 | Ganesan, S.; Kannan, Umasankari; Krishnani, P. D.; Jagannathan, V.; Jain, R. P.; Karthikeyan, R.

Molecular basis of antifungal toxin production by fluorescent Pseudomonas sp. strain EM 85 - A biological control agent
p. 0671 | Anith, K. N.; Tilak, K. V. B. R.; Khanuja, S. P. S.

Research Communications
Novel properties exhibited by films of gold nanoparticle-polythiophene blends
p. 0678 | Sarathy, K. Vijaya; Narayan, K. S.

Some aspects of presence of lead in the Delhi iron pillar
p. 0681 | Balasubramaniam, R.

Arsenicosis and deteriorating groundwater quality: Unfolding crisis in central-east Indian region
p. 0686 | Pandey, Piyush Kant; Khare, Ram Narayan; Sharma, Ramesh; Sar, Santosh Kumar; Pandey, Madhurima; Binayake, Pramod

Male-sex-associated RAPD markers in Piper longum L
p. 0693 | Banerjee, L. N. S.; Manoj, P.; Das, M. R.

Microbial manipulation of rumen fermentation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as probiotics
p. 0696 | Saha, S. K.; Padhi, M. K.; Senani, S.; Shome, B. R.; Shome, Rajeswari; Ahlawat, S. P. S.

Biological, antigenic and genomic relationships among the virus isolates causing mosaic disease of sugarcane in South India
p. 0698 | Hema, M.; Venkatramana, M.; Savithri, H. S.; Sreenivasulu, P.

Antifungal studies of some essential oils at various pH levels for betterment of antifungal drug response
p. 0703 | Shahi, Sushil K.; Shukla, Amritesh C.; Dikshit, Anupam

Two-dimensional NMR spectroscopic study of fibroblast and fibrosarcoma cell lines
p. 0706 | Jayashree, B.; Rajalakshmi, K. R. R.; Deshmukh, S.; Rajkumar, T.

Book Reviews
Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats and Conservation in the Western Himalaya
p. 0710 | Gokhale, Yogesh

Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology: Emerging Trends
p. 0711 | Ignacimuthu, S.

Annual Review of Neuroscience 1998
p. 0712 | Krishnan, K. S.

Personal News
G. S. Venkataraman - A tribute in memorium
p. 0714 | Lakshmanan, M.

Historical Notes
Re-discovering Nain Singh
p. 0716 | Nagendra, Harini

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