In this issue
p. 1427

The mores of publishing in science
p. 1429 | Balaram, P.

Is science in India on the decline? A rejoinder
p. 1431 | Gupta, B. M.; Garg, K. C.

The menace of acronyms
p. 1432 | Krishnamurthy, K. V.

Contractual appointment of teachers - a welcome proposal of UGC, and additional suggestions to revive excellence in higher education
p. 1433 | Gupta, Y. K.

Reducible iron affects organic matter oxidation and ammonium production in wetland soils and sediments
p. 1434 | Sahrawat, K. L.

Prevention of chronic complications of diabetes mellitus - Does patient education score over treatment
p. 1435 | Vishwanath, B. S.; Darshan, M. V.; Shekar, M. A.

Application of nuclear techniques in the prevention of degenerative diseases (obesity and non-insulin dependent diseases) in ageing
p. 1436 | Iyengar, Venkatesh; Shetty, Prakash

Symposium on electrets
p. 1437 | Goel, Malti

Propanthial S-oxide synthase: Potential target to develop flavoursome, nonlachrymatory user-friendly onions
p. 1439 | Luthra, Pratibha Mehta; Luthra, Rajesh

From the archives
p. 1440

Random selections
p. 1441

On the safety of nimesulide, a preferential COX-2 inhibitor
p. 1442 | Kulkarni, S. K.

Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in southeastern Madhya Pradesh
p. 1444 | Chauhan, M. S.

Evidence of fault reactivation off Pondicherry coast from marine geophysical data
p. 1446 | Murty, G. P. S.; Subrahmanyam, A. S.; Murthy, K. S. R.; Sarma, K. V. L. N. S.

Chinese initiative in the software industry - Quest to leap
p. 1450 | Kharbanda, V. P.; Suman, Yogesh

Magnesium deficiency and diabetes mellitus
p. 1456 | Hans, Chetan P.; Sialy, R.; Bansal, Devi D.

Development of an optical tweezer combined with micromanipulation for DNA and protein nanobioscience
p. 1464 | Soni, G. V.; Hameed, Feroz Meeran; Roopa, T.; Shivashankar, G. V.

Burden of type 2 diabetes and its complications - The Indian scenario
p. 1471 | Ramachandran, A.; Snehalatha, C.; Viswanathan, Vijay

Genetics of Type 2 diabetes
p. 1477 | Hansen, Torben

Insulin resistance syndrome (metabolic syndrome) and Asian Indians
p. 1483 | Misra, Anoop; Vikram, Naval K.

Diabetes and risk factors for coronary artery disease
p. 1497 | Deepa, R.; Arvind, K.; Mohan, V.

Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of diabetes retionpathy
p. 1506 | Balasubramanyam, M.; Rema, M.; Premanand, C.

Glycation and diabetes: The RAGE connection
p. 1515 | Hudson, Barry I.; Hofmann, Marion A.; Bucciarelli, Loredana; Wendt, Thoralf; Moser, Bernhard; Lu, Yan; Qu, Wu; Stern, David M.; Tandon, M. P.; Yan, Shi Du; Yan, Shi Fang; Grant, Peter J.; Schmidt, Ann Marie; Dagati, Vivette

Glycated hemoglobin
p. 1522 | Chandalia, H. B.; Krishnaswamy, P. R.

Diabetes and insulin resistance associated disorders: Disease and the therapy
p. 1533 | Chakrabarti, Ranjan; Rajagopalan, Ramanujam

Advances in drug delivery of oral hypoglycemic agents
p. 1539 | Kadhe, G.; Arasan, R. E.

Which insulin to use? Human or animal?
p. 1544 | Mohan, V.

Future options for insulin therapy
p. 1548 | Owens, David R.; Bolli, Geremia B.; Zinman, Bernard

Psychosocial and cultural issues in diabetes mellitus
p. 1556 | Sridhar, G. R.; Madhu, K.

Physico-chemical characteristics of poly(3-hydroxybutyric acid) isolated from Azotobacter chroococcum MAL-201
p. 1565 | Pal, Soma; Paul, Amal K.

Isolation of a novel transcription factor from rice by differential display of mRNA
p. 1568 | Tyagi, Aruna; Klueva, Natalya; Zheng, Honggang; Nguyen, Henry T.

Richness and diversity of filamentous fungi on woody litter of mangroves along the west coast of India
p. 1573 | Maria, G. L.; Sridhar, K. R.

Trapped pollen and spores from spider webs of Lucknow environs
p. 1580 | Bera, S. K.; Trivedi, Anjali; Sharma, Chhaya

Efficacy of Chrysosporium lobatum against larvae of malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi in the laboratory
p. 1585 | Mohanty, Suman Sundar; Prakash, Soam

Possible mechanism and implications of phenolics-mediated reduction of XTT (sodium, 3'-[1-[phenylamino-carbonyl]-3,4-tetrazolium]-bis(4-methoxy-6-nitro) benzene-sulfonic acid hydrate)
p. 1588 | Vyas, Dhiraj; Sahoo, Rashmita; Kumar, Sanjay

Mathematics and its History
p. 1593 | Rangarajan, Govindan

Ancient Indian Astronomy: Planetary Positions and Eclipses
p. 1593 | Narlikar, J. V.

Method for Affinity-based Separations of Enzymes and Proteins
p. 1594 | Swamy, Musti J.

Probability and Its Applications - Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution
p. 1595 | Ramaswamy, R.

RSSDI Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus
p. 1596 | Balasubramanyam, M.; Mohan, V.

B. V. Raghavendra Rao
p. 1597 | Suryan, G.

The story of insulin crystallography
p. 1598 | Vijayan, M.

Acknowledgements
p. 1607

Institutional members
p. 1610

Centre for Sponsored Schemes and Projects
p. 1612

National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria
p. 1613

Madurai Kamaraj University
p. 1614

Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology
p. 1614

Career Opportunities in Bioinformatics
p. 1615

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
p. 1615