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Articles in April 6, 1996 issue of Science News

• Manic depression-DNA links - studies identify chromosomes linked to manic-depression - Behavior - Brief Article
• Toward a U.S. role at CERN's new collider - Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire's Large Haldron Collider
  by Ivars Peterson
• Doing time over fossils - commercial fossil dealer Peter L. Larson to serve 2-year sentence for stealing fossils from federal lands and violating US customs limits - Paleontology - Brief Article
• Health in the hot zone: how would global warming affect humans? - Cover Story
  by Richard Monastersky
• Estogenic agents leach from dental sealant - estrogen-like compounds
  by Janet Raloff
• A sensor to sniff out explosive - biosensors use antibody assays to detect hazardous substances - Chemistry - Brief Article
  by Richard Likin
• Bringing bold color to chromosomes - color-coding human chromosomes - Brief Article
  by John Travis
• If dinosaurs could sing - researchers are trying to simulate the calls the dinosaur Parasaurolophus could have made with its hollow crest - Paleontology - Brief Article
  by Richard Likin
• New molecules harness the energy of light - new molecules use light to produce work
  by Richard Lipkin
• Protein cure for Parkinson's? - glial-cell-line-derived neurotropic factor protein may help restore Parkinson Disease-damaged nerve cells in rhesus monkeys - Biomedicine - Brief Article
• Finding fault with Midwest seismic maps - active faults found in Missouri
  by Richard Monastersky
• Delivering drugs through the skin - dialkylamino acetates enhance skin penetration rates by a factor of 400 - Chemistry - Brief Article
  by Richard Likin
• Only the strong survive; the evolution of a tumor favors the meanest, most aggressive cells - cells lacking the p53 tumor suppressor gene
  by Lisa Seachrist
• Global positioning for all - government to allow free worldwide use of the Global Positioning System before 2007 - Brief Article
  by Richard Monastersky
• Epilepsy gene identified - progressive myoclonus epilepsy linked to gene on chromosome 21 that produces cystatin B protein - Biomedicine - Brief Article
• Chance reveals deadly rotavirus secret - specific cause of rotaviral diarrhea identified - Brief Article
  by Steve Sternberg
• Nerve cells meet microelectronics - synthetic peptide painted on glass or silicon plates used to direct neurons to grow in predetermined, circuit-like patterns - Chemistry - Brief Article
  by Richard Likin