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Articles in June 22, 1991 issue of Science News

• Glowing evidence of gene-altered arteries - using luciferase enzyme from fireflies to in gene therapy for coronary artery disease
  by Kathy A. Fackelmann
• Pigs make human pigment - pigs made to carry the human gene for hemoglobin
• A gold-plated test for Lyme disease - test using gold-tagged antibodies
• Navigating the information swamp - Baylor College of Medicine's Virtual Notebook System for use by laboratory researchers
  by Ivars Peterson
• Exploring the virtual wind - computer graphics for research on air flow patterns
  by Ivars Peterson
• Cold conFusion: despite ridicule from their colleagues, a few scientists struggle to verify a hotly contested claim - cold fusion - Cover Story
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Giant cluster confounds cosmology - quasars
  by Ron Cowen
• Fortnight of flares dazzles astronomers - sun
  by Ron Cowen
• Lighting the way to speedier circuits - the first electronic switch controlled entirely by light
  by Ivars Peterson
• Peer review under fire: science's gatekeeping system may need an overhaul
  by Bruce Bower
• Tiny bubbles help plastics take a pounding - materials research into the mechanism of fracturing
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Mom's symptomless herpes threatens baby
• Speeding the search for new human genes - Human Genome Project
  by Carol Ezzell
• Bereavement: how strength saps coping - study of how adults cope with the death of a spouse
  by Bruce Bower
• Camouflaged grafts elude immune detection - new technique for avoiding rejection of donated cells by the immune system
  by John Travis
• Distant galaxy looks strangely normal
  by Ron Cowen
• Radio waves may trace distant clustering - galaxies and quasars
  by Ron Cowen