Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 73 - Issue 01: 10 Jul, 1997
In this Issue
In this issue
p. 0003

Correspondence
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.

News
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.

Research News
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.

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

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

Scientific Correspondence
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

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

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

Research Articles
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.

Research Communications
Hall angle in high-Tc 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

Book Reviews
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

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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

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