纳米秒脉冲波“摘”除细胞

美国科学家正在研究一种技术，可以让医生在不接触病人身体的情况下去除人体细胞。这一技术现正处于初期研究阶段，研究人员还没有完全清楚其对细胞的作用机理。不过，目前的试验表明，这一技术将有可能用于治疗癌症，也可能有助于加速治愈过程，甚至可以用来清除肥胖细胞。     

应用量子力学

量子力学是当前物理学及其相关科学的重要科学分支，也是当前许多新科学技术中的重要应用的基础。本书包含了现代新科学技术工程师所需要的量子力学方面的新材料，如研究和了解原子核、原子、分子和固体材料，以及激光器和其他量子光学器件所需要的科学资料等。     

有效抑制癌细胞转移

发现了与癌细胞转移有关的酶 癌细胞一面无限制地繁殖一面转移，不久就会侵入血管或淋巴管并向全身转移。在食道癌的细胞里有一种称为“蛋白磷酸酶（PP2A／Bβ）”的酶，如果抑制这种酶的作用就可以抑制癌细胞的转移。也许在不久的将来，可以制造出划时代的能防止癌细胞转移的药物。     

“中国首届植物生态学前沿论坛”在我校召开

“中国首届植物生态学前沿论坛”于6月8～10日在我校召开．本次会议由中国植物生态学专业委员会和美国生态学会亚洲分会主办，我校生命科学学院承办．来自美国肯塔基大学、亚利桑那州立大学、中科院植物研究所、北京大学、中国农业大学、南京大学、中山大学、复旦大学等近50所科研院校的120余名专家教授参加了本次会议．     

非线性极限点和极限圆问题

1910年H．weyl首次提出极限点和极限圆问题，导致了上世纪非线性微分方程渐近分析研究的一些新进展。本书是关于这个研究的专著，对问题的产生、发展、扩充及主要结果和研究趋势等方面进行了论述。     

Organically preserved microbial endoliths from the late Proterozoic of East Greenland

Diverse microorganisms ranging from cyanobacteria to eukaryotic algae and fungi live endolithically within ooids, hardgrounds and invertebrate shells on the present-day sea floor. These organisms are involved in the mechanical destruction of carbonates, and are useful ecological indicators of water depth and pollution. The Phanerozoic history of microbial endoliths has been elucidated through the study of microborings (the trace fossils of endolithic microorganisms) and rare cellularly preserved individuals, but nothing was known of the possible Precambrian evolution of comparable microorganisms until Campbell documented the occurrence of microborings in late Proterozoic ooids from central East Greenland. We now report the discovery of large populations of organically preserved endolithic microorganisms in silicified pisolites from 700-800-Myr-old Limestone-Dolomite Series of East Greenland. This fossil assemblage is significant for three reasons: (1) It confirms the prediction that oolites, pisolites and hardgrounds--the substrates for pre-Phanerozoic endoliths--provide a hitherto poorly explored but rewarding set of environments into which the search for early microfossils must be broadened; (2) the assemblage is diverse, containing about 12 taxa of morphologically distinct and previously unknown endolithic cyanobacteria, plus associated epilithic and interstitial populations; and (3) at least six of the fossil populations are indistinguishable in morphology, pattern of development, reproductive biology and inferred ecology from distinctive cyanobacterial species that bore ooids today in the Bahama Banks.     

Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Acetobacter xylinum by cyclic diguanylic acid

Cellulose is the most abundant renewable carbon resource on earth and is an indispensable raw material for the wood, paper, and textile industries. A model system to study the mechanism of cellulose biogenesis is the bacterium Acetobacter xylinum which produces pure cellulose as an extracellular product. It was from this organism that in vitro preparations which possessed high levels of cellulose synthase activity were first obtained in both membranous and soluble forms. We recently demonstrated that this activity is subject to a complex multi-component regulatory system, in which the synthase is directly affected by an unusual cyclic nucleotide activator enzymatically formed from GTP, and indirectly by a Ca (2+) -sensitive phosphodiesterase which degrades the activator. The cellulose synthase activator (CSA) has now been identified as bis-(3' 5')-cyclic diguanylic acid (5'G3'p5'G3'p) on the basis of mass spectroscopic data, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and comparison with chemically synthesized material. We also report here on intermediary steps in the synthesis and degradation of this novel circular dinucleotide, which have been integrated into a model for the regulation of cellulose synthesis.