1. Worse than pulp fiction: fraud in science

   • Detlev Ganten

   EDITORIAL Pages: 689 - 691

2. The future of mutation detection

   • Friedrich C. Luft

   Clinical Implications Pages: 692 - 693

3. Pieces of the puzzle: expressed sequence tags and the catalog of human genes

   • Gregory D. Schuler

   Bioinformatics: Bits and Bytes Pages: 694 - 698

4. An aging world – a sick world? A public health perspective

   • Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz
   • Ulla Walter

   EDITORIAL Pages: 699 - 702

5. The membrane hypothesis of aging: its relevance to recent progress in genetic research

   • Imre Z-Nagy

   REVIEW Pages: 703 - 714

6. Genetic regulation of aging

   • Heinz D. Osiewacz

   REVIEW Pages: 715 - 727

7. Molecular diagnostics

   • Christoph Wagener

   REVIEW Pages: 728 - 744

8. Detection of RET proto-oncogene codon 634 mutations using mass spectrometry

   • D. P. Little
   • A. Braun
   • Hubert Köster

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 745 - 750

9. The use of RT–”nested” PCR of prostate specific antigen to detect hematogenous neoplastic cells in patients with prostate adenocarcinoma

   • Iacopo Sardi
   • Mauro Piazzini
   • Renato Guazzelli

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 751 - 757

10. BRCA2 mutation in Icelandic prostate cancer patients

    • Stefan Sigurdsson
    • Steinunn Thorlacius
    • Eirikur Jonsson

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 758 - 761

11. HUGO meeting in Toronto, March 1997 Calm before the storm

    • Alfons Meindl

    CONGRESS REPORT Pages: 762 - 764

12. Notification of Retraction: Interleukin 5 expressing allergen-specific T-lymphocytes in patients with house dust mite sensitization: analysis at a clonal level (1995) (J Mol Med 73(2):79–83

    • R. Bonifer
    • C. Neumann
    • F. Herrmann

    Notification of Retraction Pages: 765 - 765