1. Isolation of functional RNA from small amounts of different grape and apple tissues

   • Claudio Moser
   • Pamela Gatto
   • Riccardo Velasco

   Research Pages: 95 - 99

2. Cloning of the thermostable α-amylase gene from Pyrococcus woesei in Escherichia coli

   • Beata Grzybowska
   • Piotr Szweda
   • Józef Synowiecki

   Research Pages: 101 - 109

3. Evaluation of different conditions for ligating dumbbell-shaped oligonucleotides

   • Hiroshi Yamagiwa
   • Mark E. Bolander
   • Gobinda Sarkar

   Research Pages: 111 - 115

4. Infection by shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

   • Mohamed A. Karmali

   Research Pages: 117 - 122

5. Designing safer (soft) drugs by avoiding the formation of toxic and oxidative metabolites

   • Nicholas Bodor
   • Peter Buchwald

   Review Pages: 123 - 132

6. Pre-PCR processing

   • Peter Rådström
   • Rickard Knutsson
   • Charlotta Löfström

   Review Pages: 133 - 146

7. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

   • Christian Jurinke
   • Paul Oeth
   • Dirk van den Boom

   Review Pages: 147 - 163

8. Rat liver-targeted naked plasmid DNA transfer by tail vein injection

   • Hiroki Maruyama
   • Noboru Higuchi
   • Fumitake Gejyo

   Protocol Pages: 165 - 172

9. Book reviews

   • Simon C. Harvey
   • J. R. Vanfleteren

   Departments Pages: 173 - 173

10. New products for molecular biology

    Departments Pages: 175 - 176

11. Calendar

    Departments Pages: 177 - 177