Preface. Editor-in-Chief.
Editorial Board.
List of Contributors.
Color Plates.
Triplet Repeat Diseases (Stephan J. Guyenet, Albert R. La Spada).
Two-photon Microscopy and Imaging (Patrick Theer, Bernd Kuhn, Dorine Keusters, Winfried Denk).
Ubiquitin-Proteasome System for Controlling Cellular Protein Levels (Michael H. Glickman, Aaron Ciechanover).
Vaccination, Genetic (Joerg Reimann, Martin Schleef , Reinhold Schirmbeck).
Vaccine Approaches for Protection Against HIV (Stephen M. Smith, Mahender Singh, Kuan-Teh Jeang).
Vaccine Research and Development Methodology (Jens-Peter Gregersen).
Variation and Conservation of the Development of Animal Bodies: Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Francoise Mazet, Sebastian M. Shimeld).
Vascular Development and Angiogenesis (M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe).
Vectors and Gene Therapy (Edward A. Burton, David J. Fink, Joseph C. Glorioso).
Vector System: Plasmid DNA (Rajkumar Banerjee, Leaf Huang).
Vector Targeting in Gene Therapy (Yosuke Kawakami, David T. Curiel).
Vertebrate Mitochondrial DNA (Max Ingman, Ulf Gyllensten).
Viral Inhibitors and Immune Response Mediators: The Interferons (Anthony Meager).
Virus-Cell Interactions (Andrew J. Mouland, Nikolaus Heveker, Anne Gatignol).
Virus-free Gene Transfer Systems in Somatic Gene Therapy (Oliver Kayser, Albrecht F. Kiderlen).
Vitamin Receptors (Krishnamurti Dakshinamurti).
Vitamins, Structure and Function of (Donald B. McCormick).
Whole Genome Human Chromosome Physical Mapping (Cassandra L. Smith, Giang H. Nguyen, Denan Wang, Nickolaev Bukanov).
Xenotransplantation in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Gregory J. Brunn, Jeffrey L. Platt).
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Genome and Genetics (Ralf Dahm, Robert Geisler, Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard).
Glossary of Basic Terms.
The Twenty Amino Acids that are Combined to Form Proteins in Living Things.
The Twenty Amino Acids with Abbreviations and Messenger RNA Code Designations.
Complementary Strands of DNA with Base Pairing.