1. Nanotechnology and Protein Mechanics

   • A. Ikai
   • A. Idiris
   • T. Osada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 572

2. Single-Molecule Imaging and Spectroscopy Using Fluorescence and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

   • M. Ishikawa
   • Y. Maruyama
   • M. Futamata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 585

3. Manipulation of a Large DNA Molecule using the Phase Transition

   • A. Mizuno
   • S. Katsura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 603

4. Controlling and Measuring Local Composition and Properties in Lipid Bilayer Membranes

   • T.G. D'Onofrio
   • C.W. Binns
   • P.S. Weiss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 617

5. Single Molecule Probe Scanning Optical Force Imaging Microscopefor Viewing Live Cells

   • K. Ritchie
   • A. Kusumi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 626

6. A Novel Phase-contrast Transmission Electron Microscopy Producing High-contrast Topographic Images of Weak objects

   • R. Danev
   • H. Okawara
   • K. Nagayama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 627 - 635

7. Deterministic Versus Stochastic Models for Circadian Rhythms

   • D. Gonze
   • J. Halloy
   • A. Goldbeter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 653

8. Self-Organization in Living Cells: Networks of Protein Machines and Nonequilibrium Soft Matter

   • A.S. Mikhailov
   • B. Hess

   OriginalPaper Pages: 655 - 672

9. Long Range Force between Pre-Replication Complexes (Pre-RC) in DNA Controls Replication and Cell Cycle Progression

   • L. Matsson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 673 - 699

10. Field Hypothesis on the Self-regulation of Gene Expression

    • K. Yoshikawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 701 - 712

11. The Sinus Node as a Nonlinear Dynamic System

    • A. Rabinovitch
    • M. Gutman
    • I. Aviram

    OriginalPaper Pages: 713 - 719

12. Rhythmic Conformational Change in a SinglePolymer Chain Induced by Laser Irradiation

    • H. Mayama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 721 - 731

13. The Use of Liposomes for Constructing Cell Models

    • T. Oberholzer
    • P.L. Luisi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 733 - 744

14. A 21^st Century View of Evolution

    • J.A. Shapiro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 745 - 764

15. Becoming Multicellular by Aggregation; The Morphogenesis of the Social Amoebae Dicyostelium discoideum

    • D. Dormann
    • B. Vasiev
    • C.J. Weijer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 765 - 780

16. Kinetic Origin of Heredity in a Replicating System with a Catalytic Network

    • K. Kaneko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 781 - 792

17. Unique Colony Housing the Coexisting Escherichia coli and Dictyostelium discoideum

    • M. Todoriki
    • S. Oki
    • T. Yomo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 793 - 797

18. Dynamical Systems Approach to Higher-level Heritability

    • T. Ikegami
    • K. Hashimoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 799 - 804

19. Author Index Volume 28 (2002)

    Authors Index Pages: 805 - 807

20. Contents Volume 28 (2002)

    Volume Contents Pages: 809 - 813