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For the public in the United Kingdom — and the United States — natural radon is a far greater radiation hazard than are emissions from nuclear installations.
The long delay in launching the Hubble Space Telescope, caused by the Challenger disaster, has given the Space Telescope Science Institute time to develop strategy, and to win the respect of the community.
The linear amplification of chemically sequenced DNA with DNA polymerase from Thermus aquatlcus permits the direct detection of DNA methylation and protein–DNA interaction sites in vivo.
The best of what biology has to offer will be on display at next week's FASEB meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana—from a sponge for destaining electrophoresis gels to transgenic mice for cancer research.
