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Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has produced unexpectedly cautious proposals for the regulation of the release of engineered organisms into the environment, but they are none the worse for that.
Conventional wisdom holds that resources held in common will invariably be overexploited — the "tragedy of the commons". A number of examples show that this is not necessarily so.
The wish that news of discovery should quickly reach the public that pays for it should be more often tempered by deliberation. Prior publication is, by definition, premature.
Binding fluorescent or radioactive reporter molecules to the lipid bilayer of cell membranes allows cell growth and trafficking to be monitored in vivo.
A chemiluminescent detection kit for Western blots, 125l-labelled proteins A and G, and DAB enzyme in tablet form are just a few of this week's products for labelling applications.
