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The deliberate firing of the Kuwaiti oil wells by the Iraqis is an act of gross environmental vandalism. But the likely impacts on the climate have been exaggerated.
The study, published last week, purporting to show that children's IQ can be increased by dietary supplements, is an unhappy piece of work. The association could well be due to chance.
Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) is a primer-dependent technology that can be used for the continuous amplification of nucleic acids in a single mixture at one temperature.
A mouse mutagenesis assay system, a gel-digesting enzyme for DNA/RNA recovery and a handy electroporation device are a selection of this week's supplies and equipment for the molecular biologist.
