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Soon, the European Commission's writ should run to higher education. Present arguments in France about the constitution of universities point to the need for a coherent European policy in the field.
Featured this week — a fusion protein cleavage system, an enzyme immunoassay kit for the quantitative determination of 12(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid levels and a new mRNA detection system.
A direct search for expanding trinucleotide repeat sequences has paid off with the identification of the latest disorder caused by this mechanism — spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.
