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A British newspaper, The Sunday Times, has so consistently misrepresented the role of HIV in the causation of AIDS that Nature plans to monitor its future treatment of this issue, if only to save readers the trouble of buying it.
Participants at Nature's conference "From DNA to Drugs" in Amsterdam (2–3 December) found that applying molecular biology to medical problems combines daunting challenges with revolutionary possibilities.
An electrical biosensor is described that can continuously track morphological changes of adherent cells providing quantitative data from both sparse and confluent cultures. The method is capable of detecting vertical motion of cells of the order of 1 nm, much below the resolution of an optical microscope.
New products for the cell biologist worth noting this week include a nonradioactive method for detecting cell culture contamination, a medium for the production and maintenance of B-cell hybridomas and a high-pressure homogenizer.