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A proposed amendment to the US Constition requiring a balanced budget could cause great harm to fundamental research as well as other social programmes on which the future of the United States now rests.
The right to a university education in any subject is enshrined in German law. But the system has become hopelessly cumbersome and is ripe for radical reform.
Communal divisions in Northern Ireland, responsible for twenty-five years of violence, might be partly bridged by an imaginative scheme for a new campus in Belfast. But why not go further?
Microwell plates with covalently bound nickel chelate, a robotic crystallization system for experiments using hanging drop and sitting drop methods, and 10-mm probes for biomolecular applications are highlighted this week.
Variation in ways in which proteins can identify and lock on to genes due for transcription is illuminated by studies of the Arc represser, which has a β-sheet, rather than α-helical, recognition motif.
