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It is not too soon for the rest of Europe to begin preparing for the aftermath of the tragic warfare in ex-Yugoslavia; on the contrary, doing nothing now is a recipe for permanent calamity.
The Burke and Wills expedition through the interior of Australia in the nineteenth century ended in calamity. But the cause of death was more pernicious than anyone at the time had imagined: beriberi due to thiaminase poisoning.
The novel mechanism for genetic mutation in Huntington's disease offers no comfort for neo-Lamarckians, but raises many other questions likely to prove difficult as well as intriguing.
Featured this week—a red blood cell agglutination reagent, an agar substitute, antibodies to markers of metastasis and a scanning probe microscope for imaging cells and tissues in situ with nanometre resolution.
