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The burial of apartheid last week in South Africa (the practice ended some years ago) is a landmark in history, as Mr Nelson Mandela has been saying, but what some call the struggle is just beginning.
What should be the priorities for supporting life-science research in Europe? This article, an upshot of an initiative by Commissioner Ruberti of the European Union, addresses the question.
PCR techniques, retrospectively applied, reveals bladder carcinoma nine years before it was clinically apparent and provides a dramatic focus for the debate about the use of molecular techniques in the diagnosis of cancer.
Digital imaging spectrophotometers can simultaneously measure the spectra of hundreds of features in a two-dimensional scene. While a variety of applications can be anticipated, a colorimetric analysis of mutants expressing pigmented proteins has already led to the development of efficient algorithms for optimizing combinatorial mutagenesis.
The X-ray crystal structure of endothelin reveals a peptide with a compact globular conformation that may well represent the active form of the molecule.
