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By making a sick and malformed child a ward of court, three British judges have drawn attention to the need for a judicial procedure in cases where sick people seek euthanasia voluntarily.
Nature plans to publish in the next few weeks a Genome Directory containing the latest catalogue of expressed sequence tags and refined versions of the physical map of the human genome.
It's time to clear shelf space for some new biochemical reagents that are now available — synthetic peptide nucleic acids, reagents for nitric oxide synthase research, a fetal bovine serum alternative and freeze-dried guinea pig complement.
