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China's economic growth and scientific development bear witness to the towering achievements of Deng Xiaoping. But his death highlights grievous shortcomings that his successor should avoid.
Basic researchers in Britain and elsewhere must become more informed about science policy and more active as campaigners if their profession is to survive. Useful lessons can be learned from colleagues in the United States.
Humans of 400,000 years ago were sophisticated big-game hunters. Complete hunting spears discovered in a German coal-mine puncture the idea that these people hadn't the technology or foresight to hunt systematically.
This edition offers new equipment and reagents to make gene hunting easier, including multiple sequence alignment software, a new DNA electrophoresis system, an in situ detection system and a plant DNA extraction system.
