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The Labour party is expected to win the election in the United Kingdom next week, but it has so far provided little to inspire researchers. The challenges that face it are chronic and require management with insight.
Science is in a parlous state – passing fashions, a star system and the new cult of management have combined to strangle originality. The ethics of V. B. Wigglesworth offer a cure.
Cells respond to external signals by transducing the information into internal messengers such as Ca2+. The information-processing capability of the Ca2+ signalling system is enhanced by the well-known engineering principles of amplitude and frequency modulation.
Chromatography selections for this issue include a system designed to increase the productivity of automated microbore analysis, a column for capillary electrochromatography and chromatography data system software.
