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The British government's plans to reorganize its public health service are not as fearsome as its critics say, but endanger medical research — and the civility that health care has brought to Britain.
The discovery of the fission of uranium exactly half a century ago is at risk of passing unremarked because of the general ambivalence towards the consequences of this development. Can that be wise?
A private conference ten days ago seems chiefly to have demonstrated that there is some way to go before researchers learn to live with — or placate — their lawmakers.
The development ofphotolabile caged neurotransmitters has made possible the study of the split-second kinetics of receptor–ligand interactions. An instrument has now been developed for activating the neurotransmitter and measuring the neuron's response.
Several of the products to be displayed by the roughly 50 exhibitors at next week's American Biophysical Society meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, are highlighted below.
