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The principle that for every important social problem, there should be a conference at which officials pledge their best efforts to its solution seems to have taken a tumble at last week's London conference on drugs.
Self-reliant defensive missiles for boost-phase interception seem to be cost-effective. Deployment would benefit all nations by decreasing the danger of rocket attack.
The search for a means of telling the complexity of numerical data has been urgent but frustrating. Now, there may be some relief in the assertion that there is no single measure.
The polymerase chain reaction is used for site-specific mutagenesis and for DNA recombination without any enzymatic reaction in vitro, apart from DNA amplification.
What follows is a selection of what's new in molecular biology and features kits for the non-isotopic labelling of oligonucleotides and the purification of plasmid DNAfrom E. Coli, and Mac-based sequence software.
