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If there is a war in the Gulf next week, there will be no winners, only losers. Would it not be prudent to begin now on planning what might become of the Middle East when all the dust has settled?
The steady conversion of new techniques into purchasable kits and the accumulation of nucleotide sequence data in the electronic data banks leads one practitioner to cry, "Molecular biology is dead - Long live molecular biology!".
