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The new director of the NIH defended herself before the Dingell committee last week but also promised self-restraint. But she has a strong case for reforming the OSI.
VIPER is the first commercially available microprocessor whose design is claimed to have been proven correct. The controversy provoked by the claim reveals fundamental disagreement about the meaning of 'proof'.
A simple model seems to suggest how information about an external stimulus may be gleaned from the trains of pulses neurons of the sensory systems send to the central nervous system.
New technologies for multiple chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides and stepwise hybridization on a solid-phase support enable the rapid and cost-effective preparation of long duplex DNA regions. Will these new technologies usher in a new era in protein engineering?
A recombinant T4 gene 32 protein, antisense phosphorothioate oligos and a second generation capillary electrophoresis system with a thermostatting capability — new product ideas from the molecular biology marketplace.