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Volume 352 Issue 6335, 8 August 1991

Opinion

  • 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.

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  • The British government seems about to end decades of wrangling over the fate of Britain's hedgerows.

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Commentary

  • 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'.

    • Donald MacKenzie
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News & Views

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Scientific Correspondence

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Book Review

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Erratum

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Correction

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Product Review

  • 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?

    • Kenneth L. Beattie
    • Richard F. Fowler
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  • 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.

    • Diane Gershon
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