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President George Bush's mission to Japan last week began as if it were the most serious trade mission ever mounted from the United States, but it proved predictably a flop.
Britain urgently needs to return to traditional, but now abandoned, values in science. Scientific administrators and EC directorates should revise their policies in the light of Japan's experience.
The great successes of the past few years suggest that living processes consist of well-ordered events executed under strict control, but a few numbers would give a different and more fuzzy impression.
Large disk-like mixed micelles composed of a drug and biological lipid are thermodynamically stable and represent a novel drug delivery system. Their unique physical properties are reflected in a significantly improved therapeutic index.
