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A British regulatory committee has made a fool of itself by elevating a service for sex determination offered by a London clinic to an occasion for a debate on novel “serious ethical questions”.
Patriot missiles were returned to the Gulf last week. But they were not the reason for the unexpectedly low casualty rate when Saddam attacked Israel with Scud missiles in 1991.
The voids inside fullerene molecules and their larger relatives offer a cosseted environment in which unusual physics and chemistry may be possible. Fundamental science, as well as applied research, should benefit.
An automated approach for partial sequence analysis of entire cDNA libraries is described with the immediate aim of generating an expressed sequence catalogue and the long-term goal of sequencing by hybridization.
Featured this week are products designed to automate laboratory tasks, including an instrument for processing western blots, an infrared fluorescence-based sequencer and robotic liquid handling systems.
