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On recent precedent, the latest crop of defendants in the French contaminated-blood saga will not be given a fair trial; some are already the victims of double-jeopardy.
How can the international trade in genetic resources help global biodiversity conservation? The UN's Biodiversity Convention provides the means to resolve this question.
Academic institutions have been unwarrantably slow in coming to grips with the their members' involvement with commercial companies, hazarding their main goals in the process.
Multiple small biological samples can be simultaneously prepared for RT-PCR by magnetically isolating mRNA and synthesizing cDNA in 96-well plates. The resulting accuracy, high throughput and ease of use facilitate commercial and clinical applications.
On offer this week — primer analysis and database searching programs, DNA purification systems, a nucleic acid quantitation reagent, PCR paraphernalia and an automated colony picking machine.
