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Far from being a diversion, last week's argument at Berlin over the obligations of poor countries on global warming is a sign that neglected issues are at last being taken up.
With a few keystrokes and mouse button clicks on a UNIX workstation, the entire Protein Data Bank archive is now available for searching and displaying the three-dimensional protein structures contained within.
Featured this week in product review are gel analysis systems for molecular biology research, cultureware for neuronal cells, an optical biosensor system and a molecular weight analyser.