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Cockfighting and bear-baiting have been banned for several decades in most grown-up countries, but fist-fights between people are tragically still allowed.
My purpose is not to belittle the work the European Commission already does in support of European research, but to argue that there is a need for a more explicit science policy in Brussels — a greater clarity of purpose.
The numerical scatter in classical measurements of the gravitational constant may, after all, be explicable; the elastic properties of the wires from which torsion balances are suspended may be frequency-dependent.
A new transgenic mouse model for studying in vivo somatic mutations is based on the efficient recovery of chromosomally integrated lacZ-containing plasmids, using magnetic beads.
This week's issue offers items for cracking the genetic code, such as labelling reagents, transgenic laboratory products, an on-line molecular biology computing resource, a mammalian vector system, and more.
