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The British Committee on the Safety of Medicines seems to have acted with needless haste by warning women against forms of contraceptive pills whose risks may not be all that great.
As the Caspian Sea continues to rise, related environmental disasters are destroying not only local human communities but also valuable biological resources in the lake itself.
The interpretation of the fossil remains of long-extinct creatures with no close modern relatives poses problems familiar to fog-bound Victorians - and modern palaeontologists.
A new technology for conducting immunoassays that uses an electrochemiluminescence detection system, eliminates the use of radioisotopes and offers improved assay performance.
New technology and techniques for understanding immunology are describes below - including a serum protein quantification system, antibodies to proliferation markers, a human interleuken-10 ELISA and an unmasking reagent.