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A new section in this issue of Nature highlights the growing demands of insurers for access to genetic information, the diversity of legislative responses, and the many scientific uncertainties. The history of genetics suggests a controversial way forward.
The insurance industry is likely to find it more difficult to use genetic data on disease susceptibility than some of its critics claim. But it is already contesting demands for strict controls on the way this data is used.
The discovery of two remarkable new objects by astronomers has blurred the distinction between stars and planets. It also raises hopes of finding planetary systems like our own in the near future.
The peptide platter serves up a variety of goodies including antimicrobial peptides, a deamidation detection kit, a molecular-sizing instrument and a new line of separation products for peptides, polypeptides and proteins.
