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The Large Hadron Collider project faces new financial obstacles. Some proposed solutions to its problems are implausible. Others can surely be found, but will need great skill from CERN's management in limiting the damage to the laboratory.
Recently released documents give the inside story of Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. They reveal flaws in the award-making process — and an attempt to rewrite history.
The segregation of chromosomes at mitosis and meiosis during cell division depends on their interaction with a bipolar spindle. But, surprisingly, it turns out that the spindle can form and function even in the absence of chromosomes.
This week's tender covers DNA technology, including a kit for DNA analysis using high-resolution gel electrophoresis, a hybridization and detection system, primer design software and a purification kit for high-molecular-weight genomic DNA.
