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The funding councils of the United Kingdom have achieved high standards in assessing, and thereby raising, the research performance of British universities. But dangers in the process merit further analysis.
Attempts to detect adaptive evolution at the molecular level have met with little success. Studies of a digestive enzyme in primates, involving the reconstruction of DNA sequences that have long been extinct, show a way forward.
This edition covers items for DNA amplification, such as an RT-PCR system, a sequence detection system, a DNA decontamination kit, DNA isolation and concentration tools, and items for maintaining clean PCR work areas.
