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Britain's Labour government has given notice of its opposition to a new European 'superstate'. But the dangers should not obscure the advantages of mutual support in building up Europe's scientific infrastructure.
The purposeful use of funds from the European Union has provided a much-needed fillip to the research enterprise in Portugal. But with progress comes a range of problems familiar elsewhere in Europe.
A permanent decline in global oil production rate is virtually certain to begin within 20 years. Serious planning is needed to deal with the economic consequences.
New studies indicate that relatively few infected cells can sustain an HIV infection. Combining this knowledge with powerful multi-drug therapy, it may now be possible to eradicate HIV in a patient within two to three years. Time will tell.
Browsing amongst the new molecular tools, the reader can find a high-throughput DNA sequencing and gene analysis system, electroelution capsules, a gel documentation workstation and a blunt PCR cloning system.
