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False starts in identifying genes associated with psychiatric disease (see overleaf) and excessive regulatory hurdles facing human gene therapy could hamper research on gene manipulation. But the mood was optimistic at Nature's conference on Gene Manipulation in Biology and Human Disease.
Electrons near the top of an electronic band appear to behave at low temperatures as if they were classical particles and not particles best represented by quantum mechanics.