Product Review

This week's selection covers instruments for the general biochemical laboratory, including a microprocessor controlled dispensing system and a new power supply for electrophoresis.

The companies featured this week will be exhibiting at the Nature conference, to be held in Boston, USA, from 19 to 21 September, 1983.

Local area networks are increasingly being used to link data-processing equipment. Adrian Stokes reviews their history and their prospects

Ed Boyes looks at digital image processing—the technique which gleans quantitative data from pictures.

Karol Sikora looks at monoclonal antibodies, the rising stars of the biotechnology era.

This week's range of products includes items being exhibited at the meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists which will be held in San Francisco from 5 to 9 June

T.M. Dexter reviews the techniques and resources currently available for tissue culture and discusses their future uses.

Tony Ferrige and John Lindon review the rapid advances that have taken NMR spectrometers from the chemical to the medical laboratory