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Four years late, the British government has published a bill to regulate embryo research. The need now is that the British parliament should take an enlightened view of the freedom of research.
The British parliament will shortly be called upon to decide whether research on human eggs, fertilized in vitro, should be permitted or made a criminal offence. Scientists must make clear to their MPs where they stand.
It seems strange that Isaac Newton, for all his scientific achievements, was so attracted to the occult. Yet his vision of the power of symbols has resonance today.
The US National Academy of Science's study of opportunities in biology research is a thrilling tale and a lost opportunity. It says too little about research policy, and nothing about regulatory impediments to research.
Addressing the problems associated with commercial instrumentation for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, the authors describe a versatile instrument that you can assemble yourself with considerable cost savings.
A solid scintillator, low-cost spectrophotometer and a new protein/peptide sequencer will be featured at next week's Salon du Laboratoire in Paris, France.
