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R. N. P. Sutton, of the Department of Virology, Wittington Hospital, Manchester, offers some reflections on the possible implications of increasingly stringent health and safety requirements for scientific research in Britain
The European Science Foundation's general assembly heard of progress last week in controlling genetic manipulation experiments. Chris Sherwell reports from Strasbourg