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Protests against the proposed space station Freedom continue, but the US Congress is likely to approve the project. The time has come for counter-arguments of a different kind.
Paul Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, points to the scientific community's responsibility in the case of Weaver et al.
Below we republish extracts from the "minority opinion" by Drs Hugh O. McDevitt and Ursula Storb that accompanied the draft report on Weaver et al. by the US NIH's Office of Scientific Integrity.
Building upon earlier studies with fluorescent probes, the authors describe a new cell tracking compound, PKH95, with a radioactive signal, which has been developed specifically for high-sensitivity cell tracking and biodistribution studies.
This week's labelling technology product line-up includes reagents for three-colour cell analysis kits, for end-labelling oligos and an ethidium bromide stain substitute.
