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An imaginative international research project, the Japanese-inspired Human Frontier Science Program, must not be allowed to founder because its managers wish it were something else and more conventional.
The reasons why mixtures of sand and pebbles seem to separate when shaken vigorously have been illuminated by an intriguing simulation which, among other things, suggests that only large pebbles behave in this way.
ImmunoDetection is a novel technique combining perfusion chromatography technology with antibodies to perform the steps of an immunoassay in a flow-through column format. Sensitive and precise measurements are performed in seconds to minutes using automated liquid chromatography instrumentation.
Featured this week — a compendium of immunological reagents, microplate analysis software and an in vitro cell culture system for the production of monoclonal antibodies, which provides an alternative to ascites production.