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The outcome of the election in the United States will matter greatly both for the indigenous research enterprise and for its international ramifications.
For centuries, scientists have been bombarded with pleas for plain language. Why have these pleas had no effect, when the problem of unreadable prose could be solved at a stroke?
Identifying diseases in need of a cure is easy and the temptation to follow that with money appears to be irresistible, but it has not always proved to be successful. Research money should follow scientific opportunity.
Insights from the classic work of Luria and Delbriick on bacterial mutation rates may be applied to tracking human gene defects prevalent in isolated populations.
