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An international comparison of research spending by companies confirms the correlation between success and research spending and raises questions about the capacity of British companies to face the future.
Value-judgements about the need for more ‘goal-directed’ or ‘basic’ scientific research beg the question of how the publicly funded scientific enterprise works. An efficient management would start to put things right.
Particles that are neither fermions nor bosons, but something in between, appear to exist only fitfully, in special circumstances, but may now have been made more easily calculable.
New reagents to watch out for include ‘live’ cell nucleic acid stains, a yeast transformation kit, a chemiluminescent immunoblotting system and an expression system for the production of soluble proteins in E. coli.
A comparison of trends and costs between two European Union countries, the United Kingdom and France, and the impact that regulation can have on employment opportunities.
