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Cutting back on government by the Republican Congress threatens to damage one of the few things US governments have consistently done well in the past half century - providing public support for research.
The retirement next week of Britain's Chief Science Adviser for the past five years will rob us of a forceful public servant and proselytizer of science at a time when there are too few.
Product review puts image analysis on stage - there is an epifluorescence illuminator, an inverted fluorescence microscope, a high-performance digital camera and an environmental scanning electron microscope.
