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As it nears the transfer of its governance to China, Hong Kong is hampered by the consequences of historical short-sightedness. Its technological future depends on substantial investment and continuing freedoms.
Damaged corneas can often be repaired using donor grafts, but if the damage is too great the graft will be rejected. This may change with the development of a method to inhibit rejection which uses cultivated cells.
The main domains into which life-forms can be divided are the Eubacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. Complete genomic sequences of examples of the first two were published in 1995 and 19961,2. Now we have an example of the third.
Coverage for this feature includes instrumentation that should prove useful in a variety of fields, including ecology, materials microanalysis, biomolecular interactions and chemistry.
