EMBO's Plan for a Laboratory

Abstract

This week at Geneva there has been a meeting of the council of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and representatives of several European governments to discuss the long-term support of EMBO's activities. The most controversial part of these proposals is that there should be a European laboratory for molecular biology; some countries—France, for example—have come out openly in favour of the laboratory, but others are known to be only lukewarm towards it. The following is an extract from the documents prepared by the EMBO council in support of the case for a laboratory.