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Mr Leonid Brezhnev's death, and Mr Yuri Andropov 's succession as the fifth holder of his party post since the Revolution, is also an opportunity for reforming the framework of Soviet science.
Last week's reports of the surprisingly simple difference between a normal human gene and its equivalent in a human cancer cell is not merely important but provoking. What will happen next?
