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abortion The British government's promised bill on embryo research, now imminent, seems bound to provoke an unwanted argument on abortion. But it is not too late to amend the bill and make it better.
The government intends to reform Britain's National Health Service. Medical research —much of which is supported by charities —will suffer if the government does not think again.
A spectacular claim that spermatozoa can carry foreign DNA into mouse eggs to make transgenic mice has not been confirmed, but there are no grounds for saying that it should never have been published.
Event recording methods have evolved from stopwatches and checksheets, through chart recorders and dedicated electronic event recorders, to flexible systems based on off-the-shelf microcomputers.
