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The US Secretary of State is rightly cock-a-hoop about the prospects for arms control in the near future, but his vision of what follows is incomplete. But it is not too soon to be planning for the post-strategic world.
The concept of P-selection, by which graduates of the more prestigious (P) universities tend to publish longer than those from other (NP) universities, is herewith introduced into the literature.
In principle, it should be possible to turn radiation directly into mechanical energy, but the best designs so far of machines for doing this consist of paper studies. Somebody should build one.
Efforts to alter the mAb component of pharmaceuticals have focused on making them more human-lIke and smaller. Ultimately, the smallest molecular recognition unit derived from antibodies may be a single complementarity region.
Highlights at next week's American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas include an interactive 3-D graphics software package and formuIin-free tissue fixative.
The demographic changes predicted for the 1990s may not have the effects that had been expected as there will be a rising proportion of students from non-traditional backgrounds.