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The annual allocation of funds between the British research councils is a more cheerful event this year than in the recent past. But money by itself will not put British research back on its feet.
Australia's universities begin this month an academic year that will see them well on the way towards a unified system of higher education. Hopes that an election later in the year will bring a change of course, probably misplaced, are unlikely to be fulfilled. But nobody can guess what the consequences will be except that they will be profound.
The good news is that the three-degree cosmic microwave background has the exact spectrum of black-body radiation, and is spatially featureless. The bad news is the same.
The solutions to many protein analytical problems require flexible chemistries at a high sensitivity. Solid-phase sequence analysis is one way to eliminate limitations inherent in current methods.
Products featured at next week's Bio/Technology Winter Symposium in Miami, Florida, include a high-throughput DNA sequencer and an antibody purification system.
