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Last week's hoop-la notwithstanding, the most urgent need in respect of global warming is to negotiate an international convention on greenhouse gases. Nature will play its part with regular summaries of relevant research.
Pulsed-field electrophoresis, the newest version of a standard technique, has become widely used for the sieving of large DNA molecules long in advance of an understanding of exactly how it yields useful results.
