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Differences within the US research community over how best to support biomedical research create the impression of factional quarrelling. That cannot be avoided, but it would help if there were a director of the NIH in post.
The business world now sets great store by personality tests when assessing job applicants. But the evidence for their predictive value is frequently overstated and wrongly assessed.
The reports elsewhere in this issue of the structure of two receptors for the potently vasoconstrictive endothelins area reminder of the power molecular biology is bringing to pharmacology (and much else besides).
