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British and US institutions have separately challenged the notion that the nucleotide sequences of the human genome should be an open book; have they also signalled the end of the age of innocence for the new biology?
Methane is often ignored in the greenhouse debate. Reductions of emissions of this gas would be relatively easy to achieve and could have a significant effect on global warming.
Nature's Boston conference last week "Membrane proteins and signal transduction", 14 & 15 November 1991, Boston. showed that many intracellular signalling pathways have succumbed to the attack of genetics and biochemistry, while the first mice without prions promise the solution of an outstanding mystery.
New methods for the precise (state-detailed) resolution of ionization thresholds open new vistas in photoionization dynamics, ion spectroscopy and state-selected ion-molecule reactions.
In the news this week — autorads with a white background, a silicon-based biosensor for neuroscience research and "clip art" designed specifically for biologists and chemists to improve the look of scientific presentation material.
