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The trial in France of four government officials for complicity in the use of contaminated blood may have ended with the verdicts announced last Friday, but the recriminations will continue.
The ethics of biological research, and its general impact, are hotly debated in the West. Japanese silence on the issues is counterproductive. Will the Human Genome Project provide the catalyst for change?
The idea that particles can surmount the walls of potential wells to escape from them is so familiar that the complexity of attempts to broaden the problem is a surprise.
Fluorescent intercalation complexes of certain polycationic ligands with double-stranded DNA provide a new class of multichromophore labels for fluorescence assays.
Featured this week – DNA sequencing and analysis software, human genomic mapping probes and an enzyme-linked assay for the identification of amplified target DNA.
