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A Nobel laureate with a passion for basic research is just what the US biomedical community wants — and will get in Harold Varmus as head of the National Institutes of Health.
Contrary to the prevailing opinion that the Roman assault ramp at Masada in Israel was entirely man-made, geological observations reveal that it consists mostly of natural bedrock.
The US National Academy of Sciences, which has proposed a new framework based on international status for making decisions about the support of research, should follow through with a real-life study.
New modes of detection featured this week include a new crosslink immunoassay for bone research, a western blot kit for detecting autoantibodies to nuclear and cytoplasmic antigens, and an optical biosensor device.
