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China's plans for eugenics must be judged by the degree to which they interfere with people's wishes; they may not differ much from programmes followed elsewhere but compulsion will make them unacceptable.
Understanding the intricacies of colour vision, the origins of the DNA industry and the classification of stars are but three of the scientific birthdays celebrated in this year’s anniversarial feast.
The first issue of this new monthly journal provides a variety of papers for structural biologists (and others) to get their teeth into, among them two dealing with the intriguing matter of protein folding.
