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The decision of the US Congress to kill the Superconducting Super Collider does not and should not spell the death of particle physics, but rather the beginning of a strictly international programme.
There has been a deluge of reports, in this journal and elsewhere, dealing with the subject of signal transduction and the Ras protein. Why all the fuss? The following is a News and Views article with a difference - an explanation for those not close to events, and a celebration of an achievement in biomedical research.
New on the market this week — a DNA sequencer that delivers typical read lengths of 800 bases per sample, software for HPLC users and a solvent recycling system designed to reduce costs.
