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The seemingly endless studies of the ethical connotations of genetics serve a valuable role in general understanding even if the ethical problems involved are often insubstantial.
Masses of circumstantial data link diet and disease, including a new report about a chemical in broccoli that detoxifies carcinogens in vitro, but it remains the case that very little is really known about food as medicine
The large surfaces of protein antigens that interact with antibody-combining sites can be determined using deuterium-exchange labelling and two-dimensional 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This technique may also be applied to other protein-protein interactions to identify key residues that contribute to the affinity.
Over 400 companies will be exhibiting at next week's meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology to be held in Anaheim, California. A new p53-deficient transgenic mouse strain and a laser-induced fluorescence detector for capillary electrophoresis will be featured.