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Last week's government paper on British research has the air of finality proper in a policy statement. The discussion, after all, is long since over. The question now is whether the new policy is wise.
The past year has seen many controversies about AIDS research and researchers. What productive events have occurred, and what is likely to happen in the next year?
One of the persistent controversies that surfaces in the media about AIDS is whether the heterosexual population is at risk. The latest projections provide an emphatic affirmative.
So far, the experimentalists have had the most fun from fullerenes, but now the theorists are catching up. Not before time, for they have to live down the shame of not having predicted them.
Genetic analysis of domestic animals demonstrates the feasibility of marker-assisted selection of economically important traits and may foreshadow good things to come (other than better bacon) for human geneticists.
RNAs linked to the chemical nuclease 1,10-phenanthroline-copper cut double-stranded DNA of complementary sequence. This cleavage reaction is applicable to all sequences and can be used to measure the distance between marker genes in base pairs, map the size of a transcription unit and define positions of chromosomal breakpoints.
Featured this week — an epitope mapping system, an instrument for the purification of proteins, peptides and glycoproteins from complex mixtures by continuous elution electrophoresis and a radiolabelled ligand for brain research.
