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The collapse of the British government's attempts to privatize its observatories should not be the end of the story. But any future government must take heed of the lessons of a severe, and costly, embarrassment.
The demonstration of a way in which cytomegalovirus can evade immune surveillance also points to a mechanism by which abnormal proteins, once synthesized, can be degraded.
Isothermal titration calorimetry is a useful tool for the characterization of antibodies and antibody-related products, which uses heat as a detection medium, circumventing the problems associated with other analytical methods.
Cell biologists gather for an annual international meeting in San Francisco this week and items on display may include a non-radioactive assay for cell proliferation, a personal confocal microscopy system or a mammalian expression system.