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Mr George Soros, the financier-philanthropist, has created a mechanism for helping Russian science to survive that should be used (or at least copied) by others, public and private.
The "Gardner hypothesis" suggests that an excess of childhood leukaemia near a nuclear reprocessing plant is caused by paternal exposure to ionizing radiation. But the evidence shows that this explanation is wrong.
Rumours of an impending calamitous collision of a comet with the Earth have been discounted by the use of ancient Chinese records to refine the orbit of the prograde comet Swift-Tuttle.
The use of oligonucleotides for gene ampliation, as diagnostic probes or antisense-based drugs can be optimized by minimizing the possibility of nonspecific hybridization.
Computer buffs may be interested in this week's selection which includes software developed specifically for the chemist, a program for densitometry and gel analysis and a lab manual on CD-ROM.
In the first of a monthly series of articles, written in the main by people who are professionally involved in recruitment, Larry Botheras sets out some ground rules for those considering a career move into industry.
