Agricultural biotech moves into spotlight

Latin American Science Moves into the Spotlight

With new incentives, some governments in Latin America are starting to increase investment in basic and applied research. Although the news is encouraging, scientists in this region still face many challenges ahead.

Genomics moves into the clinic.

Laetrile: the battle moves into the courtroom.

NDP kinase moves into developing primary cilia.

Inmunofluorescence staining of murine NIH3T3 fibroblasts grown at high density shows that conventional nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) kinases A and B localize to a sensory organelle, the primary cilium. Similar results are obtained with Xenopus A6 kidney epithelial cells, suggesting that NDP kinases are a universal component of the primary cilium. The translocation of NDP kinase into primary cili...

Plant genomics moves into the limelight.

Two major considerations impelled Ronald Phillips [University of Minnesota and Director of the National Research Initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)], and Michael Freeling (University of California, Berkeley), to organize a recent colloquium, ‘‘Protecting our Food Supply: The Value of Plant Genome Initiatives’’ (Stanford, CA, June 2–5). First, the increased wealth of the dev...