Bill McGinnis

Bill McGinnis

question of his own to address. He thus switched to investigating the origins of complex innate behaviour, using the sexual behaviour of Drosophila as a model system. In the short time since, Dickson’s progress has been astounding. His group has been focussing on the role of the fruitless gene, which is known to be differently spliced in males and females. The significance of this observation h...

Pharmacy Bill

Pharmacy Bill

Pharmacy Bill

Bill Bement

At the same time, the government was forced to admit that some of the pollution targets set for this year will not be met. Specifically, Australia wanted to reduce the fertiliser runoff by 50% by this year under the socalled Reef Plan, but this target has now been postponed to 2018. Only small reductions in nitrogen and sediment runoff have been achieved so far. These problems can be clearly li...