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The nature of ricin.

UK's Health Protection Agency questioned in the light of bioterrorism attack.

Code of practice aims to help UK universities avoid conflicts of interest over funding.

UK's Nuffield Council on Bioethics assesses the influence of genetics on patterns of behavior.

but will it really benefit malaria endemic countries?

Talk of the $1000 genome comes as UK's Human Genetics Commission consults on gene testing

Serious concerns raised over UK government's haste in setting up new Health Protection Agency.

A new House of Commons report is critical of human genetic research legislation and governance.

yet again bends the rules in publishing the rice genome, opinions are strongly divided on whether this should be the shape of things to come.

UK researchers fear that legislation debated on Monday in the House of Lords could infringe academic freedom.

Despite the announcement of draft mouse genome sequences, it will be some time before a credible mouse genome is established.

Eleven days after Celera revealed its mouse sequence, the publicly-funded consortium claims to be there as well.

, and a recent report from the UK's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee raise serious concerns about the widespread use of predictive genetic testing.

A UNESCO meeting in Paris last week discussed the potential of electronic publishing in science. There have been some strong movements in biomedical publishing in the past five years but nothing like the seismic shift that's needed, concludes physicist Paul Ginsparg.