Doubts raised over accuracy of DNA fingerprinting
Features
This week's magazine
21 July 1990
Issue 1726
Editor's picks
The spread of cancer in the human body
Features
The microbes that would not die: Microbiologists have coaxed life from a brick from a temple in Thebes, from permanently frozen arctic soil and from ancient muds on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Are these organisms really survivors from earlier centuri
Features
Space
Surviving radiation in space
Features
In the beginning was the genome: The world’s first ‘big science’ project in the life sciences – The project to map and sequence the entire complement of human genes
Features
Table of contents
News
Technical snags hamper push for smaller dishes
News
Volcano damages
News
Chemical peace
News
A home fit for macaques
News
Kites flying
News
Rocket fire
News
Private fears
News
Virus screening
News
Animal rules
News
Science: The gene that makes a man of you
News
Life
Science: The whale that could not stand on its own two feet
News
Science: Embryo transplants could save rare animals
News
‘Doomed’ Hipparcos mission is a success
News
Science carries the can for Maguire Seven convictions
News
Abortion pill in prospect for Britain
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‘Medical famine’ blights USSR, says official journal
News
Researchers divided over Alzheimer’s and aluminium
News
‘Incurable’ disease falls to genetic codebreakers
News
Crackdown on hackers ‘may violate civil rights’
News
A dissident view on life, the Universe and democracy
News
Fifth force physicist bows to nature
News
Weapons plants ‘were dangerously radioactive’
News
Patient denied rights to own tissue
News
MPs compromise over BSE and breeding
News
White House demands probe into NASA
News
Science: Why do humans and apes cradle babies on their left side?
News
Science: Older mothers have more left-handed babies
News
Technology
Technology: Fresh evidence prompts row over Airbus crash
News
Technology
Technology: Solar plane sets off for Kitty Hawk
News
Technology
Technology: Cardboard, pencil and paper – New tools to spot glaucoma
News
Technology
Technology: Market forces blamed for holding back Japan’s baby computer
News
Technology
Technology: Aphids fall for siren scent of pheromones
News
Technology
Technology: Rocket fuel keeps acid off Florida’s oranges
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Technology
Technology: New tech, new jobs
News
Features
Doubts raised over accuracy of DNA fingerprinting
DNA in court again: DNA 'fingerprinting' is being increasingly used in court cases, for example to identify rape suspects. But population geneticists are raising new scientific doubts over its accuracy
Features
The spread of cancer in the human body
Features
The microbes that would not die: Microbiologists have coaxed life from a brick from a temple in Thebes, from permanently frozen arctic soil and from ancient muds on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Are these organisms really survivors from earlier centuri
Features
Space
Surviving radiation in space
Features
In the beginning was the genome: The world’s first ‘big science’ project in the life sciences – The project to map and sequence the entire complement of human genes
Features
More
Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Counting the costs
Forum: Taking a leaf from the French – A vegetable delicacy
Forum: What culture gap? – There’s hardly a gap to be bridged
Review: Global management studies
Books & Arts
Review: Distant shores of delight
Books & Arts
Forum: Private and confidential – Who may be reading your electronic mail
Forum: A whiff of optimism – Whatever happened to self-improvement?
Review: Run away from disaster
Books & Arts
Review: History locked in ice
Books & Arts
Review: In search of a true measure of national wealth
Books & Arts
