Tales in tech transfer

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Statewide Heavy-Truck Crash Assessment tech transfer summary

This study used the most current statewide crash data to perform an indepth analysis of heavy-truck crashes in Iowa. This study also attempted to assess crash experience with respect to commercial driver’s license (CDL) licensure. In addition, this study used citation data from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) Motor Vehicle Division and Iowa State Patrol to investigate the possible r...

Repeated TALEs

Three recent papers, published just weeks apart, describe the use of fluorescent TALEs to tag specific DNA sequences in live cells and, in one case, also in fixed cells, the latter with potential clinical applications.

Bacteriophage tales

A correspondent has asked me about the origins of a legend which has become known as 'The phage in the letter'. Common to all variants of this story is the following: one scientist, called X, sends a request to another, Z, for a particular bacteriophage strain which Z has discovered. Z replies saying he is not sending it out. X thereupon plates out the letter and retrieves the phage from it. So...

Pathogenetic tales

A little over twenty years ago, a group of scientists assembled in Asilomar, California, to consider the consequences of the newly invented techniques of genetic engineering, or recombinant DNA, as it later came to be called. There was in place a moratorium recommended by scientists and which we, working for the UK's Medical Research Council, had been instructed to heed by the Secretary of the ...