Britain's physical scientists expressed both surprise and concern last week at the relatively large proportion of an extra £300 million (US$500 million) being made available to research councils over the next three years that has been reserved for the life sciences. In revealing how this extra money, first promised in July, is to be divided between research areas, the Department of Trade and Industry has announced that a key priority is to secure a "major expansion in molecular, biomolecular and biomedical research" (see Naturei95,825; 1998).
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