June 1998
April 1998		August 1998

East, west - which doctor knows best?

In the late twentieth-century Western world, dissatisfaction with conventional medicine has led to an upsurge of alternative therapies. But do people reject contemporary medicine for reasons that science can explain? Or are they adopting alternative therapies in an attempt to build up their cultural identity?

Biotech in brief

Between 1993 and 1997 the Biotechnology Programme of the Third Framework Programme oversaw 133 projects, including the sequencing of the yeast genome and the continued growth of the European Molecular Biology Network (EMBNet). Two volumes record the history of some of Europe's best biotech research.