Antimalarial therapies.

Analysis of the trends in antimalarial research depicts a slow growth in launched products since 1995. However, 2002 saw the completion, after ten years, of the malarial genome project and an upsurge in products entering active development can be seen at the end of this period.

Reef-coral proteins as visual, non-destructive reporters for plant transformation.

Recently, five novel fluorescent proteins have been isolated from non-bioluminescent species of reef-coral organisms and have been made available through ClonTech. They are AmCyan, AsRed, DsRed, ZsGreen and ZsYellow. These proteins are valuable as reporters for transformation because they do not require a substrate or external co-factor to emit fluorescence and can be tested in vivo without destruction of the tissue under study.