AFRICA:
Danes Bring DNA Analysis To the Heart of Africa
Lone Frank
KAMPALA, UGANDA--African biologists have long struggled to study their wealth of wildlife without modern molecular biology. Now development funding from Denmark has transformed a dilapidated university building here in Uganda's capital into a state-of-the-art lab--. Last month, Makerere University here in Uganda's capital opened its new Molecular Biology Lab, the first university center to provide a full complement of facilities for molecular biology, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloning, and DNA sequencing.