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Letter: For the record

Published 5 July 2006

• Chris Mason of University College London was incorrectly referred to as Chris Major in the news item on stem cells from blood (24 June, p 18).

• Our article on “faster” vaccines stated that “For each amino acid, there are up to four possible codons” (3 June, p 16). Reader Keith Bradnam points out that arginine and serine have six possible codons.

Issue no. 2559 published 8 July 2006

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