A mnemonic device can be described as: ...a memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists. Mnemonics rely not only on repetition...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 11:30 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm attending the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting in San Diego this week. EB2008 is: A multi-society, interdisciplinary, scientific meeting featuring plenary and award lectures, symposia, oral and poster sessions, career services, and exhibits of scientific equipment, supplies, and publications The...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 11:27 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Around here at SciBlogs, people who know what the heck they are talking about like Tara, Orac, revere and Abel Pharmboy usually handle the dissection of the anti-sciencenauts who insist on not vaccinating their children against measles and the consequences...
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Posted on February 11, 2008 7:08 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As reported in a recent news piece in Nature, researchers at the Craig Venter Institute ("CVI") have chemically synthesized the complete half-megabase genome of the pathogenic bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium. In previously reported work, CVI successfully transplanted the genome of Mycoplasma...
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Posted on February 3, 2008 2:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
