Basic science: (May 2009)

Basic Facts for Basic Science

Overall, this outstanding text should soon become recognized as the definitive reference for the diagnosis and management of ocular trauma. The tall, narrow shape of Basic Facts for Basic Science suggests that perhaps the author intended that it be put into the pocket of one's lab coat; perhaps not, but this book is certainly appropriate for the shelf of any laboratory and for the office of any...

How basic is basic science?

Some other possible conclusions come easily to mind. Perhaps, if we’re really concerned about students’ learning evidence-based medicine, then we should teach it more or better. On the other hand I am one of many who have joined the anti-EBM movement (Norman 1999). In my view, the fundamental irony remains that, even though it made the BMJ’s ‘‘Top 15 Medical Innovations of all Time’’ list in 20...

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NCBI News, May 2009

Featured Data: 2009 H1N1 Influenza Sequences NCBI is the repository for the 2009 influenza virus sequences from the global H1N1 outbreak and is making every effort to make the sequences available as soon as possible. You can access the recent flu sequences and retrieve them individually from a special influenza virus resource page that is updated daily: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/S...

PREFACE Science ’ s gem : diamond science 2009

Marshall Stoneham London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, 17–19 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH, UK Natural diamond has been valued for its appearance and mechanical properties for at least two thousand years. As a gem stone diamond is unsurpassed. However, scientific work, especially in the last 20 years, has demonstrated that diamond...