Me and my friends

Me and my friends: gene mention normalization with background knowledge

“Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are” – this proverb best illustrates our approach to the normalization of gene names. In this approach, we rely on background knowledge that describes various aspects of a gene: it is localized on a chromosomal band, it belongs to an operon structure, it is a member of a gene family, its products take part in biological processes, they ...

ME and My Shadow

Everyone Exposed to Methyleugenol Whether you intend to or not, chances are you will consume approximately 6 micro-grams of methyleugenol (ME) today, according to a report in this month's issue by Dana B. Barr and colleagues of a study designed to measure ME in human blood _ serum [EHP 108:323-328]. ME is a compound that occurs naturally in a variety of spices and herbs, including clove oil, nu...

To my family and friends

Andrew Brook My BlackBerry and Me : Forever One or Just Friends ?

The idea that something about cognition lies outside the brain and even the skin is central to a number of significant recent developments in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Loosely grouped under the label, ‘situated cognition’, all variants of this view hold that the various contexts of cognition are crucial to it in some way. However, there is a big division over what way. Indeed, t...

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