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Innovation 2008

Today we released Innovation 2008: 14 Questions the candidates for President should answer about Science & America’s Future.
We started with more than 3,300 questions submitted by our 38,000 signers. We worked with 11 other organizations representing millions of voters to winnow them into the top 14 questions the [...]

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Check out the Specialized Information Services (SIS) Division website from the National Library of Medicine.
There are tons of great resources in Environmental Health & Toxicology, Chemical Information, HIV/AIDS, Outreach Activities & Resources, and even a Directory of Health Organizations.
The newest addition to the site is Chemical Warfare Agents - Resources chemical warfare agents

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Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and the Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT have a fantastic new resource: the BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS). These tutorials are clear, easy to understand, and best of all, they allow just-in-time instruction on practical bioinformatics applications and tools.
These video tutorials highlight bioinformatics resources such as NCBI Entrez, [...]

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A new version of the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) and a new version of the CD-Search tool from NCBI were recently released.

From NCBI:
Proteins often contain several modules or domains, each with a distinct [...]

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Seed Magazine has a host of downloadable cribsheets on a variety of topics. A new one came out the other day, so I thought I’d share the links for the collection with you (most recent at the top):

Cribsheet #15: Quantum Computing
Cribsheet #14: Exoplanets
Cribsheet #13: Light
Cribsheet #12: Genetics
Cribsheet #11: Plate Tectonics
Cribsheet #10: Photosynthesis
Cribsheet #9: String Theory
Cribsheet [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, the annual Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection was released. From Michael Y. Galperin’s abstract:
The Nucleic Acids Research online Molecular Biology Database Collection is a public repository that lists more than 1000 databases described in this and previous Nucleic Acids Research annual database issues, as well as a [...]

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I’m intrigued! I came across the researchblogging.org site the other day and I have to admit that I’m excited to see what happens in the next few months. The site is an aggregator which picks up blog entries about peer-reviewed research. If you are a science blogger, you can sign up to [...]

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We’re excited to have a new way to bring you information about our classes, programs, and initiatives!

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