best, patrick
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Issue 9 of HMS Beagle is now available at http://hmsbeagle.com
Selected contents:
Outstanding Papers in Biology - an excerpt by Walter Gratzer looks at
luminaries selecting luminous papers. You can receive this book free!
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/booksoft/essay.htm
Classic biology literature is a theme this issue - answer our poll query
"Do you read it?"
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/people/poll.htm
Smoking Causes Cancer! - how the media inflates research findings for
the sake of making headlines.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/people/pressbox.htm
Seeking Extremophiles - a profile of Biorecombinant Catalysis Inc., a
company that harvests enzymes from fast-living, deep-dwelling microbes.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/people/profile.htm
The Grand Profession and the Petty Professionals: Reflections on the
Golden Era of Microbiology - op-ed piece examines de Kruif's Microbe
Hunters and Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/people/op_ed.htm
Software review - Tecplot 7.0 for presenting biological and medical
imaging.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/booksoft/sreview.htm
Book review - The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and
Why We Must.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/booksoft/review.htm
Rebuilding Our Infrastructure - a meeting brief on emerging therapies
for osteoporosis.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/resnews/meeting.htm
The Art Gallery presents strands of light and ribbons of proteins.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/recroom/artgalry.htm
A new SET puzzle and the winner of our last Set contest announced.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/recroom/games.htm
The Asexual Revolution - a Cutting Edge debate on the science and
ethics of mammalian cloning. Attendant documents (also available as a
single PDF file) include a synopsis, references linked to MEDLINE
abstracts, Web links and more.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/cutedge/overview.htm
And more! Navigate easily from Beagle's table of contents through the
current issue and archived articles.
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/09/main.htm
Sincerely,
Sarah Greene (Editor-in-Chief, HMS Beagle)
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