Friday, February 15, 2013

Mastigostyla woodii in the iris family named in honor of British botanist John Wood

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  Mastigostyla woodii , a Bolivian plant in the iris family ( Iridaceae ) with blue-purple flowers, was named in honor of the British bota...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Molecular-modeling terms in pharmacology: ADMET, ADME and ADME-Tox

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The acronym ADMET stands for absorption , distribution , metabolism , elimination , and toxicity . The word elimination may be swapped for...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

An acronym in genetics: SNP for single nucleotide polymorphism

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In genetics, the acronym SNP stands for single nucleotide polymorphism . SNP is pronounced “ snip ” [1-4] . SNPs are recognized by co...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

An acronym in genetics: HAR1 for human accelerated region 1

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A recent Special Collector's Edition of Scientific American is entitled What Makes Us Human . The missing question mark suggests that ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

An arguable misnomer in physics: the term “quantum mechanics”

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Analog or digital ,  uninterrupted or pixilated , continuity or discontinuity , field or particle ? These pairs of opposing adjectives ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A lead-free borosilicate glass, G 702 EJ, named Py-Right, Pie Rite and eventually Pyrex

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PYREX ® is  is a transparent, lead-free borosilicate glass with a low thermal expansion coefficient—an example of  a material with good he...
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Crystal City—a pseudonym for Corning, New York

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The upstate New York city of Corning is located on the Chemung River in Steuben County. Along the river, the buildings of Corning Glass Wo...