Penicillin

jgpeyer - Cool! I am interested in telomerase action too. But I rather want to study how alteration of telomere structure may influence signaling pathways inside the cell, for example, induce DNA damage response. The orchestration of telomerase action with telomere associated DDR proteins and shelterin makes this problem really interesting to study, as well as very promising as the basis for development of new therapeutic approaches.

To DDBB: Nope, I didn't heard anything yet. I hope that now, when the holidays are over, the chances to recieve the answers are becoming higher. Huh, strange that the Bio thread is so inactive this year. The formerly ones that I read here were really helpful. Astaroth: your chances are still OK. I was also rejected by UCSD on the pre-app stage. They have problems with funding and accept just as little as 1-2 internatioals per year. Honestly, I initially wasn't considering it as a real option. You should not really worry about it and concentrate on other schools. By the way, my pre-app to JHU BCMB was accepted.

Hi guys! Nice to meet the people who are in the same boat :) I'am applying for the 2009-2010 admission to PhD programs in Cancer Biology. My particular area of interest is role of DNA damage response signaling network in the regulation of apoptosis and senescence. Being an international applicant it is hard to get into the top10 schools, but if you try sometimes you get what you need, right? My stats are: BSc, biology major in Russia's top3 school. GPA: 5.0 out of 5.0. GRE Subject Biology: 920 (99%) GRE General:800Q 600V 4,0AW (A bit low, but I'am from totaly non-english medium) TOEFL: 111 (30R-28L-23S-30W) 4 years of research experience, but the area of research was far from the molecular biology (I have done 2 research projects on development of asymmetries in vertebrates, basicly morphological aspect). Have 3 personal research grants, 1 first-author publication in respected local journal, 1 article is submitted for the international journal publication (also 1-st author). Recommendations are said to be very strong: One is from PI (who knows me for 7 years!) One is from the Head of the department One is from mol bio professor. My school list is: The top choices 1 Stanford U. 2 MIT 3 Rockefeller U. 4 Harvard U. 5 Cornell U./Sloan Kettering 6 Washington U. in St. Louis The second choices: 7 Columbia U. 8 U. Penn 9 BCM 10 JHU 11 Yale U 12 UCSF 13 Princeton U.

Lime: I've focused primarily on the barrons book. I find it comprehensive + it contains the famous 3500 wordlist and nice math review. I think, it was the most helpful book in my prep. For my AWA, I have submited a couple of essays to the scoreitnow service and used barrons for tactics. By the way, I have got my scores today: 600V 800Q. It is just what I need.

Lime: Thanks for your response! Yes, I agree with you that the "art paragraph" is rather weak - I run out of time here and have only 5 minutes to write down intro and conclusion.

Hi, everyone. I'am very curious about the quality of the ScoreItNow essay evaluating service by ETS. I take it for couple of times and always recieve 5s for both argument and issue questions. How representative are these scores? Please, everyone who have taken ScoreItNow and actual GRE, tell me how neatly do your scores correspond?

My keyword here was "Still". It means that the attitude of philosophers to the character of the issue must be similar in both cases. They call attention to the problematic (difficult) approach to this problem in 17 century, and in 20 sentury they STILL think it is uneasy.

I think E is the best match.

Agree. I make a mistake when used directly used 28 to find the amount of water - it is only 80%.

Got 33,6. Original fruit contains 28p of fruit itself and 72p of water. Dry fruit still contains 28p of fruit itself + 20% water = 28*0,2=5,6. The mass of dry fruit is 5.6+28=33,6

Russia rules. Anyway. :) Regarding the essay: i've liked your examples. The structure is good and much like the one which is described in the Barrons textbook (which is an excellent manual, by the way). Of course, here are some minor grammatic flaws and literalies, like "Is is being stated that if..." "...nuances of his field, which is no more..." but these ones are accidental and, I think, will barely affect your score. Good luck!

"The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things." Answer: At the first glance, the world consists of simple things. But all you need is just to magnify them or to look at them from a different angle to see how complicated they actually are. I truely believe that careful and persistent investigation of even most commonplace objects has allowed mankind to create it's most significant ideas. People are always looking around them. It is a kind of a natural instinct - to look around and to notice new details in old things. A lot of tecnological innovations are derived from the prototypes created by nature. Throughout the time the flight of birds has inspired humans to make a flying machine which is heavier than air. A lot of prominent thinkers have tried to solve this problem until the law of uplifting force was discovered. This is an excellent example of how the pure inspiration by such common live creatures as birds has allowed humans to overcome the earth's grasp. Modern insect-like robots, used for exploration of space, may serve as another instance of usage of usual, but elaborated natural forms for the benefit of technology. However, engeneering is not the only sphere of human knowledge where the use of common objects allow to make a significant breakthrough. Contemporary Biology is another perfect example. While being nearly purely discriptive science in the XIX and early XX century, nowadays the life science is mostly experimental. Now, it becomes clear that the most significant accomplishments of molecular biology were reached through systematical and careful examination of the most common life creatures, the so-called model objects. The persistent investigation of a single celled baceria Escherichia coli allow mankind to create artificial insulin, to solve the question of a genetic code, to learn how the species evolve etc. One famous biological proverb states: "Everything that is true for E. coli will be true for elephant as well". And that is generally true. The art has also become somehow dependent from the common things. The paintors were always inspired by the forms of nature. Even one single landscape may allow several artists to see the new facets of a common picture. Some divisions of the modern art even use common objects in their unchanged form. The simple commonplace objacts become masterpieces if we learn how to look at the from a different angle. "Even a simple bathtab can be beatiful" - think some artists. In conclusion, it becomes evident that the mankind throughout it's history have used the commonplace things as a source of inspiration and new ideas. The ideas borrowed from nature find it's application in all spheres of technology. Use of common life organisms as model objects have serves as a basis of the rise of biological science. Art has also has finded it's inspiration in common forms.

2. Given a table X - 0 1 f - n 100-n What is f? Is it frequency? Then everything is ok, answer is B.Everything which is For n = 49: There will be 49x with value 0 and 51x with value 1. So the mean will be 51\100 > 0,5.

Thanks, lime! Such a silly mistakes! I think these are mostly because of the time factor, but anyway, need to work on it. How about the general idea?

The answer in #15 is 9, by the way. Not 18.