April 25, NATIONAL DNA DAY.

http://www.genome.gov/dnaday/

60 years today of the publication of “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid”

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Biology/WatsonCrickNature.htm

“The Biochemistry Questions Site” has been reviewed in the ASBMB website

This blog has been honoured with a review by Dr. Aditis Das, a Science writer and Research Scientist who provides reviews about related scientific blogs for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The review related to this blog (the second review of the series), can be found here.

USMLE Step I 2011 Practice and Orientation materials are available already.

The United States Medical Licencing Examination materials for Step I are already available at the USMLE website.

http://www.usmle.org

The materials can be downloaded in pdf format in:

http://www.usmle.org/Examinations/step1/2011Step1.pdf

The content outlines for this exam has been updated by a subcommittee of the step I committee.

The updated content can be found in this link:

http://www.usmle.org/Examinations/step1/step1_content.html

USMLE committee recommends to students considering to exam Step I after May 2011 to be familiarized with the previous (2010) and the updated content outlines.

In future posts we will discuss the topics associated to the sample questions related to Biochemistry that are included in these materials.