Science in the Middle East: "Yes, You Have Found It" Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief <h3>Rockets and MCAT’s</h3> In the last days of July 2006, as Hezbollah rockets landed outside an operating theatre at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, a surgeon continued with his operation and the web-site of Haifa University announced that "This week no exams will be held, Neither will lectures be given" (1 , 2) . On the same day, while a lighthouse near the American University of Beirut was hit by Israeli bombs, its provost left the country and the University posted the news that "We regret, for many reasons, being unable to administer the August 2006 MCAT examination in Beirut" (3) . That’s the immediate outlook for our young colleagues in the Middle East: cancelled biochemistry exams in Haifa, pre-meds blocked from the U.S. Medical College Aptitude test in Beirut. The two groups of students share the common language of biomedical science: each had been prepped on the Krebs cycle, DNA repair, and G proteins. Sadly, each was hunkered down at home with textbooks in hand, the issue in doubt, and death waiting around the corner. Despite their common language, they were separated by
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Science in the Middle East: "Yes, You Have Found It"
Weissmann, Gerald
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, Volume 20 (12): 1943
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Oct 1, 2006
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