Implementation of standardized patient program using local resources in Avalon School of Medicine.

Introduction: The standardized Patient Program (SPP) is a standard educational training method which provides the pre-clinical students a better clinical foundation by linking the realm of clinical medicine to basic sciences. It incorporates a modern simulation technique and enhances the ability of the students wherein they can practice, apply and learn the basics of patient encounter. The main objective of this study was to analyze the implementation and efficiency of the SPP in Avalon University School of Medicine (AUSOM).

The bioterrorism threat and dual-use biotechnological research: an Israeli perspective.

Israel has a long history of concern with chemical and biological threats, since several hostile states in the Middle East are likely to possess such weapons. The Twin-Tower terrorist attacks and Anthrax envelope scares of 2001 were a watershed for public perceptions of the threat of unconventional terror in general and of biological terror in particular. New advances in biotechnology will only increase the ability of terrorists to exploit the burgeoning availability of related information to develop ever-more destructive bioweapons.

Quorum sensing influences Vibrio harveyi growth rates in a manner not fully accounted for by the marker effect of bioluminescence.

Background: The light-emitting Vibrios provide excellent material for studying the interaction of cellular communication with growth rate because bioluminescence is a convenient marker for quorum sensing. However, the use of bioluminescence as a marker is complicated because bioluminescence itself may affect growth rate, e.g.

Cell cycle dependent phosphatase activity in Bacillus subtilis.

In Bacillus subtilis there is evidence that the replication origin of the DNA molecule is attached to the cytoplasmic membrane, and that this attachment is essential for the initiation of replication. We have previously shown that attachment of DNA to the membrane is cyclic and that DNA becomes attached to the cytoplasmic membrane at the beginning of replication and is subsequently released. We have also shown that membrane protein phosphorylation is associated with the initiation of DNA replication in B.