HOT PICKS
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**The daily gene.** Keep abreast of genetic medicine news with *GeneLetter*, a free Web newsletter brimming with daily Reuters Health Information articles, capsule reviews of new journal articles, and features on topics such as biotech foods, genetic counseling, and DNA forensics.

[www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/index.epl](http://www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/index.epl) 

**Quake watch.** Got the shakes? Check out the planet's tremblings at the Live Internet Seismic Server, which posts seismograms transmitted across the Internet from 36 monitoring stations around the world. Click on a world map to get data updated every 30 minutes along with stats on the biggest quakes of the past 24 hours. [http://www.liss.org/](http://www.liss.org/)

**Molecular profiles.** Putting a face on the 10,000 structures in the Protein Data Bank is a new feature called Molecule of the Month—brief articles written by a scientist that describe the biology and role in society of all-important molecules such as myoglobin and DNA polymerase (at left). Coming in April: the most common protein in the human body (can you guess?).

[www.rcsb.org/pdb](http://www.rcsb.org/pdb) 

**Lessons in development.** Cocaine, methylmercury, and rubella virus share one thing in common: They're all notorious for causing birth defects, according to this educational site from the Teratology Society. It includes a teratology history, profiles of scientists, and assorted links.

[teratology.org/jfs/teratologyindex.html](http://teratology.org/jfs/teratologyindex.html) 

**Strength in small numbers.** African Americans make up less than 1% of U.S. mathematicians, but their publication rates are above average—and a surprising 25% of them are women. Those facts come from Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a Web site packed with biographies on about 300 African Americans in math. Other tidbits include a history of math in sub-Saharan Africa and scholarship links. [www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/mad0.html](http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/mad0.html)