東京大学（学部・後期試験[総合科目I]）でNature出題

東京大学（学部・後期試験[総合科目I]）でNatureが出題されました。今回は、Sicence,Scientific Americanからも出ましたが、どれも「的中」とは行きませんでした。ただ、内容的にはどれも「基本」的な事柄。特にこのNatureの記事の内容は医学部受験生にとっては必須の内容ともいえます。東大の過去問にあたるか、Natureから記事を取り寄せて読んでみるとよいと思います。

News Features
Nature 439, 130-131 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439130a

Origins of DNA: Base invaders(John Whitfield1)

Top of pageAbstractCould viruses have invented DNA as a way to sneak into cells? John Whitfield investigates.
[書き出し]
What with the threat of bird flu, the reality of HIV, and the general unseemliness of having one's cells pressed into labour on behalf of something alien and microscopic, it is small wonder that people don't much like viruses. But it's possible that we may actually have something to thank the little parasites for. They may have been the first creatures to find a use for DNA, a discovery that set life on the road to its current rich complexity.

この号で、当Netschoolが教材にしたのは以下の書評。テーマ・内容的には学部、学士ともに狙われる。
Books and Arts
Nature 439, 140 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439140a

The monster that is medicine(W. F. Bynum)

BOOK REVIEWED
- Dr Golem: How to Think about Medicine
by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
University of Chicago Press: 2005. 280 pp. $25
[書き出し]
Having told us how to think about science (The Golem, Cambridge University Press, 1993) and technology (The Golem at Large, Cambridge University Press, 1998), Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch turn their attention to an even softer target: medicine. Readers of the previous two books will be familiar with the structure: a series of case studies, each based on a couple of principal sources, with linking commentary.