| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAIP | American Association Of Investigative Pathologists |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| CMT | Charcot-Marie-Tooth |
| ES | Embryonic Stem |
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis |
| NBAC | Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association |
| CATCMB | Center For Advanced Training In Cell And Molecular Biology |