| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEH | National Endowment For The Humanities |
| BER | Biological And Environmental Research |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| NASA | Natl. Aeronautics And Space Administration |
| SIVB | Society For In Vitro Biology |
| NAS | Natl. Academy Of Sciences |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
| MOD | March Of Dimes |