December 4, 1998

Escaping the Chilly Ballroom: Researchers to Attend a Biomedical Conference on Line

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Participants can avoid the registration fees, hotel rooms, and travel costs

When hundreds of biomedical researchers gather during the next two weeks to discuss findings in basic and clinical science, medical education, and public health, the conference will seem in many ways like an ordinary international meeting of scholars.

Scientific leaders will deliver keynote addresses. Other researchers will