1807–2007: A great anniversary celebration

1807-2007: a great anniversary celebration.

In celebration of NMC's 50th anniversary.

The 30 th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Congress of Neurolog-ical Surgeons has ended successfully and we are enjoying the brief period of pleasant weather just before the rainy season starts. I wish to share some views with you in this 50 th anniversary issue of the NMC. In the 42 years since I decided to work in neurosurgery, many things have happened. This 30 th Congress focused on ``Surgery...

Genome-sequencing anniversary. A celebration of the genome, part I.

Francis S. Collins Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. When the draft sequence of the human genome was published in February 2001, Nature and Science featured human faces on their covers. As striking as these images were, they could be seen as more art than science, because systematic genome-wide sequencing had yet to be applied to individuals for medical purposes. What ...

Celebration of 60th anniversary of Brazilian Society for Microbiology

n May 30th 1955 during the First Symposium on the Develpment of Microbiology in Brazil organized by Rio de Janeiro ranch of Society of Americas Bacteriologists (current Amercan Society for Microbiology) coordinated by Prof. Minton hiago de Mello, held in Rio de Janeiro, was formally suggested he creation of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology (SBM) nd a scientific journal under denomination ...

Council honorees and the nobel prize : our continued anniversary celebration

Last month we began a new feature in celebration of our 20th anniversary of Hypertension. In this feature we are pleased to salute once again those special honorees and lecturers of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research (CHBPR) who later received Nobel Prize recognition for their seminal research achievement that had been recognized by the Council. Each of these individuals either had be...