A Joe Mikhael Icebreaker Fulfilled

Joe Howard

Joe Howard is a Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has always been on the move. In his native Australia he did his PhD on the neurobiology of vision; in San Francisco he worked on hair cells and hearing; and in Seattle he developed single-molecule techniques to study microtubules and kinesins. He wrote a textbook on the Me...

Joe Lakowicz

JOE: a mobile, inverted pendulum

The Industrial Electronics Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne has built a prototype of a revolutionary two-wheeled vehicle. Due to its configuration with two coaxial wheels, each of which is coupled to a DC Motor, the vehicle is able to do stationary U-turns. A control system, made up of two decoupled state space controllers, pilots the motors so as to ke...

Not your average Joe.

For many purposes the most useful transplantable tumour models for human cancer are spontaneous tumours, non-immunogenic in their original host strain, whose cells are also capable of growth in vitro. The necessity for spontaneous origin and demonstrable non-immunogenicity results from the misleading conclusions which may be drawn from experiments using "induced" immunogenic tumours which may b...

Joe INDUSTRIAL Palmada PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKING A T SHELLHARBOUR, N.S.W., on May 5, the Federal Treasurer Mr. McMahon stated that Australia’s gross national product at constant prices had been rising by 5J per cent annually, 1 per cent higher than the growth rate of the ’fifties. “If the recent rate is m aintained,” he said, “our gross national product would treble in 20 years . . . Australia, if it m aintained its present immigrati...