Advances in Morphometrics in Archaeobotany

Archaeobotany: Macroremains

Palaeoethnobotany (or the shorter term, archaeobotany) is the study of the "direct interrelationships between humans and plants for whatever purpose as manifested in the archaeological record."50 No matter what the time period or geographical area, plants played an important role in human culture. As primary data about the natural environment, landuse practices, diet, architecture, and trade in...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Archaeobotanical Methodology: Results of an Archaeobotany Questionnaire

In preparation for a 2010 Society for American Archaeology Forum organized by Christine Hastorf, “Quantification and Presentation: Effective Means of Presenting Plant Evidence in Archaeology,” I devised a questionnaire about archaeobotany methodology. In the autumn of 2009, I posted a link to the survey on “www.surveymonkey.com.” I alerted archaeobotanists through the Archaeobotany listserv (ww...

Recent Advances in Hemophilia Gene Therapy

Heterogeneous loss of function mutations at F8 and F9 genes causes X-linked recessive bleeding disorders, hemophilia A (HA) and hemophilia B (HB), respectively. HA is clinically indistinguishable from HB and accounts for more than 80% of hemophilia cases; the former affects 1/5000 and the latter 1/25000 male births worldwide. In Iran, it is estimated that around 4300 HA and 900 HB patients are ...