Alev Scott, <i>Ottoman Odyssey. Travels through a Lost Empire</i>, Riverrun, 2018, 292 p.

[The travels of a pulmonologist through the upper airway].

When I first heard that the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) wanted me to give the 2003 Manuel Tapia lecture, my initial reaction was a feeling of pride. But this was, however, immediately overwhelmed by a second emotion: panic. Whatever could I talk about to justify such an honor? In the days that followed I turned the question over in my mind, compiling a mental inv...

Travels of a Surgeon

Arthur Eyre-Brook is an inveterate traveller. Since visiting the USA in 1937 as a Nuffield Scholar he has taken every opportunity to travel the world as a visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, of latter years mainly in the third world. He has visited and worked, sometimes for long periods in Southern Africa, in the South West Pacific in Fiji and Tonga, in Brazil and Chile, in Kuwait and Iraw, in the Su...

Review Of "A Political Theology Of Nature" By P. Scott

Observing "Man" in Situ: Edward Burnett Taylor's Travels Through Mexico

In the spring of 1856, I met Mr. Christy accidentally in an omnibus at Havana. He had been in Cuba for some months, leading an adventurous life… and visiting all sorts of people from whom information was to be had.

The travels of mRNAs through all cells large and small.

The determination of asymmetry is one of the most important events in cell differentiation and development. Cellular asymmetry in many cases is essential for normal cellular function, as in the polarity of neurons that transmit electrical and chemical signals or the polarity of morphogenetic gradients in oocytes required for patterning in the embryo. The asymmetric localization of specific prot...