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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

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...

Eshkevari JOE final

Electroacupuncture (EA) is used to treat chronic stress; however, its mechanism(s) of action in allaying stress remains unclear. The interplay of stress hormones of the hypothalamus– pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is critical in the stress response. Our objective was to determine whether EA at acupoint, stomach 36 (EA St36) is effective in preventing chron...