Basic science (November 2006)

November 26, 2006

On the morning of Oct. 5, President Bush and his education secretary, Margaret Spellings, paid a visit, along with camera crews from CNN and Fox News, to Friendship-Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter public school in Washington. The president dropped in on two classrooms, where he asked the students, almost all of whom were African-American and poor, if they were planning to go t...

Research Statement November 2006

Classically, the study of knots and links has proceeded topologically looking for features of knotted curves which depend only on their knot class. Recently there has been an increased interest in geometric knot theory, which attempts to measure geometric properties of a particular knotted curve and relate these to its knot type. Questions about the geometry of knots not only have intrinsic mat...

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Science Selections November 2003

Propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (MMI) are the most commonly used antithyroid drugs. The available data suggest that these drugs may block the thyroid hormone synthesis by inhibiting the thyroid peroxidase (TPO) or diverting oxidized iodides away from thyroglobulin. It is also known that PTU inhibits the selenocysteine-containing enzyme ID-1 by reacting with the selenenyl iodide intermedi...

Washington University Record, November 9, 2006