Bernard Roy (1934-2017)

Roy Lee Moodie (1880–1934) and the beginnings of palaeopathology

Roy Lee Moodie was a geologist whose interest in ancient disease was stimulated by his finding of pathological change in some of the fossils that he studied, including many from the Rancho La Brea site in California. He occupied teaching positions in Chicago, Dallas and Santa Monica and in 1928 began an acquaintance and a correspondence with Henry Wellcome who was then in the United States and ...

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Roy 27_7

Multiple genetic alterations are common in cancers including those of the breast. The mechanisms leading to these alterations such as point mutations, gene amplifications, deletions and replication error are often associated with frequent and consistent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) or microsatellite instability (MSI). Several cytological and molecular studies have shown high frequency loss of g...

Roy D'Andrade

Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform an action in response to a particular future event (e.g., give your colleague a message when you see her). In the typical laboratory paradigm to investigate event-based prospective memory, participants perform a particular action (e.g., press the Z key) when a target word appears on a computer screen during an ongoing task (e.g., a ...

Roy Porter