BIOCHEMISTRY: Creating a Spinoff

The pacemaker story: a cold heart spinoff.

It is 1949. Room 64 in the hasement of the Banting Institute in Toronto was the home of the fledgling cardiovascular surgical lahoratory. Experiments on the microcirculation and on hypothermia were initiated as two different projects. We were astonished to find as work progressed, that they were closely interrelated: Cooling an animal helow a certain body temperature level produced serious obst...

Spinoff Entry in High-tech Industries: Motives and Consequences

Editor Note – Biochemistry & Analytical Biochemistry

Biochemistry is the study of structures, functions and interactions of biomolecules, such as carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, etc. and their metabolisms. Advancements in biochemistry helps in the advancement of different fields like agriculture, medicine, nutrition, etc., which are directly related to it. Combination of biochemical techniques with techniques and ideas of genetics...

A Textbook of Biochemistry

(page 62) we are told that both hyaline and white fibrous cartilage enter into the formation of a joint, but nowhere is cartilage of any type described. Again (page 6) the single sentence under the heading, Formation of Bone, viz., "the replacement of cartilage by bone cells," must have been inserted more for the purpose of reviving the memory than for the description of a process. The section ...

A Textbook of Biochemistry

This new textbook is the outcome of the immense strides made in the subject of biochemistry in the last few years. No one at the present time is capable of writing intimately on all branches of the subject. The book containing thirty different chapters includes twenty odd different contributors each one a master in his own field. The field covered is extremely comprehensive and includes new dev...