Book Review: Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy: A Practical Guide. Second Edition.

A Practical Approach Second Edition

Book review: Epigenetics (second edition, eds. Allis, Caparros, Jenuwein, Reinberg)

A book review on Epigenetics, second edition Edited by C. Epigenetics is a dynamic and well-established branch of genetics. It deals with heritable traits, which are not transmitted by the sequence of DNA but rather by the state of chromatin. The evolving landscape of epigenetic research has been reviewed in many excellent books and monographs. Amongst these, the second edition of Epigenetics b...

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Book Review: Practical Guide to Medical Student Assessment

tiny book surprised me with its brief, lucid description of the assessment tools used in medical schools. The authors call it a practical reference to commonly raised questions about assessment instruments, and it is a good guide for medical teachers like me. It deals with most of the assessment tools for medical education with which I am acquainted, and it is very suitable for medical teachers...

Review of "Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation & Perinatal Outcome. Second Edition"

Background: The repair of single base mutations in mammalian genes can be directed by singlestranded oligonucleotides in a process known as targeted gene repair. The mechanism of this reaction is currently being elucidated but likely involves a pairing step in which the oligonucleotide align in homologous register with its target sequence and a correction step in which the mutant base is replac...