Chemistry in Medicine (Stieglitz, Julius, et al., eds.)

Julius Rebek: bringing chemistry to life

at the age of 88, was a pioneer in the depiction of the structures of biological macromolecules. He was caught up in the subject 36 years ago, when Scientific American asked him to illustrate John Kendrew's December 1961 article on the first protein structure, that of sperm whale myoglobin. This was followed by illustrations for David Phillips' November 1966 Scientific American article on the f...

In Response to Murphy et al., Löwer et al., and Lan et al

Methodological changes in the evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine: issues raised by Sherman et al. and Hawk et al.

5 The quest for methodologies appropriate for evaluating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues to challenge the research community. Two papers in this issue, Sherman et al.’s “Description and Validation of a Noninvasive Placebo Acupuncture Procedure,” (pp. 11–19) and Hawk et al.’s “Issues in Planning a Placebo-Controlled Trial of Manual Methods: Results of a Pilot Study,” (pp. ...

For David Chalmers et al, eds., Metametaphysics, OUP forthcoming The Metaontology of Abstraction

ion as a legitimate form of implicit definition has been authenticated. And it is this, so it may be suggested, that requires the development of satisfactory answers to (M) and (E) and related questions. If it looks as if the truth of abstraction principles may turn on substantial metaphysical hostages, or as if there are special problems about knowing that they are true, or can be stipulated t...

In Response to Fakruddin et al. and Apostolou et al

In Response to Fakruddin et al. dicted to result in substitutions of amino acids at the and Apostolou et al. corresponding positions in the protein sequence. In each of these cases, individual tumor DNA samples possessed the same sequence as that of the corresponding cell line. We agree with many of the above findings, including To determine if the divergent sequences represented the frequency ...