City Scavenging at Boston

Meta city , Non - city , and Crime City : Remaking Hong Kong Gangster as Boston

The Sociology of the Deceased Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital

Many graduates of the Harvard Medical Unit (HMU) at Boston City Hospital, in either the clinical training/residency program or the research program at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, contributed in major ways to the HMU and constantly relived their HMU experiences. The HMU staff physicians, descending from founder and mentor physicians Francis W. Peabody, Soma Weiss, and George R. Minot, wer...

Next-generation sequencing at Merck-Boston

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is quickly replacing other methods for determining expression profiling of RNA as well as single-nucleotide variations within the genomes of both model organisms and human samples. At the Boston facility of Merck Research Laboratories, we concentrate on preparation and sequencing of samples where the research needs cannot be met by commercial venders. These unme...

Mathematical Physics Seminar at Boston University

Thu, Nov 16, 3:30pm Matt Szczesny (Boston Univ.) The Langlands program: from arithmetic to conformal field theory This will be a very elementary attempt to trace the sequence of analogies that lead from the Langlands program for global fields to the geometric formulation given by A. Beilinson and V. Drinfeld. I will attempt to explain the formulation of the latter in the language of conformal f...

Serratia marcescens: biochemical, serological, and epidemiological characteristics and antibiotic susceptibility of strains isolated at Boston City Hospital.

The biochemical, serological, and epidemiological characteristics of 95 strains of Serratia marcescens isolated at the Boston City Hospital were examined. Several strains were shown to be endemic, and the majority of isolates were cultured from urine or respiratory secretions. Serratia species were highly resistant to polymyxin B and the cephalosporins, and various proportions were also resista...