Donald Budd Armstrong, M.D.--1886-1968.

Donald F. Steiner MD, 1930-2014: discoverer of proinsulin.

Donald F. Steiner, the A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, died at his home on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. He was 84 years old and had been a member of the faculty since 1960. Don was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He revolutionized our understanding of t...

Donald L. Morton, MD … a living legend in surgical oncology.

Over the past half century, Dr. Donald L. Morton has changed our melanoma surgical practice and our oncology management on a global basis (Fig. 1). His pioneering clinical research efforts in the development and clinical application of sentinel node biopsy have transformed the surgical management of many solid tumors, particularly melanoma and breast cancer [1][2]. In these latter two cancers, ...

Donald Ainslie (D. A.) Henderson, MD, MPH (1928–2016) Smallpox Eradication: Leadership and Legacy

It was said in ancient Greece that when Aeschines spoke the crowd uttered, “What a great orator,” but when Demosthenes spoke they shouted, “Let us march!” Donald Ainslie (D. A. since childhood) Henderson became commanding general of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme in October 1966. To many of the more than 150 000 pox-warriors who marched until ...

Donald L. Morton, MD.... A Legendary Surgical Oncologist and Consummate Investigator.

Op-gbev130144 1886..1901

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, ...