Eighty-years Old News

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.

Combined prostatectomy and retropubic prostatectomy on patients eighty years old or older with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Combined prostatectomy and retropubic prostatectomy were performed on 20 patients eighty years old or older with benign prostatic hyperplasia. A comparative assessment of two surgical methods regading to operative blood loss, operating time and postoperative complications was presented. The procedure of combined prostatectomy revealed a smaller amount of operative blood loss, less operating tim...

Eighty years after insulin: parallels with modern islet transplantation.

© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors T his year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication in CMAJ of the discovery of insulin by Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto. Some interesting historical parallels have emerged with the success of islet replacement therapy in diabetes. Up until just a few weeks ago, human islet cells were being prepared in...

Eighty years after the first glimpse of the tubercle bacillus.