Francesco Regalzi : Walter Lippmann – una biografia intelletuale

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Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...

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Hog thyroid tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1, phenylpyruvate keto-enol isomerase), an enzyme which is believed to play a role in the biosynthesis of thyroxine, has been purified over lOOO-fold. The purification procedure involves a heat step at 70”, gel f&ration on Sephadex G-100, ion exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl Sephadex C-50, and, finally, gel titration on Sephadex G-50. The enzyme is homo...

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) will continue to be a serious global health threat for many years to come because of the chronic nature of the infection, its high prevalence and the significant morbidity of the resulting disease. Recently, a small number of molecules have produced encouraging results in proof-of-concept clinical trials. At the same time, preclinical evidence is accumulating that develo...

Walter Salisbury

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...