Henry Stephen (Harry) Cobb (1926–2016)

Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb is Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Manchester. He earned his PhD in Psychology and Genetics from the University of Sheffield in 1984, and spent most of his career in France. He specialises in insect behaviour, with a focus on chemical communication and the olfactory responses of Drosophila larvae. He recently co-edited Insect Taste and has translated a numb...

Stephen H Bryant and Stephen F Altschul

The past two years have seen the rapid development of new recognition methods for protein structure prediction. These algorithms ’thread’ the sequence of one protein through the known structure of another, looking for an alignment that corresponds to an energetically favorable model structure. Because they are based on energy calculation, rather than evolutionary distance, these methods extend ...

The Dirty Harry Problem

Policing constantly places its practitioners in situations in which good ends can be achieved by dirty means. When the ends to be achieved are urgent and unquestionably good and only a dirty means will work to achieve them, the policeman faces a genuine moral dilemma. A genuine moral dilemma is a situation from which one cannot emerge innocent no matter what one does-employ a dirty means, emplo...

Harry Beal Torrey , Matthew

I t is now 16 years since Nowikoff (1908) accelerated the division rate of Paramecium by adding thyroid gland to his cultures. Later , Shumway (1914) reached the same conclusion after a series of more critical and painstaking experiments, and in the following year Budington and Harvey (1915) showed tha t thyroids from various vertebrates would produce similar results. Still later, Shumway (1917...

Harry S.N. Greene, M.D.