Howard Roy Sargent 1922–1993

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Multiple genetic alterations are common in cancers including those of the breast. The mechanisms leading to these alterations such as point mutations, gene amplifications, deletions and replication error are often associated with frequent and consistent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) or microsatellite instability (MSI). Several cytological and molecular studies have shown high frequency loss of g...

Roy D'Andrade

Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform an action in response to a particular future event (e.g., give your colleague a message when you see her). In the typical laboratory paradigm to investigate event-based prospective memory, participants perform a particular action (e.g., press the Z key) when a target word appears on a computer screen during an ongoing task (e.g., a ...

Roy Porter

Joe Howard

Joe Howard is a Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has always been on the move. In his native Australia he did his PhD on the neurobiology of vision; in San Francisco he worked on hair cells and hearing; and in Seattle he developed single-molecule techniques to study microtubules and kinesins. He wrote a textbook on the Me...

K. Roy George

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is one of the commonest food additives in the developed world and it is a commonly used flavour enhancer. MSG can be found in various concentrations in numerous food products. MSG is a sodium salt of glutamic acid, a naturally occurring non-essential amino acid with trade names such as Ajinomoto, Vetsin, Ac’cent and Tasting Powder. Although, MSG could improve the pala...