Imperial Agricultural Research

Commentary: overview of agricultural dust research: Agricultural Research Service perspective

Interneurons originating from the ganglionic eminence migrate tangentially into the developing cerebral wall as they navigate to their distinct positions in the cerebral cortex. Compromised connectivity and differentiation of interneurons are thought to be an underlying cause in the emergence of neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia. Previously, it was suggested that tangential mig...

Agricultural Research in China.

Funding Public Agricultural Research

"Living versus dead": The Pasteurian paradigm and imperial vaccine research.

The Semple antirabies vaccine was developed by David Semple in India in 1911. Semple introduced a peculiarly British approach within the Pasteurian tradition by using carbolized dead virus. This article studies this unique phase of vaccine research between 1910 and 1935 to show that in the debates and laboratory experiments around the potency and safety of vaccines, categories like "living" and...

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902–1986

not obtain the legal support they wanted. Publicly systematic research in eugenics was advocated by only a small group of people; names like those of the physicians Frets and Van Herwerden often recur. Only after the First World War did a few organizations for anthropogenetics, anthropology, and population studies amalgamate to be come the Dutch Eugenics Federation in 1930. The final 100 pages ...