International Biochemical Trial 1954

The 1954 Salk poliomyelitis vaccine field trial.

Endocrinol. Jap., Vol.1, No.1(1954). BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON SALIVARY GLAND HORMONE

In order to prove the validity of the'salivary gland endocrine theory' proposed by Dr. T. Ogata(Tokyo University)la), the author and his collaborators have engaged in this study for approximately 15 years. In 1944, the author and his associates succeeded in isolating a crude protein from the bovine parotid gland which remarkably promoted the calcification of teeth and reduced the calcium level ...

1954 Medical Progress

gations of others but the bibliographies are not lengthy. The tables are clear and serve to stress points. The material is up to date. All combine to make the book a good starting point for one with propensities toward this field and specifically in rheumatic fever and nephritis. Dr. Maclyn McCarty, the editor, states in the preface that a volume of this type has its inherent drawbacks, namely,...

Henry Bunting 1911-1954

It is presumptuous for any one person to claim to know another. It is especially so for me to claim to have known, in any total sense of the word, Henry Bunting. For, as I look around this assembly of friends or recall the variety of those who have spoken to me about him during the last few days, I realize how deep, yet how widely-ranging, was his power of friendship. I grew up with him, amid t...

George McDonald Church (1954- )

George McDonald Church studied DNA from living and from extinct species in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Church helped to develop and refine techniques with which to describe the complete sequence of all the DNA nucleotides in an organism's genome [4], techniques such as multiplex sequencing, polony sequencing, and nanopore sequencing. Church also contributed to the Hu...