JEWELS & JEWELLERY BY CLARE PHILLIPS

Aquatic jewels

what he calls a string of coincidences. A physiologist colleague in Guatemala who happened to have worked with John Vane, then at the Royal College of Surgeons, recommended Moncada to Vane. Once in England, Moncada joined Vane's team, which was then working on the mechanism of action of aspirin and its relationship with prostaglandin synthesis. In 1974, he returned to Honduras to pursue a resea...

Gpx5 protects the family jewels.

Immature spermatozoa are vulnerable to oxidative stress after their release from the testes, due in part to an innate deficiency in antioxidant enzymes. The male reproductive tract compensates for this deficiency by secreting antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione peroxidase 5 (Gpx5) into the epididymal lumen. In this issue of the JCI, Chabory et al. examined the phenotype of Gpx5-/- mice and ...

Finite Semigroups: Jewels and Problems

Clare, Clere, and Clères

The name of Clare in Suffolk is one of the few major settlement names in East Anglia of unknown etymology. A similar mystery surrounds the Hampshire names Kingsclere, Highclere, and Burghclere, all containing the element clere which must have a single origin. Clères is a village north of Rouen in Normandy. There is a remarkable lack of variation on the early spellings of all these names, which ...

Esther, Lecture 2 by Dr. Elaine Phillips

Session Two (Chapters 1-3) Chapter 1 is an intentionally grandiose introduction to the king. His name is presented twice at the outset, a stylistic touch that sets the stage for the continuous procession of dyads through the description of the Persian court (cf. Levenson, Esther 10-11). Honor and royalty are linked repeatedly throughout the chapter; names, titles, and positions seem to be of pr...