John Avery (1807–1855).

2 FISH Analysis Avery

HERBERT WEINFELD , and AVERY

Using the cultured Chinese hamster cell line Don, G1 or S or a mixture of late-S/G2 cells were prepared by release from metaphase arrest. Metaphase (M) cells were also obtained by mitotic arrest of log-phase cultures with Coicemid and held in metaphase; such M cells remained untreated with any other compound and were termed standard M cells. When interphase (I) cells were fused at pH 8.0 and 37...

A Remembrance of Mary Ellen Avery, M.D.

I was a recently hired member of the newly established Division of Pediatric Nephrology and an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School when Mel Avery became the Chief of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Children’s in 1974. There was excitement, as Dr. Avery’s appointment was a “first” unfolding right in front of those of us who, as young women physicians, hoped to...

In Remembrance of Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

People the world over know about your academic and medical accomplishments. I would like to share with your colleagues, the Mel that in the 1980s I got to know and spend time with outside the laboratory (although science and how science can benefit “your” babies was just a breath away in anything we did). The time I really got to talk with Mel outside the Harvard confines was when I first roome...

The Jackknife Estimation Method Avery I

Statistical resampling methods have become feasible for parametric estimation, hypothesis testing, and model validation now that the computer is a ubiquitous tool for statisticians. This essay focuses on the resampling technique for parametric estimation known as the Jackknife procedure. To outline the usefulness of the method and its place in the general class of statistical resampling techniq...