José María Velasco

A Tribute to José María (“Chema”) Cantú

José María ("Chema") Cantú (1938-2007), born in Mexico, was a pioneering, loved and respected leader in medical and human genetics and bioethics in Latin America. He graduated as a physician in Mexico and then trained in medical and human genetics in France and the United States. He was instrumental in developing a first-rate research, training and genetic services program in medical and human ...

Understanding the Snake Venom Metalloproteinases: An Interview with Jay Fox and José María Gutiérrez

Jay W. Fox and José María Gutiérrez recently finished editing a Special Issue on the topic "Snake Venom Metalloproteinases" in Toxins. The Special Issue covers a wide range of topics, including the molecular evolution and structure of snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs), the mechanisms involved in the generation of diversity of SVMPs, the mechanism of action of SVMPs, and their role in the p...

María Luisa

Françoise Salager - Meyer * , María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza

In this paper we carried out a diachronic analysis (1840-2009) of a corpus of 180 medical case report titles drawn from the British Medical Journal. We analyzed a series of quantitative variables (number of authors and their institutional affiliation, title length, and punctuation/ grammatical data) and qualitative variables (authors’ collaboration and types of titles). The results of our resea...

José Maria Soares Barata: obituary

Born in Belém, State of Pará, Brazil, he already demonstrated a special affection to insects during his childhood. At the end of his secondary studies, he worked as a technician for the National Department of Rural Endemic Diseases, the institution responsible for combating vectors in Brazil and the precursor of the Superintendence of Public Health Campaigns (SUCAM, a Brazilian public instituti...