Keeping Legal History Meaningful

Cell Polarity: Keeping Worms LeGaL

The protein Lethal giant larvae (LGL) regulates cell polarity in diverse animal models. Now, an LGL orthologue has been identified in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans and is shown to function redundantly with a worm-specific polarity protein, PAR-2.

Legal medicine in history

enthusiast's reading of the literature. It might be more accurate to suggest that Wellcome had an inordinate respect for scholarship (which for him always meant "scientific" study) rather than thwarted talents in this regard. Interestingly he appears to have been less directive of the scientific work closer to his own field which was carried out for the business or at the innovative research in...

History of Writing and Record Keeping

The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment includes the human being itself and the human ability to commun...

The history of legal medicine.

Before discussing legal medicine and forensic science, it would be helpful to have a general definition of terms. Forensic science is a broader term than legal medicine. The former actually encompasses the latter. The term “forensic” is used as an adjective to identify a growing group of subspecialties in science and medicine, all of which convey the fundamental concepts of methods, hopefully b...

Precedent and Legal Authority: A Critical History