Lady Betty Hastings (1682–1739): godly patron

Betty Philip

The colon is a site where both local and systemic delivery of drugs can take place. Local delivery allows topical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. However, treatment can be made effective if the drugs can be targeted directly into the colon, thereby reducing the systemic side effects. This review, mainly compares the primary approaches for CDDS (Colon Specific Drug Delivery) namely prod...

Philip McKinley , Betty

N early 150 years ago, Charles Darwin explained how evolution and natural selection transformed the earliest life forms into the rich panoply of life seen today. Scientists estimate this process has been at work on Earth for at least 3.5 billion years. But we remain at the dawn of evolution in another world: the world of computing. There, evolution helps humans solve complex problems in enginee...

Washington's unsung patron

No visitor to the US capital, Washington DC, can fail to notice the dominance downtown of the Smithsonian Institution. Redstone building after redstone building comprise a series of museums and facilities across the centre of town, which show off American history, natural history and science and attract millions of visitors each year. But what is much less known is that the Smithsonian Institut...

Hastings Constitutional

Michael Hastings

Extraction of oil from Canadian tar sands is becoming increasingly contentious as it is claimed the process is one of the highest in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. But now, along with environmental campaigners, some shareholders in the companies that mine and fund tar sand oil are beginning to protest at the activity. British companies spearheading the drive to exploit the Canadian tar sand...