Leslie Eleazer Orgel. 12 January 1927 — 27 October 2007

Anne McLaren 1927–2007

This had been a celebratory year for Anne McLaren. In April, her 80th birthday was marked in Cambridge, UK by a special symposium in her honor on germ cells and stem cells, two subjects very close to her heart and the main themes of her research endeavors throughout her career. Many of her colleagues and friends from all over the world gathered to participate in lively scientific sessions, grea...

4 th BSS Meeting 12 - 13 October 2007 Mainz , Germany

Cancer Immunity (12 January 2007) Vol. 7, p. 1

Cancer/testis (CT) antigens are named after their expression pattern as they are typically present in various types of tumors and in the germ cells of normal adult testis. Adult ovarian tissue is usually reported to be CT antigen negative. Based on the differences in female versus male gonadal development, the ovarian counterpart of the most predominant CT antigen positive testicular germ cells...

Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927?2007)

Elizabeth Dexter Hay studied the cellular processes that affect development of embryos in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In 1974, Hay showed that the extracellular matrix, a collection of structural molecules that surround cells, influences cell behavior. Cell growth, cell migration [2], and gene expression are influenced by the interaction between cells and t...

Lecture 5 : January 27

j=1 p̂j log2(p̂j) • LP Estimator The LP Estimator works by transforming the samples {Xi}i=1 into a fingerprint, which is the vector f = (f1, f2, ...) for which fi is the number of elements in the domain that occurred i times in the sample, i.e. with empirical frequency i/n. The fingerprint is also known as the “type” of a sample. The fingerprint serves as an estimate of the histogram of the distr...