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Dr. E. O. Lewis

Born in 1882 in the Rhondda Valley, he graduated in 1903 at Aberystwyth and Went on to St. John's College, Cambridge, Where, after taking his B.A. degree, he Was appointed University Demonstrator in Experimental Psychology. In 1915, after a short period abroad, he returned to Cambridge to carry out research at Littleton House Special School, in conjunction with the University Psychological Labo...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

1 Saunders and Wallace on Everett and Lewis Paul Tappenden 1 January 2008

Simon Saunders and David Wallace are attempting to use a modified form of David Lewis's analysis of personal fission to support the thought that prior to undergoing Everett branching an informed subject can be uncertain about which outcome s/he will observe. I argue that a central assumption of this seductive idea is questionable despite appearing innocuous and that at the very least further ar...

E. B. Lewis and the bithorax complex: part I.

IN 1995, Edward B. Lewis shared in the Nobel Prize in fine-structure mapping and the cis-trans test and dePhysiology or Medicine for his work on the bithorax scribe his early findings in the BX-C. We then focus on complex (BX-C), a gene cluster that controls the identitwo long-standing issues that emerged from this analysis. ties of body segments in the abdomen and posterior First, did the bith...

Expression of Lewis(x), sialylated Lewis(x), Lewis(a), and sialylated Lewis(a) antigens in human lung carcinoma.

One hundred and five cases of various human lung neoplasms were studied immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies recognizing the antigens, Le(x), sialylated Le(x) (SLEX), Le(a), and sialylated Le(a) (SLEA). Of the 92 lung cancers examined for antigen expression SLEX was detected in 57% (52 cases), Le(x) in 42% (39), SLEA in 36% (33), and Le(a) in 23% (21). None of these antigens were e...