Man and Wild Life, by L. Harrison Matthews. Groom-Helm, £4.95. - Man and Natural Resources, by SirCedric Stanton Hicks. Groom-Helm, £5.25.

THE METABOLISMOF D - RIBOSE IN MAN By STANTON SEGAL

Previously thought to be primarily a structural component of nucleic acids, the pentose, D-ribose, in the form of the ester, ribose 5-phosphate, has now been shown to be an important intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway of glucose metabolism. The sequence of the reactions of this pathway has been summarized by Horecker and Mehler (1) and Wood (2), and surveys of its significance in var...

Demagogues at the helm.

Amazing, mind-boggling, incomprehensible, indefensible. The decision by the Federal Government to abolish the mandatory long-form of the census may be the worst policy decision of the past decade in Canada. The impact of this decision, if it is not reversed, will be felt for many years to come and, if it remains in effect over other census cycles or if it is a harbinger of things to come, could...

At the helm of the NIDDK.

As of April 2007, Griffin P. Rodgers has taken over as director of the NIDDK, but had been the deputy director under Allen Spiegel since 2001 and the chief of Hematology since 1998. The JCI took the opportunity to ask this career investigator in the NIH about his goals and visions for the NIDDK. JCI: You moved quickly from chief of Hematology to deputy director of the NIDDK to director — what d...

HELM and the Semantic Math-Web

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) opens the possibility to start anew, on a solid technological ground, the ambitious goal of developing a suitable technology for the creation and maintenance of a virtual, distributed, hypertextual library of formal mathematical knowledge. In particular, XML provides a central technology for storing, retrieving and processing mathematical documents, comprisi...

Medical Men at the Helm