Ove Stephansson, 1938-2020

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ownload blastoma multiforme is an extremely aggressive and clinically unresponsive form of cancer. Transformed stic neural stem cells, resistant to chemotherapy and radiation therapy, are thought to be responsible for itial tumor formation and the recurrence of disease following surgical resection. These stem cells express rug resistance markers along with CD133. We show that ectopic overexpres...

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Ethics Committee Professor Ove Lundgren Sahlgrenska Academy

I enclose as an annex the letter I sent February 19, 2002, to among others Peder Rasmussen, as well as the letter I received from him (annex 1). In this the manners are the same as in the present commentary by Peder Rasmussen. Criticism is called misunderstanding, claims to critical examination are labeled defamation, and everything is presented with concepts like “campaign”, “persecution”, and...

Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011.

O n November 22, 2011, Lynn Margulis, visionary biologist and tireless champion of the microbial world, died of a massive stroke. Born in 1938, Lynn was intellectually precocious, earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago at age 18 and a Berkeley PhD 6 years later. Lynn’s enduring place in science was earned soon thereafter, with the publication of her theory of endosymbiosis...

Hans Meinhardt (1938–2016)

The famous theoretical biologist Hans Meinhardt died on 11 February 2016 in Tübingen. Meinhardt is well known for mathematical models of biological pattern formation, which he applied to a wide range of problems in developmental biology such as body axis formation, segmentation, limb patterning, regeneration, phyllotaxis and surface patterns — most famously the color patterns on seashells. Hans...