Priorities in first aid

First Aid in Childbirth

First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...

First Aid in Accidents

Chromosome first aid.

Most people take the stability of chromosomes for granted. Some may imagine metaphase chromosomes lined up like a butterfly collection on a page, reassuringly in order and unchanging. However, evidence that has been accumulating for over half a century indicates that genome stability is a dynamic, not a static, process. In the 1940s natural chromosomes ends, or telomeres, were shown to be speci...

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