«QUERY FEVER»: DOWN THE LINE EIGHTY YEARS

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.

Eighty years after the first glimpse of the tubercle bacillus.

Eighty years ago: the beginnings of population genetics.

I suppose that every teacher of elementary genetics has at one time or another encountered the b lief that in the absence of counteracting factors there should be three times as many dominant as recessive phenotypes in the population. It was this statement that induced G. H. HARDY in 1908 to write his famous paper. He started out somewhat apologetically, saying: “I am reluctant to intrude in a ...

Eighty years after insulin: parallels with modern islet transplantation.

© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors T his year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication in CMAJ of the discovery of insulin by Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto. Some interesting historical parallels have emerged with the success of islet replacement therapy in diabetes. Up until just a few weeks ago, human islet cells were being prepared in...