Redécouvrir Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)

Frederick L. Hoffman, LLD (Hon), 1865–1946

This biographical sketch on Frederick L. Hoffman corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Administration, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1000-x. The article can also be accessed on the American Journal of Public Health web site at (http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/9/3/161-a).

Mick Thacker and Louis Gifford

C2lc21146g 1865..1873

Mechanotransduction is known as the cellular mechanism converting insoluble biophysical signals in the local cellular microenvironment (e.g. matrix rigidity, external mechanical forces, and fluid shear) into intracellular signalling to regulate cellular behaviours. While microfluidic technologies support a precise and independent control of soluble factors in the cellular microenvironment (e.g....

Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003)

breadth and the intensity of Ira's interests. It also revealed Photo courtesy of Kay Chernush. his modus operandi: using simple genetics to ask and answer big questions. transduction by studying crosstalk between pathways, In 1971, in his last year of graduate school, Ira accepted and examined sporulation as a developmental program. an Assistant Professorship in the University of Oregon's Recen...

Review of Gout, 1939-1946.

The main contributions to the subject of gout during the period under review have not unnaturally come from American workers. In spite of outstanding research by Talbott and Coombs (1938), Bauer and Klemperer (1942), and others into the metabolic and clinical aspects of the disease, the essential problem remains unsolved. Gout used not to be regarded very seriously by American physicians, and i...