Robert Debre (1882-1978)

Robert koch: centenary of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, 1882.

This is an account of the life and work of Robert Koch (1843-1910), Nobel Laureate in Medicine and a founder of the science of bacteriology. In particular, Koch's researches into tuberculosis are described - the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, the controversy regarding the human and bovine types, the Koch phenomenon, and the introduction of tuberculin, which proved to be ineffective as a cu...

Dmd064519 1882..1890

Follistatin 315 heparan sulfate-binding deficient mutant human IgG4 Fc fusion (FST-DHBS-Fc) is a follistatin (FST) based Fc fusion protein currently being developed as a novel therapy for several potential indications, including muscle wasting. Previous assessments of the pharmacokinetics and therapeutic activity of FST-DHBS-Fc have shown a close association of the exposure–response relationshi...

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)

During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology [4], especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups. As developmental biologist and historian Brian Hall [5] has observed, the field of evolutionary embryology [4] in the ...

The etiology of tuberculosis 1882

THE DISCOVERY OF VILLEMIN THAT tuberculosis can be transmitted to animals has been confirmed a number of times, but has also been opposed on seemingly good grounds, so that up until recently it has not been possible to state for certain whether tuberculosis is an infectious disease or not. Since then, Cohnheim and Salomonsen, and later Baumgarten, have achieved success by inoculation in the ant...

Herbert McLean Evans, 1882-1971.