Seventy Years Ago: Mutation Becomes Experimental

Seventy years ago: mutation becomes experimental.

I N 1927 H. J. MULLER (1890-1967) published in Science a paper entitled “Artificial Transmutation of the Gene.” It reported the first experimental production of mutations and opened a new era in genetics. The title is curious. Why transmutation rather than mutation? The answer emerges from another paper (MULLER 1928a), written in 1926. After reviewing the repeated failure of efforts by many wor...

Seventy Five Years Ago

Seventy Five Years Ago

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Seventy Five Years Ago

In the present state of medical science, this subject is no doubt an obscure one, but it is highly interesting to the general pathologist and the scientist as well. Sir Joseph Fayrer, in his ? Dissertation on Elephantiasis of the Scrotum, has made a few remarks on the probable relation between lunar influence and the progress of elephantoid disease; but evidently from paucity of facts, he faile...