Symposium to Honour Henry Dunn

Honour to Whom Honour Is Due

cal College who has received the title of Kui Bahadur from Government, and we are fully convinced that these gentlemen well deserve the distinctions conferred on them. Nevertheless, it strikes us as somewhat remarkable, that of all the professors attached to the College, only one (Dr. Fayrer) has received any mark of distinction from the Government. This remark applies not only to the medical o...

An introduction to the Bioscience Birthday Symposium held in honour of Ole Petersen CBE, FRS.

This issue contains five review articles summarizing talks that were presented at a 2-day Physiology and Pathophysiology symposium held in the elegant setting of the National Museum in Cardiff to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Ole Petersen, Chair of the Cardiff School of Biosciences. Ole trained in medicine in Copenhagen and, whilst a student, became fascinated by the physiology of the ex...

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weather pattern. In February, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned in its routine forecasts that the bleaching observed in the Pacific last year may be the start of a third global catastrophe for coral reefs. And this time, it cannot be blamed on El Niño. It is simply down to the general warming of the oceans, which in 2014 reached the highest average temperature...

A symposium in honour of the centenary of Virchow's cellular pathology (1858-1958): 1858.

Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society symposium: integrative cardiovascular function. A symposium to honour Saxon White. Newcastle, Australia, September 1999.

1. Skeletal muscle is a complex and heterogenous tissue capable of remarkable adaptation in responseto exercise training. The role of gene transcription, as an initial target to control protein synthesis, ispoorly understood.2. Mature myofibers contain several hundred nuclei, all of which maintain transcriptionalcompetency, although the localised responsiveness of nuclei is not ...