The bottle

‘Solomon’s Bottle’: a Glass Bottle in Tehran and Abbasid Glass Floors in Mesopotamia and the Levant

The article discusses a scarcely known medium of architectural decoration in Abbasid palaces, transparent glass tiles, and reports on the discovery of the largest known assemblage of fragments of such tiles in Tehran, in a bottle of the Glassware and Ceramics Museum of Iran.  The first part deals with the visual and material aspects of the use of transparent glass tiles, based on archaeologica...

The Bottle of Medicine Habit

The Sandman in a Bottle

The Bottle of Medicine Habit

Sin,?Tf is not only in the public houses where we should look for national income disappearing down the throat. I have had opportunities of studying Insurance Act prescriptions which lead me to think that a good deal of the money is wasted. Many of the prescriptions relate to drugs which are totally inactive when tested in the wards of a hospital; if they act at all it is only through the bless...

Gastrulation: PARtaking of the Bottle

Gastrulation in C. elegans embryos involves ingression of individual cells, but is driven by apical constriction of the kind that promotes migration of epithelial cell sheets. Recent work shows that PAR proteins, known for their role in polarization and unequal cell division, are also associated with the polarization that establishes this apical constriction.