Tony Harrison: International Man of Letters

Tall man letters are gaining wide acceptance.

132 P&T® • March 2012 • Vol. 37 No. 3 respondents appeared to agree. Nearly all of those surveyed (87%) felt that the use of tall man letters by the medical product industry helped to reduce errors in drug selection, and two-thirds (64%) reported that tall man lettering actually prevented them from dispensing or administering the wrong medication. A fully alphabetized list of drug names with ta...

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters

mental biology textbook, but rather it is a story of how meanings and causes have been imprinted on embryos by various cultures and groups over time. Morgan’s own interest in embryos appears to stem in part from coming of age during the Roe vs. Wade decision and from provocative discussions she had with subjects in Ecuador while doing field research. In Ecuador, she found that while women had v...

Tony Hyman

Q & A the major classes and many physical features are still under debate. To polarise arthropod trees, and define the likely morphological characters and developmental mechanisms of the arthropod ancestor, analysis of sister phyla in the Panarthropoda is required. Tardigrada are all very small, likely to have highly modified developmental processes, and have highly idiosyncratic morphology, an...

Harrison 21_3

The expression of certain CD44 variants has been linked with metastasis and tumour progression. In particular, high molecular weight forms of CD44 show restricted expression in tumours and may correlate with tumour development and metastasis. In this study, we examined the expression of CD44 variants in prostate cancer cell lines: the invasive PC-3 and DU-145, low invasive LNCaP, and two non-in...

Ann Harrison