Vale Basil S. Yamey

Ron Vale

What turned you onto science in the first place? I had a wonderful mother (a nonscientist and former actress) who frequently took me to the Natural History Museum and Science and Technology Museum in the Los Angeles area as a young child. I loved these museums and worked at the latter as a high school student; nothing glorious — setting up displays and working cash registers, but I got to hang ...

A Reply to Professors Gould and Yamey

Pepsinogen BASIL

Wylie Vale: neuroendocrine master.

W ylie Vale, professor and head of the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at The Salk Institute, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and leader in the field of neuroendocrinology, passed away in his sleep on January 3, 2012 while vacationing in Hawaii. He was 70 years old and is survived by his wife Betty, his daughters Elizabeth and Susannah, his granddaughter Celeste,...

Antioxidant Activity of Basil

INTRODUCTION The commercial development of plants as sources of antioxidants to enhance health and food preservation is of current interest (Rice-Evans et al. 1997). Epidemiological studies have suggested positive associations between the consumption of phenolic-rich foods or beverages and the prevention of diseases (Scalbert and Williamson 2000). These effects have been attributed to antioxida...