Wild men and mystics: Rethinking Roy Agnew's early Sydney works

Obituary: Roy Sydney Porter (1946-2002).

Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry.

Phosphorus is a key biologic element, and a prebiotic pathway leading to its incorporation into biomolecules has been difficult to ascertain. Most potentially prebiotic phosphorylation reactions have relied on orthophosphate as the source of phosphorus. It is suggested here that the geochemistry of phosphorus on the early Earth was instead controlled by reduced oxidation state phosphorus compou...

The Role of Gender in Photographic Works: Do Men and Women Capture Different Photographs?

Gender usually plays a significant role in the works of photographers andcauses men and women to take different photographs. Nowadays, photographsand photography have a crucial and pivotal status in societies. The majority of theevents and accidents unfolding in various parts of the world are communicatedto the people via newspapers, magazines, internet and television, and undoubtedly,photograp...

Fanconi and Glanzmann: the men and their works.

Most haematologists will recognize the name Fanconi as that given to the rare form of aplastic anaemia frequently associated with other constitutional abnormalities. When questioned, most would suggest that he was Italian born. The name Glanzmann should kindle memories of that equally rare congenital platelet function disorder and most would guess that he was of Austro-German extraction. In fac...

Roy J. Britten, 1919-2012: our early years at Caltech.

R oy Britten died in Costa Mesa, California on January 21, 2012, of pancreatic cancer at age 92. His work in the 1960s, in which he used renaturation kinetics to provide a quantitative image of the single-copy and repetitive sequence content of animal genomes, was of gigantic intellectual import, and it essentially built the ground floor of the edifice that we call genomics today. He was electe...