Cover Page Footnote: Acknowledgments. This paper was first written for the conference “Comparative Arawakan Histories” organized by Jonathan Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero, held at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in July 2000. I am grateful to all of the participants in that conference for their helpful comments on and generous tolerance of this marginal Aruan case. I am...

The 2016 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Dan Littman, Professor of Molecular Immunology at New York University’s Skirball Institute. The aim of the Vilcek Prizes, awarded each year since 2006, is to recognize the significant contributions of immigrant professionals to biomedical science in the United States and to help raise public awareness of the important role played b...

excessive amounts (HAE type II). Previously, we have found strong association between baseline level of functional C1-inhibitor and severity of HAE. Our aim was to investigate complement activation products in HAE, during a follow-up period, and to analyze the relationship between these products and severity of disease. Methods: 107 HAE patients (96 HAE type I, 11 type II) and 113 healthy contr...

excessive amounts (HAE type II). Previously, we have found strong association between baseline level of functional C1-inhibitor and severity of HAE. Our aim was to investigate complement activation products in HAE, during a follow-up period, and to analyze the relationship between these products and severity of disease. Methods: 107 HAE patients (96 HAE type I, 11 type II) and 113 healthy contr...