It is surprising that over 60 years have elapsed since the first use of influenza vaccines, yet with the advances in biotechnology that have occurred in the interim, the majority of the influenza vaccines that we use today are still non-living viral antigens produced in a relatively uncontrolled substrate, the embryonated chicken egg. It is also surprising that the impact of seasonal influenza ...

With high-throughput sequencing, transcriptomics, and proteomics no longer in their “infancy” as described in the preface by author T.A. Brown, Genomes 4 offers an expansive review on a broad spectrum of topics in genetics ranging from the central dogma of genes coding for proteins, to the fine technical details of genome mapping. This edition retains the four-part organization from the previou...

Basic Properties and Clinical Applications of Transfer Factor, held during October, 1975. The Academic Press Rapid Manuscript Reproduction series brings us such symposia in book form while the information is still fresh and not dated even to the specialist. Certainly in the case of this volume it is an admirable achievement, for this is truly the most recent information on nearly all aspects of...

Pattern recognition (PR) (or classification or discrimination or analysis) concerns the development of theoretical and computational means for placing abstract objects into categories. PR spans theoretical work involving techniques from probability and statistics, information theory, learning theory, and more [1, 2, 3, 4]. PR also plays a major role in applications in fields such as machine lea...

In this study, a general theory of an objective sightseeing area or “open service field” is defined. The reasons for the difficulties encountered in conducting the survey on the open service field are then explained. Next, we present our approach to providing incentives in our research system in order to avoid the known difficulties. We then explain the open service field point of service (POS)...

161 notebook, with careful documentation of procedures and results. The text is complemented with useful diagrams, and helpful hints abound. Where an experiment is potentially dangerous, warnings are given clearly, and precautions explained. Each chapter has a useful bibliography, with references both to standard textbooks and to appropriate original articles. An interesting feature of this tex...

As an undergraduate in search of a definitive text for my introductory biochemistry courses, I had no choice but to acquire the third edition of this book, since Dr. Stryer was not only an instructor for several of my classes, but his text was also the required text for the most popular biology course! But even if I had not been pressured to acquire the text, I would have sold all my other book...

The next section of the book discusses the physical aspects of ventilator types, control patterns, and the choice of particular modes for clinical situations. Of good use in this section is the discussion of common problems of various ventilator modes. Again the discussion is at a basic level, of use only to those gaining an introduction to the utilization of ventilators. The final section of t...

1 Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, 2 Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, 3 Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, 4 Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland, O...