IN 1859 The British Association met in Aberdeen. A letter' circulated in February of that year, asked for contributions to the Natural History exhibition suggesting that '. . . iftolerably complete (as a little exertion may easilymake it) will prove very interesting and instructive.' M'Kendrick was then an indentured clerk in a lawyers' office, and had assembled a marine aquarium in his lodging...

In 1953, while still at Tufts CollegeMedical School, Mel Simpson published a landmark paper demonstrating the ATP dependence of intracellular protein degradation. A year later, after moving to the Department of Biochemistry at Yale University Medical School, Simpson described his enigmatic results in a latenight discussion with a newly minted Instructor recently arrived from postdoctoral traini...

ISOPOL - for "International Symposium on Problems of Listeria and Listeriosis" - meetings gather every three years since 1957 participants from all over the world and allow exchange and update on a wide array of topics concerning Listeria and listeriosis, ranging from epidemiology, diagnostic and typing methods, to genomics, post-genomics, fundamental microbiology, cell biology and pathogenesis...

A tea at 2:.3ll o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Newman house ami a communion breakfast Sunday at the Academy of the I Inly Names arc the events planned 1 ' cc.curate the tenth birthday of Newman club here. The breakfast will be alter a nine o'clock Mass at St. Vincent uc i'aid s church. Winifred Carey, '27, president of Newman club, and Margarctla Smyth, '28, president of Newman house, will pour ...

Starting with the hypothesis of Judah Folkman that tumor growth is angiogenesis dependent, this area of research has a solid scientific foundation. More than 30 years ago, Folkman found a revolutionary new way to think about cancer. He postulated that in order to survive and grow, tumors require blood vessels and that by cutting off the blood supply a cancer could be starved into remission. Sev...

New records of water mites of the family Torrenticolidae Piersig, 1902 (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from streams in South Korea and the Russian Far East are presented. Detailed descriptions or redescrptions are provided for eight species of the genera Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 and Monatractides K. Viets 1926. Two species are described as new to science: Torrenticola kimichungi sp. n. and Monatractide...

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