Forty years ago, a Japanese press release issued on the occasion of a visit by Arthur Kornberg called him the “father of life in a test tube.” This was in reference to his laboratory’s 1967 feat of copying single-stranded circular DNA into a replicative form and then back to an infectious viral DNA strand using purified DNA polymerase and DNA ligase (Figure 1, left panel). Although a somewhat e...

Arthur Wilfrid Adams died on 9th December, 1974, aged 82 years. He was a Bristolian, the son of Avery Adams, who was for many years Secretary to Bristol Education Committee and a well known local artist. Wiilfrid was educated at Clifton College and then studied medicine lin Bristol and at 'the London Hospital qualifying M.B., BjS. (London) in 1916. After service with (the RAMC 'in the First Wor...

The free energies of adsorption of the monomer or dimer of the cationic beta-hairpin antimicrobial peptide protegrin-1 (PG1) in a specific binding orientation on a lipid bilayer are determined using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. The bilayer is composed of anionic palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylglycerol (POPG) and palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine ...

Profa. Maria do Carmo Correa Galvão (1925/...)Profa Bertha Koiffmann Becker (1930/2013)Prof. Jorge Xavier-da-Silva (1935/2021)Profa Therezinha de Segadas Soares (1925/1993)Profa Lysia Cavalcanti Bernardes (1924/1991)Profa Regina Mousinho Meis (1937/1985)Prof. Speridião Faissol (1923/1997)

Gallicans like Montaigne construed the confessional struggle as a problem of jurisdiction between Crown and Pope. When he quipped “to Ghibelline I was Guelph, to Guelph Ghibelline”, thus not intimating that appeared “Protestant” Catholic side “Catholic” Protestant one. Instead, used these terms in their historical sense, designating division citramontane supporters king ultramontane pope. Betwe...

Has Sydney lost access by removing its extensive tram network? We compare the 1925 network with today’s bus network, and conclude that provided today exceeds what would have been just trams. The CBD had better if 1925’s central lines were still in operation.

ment” (J. B. van Helmont, the beginning of XVII century). 300th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences (Berlin, 1700). 150th anniversary of the supposition of the existence of intermediate metabolism (C. Bernard, 1850). 100th anniversary of the founding of the Nobel Prize (June 29, 1900). 100th anniversary of the discovery of the regulatory peptide carnosine (V. Gulevich, 1900)....

a hard player. For some years he played football for the Clifton Football Club, and later hockey for the Royal Infirmary. When, in 1891, the late W. C. Swayne made his record recruiting campaign Cridland was one of the first to join, and went into No. 6 Company of the old Gloucester Volunteer Artillery. Here his keenness and efficiency soon distinguished him, his shooting and drill prizes were ...