I am astonished at Lewis Wolpert’s claim that all the big principles in biology are understood — especially in developmental biology. If one knew all the principles then new facts would simply slot into their expected places, as they do in any well understood aspect of physics. But in all areas of biology bewildering new facts are discovered at an increasing rate. I frankly do not believe that ...

search for Dr Morgan David Enoch brings up an intriguing set of results. These range from a BBC article, ‘Spotting the Royal stalkers’, a BMJ case report on ‘Exorcism for schizophrenia’ and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, to Mersey Regional Health Authority’s implementation of care in the community and books, including I Want a Christian Psychiatrist and Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes: now out of p...

found in Mendelian crosses. Crossing over, as Garland In “Crossing Over ohne Chiasmatypie?,” published in Allen noted, thus became a foundational assumption the second volume of Genetics, Goldschmidt did not, of in the subsequent articulation of the Mendelian chrocourse, deny that crossing over or genetic recombinamosome theory of heredity. Morgan and his co-workers tion took place. Rather, he ...

Deficiencies of the mitochondrial respiratory chain or the phosphorylation system are becoming increasingly recognized causes of myopathy and multisystem disease in man. In biochemical terms, the ones most clearly defined have been associated with impaired activities of NADH : ubiquinone reductase (Morgan-Hughes el al., 1979, 1984; Land et al., 1981; Moreadith etal., 1984), ubiquino1:cytochrome...