HE tumorous head (tu-h) abnormality and genetic mechanism were disTcussed by GARDNER (1948), GARDNER and WOOLF (1949) and NEWBY ( 1949). Penetrance, expressivity and relative viability were investigated by GARDNER and RATTY (1952). The influence of high and low temperatures on the expression was described by GARDNER and WOOLF (1950). Modifiers and alleles of tumorous head genes were found in la...

Gardner-Diamond syndrome, which also is knownas autoerythrocyte sensitization disorder, is a raresyndrome of inflammatory, edematous papulesthat evolve into painful ecchymoses on the trunkand lower legs after a period of stress with no priorhistory of trauma. This syndrome usually occurs inwomen with a history of psychiatric disorders, themost common one being depression. Although theexact mech...

Dear Mr. York: As reader services correspondent at Fellowship headquarters, I would like to thank you for sending us your review article of Martin Gardner's Urantia. Of the half-dozen reviews we've read, yours is certainly the most serious, insightful and heartening. It was also gratifying to learn that you met your first Urantia Book believers during your visit to our information center at the...

T he cell has a number of quality control mechanisms to ensure defective proteins get trashed. Most defects are detected and dealt with at the point of production to ensure that only quality proteins are released for use. But proteins can also become defective once they're at the job site. They can even be made to look bad by cowork-ers that want them destroyed, as Gard-ner discovered when stud...