Plasmid: First Report of mcr-1 in the United States Patrick McGann, Erik Snesrud, Rosslyn Maybank, Brendan Corey, Ana C. Ong, Robert Clifford, Mary Hinkle, Timothy Whitman, Emil Lesho, Kurt E. Schaecher Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases, Walter Reed National Mi...

Walter Jakob Gehring [3] discovered the homeobox [4], a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes [5] that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and fungi. Gehring identified the homeobox [4] in 1983, with the help of colleagues while isolating the Antennapedia (Antp) gene in fruit flies (Drosophila [6]) at the University of Basel [7] in Basel, Switzerland. Hox genes [8], a family ...

On 1 December 1989 Professor Michael W. Dols died in the United States after a long and difficult illness. With his passing, medical history lost one ofits foremost Arabist representatives. A native of Baltimore, Michael Dols received his BA in History from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1964 and an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1967. Drawn to the study ofthe Middle East at a time ...