A condom in every jail cell

A condom in every jail cell.

A globin in every cell?

A crucial requirement of metabolically active aerobic cells is a steady supply of oxygen. The red pigment of vertebrate skeletal muscle, oxygen-binding myoglobin (Mb), serves this function by facilitating the delivery of O2 from the plasma membrane to the energy-producing mitochondria (1). The delivery of O2 from lungs or gills to muscles is also very efficient because of the cooperative loadin...

Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell

The continuous repetition of Christian de Duve’s primary thesis in Genetics of Original Sin ensures that however little the reader understands or is interested in biology, he will have no doubt as to the author’s primary concern: Natural selection has made humans poor prognosticators. As evolutionary adaptation is all about living (and reproducing) in the moment, humans have evolved some unfort...

Protecting Public Health from Inside a Jail Cell

The Jail and Jail System of India

given in full, with their reasons for assigning the punishment for life only :? " We have ready made to our hands a weapon of tremendous power. The horror with which the people regard transportation is a feeling born with them, and the questions whether it bo a wise or foolish feeling, whether it be a just deduction from true premises, or the result of ignorance and superstition, are nothing to...