Artistʼs Statement: The Last Supper

Last Supper for Mosquitoes

Cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum II (CDDP) has been recognized as one of the most active drugs against malignant tumours including ovarian cancer. However, CDDP is a toxic drug causing emesis, renal failure, hearing loss, neuropathy and anaemia. In view of these toxicities many investigators have attempted to develop new platinum analogues which retain anti-tumour activity with less toxicity. Among...

On the Last Geometric Statement of Jacobi

“Last supper with mushroom soup”: a case report of amatoxin poisoning

INTRODUCTION Unlike Europeans’ pastime of mushroom hunting or lactovegetarian's craze for "organic " food (1), in Himalayan developing nations like Nepal, either poor man's delicacy or hunger, often drives people living in hills to forage for wild mushrooms. In Nepal, unnumbered and medically unpublished small epidemics of mushroom poisoning take a heavy death toll annually. The present case de...

Clicking for supper

When close to prey, porpoises actively widen their sonar beam, which may make it harder for the prey to escape.

Singing from his supper

positions allocated. It is thus his choice whether to fill the institute with PhD students and post-docs, who will work for him, or with independent scientists. The latter will naturally be in a better position to secure additional funding but are often viewed by directors as a threat to their power. Schroeder believes that, " Too many mediocre professors currently have too much power. They are...