Comets (1955)

Following comets

an inferior hand of genes. Fetuses are today commonly screened for genetic disorders and this service will no doubt expand. An American company has devised a one-inch chip carrying 400,000 DNA fragments, which will allow the entire human genome to be screened for an average of four alleles per gene. The difference between eliminating the undesirable and promoting the advantageous is becoming to...

'Epidemic neuromyasthenia' 1955-1978.

A record of fifty-three patients admitted to the Infectious Diseases Department of the Royal Free Hospital between April 1955 and September 1957 suffering from 'epidemic neuromyasthenia' establishes the fact that the condition was endemic in the general population before, during and after the outbreak among the staff of the hospital. A further outbreak occurred in North Finchley between 1964 an...

Stefan Jentsch (1955–2016)

Stefan Jentsch, whose unusual creativity and trailblazing work changed forever the fields of ubiquitin biology, DNA repair, splicing, and autophagy, sadly passed away in Munich on October 29 after a short and severe illness. Stefan was born in Berlin on May 29, 1955. Following his school and university years, Stefan embarked on his graduate thesis in his still-divided hometown and joined Thomas...

Istanbul, August 1955

Medical Comets: Scholarly Contributions

collection of pages from lecture notes, the lab manual, and figures from Haines and Nolte. In other words, for medical students studying neuroanatomy there was no single yet comprehensive source that would address the gritty neuroanatomical details and yet present integrative cases that would illustrate the diseases such as Parkinson's in the context of a clinical setting. So when I had the cha...