Correspondence with medalists

E.B. Wilson Medalists, 1981

Daniel Mazia's career in research encompasses many areas of ceU biology, but the main thread is a fascination with how ceils reproduce. Much of this effort is directed toward understanding the regulation and structural basis of mitosis. His studies include landmark work on calcium levels and fertilization , growth during the ceil cycle, studies on the role of the cell nucleus in directing cell ...

E.B. Wilson medalists, 1983

It is often said that a scientist is lucky to make one great discovery in a career; those rare individuals who make more than one are very special indeed. Joseph Gall has made not one but several major discoveries which have both theoretical and practical consequences. His early research on lampbrush chromosomes of amphibians established many facts about chromosome structure. For example, he di...

Ethnobotanical Applications and Their Correspondence with Phylogeny in Apiaceae-Apioideae

The Apiaceae family includes some of the most known medicinal, food and spice species in the world some of which have been used by humans since antiquity. Local people in different regions use many species of the family but the information regarding their uses is scattered. Traditionally used species are good candidates for bioprospecting. Combining traditional uses with phylogenetic data helps...

Medalists with extreme duration of type 1 diabetes exhibit only mild diastolic dysfunction and myocardial fibrosis.

Medalists are a unique subset of patients with more than 50 years of type 1 diabetes. One would expect these patients to have significant microvascular and macrovascular complications. However, the Joslin observational study showed that of their medalists, a substantial proportion remained free of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (42.6%), nephropathy (86.9%), and neuropathy (39.4%) (1). Wheth...

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