Eighty years of research on islet amyloidosis in Uppsala

Eighty years of research on islet amyloidosis in Uppsala

Science is said tobe free inSweden in the sense that scientists areallowed todo researchonany subject, but there isone very serious limitation: theworkhas tobe funded.The latter aspecthasbecome increasingly evidentduring later years. In many ways, research was more free decades ago whenmore money was directly allocated to universities and their departments. Inthisway, islandsofresearchcouldmore...

on the status of mixed methods research in applied linguistics

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Eighty years after insulin: parallels with modern islet transplantation.

© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors T his year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication in CMAJ of the discovery of insulin by Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto. Some interesting historical parallels have emerged with the success of islet replacement therapy in diabetes. Up until just a few weeks ago, human islet cells were being prepared in...

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.