Elementary Practical Physical Chemistry (Sherwood, Frank)

Elementary Organic Chemistry

The Role of Practical Work in Teaching Physical Chemistry

Changes in attitudes towards chemical education and changes in physical chemistry itself invite a re-examination of the role of practical work in the teaching of physical chemistry. Several functions of laboratory work in physical chemistry are readily recognized. First, it gives opportunity for the student to acquire manipulative skills and secondly provides experience in making observations i...

Elementary Practical Biology, Vegetable

Elementary Practical Physiology

This elementary work on Physiology is intended to present the more important facts and principles of Physiology in a concise and intelligible form to junior students. The book is divided into twenty chapters. The general anatomy and structures of the body and its organs are described as far as this is necessary to the proper understanding of their functions. There is also included some account ...

David Sherwood: Invasive procedures

T he passage of a single C. elegans cell through two basement membranes to connect the worm's uterus and vulva might seem an unlikely model for tumor metastasis. But David Sherwood— who fi rst characterized the process as a post-doc in Paul Sternberg's laboratory at Caltech—thinks that the system can teach us a great deal about cell invasion events in both normal development and cancer. Sherwoo...