From Ashes to Diamonds

Ashes to ashes

The Natural History Museum in London is to return the remains of 8 aboriginal people to the Australian government. The remains include the skull of an aboriginal person thought to have been illegally exported to Britain in 93. The rest comprise the remains of 7 indigenous individuals from Tasmania and will be returned after a three-month period of study by scientists. Museum director Michael Di...

Astrophysics. Ashes to ashes: the inner lives of neutron stars.

Ashes to ashes: the history of smoking and health

When I read Richard Doll's and Bradford Hill's paper in the British Medical Journal of 30 September 1950 on smoking and lung cancer, I thought that was the end of the matter; the evidence was overwhelming. When, a few years later, they reported their prospective findings on doctors addressed "to the survivors" there was nothing more to be said. Everyone would stop smoking, lung cancer incidence...

The Left: Ashes to Phoenix

Armt1: a phoenix rises from the ashes

In the mid 1960s scientists discovered an enzyme activity in pituitary extracts that hydrolyzed s-adenosyl methionine (AdoMet) leading to the generation of methanol. Initially, the sole purpose for this enzyme was thought to be cleavage of AdoMet into methanol; but, it was later identified as protein carboxyl methyltransferase or protein methylase II [1]. Similar to the already described protei...