"My Little Readers”: Catharine Parr Traill’s Natural Histories for Children

Natural histories

And because it is surrounded by an array of 60,000 photo-voltaic cells, the academy will produce more than five per cent of its electricity and overall use around a third less energy than the maximum allowed by San Francisco's already strict laws. " We could have thought of a different solution for the roof without plants and birds, " says Piano. " But the green roof is about a new spirit for t...

Notes on the Obstetric Histories of Catharine of Arragon and Anne Boleyn

Suffer the little children...

Commentary: With a little help from my enteric microbial friends

In a recent mini-review published in Frontiers in Medicine, Ben Berkhout pointed out that the interactions between co-localizing viruses and commensal bacteria in the gastric tract are important for the survival and transmission of a number of virus families (Berkhout, 2015). These viruses are part of the virome or viral metagenome that constitutes the total collection of viruses found in and o...

Profile of A . Catharine

V itamin A’s vital role in healthy vision and skin has been well known for decades. Deficiency in vitamin A (retinol) causes the leading form of preventable blindness in children worldwide and can raise the risk of disease and death. What has been less known about vitamin A is its specific, mechanistic role in immune function. Nutritional biochemist A. Catharine Ross, elected to the National Ac...