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Rebuttal from Daniel Beard and Eric Feigl.

Dr. Andrew’s proposal (Andrew, 2013) to rename Guyton’s venous return curve the ‘venous pressure curve’ seems unlikely to overcome the decades of misinterpretation and confusion that the Guytonmodel of the systemic circulation has engendered. In Guyton’s experiments venous return curves were produced with a pump connected from the right atrium to the pulmonary artery in an anaesthetized, open c...

Eric Kandel

Organocatalysis Eric

T he field of asymmetric catalysis is dedicated to the development of efficient catalytic methods for the construction of chiral molecules and has been dominated by the use of organometallics and enzymes for most of its history. However, in the past decade, the concept of organocatalysis has emerged as a discrete strategy for addressing modern day challenges in chemistry. It has become widely a...

Eric Gaskell

Eric Davidson

is instrumental against infection. The prize was given to the lab chief, Jules Hoffmann. But the first author on the paper, Bruno Lemaitre, has argued that he initiated the project and planned it, that he made the discovery that mutations in the Toll pathway rendered a fly impotent against infection, that he wrote up the first version of the paper and that Hoffmann’s scientific contribution to ...