Star wars: Reagan gets green light

Green tea gets molecular.

Green tea and its major polyphenolic flavonoid, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), have been credited with cancer chemopreventive activity for many years; the mechanism for this activity, however, has remained obscure. Now, as reported in this issue of the journal (beginning on page 1366), Urusova and colleagues showed direct binding of EGCG to the peptidyl prolyl cis/trans isomerase Pin1, which ...

The Star Wars Scroll Illusion

The Star Wars Scroll Illusion is a dynamic version of the Leaning Tower Illusion. When two copies of a Star-Wars-like scrolling text are placed side by side (with separate vanishing points), the two scrolls appear to head in different directions even though they are physically parallel in the picture plane. Variations of the illusion are shown with one vanishing point, as well as from an invert...

Traffi c light labelling gets the green light Front - of - Pack Food Labelling

After the asthmas: Star Wars and Star Trek.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (1958, Derby, UK in fact), Harry Morrow-Brown used his microscope from his medical school days to show that only those adults with airway disease and sputum eosinophilia responded to oral prednisolone [1], thus preventing this most powerful of medications being consigned to the asthma dustbin of history. Subsequent work led to steroid therapy moving fro...

Star Wars : the Price of All

Executive Committee Members ........................................................ 2 Star Wars: The Price of All that Money by Peter J. Gollon ................................ 3 Star Wars: Successor to MAD by Paul Craig •....................................•....•• 4 Estimating Vulnerability to EMP Effects by John H. Richardson ....................•...... 5 EMP From High-Altitude Nuclear Explo...