Wacław Sierpiński (1882-1969)

Dmd064519 1882..1890

Follistatin 315 heparan sulfate-binding deficient mutant human IgG4 Fc fusion (FST-DHBS-Fc) is a follistatin (FST) based Fc fusion protein currently being developed as a novel therapy for several potential indications, including muscle wasting. Previous assessments of the pharmacokinetics and therapeutic activity of FST-DHBS-Fc have shown a close association of the exposure–response relationshi...

Hanoi attractors and the Sierpiński gasket

The famous game Towers of Hanoi is related with a family of so–called Hanoi–graphs. We regard these non self–similar graphs as geometrical objects and obtain a sequence of fractals (HGα)α converging to the Sierpiński gasket which is one of the best studied fractals. It is shown that this convergence holds not only with respect to the Hausdorff distance, but that also Hausdorff dimension does co...

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)

During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology [4], especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups. As developmental biologist and historian Brian Hall [5] has observed, the field of evolutionary embryology [4] in the ...

The etiology of tuberculosis 1882

THE DISCOVERY OF VILLEMIN THAT tuberculosis can be transmitted to animals has been confirmed a number of times, but has also been opposed on seemingly good grounds, so that up until recently it has not been possible to state for certain whether tuberculosis is an infectious disease or not. Since then, Cohnheim and Salomonsen, and later Baumgarten, have achieved success by inoculation in the ant...

Herbert McLean Evans, 1882-1971.