Webster Van Winkle, Jr., Fish Population Modeler

Rip Van Winkle wakes up: development of tuberculosis treatment in the 21st century.

The increase in drug-resistant tuberculosis and the global pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection-related tuberculosis threaten global tuberculosis control. There are needs for improved therapy in all aspects of tuberculosis treatment: treatment of latent infection, active drug-susceptible disease, and particularly, drug-resistant disease. Fortunately, at this time of great need, th...

San Joaquin Valley Health Effects Research Center Center Directors

s: 2008 KM Sutherland, PC Edwards, LS Van Winkle. Mechanisms of Pulmonary Tolerance in Female Mice to the Cytotoxicant Naphthalene FASEB J. 22: 918.4 2008 LS Van Winkle and JR Harkema. Oxidant Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma. The Toxicologist Vol 102, S-1, p117 A568. 2008 M.V. Fanucchi, B.M. Kumfer, E.D. Wallis, I.M. Kennedy.Acute Airway Epithelial Injury from Three Different Carbon Particle...

Webster, privacy, and RU486.

The Richard Webster Medal

There have recently been moves afoot among evolutionary biologists to stop speaking of ‘Darwin’s theory of evolution’ and, instead, to call it ‘Darwin’s law of evolution’. This is to stymie creationists who like to say ‘evolution is only a theory’. Now I am all in favour of stymieing creationists, but I think that this idea is misguided. The underlying assumption is that the use of the word ‘La...

Robert J . Webster III

As a flexible needle with a bevel tip is pushed through soft tissue, the asymmetry of the tip causes the needle to bend. We propose that, by using nonholonomic kinematics, control, and path planning, an appropriately designed needle can be steered through tissue to reach a specified 3D target. Such steering capability could enhance targeting accuracy and may improve outcomes for percutaneous th...