There exists an intricate network of proteins that continuously monitor each phase of the cell cycle to ensure proper replication. This network of proteins, termed checkpoints, first detects cellular abnormalities, and then coordinates their repair before the cell divides. The malfunction of these checkpoints often results in the proliferation of potentially damaged cells, and thus a tremendous...

In offering a few observations in reference to one who 1ms so recently been amongst us, were we for a moment to permit personal feelings to influence the discharge of public duties, we should rest satisfied with recounting to the profession instances of the gentle nature, land disposition, and great personal worth of him whose lamentable death we, in common with all who had the privilege of his...

MY object today is to try, I am sure very inadequately, to tell you something of the life of that illustrious fellow countryman of mine, William Smellie, the Master of British Midwifery, who was born in Lanark in the year 1697. Smellie lived during the reigns of four sovereigns-Queen Anne and the first three Hanoverian Georges. He saw the union of the Scottish and English Parliaments in 1707, a...