It is perhaps surprising, given the contemporary eminence of neuroscience within biological research, that it was not appreciated until the 17th century that the brain might have an important function. A compelling new book by Carl Zimmer surveys the scientific, conceptual and political upheavals in England at this time as a backdrop to the major experimental work carried out by a little-known ...

Reviewed by: Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham Boel Berner (bio) By Bangham. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 328. The 1952 British film Emergency Call tells tear-jerking story a five-year-old girl suffering life-threatening blood loss after an accident. An intense medical police search ensues to find donors with her extremely rare group ...

I grew up in rural Appalachia, and now live and teach college in a similar area in Pennsylvania, the state in which sport hunting is the most popular. Thus, I have known many hunters, including family members, and have taught more than a few. The first day of buck season on the Monday after Thanksgiving invariably finds me teaching fewer people than usual. When the hunters have returned, buzzin...

Why MgSO4·11H2O? Hydrous Mg-sulfate with 11 structural waters (11w hydrate), a new low temperature hydrated Mg-sulfate phase, was first reported in 2006 by Peterson & Wang [1]. They did a structural refinement using single-crystal XRD and suggested that the crystal molds in outcrops at Meridiani [2] could indicate melting and loss of the 11w hydrate. Chou et al. [3] proposed a phase boundary be...

As the NHS recovers from an unprecedented pandemic, a new public health emergency emerges. The UK has been hard hit by cost-of-living crisis since late 2021 – where cost of necessities exceeds income individuals and families.1 (Figure 1.) This is due to many factors, such as rising inflation, frozen wages continuously daily costs. According Institute for Government, inflation ‘eating into nomin...

In 2010, Rashidul Haque spent a week at Washington University in St. Louis getting up to speed on a seemingly unpleasant task: the art and practice of collecting and storing human excrement. By learning the necessary steps for sample preservation and DNA extraction, Haque, who has spent the past 25 years developing new ways of diagnosing pathogens from clinical stool samples as head of the para...

The light-enhanced production and accumulation of sugars is only one step in the process of cold acclimation in Hedera helix L. var. Thorndale (English ivy). Applications of 2,4-dinitrophenol to plants with different portions exposed to light and dark indicated that the mere presence or accunmulation of the light-generated promoters did not invoke an increase in hardiness. Kinetics of cold accl...

To the Editor: Natural history museum collections have evolved in recent years to meet the challenges of current and future interdisciplinary scientifi c studies. Many natural history museums have built tissue collections and made digital information (e.g., photographs, publications, geographic coordinates) freely available on the Internet. These collections provide endless opportunities to con...

Henrietta Lacks (August 18, 1920, to October 4, 1951) was a poor Southern African-American tobacco farmer whose cancerous cervical tumor was the source of cells George Otto Gey at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland, cultured. These “immortal” cells remain “alive,” 60 years after her death, revolutionizing medical research. In her 2010 book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot...

Documented power consumption rates for individual food processing operations are applied to surimi processing, freezing, and cold storage. Electrical power consumption is predicted to be 314 and 272 kWh/t (285 and 247 kWh/ton) for representative surimi plants in Oregon and Alaska, respectively, during summer operation. The influencing factors for each operation are identified. INTRODUCTION S ur...