Robert P. Perry On July 15, Robert Palese Perry—‘‘Bob’’ to those who knew him—passed away at the age of 82. Bob was a pioneer in studying gene transcription in mammalian cells, a wonderful mentor to his preand postdoctoral students, and a compassionate family man. He leaves behind his wife Zoila, a well-known sculptor with whom he enjoyed a happy marriage for 57 years, his two daughters Adele a...

Robert J. Wenthold (Bob) grew up on a farm outside of Cresco, Iowa, a small town near the Minnesota border. Anyone who knew Bob would acknowledge that he never lost the midwestern work ethic gained during his formative years. After high school, Bob left the farm and went to Loras College, a small liberal arts college in Dubuque, Iowa. Following the completion of his undergraduate degree, he pur...

A. THE ANCESTRY AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF ROBERT WILLAN, THE DERMATOLOGIST IN THE spring of 1812, the year of Napoleon's ill-fated venture into Russia, Richard Willan, a gentleman farmer in Yorkshire, received a letter from Madeira. The letter, dated 14 April, came by Penzance and Kendal, and it took four weeks to reach its destination at the Hill, in Marthwaite near Sedbergh, where Richard live...

Briggs was born 10 December 1911 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was raised by his grandparents, as both his mother and brother died of tuberculosis before Briggs was two years old. He lived with his grandparents until 1929 when he left for college. Briggs described his aunt's lessons on the family piano as one of his most lasting boyhood experiences. Even though he would eventually stop playin...

In 2012, there were 834 769 active physicians in the USA (http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/totalactive-physicians/). By my generous and unscientific estimate, I would say that physicians outnumber researchers with a primary interest in evolutionary medicine by more than 1000 to 1. Can this quite small subset of scientists convey the power of evolutionary thinking to the medical establishmen...

It is with deep regret that we record the death on 20 March 1980 of Dr. Robert Heller, for many years a most valued friend and associate of the Wellcome Institute. Robert Heller was a native of Vienna forced to flee Austria after a period of imprisonment by the Nazis. His basic medical education had been completed in Austria and was followed by a period of physiological research in Italy. Retur...

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Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand stimulates the extrinsic apoptotic pathway by binding to death receptors 4 (DR4) and 5 (DR5). In DR4 exon 4, a C3G polymorphism at amino acid 626 located immediately 3 to one of the main receptor ligand interface regions, results in a threonine3arginine change. We found that the DR4 exon 4 G/G genotype was associated with an overall decrea...

O ver the next 50 years, as Earth’s population races toward 9 billion inhabitants, we will need to produce more food than we have produced since the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago (1). This challenge, warns National Academy of Sciences member Robert Goldberg, is particularly daunting given the finite and shrinking amount of arable land on which food crops can be grown. Increasing the yi...