The rising incidence of cancer cases worldwide generates an urgent need of novel treatment options. Applying bacteria may represent a valuable therapeutic variant that is intensively investigated nowadays. Interestingly, the idea to apply bacteria wittingly or unwittingly dates back to ancient times and was revived in the 19th century mainly by the pioneer William Coley. This review summarizes ...

A. S. Schneider,1, ∗ L. F. Roberts,2, † and C. D. OŠ1, 3, ‡ TAPIR, Walter Burke Institute for Šeoretical Physics, MC 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Center for Gravitational Physics and International Research Unit of Ad...

Can corporate social responsibility (CSR) be a source of good and a wellspring of innovation, competitive advantage and value creation for the firm? Although CEOs and government leaders insist in public that CSR projects create value for the firm, privately they admit that they do not know if CSR pays off. To address this question and drawing on experience for the Spanish context, we test one o...

last, joined the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1870, and throughout his long life never ceased to take an active interest in its doings. For thirty-five years he was the honorary and honoured Treasurer of the Society, and many of us know that it was entirely due to his enthusiasm and business ability that the Society was raised from the verge of bankruptcy to the flourishing condition in whi...

phy's finding of 1914 (18), she inoculated irradiat ed rats and mice subcutaneously with minced cell suspensions of human tumors and obtained active growth for two generations or more in 83 out of 100 tumors transplanted. In 1958 she recorded 90 per cent of 101 human tumors surviving and pro liferating for 1@—@0 days in irradiated and/or cor tisone-treated rats inoculated subcutaneously and i...

ABOUT 35 YEARS AGO a young inexperienced and very nervous student entered Wards 1 and 2 of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, as resident pupil. The same student-I hope I am still capable of learning-stands before you this evening and hopes you will receive him as graciously as Professor W. W. D. Thomson did on that occasion. He shook my hand and welcomed me as a new member of his team. This...

all forms of creative production born of an intimate and individual urge, often secretive, unbound from the conventional art system rules. Through short descriptions of the Outsider art work of prominent artists and new protagonists often hosted in community mental health services, this section intends to investigate the latest developments of the contemporary art scene, where the distances bet...

This anthology commemorates a most unusual and complex person. Homer William Smith was best known as a renal physiologist whose work ranged from the evolution of the kidney to clinical studies on renal function and disease in man. He also studied and wrote about religion and philosophy, and published two novels, one of which, Kamongo, had rather a surprising success considering that its "plot" ...

A. Introduction B. Extraction of Lipids from Biological Fluids 1. Gangliosides 2. Prostaglandins and other eicosanoids 3. Purification of total lipid extracts 4. Some miscellaneous extraction procedures C. Adsorption Chromatography for the Isolation of Lipid Classes 1. Lipid class or group separations on silica gel 2. Adsorption chromatography with chemically-bonded phases D. Reversed-Phase App...