The role of complement during the invasion of red blood cells by Plasmodiummerozoites is an enticingfield of study that has great potential to impact not just our overall understanding of how the parasite interacts with the human host but also guide future efforts in the development of efficacious malarial vaccines. The complexity of parasite and host interactions during the invasion of red blo...

anniversary of Boyle's death in 1691. This was held appropriately near Stalbridge on the Somerset-Dorset border where Boyle lived between 1645 and 1655. The twelve revised conference papers printed here include a useful Boyle bibliography of nearly 300 items published since 1940 and a helpful introductory orientation by Hunter which again lays to rest Jacob's thesis that there was a direct conn...

For Empedocles, a little over 2U00 years ago, there were four chemical elements, fire, water, earth, and air, and they were continually brought together and torn apart by two opposing forces, harmony and discord. For Aristotle, a hundred years later, two binary classification schemes took the place of one: instead of harmony-discord, he had wet-dry and hot-cold. The serious alchemists of the mi...