THE youngest, but one, of eight children of an Ayrshire farmer, Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield Farm, near Darvel, on 6th August, 1881. He received his first schooling at Loudoun Moor School and at the age of 10 he went to the village school at Darvel; two years later he continued his education at Kilmarnock Academy. At 14 years of age he joined an elder brother in London and attended t...

Dans Sacre Graal des Monty Python, le personnage de Sir Robin apparait au bout d’une vingtaine minutes en compagnie d’autres chevaliers la Table Ronde. Aux cotes Lancelot Le Brave et Galahad Pur, il est presente comme « Sir-Robin-Celui-Qui-N’est-Pas-Aussi-Brave-Que-Sir-Lancelot ». Il seul dont les exploits sont rapportes : effet, a « quasiment vaincu un dragon », affronte poulet vicieux Bristol...

As an essential enzyme in the sulfate assimilation reductive pathway, sulfite reductase (SiR) plays important roles in diverse metabolic processes such as sulfur homeostasis and cysteine metabolism. However, whether plant SiR is involved in oxidative stress response is largely unknown. Here, we show that SiR functions in methyl viologen (MV)-induced oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. The transcri...

The authors describe the incidence of new primary cancers among 4,639 cases of squamous cell skin cancer (SCC) diagnosed between 1974 and 1994 in the cancer registries of the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Neuchâtel (total person-years at risk = 23,152). Overall, 729 metachronous cancers were observed versus 527.6 expected, corresponding to a standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of 1.4 (95% confidence...

Introduction: The number of patients living after a cancer diagnosis is increasing, especially hemolymphopoietic and thyroid (TC). This study aims at evaluating both the risk second in TC as cancer. Methods: Two population-based cohorts aged up to 84 years were identified from 28 Italian registries 1998–2012. first included cancers with cancers. Standardized incidence ratios (SIR) SPC stratifie...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly useful for detecting diseases of the bone marrow. The sensitivity for detecting compression fracture is very high, but specificity is low for differential diagnosis between malignant and benign cases. PURPOSE To evaluate the usefulness of in-phase/opposed-phase and short TI inversion recovery (STIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of bone...