Eight species of the genera Pselaphodes Westwood and Labomimus Sharp described from 1870 to 1925 are reviewed, six of them are redescribed, with their major diagnostic characters illustrated. Lectotypes are designated for the following names: Pselaphodes antennatus Bryant, 1915, Pselaphodes simplicicornis Champion, 1925, Pselaphodes spinosus Champion, 1925, and Pselaphodes villosus Westwood, 18...

George Klein, famous cancer biologist and acclaimed writer on matters of science, human responsibility, and the human condition, decorated by innumerable awards, honorary doctorates and other honors, elected member of this Academy and many other learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and Member of the Nobel Assembly of Karolins...

Oliver Smithies Though some 25 years have passed, I can still recall the comfortable predictability of arriving at the lab on a weekend morning and finding Oliver Smithies at work, perhaps at his lab bench setting up a restriction digest in a 5 mL tube or in his office poring over a manuscript. Throughout most of Oliver’s scientific career, one could expect to find him in the lab most evenings ...

It is painful to start writing an article destined to be an Obituary for a dear friend and a great scientist. To describe Joshua Lederberg as a " polymath " would be an enormous understatement. He made seminal contributions to the fields of microbiology and molecular biology and also to artificial intelligence, organic chemistry, exobiology, and many other disciplines. Joshua Lederberg was born...

The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes are critical for regulating nutrients, hormones, and endobiotics, as well as for detoxifying xenobiotics. Human and murine fetuses are known to express glucuronidation enzymes, but there are currently no data prior to implantation. Here we addressed this gap in knowledge and tested whether Ugt enzymes are already present in preimplantationstage embr...

The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes are critical for regulating nutrients, hormones, and endobiotics, as well as for detoxifying xenobiotics. Human and murine fetuses are known to express glucuronidation enzymes, but there are currently no data prior to implantation. Here we addressed this gap in knowledge and tested whether Ugt enzymes are already present in preimplantationstage embr...

Reading meeting, John Hardcastle from the company discussed the commercial and regulatory challenges attached to such endeavours. Christine Rohde and Johannes Wittmann at the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig are in the process of expanding their arsenal of medically useful phage strains. Most recently, they reported the characterisation of phages against the...

Olgierd Narkiewicz was a descendant of Samogitian nobility, whose family seat was the ancestral property Szołpiany located in Taurage County of Lithuania that is well known to Polish readers of Sienkiewicz's " Trilogy ". It was the Narkiewicz family's habitat since sixteenth century. Olgierd Narkiewicz was born to Anna Umiastowska and Dr Adolf Narkiewicz, a well-to-do medical doctor. His father...

Lederberg’s many and varied contributions, particularly to the diverse sciences he mastered and bridged, have been well documented, so the focus here is on his contributions to computing. His interest in computing, he told me, started with his experience programming a card reader to do computations in high school. Although his lifelong fascination with programming machines to help us think was ...