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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1982
#13932
Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena.
Discovery of ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Cech discovered that RNA itself could cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. "In the 1970s, Cech had been studying the splicing of RNA in…
1983
#6623.5
Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.
1983
#6610.17
Russiche Ikonenmalerie und Medizin. Zugleich eine Einführung in die Ikonographie. 2., Überarbeitete Auflage.
1983
#8082
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
1983
#9313
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
1983
#10407
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
1983
#12308
Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.
1983
#14140
Mammalian beta-adrenergic receptors. Structural differences in beta 1 and beta 2 subtypes revealed by peptide maps.
Lefkowitz and colleagues showed that there are two different types of beta receptors, distinguishing them as Beta-1 and Beta-2. They noticed that each has specific pharmacological characteristics. Order of authorship …
1983
#14254
Cyclin: A protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division.
"It was at Woods Hole around July 1982, using Arbacia sea urchin eggs as his model organism, that he discovered cyclin proteins.[12] Cyclins play a key role in regulating the cell-division cycle.[16] Hunt was observin…
1984
#7053
The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
1984
#7428
DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.
Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…
1984
#8411
The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.
For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.
1984
#9098
The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.
Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…
1984 –2013
#9359
Edizioni nationale delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani. 30 vols.
Includes the correspondence and previously unpublished manuscripts. A description of this set is available from the publisher at this link.
1984
#10327
History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.
1984
#14184
Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses.
Dubochet and colleagues introduced "Dubochet's vitrification method" to vitrify water by cooling it so rapidly that it solidified to form a glass instead of crystals. Using this method, the authors published the first…
1984
#14263
Molecular analysis of the period locus in Drosophila malanogaster and identification of a transcript involved in biological rhythms.
Rosbach and colleagues, including Jeffrey C. Hall, sequenced the Drosophila period gene in 1984. Full text available from cell.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Reddy, Zehring, Wheeler…
1984
#14265
Restoration of circadian behavioral rhythms by gene transfer in Drosophila.
"At The Rockefeller University in the early 1980s, Young and his two lab members, Ted Bargiello and Rob Jackson, further investigated the circadian period gene in Drosophila. They constructed segments of recombinant D…
1985
#145.91
The background of ecology: concept and theory.
1985
#6610.18
Ars medica: Art, medicine, and the human condition.
Fully annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, and photographs. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1985
#7607
De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.
Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.
1985
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1985
#8158
Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.
Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.
1985
#8388
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.
Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…
1985
#8820
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1985
#8883
The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.
Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.
1985
#9133
The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.
Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …
1985
#10785
Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.
Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis.... In 1993 the Nobel Prize in Chemist…
1985
#11060
Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.
Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any …
1985
#12147
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
1985
#13736
Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.
Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.
1985
#13737
Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.
Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.
1985
#13936
Repetitive zinc-binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.
Discovery of Zinc fingers, a protein structural motif. "Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcr…
1985
#14175
Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin involved in microtubule based motility.
The authors discovered and named a second motor protein, and named it kinesin. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Vale, Reese, Sheetz. (Thanks to Juan Weiss …
1985
#14339
Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.
In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …
1986
#534.42
A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.
A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.
1986
#6623.51
The medical mind of Shakespeare.
1986
#7213
Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.
Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel la…
1986
#7957
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
1986
#8088
The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
1986
#8213
Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.
Revised edition, 2004.
1986
#9939
Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.
Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis, In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4…
1986
#10009
L'Art dentaire à travers la peinture.
1986
#11042
The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…
1986
#11476
New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.
Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimat…
1986
#12376
Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.
1986
#13784
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
1987
#5813.15
A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,
1987
#6927
Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.
The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.
1987
#7256
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.
Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most wi…