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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1987
#7304
Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.
The DNA sequence of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) discovered. The function of the interrupted clustered repeats was not known at the time. With H. Shinagawa, K Makino, M Amemura, a…
1987
#9900
Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
1987
#10242
The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.
http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …
1987
#12124
Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
1987
#12211
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.
"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…
1987
#13950
Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.
Within the nucleosome Kornberg found that roughly 200 bp of DNA are wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins. With Yahli Lorch, Kornberg showed that a nucleosome on a promoter prevents the initiation of transcrip…
1988
#8066
Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.
1988
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1988
#11774
Outlines of entomology. Seventh edition.
Includes an outstanding analytical bibliography of the primary entomological literature.
1988
#14054
Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras. Translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa 'Phrin-Las, Wang lei. English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.
1989
#6623.52
Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.
1989
#7081
Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
1989
#8087
Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.
1989
#8392
Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.
Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.
1989
#9733
The discovery of the art of the insane.
"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…
1989
#10926
Ebola virus infection in imported primates - Virginia, 1989.
Also published with same title in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 38 (1989) 831, 832-837. Discovery of the "Ebola Reston" strain of the Ebola virus. The strain is lethal in monkeys; it turned out to be non-path…
1989
#11027
This idle trade: On doctors who were writers.
1989
#11475
Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.
1990
#8754
Blacks in science and medicine.
1990
#12301
Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …
1990
#13949
A novel mediator between activator proteins and the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus.
Kornberg discovered that transmission of gene regulatory signals to the RNA polymerase machinery is accomplished by an additional protein complex dubbed the Mediator. As noted by the Nobel Prize committee, "the great …
1990
#14237
Historical atlas of crystallography.
1991
#6886
Complementary DNA sequencing: "expressed sequence tags" and the human genome project.
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) for DNA sequencing. By Adams, M.D., Kelley, J.M., Gocayne, J.D., Dubnick, M., Polymeropoulos, M.H., Xiao, H., Merril, C.R., Wu, A., Olde, B., Moreno, R., Kerlavage, A.R., McCombie, W.R.,…
1991
#8343
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
1991
#8412
Romantic medicine and John Keats.
1991
#8895
Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).
1991
#9311
The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.
1991
#9356
A history of regeneration research: Milestones in the evolution of a science. Edited by Charles E. Dinsmore.
1991
#9362
Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Vallisneri.
This is an ongoing project with many volumes and many editors and several publishers. The number of volumes already published, and planned volumes was unclear in May 2017 when I wrote this entry. Further information i…
1991
#9940
Mechanisms and functions of cell death.
Horvitz and colleagues identified several key components in the molecular pathway of programmed cell death, including: EGL-1, a protein which activates apoptosis by inhibiting CED-9.
1991
#14208
Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Eleven years after publication of No. 14207, Alan Hildebrand, working with Luis and Walter Alvarez, proposed that the Chicxulub Crater, discovered by Antonio-Camargo-Zanoguera and Glen T. Penfield during the 1970s, wa…
1992
#7410
The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.
1992
#8054
The Norton history of the environmental sciences.
1992
#8459
Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance.
1992
#8750
Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.
1992
#9300
Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.
1992
#10400
The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …
1992
#10821
Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.
1992
#11214
Georges Cuvier: An annotated bibliography of his published works
1992
#11855
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
1992 –2012
#11862
The biology of mosquitos. Vol. 1: Development, nutrition and reproduction. Vol. 2: Sensory perception and behaviour. Vol. 3: Transmission of viruses and interraction with bacteria.
1992
#14009
Unusual resistance to peptidyl transferase to protein extraction procedures.
Noller demonstrated that the ribosome is a ribozyme, a critical step in understanding how ribosomes translate the genetic information in DNA into the language of proteins.
1993
#8518
Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…
1993
#8618
The uses of life: A history of biotechnology.
1993
#9301
The cultural relations of classification: An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram.
The Nuaulu or Naulu are a tribe located in Seram, Maluku, Indonesia.
1993
#12429
The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.
1993
#13187
Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
1993
#14010
The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14.
Ambros and colleagues discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA), a small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecule (containing about 22 nucleotides) found in plants, animals and some viruses, that functions in RNA sil…
1993
#14301
Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans.
The authors cloned and generated the sequence of the lin-14 gene. They discovered that a segment in lin-14 mRNA (messenger RNA), was necessary for its inhibition by lin-4. Ruvkun and Ambros (No. 14010) then compared r…
1994
#7068
