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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
2002
#9815
Publishing and medicine in early modern England.
"This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the contro…
2002
#10078
The copedologist's cabinet: A biographical and bibliographical history.
"Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a …
2002
#11032
Abortion in the ancient world.
2002
#11337
The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…
2002
#12661
The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.
2002
#13127
Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.
2003
#7057
Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.
"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…
2003
#7956
Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism
2003
#9253
Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…
2003
#10233
Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.
This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…
2003
#10244
ArtandMedicine.com.
http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.
2003
#10818
Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.
"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…
2003
#12059
Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.
2003
#12195
Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.
2003
#14217
Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
The authors showed that mutations in lamin A (LMNA) are the cause of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria sundrom (HGPS). At the end of their abstract they stated that "The discovery of the molecular basis of this disease may …
2003
#14300
Design of a novel globular protein fold with atomic-level accuracy.
Called, "the breakthrough in computational de novo protein design." This was the proof of concept paper that computers and AI could be used to predict protein structures accurately and much faster than with convention…
2004
#6961
Ancient medicine.
Nutton used archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to Late Antiquity.
2004
#7312
British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.
2004
#7380
The living universe: NASA and the development of astrobiology.
2004
#7435
The genome war: How Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world.
2004
#8068
Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.
See No. 4558.1
2004
#8944
Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée.
"The new edition of "Histoire des Entomologistes Français" is completely revised and expanded. The author has supplemented this work with five new biographies, a chapter on Agricultural Entomology, a list of the Socie…
2004
#10508
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
2004
#10560
Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …
2004
#11776
Bibliographie der deutschen vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850.
2005
#8831
A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.
2005
#8858
Biodiversity Heritage Library
BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ "The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their co…
2005
#9453
Drugs and theater in early modern England.
2005
#9983
Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.
2005
#10076
Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science.
2005
#11842
Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mojica, Díez-Villaseñor, Jesus García-Martínez. In this paper Mojica and colleagues showed the the CRISPR system is a bacterial immune system against viral attack. This…
2005
#12180
Les classes zoologiques en Grèce ancienne d'Homère à Élien (VIIIe av.-IIIe ap. J.-C.)
2005
#13622
Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.
Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This technology wa…
2005
#13769
Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.
"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…
2005
#14257
Autonomous function of synaptotagmin 1 in triggering synchronous release independent of asynchronous release.
Südhof is credited with discovering much of the machinery mediating neurotransmitter release and presynaptic plasticity, beginning with the discovery of symaptotagmins and their role in neurostrasmitter release from t…
2006
#7423
Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.
Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.
2006
#7962
The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.
2006
#8090
Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
2006
#8092
Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
2006
#9820
Mom's cancer.
This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…
2006
#9926
Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.
2006
#10366
All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
2006
#10910
Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.
A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.
2006
#11650
The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.
2006
#13094
The Pauling catalogue. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling papers at Oregon State University. Edited by Christoffer Petersen and Cliff Mead. 6 vols.
Vol. 1. Timeline, correspondence, publications, manuscripts & typescripts of articles, speechs, and books. Vol. 2. Science, Research Notebooks. 1917 Linus Pauling Diary. Vol. 3. Peace, Ava Helen Pauling, travel, honor…
2006
#13287
Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors.
Takahashi and Yamanaka reprogrammed mice fibroblast cells, which can produce only other fibroblast cells, to become pluripotent stem cells, which have the capacity to produce many different types of cells. This they a…
2006
#14048
An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…
2006
#14066
Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.
Through their more than 40 year study of Darwin's finches on the Island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, the Grants demonstrated how natural selection can drive rapid changes in body and beak size in response to chan…
2006
#14084
The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb.
In 2004 Shubin, Daeschler and Jenkins discovered the first well-preserved Tiktaalik fossils in on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. Tiktaalik is a non-tetrapod member of Osteichthyes (bony fish) from the late Devon…
2006
#14085
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.
The authors showed that: 1) This transitional species had a set of features representing a major departure from the pattern in more primitive sarcopterygian fishes. 2) They presented data to indicate that Tiktaalik li…