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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]

2011

#7100

A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.

Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The K…

2011

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2011

#9625

Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.

2011

#10126

Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.

Written and beautifully designed and produced by Tom Taylor in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes many fine color plates.

2011

#10328

Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.

2011

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.

2011

#10493

Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.

"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…

2011

#10549

Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…

2011

#10562

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.

This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…

2011

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

2011

#14134

Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor–Gs protein complex.

Kobilka and colleagues published the crystal structure of a beta-2 receptor forming a complex with the G protein coupled receptor. This was the first time that a complete complex of an active receptor and it's Gs prot…

2011

#14135

Conformational changes in the G protein Gs induced by the β2 adrenergic receptor.

Using X ray crystallographic techniques and electron microscopy, Kobilka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues described the very complex nucleotide exchange and interactions at the molecular level of the alpha subunit of…

2012

#7751

Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.

A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …

2012

#7961

Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.

2012

#8065

Health and illness: Images of difference.

2012

#8206

Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.

2012

#8707

Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.

http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…

2012

#8964

Birds in the ancient world.

2012

#9196

Biology, computing and the history of molecular sequencing: From proteins to DNA, 1945-2000.

2012

#9563

Index Novus Litteraturae Entomologicae : Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863 : online database - version 1.0 - Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.

http://sdei.senckenberg.de/index/index.php "This database is a completely revised new edition of the "Index Litteraturae Entomologicae : Serie I : Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inclusive 1863" pu…

2012

#9778

Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.

2012

#9971

American canopy: Trees, forests and the making of a nation.

2012

#9977

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.

2012

#10294

The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.

"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…

2012

#10865

Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution.

1027pp. The most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles of primates. The format is unusual with the text occupying the first 134pp.…

2012

#11844

A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria …

2013

#7618

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

2013

#7651

Fritz Kahn.

Text and captions in English, French and German.

2013

#8683

Leech.

Published in the "Animal" series. Seemingly a definitive work on the natural history and medical application of leeches.

2013

#8969

Animals in the ancient world from A to Z.

"Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild.…

2013

#9853

Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.

"Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to televi…

2013

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

2013

#11845

RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, East, Cheng...Doudna. Doudna and colleagues presented the first demonstration that the CRISPR Cas/Cas9 bacterial editing tool functions could be applied in human…

2013

#11846

Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Cong, Ran, Cox....Zhang. Zhang and colleagues edited the genome of human and mouse cells (mammalian cells). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks t…

2013

#11847

RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…

2013

#14101

The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploidy HeLa cancer cell line.

Adey and colleagues sequenced the haplotype-resolved whole genome of the HeLa cancer cell line. This showed a highly rearranged region at chromosome 8q24.21, where an integration locus of the HPV (human papillomavirus…

2014

#7289

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and hu…

2014

#7377

The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life.

2014

#7664

Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.

2014

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

2014

#8067

Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.

2014

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2014

#8296

History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.

2014

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2014

#8705

Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).

Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.

2014

#8897

Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.

2014

#9703

Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.

2014

#10097

Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.

The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…

2014

#11341

Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleep…

2014

#11501

Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.