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1990–1999

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1996

#10646

Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.

1996

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1996 –1997

#10850

The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.

1996

#10882

Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.

Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…

1996 –2006

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

1996

#11063

Internationaler biographischer Index der Medizin : Arzte, Naturheilkundler, Veterinarmediziner und Apotheker. 3 vols.

1996

#11110

Making PCR: A story of biotechnology.

1996

#11183

Historic Embryology Papers.

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Historic_Embryology_Papers#Introduction "Introduction The linked papers are intended to give some historic background to Embryology. Historically, say pre-20th c…

1996

#11365

Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Deng, Liu, Ellmeier.... This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Nature by: Tatjana Dragic, Virginia Litwin, Graham P. Allaway et al. "HIV-1 entry into …

1996

#11829

Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio

1996

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1996

#11898

Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.

1996

#11933

Experimenal transmission of Bartonella henselae by the cat flea.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Chomel, Kasten, Floyd-Hawkins.... Chomel and colleagues studied 47 cattery cats from a private home for 12 months. They found that such cats typically are bacteremic. S…

1996

#11989

The cyberknife: A frameless robotic system for radiosurgery.

1996

#11995

Molecular analysis of genetic differences between Mycobacterium bovis BCG and virulent M. bovis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mahairas, Sabo, Hickey.... From the Abstract: "The live attenuated bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for the prevention of disease associated with Mycobacterium tu…

1996

#12106

Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.

1996

#12111

The dorsoventral regulatory gene cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus controls the potent antifungal response in Drosophila adults.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Lemaitre, Nicolas,... Hoffmann. This paper represented the foundation of molecular immunology. Hoffmann and colleagues found that flies with mutated Toll genes were una…

1996

#12316

Opera, desire, disease, death.

"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…

1996

#12640

Collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Vol. I: Insulin. Vol. 2: Cholestrol, penicillin and other antibiotics. Vol. 3: General crystallography and essays. Edited by G. G. Dodson, J. P. Glusker, S. Ramaseshan and K. Venkatesan.

1996

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1996

#12794

A history of transplantation immunology.

Written by one of the founders of the science.

1996

#12835

Evidence for the conformation of the pathologic isoform of the prion protein enciphering and propagating prion diversity.

The authors showed that the " 'normal prion protein' in the brains of living mice can be converted into different forms depending on the type of abnormal human prion that initiated the conversion. The result is differ…

1996

#12838

Geschichte der Hypophysenhormone.

1996 –2018

#12939

The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.

"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical chapters, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire, that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists. "During…

1996

#13399

Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.

1996

#13550

Manuscripts and drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 2.

The Natural History Museum at Tring, located in the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park, was originally the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild. The building was constructed in…

1996

#13565

Crystal structure of Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein.

Tsien and colleagues published the crystal structure of the 238 A.A. long green fluorescent protein (GFP). With this data, the authors could determine what had to be modified within the protein in such a way that the …

1996

#13601

History of the Canadian Medical Association, 1954-94.

1996

#13829

Notable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.

1996

#14046

The lac Operon: A short history of a genetic paradigm.

1996

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

1996

#14129

"From proteins to proteomes: Large scale protein identification by two-dimensional electrophoresis and amino acid analysis.

Foundation of Proteomics. Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilkins, Pasquali, ...Hochstrasser. "Abstract: Separation and identification of proteins by two-dimensional (2-D) electrophoresis can be used …

1996

#14219

Jean Fery: A sixteen century case of dissociative identity disorder.

Abstract: "This discussion reinterprets a sixteenth-century case of possession and exorcism ashttps://archive.org/details/lapossessiondeje00bour/page/n7/mode/2up Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as…

1996

#14252

Toward a molecular definition of long-term memory storage.

"Abstract: The storage of long-term memory is associated with a cellular program of gene expression, altered protein synthesis, and the growth of new synaptic connections. Recent studies of a variety of memory process…

1996

#14267

Enhancement of antitumor immunity by CTLA-4 blockade.

In the early 1990s James Allison showed that CTLA-4 acts as an inhibitory molecule to restrict T-cell responses. In 1996, Allison was the first to show that antibody blockade of a T-cell inhibitory molecule (known as …

1997

#6826

A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.

The most comprehensive history of the subject.

1997

#6906

American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.

1997

#6966

American surgery: An illustrated history.

1997

#6978

History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.

1997

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

1997

#7102

Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.

Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacularly illustrat…

1997

#7166

Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.

1997

#7181

Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.

1997

#7219

The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.

When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.

1997

#7285

A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans.

Homo antecessor, an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, discovered in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of Northern Spain. With A. Rosas, I Martinez and M. Mosquera.

1997

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

1997

#7457

Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells.

Cloning of the lamb Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth established that the nuclei of at least some adult cells can be used to produce sheep or other animals that are genetically identi…

1997

#7461

An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.

1997

#7463

The eye of the artist.

1997

#7530

Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.