Facets

1959 CE

#14141

Factors affecting the activity of muscle phosphorylase b kinase.

In 1992 Krebs and Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism." Digital facsimile from PubMe…

1493 CE–1494 CE

#363.1

Fascicolo di medicina. Tr: Sebastianus Manilius. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda. Mundinus: Anatomia (Ed: Petrus Andreas Morsianus).

This Italian translation contains an entirely new and more extensive series of woodcuts and additional text. The dramatically improved and more realistic illustrations, which were reproduced in the numerous later edit…

1829 CE–1837 CE

#13135

Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, the zoology of the northern parts of British America: Containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. 4 vols.

Richardson, surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, was physician and naturalist on Sir John Franklin’s first two Arctic expeditions, and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian…

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1874 CE

#11789

Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.

This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…

1985 CE

#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 …

1973 CE

#8136

Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.

Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.

2001 CE

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

1889 CE

#714

Fixation de l’azote par la terre végétale nue ou avec le concours des légumineuses.

Berthelot showed that bacteria acting in clay soils are able to fix nitrogen.

2022 CE

#13917

Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.

Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…

1656 CE

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

1835 CE

#8920

For private distribution. The following pages contain extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq.

Darwin's teacher, John Stevens Henslow, had some of Darwin's letters to him published for private distribution as a pamphlet while Darwin was on the Beagle circumnavigation. Estimates of the number of copies printed v…

1916 CE

#353.1

Form and function: a contribution to the history of animal morphology.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937 CE–1946 CE

#9358

Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.

1799 CE

#7218

Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First [All Published].

This 24-page pamphlet is the first work by an American devoted entirely to American birds. It deals predominantly with migratory birds, arranged according to the dates throughout the year 1791 in which they were first…

1818 CE

#9692

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.

The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9693

Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

1978 CE

#6623.3

Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.

The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.

2009 CE

#7650

Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.

Text and captions in English and German.

2013 CE

#7651

Fritz Kahn.

Text and captions in English, French and German.

1980 CE

#13206

From DNA to Protein: The transfer of genetic information.

1996 CE

#7827

From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.

1975 CE

#2660.27

From the molecular biology of oncogenic DNA viruses to cancer. Les Prix Nobel en 1975, pp. 172-80.

In 1975 Dulbecco shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Baltimore and Howard Martin Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the c…

1661 CE

#145.5

Fumifugium: or the inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London dissipated. Together with some remedies humbly proposed.

A pioneering attack on air pollution caused by “the hellish and dismall cloud of sea-coal” which perpetually enveloped London. Of course, the problems Evelyn wrote about did not go away, and the work conti…

1864 CE

#221

Für Darwin.

Müller, the first German to support Darwin, studied the development of the Crustacea in Brazil and published some of his results in the above little book, which contains much original information. He realized the…

2020 CE

#12602

Future of the human climate niche.

Significance "We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This di…

1825 CE–1829 CE

#10580

Galerie médicale dessinée et lithographiée par Vigneron avec des notices biographiques et littéraires par G. T. Doin.

32 finely lithographed portraits in small folio format with biographies of notable figures in the history of medicine. The original intention was to publish 100 portraits but only 32 were issued.

1961 CE

#256.7

Gene action in the X-chromosome of the mouse (Mus musculus L).

Theory of differential inactivation of the X-chromosome. See also Amer. J. hum. Genet., 1962, 14, 135-48.

2015 CE

#11848

Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…

1961 CE

#256.8

General nature of the genetic code for proteins.

The codons in DNA specifying amino acids in proteins.

2014 CE

#11863

Generation of gene-modified Cynomolgus monkey via CAS9/RNA-mediated gene targeting in one-cell embryos.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Niu, Shen, Cui. The authors presented the first evidence that CRISPR can work in primates. Open Archive version available from Cell at this link. "Summary "Monkeys serv…

1941 CE

#254.3

Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.

Beadle and Tatum proposed the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis in 1941. This was a restatement of ideas originally proposed by Archibald Garrod (No. 244.1) in 1908. 1958 Beadle and Tatum shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…

1986 CE

#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…

1976 CE

#14253

Genetic control of the cell division cycle in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

"Beginning in 1976, Nurse identified the gene cdc2 in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe). This gene controls the progression of the cell cycle from G1 phase to S phase and the transition from G2 phase to mitosi…

1974 CE

#13934

Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast.

In 2001 Hartwell shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle." See also No. 13933. In this paper the authors demonstr…

1970 CE

#13933

Genetic control of the cell-division cycle in yeast 1. Detection of mutants.

This was the first paper to describe cdc mutants. The authors also coined the term 'execution point' — the stage in the cell cycle when the gene function is required. In this paper, three cdc genes were describe…

1952 CE

#256.1

Genetic exchange in Salmonella.

Description of a new mechanism (“transduction”) for the transfer of genetic characters from one bacterial strain to another.

1952 CE

#13970

Genetic exchange in salmonella.

Working as a graduate student with Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named thi…

1949 CE

#2526.1

Genetic recombinations leading to production of active bacteriophage from ultraviolet inactivated bacteriophage particles.

In 1969 Luria shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Delbrück (No. 2578.5) and A. D. Hershey (No. 256) "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of vi…

1961 CE

#256.9

Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins.

In 1965 Jacob, Monod, and André Lwoff shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis."

1953 CE

#7138

Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.

In this paper published on May 30, 1953 Watson and Crick proposed the method of replication of DNA. This discovery has been called as significant, or possibly even more significant, than their discovery of the double-…

2022 CE

#14107

Genetics of atavism.

Abstract: "Atavisms have attracted people’s attention for a long time. First, atavisms excited their imagination and created fertile ground for myths and superstitions. With the development of science, atavisms …

1974 CE

#10047

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Creation of the first transgenic organism: expression of Staphylococcus aureus genes in Escherichia coli. Digital facsimile from pnas.org at this link.

1974 CE

#10963

Genome construction between bacterial species in vitro: Replication and expression of staphylococcus plasmid genes in Escherichia coli.

Confirmation of the success of methods outlined in No. 257.5. Abstract: "Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resi…

2007 CE

#11338

Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…

1855 CE

#11884

Géographie botanique raisonnée ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l'époque actuelle. 2 vols.

This work work organized and systematized the huge mass of data being collected by the numerous scientific expeditions of the time to explain the geographical distribution of plants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica…

1778 CE–1793 CE

#8222

Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüßigen Thiere: nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1846 CE

#8918

Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.

The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …

1992 CE

#11214

Georges Cuvier: An annotated bibliography of his published works