Facets

1993 CE

#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…

1998 CE

#13957

Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans.

The authors reported that tiny snippets of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) effectively shut down specific genes, driving the destruction of messenger RNA (mRNA) with sequences matching the dsRNA. As a result, the mRNA can…

1989 CE

#11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

1803 CE

#8025

Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies

Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …

2010 CE

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

1969 CE

#14055

Preliminary examination of lunar samples from Apollo 11: A physical, chemical, mineralogical, and biological analysis of 22 kilograms of lunar rocks and fines.

On p. 1226 the massive number of authors reported that "microscopic, culture, injection and inoculation studies on many different organisms to include mice, fish, invertebrates, insects, plants and lower animals such …

1983 CE

#9313

Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.

According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…

2014 CE

#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…

1981 CE

#9176

Primary structure, gene organization and polypeptide expression of poliovirus RNA.

The poliovirus genome. With around 10 co-authors. "The primary structure of the poliovirus genome has been determined. The RNA molecule is 7,433 nucleotides long, polyadenylated at the 3′ terminus, and covalentl…

1768 CE

#101

Prodromo di un opera da imprimersi sopra le riproduzione animali.

In this preliminary to a larger work on regeneration which was never published, Spallanzani described regenerative capacities of remarkable complexity and repetitiveness in the land snail, salamander and toad and frog…

1953 CE

#7383

Production of amino acids under possible primitive earth conditions.

The Miller–Urey experiment or Miller experiment, a classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested the chemical origin of l…

2017 CE

#11865

Programmable base editing of A-T to G-C.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Gaudelli, Komor, Rees....Liu. Liu and colleagues developed an advanced CRISPR system that can edit pairings of DNA nucleotide bases Adenine and Thymine into Guanine and…

1924 CE

#7384

Proiskhozhedenie Zhizni.

Oparin’s central thesis was that the first organisms to emerge in the anaerobic environment of the primitive Earth must have been heterotrophic bacteria. He proposed that life had been preceded by a lengthy peri…

1996 CE

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1997 CE

#14131

Proteome research: New frontiers in functional genomics.

Order of editorship in the original publication: Wilkins, Williams, Appel, Hochstrasser. "Recent advances in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, protein microanalytsis and bioinformatics have made the large-scale, sy…

1926 CE

#2462

Protozoology. 2 vols.

Wenyon was one of the world’s foremost authorities on medical protozoology.

1963 CE

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

2002 CE

#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…

1953 CE

#11075

Quantitative field studies on a carbon dioxide chemotropism of mosquitoes.

Reeves demonstrated that mosquitoes detect their prey by sensing the carbon dioxide that animals exhale. (It was later shown that some mosquitoes can detect their prey from more than 165 feet away.) (Thanks to Juan We…

1615 CE

#1820.1

Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....

Physician to Philip II of Spain, Hernández travelled to Mexico by order of the king, and studied the natural history of the region from 1570-77. His Works, which filled six folio volumes of text and 10 volumes …

2007 CE

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

1896 CE

#11823

Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.

Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…

2011 CE

#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.…

2004 CE

#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 …

2014 CE

#11745

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

1824 CE

#108

Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur la structure intime des animaux et des végétaux.

1804 CE

#145.54

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation.

In this foundation work on phytochemistry, Saussure analysed the chief active components of plants, their synthesis and decomposition. He specified the relationships between vegetation and the environment. He showed t…

1845 CE

#13543

Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin).

First comprehensive (124pp., 17 plates) anatomical study of the giraffe, conducted during a 20 day dissection of the huge animal in Toulouse. The authors entrusted the dissection to the Toulouse taxidermist, H. Traver…

1868 CE–1874 CE

#13444

Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères comprenant des considérations sur la classification de ces animaux. 2 vols.

Concerns primarily the mammals of China and Tibet. Volume 2 is an atlas of 108 plates. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1978 CE

#9720

Recombinant DNA: The untold story.

1955 CE

#2527

Reconstitution of active tobacco mosaic virus from its inactive protein and nucleic acid components.

First reconstitution of a virus.

1978 CE

#14144

Reconstitution of hormone-sensitive adenylate cyclase activity with resolved components of the enzyme.

Gilman and colleagues showed that G proteins are in the cell membrane and are stimulated once a ligand (adrenaline) binds the adrenergic receptor. This system can then activate adenyl cyclase to form cyclic AMP. Digit…

1681 CE

#13752

Recreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osservation ' delle chiocciole, proposta a curiosi delle opere dell natura.

The first treatise devoted entirely to molluscs, and the first practical guide for shell collectors. "Bonanni's work is significant for his careful attempts to precisely describe shell morphology. Unfortunately, due t…

2003 CE

#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 …

1792 CE

#6604.91

Redevoeringen over die wijze om de verscheidene hartstogten op onze wezens te verbeelden…

Lectures on the methods of representing the passions in the human face, and on other aspects of medicine and the arts. German translation, Berlin, 1793. See No. 158.

1924 CE

#139

Regeneration from a physico-chemical viewpoint.

1911 CE

#559

Rejuvenation of cultures of tissues.

Extra-vital cultivation and rejuvenation of tissue.

1642 CE

#6612.9

Religio medici.

The most famous work of English literature written by a physician. Browne did not intend to have it published, but manuscripts of the work circulated privately. Two unauthorized and inaccurate editions were issued sur…

1596 CE

#7117

Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris, De arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nunc primum edita. Albertus Magnus De falconibus, asturibus, & accipitribus.

Books I-II of De arte venandi cum avibus, edited by Marcus Welser from a very old, incomplete defective manuscript, which lacked Books III-IV. More than a dissertation on hunting, this work is considered the first zoo…

1875 CE

#9492

Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.

This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…

1958 CE

#6610.2

Rembrandt’s Anatomy of Dr. Nicholas Tulp. An iconological study.

An important supplement to and revision of this work is W. Schupbach, The paradox of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy of Dr. Tulp’. Med. Hist. Suppl. 2, 1982.

1976 CE

#13976

Reovirus messenger RNA contains a methylated, blocked 5'-terminal structure: m7G(5')ppp(5')GmpCp.

Furuichi, working in Shatkin's laboratory, discovered that the viral mRNAs synthesized in vitro by the virion-associated RNA polymerase of reovirus contain a unique 5′-terminal structure m7GpppNm or cap. The pre…

1985 CE

#13936

Repetitive zinc-binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.

Discovery of Zinc fingers, a protein structural motif. "Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcr…

1941 CE

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1880 CE–1895 CE

#9626

Report on the scientific results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares… and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. 42 vols. in 50.

This work edited by John Murray and Charles Wyville Thomson, and completed by Murray after Thomson's death, was published over a 15 year period, and included about 29,500 pages and more than 3,280 plates. It treated i…

1857 CE–1859 CE

#10514

Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior

Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…

1628 CE

#1821.1

Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.

This summary of Hemández’s very extensive manuscript account of the natural history of Mexico (see No. 1820.1) was edited by N.A. de Recchi, and published at the expense of Prince Federico Cesi (1585-1630…

1928 CE

#5194.1

Researches on the intestinal protozoa of monkeys and man.

Classic account of the life-cycle of Entamoeba histolytica.

1977 CE

#14143

Resolution of some components of adenylate cyclase necessary for catalytic activity.

Goodman shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." In this paper Goodman and Ross show…