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1960–1969

624 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1965 CE

#9729

Molecular biology of the gene.

Watson's first book on molecular biology, and the first textbook on what was then a new academic subject. Seventh revised edition, with five co-authors, 2013.

1965 CE

#7790

Mortality from cancer and other causes after radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis.

1965 CE

#5019.5

Neurosurgical classics. Compiled by Robert H. Wilkins.

A collection of 52 classic contributions to neurosurgery, translated, where necessary, into English, with an appendix containing over 200 additional references related to the historical development of neurological sur…

1965 CE

#7422

Restoring the quality of our environment. Report of The Environmental Pollution Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee.

Digital facsimile available at this link.

1965 CE

#11263

Selected papers of John Shaw Billings. Edited by Frank Rogers.

Reprints 24 articles by Billings in addition to a biographical sketch and his complete bibliography.

1965 CE

#10251

Space medicine in Project Mercury.

"Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, id…

1965 CE

#12283

Starling on the heart. Facsimile reprints, including the Linacre lecture on the law of the heart. Analysis and critical comment by Carleton B. Chapman and Jere H. Mitchell.

1965 CE

#4914.3

Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.

1965 CE

#257.2

Structure of a ribonucleic acid.

The complete sequence of an alanine transfer RNA determined – the first nucleic acid structure to be determined. With seven co-authors. In 1968 Holley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Har Go…

1965 CE

#12934

The dental pulp. Biologic considerations of dental procedures.

1965 CE

#10883

The Environment and disease: Association or causation?

"In 1965, the English statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill proposed a set of nine criteria to provide epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect. (For example, he …

1965 CE

#9582

The history of chiropodial literature.

1965 CE

#7125

The library of John Locke by John R. Harrison and Peter Laslett.

1965 CE

#6742.3

The medical practitioners in medieval England. A biographical register.

Precedes Munk’s Roll (No. 6715) as a biographical record.

1965 CE

#14035

The nature of the Negri Body.

The first visual proof, by publication of electron micrographs at 25,000 magnification, that Negri bodies contain enormous numbers of rabies virus particles. Digital facsimile from rupress.org at this link. (Thanks to…

1965 CE

#14244

The stimulation of epidermal proliferation by a specific protein (EGF).

Discovery of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF). In 1986 Cohen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors."

1965 CE

#13992

The synthesis of a self-propagating and infectious nucleic acid with a purified enzyme.

Spiegelman's Monster, the name given to an RNA chain of only 218 nucleotides that can be reproduced by the RNA replication enzyme RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, also called RNA replicase. Spiegelman achieved the first …

1965 CE

#2702.3

The trail of the invisible light. From X-Strahlen to Radio(bio)logy.

A great deal of valuable information presented in a not always serious manner.

1965 CE

#13963

The twisted circular form of polyoma viral DNA.

Discovery of DNA supercoiling. DNA supercoiling refers to the amount of twist in a particular DNA strand, which determines the amount of strain on it. A given strand may be "positively supercoiled" or "negatively supe…

1965 CE

#12420

The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63. Edited by Reginald Foskett. 2 vols.

1965 CE

#2581.5

Three centuries of microbiology.

1965 CE

#1207.1

Total synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin.

1965 CE

#6786.8

Translations of medical classics. A list.

University Library Publication No. 3. Lists translations of medical works of classical interest and importance published before 1900.

1965 CE

#10991

Two centuries of medicine. A History of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

1965 CE

#7356

Use of computers in biology and medicine.

1965 CE

#10582

Vāgbhaṭa Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā. The first five chapters of Its Tibetan version, edited and rendered Into English along with the original Sanskrit by Claus Vogel. Accompanied by a literary introduction and a running commentary on the Tibetan translating-technique.

1965 CE–1966 CE

#6579.2

Bibliográfia história de la medicina española. 2 vols.

A bibliography covering Spain and the former South American colonies.

1965 CE–1969 CE

#58

Theophrastus Paracelsus Werke. Besorgt von W.E. Peuckert. Bd. 1-5.

Osler said that Paracelsus was “the Luther of medicine, for when authority was paramount he stood out for independent study”.

1965 CE–1970 CE

#9663

Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the world

Volume 1: Invertebrates; Vols. 2 & 3: Vertebrates. An unusually elaborate and finely printed, illustrated and bound set funded by the Department of Defense. Over 2000 pages. The first 155pp of Vol. 1 are a "History of…

1965 CE–1971 CE

#9423

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

1965 CE–1977 CE

#2660.21

Statistical studies in the aetiology of malignant neoplasms. 5 vols.

Acta path. microbiol. scand., Suppl. 174 (Pts. 1-2), 209, 247, 261.

1965 CE–1991 CE

#6451.5

Bibliography of the history of medicine. Nos. 1-27.

Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1965 CE–1991 CE

#9075

History of animals. Vol. 1, Books 1-3; Vol. 2, Books 4-6; Vol. 3, Books 7-10. Vols. 1 & 2 edited with an introduction and translated by A. L. Peck; Vol. 3 edited and translated by D. M. Balme.

Loeb Classic Library.

1966 CE

#9191

Phage and the origins of molecular biology. Edited by John Cairns, G. Stent, and J. D. Watson.

Expanded edition, 1992. 40th anniversary edition, 2007.

1966 CE

#14064

"Fertile" intestine nuclei.

Gurdon and Uehlinger replaced the cell nucleus of frog ova with frog intestinal nuclei to generate tadpoles, some of which became fertile adult male and female frogs. In 2012 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine …

1966 CE

#4405.4

A flexible implant for replacement of arthritic or destroyed joints in the hand.

“Swanson prosthesis” – flexible silicone rubber finger-joint prosthesis.

1966 CE

#8992

Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some current evolutionary thought.

1966 CE

#4483.2

Anthology of orthopaedics.

Selections (often abridged) from classic primary sources, arranged thematically, with commentary.

1966 CE

#11105

Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.

The disk diffusion test, or agar diffusion test, or Kirby–Bauer test (disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test, KB test), for the antibiotic sensitivity of bacter…

1966 CE

#5509.3

Attenuated rubella virus. II. Production of an experimental live-virus vaccine and clinical trial.

With T. C. Panos.

1966 CE

#12912

Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell collection of dental instruments, pictures, appliances, ornaments, etc.

1966 CE

#6357.1

Chronik der Kinderheilkunde. 4te. Aufl.

1966 CE

#13967

Codon-anticodon pairing: The wobble hypothesis.

"In the genetic code, there are 43 = 64 possible codons (3 nucleotide sequences). For translation, each of these codons requires a tRNA molecule with an anticodon with which it can stably complement. If each tRNA mole…

1966 CE

#9756

Contributions to the history of medicine from the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1925-1935.

A useful collection of Garrison's numerous historical articles published in this journal.

1966 CE

#12369

Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy. A palliative approach to complete transposition of the great arteries.

Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy to treat transposition of the great vessels.

1966 CE

#11918

Cultivation of viruses from a high proportion of patients with colds.

"The history of human coronaviruses began in 1965 when Tyrrell and Bynoe found that they could passage a virus named B814. It was found in human embryonic tracheal organ cultures obtained from the respiratory tract of…

1966 CE

#2578.36

Delayed hypersensitivity in vitro: its mediation by cell-free substances formed by lymphoid cell-antigen interaction.

Lymphokines (MIF). Simultanteously discovered by Barry R. Bloom (1937-) & B. Bennett. See Science, 1966, 153, 80-82.

1966 CE

#7716

Écrits.

Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).

1966 CE

#7234

Electrical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve in Man.

This detailed psychophysical and electrophysiological analysis of one patient proved that a cochlear implant provided sufficient information to the central nervous system for the understanding of speech.

1966 CE

#9827

Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.