2020–2029
127 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2020 CE
#13485
Novel 2019 coronavirus genome.
https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "Novel 2019 coronavirus genome "10th January 2020 "This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by …
2020 CE
#13466
Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.
2020 CE
#14043
Patents on life: Religious, moral, and social justice aspects of biotechnology and intellectual property. Edited by Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft.
2020 CE
#13523
REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.
The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…
2020 CE
#13332
Revolutionary therapies: How the California Stem Cell Program saved lives, eased suffering - and changed the face of medicine forever.
2020 CE
#13506
Safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
BNT162b2 is synonomous with the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the fir…
2020 CE
#14185
Single particle cryo-EM at atomic resolution.
The authors located individual atoms with a protein molecule for the first time using cryo-EM. This was the highest resolution imaging of a single protein molecule achieved to date using cryo-EM. Order of authorship o…
2020 CE
#12042
Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.
The definitive reference on Sir William Osler, his life, his times, his friends, and his influence. Osler was voted "the most influential physician in history" in a 2016 survey of North American doctors, but his inter…
2020 CE
#13267
Strange blood: The rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond.
eBook version available at no cost from play.google.com at this link.
2020 CE
#11868
The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Hampton, Watson, Fineran. Summarizes, and documents with 173 references, the extensive research on the multitude of methods that bacteriophages use to disable the CRISP…
2020 CE
#14031
The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.
2020 CE
#12639
The black box of biology: A history of the molecular revolution. Translated by Matthew Cobb.
"The Black Box of Biology shows that what led to the incredible transformation of biology was not a simple accumulation of new results, but the molecularization of a large part of biology. In fact, Morange argues, the…
2020 CE
#12989
The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.
"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses…
2020 CE
#12981
The dome of uryne: A reading edition of nine Middle English uroscopies.
"This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. …
2020 CE
#13658
The history of glaucoma.
2020 CE
#13512
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
2020 CE
#13776
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
2020 CE
#14098
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.
Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…
2020 CE
#11485
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020 CE
#13518
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020 CE
#11867
The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing.
A review of the scope of potential genome editing applications, the strategies from the most basic (2012) to the most recent (i.e. No. 11866), the current status of tissue specific delivery, accuracy, precision and sa…
2020 CE
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2020 CE
#13725
To make the wounded whole: The African American struggle against HIV/AIDS.
2021 CE
#13916
"All manner of ingenuity and industry." A bio-bibliography of Dr. Thomas Willis 1621-1675 by Alastair Compston.
2021 CE
#13794
A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.
2021 CE
#13726
A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the digital era.
Concerns only U.S. medical libraries.
2021 CE
#13273
American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.
2021 CE
#14023
An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.
The authors showed how a coronavirus specific protease inhibitor designed in the lab, that could be administered by mouth to humans, achieved excellent plasma concentrations and antiviral potency. This drug, marketed …
2021 CE
#13679
An organ of murder: Crime, violence and phrenology in nineteenth-century America.
2021 CE
#14122
Augustin Cabanès (1862-1928): Clinicien de l'histoire ou vulgaire anecdotier?
2021 CE
#13724
Bibliotheca Opticoria 1475-1925: A library on the history of our understanding of light and vision.
2021 CE
#13677
C'rona pandemic comics.
https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/
2021 CE
#14318
Coming home: How midwives changed birth.
2021 CE
#13478
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for sickle cell disease and ß-thalassemia.
First application of CRISPR gene editing in the successful cure of diseases. Order of authorship in the original publication: Frangoul, Altshuler, Cappellini. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpret…
2021 CE
#13507
Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARSCov-2 vaccine.
mRNA-1273 is synonymous with the Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Moderna mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the first published pa…
2021 CE
#13087
Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels' Catalogue. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 5 vols.
Vol. 1: Diels' catalogue with indices. Vol. 2: Corpus Hippocraticum Vol. 3: Corpus Galenicum Vol. 4: Ceteri Medici Vol. 5. The manuscripts and their texts. "The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studi…
2021 CE
#13578
Health and medicine by Michael B. Dougan.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/health-and-medicine-392/ An overview of the history of health and medicine in Arkansas with many cross-references to related articles in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
2021 CE
#14026
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
Abstract: "Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort1,2,3,4, the structures of around 100,0…
2021 CE
#14030
History of hospitals in Iran, 550-1950.
2021 CE
#13477
Immediate "kangaroo mother care" and survival of infants with low birth weight.
This study demonstrated that "vulnerable infants have a better chance of survival if they start receiving 'kangaroo mother care'--which calls for babies to spend as much time as possible in direct contact with a caref…
2021 CE
#14218
In vivo base editing rescues Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome in mice.
Using the base editor enzyme developed by Liu (GM11865), the authors report that they can “correct the pathogenic HGPS mutation in cultured fibroblasts derived from children with progeria and in a mouse model of…
2021 CE
#13669
Inventory of the editions of Andreas Vesalius's works and letters (Opera litteraeque Andreae Vesalii). Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ An update of Harvey Cushing's Biobibliography. When I added this entry in October 2021 the most recent online version of this bibliography was a 506-page PDF dated January 2021.
2021 CE
#13773
Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.
2021 CE
#14058
Medicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
2021 CE
#14104
Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.
"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking…
2021 CE
#13234
Neutron tomography of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Cocquyt, Zhou, Plomp, van Eijck. I Abstract "The technique of neutron tomography has, after 350 years, enabled a first look inside the iconic single-lens microscopes of…
2021 CE
#13785
Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.
"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written…
2021 CE
#13401
Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.
2021 CE
#13524
REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.
The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…
2021 CE
#13271