Biology, life sciences

A century has already passed since FRIEDRICH MIESCHER, working at Strasbourg and Basel, began his study of protamine, one of the basic nuclear proteins of cells.

In recent years bacteriocins, especially colicins, have become widely known to molecular biologists as proteins with peculiar ways of killing bacteria.

This is the story of steroid-protein interactions as one investigator sees it.

It has long been known that every individual has a large number of antibodies of different specificities.

A basic method of analyzing particulate gene systems is the proba- bilistic and statistical analyses.

The contents of this monograph "e;Hypothalamic Control of Lacta- tion"e; are the result of studies by a nine-man team which has worked together for nine years.

HOWARD C.

"e;When we give a definition it is for the purpose of using it"e;.

The scope of the 20th Mosbach Colloquium may be best illustrated by the following notes sent to the speakers when the colloquium was organized.

Ever since arbovirus infections became known and their relative importance assessed, experiments were designed to elucidate the mode of transmission and the most important natural hosts responsible for perpetuating the infection in nature.

This volume contains seven chapters, based on papers presented at a Symposium on Insect Viruses, held in conjunction with the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New York, N.

Das vorliegende Buch ist die zweite Veröffentlichung innerhalb der Reihe "Afrika-Studien", die über den rein wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich hinausgeht und sich mit sozialwissenschaftliehen Fragen im weiten Sinne des 1 Wortes befaßt .

123 phase and hence have no direct bearing on the retention time of solutes.

The first volume of Antibiotics was published in 1967 and contained a series of review papers on antibiotic actions.

As society becomes stressed by economic and population pressures, in turn, nature's renewable resources become stressed by harvesting pressures.

The mathematical models in this book are concerned with a variety of approaches to the manner in which the clinical radiologic treatment of human neoplasms can be improved.

The articles of these proceedings arise from a NSF-CBMS regional conference on the mathematical modeling of the hearing process, that was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the summer of 1980.

The human brain, wi th its hundred billion or more neurons, is both one of the most complex systems known to man and one of the most important.

The papers in this volume are based on talks given at a one day conference held on the campus of Adelphi University in April 1982.

The Hamburg Congress on Climate and Development was conceived as a response to the worldwide interest on issues of climatic change and variability.

During the last 30 years, many chemical compounds that are active against tumors have been discovered or developed.

Federal programs applicable to the oceans and coastal zone have evolved incrementally in response to perceived needs to expedite emerging mari- time development while conserving valuable marine resources.

3 There are other trends in the attempt to meld evolution and development which immodesty permits me to add.

The purpose of this work is a unified and general treatment of activity in neural networks from a mathematical pOint of view.

Whilst most of the senses (hearing, sight, smell and taste) have their own organs, the tactile sense is dependent on the sensory nerve endings of the periph- eral processes of the nerve cells in the spinal ganglia.

A conference on "e;Some Mathematical Problems in Biology"e; was held at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.

A synopsis of the use of lasers in gynecology is presentedin this book; it is supported by more than 10 years ofexperience and backed up by studies inthe fields ofexperimental surgery, technical medicine and clinicalgynecology.

The past forty years have been the stage for the maturation of mathematical biolo~ as a scientific field.

About 100 years ago, it was dicovered that insects transmitgrave, mainly tropical diseases - very much to theastonishment of the physicians of that time, who saw this asa new, possibly easy, way of eradicating the diseases byexterminating the vectors.

This book provides a concise overview of the photophysics and spectroscopy of bio chromophore ions.

Research on oncogenic viruses and related human cancers has advanced rapidly in the past decade.