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The conceptual ability to source, combine, and store substances that enhance technology or social practices represents a benchmark in the evolution of complex human cognition. Excavations in 2008 at Blombos Cave, South Africa, revealed a processing workshop where a liquefied ochre-ri...
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PMID: 21998386
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Research carried outby the great Russian scholar I. M. Sechenov has significantly contributed to development of aviation physiology, medicine and psychology. His fundamental works consisted of discovery of the constancy of alveolar air composition theory, study of interactions of ana...
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PMID: 21961300
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I was able to participate in the great adventure of the last half of the twentieth century: the revolution in biology that advanced the field of protein chemistry to so great an extent. The future is bright and limitless, with greater understanding of biology yet to come....
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PMID: 21545283
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We describe here the history and contents of each of these five collections, to inform the scientific field of the extent and details of these remarkable resources.
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PMID: 21599697
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The University of Geneva brain collection was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, it consists of 10,154 formaldehyde- or buffered formaldehyde-fixed brains obtained from the autopsies of the Department of Psychiatry and, since 1971, from the Department of Geriatrics....
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PMID: 21599692
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The Zagreb Collection of developing and adult human brains was founded in 1974 by Ivica Kostović and consists of 1,278 developing and adult human brains, including 610 fetal, 317 children, and 359 adult brains. It is one of the largest collections of developing human brains. The col...
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PMID: 21599691
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Powerful nerve agent, poison, addictive drug, or wonder medicine of the future? Nicotine has had a long and storied history in pharmacology, physiology, public health and, more recently, in regulatory policy initiatives in the United States and internationally. Psychopharmacology research on nicotin...
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PMID: 19184661
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I he succeeded D T Mitchell as head of the Allerton Laboratory in 1918, where he excelled in research on toxic plants, inter alia identifying Matricaria nigellaefolia as the cause of staggers in cattle. When the Faculty of Veterinary Science was established in 1920 he was appointed as the first Prof...
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PMID: 21826830
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