IT has been known for some time that after an attack of acute pancreatitis an intrinsically "normal" gall bladder may not function temporarily (as evidenced by cholecystography). 1 As far as we are ...

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers examined the wealth of information available regarding the heterogeneity of tissue macrophages. They pursued a conceptual framework for better ...

Differences in the geographic origin of genes may affect the function of human mitochondria--energy-generating organelles inside of cells--according to a new study. Mitochondria have their own genome, ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 148, No. 931 (Feb. 18, 1958), pp. 217-240 (24 pages) The properties of foam and bubbles arising in the lung have been ...

Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 144 (January 1972), pp. 73-81 (13 pages) The origin and development of vacuoles in root and root cap cells of Lepidium sativum was investigated at the ...