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2019
#11866
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-stranded breaks or donor DNA.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Anzalone, Randolph, Davis....Liu. Liu and colleagues modified the CRISPR tool to create the "prime editing" or precise genome editing technique. Working with human and …
2017
#11865
Programmable base editing of A-T to G-C.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Gaudelli, Komor, Rees....Liu. Liu and colleagues developed an advanced CRISPR system that can edit pairings of DNA nucleotide bases Adenine and Thymine into Guanine and…
2015
#11864
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.
This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the …
2014
#11863
Generation of gene-modified Cynomolgus monkey via CAS9/RNA-mediated gene targeting in one-cell embryos.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Niu, Shen, Cui. The authors presented the first evidence that CRISPR can work in primates. Open Archive version available from Cell at this link. "Summary "Monkeys serv…
1992 –2012
#11862
The biology of mosquitos. Vol. 1: Development, nutrition and reproduction. Vol. 2: Sensory perception and behaviour. Vol. 3: Transmission of viruses and interraction with bacteria.
2017
#11861
History of the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever virus.
Digital text is available from Wiley Online Library at this link.
1902
#11860
Recent researches concerning the etiology, propagation, and prevention of yellow fever, by the United States Army Commission.
By 1902 Reed knew that the infectious agent of yellow fever was smaller than bacteria, though he did not specifically call it a virus. "In 1898, the passage of an animal pathogen through a Chamberland filter was repor…
1944
#11859
Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.
Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.
1644
#11858
Theatro d’Arcani del medico Lodovico Locatelli da Bergamo; nel quale si tratta dell’arte chimica, et suoi arcani, con gli afforismi d’Ippocrate commentati da Paracelso, et l’espositione d’alcune cifre, et caratteri oscuri de filosofi.
‘It is apparent that by the 1640’s Paracelsian medicine had gained momentum in Italy and that iatrochemical theories were being adopted by a number of Italian physicians. […] In 1644 there appeared the first Italian t…
1807 –1810
#11857
La zooiatria. 3 vols.
Pozzi was the firector of the newly formed Royal Veterinary School, Milan, and professor of pathology and hygiene. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2009
#11856
The road to Yucca Mountain: The development of radioactive waste policy in the United States,
"In The Road to Yucca Mountain, Walker covers the U.S. government's controversial attempts to address the engineering and social issues associated with high-level radioactive waste repository (HLRWR) management and sp…
1992
#11855
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
1916
#11854
The theory of the free-martin.
Lillie found that sex steroids in the blood controlled differentiation. "Free-martins, sterile female cows born without sex organs, were a perplexing issue for cattle ranchers. Lillie found that free-martins formed wh…
2001
#11853
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
1996
#11852
Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…
1986
#11851
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.
"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…
1962
#11850
Disinfected mail: Historical review and tentative listing of cachets, handstamp markings, wax seals, wafer seals and manuscript certifications alphabetically arranged according to countries, by K.F. Meyer, in collaboration with C. Ravasini ...[et al.].
From the 15th to near the end of the 19th century attempts were made to decontaminate mail which had been in contact with plague, smallpox, cholera, and other contagious diseases.
2014
#11849
The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Doubna, Charpenter. "Abstract "The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is transforming biology. We rev…
2015
#11848
Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…
2013
#11847
RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…
2013
#11846
Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Cong, Ran, Cox....Zhang. Zhang and colleagues edited the genome of human and mouse cells (mammalian cells). Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks t…
2013
#11845
RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, East, Cheng...Doudna. Doudna and colleagues presented the first demonstration that the CRISPR Cas/Cas9 bacterial editing tool functions could be applied in human…
2012
#11844
A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria …
2007
#11843
CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.
Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…
2005
#11842
Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mojica, Díez-Villaseñor, Jesus García-Martínez. In this paper Mojica and colleagues showed the the CRISPR system is a bacterial immune system against viral attack. This…
1884
#11841
The body snatcher.
Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K__…
1969
#11840
The Andromeda strain. A novel.
A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
1953
#11839
Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…
1995
#11838
La practica secundum Trotam: Testo, traduzione, appendici e glossario
1911
#11837
Health on the farm: A manual of rural sanitation and hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1962
#11836
Development of psychological thought in India.
1988
#11835
Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.
1994
#11834
Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.
Definitive analysis of the most extensive extant collection of Roman instruments.
2019
#11833
Greek medical papyri: Text, context, hypertext. Edited by Niccola Reggiani.
1840
#11832
Anecdota medica graeca e codicibus MSS. expromsit. F. Z. Ermerins.
Extensively annotated critical texts of Theophilus Protospatharius, Leo the Physician, Constantinus Pogonatos (De cibis; On foods). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
2018
#11831
Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.
1794
#11830
Theophanis Nonni Epitome de cvratione morborvm graece ac latine: Ope codicvm manvscriptorvm recensvit notasqve adiecit I. O. Steph. Bernard. 2 vols.
Reprints text and translation from Martius's 1568 edition with extensive annotations by Bernard, and divergent manuscript readings based on the study of several codices. For an analysis of this Byzantine medical handb…
1996
#11829
Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio
1973
#11828
Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers.
1968
#11827
Women in medicine.
1879
#11826
The study and practice of medicine by women.
Probably the first study of how women physicians used their medical training. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2009
#11825
Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.
"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…
1899
#11824
The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.
Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.
1896
#11823
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…
1997
#11822
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1936
#11821
Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.
Includes information on asbestosis.
1916
#11820
The treatment of diabetes mellitus, with observations upon the disease based upon one thousand cases.
Joslin was the first physician in the United States to specialize in the treatment of diabetes; this was the first textbook on the subject in the English language. The book underwent its 12th edition in 1985. Digital …
1946
#11819
The common sense book of baby and child care.
One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…
1971
#11818
A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
1979 –1984
#11817
Johann Peter Süssmilch. L'Ordre divin aux origines de la démographie. Traduction originale avec des études et commentaires rassemblés par Jacqueline Hecht. Vol. I: Études critiques, biographie, correspondance, bibliographie. Vol. 2: L' Oeuvre de J.P. Süssmilch, L'Ordre divin. Traduction de M. Kriegel. Vol. 3: Index des auteurs, des lieux et des matières. 3 vols.
A three-volume critical edition including the first edition in French.