Day: August 12, 2014

Professor Balasubramanian Wins Prestigious Tetrahedron Award

He is a world leader in the study of quadruplex nucleic acids Professor Shankar Balasubramanian from the University of Cambridge and winner of the 2013 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity, was honored yesterday for his work at the annual American Chemical Society (ACS) gala dinner and ceremony in San Francisco.   Winners of the prestigious Tetrahedron Prize are often high potentials for the Nobel Prize awards and many are indeed Nobel Laureates. Professor Balasubramanian is one of the most creative and influential chemical biologists of the 21st century.  He was honored for his many highly significant and seminal contributions to nucleic acid...

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Book Review: Robbins & Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease – Professional Edition, 9th edition

Book Review: Robbins & Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease – Professional Edition, 9th edition Editors: Vinay Kumar, MD; Abul K. Abbas, MBBS: and Jon C. Aster, MD. Illustrations by James A. Perkins, MS, MFA Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 1,391 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Pathology – the study of disease – is key to understanding the causes of many abnormal conditions, ailments, and disorders found in the human body. And a working knowledge of it is critical in diagnosis for all physicians, the editors – Drs. Kumar, Abbas, and Aster – point out in their Preface to this...

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