Tag: Nobel Prize in medicine
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Alexis Carrel: The sunshine and the shadow
Philip R. LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was as complex as his glass perfusion pump apparatus. A brilliant research surgeon, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine before his fortieth birthday for his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs, and later developed techniques that were predecessors…
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Pig man: Pigs in medicine from Galen to transgenic xenotransplantation
Stanley GutiontovChicago, Illinois, United States The bad rap “And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.”—Leviticus 11:7 Pig: a word variably defined as “a young domesticated swine not yet sexually mature” or “a dirty, gluttonous, or repulsive person.”1 Pork may harbor within…
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Rosalyn Yalow: Opinions and actions
Maja NowakowskiBrooklyn, New York, United States “Peer-review process cannot possibly support truly original research because, by definition, an original thinker has no peers.” Anyone who had even a brief conversation with Rosalyn Yalow will recognize her profound insight and bold judgment. These were not idle words: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, the second woman ever to win…