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"A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July 1863."
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Abstract: Photographers covered the Civil War, following the Union Army in wagons that served as traveling darkrooms. Their equipment was bulky and the exposures had to be long, so they could not take action photographs during battle. But photography was graphic; this picture taken on the morning of July 4th, ... More »
"A Less Reliable Form of Birth Control": Miriam Allen deFord Describes Her Introduction to Contraception in 1914
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Abstract: Despite major cultural, legal, and medical impediments the use of birth control, including abortion, by American women was widespread at the turn of the century. In their quest to control unwanted pregnancies, American women could be surprisingly resourceful in the methods they used. In this audio excerpt ... More »
A Mule Spinner Tells the U.S. Senate about Late 19th century Unemployment
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Abstract: Fall River, Massachusetts, mill worker Thomas O'Donnell (who had immigrated to the U.S. from England eleven years earlier) appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor on October 18, 1883, to answer the panel's questions about working-class economic conditions. An unemployed mule ... More »
"A Nave and Self-Taught Artist": John Frazee Sculpts Daniel Webster, 1833
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Abstract: Many artists working in the decades after the American Revolution came from the ranks of artisans and mechanics. In a republic that dispensed with aristocratic patrons and royal academies, art came to be supported by a middling populace more interested in portraits than grand history painting. Sculpture ... More »
A semaphorin code defines subpopulations of spinal motor neurons during mouse development.
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Abstract: In the spinal cord, motor neurons (MNs) with similar muscle targets and sensory inputs are grouped together into motor pools. To date, relatively little is known about the molecular mechanisms that control the establishment of pool-specific circuitry. Semaphorins, a large family of secreted and cell ... More »
"A Time Bomb Inside of You": Social Service Organizations Advocate an Improved Federal Response to AIDS
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Abstract: In 1981, the U.S. medical community noticed a significant number of gay men living in urban areas with rare forms of pneumonia, cancer, and lymph disorders. The cluster of ailments was initially dubbed Gay-Related Immune Disease (GRID), but when similar illnesses increased in other groups, the name changed ... More »
ABCD's of MELANOMA
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Abstract: ABCD's of Melanoma. Malignant Melanoma is the most aggressive of malignant cutaneous tumours. Cases with lymphonode involvement, and distant metastases, carry a very poor prognosis, (50% and 20% respectively alive in 5 years), while those presenting without evident lymphonode involvement have a much ... More »
Aberrant mucin assembly in mice causes endoplasmic reticulum stress and spontaneous inflammation resembling ulcerative colitis
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Abstract: Background MUC2 mucin produced by intestinal goblet cells is the major component of the intestinal mucus barrier. The inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis is characterized by depleted goblet cells and a reduced mucus layer, but the aetiology remains obscure. In this study we used random mutagenesis ... More »
Accidentes Cerebrovasculares
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Abstract: Animation of cardiovascular trauma in Spanish
aCGH Computational Lab - Jian Li
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Abstract: Lab for the Computer-Aided Discovery Methods course taught at Baylor College of Medicine. Design of an array CGH assay. Finding recurrent aberrations in breast cancer using publicly available array CGH data. Subtracting known human structural polymorphisms. Gene annotation to identify aberrations that ... More »
Adaptation to Human Populations Is Revealed by Within-Host Polymorphisms in HIV-1 and Hepatitis C Virus
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Abstract: CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) perform a critical role in the immune control of viral infections, including those caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). As a result, genetic variation at CTL epitopes is strongly influenced by host-specific selection for ... More »
"AIDS Is an Illness of People of Color": Health Service Organizations Advocate Increased Federal Funding to Prevent AIDS in Minority Communities
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Abstract: In 1981, the U.S. medical community noticed a significant number of gay men living in urban areas with rare forms of pneumonia, cancer, and lymph disorders. The cluster of ailments was initially dubbed Gay-Related Immune Disease (GRID), but when similar illnesses increased in other groups, the name changed ... More »
Antifungal Agents
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Abstract: The module contains the following levels: Severity-Based Fungal Treatments Vulvovaginal vs Oropharyngeal Treatments Imidazole vs Triazole Imidazole vs Triazole Mechanisms of Action Half-Life Toxicity Complete Assessment of Antifungal Agents
Antihelminthic and Antiprotozoal Agents
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Abstract: The module contains the following levels: Agents that Treat Helminths Antihelminthic Agents Mechanisms of Action Toxicity of Antihelminthic Agents Pharmacokinetics of the Antihelminthic Agents Complete Assessment of the Antihelminthic Agents Agents that Treat Protozoans Agents that Treat Protozoans Part ... More »
Antimalarial Drugs
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Abstract: The module contains the following levels: The Origin of Malaria Antimalarial Drug Classes Indications for the Blood Schizonticides Indications for the Various Antimalarial Drugs Mechanisms of Action Blood Schizonticide Toxicity Toxicity of Various Antimalarial Agents Useful Information Sites of Action ... More »
Antiviral Agents and Drugs that Treat Tuberculosis
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Abstract: The module contains the following levels: Toxicity Bombardment type 1 Toxicity Bombardment type 2 Toxicity Bombardment type 3 Toxicity Bombardment type 4 Toxicity Bombardment type 5 Mechanism Onslaught Category 1 Mechanism Onslaught Category 2 Mechanism Onslaught Category 3 Mechanism Onslaught Category ... More »
ATP deficit in bipopulation tumour cord growth
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Abstract: Simulation of tumor cord growth where conversion of the tumor to glycolytic (anaerobic) metabolism takes place under hypoxia. This video shows evolution of the region where the aerobic cells suffer from hypoxia (ATP deficit) as well as the limit where the glycolytic cells start suffering too. This video ... More »
ATP deficit in oxygen-limited tumour cord growth (FF++)
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Abstract: This is a simulation of tumor cord growth, where cells suffer from hypoxia (energy deficit shown with color). The tumor grows along the blood vessel (coincides with x-axis). Red line shows the position of the tumor–host interface. This particular simulation was programmed in FreeFEM++ out of curiosity. ... More »
Basic Programming in a Scripting Language - Andrew Jackson
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Abstract: An introduction to the Ruby language for the Computer-Aided Discovery Methods course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.
Basic Programming in a Scripting Language (Part 2) - Andrew Jackson
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Abstract: An introduction to the Ruby language for the Computer-Aided Discovery Methods course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.