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MBL Catalyst, Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2010, “Where Are They Now?”
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Catalyst, Fall 2010: Volume 5, Number 2References

Diamond in the Rough (pp. 4-5)

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: WW. Norton, 1997.


News & Notes

A New Strategy for Polar Observation

Schofield, O, Ducklow, H.W., Martinson, D.G., Meredith, M.P., Moline, M.A., Fraser, W.R. (2010) How Do Polar Marine Ecosystems Respond to Rapid Climate Change? Science 328: 1520-1523. (PDF)


Regeneration Research Leaping Forward


Transition Metal Catalysts Could be Key to Origin of Life

Morowitz, H. J., Srinivasan, V., Smith, E. (2010) Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements. Biol. Bull. 219: 1-6. (PDF)


A Future With or Without Trees

Galford, G.L., Melillo, J.L., Kicklighter, D.W., Cronin, T.W., Cerri, C.E.P., Mustard, J.F., and Cerri, C.C. (2010) Greenhouse gas emissions from alternative futures of deforestation and agricultural management in the southern Amazon. PNAS 107: 19649-19654. (PDF)


Rediscovery of the Nucleolinus

Alliegro, M. A., Henry, J. J., Alliegro, M. C. (2010) Rediscovery of the Nucleolinus, a Dynamic RNA-Rich Organelle Associated with the Nucleolus, Spindle, and Centrosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107: 13718-13723. (PDF)


Cool Tool (p. 15)

Anderson, P., Smith, D.H. (1977) Isolation of the capsular polysaccharide from culture supernatant of Haemophilus influenzae type b. Infect. Immun. 15: 472-477.

Anderson, P.W., Smith, D.H. (1977) Immunogenicity in weanling rabbits of a polyribophosphate complex from Haemophilus influenzae type b. J. Infect. Dis. 136: S63-S70.

Anderson, P., Pichichero, M.E., Insel, R.A. (1985) Immunization of two-month-old infants with protein coupled oligosaccharides derived from the capsule of Haemophilus influenzae type b. J. Pediatr: 107: 346-351.

Robbins, J.B., Schneerson, R., Anderson, P., Smith, D.H. (1996) Prevention of systemic infections, especially meningitis, caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b. JAMA 276: 1181-1185.