{"title":"Stewardship of the seas.","authors":"Dan Laffoley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our seas offer food, beauty and fascination, and are fundamental in regulating our climate - but are we doing enough to protect them?</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 6","pages":"243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22157814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volts and salts in pain relief.","authors":"Kevin Coward","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many pharmaceutical companies are pursuing the 'holy grail' of an effective pain relief drug that has no harmful side effects. The voltage-gated sodium channel family offers some promising targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 5","pages":"209-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22076177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Snails in Scotland.","authors":"Colin A Murray","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 5","pages":"192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22076171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ribozymes: catalytic RNAs that cut things, make things, and do odd and useful jobs.","authors":"Nils G Walter, David R Engelke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Catalytic RNAs, or ribozymes, are a fossil record of the ancient molecular evolution of life on earth and still provide the essential core of macromolecule synthesis in all life forms today. Are they also an avenue to the development of new catalysts to recreate evolution, or to use as therapeutics and molecule sensors.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 5","pages":"199-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770912/pdf/nihms413112.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22076175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who was..... Percy Sladen?","authors":"David Nichols","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The enigmatic echinoderms attracted few adherents in the 19th century, but this Yorkshireman almost-literally gave his life to them. He amassed the finest collection in private hands, which has been on display in the Exeter Museum since 1910.</p>","PeriodicalId":39845,"journal":{"name":"Biologist","volume":"49 5","pages":"227-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22076181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}