Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (September 11 , 1924 – March 27 , 2006 ), was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia . He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and a friend, Alfréd Wetzler , became the second and third more
Enzyme
of the enzyme TIM , surrounded by the space-filling model of the protein. TIM is an extremely efficient enzyme involved in the process that converts sugar s to energy in the body.
Enzymes are protein s that catalyze (i.e. accelerate ) chemical reaction s. In enzymatic reactions, the molec more
Sequence alignment In bioinformatics , a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the primary sequence s of DNA , RNA , or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural , or evolution ary relationships between the sequences. Aligned sequences of nucl more
Chagas disease
Chagas' disease (also called American trypanosomiasis) is a human tropical parasitic disease which occurs in the Americas , particularly in South America . Its pathogen ic agent is a flagellate protozoa n named Trypanosoma cruzi , which is transmitted to humans and other mammal more
Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo or Shen Kua () (1031 –1095 ) was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician , astronomer , meteorologist , geologist , zoologist , botanist , pharmacologist more