AB95: The Philosophy Issue
(May/June 2011)
Featured during this issue:
artistic Director: Pedro Inoue
Tzvetan Todorov on American torture
Darren Fleet discusses this generation’s “apocalypse”
We discover America’s function in Egypt’s darkish past
Pentti Linkola’s view on inhabitants control
Micah White demands revolution opposed to American decadence
Michael Löwy explores advertising’s impact on our health
We ask: What issues in existence? What concerns in loss of life?
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Kuroda INTRODUCTION Drosophila has been one of the most extensively studied materials from the viewpoint of genetics and cytology since Morgan (1910) discovered the first mutant of Drosophila, white eye. Recently it has also been chosen as a suitable material for studying many aspects of developmental biology, behavior, and molecular genetics. In vitro cultivation of cells and organs from Drosophila may provide as excellent procedure for investigating the p r o cess of growth and differentiation of embryonic cells and imaginai discs and for analyzing the tissue and time specificity of phenotypic expression of some mutant genes under strictly controlled conditions.
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