Reported was the medical case history of an 11-year-old profoundly retarded boy in which his micropolygyric frontal cortex was found to reveal three chemical changes. (CB)

The article is addressed to nonmedical personnel working directly in the field of mental retardation. (CD)

Paper delivered to the the Council of Academic Societies, Chicago, Illinois, February 1970. (IR)

Presented before the Council of Academic Societies, Chicago, Illinois, February 1970. (IR)

Author believes the Council of Academic Societies is in a unique position to bring together concerned experts to formulate new patterns of representation of basic medical science in modern medical centers. (Editor)

Highlights the background, career, and major accomplishments of Robert Allan Weinberg, professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His accomplishments and research interests focus on oncogenes, genes capable of causing cancer. The discovery of these genes has revealed the central mechanism of cancer. (Author/JN)

A line of biomedical devices based on aerospace expertise leads a sampling of spinoffs in the field of medicine. These include a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-developed computer program used by the Centers for Disease Control, medical products research, crawling aid, portable medical system, and human tissue stimulator.…

Discusses unpaid postdoctoral researchers, especially those in biology and medicine, addressing reasons why they work without pay, how they receive funding, efforts to help them, their impacts on the field, and personal concerns. (DC)

Three aspects of clinical research career decision-making were explored: the timing of the decision to enter a research career, the relationship between research success and the timing of the decision, and the impact of two disincentives to enter research careers. (Author/MLW)

The presentation of the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education to Sherman M. Mellinkoff and the AAMC Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences to J. Michael Bishop is described. (MLW)

Federal regulations governing research on human subjects issued by the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed, along with their potential impact on the academic freedom of faculty researchers. Recommendations to universities are presented. (MLW)