abstract:Professor Tom is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 37th Tom and Jerry short, directed by the duo's creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, and animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge.
ProfessorTom Inns, dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee, said it was an important development for the city.
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and colleagues at the Hutchison Medical Research Council Centre in Cambridge, working with Dr. Luca Pellegrini and ProfessorTom Blundell at the Cambridge University Department of Biochemistry, discovered that the BRCA2 gene controls a key molecule called Rad51.
"The records from earlier periods are often unreliable so we can't be entirely sure but there have been people living into their 80s and 90s since at least the Greek civilisation, " says ProfessorTom Kirkwood, an authority on genetics and ageing.