2007 Cell article, “Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors,” provided a simple, but groundbreaking recipe for transforming adult human skin cells into cells that resemble embryonic stem cells potentially leading to treatments for juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and spinal-cord injuries without the controversy surrounding traditional stem-cell research.

2004 New research in Archives of Oral Biology by Finnish scientists demonstrated that smoking depletes calcium stores in the bones, and a simple salivary test can prove it.

2002 Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death. Horvitz’s first and seminal paper identifying two cell-death genes was published in Cell in 1986. Brenner, Editor of the Academic Press flagship title, Journal of Molecular Biology in the 1980s, recently edited Encyclopedia of Genetics, published under the Academic Press imprint.

2000 Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on mechanisms of learning and memory in Aplysia much of which was published in Cell and Neuron.

1997 Dr. Stanley Prusiner won the 1997 Nobel Prize for his work on prions and self-replicating proteins as a mechanism of disease transmission. His early work was published by Cell in the face of much controversy. Dr. Prusiner is also co-editor of The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease, published under the imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann.

1996 The first reported disclosure on Viagra™ and its utility for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction was published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, pp. 1819-1824 (1996).

1993 Published in 10 volumes in 1993, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics was hailed as the most comprehensive and ambitious work of its kind ever produced.

1989 Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy published its first edition. It has since trained more than a million medical and health-science students.

1981 Mosby nursing author Donna Wong, Ph.D., RN, PNP, CPN, FAAN, developed the FACES Pain Rating Scale, which is used throughout the world to assess the pain of children.

1972 The article “Expectations and the Neutrality of Money” in the Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 4, no. 2, (1972) earned the author, Robert E. Lucas, a Nobel Prize.

1969 Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care has been credited with initiating the educational growth of the respiratory care profession. First published in 1969 under the title Fundamentals of Inhalation Therapy by Donald F. Egan, the book endures as the most widely used and respected resource in respiratory care.

1961 The Lancet provided the first published signal that thalidomide is linked to birth defects.

1951 An article in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta spurred research that led to the discovery of the DNA structure.

1946 In 1946 Butterworth published a book, edited by Sir Alexander Fleming, about a revolutionary new antibiotic, Penicillin: Its Practical Application.

1940 The Lancet published the first article on the revolutionary antibiotic effects of penicillin in mice.

1939 Peter Drucker’s book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices was included in the list of 100 books that shaped the twentieth century. Peter Drucker has published with Heinemann, now Elsevier since 1939, an unprecedented 66-year relationship.

1937 “The Sources of Atmospheric Pollution” in Fuel in Science and Practice, Vol. 15, pp. 221-228 (1937) by R. Lessing provided early insight into the continuing debate about the impact of the combustion of fossil fuels on the environment.

1923 The publication of Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, Architectural Press, in 1923 was a major contribution to the development of modern architectural thinking.

1858 The publication of Gray’s Anatomy in 1858 was a landmark for the study of the human anatomy and in many ways for the whole of medicine.