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Quotes by "John Vane"

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
— John Vane
Tags: end, blue, green, mother
The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
— John Vane
Tags: tomorrow, world, knowledge, today
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
— John Vane
Tags: university, back, research, medical
Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
— John Vane
Tags: many, field, own, my-own
Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.
— John Vane
Tags: very, cells, low, content
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