Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
... say will change the way biology is done. The team unveils the online Human Protein Reference Database in the October issue of Genome Research. The database, which currently contains scientist-compiled entries on the 3,000 most-studied human proteins, including their known roles in health and disease, is ex...New methods for detecting brown recluse spider venom
...ely diagnose brown recluse spider bites. One study unveils the first assay (a Loxosceles species ELISA) that physicians can use to accurately test for the presence of the spider venom in a patient who was possibly bitten. Emergency physicians from the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor and a ...Battle of the sexes leads to evolutionary arms race
...y, to be published in the Feb. 14 issue of Nature, unveils for the first time a sexual "arms race" in a group of insects - the water strider. Professors Locke Rowe of the University of Toronto's zoology department and Goran Arnqvist of the University of Uppsala in Sweden offer a new and quite different look ...Scientific bias helping cause mass extinction
...conservation of our environment," he says. Burgman unveils his evidence for scientific bias in the lists and the consequences of the bias in an invited paper in the forthcoming January edition of the Australian Journal of Botany. His criticism flows from his involvement in a working group of international e...Krauss book explores universe from oxygen atom's perspective
...uss deals with in the last part of the book, which unveils a remarkable vision for the future. Krauss' work profoundly changed the way he now looks at the world. He hopes the book does the same for his readers. "When I look at anything now, I see this story reflected in it. I hope it will capture people's ...