The Complete Works of Charles Darwin

clipped from darwin-online.org.uk This site contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more. Almost all is online only here: such as 1st editions of Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology, Descent of man, all editions of Origin of species (1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th); important manuscripts: Beagle diary & field notebooks, Journal, transmutation notebooks and Autobiography. Forthcoming: more editions, translations, introductions & manuscripts. See also: Darwin Correspondence Project.

7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

clipped from www.livescience.com Popular culture is loaded with myths and half-truths. Most are harmless. But when doctors start believing medical myths, perhaps it's time to worry. In the British Medical Journal this week, researchers looked into several common misconceptions, from the belief that a person should drink eight glasses of water per day to the notion that reading in low light ruins your eyesight. "We got fired up about this because we knew that physicians accepted these beliefs and were passing this information along to their patients," said Dr. Aaron Carroll, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "And these beliefs are frequently cited in the popular media." Myth: We use only 10 percent of our brains. Myth: You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Myth: Fingernails and hair grow after death. Myth: Shaved hair grows back faster, coarser and darker. Myth: Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight. Myth: Eating turkey makes you drowsy.

Strange facts about the human body

clipped from frnchkisss0.tripod.com clipped from www.weird-websites.com Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. Every square inch of your body is populated by an about 32 million bacteria. Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four. 85% of your brain is water. Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime. It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop-- even your heart! Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2 -6 years old. People have legs of slightly different lengths. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The human tooth has 55 miles of canal in it. A team of medical experts in Virginia contends you're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing. The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

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clipped from www.pacificrheumatology.com Fibromyalgia is not an autoimmune disease. Nevertheless, it can be just as disabling. It is associated with widespread or generalized muscle pain and profound fatigue for 6-10 million Americans. Diagnosis is by a history of pain located in all four quadrants of the body for at least 3 months and the presence of at least 11 of 18 "tender points". Fibromyalgia is strongly associated with stage 4 sleep deprivation caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system. Fibromyalgia can co-exist with any disorder painful enough to disturb sleep quality, including positional cervical myelopathy. Other illnesses such as thyroid disorders, cancer and neurological diseases can mimic Fibromyalgia. A thorough evaluation to determine the cause of pain is essential before your caregiver can begin to treat it effectively.

Natural Bronchitis Remedies

clipped from mind-mart.com Under normal circumstances, the lungs are a sterile environment; however, if dust, dirt, or germs get into the lungs, the result could be bronchitis--infection of the breathing tubes leading to the lungs. Conventional treatment offers little in the way helping ease those bronchitis symptoms. That doesn’t mean, however, that you need to suffer while you slowly wait for the cough to pass and the mucus to clear.

Nature Insight on Proteomics

This Insight covers some of the most vibrant areas of research into the 'protein world', taking a journey from single protein dynamics to functional proteomics and drug discovery, through some of the latest technological developments in structural, cellular, evolutionary and computational biology.

clipped from www.nature.com nature.com homepage Proteins to proteomes Proteins are the most diverse and versatile set of biological macromolecules, having crucial roles in all biological processes. Now that researchers have identified whole complements of proteins (proteomes) for many cell types, they are pushing the frontiers of protein science: from the regulation and function of single protein dynamics to the evolution and inhibition of protein–protein interactions. Proteins to proteomes Full Text | PDF (66KB) Dynamic personalities of proteins Abstract | Full Text | PDF (663KB) The molecular sociology of the cell Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,007KB) The origin of protein interactions and allostery in colocalization Abstract | Full Text | PDF (867KB) The biological impact of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics Abstract | Full Text | PDF (4,064KB) Reaching for high-hanging fruit in drug discovery at protein–protein interfaces Abstract | Full Text | PDF (533KB) | Supplementary information

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