Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Australia: From Known Known to Known Unknown

The known and the unknown

Editorial The known and the unknown

Known and Unknown Scuba Sources

The sub-mm waveband has opened up for cosmology, and through this window we can hope to glimpse some answers to a number of related puzzles: What are the brightest sub-mm galaxies? What sorts of galaxies make up the Far-IR Background (FIB)? When did the Universe form the bulk of its stars? How important is dust obscuration for obtaining a full star-formation census? SCUBA has been instrumental ...

Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns: can systems medicine provide a new approach to sepsis?

Babesia Microti – Known and Unknown Protists

B. microti is known as the main etiological agent of human babesiosis and there are some case studies for that disease, highlighting the fact that this is an important “emerging tick-borne disease”. However a lot of information about this protist is unclear. The reactions in the liver are noticeable already after the fi rst three weeks of infection. This therefore provides the basis for discuss...

Nanoparticles – known and unknown health risks

Manmade nanoparticles range from the well-established multi-ton production of carbon black and fumed silica for applications in plastic fillers and car tyres to microgram quantities of fluorescent quantum dots used as markers in biological imaging. As nano-sciences are experiencing massive investment worldwide, there will be a further rise in consumer products relying on nanotechnology. While b...