PubCrawler: keeping up comfortably with PubMed and GenBank

PubCrawler: keeping up comfortably with PubMed and GenBank

The free PubCrawler web service (http://www.pubcrawler.ie) has been operating for five years and so far has brought literature and sequence updates to over 22 000 users. It provides information on a personalized web page whenever new articles appear in PubMed or when new sequences are found in GenBank that are specific to customized queries. The server also acts as an automatic alerting system ...

Keeping up with Change

Keeping up with calcium

Our understanding of how calcium functions as a second messenger continues to increase at an incredible pace. This symposium covered most, if not all, aspects of the many roles of calcium in the regulation of cellular processes and ranged from calcium imaging through to the structure and function of calcium-binding proteins. Emphasis was placed on elucidating the involvement of these proteins i...

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Keeping Up With the Clock

Estimates of obesity prevalence based on the 2013 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey average almost 40%, corresponding to a 7% increase from the 1999 to 2000 cycle. Similar alarming trajectories are reported worldwide, along with increasing concerns for related health risks. The traditional concept that obesity results from a mere imbalance between energy intake and energy...