Witchcraft and Family: What Can Witchcraft Documents Tell Us About Early Modern Scottish Family Life?

What fish genomes can tell us about life on land

The earliest vertebrates all lived in the oceans, long before life conquered land. It is only natural, therefore, that genomes of fish species are important reference points for the understanding of evolution and development of land vertebrates. Recent results from a relatively close relative, the coelacanth, and a widely used model, the zebrafish, are particularly promising, as Michael Gross r...

Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials

This paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with “elf-shot.” Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and fairy-lore in early modern Scotland, and the relationship of these beliefs to witchcraft itself.

Bedeviling Spectacle: Law, Literature, and Early Modern Witchcraft

What can proteomics tell us about platelets?

More than 130 years ago, it was recognized that platelets are key mediators of hemostasis. Nowadays, it is established that platelets participate in additional physiological processes and contribute to the genesis and progression of cardiovascular diseases. Recent data indicate that the platelet proteome, defined as the complete set of expressed proteins, comprises >5000 proteins and is highly ...

What Charm Can Tell Us About Beauty

A number of ways are reviewed in which the study of charmed particles can answer corresponding questions about particles containing b quarks. Topics include the properties of resonances, the magnitude of decay constants, the size of spin-dependent effects, and the hierarchy of lifetime differences.