SPIDER PLUS Project

Project React Plus , Progress report

1. Main researchers: – Camilo Rueda, project director at Universidad Javeriana-Cali – Jesús Aranda, project director at Universidad del Valle – Frank Valencia, project director at Ecole Polytechnique-Paris – Gérard Assayag, project director at IRCAM-Paris – Juan Francisco Dı́az, researcher at Universidad del Valle – Carlos Olarte, researcher at Universidad Javeriana-Cali – Jean-Louis Giavitto, r...

The NHS Plus evidence-based guideline project.

Over the past decade, evidence-based clinical guidelines (EBGs) have become an increasingly familiar part of medicine. The subsequent incorporation of evidence-based health care into every day practice has resulted in improvements in clinical effectiveness [1] as well as efficient allocation and utilization of health resources [2]. When NHS Plus was established in 2001, there appeared to be few...

Cutaneous necrosis following brown recluse spider bite

Spider-Like Coronary Anatomy; the True Spider!

A 55 year-old man was admitted to the hospital with typical chest pain; the ECG and cardiac biomarkers were normal. He had a history of hypertension and coronary angiography (CAG) a year ago due to unstable angina pectoris and a drugeluting stent was implanted at the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. CAG was performed at admission due to persistent chest pain and a single right co...

Spider Silk

Some things about spider silk are difficult to understand.The genetic code for one of the more perplexing types of silk—the strands spiders use to weave their egg cases. Each case must be tough enough to keep out parasites, impermeable to rain and fungus, and breathable while insulating eggs from temperature extremes. These qualities alone would make an impressive fabric.The egg cases may even ...