Using a novel combination of techniques, Gary Siuzdak and colleagues at Mass Consortium Corp.; Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD); and the Scripps Research Institute identified 10 potential biomarkers that distinguished the serum of patients with sepsis from that of other very sick patients. They report their findings in this issue of JPR (pp 3154– 3160). This disease “turned out to be one of the m...

Mitochondrial genomes are being used to study increasingly ancient divergences among animal groups. Recent studies of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences have arrived at somewhat heretical conclusions, raising questions about the use of mitochondrial gene sequences for studying the relationships among highly divergent lineages. Other studies have documented convergent evolution of mitochondria...

Sassen (Sociology, University of Chicago) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00072.x Digging in the penumbra of...