November 2004 in Science - November 12, 2004

November 12, 2004

• The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database was launched on the web and revolutionized chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists.
• David Awschalom at UCSB publishes his experiment that confirms the Spin-Hall effect, which is the movement of electrons with opposite spins without the presence of a Magnetic field. This is different from the Quantum Hall Effect.