What's in a name?

(image courtesy of http://www.fanboy.com/2007/07/the-curse-of-the-red-shirt.html)

This blog houses brief descriptions of proteins to be used to fill out the bracket of 64 for the Protein of the Year 2012 competition. Though many are interesting, important, and essential, they will serve a sacrifice for the greater good of my students' proteins in the competition.

"Ah..." you say, "...but what do you mean by red shirts?" For your answer, watch a little Star Trek, or take a look at what omniscient Wikipedia has to say.