| Twin Studies Reveal Genetic Components Leading To Cardiac Disease
ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2008) Twins provide a unique living laboratory for the study of heredity. Daniel O’Connor, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, has studied about 265 twin pairs over the past few years, which has led him to some surprising discoveries. In a series of studies published in 2007 in the American Heart Association journals Circulation and Hypertension, O’Connor identified particular genes that influence human heart health in unexpected ways. .
Scientists Suggest New Pathway Causing Cell Death In Dementia
Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer from a form of dementia and other neurological disorders. The finding, reported in the Sep. 26, 2007, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, demonstrates for the first time a pathological pathway that ultimately results in cell death related to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). The discovery could eventually play a role in the design of new drug therapies. The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D., and Dennis W. Dickson, M.D, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., led the international team of scientists in the study supported by the Mayo Clinic Foundation.The study, in cell cultures, showed that a cell death pathway is involved.
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CBS Report: The War Against Women
It's the entire community that's destroyed," says Judithe Registre, who is with an organization called "Women for Women." They run support groups for survivors of rape. "When they take a woman to rape her, they'll line up the family, they'll line up other members of the communities to actually witness that," Registre says. "They make them watch. And so, what that means for that particular woman when it's all over, is that total shame, personally, to have been witnessed by so many people as she's being violated." Many of the women in Dr. Mukweges hospital are not only blamed for what happened to them, they are shunned because of fears theyve contracted HIV and shunned because their rapes were so violent they can no longer control their bodily functions.
Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS ...
With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of which opens today, is any indicator of Microsoft's preparedness to deal with the onslaught of Web competitors, everybody from Microsoft's followers to Wall Street can rest assured that the Redmond-based company is not about to get caught with its pants down the way it did in the mid-1990s when it was forced to regroup after being blind-sided by the Web. Attached to this blog is a video of a demonstration of Office Live Workspace (OLW) given to me by one of the directors on the Microsoft Office team, Kirk Gregersen.
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