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Chemistry World
June 19, 2013
James Urquhart |
Goeey secret of naked mole rat's cancer resistance revealed The p16 gene provides naked mole rats with an early contact inhibition mechanism that causes cells to stop dividing at much lower densities, compared with mouse cells. Their cells secrete a very high molecular mass form of a molecule called hyaluronan.   |
Scientific American
September 2008
Melinda Wenner |
Rethinking the Wrinkling: Key Genes Cause Aging Key genes, rather than cell and DNA damage, as causes of aging. |
Science News
June 7, 2003
Ben Harder |
Skipping Meals Might Offer Health Gains Skipping some meals -- or occasionally fasting for the day -- might be beneficial, even if overall calorie consumption remains unchanged. Recent studies on lab animals seem to support that notion. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Glenn Reynolds |
The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old Researchers have started looking into ways to slow, stop or perhaps even reverse the changes that accompany aging. If these scientists succeed, their breakthroughs may lead to major changes in human society. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
David Bradley |
Fairytale Insulin Substitute People with type I diabetes could one day be prescribed an extract from pumpkins that will drastically cut their reliance on daily insulin injections. |
National Defense
May 2011
Eric Beidel |
Will African Rodents Join Hunt for IEDs? The Army Research Office recently awarded a $740,000 grant to Oklahoma State University zoology professor Alex Ophir to find out which rat personalities are the best for detecting bombs. |
Chemistry World
July 13, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2012
Ned Stafford |
EU food agency criticizes GM maize cancer paper The European Food Safety Authority has sharply criticized a recent paper claiming that a strain of genetically modified maize and its accompanying herbicide increase the risk of tumors and organ damage in rats. |
Reason
August 2002
Ronald Bailey |
Forever Young The new scientific search for immortality |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Innovations and Opportunities The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer. |
Science News
April 8, 2006 |
From the April 4, 1936, issue Beauty unseen... Old age might be postponed 15 years by a proper diet... Vast power from atoms hopeless for industrial uses... |
Scientific American
January 2, 2006
JR Minkel |
T Cells for Brain Cells Some researchers claim that inducing a mild autoimmune reaction could actually protect the central nervous system from a spectrum of neurodegenerative conditions, from glaucoma and spinal cord injury to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2012
Ned Stafford |
Review of GM cancer scare paper The European Food Safety Authority will announce next week the preliminary results of its review of a highly controversial paper that asserts that a type of genetically modified maize and its accompanying herbicide increase the risk of tumors and organ damage in rats. |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
Rid Your Lawn of Mole Crickets Three species of mole crickets were introduced from South America around 1900, and ever since they have been happily chewing on lawns in the southern United States. Steinernema scapterisci, a nematode, is a natural enemy of one of these introduced species, researchers have found. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Philip Yam & Kate Wong |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Natural Blood-Vessel Dilators? Also: updates on cloning mice and extinction by disease |
