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Clock Turned Back on Aging Muscles, Researchers Claim. News
Tags: biology, exercise, physiology, aging

Scientists have found and manipulated body chemistry linked to the aging of muscles and were able to turn back the clock on old human muscle, restoring its ability to repair and rebuild itself, they said today.
The study involved a small number of participants, however. And the news is not all rosy.
Importantly, the research also found evidence that aging muscles need to be kept in shape, because long periods of atrophy are more challenging to overcome. Older muscles do not respond as well to sudden bouts of exercise, the scientists discovered. And rather than building muscle, an older person can generate scar tissue upon, say, lifting weights after long periods of inactivity.

Vaccine believed to reduce risk of HIV infection. News
Tags: hiv, disease, biology, health

The combination of two vaccines that has previously failed to produce a response on their own has cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 per cent.

Liposuction Fat Turned Into Stem Cells, Study Says. News
Tags: health, biology, obesity, stem-cells

Using leftovers from liposuction patients, scientists have turned human fat into stem cells, a new study says.
The new method is much more efficient than a previous practice that used skin cells, researchers say.
The discovery may also help avoid the controversy spawned by the use of stem cells from human embryos.

Turns out, lactic acid is fuel for muscles. Its build-up is not harmful after all. News
Tags: health, exercise, biology, muscle

The understanding now is that muscle cells convert glucose or glycogen to lactic acid. The lactic acid is taken up and used as a fuel by mitochondria, the energy factories in muscle cells.
Mitochondria even have a special transporter protein to move the substance into them, Dr. Brooks found. Intense training makes a difference, he said, because it can make double the mitochondrial mass.

The straight dope on... tonsil stones (tonsilloliths). News
Tags: health, biology

One day, she mentioned her problem to her mother and was surprised at the knowing response. Those squishy little things were tonsil stones, her mother explained, and she sometimes got them too.

Dioxin Dorms: Article about toxicity of dioxin. News
Tags: dioxin, disease, cancer, health, biology, chemistry

Only 32% of Americans believe that humans evolved and did so without any divine intervention. News
Tags: evolution, usa, biology, atheism

How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night News
Tags: health, sleep, food, biology

Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can drastically improve a person's ability to cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts.

Research Indicates that Ingested Virus Genes may be taken up by Body Cells: Viruses in food get into the bloodstream. News
Tags: health, biology, genetics, food

In the bloodserum and blood cells, M13 virus DNA was found between 2 and 6 hours after feeding.
Prior to feeding no such DNA was found in the blood or feces.

Progress in Phase 2 Clinical Trial Program for Anti-aging Compound Alagebrium News
Tags: drugs, aging, biology, health

Bird species found to be splitting into two species in the wild. News
Tags: evolution, biology

Beneficial Effects of Green Tea -- A Review Reference
Tags: tea, health, biology, catechins, egcg

Table of catechin content of 3 major types of Puerh tea. Image
Tags: china, tea, health, egcg, food, chemistry, biology, catechins

Protein RGS-14 found to dramatically improve visual memory of mice. News
Tags: psychology, animals, drugs, biology

A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen.

Evidence surfaces that humans killed and ate Neanderthals. News
Tags: archeology, ancient-world, biology, food, neanderthals

Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Rcherche Scientifique, said the jawbone had probably been cut into to remove flesh, including the tongue. Crucially, the butchery was similar to that used by humans to cut up deer carcass in the early Stone Age. "Neanderthals met a violent end at our hands and in some cases we ate them," Rozzi said.

New sequences from hadrosaur dinosaur confirm that ancient protein is preserved over time. News
Tags: archeology, ancient-world, animals, evolution, biology

Ancient protein dating back 80 million years to the Cretaceous geologic period has been preserved in bone fragments and soft tissues of a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, according to a study in the May 1 issue of Science. Led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and North Carolina State University (NCSU), the new findings support earlier results from analyses suggesting that collagen protein survived in the bones of a well preserved Tyrannosaurus rex, and offer robust new evidence supporting previous conclusions that birds and dinosaurs are evolutionarily related.
In April 2007 John Asara, PhD, Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core at BIDMC, together with NCSU paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, PhD, published two papers in Science describing their discovery that collagen extracted from bone fragments of a 68-million-year-old T. rex closely matched the amino acid sequences of modern day chickens. Not surprisingly, the widely publicized findings created a great deal of controversy.

Chinese breweries are putting formaldehyde in their beer as a preservative. (Formaldehyde=carcinogen.) News
Tags: china, beer, alcohol, food, chemistry, biology, cancer, disease

Efes brewery in Istanbul Turkey is putting formaldehyde in their beer as a preservative. (Formaldehyde is a major carcinogen.) News
Tags: turkey, beer, alcohol, food, chemistry, biology, cancer, disease

"I have a friend who is a brewer at the local microbrewery. He ranted to me once that the major brewery here (Efes Pilsen) adds formaldehyde to their beer, hence the nasty hangovers."

Amazing photos of microscopic structure inside the human body. Image
Tags: biology, photography

BBC: Filtered coffee 'just as bad for you' (2000) News
Tags: health, biology, coffee, homocysteine
Entity: starbucks

Filtering coffee does not remove a chemical linked to heart disease and stroke, researchers claim.
Scientists in the Netherlands said they were surprised that levels of homocysteine did not drop when the coffee was filtered.
It had been thought that by filtering coffee and removing chemicals called ditrepenes, responsible for raising cholesterol levels, homocysteine content might be reduced.

Baxter International contaminates flu vaccine with live Avian Flu virus. Another example of corporate terrorism? News
Tags: biology, disease, new-world-order
Entity: baxter

Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries News
Tags: biology, disease, new-world-order
Entity: baxter

Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries. The 'mistake' (if you can call it that, see below...) was discovered by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada. The World Health Organization was alerted and panic spread throughout the vaccine community as health experts asked the obvious question: How could this have happened?

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says. News
Tags: health, biology, chemistry, nutrition, evolution, aging

The researchers, led by Associate Professor Ana Maria Cuervo, blocked the ageing process in mice livers by stopping the build-up of harmful proteins inside the organ's cells.
As people age their cells become less efficient at getting rid of damaged protein resulting in a build-up of toxic material that is especially pronounced in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders.
The researchers say the findings suggest that therapies for boosting protein clearance might help stave off some of the declines in function that accompanies old age.

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury News
Tags: health, biology, chemistry, corporate-malfeasance, food

Science Friday: 50 Years of Pheromones Audio
Tags: biology, sexuality

Chemists edge closer to recreating early life News
Tags: biology, chemistry, evolution

Exercise helps old brains News
Tags: health, exercise, psychology, biology

50 Things We Know Now (We Didn't Know This Time Last Year): 2008 Edition News
Tags: science, media-cartel, biology

A high-resolution, lens-free microscope fits on a dime-size chip. News
Tags: biology, computers, optics

Brain reorganizes to make room for math News
Tags: biology, psychology, math

It takes years for children to master the ins and outs of arithmetic. New research indicates that this learning process triggers a large-scale reorganization of brain processes involved in understanding written symbols for various quantities. The findings support the idea that humans' ability to match specific quantities with number symbols, a skill required for doing arithmetic, builds on a brain system that is used for estimating approximate quantities. That brain system is seen in many nonhuman animals.

Fill 'Er Up With Human Fat News
Tags: energy, transportation, biology, healthcare

Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent, a North Carolina State University study found. News
Tags: sexuality, health, biology

Scientists find four genes that drive metabolism News
Tags: health, genetics, biology

Harvard researchers learning why Resveratrol extends life span. News
Tags: health, food, biology

Small Molecule (Resveratrol) Increases Lifespan and 'Healthspan' of Obese Mice News
Tags: health, food, biology

"After six months, resveratrol essentially prevented most of the negative effects of the high calorie diet in mice," said Rafael de Cabo, Ph.D., the study's other co-senior investigator from the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, Aging, Metabolism, and Nutrition Unit. "There is a lot of work ahead that will help us better understand resveratrol's roles and the best applications for it."

Blocking of a signaling protein prevents spread of prostate cancer. News
Tags: virus, cancer, biology, health

Cancer-Killing Virus Shows Promise as Metastatic Cancer Treatment News
Tags: virus, cancer, biology, health

The Seneca Valley Virus is a potent cancer killer and can differentiate between normal and cancerous cells. The virus may be a potential treatment for some metastatic cancers, such as small-cell lung cancer.

Senecavirus kills lung cancer 10000 times better than chemotherapy. News
Tags: virus, cancer, biology, health

Cost to recreate a Wooly Mammoth from its DNA: $10 million. News
Tags: ancient-world, evolution, biology

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.
A woolly mammoth hair ball. Hairs like these were used to sequence the mammoth genome.
The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA.