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Determined to prove the naysayers wrong, Dahiyat went to the supercomputer at Caltech's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I said, 'Here's the shape I want to make. Tell us the sequence,'" he recalls. By the end of the day, the computer gave him billions of possible amino-acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device. About a minute later, he noticed that the protein was taking form. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti," he says. "I said, 'Oh, my God, we've got structure...
...where Donald Trump can get his own reality TV series America badly needs "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" One of the few comic creators who daringly make art with a biased agenda, Tom Hart's roguish little conscience character makes for a stimulating acid against our base corporate culture. Short, ugly and abrasive, Hutch Owen is the anti-Pillsbury Dough Boy. Punch his tummy and he'll punch you back...
...live longer by reducing the risk of cancer and other diseases. Now a team from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago appears to have identified precisely how olive oil helps fight one of the deadliest scourges: breast cancer. The researchers tested the effect of oleic acid - a monounsaturated fatty acid found principally in olive oil - on breast cancer cells. Their findings, published online by the Annals of Oncology, show that oleic acid cuts levels of a cancer-causing gene called her-2neu by 46%. her-2neu affects up to 30% of women with breast cancer. The team...
...high blood pressure. By acting as the sole signaling molecule for blood-vessel relaxation, nitric oxide is central to blood-pressure regulation. Such observations have been made in laboratory research. The natural production of nitric oxide in the body can be supported by supplementing the diet with the amino acid l-arginine in combination with antioxidant nutrients and by engaging in a moderate exercise program. Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D. Center for Vascular Biology David Geffen School ofMedicine at UCLA Los Angeles The emphasis on the risks of high blood pressure couldn't have been more timely. And the image...
...Leary, then a lecturer in clinical psychology at Harvard, was dismissed along with then Assistant Professor of Clinicial Psychology Richard Alpert amidst a flurry of controversy involving their studies of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin mushrooms...