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...separate area of research, Xie at Massachusetts General tested another anesthetic, isoflurane, on a culture of human brain cells. (Isoflurane had already been shown to cause cognitive impairment in rats.) He saw a vicious cycle of apoptosis and the accumulation of beta-amyloid protein - the sticky plaques that build up in Alzheimer's patients' brains - among the cells. But in this case, it may have been an excess of calcium that led to cell death. Xie and his colleagues have since found that the Alzheimer's drug memantine, which works by reducing calcium levels inside cells, can slow the rate...
...prepare for LearnVest’s November launch, its 10 full-time employees in New York are now “working tirelessly” to put the final touches on the site after feedback from beta users, von Tobel said...
...about just text. You can put pictures in a wave, plus richer, more dynamic stuff: movies, games, polls, maps. You can publish your wave to a blog. You can embed it in a website, where it retains its editable, collaborative waviness. And this is just beta stuff. Like everything else these days, Wave is a platform. Google is encouraging developers to write apps that will make waves do even more. (The full launch is expected in the first half of 2010 - though don't forget that Gmail spent five years in beta.) (See pictures of work and life at Google...
Around the country, people are getting creative with that sort of space. Members of Seattle's Beta Society not only sleep in their 10,000-sq.-ft. find but also shoot movies there. (They keep a green screen in the garage.) Near San Diego, the nonprofit TERI Inc. has bought a 3,600-square-footer on half an acre to house four autistic young adults. The secluded master suite that used to give parents some privacy now offers the same benefit to a live-in attendant, while the pool makes for great therapy. In Idaho, the nonprofit Housing Company...
Well, don't get too excited. The answer is no. While the sign-in page hypes the beta site as a faster, easier way to "share your life with your friends and family," it is not, in fact, a return to the glory days of thefacebook.com. For better or worse, all the current features are still there (except for the ability to filter your home page's feed...