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...human body ages, it loses bone. Individual cells lose something equally vital. Every time one divides, it sheds tiny snippets of DNA known as telomeres, which serve as protective caps on the ends of chromosomes. After perhaps a hundred divisions, a cell's telomeres become so truncated that its chromosomes--site of the cell's genes--begin to fray, rather like shoelaces that have lost their plastic tips. Eventually, such aged cells die--unless, like "immortal" cancer cells, they produce telomerase, an enzyme that protects and even rebuilds telomeres. Scientists have long dreamed of drugs that would inhibit the immortalizing...
...BONE For decades women who breast-fed their infants were urged to supplement their diet with calcium to protect against bone loss. A new study says they don't need...
...BONE BUILDER Asthma sufferers and others who require high doses of cortisone run the risk of developing osteoporosis. But brittle bones can be prevented if patients also take the drug etidronate...
...Manhattan? When Brooks played New York City's Central Park last Thursday before a crowd estimated at between 250,000 (according to the cops) and 750,000 (according to Brooks' camp), four of the country star's first five songs were clogged with enough sex and violence to do Bone Thugs-N-Harmony proud. Brooks kicked things off with the country-rock song Rodeo ("Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud"), followed that with the homicidal country stomp Papa Loved Mama ("Mama's in the graveyard/ Papa's in the pen") and also churned...
...Hudson Foods was responsible for the previous largest meat recall, in 1995, when small pieces of bone were found in ground turkey meat. Company officials maintain the two recalls were unrelated...