Word: brained
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Almost immediately, it did. A plan engineered by DeLay and Hastert to install complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...
...doorstep of Manex Chopeitia, boss of the genetic-engineering firm that controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces a dilemma: unmask Chopeitia's plans for world domination and risk death; or play ball and obtain Chopeitia's genetic treatment for his brain-damaged daughter. As in all good westerns, justice triumphs and a cowboy comes to the rescue. But like a true noirish detective story, Blood on the Saddle preserves its moral ambiguities, and Clot lives to solve other cases. First, though, Reig has a different tale to tell. In his latest novel...
...data presented in San Diego last week at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society make clear, when you go on hormone therapy--if you choose to do so--can make a big difference in the effects on the body and in particular on the brain...
There is, says Dr. Declan Murphy of King's College London, "substantial evidence that if you use estrogens around menopause, it can have a beneficial effect on your brain age." Several (but not all) studies show significant improvements in memory and cognition. If you start taking estrogen in your 60s, however, the brain seems to suffer a bit. As always, you have to balance the risks and the benefits. But these findings show how little, even now, researchers truly understand about the role estrogen plays in women's bodies...
...research, Yuan has worked to understand the roles of proteins and genes controlling ‘apoptosis,’ or cell suicide. This has repercussions for chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, which are caused by excessive apoptosis in the brain...