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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these genes, two - clusterin and CR1 - are known to interact with the amyloid protein that builds up in the brain of Alzheimer's patients and eventually causes nerve cell death and cognitive problems. Clusterin may be involved in helping to clear away the amyloid that forms in the brain; but another variant of the gene may also allow amyloid to form fibrils, the sticky protein arms that further anchor amyloid plaques to nerve cells, much like a spider web ensnares prey. In late-onset Alzheimer's, it's possible that the body cannot balance these two functions of clusterin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough Discoveries of Alzheimer's Genes | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...other hand, the discovery of PICALM came as a bit of a surprise. That gene's activity affects the junction between nerve cells, where various neurochemicals work to relay signals from one nerve cell to another. While most of the research attention in Alzheimer's has been on the build up of amyloid protein and tau tangles that strangle nerve function, the identification of PICALM suggests that some part of the disease may have to do with a breakdown in nerve-cell communication at the junctures. "If you had given people a list of genes and said which ones were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough Discoveries of Alzheimer's Genes | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

What's so great about Voice? It lets you centralize all your phone calls, which you can access from your home, office or cell phone. If you ignore a call, the voice mail is transcribed and sent to you as an e-mail, an SMS or both. Voice also lets you make free conference calls and cheap international calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...code that ended in T-I-M-E (8463). Even with that mnemonic, I've been having trouble remembering this universal number I'm supposed to be giving out. Google says it plans to offer number portability at some point, so I could pay $10 to make, say, my cell number my universal number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Next, I set up my account on a personal Voice Web page, where I linked my home, work and cell numbers to my new T-I-M-E number, causing all those phones to ring simultaneously when anyone calls. Now when my phones ring, I pick up whichever is most convenient. If need be, I can press * to make all my phones ring again and hand the call from my cell to my land line or vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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