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...fact, both festivals, in addition to carryingWoodstock's counterculture DNA, share a vision of the rock festival as a 21st century tribal gathering that fills a gap left by other social institutions. They also share a recognition that the ability of music to bring different people together is a source of its primal power. But in a digitally fractured, politically ruptured world, the real appeal of communal grooving may be as simple as the linguistic translation of Bonnaroo: a Creole word for "good times...
...starting to give that old adage a decidedly high-tech twist. By combining the latest discoveries in human genetics with a deeper understanding of the hundreds of compounds found in food, investigators have begun to tease apart some of the more complex interactions between your diet and your DNA. In the process, they hope eventually to give consumers more personalized advice about what to eat and drink to stave off heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions of aging. "We are trying to put more science behind the nutrition," says Jose Ordovas, a geneticist at the Friedman School of Nutrition...
...adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine). "A gene has millions of bases," says Dr. Andrew Greenberg, director of the Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University. "We're trying to find what's called a single-nucleotide polymorphism, which is a single change in the DNA, a single base." Sometimes a single-nucleotide polymorphism (or SNP, pronounced snip) leads to the production of a slightly different version of a protein or enzyme. Sometimes that kind of change causes a shift in an individual's biochemistry or metabolism, but most of the time it doesn...
...Belgian tofu. But that process can work in reverse: when we pay a lot for something, we assume it makes us happy, which is why we swear to the wonders of bottled water and Armani socks. The compulsion to care for our children was long ago written into our DNA, so we toil and sweat, lose sleep and hair, play nurse, housekeeper, chauffeur and cook, and we do all that because nature just won't have it any other way. Given the high price we pay, it isn't surprising that we rationalize those costs and conclude that our children...
...leader in the research of telomeres, part of the DNA in chromosomes which keep genetic information consistent, Blackburn has been recognized numerous times for her work. Her honors include the National Academy of Science’s Molecular Biology Award (1990), the California Scientist of the Year award (1999), the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000), and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine...