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...quieter news is that while immortality is beyond us, that 125-year life-span is still out there beckoning. Eliminating the dietary and lifestyle habits that are setting you up for the heart attack that is going to kill you at 50 can, in a blink, extend your life by decades. Doing the same thing on a global level--and throwing in progress on disease treatment too--can cause the life expectancy of the entire species to inch further and further out. There are about 50,000 centenarians in the U.S.--a blip in a country of close...
...similar strategy could lead to vaccines against malaria and TB. But while conquering such hitherto vaccine-resistant diseases would be dramatic, it would be positively revolutionary to extend vaccines to illnesses that have seemed beyond their reach. One such candidate is heart disease--which may involve the immune system in ways nobody ever imagined just a few years ago. The buildup of fatty cholesterol deposits on artery walls may begin, it turns out, with an inflammation perhaps caused by bacteria. This immune response alters the arteries in ways that make them prone to cholesterol damage. A vaccine that could prevent...
...ground among members of Congress. In terms of where we're heading, I think a fair guess is it will end in a stalemate. And I say that because the people who want to ban cloning don't want to stop the ban at reproductive cloning - they want to extend the ban to cover embryonic cloning and therapeutic cloning as well. They are not disposed to compromise, and of course the same can be said for the people on the other side of the coin as well...
House Masters voted Wednesday to extend universal keycard access (UKA) to 2:30 a.m. in all the Houses on a trial basis for the spring term, despite some Masters’ lingering reservations about safety...
...captain Laura Barnard was the first trooper to strike off the bench, hitting a three early in the first half to put Harvard up 18-9. She added another basket minutes later to extend Harvard’s lead...