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...team of Harvard scientists made a significant breakthrough in the study of evolutionary biology, pinpointing the origin of cooperative behavior in yeast. Their work, published in Cell magazine two weeks ago, provides important information on the proliferation of genes that allow organisms to cooperate only with each other. The group was led by biology professor Kevin J. Verstrepen, who studied at the University of Belgium’s Center of Malting and Brewing. “One of the things I learned there,” said Verstrepen, “is that yeast cells have a tendency to stick...
...Over the years these factors have gone down while diabetes has not. In fact, diabetes rates are increasing.” The study, which included more than 1,500 type 2 diabetes patients over several years, surprised both Doria and his colleagues in its conclusion about the gene variant’s impact. “We were surprised to see that the effect of the 9p21 variant on coronary artery disease was actually greater, rather than smaller, among individuals with diabetes,” Doria said. “We found that the greater effect...
...first cathode age knew Cooke as the front man for Omnibus, which ran on Sunday afternoons on CBS, then ABC, then NBC, from 1952 to 1961. This 90 min. melange of the arts highlighted the lions of the day in music (Leonard Bernstein was a frequent guest), dance (Gene Kelly demonstrated how baseball was like ballet) and short dramatic pieces (like William Inge's "Glory in the Flower," with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and the 22-year-old James Dean). The ringmaster was Cooke, who easily convinced early TV viewers that culture could be enlightening, challenging...
...screen of over 500,000 gene markers turned up five genes with strong associations with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Only one of those, the protein APOE, had been associated with the disease before...
...gene discovered on chromosome 14, which had the strongest association of the five, was also the only one identified that had not been observed before in any context, Tanzi said. “That’s always the most fun,” he added...