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Miller says the University's new restriction on putting lectures online can inhibit a professor's desire to enrich the intellectual community at large...
Even if fiber doesn't inhibit polyps, it may still help prevent colon cancer. Maybe you have to eat a lot more fiber-rich fruits and vegetables to get any benefit. Maybe you have to eat right and exercise more. Maybe you have to eat a healthy diet for a long time. ("Think of it this way," says Dr. Steven Zeisel, a nutrition expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not involved in either study. "When you stop smoking, you don't immediately lower your risk of lung cancer. It can take 10 years...
Some of the most promising natural wonder drugs come from compounds not usually associated with healing: poisons. Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...
...know about how evolution works. In particular, they buy into the idea that evolution consists of a sort of generation-by-generation fine-tuning in each population as time passes. Under the benign guidance of natural selection (the name we give to any and all factors that promote or inhibit successful reproduction by members of those populations), this process of gradual change inexorably leads to improvement in the species and ultimately to new species as those improvements accumulate...
...Browder, who was working full-time in Folkman's laboratory, began experimenting with non-standard treatment regimens that utilized a standard chemotherapy drug, Cytoxan. He eventually developed a treatment schedule that appeared to inhibit the regeneration of endothelial cells--the cells that line blood vessels--in test mice...