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Charlie’s Beer Garden: Slightly divey and totally unpretentious, the Beer Garden is a rowdy and summery place to have a refreshing Hoegaarden while rubbing shoulders with a crowd that ranges from Law School students to sweet laxers. Watch out for the mice running through the stone walls...
...patchier, weaker type of bone that is more prone to breaking. While bisphosphonates block the activity of bone-destroying cells, denosumab prevents new ones from forming altogether. The end result is a tipping of the bone balance away from bone destruction and toward bone formation. Early studies in mice at Amgen, the company that developed denosumab, showed that animals given higher amounts of this compound developed thicker, more robust bone...
Grant theorizes that trichotillomania may be a kind of grooming irregularity that falls into the obsessive-compulsive family of disorders. "Some parrots pull out all their feathers," he says. "Some mice pull out all their...
...rapamycin] for age-related diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or kidney disease." The drug has also recently entered clinical trials as a human cancer treatment, while another study published last year showed that it may reverse mental retardation caused by the genetic disease tuberous sclerosis in mice. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...
...agents for extending life, other drugs may be further along in the pipeline - resveratrol, for one, which has also prolonged life in lab mice. But the new finding by Strong and his colleagues "more clearly identifies the [target of rapamycin] pathway as important across species." It may guide researchers to target different proteins in the same pathway. "If those proteins react the same way to extend lifespan, then we might be able to get rid of unwanted side effects," says Strong...