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...survey will be used to help direct pest prevention measures in Lowell over winter break. Such measures, Alpert said, will include inspection of areas in the House where students have reported pest encounters. The survey asks students to identify locations where they have sighted cockroaches, ants, or mice, as well as the dates of those sightings. Inspections will focus particularly on drains in areas of reported infestation, which—when dry—provide easy entry for crawling cockroaches. According to Alpert, the survey was necessary because students were not alerting University officials to the presence of pest intruders...
...imagine that our children and grandchildren will routinely live well into a second century - living well being the next great challenge. The Methuselah Foundation has established a $4 million prize for the scientist who develops the longest-living mouse as the first step in clock-stopping. "When aging in mice is shown to be 'treatable,'" the prize announcement states, "the funding necessary for a full-line assault on the aging process will be made available...
...call RU 486--the prescription-only abortion pill--pro-life, but it may be just that when it comes to cancer. Researchers at the University of California at Irvine reported last week that mifepristone, the active chemical in RU 486, can help thwart the growth of mammary tumors in mice caused by the mutant gene BRCA-1. More than half of women with this gene will develop breast or ovarian cancer...
...women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That's exactly what mifepristone did for the experiment's mice, all of which had the BRCA-1 gene. At age 1, none of those treated with mifepristone had developed tumors. But all the untreated mice had tumors by the time they were 8 months...
...Raise a Glass As someone who likes good food and wine, I was delighted to read about how a substance called resveratrol in red wine proved to have a terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming! Paul Rudder Mammoth Lakes, California...