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...That’s normal enough, but all the information we’ve gathered comes from a mysterious March 3rd e-mail sent over most of the House lists—and it’s one of those e-mails that begs for attention by pretending to not really care. (I guess it worked since we’re writing about...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The S.O.P. Mystery | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...Qasab's AK-47 and was killed. Police then beat Qasab with their lathi sticks until he was unconscious. One officer remembers that Qasab looked different from Khan, the driver of the car. "The driver looked like an angry man," the police officer said. "The other one looks normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...them to image the mouse’s brain while the animal was still alive, the researchers found that the senile plaques modulated the activity of the astrocytes. They discovered that the astrocytes in the mouse model for Alzheimer’s fired spontaneously more often than in a normal mouse and had increased levels of resting calcium. “The astrocytes are connected over time and space and can send waves of calcium signals from one spot to the other,” said Bacskai, who added that these results were independent of neuronal activity. Kuchibhotla said...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alzheimer’s May Impact Astrocytes | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...risk of some skin cancers by interrupting the ATR pathway, causing apoptosis or cell suicide of these damaged and potentially cancerous cells. ATR is a protein kinase that is responsible for facilitating the replication of DNA, especially in damaged and dividing cells. While ATR plays a minimal role in normal cells, recently damaged and precancerous cells need the function of ATR, Nghiem explained. The researchers determined that low levels of caffeine have no effect on normal cells. The study specifically addressed the preventative effects of caffeine for cases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma—the second most common type...

Author: By Emma M. Benintende, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Caffeine May Prevent Some Skin Cancers | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...kidney function, which was 48% when Smolens first saw him last summer, has fallen to between 35% and 40%. And there are now outward, obvious signs of Pat's illness: he is lethargic, his eyes are puffy, and his lower legs and ankles are swollen to twice their normal size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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