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Even with this cautionary measure in place, the nature of markets and a capitalist economy is such that the failure of major institutions is inevitable. The challenge for regulators in our hyper-connected economy is to ensure that such a failure can occur in a systematic and controlled manner. Resolution authority, the ability for the executive branch to unwind failing institutions in a speedy and contained manner, funded by a bank tax that would facilitate this process, is included in both the House and Senate bills, and is a good step in this direction. Such a resolution authority must...
...Cancer is thought to be a process by which a cell accumulates a series of genetic injuries in a multi-step process,” Scadden said. “Our model says that one of those steps can occur in a neighboring cell...
...research team will now have to investigate the exact signals that occur between the bone and blood cells in order to figure out which are pertinent to the formation of leukemia...
...Science helps fill in a bit of the picture, drawing evidence from that research-friendly fellow mammal, the mouse. The authors, a team from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, wanted to look at whether the ability to learn is affected by changes in brain chemistry that occur at puberty. They devised a task that was relatively complex (at least for a mouse) and required learning how to avoid a moving platform that delivered a very mild shock. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...trial also looked at the effect of reducing blood pressure in diabetes patients; another trial, involving 9,300 patients who had high blood sugar and were at high risk of developing diabetes, measured the benefit of drugs that blunt the sharp peaks and valleys in blood glucose levels that occur after eating. Neither study showed benefits of these treatments in reducing risk of heart disease...