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...astonishing range of very familiar illnesses, researchers are beginning to suspect that the real number is vastly higher. In the past few weeks alone, reports have come out in Cell, Nature and the Journal of Neuroscience implicating the mitochondria as factors in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Indeed, says Dr. Vamsi Mootha, a Harvard Medical School researcher who won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2004 for his work on mitochondria, "it looks like they're really important in diabetes, hypertension and many other common diseases--even in the aging process itself...
...white rappers or cool choreographed treadmill routines; no one lip-synchs or makes a geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent, for opposing "expanding stem-cell research." Last week radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Fox of either acting or going off his meds to exaggerate the ravages of the disease. (If you were an admitted prescription- pill...
...stem cell research, which women have come to support by a large margin over the last four years, according to the Pew Center for the Public and the Press. McCaskill aired a powerful ad during the first games of the World Series in which Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's and is visibly suffering from the symptoms, urged voters to support her. Rush Limbaugh initially accused Fox of skipping his medication or acting, and Talent's backers scrambled to put up a response ad (to air during Wednesday evening's Game Four of the World Series) that features current...
...Almost every major city is trying to set up stem-cell work," says Una Chen, head of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the University of Giessen in Germany. "It's a boom." So, for example, scientists in Sweden are studying how stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease. A Belgian team is investigating whether they might be used to treat diabetes. Some researchers expect therapies for these diseases will require embryonic stem cells because of their potential to grow into all types of tissue, but many labs work with both cell types. "We're not sure...
...easily detected proteins found in skin cells. They claim that their test can provide enough information to detect the disease at its earliest stages, when treatments might be most effective. Even more encouraging, they report that the test is sensitive enough to distinguish Alzheimer's from other dementias, including Parkinson's disease...