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...takes place at the cellular level, and if cells did not grow old, biological aging might be slowed. But what drives the process? Why do some cells accumulate dysfunction with time? And can that dysfunction be prevented or slowed? Before those questions can be answered, cautions Baylor professor Olivia Pereira-Smith, who researches the genetics of aging, "we have to find the genes first...
...Liao, Jenny S. Lian, Eric C. Liu, Franklin LIu, Kenneth Y. Liu, Amanda J. Lockshin, Jay P. Makadia, Michele A. Manahan, David W. Marcus, Joshua B. Maraks, William Martin-Doyle, Daniel P. Mason, Joshua H. McDermott, Joyelle H. McSweeney, Peter A. Mommsen, Karthi Muralidharan, Vivek H. Murthy, Osvaldo E. Pereira, Joshua B. Plotkin and Claire P. Prestel...
...powerful earthquake toppled buildings, killing at least 23 people and injuring hundreds more in Colombia. Preliminary estimates place the magnitude of the quake, which was centered about 175 miles west of Bogota, as between 6.2 and 6.5 on the Richter scale. The city of Pereira (population 700,000) was hardest hit. Officials cut electricity there to avoid fires from possible gas leaks or downed power lines...
EVERYONE KNEW THAT CHICO MENDES WAS A marked man -- long before the leader of the Amazon rubber tappers and champion of rain-forest preservation was killed in 1988. Little was done to protect him from hostile ranchers bent on stripping the forests. When his assassins, Darci Alves Pereira and his father % Darly Alves da Silva, were convicted two years later, it was an unprecedented strike for justice that triggered a steady decline in local violence...
...Scholars trace Hispanic gangs back to the 1920s, when Roman Catholic parishes organized social clubs for children who felt unwelcome at white high school dances. Despite drive-by shootings and drug trafficking, the gangs were tolerated as a "community" issue for half a century. Explains former teen gangster Ysmael Pereira, 48, who is now a gang counselor: "The code was always to keep it quiet...