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...screen of over 500,000 gene markers turned up five genes with strong associations with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Only one of those, the protein APOE, had been associated with the disease before...
...Several years later, Ridker and his colleagues at the Medical School and Brigham and Women’s have released the results of a study testing the effectiveness of the cholesterol-lowering drug rouvastatin in treating individuals with high levels of a reactive protein that is an indicator of heart disease...
...study, funded by Astra-Zeneca, the maker of rouvastatin, tested nearly 18,000 patients who had low levels of cholesterol but high levels of the reactive protein. According to Ridker, the reduction in heart disease risk was far greater than the researchers anticipated...
...early September, the first-year Harvard Medical School students in a biochemistry class expected to learn about protein degradation. Instead, they came out of lecture ready to push for more comprehensive conflict of interest policies...
...words in common: MADE IN CHINA. A large state-owned Chinese company, Sanlu Group, based in Hebei province in central China, as well as several smaller companies, apparently diluted milk products with an additive called melamine. Industrial-grade melamine is a masking agent used to hide the dilution of protein, in this case in milk products, including an infant formula widely popular in China. Nearly 53,000 small children in China have developed kidney stones, four have died, and product recalls have spread to 11 countries, including the U.S. The recall list includes seven instant-coffee and milk-tea products...