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...group of researchers analyzed a single gene among 429 Australian athletes and found that sprinters and other power performers were far likelier to have a version of the gene that produced high levels of a protein used to help muscles generate force at high speed. Elite athletes in endurance events like long-distance running were more likely to have a version that left them deficient in the protein...
Indeed, several international studies, including one published by Harvard University, say that raw coca is loaded with protein, calcium, iron and a range of vitamins. As a result, Morales has encouraged a local industry, with an eye to exporting, that is turning coca into everything from flour to toothpaste, shampoo and curative lotions. (Morales sent Fidel Castro a coca cake for his 80th birthday last year.) Even as the INCB was issuing its report, the Bolivian government was reaffirming its desire to increase Bolivia's legal coca crop limit from 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) to 20,000 hectares...
...protein very effectively prevents owl monkeys from being affected by HIV and other related lentiviruses,” O’Neil said...
...surprise we found with our study was that macaque monkeys from Asia have a different strategy that involved the same two proteins,” O’Neil said. “They make a similar fusion protein that also can prevent certain lentiviruses from affecting their species...
Newman and Johnson said that Old World and New World monkeys split from each other a long time ago, and that this was a rare instance of evolution producing virtually exactly the same protein twice. The gene must have been under strong selective pressure, according to the authors...