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...During the Great Depression, Americans living near the country's wetlands harvested high-protein turtle meat, sometimes so aggressively that it threatened local species. In the early 1930s thousands of pounds of terrapin were harvested in Maryland, but by 1937 the yield had fallen to just 537 pounds, according to Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high...
...known to increase breast cancer risk, for example, would be able to begin mammograms earlier in life. Second, it would allow physicians to personalize medical treatments. In a few cases, this is already possible. The breast cancer drug Tamoxifen is much more effective in individuals who produce a certain protein that digests drugs in a certain way. Treatments based on the DNA you carry, known as “personalized medicine,” offer a range of benefits over current treatments: more precise doses of potentially toxic drugs, better research into new drugs, and lower health care costs, according...
While showing protein structures on a screen, Alterovitz played the compositions made when he matched up certain instruments to protein structures, creating harmonious melodies for healthy patients and atonal ones for sickly ones...
...principal display at the exhibit dealt with a comparison of the protein structure of a healthy patient against that of a cancer patient. Using different musical instruments to represent different variables, the models included a baseline upon which the two individual’s genetic music would be placed...
...What do you eat for breakfast? -Louise DeMartini, Provo, Utah It depends. Usually before practice, cereal or oatmeal. After practice, it's eggs, and a bunch of protein...