Word: trended
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...attention to cancer trends, and the trend has been encouraging," says Dr. Richard Schilsky, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "But we have forgotten that there is a big wide world out there. Cancer is a global problem." (See pictures of Cancer survivors...
...editors ignore the potential impact of lowering the minimum legal drinking age on high school and middle school students. Drinking has decreased among that group in the past several decades. Reducing the age to 18 may offset this trend by bringing legal alcohol into high schools...
...constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund it. Even if the UC doesn’t organize the opt-out process, it has a responsibility to those students who want to opt-out of its fee to combat this disturbing trend...
...gene—then you can imagine that clearly your cell doesn’t function property anymore.” Over time, as cells become worn out and become permanently damaged, more proteins are called away from their normal sites, leading more gene expression to go awry. This trend is part of the deterioration associated with aging. “To prove that SIRT1 has a direct role in lifespan you will need to generate a mouse where you over-express these proteins...and you look to see whether the mouse has a longer lifespan,” Mostoslavsky...
...world will grow wetter as a result of climate change, but others will grow dryer, and so far the drying is winning. The area of the earth's land surface classified as very dry has doubled since the 1970s; by 2050, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes, that trend will worsen. "You do the math, and it gets a little scary," says Stuart Minchin, a water expert with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited continent...