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People who 'age' better don't share much in common at all about lifestyles like diet. Surveys are too unreliable and too many centenarians were only such because of inaccurate records or even fraud for valid epidemiology.But what they do share in common is superior energy production in cells. Their mitochondria, the>
A new study has revealed that the ancestors of chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, etc.) branched off from the family tree of other arthropods, such as including insects, crustaceans and millipedes, more than half a billion years ago.>
Remember when a small bacterium from California’s Mono Lake was supposed to rewrite the very definition of life? Headlines screamed: NASA finds “alien” life on Earth! The organism reportedly swapped out precious phosphorus - one of life’s six essential building blocks - for arsenic, the toxic villain in murder>
People are concerned about cranberries again this November, but it isn't a new phenomenon.Cranberries were actually the first modern chemophobia scare, when anti-science activists got government to first do what they have since done to weedkillers, trans fats, ultraprocessed foods, BPA, you name it - terrify the public>
An article in BMJ reports on the first instance of probable person-to-person transmission of the new avian influenza A (H7N9) virus, which was recently identified in Eastern China. As of June 30th 2013, 133 cases had been reported, resulting in 43 deaths.
Most cases appear to have visited live poultry>
In the first study to use imaging technology to see what goes on in the brain when we scratch, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have uncovered new clues about why scratching may be so relieving – and why it can be hard to stop. The work is reported online in the Journal of Investigative>
