The Pentagon then decided to engage talks with a couple of African countries regarding the moving of his military command from Germany to an African country.
Navigator of the Seas är 311 meter långt, 39 meter brett och väger 142 000 ton. Max 3800 gäster kan vistas ombord och besättningen uppgår till cirka 1200 anställda.
The frogs are kind of a limiting case; more vulnerable to dehydration and heat than the monkeys or rodents would have been.
Talk har använts som behandling mot en sidoeffekt av lungcancer, en effekt som får vätska att trycka på lungorma. Genom att stoppa in talk runt lungorna har man med ärrbildning från talken kunnat hindra denna vätskebildning.
Men det konstiga är att de patienter som fått denna behandling lever längre än förväntat, och det tycks nu som om talken i sig kan stimulera goda celler och inhibera dåliga, bla genom att öka produktionen av endostatin. Hormonet endostatin har provats förut med direktinjicering i blodet, men hormonet har då kort halveringstid. I fallet med talk är det lokalt producerat kroppseget endostatin som bildas.
“We were surprised to find that talc has added benefits besides causing scarring and taking away the fluid that surrounds the lung,” Antony said. “The cells that cover the lining of the lung are stimulated by the presence of talc to produce a factor that inhibits the growth of blood vessels and kills the tumor cells themselves.” Less than one day after treatment with talc, patients began producing 10-fold higher levels of endostatin, a hormone released by healthy lung cells. Endostatin prevents new blood vessels from forming, slows cell growth and movement, and even induces nearby tumor cells to commit suicide. All of these make it hard for tumors to grow and spread into healthy lung tissue.
Uppdatering 2008-01-06:
Enligt Wikipedia är dock talk misstänkt att vara cancerframkallande
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health
For Reed, it is much more than just another show: it is a catharsis. It marks the resolution of 34 years of hurt that began on the day the album Berlin was first stamped on vinyl. In Reed's estimation, Berlin was his masterpiece, a view he still holds today.Jag började lyssna på den i yngre tonåren; en kompis storasyster hade den och vi började genast digga den. Av någon anledning berördes jag aldrig riktigt illa av t ex barnskriken på skiva, även om jag så klart berördes av dem. De kändes äkta och ärligt representerade, som om skivan som sagt vore en dokumentär, och istället för en knippe känslor smaksatt med lite estetik kändes det snarare som om skivan innehöll viktiga fakta, som man måste känna till. Och det är väl ett av de bättre betyg man kan ge.
Why were not all of the new poisons killing people? An important clue emerged in the 1980s when the biochemist Bruce Ames tested thousands of chemicals and found that natural compounds were as likely to be carcinogenic as synthetic ones. Ames found that 99.99 percent of the carcinogens in our diet were natural, which does not mean that we are being poisoned by the natural pesticides in spinach and lettuce. We ingest most carcinogens, natural or synthetic, in such small quantities that they do not hurt us.
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In a study of 4,629 Black and White 18-30 year olds from four metropolitan areas (sampled from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in (Young) Adults Study cohort (CARDIA), psychologists examined whether the tendency to be hostile went along with having decreased lung function in otherwise healthy young adults. The results indicated that the more hostile one’s personality—characterized by aggression or anger, for example—the lower levels one’s of lung function even after controlling for age, height, socioeconomic status, smoking status and presence of asthma.
Genom att lägga till &imgtype=face sist i söksträngen i url:en.
Jämför följande bildsökningar som har med perl (ett programspråk) att göra:
Man undrar vilka andra saker man kan söka efter?
Hittat via Slashdot Firehose, dvs submission queue till jättebloggen Slashdot. Ingen direktlänk, tyvärr, det är ett opublicerat bidrag:
alberion writes "The Google image search has an undisclosed face recognition feature. Just add "&imgtype=face" to the url of an image search result to check it out. Can we expect individual face recognition in the future? How will this affect people's privacy?"
Study at the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, into the behaviour of the orang-utan, has now suggests that knuckle-walking evolved quite recently in chimpanzees and gorillas, as a way of moving on the forest floor, whilst walking on two legs – assisted by the support of tree branches – is an older trait and evolved from tree walking. The study suggests that walking on two legs was always a feature of great-ape behaviour and human ancestors never passed through a knuckle-walking phase.
Today at the annual meeting of the American Aging Association, University of Michigan scientist Richard A. Miller reports early results from a mouse study his lab and two others are conducting for the National Institute on Aging. The study, now in its fourth year, will test as many as two dozen possible anti-aging agents in animals in the next five years. The other centers are the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. The scientists were surprised to find so quickly that one agent showed promise: NDGA, a compound derived from creosote bushes. These common North American desert shrubs have been traditionally used by Native Americans as healing remedies.
Now, suppose you want to add a set of human genes -- like maybe, six or seven. And you think the genes might interact with each other in some way. To avoid unwanted interactions, you might pick all the genes from one individual, where you know that they didn't interact badly. Sure, you will test them in various models to make sure. But it's easy to pick all the genes from the same person. Make it Watson.Eftersom herrar Watson (medupptäckare av DNA) och Venter (framåt DNA-innovatör) nu har publicerat sina gener för alla och envar kan det vara frestande att använda dessa för att splajsa in i växter i framtiden. Vilket innebär att herrar Watson och Venter inte bara fikar efter våra döttrar. Nu kan de snart vara i våra växter...
Now, I have my doubts about whether this scenario will come to pass. For one thing, SNP screening is going to be a lot cheaper than whole-genome sequencing for a long time, and probably will be just as informative. The benefit of the whole-genome sequence -- that it finds the rare variants that no one else has -- also makes it much less medically useful, since nobody knows what your unique rare variants actually do.
This is a point that constantly amazes me -- do people not realize that it is unnatural to have purple potatoes and zebra-striped tomatoes, and all other manner of garden mutants? That, for the most part, it is unnatural for vegetables (i.e., non-fruit and non-seed plant parts) to be tasty and delicious? Plants don't want you to eat them!
FIUs are centralized, national agencies responsible for detecting and fighting terrorism financing and money laundering.
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The rate of diagnosed clinical depression among retired National Football League players is strongly correlated with the number of concussions they sustained, according to a study to be published today.
Researchers discovered that high levels of exposure increased the risk by 39%, while even low levels raised it by 9%.