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...Preliminary research suggests that postmenopausal women who have ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE diagnosed may benefit from estrogen therapy. The hormone appears to improve memory and attention span after even a single week...
...study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN) its spanking new conservative image. Forum director Campion comments, "I think what you're seeing is a very real conservative effort on the part of the K-School to present views from all across the political spectrum...
Campion is quick to reply that the event is confirmed neither with her nor with C-SPAN, despite the privately-issued P.R. statement, which was faxed to The Crimson some two weeks ago. Campion says the IOP's role in the event would be to provide space and "work closely with students" to make sure that the event "is something that works in the forum." I guess right-wing rhetoric works well in the forum. If Harvard Democrats or the Black Students Association wanted to do forum events, Campion notes that the IOP would host those as well...
Since telomerase keeps these tenacious cells going, is it reasonable to assume that the same enzyme could be used artificially to help mortal cells--and the body itself--exceed their programmed life-span? At Geron Corp., a San Francisco-based biomedical firm, biologist Calvin Harley is trying to find out. Harley, who collaborated with Greider on her later telomere work, is looking for the genes that direct telomerase production, believing he might be able to manipulate them so that the spigot for the enzyme can be turned on and off at will. "I think we are going to see fundamental...
...Harley begins his search, other genes implicated in aging have already been flushed out of hiding. At McGill University, Hekimi's long-lived nematodes have helped expose a few of them. Hekimi created his little uberworms by crossing and recrossing individuals that lived longer naturally, slowly extending the life-spans of later generations. He then searched the animals' chromosomes until he found the mutated gene responsible, a gene he dubbed Clock-1. "The Clock-1 gene is critical in setting life-span," Hekimi says. "More important, with cloning and genetic mapping, we were able to determine just which protein...