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...team found that about 38% of study participants carried one copy of the gene variant and that these people had telomeres that were similar to subjects three to four years older who did not carry the sequence; 7% had two copies of the DNA sequence and were on average six to seven years older biologically. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
From the start of “Zebra,” the first and arguably best track on the record, the music is dreamlike and catchy, holding the listener under its trance of deep, soothing vocals and repetitive but variant beats. Legrand communicates a sad and disappointed air, while refusing to let her love...
...sank.) In 1999 a New York City arts collective mounted a campaign to name the decade the naughties, plugging the moniker on posters and stickers around the city. Attempts to poll our way to consensus failed. One in 6 voters in a 1999 USA Today poll preferred a variant of the aughts to the 2Ks, the Zips and the First Decade, among other options; in a separate survey the same year, 20% of respondents picked the Double O's. Meanwhile, in a poll by the British p.r. firm QBO, the Zeroes prevailed...
...word—political and editorial. I think the Constitution is a living document. I believe in the flexibility and inevitable evolution of language. I even think it’s acceptable to—gasp—split my infinitives. Why, then, do I not embrace the new variant “healthcare?...
...clusterin and CR1 - are known to interact with the amyloid protein that builds up in the brain of Alzheimer's patients and eventually causes nerve cell death and cognitive problems. Clusterin may be involved in helping to clear away the amyloid that forms in the brain; but another variant of the gene may also allow amyloid to form fibrils, the sticky protein arms that further anchor amyloid plaques to nerve cells, much like a spider web ensnares prey. In late-onset Alzheimer's, it's possible that the body cannot balance these two functions of clusterin. "It may be that...