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[Touch New] The Future Of Anti-Aging Therapies by Dr. Dima | Make your life ...: In excess, it is commonly believed that cortisol plays a significant role in damaging the hypothalamus, a key neuroendocrine organ in the brain. As such, it would seem logical to reverse or stop the aging process at a hormonal level, either by reducing the amount of excessive cortisol production or by finding a safe way to keep the hypothalamus functioning appropriately.

[VX Heavens] Claus Wilke, Christoph Adami 'biology of digital organisms' (VX ...: They can be thought of as a domesticated form of computer virus that lives in, and adapts to,a controlled environment.Digital organisms provide a unique opportunity with which to study evolutionary biology in a form of life that shares no ancestry with carbon-based life forms,and hence to distinguish general principles of evolution from historical accidents that are particular to biochemical life.In terms of the complexity of their evolutionary dynamics,digital organisms can be compared with biochemical viruses and bacteria.Recent studies of digital organisms have addressed long-term evolutionary adaptation and the growth of complexity in evolving systems,patterns of epistatic interactions in various genetic backgrounds,and quasi-species dynamics.

[Campus News] Code Finders: This story about genomics research is just one of several items featured in this week's Duke Research newsletter, which has a new look and, starting this week, a new publication schedule. Duke Research sends out an electronic message twice a month to keep you up to date with the latest findings, beautiful scientific images, and short videos from all corners of Duke's research enterprise.

[The Great Beyond - Blog Posts] The Great Beyond: Artificial life, again: Genomes are communal coops of what way back originally were RNA independent genes, these various/different genes being then the first proliferrable life forms. Evolution and survival directed them and their much younger DNA progeny to become united, chromosomes and genomes, simply because cooperation is the most survivable mode, and the further process of evolution included celling for control of environmental parameters plus ever increasing member genes specialization as more capabilities evolve by some individual members of the commune of genes.

[CELL HOST AND MICROBE] Cell Host and Microbe - A Host Ca2+/Mn2+ Ion Pump Is a Factor in ...: These experiments revealed that repRNA replication and RNA recombination, respectively, were up to 25× and 11× higher in the presence of Mn2+ over Mg2+ for the WT DI-72 repRNA (Figure 2F, compare product A in lanes 2 and 7 for replication and product B in lanes 4 and 9 for recombination), whereas they were up to 25× and 100× higher with Δ70RII(+) repRNA (Figure 2G, compare product A in lanes 1 and 6 for replication and product B in lanes 1 and 6 for recombination). These data suggest that Mn2+ within the range of 0.5-2 mM is favored over 5 mM Mg2+ for both replication and recombination by the tombusvirus replicase in vitro.

[Future Current] Future Current » Blog Archive » Survival of the Diverse: Kurzweil has pointed out to us that the artificial intelligence in our cars, planes, and whatnot are vastly superior to anything that wet biology can do in those domains. And people like Ben Goertzel and Marvin Minsky are showing that now we are connecting together all the narrow artificial intelligence applications into a more general intelligence.

[Essay Writing Blog] Sample Essay: human genetics questions | Essay Writing Blog: Human genetics studies and contributes to the process of PI through a modification of the isoelectric point of molecules within an enzyme which enables the cell to transfer the molecules of the enzyme between various sides of its own cell interior thereby regulating and impacting the biochemical procedures of the body. Being able to control the procedure through genetic enhancements makes it possible for researchers to interefere directly in the biochemical functioning  of an individual.

[Under Construction.] History of the Earth - Under Construction.: Besides the well-established endosymbiotic theory of the cellular origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts, it has been suggested that cells led to peroxisomes, spirochetes led to cilia and flagella, and that perhaps a DNA virus led to the cell nucleus, though none of these theories are generally accepted. Archaeans, bacteria, and eukaryotes continued to diversify and to become more sophisticated and better adapted to their environments.

[The Methuselah Foundation Blog] The Methuselah Foundation Blog: Methuselah Foundation Newsletter ...: The major diseases of this type are Alzheimer's disease (beta-amyloid plaques in the brain) atherosclerosis (7-ketocholesterol/7KC, a cholesterol derivative in the artery wall), age-related macular degeneration (a compound called A2E in the eye), and diabetes (AGEs, sugar-derived protein-modifications, throughout the body). Medical Bioremediation is the field of research seeking environmental microorganisms that break these molecules down, whose gene products can then be harnessed for therapy in humans.

[Intellect Wise] Intellect Wise » Blog Archive » Insulin: followed by a more or less rapid decline in insulin action (as with Novo Nordisk’s version Insulin detemir and Sanofi Aventis’s Insulin glargine), all while retaining insulin’s glucose-lowering action in the human body. However, a number of meta-analyses, including those done by the Cochrane Collaboration in the United Kingdom in 2002, Germany’s Institute for Quality and Cost Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector [IQWiG] released in 2007, and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) also released in 2007 have shown no unequivocal advantages in clinical use of insulin analogs over more conventional insulin types.

[Science Blog] Understanding Cancer Part 2 - Telomerase, the Road to Immortality ...: It would revolutionise biology (well...certain fields of biology), because when you isolate primary cells for culture you need to try to keep them alive (think back to the study with vascular smooth muscle cells). I think that at the moment most people infect them with a lentivirus that carries telomerase (the older method was to wait and hope that they became 'transformed' - roughly translates to 'cancerous' - by themselves).

[Target Health Global] Scientists Create First Synthetic Ribosome : Target Health Global: Although their work is “a milestone”¦towards artificial life,” according to Jewett, both he and Church emphasized that they have not yet created any synthetic life, nor is that their main goal. Instead, the research team's aim is to .

[Comments for Centauri Dreams] DNA as Cosmic Code: It might be that instead of coding for a specific message, DNA might be coded with a more generalized set of impulses like “Be fascinated by stars” and “Be curious and explore”, which eventually lead to specific non-coded behaviours like “build radio transmitters to signal your successful transition to technological culture”

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