Mounting Evidence Shows Red Wine Antioxidant Kills Cancer: (Mar. 27, 2008) — Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.”
Organic Molecule, Amino Acid-Like, Found In Constellation Sagittarius: (Mar. 27, 2008) — Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the ‘Large Molecule Heimat’, a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the constellation Sagittarius (Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press)”
Genes Previously Believed To Be Silent Are Actually Whispering Key Information: (Mar. 27, 2008) — Genes that scientist believe are turned off are actually functioning at a low level that has previously been undetected, a discovery that could help answer questions about chronic disease and aging. Of the about 25,000 human genes science has identified, half are believed to be silent at any particular time and activated only when needed. But Andre Ptitsyn, biomedical and computer expert in the Center for Bioinfomatics at Colorado State University, has discovered that current tools cannot measure extraordinarily low levels of gene expression signals.”
First Comprehensive Database Of Human Oral Microbiome Launched: (Mar. 27, 2008) — Scientists know more today than ever before about the microbes that inhabit our mouths. They know so much, in fact, that gathering all of the relevant bits of information into one place when designing experiments can be a job in itself. Now, grantees of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their international colleagues intend to solve this problem with the launch of the first comprehensive database of the oral microbiome, or the approximately 600 distinct microorganisms currently known to live in the mouth.”
Reason For Almost Two Billion Year Delay In Animal Evolution On Earth Discovered: (Mar. 27, 2008) — Scientists from around the world have reconstructed changes in Earth’s ancient ocean chemistry during a broad sweep of geological time, from about 2.5 to 0.5 billion years ago. They have discovered that a deficiency of oxygen and the heavy metal molybdenum in the ancient deep ocean may have delayed the evolution of animal life on Earth for nearly 2 billion years.”
