Tag: life
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Can you love? Can you not understand?
To find out just how well the aging-in-community strategy is working, a University of Central Florida health management and informatics researcher examined three aging-in-community programs in Florida. Her study is among the first to examine some key variables for these programs. (1) Why do we need the old people? The simple answer does not compute…
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Being prepared. (How can you?)
Going into kindergarten already well-prepared gives a child many advantages later in life and lowers costs for society in the long term, researchers in Canada find. (1) Being prepared. For things before they happen. Based on things that have already happened. Things we were never prepared for...
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Back home…
Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing pigeons. (1) Open your eyes. Touch the cosmos. Smell the trees. And you will be able to go back home. A home you would have never left in vain. If not for the senses that allowed you to navigate away from it…
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Genome. Life. Meaning.
Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic 'blueprint' of human life, an international research team has now mapped the first draft sequence of the human proteome. (1) Genes mean nothing. Their expression through the proteome does. Proteome. But the proteome means nothing. Its manifestation through specific conditions is all that matters.…
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Life. Out of nothing.
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells, generating energy that supports life. A giant molecular proton pump, called complex I, is crucial: It sets in motion a chain of reactions, creating a proton gradient that powers the generation of ATP, the cell's fuel. Scientists have solved the mystery of how complex I works: Conformational changes…
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