[rael-science] Five-Cent Diabetes Pill From 1958 May Be New Cancer Drug

วันศุกร์ที่ 28 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2555

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Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-25/five-cent-diabetes-pill-from-1958-may-be-new-cancer-drug.html


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[rael-science] Eunuchs Lived Longer Than Other Men: Study‏

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Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=163289

Eunuchs Lived Longer Than Other Men: Study

MONDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Castrated men -- sometimes called eunuchs -- in the old Korean dynasty lived much longer than other men, according to a new study.
The findings suggest that male sex hormones such as testosterone may be one reason men tend to have shorter life spans than women, the researchers said.
The study was published Sept. 25 in the journal Current Biology.
The researchers studied genealogy records of noble members of the Imperial court of the Korean Chosun dynasty, which lasted from 1392 to 1910. The eunuchs lost their testicles in accidents -- usually after being bitten by dogs -- or underwent intentional castration to gain early access to the palace, according to a journal news release.
Eunuchs lived 14 to 19 years longer than other men. Of the 81 eunuchs included in the study, three lived to be 100 or older.
The incidence of centenarians among the eunuchs was at least 130 times greater than in developed countries, according to Kyung-Jin Min of Inha University and Cheol-Koo Lee of Korea University.
They said the extended life spans of eunuchs can't be explained simply by the benefits of life in the palace, because they spent as much time outside the palace as inside it. And although the study showed an association between being castrated and a longer life span, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
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[rael-science] Chocolate Gives Snails Super-Memory‏

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Source: http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/chocolate-gives-snails-super-memory/81247393/

Chocolate Gives Snails Super-Memory

    Research with trained pond snails has provided new evidence that flavonoids found in foodstuffs such as cocoa, green tea, and red wine really can boost memory.University of Calgary scientists showed that the flavonoid epicatechin found in dark chocolate improves and strengthens long-term memory in snails through a mechanism that appears to act directly on memory neurons.
    Proving the hypothesis that chocolate in some way boosts brain functions such as memory isn’t easy because human and other vertebrate research is set against a background of huge numbers of other external influences that affect how we remember, and for how long. To try and overcome this, the University of Calgary’s Lee Fruson, Ken Lukowiak, Ph.D., and Sarah Dalesman, Ph.D., turned to the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, an invertebrate that can be trained to carry out simple functions in response to simple cues.
    In this case it was a matter of how they breathe. Pond snails normally take in oxygen from water through their skins, but when placed in deoxygenated water the animals extend their breathing tubes above the water surface and open them to take in oxygen via the air. The Calgary team trained snails to keep their breathing tubes closed in deoxygenated water, in response to a tap on the tube itself. The training process takes about half an hour, and normally the snails would remember what to do in response to this cue for up to about three hours, but no longer.
    To see how epicatechin might affect this "memory", the investigators added a small dose of the chemical into the snails’ pond water and then a day later moved the animals to deoxygenated water and gave them two training sessions. Incredibly, they found that the animals "remembered" what to do in response to a breathing tube tap for up to several days, rather than just for a few hours. Importantly, the concentration of epicatechin added to the water wasn’t enough to affect other aspects of the snails’ behavior. “We have to make sure that we’re not looking at wired animals,” Dr. Lukowiak points out.
    The epicatechin also appeared to strengthen the memory. When the snails' trainers tried to extinguish the "keep tube closed" memory with one where the animals instead opened their breathing tubes, the epicatechin-boosted snails refused to learn the new process, and instead kept their breathing tubes shut. The memory cemented in their neural circuitry by epicatechin couldn’t be extinguished.
    Of particular interest was the finding that the mechanism by which epicatechin acts on memory doesn’t rely on sensory cues, such as, for example, memories of predators that are triggered by smell, and rely on a serotonergic (5-HT) signaling pathway. Rather, the epicatechin may act directly on the neurons that store memory.
    The investigators report their findings in the Journal of Experimental Biology, in a paper titled “A flavonol present in cocoa [(-) epicatechin] enhances snail memory.”


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On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
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[rael-science] [with Rael's comment] Are we the extraterrestrials? Scientists back theory that life was brought to Earth by space microbes‏

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2208438/Are-extra-terrestrials-New-study-backs-theory-life-brought-Earth-space-microbes.html

Are we the extraterrestrials? Scientists back theory that life was brought to Earth by space microbes

PUBLISHED: 10:33 EST, 25 September 2012 UPDATED: 12:15 EST, 25 September 2012 

Extraterrestrial microbes might have brought life to Earth after travelling through space for millions of years, say scientists.

The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago.
Some of them could have carried embedded micro-organisms, according to experts writing in the journal Astrobiology.
Scientists believe life may have come to earth on a rock
        fragment from another planet.
Scientists believe life may have come to earth on a rock fragment from another planet.
The research suggests the dormant bugs could easily have survived the long journey through space, despite high levels of cosmic radiation.
Simple life may equally well have travelled from Earth to planets outside the Solar System, the scientists believe.
The process, known as lithopanspermia, could mean the universe is teeming with Earth-like life.
'Our work ... says that lithopanspermia might have been very likely, and it may be the first paper to demonstrate that,' said lead researcher Dr Edward Belbruno, from Princeton University in the US.
'If this mechanism is true, it has implications for life in the universe as a whole. 
'This could have happened anywhere.'
Large volcanic eruptions, meteorite impacts and collisions with other bodies can cause rocky fragments of planets to fly into space.
When the Solar System was young, and the Sun much closer to its neighbours than it is today, some of this debris could have been exchanged between planets orbiting different stars, say the scientists.
Travelling relatively slowly, there was a good chance of them being 'captured' by the gravity of planets they approached.
The researchers ran computer programmes simulating the star cluster in which the Sun was born.
They found that of all the rocky fragments cast off from our Solar System and its closest neighbour, between five and 12 out of 10,000 could have been captured by the other.
During a period of 10 million to 90 million years, anything between 100 trillion and 30 quadrillion objects weighing more than 10 kilogrammes could have been transferred.
Any organisms arriving on Earth would have found a planet already covered in water with conditions suitable for life.
Researchers analysed the potential timeframe from life from
        another planet arriving on earth.
Researchers analysed the potential timeframe from life from another planet arriving on earth.
The Sun’s birth cluster slowly broke apart when the Solar System was 135 million to 535 million years old.
Earth possessed surface water from when the Solar System was just 288 million years of age, making it likely that the planet was ready to receive alien microbes.
Co-author Dr Amaya Moro-Martin, an astronomer from the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, said: 'Our study stops when the solid matter is trapped by the second planetary system, but for lithopanspermia to be completed it actually needs to land on a terrestrial planet where life could flourish.
'The study of the probability of landing on a terrestrial planet is work that we now know is worth doing because large quantities of solid material originating from the first planetary system may be trapped by the second planetary system, waiting to land on a terrestrial planet.
'Our study does not prove lithopanspermia actually took place, but it indicates that it is an open possibility.'
The research was presented today at the 2012 European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid.
Watch video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/index.html
Video: Dmitry Savransky, Princeton University




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On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
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[rael-science] [with Rael's comment] Slave rebellion is widespread in ants‏

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Source: http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/15733_ENG_HTML.php

Slave rebellion is widespread in ants

Enslaved worker ants kill the offspring of their parasites and thereby improve the chances of survival for their neighboring relatives

26.09.2012
Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage. Ant researcher Professor Dr. Susanne Foitzik of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) first observed this "slave rebellion" phenomenon in 2009. According to the latest findings, however, this behavior now appears to be a widespread characteristic that is not limited to isolated occurrences. In fact, in three different populations in the U.S. states of West Virginia, New York, and Ohio, enslaved Temnothorax longispinosus workers have been observed to neglect and kill the offspring of their Protomognathus americanus slavemakers rather than care for them. As a result, an average of only 45% of the parasite's offspring survived. This presumably reduces the strength of the parasites in the area and thereby increases the chances of survival for the neighboring colonies populated by the slave ants' relatives.
More than half of all animal species live in parasitic relationships, i.e. they exploit their so-called hosts. From the perspective of evolutionary history, the American slave-making ant Protomognathus americanus is an old social parasite that is entirely dependent on other ant species for its survival. Slave workers have to care for the brood in parasite nests, bring food to their masters and feed them, and even defend the nest.
These ants become slaves when workers from the slave-making ant colony attack the nests of the host species Temnothorax longispinosus, kill the adult ants, and steal the brood. Back in the masters' nest, which can be located in hollow acorns, nutshells, or twigs, the brood care behavior of the emerging slave workers is exploited to the advantage of the slavemaker species. As Susanne Foitzik and her work group have shown, the enslaved worker ants feed and clean the larvae, thereby raising the offspring of their social parasite – but only up to a certain point.
"Probably at first the slaves cannot tell that the larvae belong to another species," explains Foitzik. As a result, 95% of the brood survives the larval stage. But the situation changes as soon as the larvae pupate. "The pupae, which already look like ants, bear chemical cues on their cuticles that can apparently be detected. We have been able to show that a high fraction of the slavemaker pupae are killed by slave workers." The pupae are either neglected or actively killed by being attacked and torn apart. Several slaves at once may assault a pupa, which is unable to move or defend itself during the pupal stage and is also not protected by a cocoon.
In parasite nests in West Virginia, only 27% of the pupae survived, and in the New York colonies, only 49%. In Ohio, the survival chances of the American slave-making ant was a bit higher at 58%, but this figure is still well below the survival rate of 85% for host pupae in their own free-living nests. "The enslaved workers do not directly benefit from the killings because they do not reproduce," explains Susanne Foitzik. But, through the killing of slavemaker offspring, their neighboring relatives – which might very well be the sisters of the worker slaves – indirectly benefit as their chances of survival are increased. Slavemaker colonies damaged by slave rebellions grow slower and smaller slave-making colonies conduct fewer and less destructive slave raids.
The large differences in the death rates in colonies from different regions fits to predictions derived from the geographic mosaic theory of co-evolution. This theory claims that populations differ because they are subjected to different local selection pressures and because they possess different attack or defense traits originated through mutations, which in turn means that evolution can go in different directions in different geographic areas. While the host ants in New York are very aggressive and often successfully thwart slave raid attempts, the hosts in West Virginia profit more from the slave rebellion behavior because, as genetic analyses have shown, the neighboring colonies are more often close relatives to the rebelling slaves.
This study on the evolution of slave rebellion has been financed since October 2011 by the project "The evolution of resistance and virulence in structured populations" funded by the German Research Foundation.

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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history, 
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On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
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WARNING FROM RAEL: For those who don't use their intelligence at its
full capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not
mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL"
means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to
know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is
completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles
in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying
for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to
believe that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when
I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic,
anti-Jewish, racist, revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group
or religion, or any other stupid article, it does not mean that I
support them. It just means that it is important for all human beings
to know about them. Common sense, which is usually very good among our
readers, is good enough to understand that. When, like in the recent
articles on drug decriminalization, it is necessary to make it
clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very clear: I support
decriminalizing all drugs, as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad
people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is
any change to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any
drug except for medical purposes. The same applies to the freedom of
expression which must be absolute. That does not mean again of course
that I agree with anti-Jews, antisemites, racists of any kind or
anti-Raelians. But by knowing your enemies or the enemies of your
values, you are better equipped to fight them. With love and respect
of course, and with the wonderful sentence of the French philosopher
Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it".