The corner is notorious for drug sales in general, a problem that police, the drug-treatment community and local activists have struggled to deal with since it emerged several years ago. In May and June, police arrested dozens of dealers in Brooklyn for selling K2-like products, including ...
Our blood is conveniently accessible via a blood draw, but less apparent are the consequences to all the cells in our bodies—be they constituting heart, brain, muscles, eyes, internal organs. All are subject to slow, progressive glycation. When it comes to our skin, the results of ...
Well think of your lung tissue with openings all over which are air sacs called alveoli. This is an anatomical structure that has the form of a hollow cavity which does the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of our body, when we inhale and exhale. The thing to know about...
The cancer industry has grown to be a financial Goliath worth hundreds of billions of dollars in profits each year. Included in this industry, of course, are all the doctors, nurses, hospitals, labs, technicians, hospices, chemotherapy drug makers, and X-Ray machine and film makers. But the...
Rhonda is a big fan of sulforaphane, a compound derived from brassica vegetables. It activates a pathway called NRF2 which increases the expression of a host of cell protective genes. She takes sulforaphane (in the form of broccoli sprouts added to her smoothie) 2 to 3 times per week. I’...
Semiconductors are objects in which the flow of current is not conserved. Similarly, those objects that allow the flow of current are called conductors. These semiconductors are the intermediates between conductors and insulators regarding electrical ...
A major obstacle to cure this devastating type of brain tumours is attributed to its highly invasive nature. In fact, glioma cells have a remarkable ability to infiltrate the surrounding brain tissue and migrate long distances away from the tumour bed, which enables them to escape surgical ...
the street and making a citizen's arrest.Such was the volume of the deadly drug crystal meth in Po He's possession that this week he was jailed for six years after a hearing in which Mr Skinner's behaviour won praise from the trial judge.His story is, on one level, a heroic tale....
Theclassic explanationfor the onset of whoopee, about 1 billion years ago, is that it provides a way for organisms to swap and shuffle genes and to create offspring with new gene combinations that might survive if the environment suddenly changes. ...