ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2012) ? One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. The scientists discovered that certain proteins, called extremely long-lived proteins (ELLPs), which are found on the surface of the nucleus of neurons, have a remarkably long lifespan. While the lifespan of most proteins totals two days or less, the Salk Institute researchers identified ELLPs in the rat brain that were as…
CINCINNATI ? Suspended Cincinnati forward Yancy Gates apologized to everyone, from his family to his entire hometown, for throwing punches that left much more than just a bloody gash below the eye of a Xavier player. Then, he wept. The Bearcats made their four suspended players attend a news conference on Monday and apologize for their part in a brawl that ended eighth-ranked Xavier’s 76-53 victory on Saturday and brought the city a lot of bad national publicity. No one was shown in the replays more than Gates, a 6-foot-9, 260-pound player who flattened Xavier’s Kenny Frease with a blindside…
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LONDON (Reuters) ? Scottish writer John Burnside on Monday won the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, overshadowed this year by the withdrawal of two nominees over a sponsorship deal with an investment company. Burnside picked up the coveted honor for “Black Cat Bone,” which the judges described as “a haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory, human longing and loneliness.” He also won the Whitbread poetry award in 2000 for “The Asylum Dance” and this year beat seven other nominees including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy for her latest collection “The Bees.” Duffy spoke out in…
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