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Decrease in calories slows aging of the heart

...pan// - and this has been found in primates, mice, spiders and other animals. They show that a low-cal diet prevents the genetic changes that signal the aging of the heart. Working with middle-aged mice, they used 'gene chip' technology to analyse thousands of genes active in the heart. They found that on ...

Phobia Attack: Courting Fear with Cortisol, the Stress Hormone

...ne fathom its mastery over the web ! If creeps and spiders make you run a mile, here’s something to bolster y...ear and anxiety. And those who were p[petrified of spiders clearly showed a gradual decline in fear during each session of the 2 week study, holding no till th...

'Girlie' Needle And Thread help Japanese Men to De-Stress

...holders for the beepers shaped as primitive bears, spiders and other animals. Ever since Ishizawa invited his drinking buddies over for a sewing session in December 2003, their club activities have expanded to holding exhibitions and their membership has opened to children, called the Minis, and to women, c...

Tidbits on Tarantula bites and fiery Pepper sensations!

...r on nerve cells. The researchers examined over 22 spiders and scorpions which cause pain.Venom from tarantula activated the capsaicin receptor a heat sensor on nerve cells. MST...

MIT Creates 3-D Scaffold for Growing Stem Cells

...big. Getting cells to grow on them is like forcing spiders to build webs on skyscraper girders. Zhang's nanofiber scaffold, around 1,000 times smaller than the existing systems, is much closer in size to the extracellular matrices that living cells manufacture themselves. Adding motifs With the addition...

Micro-world of Prehistoric Bacteria Found in Amber

...nd freeze them in time. Flies, beetles, ants and spiders dating back many millions of years have been found trapped in amber. But soft bodied amber specimens older than 135 million years are very rare. Until now, no microbial inclusions had been found dating back this far. The amber in question was dis...

Genetic Secrets Behind the Dragline Silk

...rial, medical and military uses. The black widow spiders dragline silk is a standout compared to other spid...y been made in artificial spinning methods. When spiders manufacture dragline silk, their silk glands produce a 'gooey' slurry of the proteins needed, which ...

Louisiana Residents Warned Against Brown Recluse Spiders

...and are also commonly referred to as "fiddleback" spiders or "violin" spiders because of the violin-shaped marking on the top surface of the cephalothorax (fused head and thorax)...

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