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30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself. The amazing story of two pediatric cannabis patients. 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free. Growth Differentiation Factor 11 Is a Circulating Factor that Reverses Age-Related Cardiac Hypertrophy. To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription.

Growth Differentiation Factor 11 Is a Circulating Factor that Reverses Age-Related Cardiac Hypertrophy

Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. Figure 1 Heterochronic Parabiosis Reverses Age-Related Cardiac Hypertrophy (A) Experimental scheme. Pairs of young isochronic, heterochronic, and old IP mice were generated. (B) Reduced heart size in old mice exposed to a young circulation for 4 weeks is shown. (C) Graph represents the heart weight-to-tibia length ratio after 4 weeks of parabiosis. Data are shown as mean ± SEM. Figure 2 Reversal of Age-Related Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy by Exposure to a Young Circulation (A) PAS staining of LVs 4 weeks after parabiosis surgery is presented.

(B) Graph represents cardiomyocyte (CM) cross-sectional area (CSA) measured after PAS staining in female mice. (C) The same experiment as in (B) was performed using male mice. Data are shown as mean ± SEM. Figure 3 (B) Systolic blood pressure (BP) and heart rate were measured at baseline on unoperated young and old mice. Scientists Discover Protein That Reverses Heart Disease In Older Mice. Scientists at Harvard University think they have found a way to possibly reverse the aging process in human organs.

Scientists Discover Protein That Reverses Heart Disease In Older Mice

Dr. Richard Lee, director of regenerative medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Amy Wagers, of the Department of Regenerative Biology at Harvard, made the discovery when they were working with younger and older mice. They took an older mouse with the most common form of human heart failure and merged the mouse’s blood stream with that of a healthy young mouse using a Siamese twin technique known as parabiosis.

They found that the older mouse’s diseased heart was able to reverse to a younger healthier condition. They later identified a protein in the blood of young mice called GDF-11, which diminishes with age. Higher Perspective: Scientist Discover the Area of the Brain Responsible for Aging. Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code? The answer to whether or not we are alone in the universe could be right under our nose, or, more literally, inside every cell in our body.

Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

Could our genes have an intelligently designed “manufacturer’s stamp” inside them, written eons ago elsewhere in our galaxy? Such a “designer label” would be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilization that preceded us by many millions or billions of years. As their ultimate legacy, they recast the Milky Way in their own biological image. Vladimir I. shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan, and Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, hypothesize that an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian evolution. PHOTOS: Top 10 Places To Find Alien Life ANALYSIS: Are We Living in a Hologram? However, there are other possibilities too.

ANALYSIS: Space Algae Invasion? Image credit: NASA, DOE. ✔Vandenberg Air Force Base - UFOs Shoots Missile Down With Laser. It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward.

It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest

A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest. “This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer. The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild.

Hacking the World. By Nathan Schneider Roger Lemoyne, Redux, for The Chronicle Review Gabriella Coleman To hold an event in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City is to lay claim on history.

Hacking the World

Man selling house for Bitcoins, the first sale of its kind. The thought of Bitcoins may make you laugh hysterically, unable to carry on a full conversation about the pseudo currency.

Man selling house for Bitcoins, the first sale of its kind

Alternatively, someone calling Bitcoin a “pseudo currency” may have you up in arms, willing to spend all your precious, mined coins on a way to silence that obvious fool. Now, you can attempt to silence that obvious fool by pointing him toward Taylor More, a man that is attempting to sell his estate for Bitcoins. Along with pizza and Amazon gift cards, you can now purchase a home with the digital currency. More’s estate, which sizes up at 3.6 acres, will cost you $405,000 Canadian, or $1,200 a month to rent. Rabbit-05.jpg (1600×933) Ban on animal testing.