Cloned cows turn back the cellular clock

Is it too late to turn back the clock?

The esteemed health economist, Gavin Mooney, who died in tragic circumstances in December 2012, devoted his last book The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy to exposing the pernicious effects of neoliberalism on healthcare. He argued compellingly that the consequences of ‘neoliberalism’ – in his usage, the reliance on market mechanisms to address all the needs of a society in th...

The rise of the medical McJob: why we should turn the clock back.

The biological clock keeps ticking, but exercise may turn it back.

Aging is an inevitable process that is associated to loss of functional capacities in several body systems, like the cardiovascular, the skeletal muscle mass, the osteoarticular and the neuro-immune-endocrine systems. Changes appear due to interactions between genetic factors and way of life, such as diet and sedentary life style. This review shows evidence from the past twenty years concerning...

Tilt back to turn left

Tilt back to turn left perating an eggbeater vertically creates a vortex, but a slight tilt makes fluid move across a bowl. now claim that a similar backward tilting of mouse cilia may create a flow that defines the left side of the embryo. Flow had already been established as a determinant of left–right asymmetry, at least in mice. Leftwards flow is created by a group of ‫ف‬ 30 cilia in the mo...

Angry voters may turn back the clocks

Science, the environment, and efforts to mitigate climate change are among the likely casualties when the UK goes through with the exit from the European Union. Within a year of the vote that granted rightwing populist Nigel Farage the fulfi lment of his lifetime ambition, electoral success for populists in the US and in France could bring a U-turn for Western civilisation and make it renounce ...