Diet did not die. Just another diet study or?

Die—but not just yet

eterochromatin’s repressive hold on DNA transcription can only be relinquished when activators enter the nucleus. Or so the theory goes. But now Vanessa Witte, Andreas Baur (University of Erlangen, Germany), and colleagues find that a heterochromatin component can be pulled from the nucleus by both the HIV protein Nef and activated integrins. “This is a really new concept—that chromatin-associa...

You’re Gonna Die: Diet Edition

What you consume can kill you, or at least have an effect on how long and well you live. In this paper we put aside other attributes that have an effect on your lifespan and focus on diet. We created and will describe a form-based graphical visualization that allows a user to enter his traits and dietary habits to have an estimate generated for the time left to live and the quantity of time eac...

Definitely NOT Just another Hernia

A 77-year-old male presented to our emergency department (ED) with a 3-hour history of acute severe lower abdominal pain, inability to void, a swollen scrotum, and one episode of vomiting. His relevant past medical history included: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and distant right inguinal hernia repair. Vital signs were: 96.40 F, 101, 22, and 205/90. Examination revealed a normal abdomen and...

Bonaparte Did Not Die of Cancer

(Not) Just Another Measurement Study of Online Social Networks

Online Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have become a popular way to share and disseminate content. A few studies have characterized how information spreads over these networks, but none of them have focused on the prevalence of fat content in them. In this paper, we collect and analyze data from the largest online social network in terms of the number of users and the a...