Guardian of the gates

SirT1: A Guardian at the Gates of Adipose Tissue Inflammation

Chronic, low-grade inflammation in adipose tissue is a characteristic of obesity that is intrinsically connected with fat expansion. The induction and maintenance of adipose tissue inflammation limits the ability of adipocytes to properly store nutrients and is strongly associated with systemic and adipocyte insulin resistance. The identification of inflammation as a link between obesity and ty...

Kidemonas: The Silent Guardian

Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs are big challenges to the security of government organizations or industry systems. These threats may result in stealth attacks, but if the attack is confronted before the attacker end goal has been achieved, the attackers could become aggressive by changing the mode of attack or by resorting to some form of contingency plan, which might cause unexpected dama...

The Guardian Angel of CPR

A Guardian of the Heartbeat.

Of all the bodily functions performed flawlessly without conscious intervention, the steady beat of our hearts is among the most critical. The developing heart is the earliest organ to function in the embryo, generating rhythmic contractions while it is forming, before there is blood to pump. The healthy adult human heart rarely misses a beat, contracting and relaxing some 3 billion times durin...

The Guardian (London)

Virtue should be granted its reward; DEBATE/Instead of reducing foreign aid to an all-time low, donors should target it at developing world's well-governed countries, argues SECTION: The Guardian City Page; Pg. 21 FOREIGN aid is at an all-time low. More than 50 years after the "aid era" began with the Marshall Plan in 1947, development assistance has tumbled to less than a quarter of 1 per cent...