Saving Our Kids

Making the Environment Healthier for Our Kids

spiked | Can TV remote-control our kids?

It is widely accepted today that the media have contributed to the increase in childhood obesity. Google ‘children’ and ‘obesity’, and you would think that the media’s role in giving rise to obesity is a foregone conclusion. Much of the blame is pinned on television in particular: that medium is said to make children, who watch too much of it, sedentary and inactive compared to earlier generati...

Securing the safety of our most precious cargo: SAFE KIDS.

There are staggering and tragic statistics involving children, car seats, and motor vehicle accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, motor vehicle injuries are the leading cause of death among children from 0 to 15 years of age, and in the United States during 2005, 1,335 children ages 14 years and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle accidents; approximatel...

ChildNet and Our Kids, Inc. Second Quarter Monitoring Report

Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas

Figure 1. APP-BP1 binds to APP in a region close to the plasma membrane. We previously reported that APP-BP1 binds to the C-terminal 31 amino acids of APP (C31) (1,2). By mutagenesis and co-immunoprecipitation, we found that APP-BP1 also interacted with APP close to the membrane spanning region. Method: COS cells were transfected with mycAPP-BP1 (mycBP1) along with an APP construct. All the exp...