Sexual Attraction And Population-control Chemicals Found

Sexual Attraction And Population-control Chemicals Found In Nematodes

Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate. Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract members of the opposite sex.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have now found a rare kind of signaling molecule in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans that serves a dual purpose, working as both a population-control mechanism and a sexual attractant.

Full text article can be found at
A blend of small molecules regulates both mating and development in Caenorhabditis elegans.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature07168.html
DOI: 10.1038/nature07168

Immunization against cardiovascular disease

Immunization against cardiovascular disease

Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is an inflammatory disease in which the walls of the blood vessels are thickened and become less elastic. It can cause blood clots and other cardiovascular diseases. It is not known precisely what causes atherosclerosis, but the immune system probably plays an important role. Research scientists suspect that various oxidised forms of what is known as bad cholesterol, LDL (low-density lipoprotein), contribute to the development of the disease. A research team from Karolinska Institutet, in cooperation with Lund University, has now shown that a particular type of naturally occurring antibodies, anti-PC, which are targeted against the lipid portion of the LDL molecule, play an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. The findings show that individuals who have low levels of anti-PC are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The risk is particularly high in men who develop stroke, with an almost fourfold increase.

This newly discovered risk factor, low levels of anti-PC, is independent of previously known risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood lipids, diabetes and smoking.

Title of article:

"Low levels of IgM antibodies against phosphorylcholine - a potential risk marker for ischemic stroke in men."

Atherosclerosis (Journal available from Sciencedirect)

Sexual Attraction And Population-control Chemicals Found In Nematodes

Sexual Attraction And Population-control Chemicals Found In Nematodes

Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate. Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract members of the opposite sex.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have now found a rare kind of signaling molecule in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans that serves a dual purpose, working as both a population-control mechanism and a sexual attractant.

Title of article: A blend of small molecules regulates both mating and development in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Full text article can be found at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature07168.html
DOI: 10.1038/nature07168

What happened to avaxhome?

What happened to avaxhome

Last Thursday was a busy day for the Bundeskriminalamt -Federal Criminal Police of Germany as they raided 4 servers of popular warez sites hosted within their nation. The Avax network Avaxhome/Avaxsphere, GfxWorld, & Macfile, were all taken down and seized. Suspicions were verified by E-Mail from the current host of gfxworld, keyweb.de. in saying that "the website was taken down per legal order by the German authorities and we cannot give out any other details. As of this time we may not allow further hosting of this site on our servers and there is no comment as to whether or not it will be back online".

The 4 sites in question were formerly affiliated with now defunct modestus.org, also forcibly shut down due to gfx sharing. This is the first push on non P2P sharing sites in Germany since 2007 and the reasons are speculated to be due to the regular release of fonts and the sites' new use of Feedburner RSS pushing them far higher on Google search than the actual creators..

Source:
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080715001618AAeMXUh

Presently this site http://www.kpnemo2.ru/ is being used to post the contents which are used by authors to post at avaxhome.