Daily Archives: September 1, 2013

Snow Blanketing South America Kills 250,000 Alpacas, at Least 5 People Dead [VIDEO] : News : Nature World News

Approximately 250,000 alpacas have died as a result of the worst snowfall Peru has seen in a decade, and the unexpectedly intense blast of winter weather has claimed livestock and human life in other parts of South America as well. A cold weather front from the Antarctic began to spread across South America earlier this… Read More »

Forgetfulness may soon be a memory, say scientists probing cognitive ageing | South China Morning Post

With RbAp48, we were able to reverse age-related memory loss in the mice,” said Columbia’s Dr Eric Kandel, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries of the molecular basis of memory and led the research. “The researchers plan to see what social and dietary factors might boost RbAp48 in mice, said Kandel,… Read More »