Feeling run down? A little ‘young blood’ might fix you right up
Dr. Amy Wagers. (The rumor that Wagers is actually 62 years old has not, repeat not, been substantiated.)
It sounds like something out of a bad movie. But Amy Wagers and other researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have found a way to reverse signs of aging in older mice.
“They recovered functions not quite to ‘young’ levels but really quite significantly, and easily, easily distinguishable from older animals that didn’t see this ‘young blood’ within their tissues,” Wagers said.
From Technology Review:
In the experiment, Wagers and team surgically connected the circulatory systems of two mice, allowing older animals to be exposed to blood–and all the molecules and cells it carries– from young animals. They found that the procedure made the blood-forming stem cells in older animals act young again; the overall number of these cells decreased, and the cells generated different varieties of blood cells in more appropriate ratios. “In aged animals, many of the changes we see normally that are associated with age were reversed,” said Wagers.
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Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:01 pm
Republicans Dismayed By Obama’s Strong Performance, Say It Was A ‘Mistake’ To Let Cameras Roll
If the cameras hadn’t been rolling, there would be all kinds of unsubstantiated stories coming out of that meeting.
VIVA TRANSPARENCY!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/29/russert-gop-obama/
Dusty
January 30th, 2010
4:03 pm
Help, I did NOT mean to misspell Bookman. I did not. Did not. awwwww didnotdidtoodidnotdidtoo
md
January 30th, 2010
4:04 pm
Now I know where they came up with the definition of partisan.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:08 pm
Cornyn Hypocritically Accuses Democrats Of ‘Hysterical’ Reaction To Right-Wing Judicial Activism
Senator Cornhole thinks that the Supreme Court must be members of his party, which is more important than this nation.
Membership in the Nazi Party was esteemed much more greatly than German citizenship, and republicant party membership today is seen as a valid sign of being American.
This activist Supreme Court has been on a roll since they installed George W. Bush as President, and they are anxious for more corporate control and religious strictures on this nation.
Folks, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/30/cornyn-judicial-activism-hysterical/
Dusty
January 30th, 2010
4:10 pm
ALSO, I did not me to be #2. Nope . Meant to be #1. Make Jenifer TRANPARENT INVISIBLE or WHATEVER IT TAKES. Unfortunately, it did not work. But, we can always say, My accelrator stuck! Otherwise I’d be first.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:13 pm
CBS Allows Focus On The Family Advocacy Ad During Super Bowl, But Bans Gay Dating Site Ad
To make matters worse, the ad advocating anti-choice is false!
In the Philippines, abortion is (or was at that time) forbidden in all circumstances — the woman had no choice – so to say she “chose” not to abort is not true in fact.
I am disgusted that the so-called pro-lifers are only pro-choice if the woman chooses to have the baby – if she chooses not to, they would deny her that choice.
So it isn’t a choice to them at all, is it? It’s an order.
Too many pro-lifers are pro-death penalty, pro-war and anti-health care for maternity, neonatal, and child care.
What’s that word again?
HYPOCRITES!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/30/afa-super-bowl/
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
4:14 pm
Dusty,
You count as #1 on this page. That exact post and link from Jenifer shows up on every thread so it doesn’t count.
Hey! Maybe the IT folks can start randomizing which column our comments show up under too. For that matter, why stop there. Post a comment here and scour all the AJC blogs to find it. Imagine the page counts they could generate before everybody gave up.
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
4:17 pm
In December 1994, Bill Clinton proposed a so-called middle-class bill of rights including more tax credits for families with children, expanded retirement accounts, and tax-deductible college tuition. Clinton had lost his battle for healthcare reform. Even worse, by that time the Dems had lost the House and Senate. Washington was riding a huge anti-incumbent wave. Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge. Bill Clinton thought it desperately important to assure Americans he was on their side.–Robert Reich in Salon.
That was quite a trick since Fox News didn’t come into existence until October 7, 1996. Libs and their Fox fears are so funny. Salon got around to correcting the story two days later.
Dusty
January 30th, 2010
4:20 pm
Ok OK
Jenifer just called Republicans NAZIs. That’s a NONO.
Drop the accelerator, Bookman, This girl is driving over the limits.. She’s DUI (Democrat Under Imbeciles).
Pogo
January 30th, 2010
4:20 pm
Pelosi may have drank the “Abby Normal” blood Jay. Her visage is a lot like Merrell Streep’s and Goldie Hawns in “Death Becomes Her”. Looking for that nose to fall off any day now.
SOUTHERN ATL
January 30th, 2010
4:23 pm
I would like to send a shout out to the “SAINTS”….Frankie showed out down there back in the day!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HGLnfzamw&feature=related
Dusty
January 30th, 2010
4:28 pm
RW,
Jenifer defintely needs some new and different propaganda. Granny Godzilla may have some stored away in a closet from her previous DNC work. USinUK seems to have a genersous supply and might loan Jenifer some. Or she could check the comics. Something new is definitely needed.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:28 pm
Surprise! Income Inequality Bad For Your Health. And The Nation’s.
This country has a very dysfunctional idea of success and prosperity. To too many Americans, those things mean having something other people don’t. That’s no way to build a healthy, thriving society where all members can genuinely have life, liberty and the chance to pursue their own happiness. It is, however, exactly what has given us today’s GOP and all the damage they have delivered onto this country – politically, socially, culturally, economically.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/30/832076/-Surprise!-Income-Inequality-Bad-for-Your-Health.-And-the-Nations
md
January 30th, 2010
4:30 pm
Dusty,
I always like to see posters such as Jen, it allows the other 66% to get their bearings.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:34 pm
City Homeless Donate $14.64 For Quake Victims
Relief workers moved by sacrifice at downtown shelter
Wow. Just wow.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.homeless30jan30,0,3352899.story
Granny Godzilla
January 30th, 2010
4:37 pm
Greetings from the windy city!
I just don’t get the fight to stay young. This is the best age I have ever been.
Can we talk about the Battle of Baltimore on Monday?
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
4:38 pm
md,
If there are 34% as whacked out as Jenifer we’re in deep trouble unless you just mean 34% of bloggers.
WTH??? Just saw a Bush/Clinton Haiti ad. Billy Jeff appears to be a giant disembodied head in the ad.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:43 pm
The West Falls Behind
China Leading Race to Make Clean Energy
Clean energy will produce jobs here in America, but as long as climate change is seen as not real in this country, we will lag behind.
Conservatives, is the same bad air that is harmful to most of us not harmful to you?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html?hp
md
January 30th, 2010
4:43 pm
RW,
I’m counting about 16% from both ends that can’t see beyond the party flag. May be a little high, but doublful.
Jenifer
January 30th, 2010
4:44 pm
Hello GG,
“Can we talk about the Battle of Baltimore on Monday?”
You bet we can!
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
4:45 pm
Great line from that Baltimore meeting by Jeb Henserling (R-Tx)
I find myself agreeing with about 80 percent of what he says, I just tend to disagree with about 80 percent of what he does.
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
4:48 pm
md,
You might be about right or even a little low on party hardliners, but I don’t think the whack job fringe on either side is more than 5% or so.
md
January 30th, 2010
4:50 pm
“I find myself agreeing with about 80 percent of what he says, I just tend to disagree with about 80 percent of what he does.”
Pretty much summed up the campaign trail, but there are some here that can’t see the difference.
josef nix
January 30th, 2010
4:53 pm
Phooey,,.here I was ready to bring sweetness and light and what should I find,,,Jay’s posted the night thread and I can’t join in there since I didn’t go see any new movies. Had a great time last night, though, with a lot of really good music and commentaries and then got some writing for myself done today and now there’ll be no place to chew the fat,,,
md
January 30th, 2010
4:53 pm
“You might be about right or even a little low on party hardliners, but I don’t think the whack job fringe on either side is more than 5% or so.”
I tend to think that anyone that can’t question either party belongs in the numbers, there is just no way either party is right about all their policies.
TnGelding
January 30th, 2010
4:55 pm
md
January 30th, 2010
4:53 pm
Are they right about ANY of their policies?
md
January 30th, 2010
4:56 pm
“Are they right about ANY of their policies?”
That is highly debatable.
RW-(the original)
January 30th, 2010
5:00 pm
md,
I don’t know anybody that never questions anything about the party they generally support or even always vote for. The whack jobs don’t even do that, They’ll go to the Green Party or whatever party Ralph Nader is calling home from time to time.
Granny Godzilla
January 30th, 2010
5:01 pm
and yet the embarassig smack down of Jan Henserling is burning up the intertubes……
off to another family function…..
md
January 30th, 2010
5:03 pm
RW,
I agree, but I think there are becoming more and more that will defend at all cost, without really thinking about it. I went from one to the other to none, as the parties are all about themselves.
Pogo
January 30th, 2010
5:13 pm
“Jenifer” is bound by chains of her own making. She can’t step outside the bounds of those chains because they won’t allow her to. She is the classic shut-in/isolated personality looking for relavency in a world that couldn’t give a crap about what she thinks. But even knowing this, she spends 12 hours a day (or more) here spewing writing of things that will amount to nothing. The people that “matter” are not listening to her and she is frustrated. She has to lash out at somebody. Southerners, conservatives, whatever. Pity her.