A study of data from over a quarter of a million people confirmed that traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as high blood pressure, substantially raise the chance of major CVD events like heart attack or stroke over the course of a lifetime. The finding reinforces the importance of controlling these risk factors.
Past studies of CVD risk factors have tended to focus on a specific age or gender in white populations. They’ve also generally analyzed risk over defined periods of 10 years or less rather than across a lifetime.
The Cardiovascular Lifetime Risk Pooling Project was designed to collect and pool 50 years of data from numerous studies across the United States.
Researchers at UC San Diego have built a bacterial light source of about 13,000 biopixels, as they call it. Their work on synchronized fluorescent protein expression was published in Nature last week. This is not only a new form of art but also a piece of high tech bioengineering. The light producing chips consist of more than 50 million bacteria that interact and synchronize with each other using a mechanism known as quorum sensing, a method in which bacteria communicate with their fellows and gives them group-like behavior. Th