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A recent article in the June issue of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry by Isao Kubo (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley) shows that the juice from salsa has antibacterial properties (it kills Salmonella). Salsa normally contains tomatoes, onions, cliantro and green chilies. The scientists isolated the compound that has antibactierial properties: dodecanal from the fresh cilantro leaves. Science News reports “not only did it kill the bacterial cells, but it was twice as potent as gentamicin, a drug commonly used to treat the foodborne illness”

Rico the Border Collie is 9 years old and knows about 200 words… See the article in Science at: Can a Dog Learn a Word?

REVIEW BY CLAY STAFFORD

The Fencing Master is a mystery set in the mid-1800s, when Queen Isabel II was on the Spanish throne and a revolution was in the making. There is an interesting analogy throughout between the art of fencing (context), the more symbolic art of love (theme), and the art of political revolt (place). All are subtly tied together.
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Multiplication of tumor cells is suppressed by the same set of genes as those that suppress multiplication of normal cells of the same type during differentiation; tumors arise when these genes are impaired.

Oncogenic mutations (and oncogenic viruses) release the brakes that tumor-suppressor genes apply.

-essentially says that the laws of physics don’t change when we switch between different reference frames.