If you do a search here on the LHC, you find all kinds of news articles.

The LHC was completed in April, except it wasn't, and parts broke, or were still being designed and testing will be delayed, except it's unimportant and it will still be the greatest thing ever. Maybe it will be. Or it will be another Hubble.

After yesterday's statements by CERN Director General Robert Aymar it's still unclear when it will be done or how it will work but, he says, 'good progress has been made on all fronts.'

So here's the latest:

The LHC is now fully installed in its 27 km tunnel.

Levels of cholesterol in the membranes of hair cells in the inner ear can affect your hearing, said a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and Purdue University in a report in today’s print edition of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Dr. William Brownell, professor of otolaryngology at BCM and his colleagues, said that the amount of cholesterol in the outer hair cell membrane found in the inner ear can affect hearing.

“We’ve known for a long time that cholesterol is lower in the outer hair cell membranes than in the other cells of the body,” said Brownell, senior author of the report “What we didn’t know was the relationship it had to hearing.”

The press release had a curious title: “Omega-3 fatty acids protect against Parkinson’s.” The certainty suggested an experiment, but Parkinson’s is too rare to study prevention experimentally. The press release turned out to be about a rat study that used a drug called MDPT to cause brain damage that resembles Parkinson’s. Rats given a high-omega-3 diet suffered much less damage — apparently none — from the drug.

This is one of my undergraduate assignment under department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

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LONDON, December 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Benefits of Anastrozole (Arimidex(R)) Over Tamoxifen at Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence Improve Over Time - Up to Four Years After Treatment Ends

New data from ATAC(x), one of the world's largest and longest-running studies in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive (HR+), early breast cancer, reinforce that anastrozole can help many more women live cancer-free, for longer. The new data show that post-menopausal HR+ women continue to benefit from anastrozole, even up to four years after treatment ends.(1), (2) If breast cancer returns, women are much more likely to die - therefore, preventing breast cancer recurrence is fundamental to saving lives.

Natural selection can occur at the cellular level, where it is detrimental to health. Fortunately it is normally controlled by a well-known pattern of ongoing cell differentiation in the mature tissues of animals, according to a new study published December 14 in PLoS Computational Biology.

The failure of normal cell differentiation patterns may explain cancer and senescent decline with aging, say researchers at the University of Arizona, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute.

Darwinian natural selection and evolution is usually studied in populations of organisms, but it also applies to cellular populations; this is called “somatic” evolution.

SLOUGH, England, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of Nurofen Plus, has been made aware of the death of a woman earlier this year from acute renal failure who, prior to her death, was taking large quantities of Nurofen Plus (in excess of 48 tablets) daily. This far exceeds the recommended and approved doses (a maximum of six tablets daily).

A Reckitt Benckiser spokesperson comments, "We offer our sincere sympathy to the Docherty family for their tragic loss. However, Reckitt Benckiser would like to reassure consumers that Nurofen Plus, and all other products in the Nurofen range, are safe and effective when taken in accordance with the pack instructions, and used to effectively relieve pain by millions of people every day."

KYIV, Ukraine, December 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) Deputies Viktor Pynzennyk, Yuriy Prodan, and Hryhoriy Nemyria met today in Kyiv with four of the largest foreign creditors of Naftohaz Ukraine, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company. Investment bankers requested the meeting with BYuT to address Naftohaz Ukraine's precarious financial situation.

It's been revealed that what Santa needs is a comfortable armchair and a fast finger to turn a 24,902 mile(a) shopping trip around the world into just 1 hour(b) spent in front of a computer, leaving Santa all rested up to do his Christmas Eve deliveries.

150 clicks are all it would take for Santa Claus to buy all the presents from across the world for a typical UK family(c). Santa need not spend £3370 on sleigh fares(d) nor travel 56 hours(e) on his famous sleigh to purchase the presents either, as he would in years past.

LONDON, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to comments made by Coroner Simon Nelson at the inquest of Linda Docherty of Bury, Greater Manchester, David Pruce, Head of Practice and Quality Improvement said:

"The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain would like to express its concern at hearing of Mrs Docherty's death, following her addiction to Nurofen Plus."

"Pharmacists are highly skilled professionals and the public benefit from access to a wide range of medicines of this type over the counter. Medicines available over the counter can only be purchased in limited quantities."