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Can flies tell us about Alzheimer’s?
alzheimerblogs1.blogspot.com — The Cambridge group has followed up on previous work showing that people who produce too much of a toxic peptide (the A ß peptide) in their brains go on to develop Alzheimer's disease.
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- Babblin5, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I take this seriously, and dugg it. However, my immediate thought when I read the title was, "If they could talk, yeah" 8D
- ericbenatar, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Thats weird how a fly can have a lot of the same genes as humans.
- MorganMghee, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2Well, after clicking and having to block no less that 17 spammy cookies, the page autoforwarded to a howie mendel youtube video...
- pharoah724, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2When it comes to looking at DNA, it's all the same. There are only 4 chemical bonds that make the DNA.
Look up nucleotides on wikepedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotides
The difference between us and all other living things is how many chromosomes, the length of the DNA strand, and the complexity of the DNA strand.
It all boils down to one basic fact, we are all the same. This is one of the reasons that scientists would say we are related to primates. Humans have 46 chromosomes and some primates have 48. Check this page out:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole0 ... - MommaLu, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I really hope someone comes up with a cure for this horrible disease. I don't care if it comes from the anal glands of a fly, I'd take it.
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