August 10, 2008 (Sunday)
- Yeshiva University researchers have prevented mice livers from aging by preventing the cleaning machinery of the cell from breaking down. With its continuing function damaged proteins are removed instead of building up and reducing the cells functionality. (NewScientist)
Read more about this topic: August 2008 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)