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March 22nd (tomorrow) is World Water day.
From the United Nations website, “World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.”
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March 22nd (tomorrow) is World Water day.

From the United Nations website, “World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.


An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.”

The CC BY-SA image is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/likeablerodent/5896226033/.

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Misfolding protein could be the reason behind Parkinson’s disease

From Nature News about an article in Science.

Misfolded protein transmits Parkinson’s from cell to cell—Link between cell death and protein clumps opens pathway to possible treatment.

A team led by Virginia Lee, a neurobiologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, injected a misfolded synthetic version of the protein α-synuclein into the brains of normal mice and saw the key characteristics of Parkinson’s disease develop and progressively worsen. The study, published today in Science, suggests that the disease is spread from one nerve cell to another by the malformed protein, rather than arising spontaneously in the cells.

Filed under health biology medicine