In the future, you may be able to forgo exercise and still stay healthy, by having your genes tweaked instead. By tweaking a single gene, scientists have mimicked in sedentary mice the heart-strengthening effects of two weeks of endurance training.

The genetic manipulation spurred the animals’ heart muscle cells to proliferate and grow larger by an amount comparable to normal mice that swam for up to three hours a day. Alas, this type of gene manipulation can’t be done in humans, but these findings may suggest a future strategy for repairing injured hearts through muscle regeneration.
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UFO researcher Stanley Fulham died on December 19, leaving behind a prediction that he had made earlier that there would be UFO events over London and Moscow on January 2. As always, Unknowncountry staff will be watching.
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It is about at the intensity I expected, as well. As long as the jet stream remains unstable, there will continue to be fierce weather across the whole northern hemisphere. The greatest danger is not snow and cold, not yet, although we are obviously receiving a foretaste. The greatest danger is extraordinary heat in the summer, and next summer could be a rough one.
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