Glycine regulates neuronal activity in the brain Glycine is the smallest amino acid – one of the building blocks of proteins. It acts also as a neurotransmitter in the brain, enabling neurons to communicate with each other and modulating neuronal activity. Many researchers have focused on increasing glycine levels in synapses to find an…
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The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) celebrates Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSF, an Assistant Professor at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging who is the recipient of the 2020/2021 Edward Henderson Award for her trailblazing work on inter-professional teams. Dr. Flaherty will deliver the Society’s Henderson…
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BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 – Out of a field of over 80 proposals by organizations in Africa — many working in collaboration — The Governance Lab (GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, L’Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), and Expertise France chose seven projects to receive the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge. The…
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Pain will lessen over time Results include longer distance and walking time 8.5 million people in U.S., 250 million worldwide, have PAD CHICAGO — No pain means no gain when it comes to reaping exercise benefits for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. In people with peripheral…
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A lingering pandemic may have put a halt to the traditional New York Easter parade, the gaudy cavalcade that, in other years, winds ribbonlike along Fifth Avenue from 49th Street to 57th Street. But little blunted the spirits of visitors gathered outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown to celebrate a ritual that is to many…
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Add cascatelli — inspired by the Italian word for waterfall, cascata — to your pasta vocabulary and your pantry. This new pasta shape was invented after three years of research and development by Dan Pashman, the host of the podcast The Sporkful, with the expertise of Sfoglini, a pasta company based in West Coxsackie, N.Y.,…
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This is exactly the right moment to dream and thumb the pages of “A Table in Paris,” the artist John Donohue’s sketched love letter to that city’s restaurants. It echoes his work for his book “All the Restaurants In New York.” The new book is armed with a raft of Francophile contributors, including Michael Ruhlman,…
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Norway put farmed Atlantic salmon (salmo salar) on the map about 50 years ago. Today Atlantic salmon is raised around the globe. The company Atlantic Sapphire even has them swimming in Florida. Two Norwegians, Johan Andreassen and his cousin Bjorn-Vegard Lovik, joined with a Danish aquaculture expert, Thue Holm, to create the company in 2010,…
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The Conscious Collection, an auction to raise money for restaurants and bars in need, will be held by Zachys on Friday. It includes more than 100 lots of exceptional wines, spirits and over-the-top experiences like dinner for eight at Château Margaux, another with Christian Moueix at Dominus, three bottles of 2016 Screaming Eagle, and truffle…
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Melissa Funk Weller, a baker whose résumé includes Per Se, Bouchon Bakery, High Street on Hudson, Roberta’s and, most notably, Sadelle’s, where she made bagels, is starting a brand of her own: Funk Foods Bakery. She doesn’t have a location yet; for now she’s baking in a restaurant kitchen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Starting Thursday she…
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