Tag: Oxidative stress

  • Nation & World

    Nut consumption reduces risk of death

    In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were found to be 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period than those who didn’t consume nuts, say Harvard researchers.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Survival strategy of cancer cells

    A new study led by a scientific team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School has uncovered another key mechanism that cancer cells use as part of their survival strategy — and once again it seems that they are using an enzyme called PKM2 to their advantage.

    5 minutes