Nearly a year after the production manager at a chemical processing company in North Carolina pleaded guilty to polluting the Cape Fear River, the company itself has also pleaded guilty, federal ...

American Distillation Inc. (ADI) pleaded guilty to knowingly polluting the Cape Fear River with tert-Butyl alcohol (TBOH) and other chemicals in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

A small-molecule compound named TAC has been identified that reawakens the catalytic subunit of telomerase (TERT) in somatic cells and, in doing so, stalls multiple hallmarks of natural aging without ...

Their observations led them to hypothesize that TERT had other functions beyond synthesizing telomeres and that overall telomerase levels were important in the aging process. Based on these findings, ...

Drinking alcohol can have a diuretic effect by inhibiting an antidiuretic hormone called vasopressin. Without vasopressin, the bladder fills up more rapidly, causing frequent urination. Alcohol is a ...