People who read my blog will be aware that I have for some time argued that most (if not all) diseases of aging are caused by cells not being able to produce enough of the right proteins. What happens is that certain genes stop functioning because of a metabolic imbalance. I was, however, mystified as to why it was always particular genes that stopped working. Recently, however, there have been three papers produced: Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance Age- or lifestyle-induced accumulation of genotoxicity is associated with a generalized shutdown of long gene transcription and Gene Size Matters: An Analysis of Gene Length in the Human Genome From these it is obvious to see that the genes that stop working are the longer ones. To me it is therefore obvious that if there is a shortage of nuclear Acetyl-CoA then it would mean that the probability of longer Genes being transcribed would be reduced to a greater extent than shorter ones.
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Where's that party got to now?
...except where it might affect their local vote, so is deemed suitable for local reasons in Edinburgh or Bristol.
Charlie Kennedy couldn't name one city where they want to bring in congestion charging. Can you?
First, read this report in Saturday's Guardian - "Lib Dems challenge Blair to spell out Iran plans".
Next, to find out how serious are the USA's plans to invade Iran, take a look at these articles, all from sane and authoritative commentators:
Scott Ritter article (Al Jazeera, 30 March 2005)
Scott Ritter speech (18 February 2005)
Dan Plesch article (Open Democracy, 21 March 2005)
Seymour Hersch article (New Yorker, 24 January 2005)
If, having read these, you want to do something about it, support the Our World Our Say campaign, which aims to extract commitments from all the party leaders that they would not support a new war.
Memo to Bob Piper: If Blair refuses to disassociate himself from Bush's next move, he may win this election but, when the tanks roll in, his 'popularity rating' will go right down the toilet.
However, asking a PM (any PM) to rule out future military action isn't ever likely to get a definite answer. He has no way of knowing what events lie around the corner that might possibly justify action against Iran, but as things currently stand, whatever Shrub might do in Iran will not involve British forces.