According to an article published this week in ScienceDaily.com, proline dehydrogenase plays an important role in apoptosis, a process of cell death, allowing the formation of superoxide, a kind of oxygen-rich electrons and highly reactive. The protein proline dehydrogenase “opens to allow oxygen to ‘steal’ electrons and give rise to superoxide, the magazine says Tommi A.White, a doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). (more…)

The economic crisis that has beaten the United States and other nations have made rivers of ink, economists and other experts say those responsible for the financial calamity. Although the causes of the crisis now making clear, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new computer models on the behavior of the economy that will allow those responsible for large-scale strategizing have more realistic views of different types markets, so they can better prevent future economic disasters.

Traditional economic models rely heavily on models that do not take into account the decision-making processes of investors and individual clients. Therefore, these models do not represent the real internal dynamics of the market, as noted by Charles Macal, a scientist at Argonne systems. (more…)