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Curry may prevent Alzheimer’s disease expert says

telegraph.co.uk

“Professor Murali Doraiswamy, director of the Mental Fitness Laboratory at the Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Carolina, has told a conference that curcumin, from which turmeric is made, prevented the spread plaque found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.” read

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theaustralian.news.com.au

“Almost 20 years of painstaking intergalactic measuring using pulsating stars to calculate the age of the universe has brought a $US500,000 ($630,000) payoff for three astronomers, including Australian Jeremy Mould.

Professor Mould, 59, of Melbourne University, is set to receive about $200,000 after he and two colleagues in the US and Britain were awarded the US-based Gruber Foundation’s cosmology prize.

The award recognizes their work in discovering one of the most important numbers in astronomy - the rate at which the universe is expanding. “ read

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