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Repeated Stress Signals Made In Cells With Metabolism-Associated Disease Encourage The Growth Of Invading Bacteria
Mitochondrial diseases disrupt the power generating machinery within cells and increase a person"s susceptibility to bacterial infection, particularly in the lungs or respiratory tract. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), shows that infection with the pneumonia causing bacteria Legionella, is facilitated by an increased amount of a signaling protein that is associated with mitochondrial disease.
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Editorial Examines How USAID Programs Used Biblical Lessons To Teach Abstinence In Africa
A recent audit by the U.S. Agency for International Development"s inspector general has "raised questions about several USAID expenditures" on a number of "faith-based" projects initiated during former President George W. Bush"s administration, a Los Angeles Times editorial says. Among other issues, the report highlighted "the use of instructional materials, including biblical references," in an HIV/AIDS prevention program that promoted sexual abstinence in Africa, the editorial continues. It adds that USAID said that it "stopped allowing "religiously infused" curricula after the Justice Department expressed legal qualms."According to the Times, the issue raises several questions, including whether the U.S. Constitution is "violated when U.S. officials abroad ... endorse religious activities in the furtherance of this nation"s foreign policy." It states, "Our answer is no, but policymakers still need to be cautious about mixing religion and diplomacy" (Los Angeles Times, 7/24).
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Policymakers To Discuss Alternatives To Custody

Experts in criminology will discuss "Alternatives to Custodial Sentencing" at a Parliamentary seminar organised by the British Psychological Society and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Services and Policy. The event takes place at Westminster on Tuesday 16 June (4.30 - 6.00 p.m.) The seminar will consider the challenges of bringing in alternatives to custody, looking at the relative effectiveness of different approaches, how they could be brought in across the country and the likely public response to such a change. Chaired by Alan Simpson MP, chair of the All-Party Group, the event will include presentations from Prof. Mike Hough, Prof. Julian Roberts and John Samuels QC. Prof. Mike Hough is Professor of Criminal Policy in the School of Law, King"s College London, and Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy. He will argue that the emerging approach, where case managers administrate the provision of support, surveillance and programmes for offenders, risks losing touch with the probation craft of persuading people to change their behaviour. Prof. Julian Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. His presentation will look at public and professional resistance to community penalties. How strong is this resistance and on what is it based? Can it be overcome by the provision of information on the effectiveness of these penalties? John Samuels QC is chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform"s legal management committee and has sat on the judging panel for its Community Programmes Award for four years. British Psychological Society


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