EGCG has been found to have a number of cancer-protective actions in the body, including an ability to help in the de-activation of cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens).
A temple in the Babylonian town of Nippur, dating from the first half of the 3rd millennium bc, was found to have a number of rooms filled with clay tablets, suggesting a well-stocked archive or library.
Chalcones and dihydrochalcones have been found to have a number of important biological activities [5], including anti-inflammatory [6], antioxidant [7], antiplasmodial [8], anticholinesterase [9] and anticancer properties [10, 11], and thus development of means to better detect, identify and measure the levels of such compounds in biological samples is of great importance.
Another storyline was featured in the media after ten children from a Québécois school were found to have a number of cuts on their bodies.
Offspring from pregnancies in which the mother had been subjected to an isocaloric low protein diet throughout pregnancy were found to have a number of alterations in expression of components of the renin-angiotensin system in several tissues [23], [24].
EEF1A2 has also been found to have a number of non-canonical functions including phosphatidylinositol signaling [12], apoptosis [13], [14], cytoskeletal modifications [15], [16], [17], targeting proteins for degradation, and participation in the heat shock response [18], [19].
