[BBC]
A Cambridge University study has found that stopping smoking, exercising more and eating better could give you the life expectancy of a person 11 to 12 years younger.

[Nature]
A new study shows that cells from people over the age of 80 tend to have specific problems with the nucleus that young children's cells do not. The elderly nucleus loses its pert, rounded shape and becomes warped and wrinkled. The discovery supports the up and coming idea that at least part of the normal ageing process may be driven by the nucleus' decay, and that blocking this might curb some of time's toll upon the body. Critically, blocking production of this deviant protein corrected all the problems with the nucleus. You can take these old cells and make them young again.

[SF Gate]
Singapore's siren song is growing increasingly more irresistible for scientists, especially stem cell researchers who feel stifled by the U.S. government's restrictions on their field. "I am offering them academic freedom, said Philip Yeo, the government official in charge of recruiting scientific talent as chairman of his country's version of the NIH, called the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. They don't need to spend their time writing grant applications. We are much more efficient.

[EurekAlert]
Gary J. Gorbsky with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division. The discovery could have important implications for the treatment of cancer, birth defects and numerous other diseases and disorders. No one has gotten the cell cycle to go backwards before now. This shows that certain events in the cell cycle that have long been assumed irreversible may, in fact, be reversible.

[esa]
European Venus Express enters orbit around Venus after 153 days en route.

[news.telegraph]
Another study correlates near death experiences (NDEs) with REM-state intrusion.

[BBC News]
A laser which melts fat is being developed. Selective photothermolysis—heating tissues with light—could have medical applications in the future, including treating acne. We want to be able to selectively target the sebaceous gland and this research shows that, if we can build lasers at this region of the spectrum, we may be able to do that. Cellulite and body fat could also be targeted as well as the fatty plaques that form in arteries, leading to heart attacks.

[EurekAlert]
MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating a few genes inside these viruses, the team was able to coax the organisms to grow and self-assemble into a functional electronic device.

[SF Gate]
Nutballs trying to repress use of "100% effective" cancer vaccine linked below out of fear that it will encourage people to have sex.

[Science Daily]
A vaccine protecting against two types of viruses that cause cervical cancer has demonstrated unusual staying power, new research shows. This is the most significant advance in cancer prevention in the last 50 years, said lead author Diane Harper, director of Gynaecologic Cancer Prevention Research at Dartmouth Medical School.

[News.com]
Maxim Magazine aims billboard at Google Earth's eyes in the sky.

[USA Today]
Researchers at West Virginia University's Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute have learned that when a gene regulating long-term memory is knocked out of operation in mice, they can retain information for much longer than normal.