The first Lady of Nigeria said yesterday at an event in Abuja that she no longer wants to be called Patience but Mama Peace...

Speaking during the inauguration of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Maternal and Child Health known as MAMA Project, Patience Jonathan explained why she now wants to be addressed as Mama Peace. The First Lady said:

"My name is no more Patience but now Mama Peace because I believe that without peace, there will be no more women, no more children and no more health sector. Without peace, the international community will be afraid to come and invest in our country. Peace is from the heart and not from the tongue or lips; not what you say but what is in you. We pray for genuine peace because peace is the key to our arriving at our desired destination as a nation.

“We are approaching the new year which is a year of peace, progress and so many good things to come. 2014 is going to be a year of no militancy and no Boko Haram because God will shower peace and make us take a U-turn from disaster.”

So now you what to call her. Mama Peace!
We say Amen to the Prayer of Peace by Mama Peace

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Tracking Zinc In Cells For Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new optical sensor that can track zinc in the body’s cells, enabling researchers to learn more about its functions.

Zinc is an essential mineral and is found in every tissue in the body. While the majority of zinc is tightly bound to proteins, tiny amounts are only loosely bound, or “mobile.”
These mobile zinc ions are believed to be crucial for the functioning of organs, including the brain, pancreas and prostate gland.
To date, scientists do not fully understand the role zinc plays in biological systems, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists believe their sensor could change that.

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they describe how the sensor fluoresces when it binds to zinc and can be targeted to a specific organelle within a cell, enabling them to establish where the zinc is most concentrated.
The sensor relies on Zinpyr1 (ZP1), a molecule originally developed at the same MIT lab more than 10 years ago. ZP1 is based on a dye called fluorescein, but in the sensor this is modified to fluoresce only when it binds with zinc.

The scientists acknowledge that they had difficulty targeting specific structures within the cells, and Robert Radford, an MIT postdoc and author of the study, explains:
“We have had some success using proteins and peptides to target small molecule zinc sensors, but most of the time the sensors get captured in acidic vesicles within the cell and become inactive.”

Scientists can track the location of zinc within cells and are gaining a better understanding of the role the mineral plays in cancerous cells.
To overcome these obstacles, the researchers made two changes to the sensor’s design. First, they installed a zinc-reacting protecting ring, which changed its physical properties and made it easier to target

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