The birth of the first baby in the UK to be screened free of a breast cancer inherited gene will be born soon. The treatment which sees a planned pregnancy approach with embryos containing the gene for breast...
Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...
DNA mutations are the cause of all cancers. How the DNA becomes mutated is different in different people and leads to variations in cancers. The highlighted article by Dr. Lorne Brandes explains how our genes are...
The outbreak of mad cow disease in the UK during the '80s changed the way that cattle are tracked and shipped. We no longer have available many organ meats previously available, notably brains. Some...
One in ten Women developing breast cancer to increase to one in seven"ONE in seven women will develop breast cancer if present health trends continue, according to new research. Manchester doctors found the risk to women who carry a specific gene mutation has trebled in...
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Just like seemingly everything else in our world, humans aren't just living, thinking, acting, and moving faster -- even our evolution is accelerating."In the beginning, there was creationism, which assumed we had never evolved.
Then came the theory of evolution through...
Researchers have finally provided a mechanism to explain why autism rates are so much higher in males than females. The cause - a previously unrecognized cause of autism - a so-called germ line...
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"Pandemic Alert The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is mutating unpredictably and at a rapid pace, a senior WHO official has warned Asia Pacific health ministers."
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Over 20 years ago, just northwest of the capital of the Ukraine, the world saw the worst nuclear accident in its history."On April 26th, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's number four reactor exploded,...
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You wouldn't want to mess with this kid. This 19 month old could show you a thing or two in the gymnastics ring, or on the football field. His massive strength is technically an abnormality, but what an ailment...
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Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but a rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on.
Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles southwest of London, unveiled the duckling to reporters on...
Study reveals that U.S. Gulf War veterans' children have a much
higher likelihood of having three specific types of birth defects:
Children born of male veterans -Two types of heart valve abnormality.
Children born of female veterans - Genital-urinary defects.
Study...
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"Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause."
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"67 per cent of the babies were reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth defects. They were born without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers, thyroid or other malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers internally contaminated...
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