Kissing: Spread The Love, More Like Spread The Germs

According to a hypothesis posed by British scientists from the University of Leeds kissing, a kiss, et al. is less about spreading the love and more about spreading germs. Not to dash all of your romantic comedy...

Hairspray may be to blame for genital birth defects in boys

A new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives journal has found that women exposed to hairspray in the first trimester of pregnancy are twice as likely to have boys with a genital birth defect called...

Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects

Many babies are created in this way.  As the number goes up, birth defects will increase... More caution must be employed to prevent this from happening."ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A new study from the Centers...

An Evening in Philly with Obama

As I stood on the Mall on April 18, 2008, I considered the contradictory circumstances that seemed to merge at that place as I listened to Senator Barack Obama as he addressed the...

alpha fetoprotein (AFP) gene and its significance in hepatocellular carcinoma...

"Variations of serum alpha fetoprotein afp levels in hepatocellular carcinoma patients and cell lines are likely due to the differential activity of enhancer/silencer elements that control AFP. To understand the...

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