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• People living in volcanic areas ‘at increased thyroid cancer risk’ (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people living in volcanic areas may be at a higher risk of thyroid cancer.In the study, Gabriella Pellegriti, M.D., Ph.D., of the endocrinology division, University of Catania Medical School, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital in Italy, and colleagues collected incidence ...
  3 days ago

• Pediatric cholesteatoma and variants in the gene encoding connexin 26

  
  COMD News — Authority: 450
  Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis: Connexin 26 is a gap junction protein encoded by the GJB2 gene. It is expressed in cholesteatoma, and mutations cause proliferative skin disorders and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Deletions of GJB6, which encodes connexin 30, cause SNHL in a digenic manner with a heterozygous ...
  5 days ago

• New therapy eradicates cancer cells without targeting healthy ones

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 5 (ANI): Researchers are close to developing a cancer treatment that kills malignant cells whilst leaving healthy cells untouched.Led by Professor Cohen-Armon of Tel-Aviv University, the researchers found that potent phenanthridine derived polyADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors efficiently ...
  6 days ago

• Swine Flu Twice is Not Nice

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  The H1N1 Swine Flu virus is mutating. You can get Swine Flu not just once, but twice and maybe even a third, fourth, fifth or more times.  From personal experience, one of our kids has had H1N1 Swine Flu twice.  It isn’t nice, nor are the remedies.  Episode 1,  103 degree fever, no vomiting or ...
  1 week ago

• A ’spoonful of sugar’ may reduce life expectancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): If a new study on worms is anything to go by, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes - it might take years off your life.During the study, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, found that by adding [...]
  1 week ago

• Risk of PTSD Linked to Genes, Environment

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  Childhood adversity and trauma during adulthood appear to predispose individuals to post-traumatic stress disorders. Researchers found the combination of insults were more predictive of PTSD than exposure to only one type of disturbance. Furthermore, the risk was additionally accentuated among individuals with a ...
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• 2-Headed Snake

  
  StrangeArk — Authority: 127
  AP has video on a 2-headed snake discovered in Illinois. They misidentify it as a watersnake, though. Its a juvenile ratsnake.
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• Bioengineers Speed Up Evolution to Make Better Bacteria

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 597
  E. coli bacterial evolution can be accelerated with the MAZE technique to produce favorable mutations Bacteria are prolific replicators, and some species can replicate into the millions in number in just a few hours. Bacteria, in the functioning of their cellular and biochemical machinery, also just happen to ...
  1 week ago

• Bioengineers Speed Up Evolution to Make Better Bacteria

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  E. coli bacterial evolution can be accelerated with the MAZE technique to produce favorable mutations Bacteria are prolific replicators, and some species can replicate into the millions in number in just a few hours. Bacteria, in the functioning of their cellular and biochemical machinery, also just happen to ...
  1 week ago

• H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Not Safe For Pregnant Women

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  It is safe for pregnant women to use any licensed swine flu vaccine, whether it contains a “booster” substance known as an “adjuvant” or not, the World Health Organisation said today.  The WHO’s advisory panel on immunisation said while there had been a “few worrisome reactions” to the vaccine, the ...
  1 week ago

• Sex No Longer Needed To Create Life-Oh You Haven’t Heard?

  
  Presenttruth.com — Authority: 133
  No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells- This is the title of the article linked to below. It made me realize that our world is running towards a moment in which it sees ‘no need’ for God. God needs just a small number of people to get the final events rolling. Who is willing to ...
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• Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

  
  The Mesothelioma Advisor - Cancer, Health, Wellness, and Medical Information — Authority: 123
  Call it the arrow of cancer . Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. Dana Neely/Corbis But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  ...screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear. More Articles
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• Gene Mutation Significantly Ups Risk of Schizophrenia

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 570
  A research team has found a mutation on human chromosome 16 increases risk for schizophrenia by more than eight-fold for some individuals. The mutation in question is what scientists call a copy number variant (CNV). Geneticist Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, identified the mutation. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Long-term Experiments

  
  Chemistry Blog — Authority: 118
  I recently read this Nature article , where is described what is probably one of the longest experiments ever to be conducted. A population of E. coli was kept for 20 years (!) in a nutrient solution (low on glucose), and samples were taken and deep-frozen after 2000, 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000 and 40000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Test Needed For Hand-Foot Genital Syndrome In Women Without HOXA13 Gene Mutation

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Hugh Taylor and colleagues also presented research in various other abstracts at the ASRM meeting. One such abstract showed that women without mutations of the HOXA13 gene do not need to be subjected to x-rays and other tests for a rare condition called hand-foot genital syndrome. The disorder affects the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment

  
  irReligion.org — Authority: 419
  Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment In 1988 an associate professor started growing cultures of Escherichia coli . Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations of bacteria later, Richard Lenski , who is now a professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, reveals new details ...
  3 weeks ago

• Random Mutations and Side Effects: Part Three

  
  Nameless Kingdom Alternative RPG Materials — Authority: 112
  Random Side Effect Table 5(Respiratory Adaptation)1d6Result1None2Requires a small amount of a specific poison each day or will become ill.3Exudes a foul smell at all times.4Breathes only toxic substances and requires a...
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• Atheist websites hit by mutating cyber meme

  
  Christian News New Zealand — Authority: 117
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2986946/Atheist-websites-hit-by-cyber-attack Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon. The “distributed denial ...
  3 weeks ago

• Micah Sloat Obituary Doesnt Exist: Paranormal Star Lives!

  
  Inside Movies — Authority: 150
  WARNING! Potential Paranormal Activity spoilers below -- read on at your own risk. Any remaining doubt that the super-low-budget horror-thriller Paranormal Activity is the new Blair Witch Project pretty much went flying out the window this ... Read more Filed under: Hot Topic , Fall Movies Permalink  |  ...
  3 weeks ago

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