Topic: Life Sciences
Parents give kids fewer bad genes than thought: study
AFP Global Edition
American scientists have for the first time unlocked the genetic code of an entire family, and made a startling discovery -- that parents pass on fewer mutations than previously thought. Scientists had long believed that each parent passed on some 75 genetic mutations to their children. But the result of research ...
Genetic researchers win $500K US medical prize
AP Features
Three American scientists who contributed to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint — an advance that continues to give the medical world a better understanding of human disease — were awarded the nation's richest prize in medicine and biomedical research Wednesday. The $500,000 Albany Medical Center prize is being ...
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
AP News
Home-schooling parents who prefer evolution say textbook publishers push Bible's origin storyHome-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons. Mule's precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has ...
Scientists find why "sunshine" vitamin D is crucial
Reuters US Online Report Health News
LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are poor at fighting infection, scientists said on Sunday. The findings by Danish researchers could help the fight against infectious diseases ...
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