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b5’s Science and Health channel correspondents are coming together to bring you our Top 5 lists for Christmas and holidays … each of us with different slant!
Here at Genetics and Health we are recomneding the following …
Straight in at Number 1 and this has to be YOUR New Year’s resolution
….. if you’ve got a family history […]
This blog should have been posted a while back, so apologies if appears a little behind the times!
Recently James Watson and Craig Venter let it be known that they had their genomes sequenced and analysed. Each reported their respective predispositions to various diseases.
Bearing in mind it cost several $bn to sequence the first human genome, […]
Almost forgot to let you know that I guest posted in Gloria’s excellent Cancer Commentary. I wrote about why African-American men are more predisposed to developing prostate cancer.
http://www.cancercommentary.com/2007/11/15/why-african-american-men-maybe-more-at-risk-of-developing-prostate-cancer/
Elaine
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It’s World Diabetes Day and here is my support for the day, although it’s not quite genetics based but it’s topical for me. One of my favorite fathers at my boys’ school is a diabetic and is having a really tough time with circulation problems. Today he let me know he will probably lose a […]
Each year more than 1 million people worldwide die of lung cancer. Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common cause of lung cancer.
An article in Nature reports a study by MIT and Harvard and part-funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) which has identified a specific proto-oncogene called NKX2-1 on chromosome 14 that appears […]
Following my article on ‘Cold sore viruses may be linked to Alzheimer’s’, my fellow b5 Science and Health channel blogger Scott at Health and Menhas written a rather scary article on HPV’s role in some types of head and neck cancers and researchers are attributing this to … well, I’ll let you read his blog on this subject!!!!
Elaine […]
My fellow b5 Science and Health journalist Grace at Kids Health Notes wrote a most interesting article in response to Dr James Watson’s less than helpful comments on intelligence and culture which I have previously alluded to in my article Dr James Watson co-founder of DNA - retires
I would also like to add my opinion on genetics and its […]
Following my article on cervical cancer screening, there are further initiatives aiming to eradicate cervical cancer, an easily curable cancer, if caught early.
School girls aged 12-13 will be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer from September 2008, the UK government has announced.
It is thought that vaccinating against the human papilloma virus (HPV) could […]
Cardiff University, Wales and Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest medical research charity have embarked on a project to scan the entire human genome in search of genes that pre-dispose people to, or protect them from developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The team led by Professor Julie Williams will use a technique known as ‘genome-wide association scanning’ to […]
deCODE genetics in Iceland has announced the launch of deCODE MI(TM), a reference laboratory test for variations in the genome (called SNPs) that the company has associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction, or heart attack.
The SNPs are located on chromosome 9 and were discovered by deCODE earlier this year. As described in the journal […]
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