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Native American Heart Disease May Be Linked to Blood Clotting Gene
Health & Wellness  (tags: Heart Disease, genes, blood clots, Native Americans )

Lone
- 4 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Native American's increased heart disease susceptibility may arise from evolution favoring genes for blood clotting, suggest a genetic comparison. In the current Annals of Human Genetics, an international team
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Canadian Researchers Pioneer Gene Therapy to Repair Lungs for Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, science, research, genes, lungs, transplant )

Horselove
- 54 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
In pioneering research, Canadian scientists have successfully used gene therapy to repair damaged lungs from deceased donors, making them potentially suitable for life-saving transplantation
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Flawed Gene Link to Ovary Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, illness, cancer, ovarian cancer, genes, risks, study, research, prevention, protection, warning )

Dee
- 142 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have identified a genetic flaw which can increase the risk of ovarian cancer.
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Sharing Cancer Info May Be Empowering
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, genes, family, disease, illness, risks, warning, protection )

Dee
- 218 days ago - wten.com
Parents with family secrets may struggle to decide what to share with their children. But when it comes to cancer running in the family, a new study shows that those who choose to reveal the results of genetic tests are glad they did.
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Britain's First Breast Cancer Gene-Free Designer Baby Born
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, genes, treatment, prevention, healthcare, AlternativeMed, healthcare, prevention, investigation, protection, research, society, risks, illness, humans, children, disease )

Kim
- 347 days ago - foxnews.com
The first baby girl in Britain to have been screened before conception for a genetic form of breast cancer has been born, doctors said on Friday
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Japanese Create Stem Cells From Wisdom Teeth
Health & Wellness  (tags: wisdom teeth, Shinya Yamanaka, stem cell research, human embryos, embryonic stem cells, genes, bone disease, Health, AFP )

Marion
- 484 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using embryos. "This is significant in two ways," team leader Hajime Ogushi told AFP.
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Experts Target Blood Vessel Growth in Cancer Battle
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, genes, tumors, cancer treatment )

Jan
- 612 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Scientists in Australia have identified a gene that appears to be linked to blood vessel growth in tumors in mice and they hope the discovery can pave the way for improved treatment of cancer in people one day.
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Is It Her Genes? Oldest Known Person Turns 115 on Sunday - Yahoo! News
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, women, health, Body-Mind-Spirit, study, genes, scientists, DNA, gerontology )

Jacolin
- 612 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. - Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for Edna Parker's long life. Or maybe just good genes explain why the world's oldest known person will turn 115 on Sunday, defying staggering odds.
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Past Child Abuse Plus Variations in Gene Result in Potent PTSD Risk for Adults
Health & Wellness  (tags: child abuse, PTSD, child sexual abuse, genes, childhood trauma )

Nancy
- 641 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating stress-related psychiatric disorder, affects at least 7 to 8 percent in the U.S. Certain gene variations raise the risk considerably if the childhood trauma involved physical or sexual abuse,
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Stress-Related Gene May Help Explain Who Suffers From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, study, genes, PTSD, stress, illness, disease )

Dana
- 644 days ago - startribune.com
CHICAGO - Groundbreaking research suggests genes help explain why some people can recover from a traumatic event while others suffer post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Why Our Families Are Our Surest Source of Happiness | the Daily Mail
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, happiness, genes, disposition, sunny, positive, genetics, family, relationships, happy, unhappy, sad )

Cissy
- 656 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
They say you can't buy it - and they'd be right. Because happiness is in your genes, scientists say. According to researchers, 50 per cent of our disposition towards a sunny outlook is down to genetics. Money, career, health, relationships and other
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Happiness Is Partly Inherited
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, happiness, genes )

Isabel
- 657 days ago - livescience.com
Psychologists at the University of Edinburgh and the Queensland Institute for Medical Research in Australia have found that happiness is partly determined by personality traits that are largely hereditary, along with your situation in life.
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Monkey Gene That Blocks AIDS Viruses Evolved More Than Once
Health & Wellness  (tags: aids, monkies, genes, virus, research, study, science, interesting, illness )

John
- 659 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study suggests that AIDS is not a new epidemic.
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Shortcut to Cause of Common Disease - World
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, genomes project, genes, disease, health, genetics )

Chrissy
- 700 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
The genetic differences between individuals are to be mapped in unprecedented detail in the most comprehensive search yet for the inherited roots of common conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The 1,000 Genomes Project, announced yesterday by
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Body Abnormalities, Childhood Cancer May Share Genes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, children, cancer, genes, study, humans, disease )

Danielle
- 719 days ago - news.yahoo.com
THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Dutch scientists have discovered that children who have cancer also have more body anomalies, such as asymmetric limbs and curvature of the spine. This suggests that the same genetic defect underlies both the cancer
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