7/30/2010
People who stay in education for longer appear to be better able to compensate for the effects of dementia on the brain, a study suggests.
7/28/2010
GenePlanet is expanding its service and enables you wider analysis options. New medication has been added - Warfarin efficacy.
7/22/2010
An unusual event happened in London – a white baby with blue eyes has been born to black parents with no history of white ancestors.
7/13/2010
New health study that started three years ago has reached its goal of enrolling half a million adults.
6/21/2010
Women who were born spontaneously preterm (24–37 weeks of gestation) had significantly higher odds of delivering preterm babies.
5/25/2010
Natural menopause is a key physiological event in a woman's life and it´s beginning is modified by genes.
4/30/2010
A single 1000-mg dose of aspirin is an effective treatment of acute migraine headaches for more than half of people who take it.
4/8/2010
Interesting genetic fact of the month
If one were to recite the
ATCG sequence in one's DNA which is 3 billion long and would utter at a rate of 100 ATCG sequences per minute without taking a break for sleeping, eating or drinking, one would speak for 57 long years.
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3/5/2010
Interesting genetic fact of the month
Genetic similarity. Human beings share 7% of genes with E. coli bacterium, 21% with worms, 90% with mice and 98% with chimpanzees.
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