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Discover a gene that determines skin color
Medicine - Health

Discover a gene that determines skin color

A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, eastern USA, accidentally discovered a gene that determines the color of human skin. Skin color is still a long…

December 14, 2018
New technique for early detection of cancer
Medicine - Health

New technique for early detection of cancer

Scientists from Phlorida University (USA) have successfully developed new techniques that can detect cancer very early before cancer symptoms appear.

December 14, 2018
Eating candy helps reduce stress
Medicine - Health

Eating candy helps reduce stress

A research team at the University of Cincinnati, USA, found that mice fed sweets had lower levels of stress hormones (glucocorticoids). But research also found that anim…

December 14, 2018
Successful mating of nerves from mother to child
Medicine - Health

Successful mating of nerves from mother to child

Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA) has just completed a rare surgery: a nerve transplant from mother to son in the hope of restoring the left arm of a child who has suffered a…

December 14, 2018
Destroy cancer cells with 'nano' bombs
Medicine - Health

Destroy cancer cells with 'nano' bombs

The group of scientists at the University of Delaware (USA) has achieved positive initial results, opening up a good prospect for the fight against cancer, which is the…

December 14, 2018
Dark chocolate helps prevent diarrhea
Medicine - Health

Dark chocolate helps prevent diarrhea

The results of a study by scientists at the Research Institute for Children's Hospital Oakland (USA) and Heinrich Heine University (Germany) show that a chemical in coco…

December 14, 2018
Misleading breast size can lead to breast cancer
Cancer

Misleading breast size can lead to breast cancer

A study at Harvard University (USA), women who often wear bras over 12 hours a day are more likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not wear bras or wear less.

December 14, 2018
Non-smokers still have lung cancer
Cancer

Non-smokers still have lung cancer

The research of Mayo Medical University scientists, USA, explains why people who never smoke still get lung cancer.

December 14, 2018