Medicine - Health
Mutations in H5N1 in Turkey
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the analysis of H5N1 virus samples from two victims in Turkey showed a change in one gene. However, it is still too ear…
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Medicine - Health
Discovering heavenly medicine: People can turn into plants or animals
Geneticists have just said that mutations seriously alter the chromosome, and those who have those changes can hardly be called humans. In Yerevan, Armenia, an 18-year-o…
Cancer
Why do healthy people still have cancer?
According to Nature, the latest study from Kimmel Johns Hopkins Cancer Center, lifestyles and genetic diseases does not contribute much to the risk of cancer.
Cancer
How does ultraviolet light cause skin cancer?
When cells make skin pigmentation reach and exceed the threshold of mutation due to sunlight, they can develop into tumors.
Cancer
Zika virus kills brain cancer cells
Although dangerous to pregnant women and causing minor headaches in the fetus, Zika virus is thought to be capable of killing glioblastoma cells, dangerous and difficult…
Cancer
A common cancer risk you have never heard of
When a doctor asks you about your family history, is there someone around you who has cancer? They are worried about Lynch syndrome happening in you. Even so, like most…
Cancer
12 types of cancer can be inherited in the family
Genetically engineered stem cells appear in 19% of ovarian cancer and 11% of stomach cancer.
Cancer
Smoke is more toxic than cigarette smoke
A new study shows that incense smoke is more toxic than cigarette smoke because it contains ingredients that can mutate genes, leading to cancer.
Cancer
Why do we have cancer?
Have you ever wondered what cancer really is? Let's find out the solution through the article below!
Cancer
Skin cancer is caused by genetic mutations?
Scientists have discovered two gene mutations that appear simultaneously in 71% of malignant melanoma tumors of skin cancer, according to AFP. That's the discovery of Am…
Cancer
Having type 2 diabetes is more prone to blood cancer
According to a study published in the July 14 issue of Nature Genetics, DNA deficiencies in people with type 2 diabetes may explain why they are more likely to develop l…
Cancer
Genetic mutations for smoking
Three separate studies demonstrate that smoking habits actually cause human genes to change.
Cancer
Genetic breakthroughs open up the revolution in cancer treatment
Scientists in the UK have completed the complete genetic map of the two most common lung and skin cancers.
Cancer
Discovering new genes can cause breast cancer
Researchers at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in this week's article have identified a…