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Revealed: How Elephants Check Cancer From Taking Hold

By Peter R - Oct 09, 2015 10:18 AM EDT

Researchers found that multiple copes of a tumor-suppressing gene TP53 accelerated the death of damaged cells to prevent a mutation from taking hold.

Three Parents Can Make A Baby In Britain

By R. Siva Kumar - Feb 05, 2015 08:15 PM EST

Britain's House of Commons passes a historic law that allows two mothers and one father to create a baby.

Whale DNA Might Be Hiding Clues About Longevity

By Dustin M Braden - Jan 06, 2015 01:52 PM EST

Scientist are now looking into the genome of the Bowhead whale hoping to find clues that can be used to help humans live a longer life

Flu Vaccine Less Effective due to Virus Mutation

By Cheri Cheng - Jan 02, 2015 02:46 PM EST

Health experts believe that a miss in this year's flu vaccine could be blamed for the high number of flu cases so far this season.

Getting Cancer is Like Losing a Lottery,Courtesy Random Gene Mutations

By Peter R - Jan 02, 2015 09:37 AM EST

New study shows how random mutations cause nearly two-thirds of adult cancers while inherited genetic defects or lifestyle related causes can be implicated only in one-third of adult cancers.

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