Diseases

... systems (intestines, livers, kidneys, adrenals, etc). Mutations= mistakes. Hospitals are full of people with mutations dying of cancer and other diseases. Think mutations are 'good'? Go stand out in the sun for a few hours on a hot day and get some 'beneficial' mutations or one could stick their ...

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... the other half would have the dominant allele?Or 1/2 is not enough to cause color blindness?And I'd like to know if it's true with other X linked diseases.

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... talking for substances that kill invader organisms like antibiotics). In my opinion this is the reason why despite our progress in understanding diseases and despite the exaggerated announcements of researchers, in fact the progress in treating serious diseases, has been extremely low.In fact, ...

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... (spring, pipe, ditch, stream or pond)? 6. Why isn’t a Presumptive test sufficient to determine if water is safe to drink? 7. List five waterborne diseases and their etiologic agents. 8. A student obtained the following results in the Completed test from a sample of water taken from his family’s ...

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Here's recent news on that topic. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21565138-technique-intended-eliminate-mitochondrial-diseases-would-result-people Here's the citation and link to the original paper: Towards germline gene therapy of inherited mitochondrial diseases. Tachibana ...

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