The complex communities of microbes that live on the skin, in the mouth and in the intestine, are influenced by factors such as diet, environment, and lifestyle. This may change in the course of life. Researchers have now shown that they can determine, on the basis of Multiple, the age of a Person. With the […]
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Study finds presence of another person diminishes fear responses in women
A team with several members from the University of Wurzburg and one from Peking University has found that women respond less strongly to aversive sounds if there is another person nearby. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes experiments they conducted with female volunteers and what […]
Girl is the only person in the WORLD to have 'Benjamin Button' disease
Girl, two, is the only person in the WORLD to have a type of ‘Benjamin Button’ disease as her father reveals he calls her GRANDMA Isla Kilpatrick-Screaton has a unique type of mandibuloacral dysplasia The two-year-old, from Leicester, weighs only 15lbs (7kg) and uses sign language Her condition makes her cells age faster than normal, […]
First case of person without the protein needed to transport vitamin D identified
Research identifying the first case of a person living without the protein needed to bind and transport vitamin D in the bloodstream has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper, led by a University of Calgary geneticist, and co-authored by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, U.S., and University […]