Human Mouth Bacteria: Searching for New Bacteria Found in Mouth
Keeping your lips, tongue, teeth and gums company inside your mouth are millions of bacterial cells from about 600 different strains. Most are …
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Prune Belly Syndrome - What Is It, What Are The Causes And What Are The Treatments
Prune belly syndrome: what is it, what are the causes and what are the treatments? The name is intriguing - but what are the realities of living with …
Continue ReadingSkeletal Dysplasia and Skeletal Dysplasia Treatment
What is skeletal dysplasia - or more accurately, what are the skeletal dysplasias? There are many conditions constituting this heterogeneous group - …
Continue ReadingHow Accurate Are fFN Tests?
The fFN test is used to determine whether premature delivery is likely to occur in a pregnant woman. How accurate are fFN tests at predicting …
Continue ReadingTackling the Cause of Typhoid with Genetics. How Gene Studies Could Lead to a Cure for a Person with Typhoid Fever
Typhoid fever is an illness caught by consuming food or drink contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella typhi. Finding out exactly which genes the …
Continue ReadingPfeiffer Syndrome - The Genetic Mutations that Cause Bones in the Skull to Fuse
Pfeiffer syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in 100,000 births and is characterised by the premature fusion of skull bones.
Continue ReadingWhat Are Boogers and What Causes Boogers?
They fascinate children almost everywhere, and during our lifetimes our noses will produce thousands of them from the gallons of mucus we pump out. …
Continue ReadingExploring the Lytic Cycle – A Mode of Viral Reproduction
Since viruses do not have a cellular structure, they cannot replicate through the process of cell division. But we know that populations of viruses …
Continue ReadingFacts About Carolyn Porco - Leader of the Cassini Space Probe’s Imaging Team - CICLOPS
Dr. Carolyn Porco is an imaging scientist famous for working on the Voyager and Cassini missions to Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. She is also in charge …
Continue ReadingThe GTC - Gran Telescopio Canarias: The Largest Telescope in the World
The largest single-aperture optical telescope telescope designed to study black holes and early big bang cosmology. Built with funds from Spain, …
Continue ReadingHow Genetic Mutations Cause Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome and Von Hippel-Lindau Symptoms
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, known as VHL, is an inherited autosomal dominant disease that causes tumors throughout various regions of the body. The …
Continue ReadingHow Clyde Tombaugh Found Pluto? - A Biography Of The Famous Astronomer
Though famous astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, discovered the planet Pluto while still in his early 20’s his career did not fizzle out at an early …
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