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Gene therapy cures brain disease
8/11/2009
 
 

Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the Aids virus, a study showed. (Image: iStock)

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Obesity causes 100 000 cancer cases

 
8/11/2009
 

Obesity causes more than 100 000 cases of cancer in the United States each year -- and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said.

 

Babies cry in their mother tongue

 
8/11/2009
 

Infants who are just a few days old cry with intonation patterns that reflect the language spoken by their parents, new research shows.

 

'Boep' may be in the genes

 
8/11/2009
 

New research sheds light on the possible link between the genes you inherit and the size of your belly.

 

Intensify Aids fight: Motsoaledi

 
8/11/2009
 

The fight against HIV/Aids needs to be intensified, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.

 

Palms, feet, forearms germ hotbeds

 
8/11/2009
 

A new "atlas" of bacterial life on and within the human body has uncovered the fact that your palms, feet and forearms are a veritable United Nations of germs.

 
 

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