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S. Africa labour court okays traditional healer's 'sick note'
A labour appeals court in South Africa has validated a "medical certificate" written by a traditional healer, the Sunday Times reported.
Oct 21, 2012
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Genetics
Most mutations come from dad
Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human ...
Aug 24, 2012
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Neuroscience
More sophisticated wiring, not just bigger brain, helped humans evolve beyond chimps
Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin?
Aug 22, 2012
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Diabetes
Feces fossils lend new insights into connection between Native-Americans, diabetes
Why do Native Americans experience high rates of diabetes? A common theory is that they possess fat-hoarding "thrifty genes" left over from their ancestors – genes that were required for survival during ancient cycles ...
Jul 24, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Phylogenomic analysis reveals origin, spread of MRSA clone
(HealthDay) -- Phylogenomic analysis has revealed details about the emergence and transmission of a major methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone, EMRSA-16, according to research published online May 14 in ...
May 21, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Asian origins of Machado-Joseph disease revealed
(Medical Xpress) -- Knowledge of a disease prevalent among Northern Territory Indigenous communities has been overhauled thanks to research contributed by the University of Sydney's Garth Nicholson.
Mar 9, 2012
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Dentistry
Dental discovery to benefit forensic practitioners and anthropologists
Forensic practitioners and anthropologists will be among those to benefit from new University of Kent research on the dental development of humans.
Mar 7, 2012
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Genetics
Basque roots revealed through DNA analysis
The Genographic Project announced today the most comprehensive analysis to date of Basque genetic patterns, showing that Basque genetic uniqueness predates the arrival of agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula some 7,000 years ...
Mar 6, 2012
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Neuroscience
Hedging your bets: How the brain makes decisions based on related information
When making decisions based on multiple, interdependent factors, we choose based on how these factors correlate with each other, and not based on an ad hoc rule of thumb or through trial and error as was previously thought, ...
Sep 21, 2011
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Genetics
King Tut and half of European men share DNA
According to a group of geneticists in Switzerland from iGENEA, the DNA genealogy center, as many as half of all European men and 70 percent of British men share the same DNA as the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, or King Tut.
