The man, dubbed the "Geneva patient", is the sixth person with HIV to have been declared in long-term remission. But he was not given a transplant with a mutation in the gene that blocks the virus, as in previous cases, according to France24. Five people were previously considered “cured” of HIV: patients…
The woman before her 40th birthday developed 12 tumors - seven benign and five cancerous. Medical researchers recently figured out why she's so prone to abnormal tumor growth: She carries a set of genetic mutations never seen before in humans, according to…
A study of blood samples from astronauts who participated in NASA's first orbital mission showed an increased level of mutated cells. This caused serious concern among specialists, they have already called for studying the risk of cancer after space flights, reports TechnoNV. Astronauts flew between 1998 and 2001…
A Connecticut cancer patient was chronically infected with COVID-19 for at least 471 consecutive days, during which time at least three different strains of the virus developed in his bloodstream, according to a new study by scientists at Yale University, according to NBC. AT…
Scientists from California believe that the state has a local strain of coronavirus that may be causing a sharp increase in cases and deaths, writes the New York Post. Two separate research groups discovered the "California strain" while searching for a new mutation of the virus that...
Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 do not increase its transmission rate from person to person. This conclusion was made by researchers at the University of London College, analyzing the genome of more than 15 virus samples from 000 countries. Writes about this "Voice of America". Scientists have found that mutations, ...
The new strain of coronavirus has become dominant globally and appears to be more infectious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Writes about this SFGate. Scientists write that the new strain ...
The new coronavirus has mutated in at least 30 different genetic variations, according to a new study in China. Writes about this Fox News. The results showed that health care providers grossly underestimated the virus's overall ability to mutate, finding that different strains infect different parts of the world ...
An American, who passed the paternity test in Washington, unexpectedly found out that he was his son's uncle. The biological father of the child turned out to be the twin brother of the man, who died at the stage of embryo in the mother's womb. A married couple who were treated for infertility and had a baby with the help of IVF decided ...