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Too Lazy to Exercise? Is It Genetic?

In an attempt to figure out why individuals with a limited capacity to exercise behave the way they do, a team of researchers conducted a case study. After several tests, including genetic analysis, the scientists found that the mutated gene being examined "was the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene."
U.S. to Start Human Testing of Antiviral Drug to Cure the Novel Coronavirus

US to Start Human Testing of Antiviral Drug to Cure Novel Coronavirus

The first US study of a drug to cure the illness is already in progress. (Photo : Reuters)U. S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks next to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during a tour of the secretary's operation center following a coronavirus task force meeting in Washington, February 27, 2020.
Japan Confirms First Case of Reinfection

Japan Confirms First Case of COVID-19 Reinfection

Just weeks after recovering, a Japanese woman is tested positive yet again for COVID-19. (Photo : Reuters)A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past an advertising billboard of Tokyo Olympics 2020, near the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan, February 27, 2020.
What Happens to Your Body If You Catch Coronavirus

Coronavirus Effects: What Happens to the Body of Infected Individuals

This is what we know so far on the effects of Covid-19 on your body. (Photo : China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS)A doctor disinfects a room for medical staff with sanitizing equipment at a community health service center, which has an isolated section to receive patients with mild symptoms caused by the novel coronavirus and suspected patients of the virus, in Qingshan district of Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 10, 2020.
Radiation - the Problem and the Solution

Radiation - the Problem and the Solution

Today, radiation has many functions in industries and medicine. It is used to offer radiotherapy to cancer patients, generate electricity, sterilize equipment, carbon dating, and has many other beneficial functions. However, radiation has so much energy that when it interacts with live tissues from any organism, it can interact with the atoms in specific cells and induce mutations in the DNA.
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