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2/2/2012 11:46:55 PM
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who develop
Alzheimer's disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked
to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new
study.
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2/2/2012 1:25:00 PM
LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests.
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2/2/2012 2:08:56 PM
 AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised in 2007 he would shed any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-button domestic and foreign policy issues. But Romney's family trusts kept some of those holdings and repeatedly bought new ones until 2010, when they were finally sold off for more than $3 million, according to a detailed review of Romney's financial records by The Associated Press.
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2/1/2012 11:46:53 PM
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Treating stroke patients with
stem cells taken from their own bone marrow appears to safely help them
regain some of their lost abilities, two small new studies suggest.
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1/30/2012 11:46:57 PM
HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers studying the link
between diabetes and a hormone that affects your so-called "body clock"
have identified a genetic mutation in the receptor for the hormone,
melatonin, that may to boost the risk of the disease.
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1/29/2012 5:50:49 PM
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum suspended his bid for the GOP nod to run against Barack Obama when his daughter, Bella Santorum, was hospitalized, according to the Associated Press. Bella suffers from Trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder in which a baby has some or all of an extra chromosome. While it is always tragic for a parent to face losing a child, the situation highlights a political issue: Santorum's hypocrisy on health care, abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
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1/29/2012 10:16:33 AM
AP - A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.
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1/27/2012 1:24:07 PM
AP - In a Jan. 26 story about food labeling legislation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Syngenta had announced plans to begin testing genetically modified wheat. Syngenta spokesman Paul Minehart said the company halted work on genetically modified wheat several years ago.
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1/26/2012 11:47:19 PM
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Newly discovered mutations
in two adjacent genes cause a rare genetic brain condition called Joubert
syndrome, according to a new study.
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1/25/2012 3:29:12 AM
 AP - Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve.
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