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Saturday 6 September 2008
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What is a Gene? What are Genes?
Written by EMBO
Every living organism has genes. Genes are a set of instructions that decide what the organism is like, how it survives, and how it behaves in its environment. The genes lie in long strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) called chromosomes...
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Youth In Rwanda That Head Households Commonly Depressed
Written by Anna Sophia McKenney
Of the orphaned youth who are heading households in rural Rwanda can be classified as depressed, according to a report released on September 1, 2008 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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Displaced Sudanese Medics Return After Training In Canada And Kenya
Written by Anna Sophia McKenney
Eleven refugees, who left Sudan as children, were raised in Cuba, and educated in medicine in Canada, now return to Sudan, where they may help improve medical conditions, according to a Comment released on September 5, 2008 in The Lancet...
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