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"This achievement culminates a 15-year effort that involved widespread administration of the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) throughout the Western Hemisphere. The announcement comes as 45 countries and territories of the Americas are participating in the 13th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (April 25 to May 2)." | "This achievement culminates a 15-year effort that involved widespread administration of the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) throughout the Western Hemisphere. The announcement comes as 45 countries and territories of the Americas are participating in the 13th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (April 25 to May 2)." | ||
:(More? [[Abnormal Development - Rubella Virus|Rubella Virus]] | [http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10798%3Aamericas-free-of-rubella&Itemid=1926&lang=en WOO/PAHO Announcement]) | :(More? [[Abnormal Development - Rubella Virus|Rubella Virus]] | [http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10798%3Aamericas-free-of-rubella&Itemid=1926&lang=en WOO/PAHO Announcement]) |
Revision as of 13:56, 1 May 2015
The following are earlier versions of the news panel that appears on the website Main Page.
2015
April
Americas region is declared the world’s first to eliminate endemic transmission of rubella | |
Rubella is a contagious viral disease that can cause multiple birth defects as well as fetal death when contracted by women during pregnancy.
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February
Three-person embryos | |
UK government has voted to legalize a gene-therapy technique that could help women to avoid passing genetic defects onto their children.
The technique called either "mitochondrial replacement" or "three-person in vitro fertilization" intention is to prevent maternal mitochondrial mutations to be passed on to children. Its estimated that estimated 1 in 5,000 children are born with these type of diseases caused by such mutations. |
2014
October
Hippocampus Development | |
2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser - for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain
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July
Embryo Epigenetics | |
Embryos Reprogram their Epigenetics
Two recent studies show that after fertilisation human embryos loose DNA methylation from most of the genome. This implies that there is an early "reprogramming" or "resetting" of the embryo's epigenetic status.
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June
Maternal Mortality | |
WHO - Trends in Maternal Mortality 1990 to 2013
An estimated 289,000 women died in 2013 due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth, down from 523,000 in 1990.
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May
The World Health Organization says polio has re-emerged as a public health emergency.
(More? Polio Virus | WHO - Polio) |
March
(More? Trisomy 21 | Trisomy 18 | Prenatal Diagnosis) Reference: <pubmed>24571752</pubmed>| N Engl J Med.
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January
News - Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency | |
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Is STAP Real?
- RIKEN Panel Finds Misconduct in Reprogrammed Stem Cell Papers Science April 2014
- Japanese research institute has opened an investigation into this groundbreaking stem cell study after concerns were raised about its credibility. The RIKEN investigation follows allegations on blog sites about the use of duplicated images in Obokata’s papers, and numerous failed attempts to replicate her results. Nature
2013
2012 Nobel Prize for Stem Cells | |
Stem Cell Signaling
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
(More? Yamanaka Factors | Induced Stem Cells | Stem Cells) |