Paul Sunders is raising funds after his brain tumour diagnosis last year A TEESSIDE man living with a brain tumour is training to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to help find a cure for the disease. Paul Sanders, 51, from Billingham on Teesside, is setting out on the challenge on Saturday June 5 and will walk a 25-mile circular route to raise funds for Brain Tumour Research. The route will see him summit Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, the highest three peaks in Yorkshire. Paul is set to be joined by his partner Julie Thompson, and friends, Derek and Lynne Moore from Stockton and the team are aiming to complete the challenge in 12 hours.
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A Teesside man living with a brain tumour will take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks to help find a cure for the disease. Paul Saunders is setting out on the 25-mile circular route challenge to raise funds for Brain Tumour Research on Saturday.
A genetic link has been discovered explaining why some people catch Covid but don t get sick. The gene is found three times as often in people who are asymptomatic. This is the first clear evidence of genetic resistance because the study compared severely affected people with an asymptomatic COVID group and used next generation sequencing to focus in detail and at scale on the HLA genes which are packed together on chromosome 6.