Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women
New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Highlands of PNG mid last century
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New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Highlands of PNG mid last century
Prof Gururaj Mutalik to deliver Dr B B Dikshit Oration on March 14 organised as part of the golden jubilee conference of the Research Society of B J Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital.
It has been claimed over the last five years that if all the people with rare diseases around the world came together to form a nation, that country would have a population ten times larger than Malaysia's.
Black people with red hair are known to possess a special gene mutation in the melanocortin 1 receptor commonly referred to as MC1R.
Being able to identify rare diseases is challenging especially since more than 80% of them have genetic origins.