Albinism
... (see human skin color for more information).
people with albinism lack this protective pigment in ...
Visual problems associated with albinism
people with albinism generally suffer impaired vision. ... a dislike of bright lights, but does not prevent
people with albinism enjoying the outdoors. They should ...
Antibiotic
... advance in health since modern sanitation .
people in developed countries now find it hard to ... and underdeveloped nations. By 1984 half the
people with active tuberculosis in the United States ... fail to keep up in this race, and the time when
people did not fear life-threatening bacterial ...
Biodiversity
... is also called agrobiodiversity .
Most
people see biodiversity as a reservoir of resources to ... many cultures spiritual heritage (see indigenous
people and cultural diversity ).
Scientific role ... number of species come into being each year. Some
people say that up to 1/5 of all living species could ...
Cancer
... Use of medical imaging to search for cancer in
people without clear symptoms is similarly marred with ... or research studies, test new treatments in
people with cancer. The goal of this research is to find ... a variety of practical and support services to
people with cancer. Support can take the form of ...
Cryptozoology
...
2.1 Primates and man-apes
2.2 Little
people
2.3 Bipedal monsters
2.4 Carnivorous ... or phenomena. Thus, cryptozoologists hold that
people should be open to the possibility that many more ...
Yeti
Yowie
Loys's Ape
Little
people
Ebu Gogo
elf
Tomte (Scandinavia)
...
Culture
... 1952].
Culture as civilization
Many
people today use a conception of "culture" that ... are more civilized than others, and some
people are more cultured than others. Thus some ... music , and the word cultured to refer to
people who know about, and take part in, these ...
Diabetes mellitus
... World Health Organization , more than 150 million
people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Its incidence is ... typically worsen over days to weeks; about 25% of
people with new type 1 diabetes have developed a degree ... screening is recommended for many types of
people at various stages of life or with several ...
DNA
... "the molecule of heredity", pieces of DNA as
people typically think of them are not single molecules. ... and 3')
For reasons of chemical nomenclature,
people who work with DNA refer to the asymmetric ends of ... a subject of controversy, and it has angered
people who believe Franklin has not received the credit ...
Down syndrome
... for use in the UK for the mass treatment of
people with Down syndrome and none appear to lead to any ...
Down syndrome's sociology
Advocates for
people with Down Syndrome stress that they have the same ... The abuse and forcible institutionalization of
people with Down syndrome was closely linked to early ...
Ebola
... , Virginia , Texas , and Pennsylvania . Four
people developed antibodies from exposure to the ... of a vaccine, accessibility and cost for
people of poor nations and the transportation efficiency ... the dead body will not spread disease to other
people (CDC 26).
Economic impact
Ebola has ...
Eugenics
... hoped that if social mores could change so that
people could see the importance of breeding, at some ... forcibly sterilized hundreds of thousands of
people who they viewed as mentally and physically ... , Estonia , Switzerland and Iceland for
people the government declared to be mentally deficient. ...
Evolution
... is a scientific theory. In plain English,
people use the word "theory" to signify "conjecture", ... in wealth and success among societies and
people and eugenics , which claimed that human ... with other animals has also affected how some
people view the relationship between humans and other ...
Gene therapy
... protein, which can be harvested and injected in
people who cannot produce it naturally.
Scientists ... , sperm and eggs ). All gene therapy so far in
people has been directed at somatic cells, whereas ... however, because it is non-pathogenic (most
people carry this harmless virus). In contrast to ...
Human
... are commonly referred to as persons or
people and collectively as man , mankind , humanity ... very pale pink in different people. In general,
people with ancestors from sunny regions have darker skin than
people with ancestors from regions with less sunlight . ...
Klinefelter's syndrome
... therapies.
While the gender identity of
people with XXY karyotype is usually male, the number of
people with a female gender identity among them seems to ... medical opinion assesses, mere coincidences of
people having both gender identity disorder and ...
Nutrition
... diet is thought to contribute to this."
people in Japan eat far more salt than
people in the west.
Nutrition and health
In the ... was identified as a cause of beri-beri when
people realized that removing the skin of the rice was a ...
Patau syndrome
... Patau syndrome increases as a woman gets older.
people with Patau syndrome have additional DNA from ... (translocated) before or at conception. Affected
people have two copies of chromosome 13, plus extra ... they do not have signs of Patau syndrome,
people who carry this type of balanced translocation are ...
Proprioception
... required to touch his nose with his eyes closed.
people with normal proprioception may make an error of no more than 2 cm.
people with severely impaired proprioception may have no ... Alexander Technique addresses these issues.
people who have a limb amputated may still have a ...
Blood type
... to substance A in their serum.
Type AB
people have red blood cells with both antigens A and B, ... blood except to the corresponding AB type
people shown in the blood compatibility table below.
Type O
people have red blood cells with neither antigen, but ...
Rudolf Steiner
... should not be able to control culture; i.e., how
people think, learn, or worship. A particular religion ... there was a hidden life in thinking and advised
people to attend more to the spirit or 'drift' of his ... in the just mentioned sense, is that reading for
people today is rarely a process where the dynamic birth ...
Species
... reasons:
It often corresponds to what lay
people treat as the different basic kinds of organism - ... produces fertile offspring. Consequently, some
people reject this notion of species.
Richard Dawkins ... , Anaticola phoenicopteri . Also, names of
people and places are used in the genitive: Latimeria ...
Stem cell
... has not yet grown beyond 150 cells), which some
people believe to be human beings . (See below: ... can be obtained from all individuals, even older
people who might be most in need to stem cell therapies. ... of embryonic stem cell research. Some
people believe that a human blastocyst is a human ...
Vaccine
... years ago. As long as the vast majority of
people are vaccinated it is much more difficult for an ... for adverse side effects in general
Some
people refuse to immunize themselves or their children, ... benefits make the risks worthwhile. Since most
people are vaccinated against contagious and potentially ...
Avian influenza
... pandemic , similar to the Spanish Flu that killed over 20 million
people in 1918 (though a variety of sources quote average figures even higher, up ... passed from birds to humans was H5N1 in 1997 in Hong Kong . 18
people were infected, of whom 6 died. The outbreak was limited to Hong Kong . ...
Charles Darwin
... much further thought, and was not yet fully distinguishable to most
people from other varieties of evolutionary thought. For the next thirteen ... neither of which he fully agreed with or outright opposed. Over time,
people would be read the scientific implications of Darwin's theories as having ...
Escherichia coli
... diarrhea , and might produce no symptom at all, in young children, or in
people who are or have recently been sick, or in
people taking certain medications, an unfamiliar strain can cause serious illness ...
Genetic fingerprinting
... the lawyer would argue that this meant that in a country of say 60 million
people there were 12
people who would also match the profile. This was then translated to a 1 in 12 ...
Hermaphrodite
...
Note: The term "hermaphrodite" has historically been used to describe
people with ambiguous genitalia or biological sex. The term intersexual to describe these
people is now preferred, and the term "hermaphrodite" is deprecated, since ...
Immunology
... back to the plague of Athens in 430 BC . Thucydides noted that
people who had recovered from a previous bout of the disease could nurse the ... is also often used in the immunosuppressed (such as HIV patients) and
people suffering from other immune deficiencies or autoimmune diseases.
...
Marfan syndrome
... at risk for Marfan syndrome.
Estimates indicate that perhaps 1 in 10,000
people has Marfan syndrome. There is no cure, but effective treatment allows many
people with the disorder to live normally. It affects all races and both sexes ...
Memory
... to place in memory information that resembles objects, places, animals or
people in sort of a mental image. [1]
In contrast, procedural memory (or ... around the finger (see box) are all examples of cues that are produced by
people as a strategy to enhance prospective memory.
Memory disorders
...
Yellow fever
... or forest areas and in towns. Disease outbreaks in towns and non-native
people are usually more serious.
After a 3 to 6 day incubation period the ... which gives a 10-year+ immunity from the disease and effectively protects
people travelling to the affected areas whilst being a means to control the ...
Abiogenesis
... Cambridge University Press, UK, ISBN 0-521-80293-8 ).
It should be noted that Yockey, in general, posesses a highly critical attitude toward
people who give credence toward natural origins of life, often invoking words like "faith" and "ideology". Yockey's publications have become favorites to ...
Alexander Fleming
... had changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of useful antibiotics .
External link
Time 100: The Most Important
people of the Century profile on Alexander Fleming
...
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
... month, in the same church. After Vermeer died, van Leeuwenhoek was appointed curator for the financial affairs of Vermeer's widow. This has led some
people to believe that the two must have been friends, even though acting as a curator was part of van Leeuwenhoek's job as a chamberlain of Delft.
Van ...
Antigenic shift
... H3N2 and H5N1 can form H5N2 this way. Such combinations caused, for instance, the infamous Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 which killed 40 million
people worldwide. Influenza virus which have undergone antigenic shift have also gone on to cause the Asian Flu pandemic of 1957, the Hong Kong Flu ...
Artificial life
... programming (GP), artificial chemistries (AC), agent-based models , and cellular automata (CA).
Artificial life is a meeting point for
people from many other more traditional fields such as linguistics , physics , mathematics , philosophy , computer science , biology , anthropology ...
Aseptic technique in microbiology
... and students of microbiology may use an aseptic technique to attempt to keep specimens of microorganisms free of microbial contamination.
people may commonly use the aseptic technique when transferring bacteria from one test tube or flask to another. Such a procedure, using a flame ...
Biology
...
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people and history
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Botany
... changes in our environment. In addition to these practical and scientific reasons, plants are extremely valuable as recreation for millions of
people who enjoy gardening , horticultural and culinary uses of plants everyday. Botanists also argue that botany is fascinating and rewarding topic of ...