Of all the horrors inflicted by nuclear bombs, Brian Unthank says, the cruellest is that the damage never really stops. The ...

Within a week, Hiroshima began to return to some semblance ... AP] Michiko believes that Akiko’s death was due to genetic mutations caused by the atomic bomb, as well as the cancer that took ...

At least 140,000 people were killed by the US bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, while a further 74,000 were killed in Nagasaki three days later. Nihon Hidankyo was founded by survivors to ...

They will be flying in the early morning, but the crew still do not know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima, Kokura or Nagasaki. Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee have ...

The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Visitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima's atomic bombing said they hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize for Japan's atomic bomb survivors would boost efforts ...

When the gene that codes for EGFR has a mutation, it affects the way this protein works, causing cancer. There are many types of EGFR mutations. The EGFR protein lives in the cell membrane with ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over ...

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, picked up the award on behalf of his organisation, Nihon Hidankyo, which has been campaigning to eradicate nuclear weapons ever since. During his ...

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This becomes even more complicated when disease-causing DNA mutations are introduced into the mix. Some genes can be mutated in many ways to cause the same disease, meaning one condition can be ...