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 ...

LOCALS have slammed their council over a playground that has become so run down it has been likened to Chernobyl. The play ...

A new documentary sheds light on the fate of thousands of personnel exposed to radioactive fallout – and the MoD is refusing ...

One was 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb ... ‘Popular belief is that radiation causes mutations, and you know what, it’s true,’ Steve Palumbi, a professor of marine sciences ...

30 years after the bombing (after the 1947 research initiative), Japan and American scientists formed a joint research institute in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to study radiation fallout on human genetics ...

Mutations in genes coding for microRNAs have been implicated ... In a statement accompanying the award, the Nobel Committee wrote that “the Hibakusha [survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some research suggests the MTHFR gene mutation, linked to conditions like depression and bipolar disorder, may play a role in ADHD’s onset, too. Treatments like folate supplementation may help.

A team has developed a large-scale drug screening technique that can track target molecule behavior within cells. The researchers verified their technique by testing the epidermal growth factor ...