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Girl born with rare genetic condition that causes skin to grow at TEN TIMES rate of regular child

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A mother has revealed she has to spend at least two hours every day bathing her ten-month-old adopted daughter to treat a rare condition that causes the baby girl’s skin to grow up to 10 times faster than normal.  Carla Brown, 53, and her husband Paul, 55, from Chicago, adopted Hanna Rose, who was born … Read more

Girl born with rare genetic condition that causes skin to grow at TEN TIMES rate of regular child

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A mother has revealed she has to spend at least two hours every day bathing her ten-month-old adopted daughter to treat a rare condition that causes the baby girl’s skin to grow up to 10 times faster than normal.  Carla Brown, 53, and her husband Paul, 55, from Chicago, adopted Hanna Rose, who was born … Read more

Redheads feel less pain: People with ginger hair are less sensitive due to genetic quirk

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Redheads have a higher PAIN threshold than blondes or brunettes because their skin’s pigment-producing cells lack the function of a certain receptor, study reveals Redheads have a faulty receptor on skin pigment cells that stops them tanning   But also has a hormonal knock-on effect which results in elevated pain threshold The end result is that … Read more

Scientists discover genetic trains that make some people more partial to napping 

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Needing to ‘rest your eyes’ for a daytime snooze could be more than just exhaustion, according to a new study that found the need to nap may be in your DNA. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) worked with data from the UK Biobank, which included genetic and general information on 452,633 people including … Read more

Genetic mutation found that gives 1 in 5 ‘better resilience’ to cold

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A fifth of the world’s population has a ‘superior resilience’ to colder temperatures thanks to a genetic mutation, allowing them to never feel the cold, study reveals.  Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden had 32 healthy men aged 18 to 40 sit in 14 degrees Celsius water until their body temperature dropped to 35.5C. They … Read more

Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million catch that was born with a genetic mutation

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Catch of the millennia! Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million find born with a genetic mutation that causes pigment reduction A Maine fisherman caught the yellow lobster and donated it to science Researchers have named it Banana and are now caring for the crustacean Banana was born with a condition called leucism that … Read more