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How healthy the Baltic Sea and its fish are
Ecotoxicologist Randel Kreitsberg writes about the health of the Baltic Sea and its fish (that by the way, also get cancer). Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, cancer, DDT, fish, health, pollution, toxicology, toxins
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The Intercellular Genetic Language Is Our First Language
Professor of Clinical Genomics and Personalized Medicine Alireza Fazeli looks into communication between cells from pregnancy to cancer. Continue reading
Posted in Events, Medical sciences
Tagged cancer, cells, communication, Ebola, embryo, fazeli, infertility, pregnancy, prenatal
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A Discovery Puts the Brakes on a Cancer-Inducing Virus
A freshly defended PhD thesis outlines novel inhibitors of the cancer-inducing human papillomavirus. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research, Studies
Tagged biomedicine, cancer, cervical cancer, HPV, papilloma virus, PhD, PhD thesis
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Estonians Don’t Get Enough Vitamin D
Even at the end of the summer season, one third of Estonians have too little vitamin D in their bodies. According to the doctoral thesis which Mart Kull defended at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, this is most severe during the winter, when 73% of the Estonian population has less vitamin D than required and 8% suffers from complete vitamin deficiency. Continue reading