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  2. Haemophilia in European royalty - Wikipedia

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    Because the last known descendant of Queen Victoria with haemophilia died a few months before the end of WWII, in 1945, the exact type of haemophilia found in this family remained unknown until 2009. Using genetic analysis of the remains of the assassinated Romanov dynasty, and specifically Tsarevich Alexei, Rogaev et al. were able to determine ...

  3. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    Seeds likely used for herbalism have been found in archaeological sites of Bronze Age China dating from the Shang dynasty [10] (c. 1600 BCE–c. 1046 BCE). Over a hundred of the 224 drugs mentioned in the Huangdi Neijing – an early Chinese medical text – are herbs. [ 11 ]

  4. Haemophilia - Wikipedia

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    Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) [6] (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) 'blood' and φιλία (philía) 'love of'), [7] is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.

  5. Contaminated haemophilia blood products - Wikipedia

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    Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. [citation needed] Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII, a protein required for blood clotting. Factor VIII injections are a common treatment to prevent or stop bleeding in people with hemophilia A. [1]

  6. History of syphilis - Wikipedia

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    There is no doubt that treponematosis existed in the Americas long before contact with Europe and Afro-Eurasia. For decades scholars of North and South American prehistory have agreed that the evidence from bones and teeth is clear. [6] [16] Genomic evidence places the time of origin for syphilis in the New World at about 9,000 years ago.

  7. Pfizer's gene therapy cuts hemophilia A bleeding rate ... - AOL

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    Hemophilia A affects about 25 in every 100,000 male births worldwide, according to data cited by Pfizer, with majority of them having a moderate to severe form of the disease for which the gene ...

  8. Timeline of the history of genetics - Wikipedia

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    1992: American and British scientists unveiled a technique for testing embryos in-vitro (Amniocentesis) for genetic abnormalities such as Cystic fibrosis and Hemophilia. 1993: Phillip Allen Sharp and Richard Roberts awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery that genes in DNA are made up of introns and exons.

  9. Marco Polo may have discovered America hundreds of years ...

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    A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...