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Perhaps the rarest disease is some manmade virus stored away in a government lab. Given what we know about diseases, how they occur and how they spread, an extremely rare disease would probably have to be one of the following: A genetic disease that rarely occurs A disease mostly eradicated...
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Here's a list of the most threatened animal species in the world. It approximates how many of each exist in the wild and also indicates which efforts, if any, are being used to save them.
In the final quarter of the 20th century, such an integrated approach was adopted to launch the HGP. By the 1980s there was growing consensus that a global view of the human genome was necessary to unravel genetic links to disease, but the scale of the HGP was beyond the technological ...
RBCs last an average of 120 days in the bloodstream. When RBCs age, they are removed by macrophages in the liver and spleen. A hormone called erythropoietin and low oxygen levels regulate the production of RBCs. Any factor that decreases the oxygen level in the body, such as lung disease ...
Rare cancer occurs in fewer than 15 out of 100,000 people every year. Some of the characteristics of the rarest cancer are: Difficult to prevent, diagnose, and treat than the more common cancers Research is difficult because there are a few cases They make up just over a quarter of all ...
Science andmedicine try to find cures for diseases. They still have discovered diseases and also still have found cures. Yet, there are some that deemed to be the rarest. They are not found in many people. Scientists clarified so that a rare disease is found in an individual within thousand...
The rarest black holes in the universe may be 'wandering' our galaxy James Webb telescope spots Milky Way's long-lost 'twin' near the dawn of time Latest in Astronomy New dwarf planet discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune Jupiter is shrinking and used to be twice ...
1.occurring or found infrequently; markedly uncommon:a rare disease. 2.having the component parts loosely compacted; thin:rare gases. 3.unusually great. 4.admirable; exemplary:She showed rare tact in inviting them. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latinrārusloose, wide apart, thin, infrequent] ...