Iowa again ranks second for highest, fastest-growing number of cancer cases in US
Iowa continues to have the second-highest and fastest-growing number of cancer cases in the U.S., the Iowa Cancer Registry reported Tuesday. The Cancer in Iowa report notes that Iowa has the fourth-highest incidence rate of alcohol-related cancers in the U.S. and the highest overall in the...
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AND, you get the bonus-pack of babies with deformed GI tracts with all the atrazine flying around!!!
Some Babies Are Born With Twisted Insides, And We May Finally Know Why
Scientists have identified a possible cause for intestinal malrotation; a common but poorly understood condition present at birth in which the gut doesn't rotate properly during development.
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Scientists have identified a possible cause for intestinal malrotation; a common but poorly understood condition present at birth in which the gut doesn't rotate properly during development.
US researchers found that exposure to the herbicide atrazine can disrupt gut rotation development in frog embryos, whose guts develop similarly to humans.
"Our results have provided new avenues to explore the underlying causes of this prevalent birth anomaly," says molecular biomedical scientist Nanette Nascone-Yoder from North Carolina State University.