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The Genetic Roots of Pompe Disease

When two parents each pass on a mutated copy of a particular gene to their baby, that child can get Pompe disease. Because this rare condition doesn’t affect you if you carry just one faulty gene, parents usually don’t realize they could…

How Pancit Reconnected Me To My Filipino Roots

During my childhood, Filipino food was something I only ever ate at my Gigi and Poppop’s house — empanadas filled with raisins, potatoes, and peas sealed with perfectly twisted edges, paella colored yellow with saffron, and puto,…

Roots of CDC

The Public Health Service established the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) in 1946 to work on malaria, typhus, and other infectious diseases. The center was located in Atlanta (rather than Washington, DC) because the South was the area…

Portugal’s unemployed put down new roots

With unemployment on the up, many Portuguese are turning to their hands to agriculture. Over 5,000 new farm start-ups have taken root in the last 3 years -- including a baker looking to make a crust out of fruit and a former builder turned…

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