Tag: Romanian discoveries
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Romanian doctor discovers blood test that finds cancer before symptoms start
A team of doctors from the John Hopkins Medicine Centre lead by Romanian doctor Victor Velculescu have developed a blood test through which cancer is detected before symptoms appear. The test discovered cancers in the first stage in a proportion of 60% and cancers in the second stage in a proportion of over 90%. There…
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Romanian scientist discovers that only a quarter of the human genome is functional
Romanian scientist Dan Graur has made an important discovery. He has found that the functional part of the human genome is only 10-15 %, and the maximum limit is 25 %. The rest of the genome is called DNA junk which is a term that was invented by Susumu Ohno in 1979. The term refers…