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A virus that causes death and deformities in the offspring of ruminant livestock caught the UK "on the hop", says a veterinary entomologist.

Chemotherapy for the treatment of maternal cancers during pregnancy has become more acceptable in the past decade; however, the effect of prenatal exposure to chemotherapy on cardiac and neurodevelopmental outcomes of the offspring is still uncertain.

Shaquille O'Neal's oldest daughter, Taahriah, may be the offspring of one of the most famous athletes of his era, but she's also just a normal 15 year-old who likes to do goofy stuff like sing into her webcam.

Chemotherapy is poison that happens to kill cancer cells faster than it kills healthy cells; that it wreaks havoc on the bodies of patients is unsurprising. But chemo may also affect their unborn children. According to a new study in PNAS , the offspring of mice treated with chemotherapy have higher rates of mutation , even though the offspring themselves were never exposed to the drugs. The ...

(Medical Xpress) -- For many years, most of the studies done to see what effects cancer treatment has on the offspring of survivors, has involved radiation. This is because radiation is known to cause mutations in cells. Not so well studied have been the generational effects of chemicals used to treat cancer. Now, research by Colin Glen and Yuri Dubrova at the University of Leicester in the UK ...

*Comedy Central hopes its viewers are ready for some “biracial humor” via the new sketch comedy series, “Key & Peele,” starring biracial comics Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele. The show, premiering tonight (Jan. 31) at 10:30 p.m., draws humor from their own experiences growing up as the offspring of both black and white parents [...]

WWLTV.com Email: webteam@wwltv.com | Twitter: @wwltv NEW ORLEANS — Six rabbits saved after their bunny siblings overwhelmed their owners have found a new home and it’s at an unlikely place – the Harriet Tubman Charter School. Two weeks ago, the Louisiana SPCA took in 27 rabbits, the offspring of two bunnies. The owners of the original rabbits were overwhelmed with the offspring and brought ...

I'm from Miami and my background is Cuban, so I'm pretty much in line with the sort of voter (or, at least, the offspring of the sort of Cuban-born voter) that the Republican candidates were catering (and/or pandering) to when talk turned to Cuba during Monday night's NBC debate. So it's with painful awareness that I admit to being fully aware that these four men aren't generally very concerned ...

He's one of the most in-demand of the new breed of 'super tutors', earning up to £1,000 an hour to help the offspring of the rich and famous win a place at a top school or university. But it isn't the money that drives him.

We wept in to our coffee mugs when PG&E went and robbed us of our daytime programming the other day, and today some 5,100 customers in Noe Valley suffered a similar fate when power to the neighborhood cut out just before 10 a.m. this morning. We reckon the stay-at-home moms in the area made the best of the situation by bundling up the offspring for an extra lap around the neighborhood in the ...

If there's a group more likely to make terrible records than the offspring of rock stars, it's actors.