Increased Mutations in Children Can Be Traced Back to Mistakes in Father’s Sperm

admin — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:17:21 +0000

Some rare cases of higher genetic mutation rates in children, known as hypermutation, could be linked to the father receiving certain chemotherapy treatments, new research has found.

Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators analyzed over 20,000 families’ genetic information and identified 12 children with between two to seven times more mutations than the general population.

The team linked the majority of these to increased mutations in the sperm of the biological father.

Invisible Walls In Space May Explain a Problem That Has Been Perplexing Scientists

admin — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:16:16 +0000

One of the biggest challenges to our traditional understanding of the cosmos is something called the «satellite disk problem.» In essence, scientists are confused because smaller galaxies orbit larger galaxies in thin, flat planes rather than the messier orbits that would be expected under the Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model — the «fanastically successful paradigm» that defines how we observe space.

In order to get around this issue, scientists are now positing that particles called «symmetrons» are generating invisible walls in space, which astronomers refer to as «domain walls.» This in turn creates what astronomers Aneesh Naik and Clare Burrage of the University of Nottingham describe as a potential «fifth force» in physics.

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Increased Mutations in Children Can Be Traced Back to Mistakes in Father’s Sperm

Invisible Walls In Space May Explain a Problem That Has Been Perplexing Scientists