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Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 54. Autumn Scientific Meeting The autumn scientific meeting of the IAS will this year be held at University College Cork, in Ireland on August 31st and September 1st. Booking is available through the IAS Website so book NOW!! Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 1 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 54. News items from around the World July 2017 Issue Contents: 3 MORGUE EMPLOYEE CREMATED BY MISTAKE WHILE TAKING A NAP 4 First Attempts To Bring People ‘Back From Dead’ To Start This Year 5 Huntington's disease trial test is 'major advance' 6 Wollaton Hall museum shuts for dinosaurs' arrival 7 130,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Reveal Evidence of Prehistoric Dentistry 9 Hedgehog 'blown up like beach ball' has balloon syndrome 10 Balloon syndrome hedgehog is 'popped' 11 New discovery shows T-rex’s bite could make bones ‘explode’ 12 Lions face same threats as extinct Ice Age cats - study 13 Digital Journal 14 Philips new OB/GYN ultrasound innovations with anatomical intelligence provide lifelike 3D images to advance pregnancy care and support maternal-fetal bonding 16 Elba, the 9,300-year old Spanish cowherd who was lactose intolerant 18 Lean-burn physiology gives Sherpas peak-performance 20 Intersex patients 'routinely lied to by doctors' 22 This Dog Sits on Seven Editorial Boards - Meet Dr. Olivia Doll. 23 Breast surgeon Ian Paterson needlessly harmed patients 25 BLOOD SMEAR OF DEAD ELEPHANT PROVES ANTHRAX 26 Faces recreated from monkey brain signals 27 'Faceless' fish discovered in deep sea off Australia 28 Meet the Cambridge scientist on verge of curing Multiple Sclerosis 30 The Mexican doctor rehydrating the dead 32 3D printed bionic hands trial begins in Bristol 33 Mass Grave From Thirty Years' War Reveals Brutal Cavalry Attack 37 Dutch families win right to test DNA of sperm bank doctor 38 Are tales of mythical mermaids inspired by a real-life medical condition? 40 'World's tallest eight-year-old' measures 6ft 6ins - twice the height of classmates but shorter than his basketball player mum' 45 Dog given synthetic bone by 3D printing technology 47 Century-old Parkinson's question answered 48 'I kept my daughter's body at home for three weeks' 51 Adam & Eve Never Even Met. Never Mated! So What’s The Story? 52 Opt-out organ donation system in Scotland planned 53 UK's first heart pump targets 2018 clinical trial 55 White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists 57 Ebola virus burial teams may have 'saved thousands of lives' 59 Painter Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for paternity suit 61 Sheep Gives Birth To Terrifying 'Half-Human Half-Beast' 63 What the brain's wiring looks like 65 Sharp focus on Alzheimer's may help target drugs 66 DNA Evidence Suggests Captured Russian Ape Woman Might Have been Subspecies of Modern Human 68 Ashutosh Maharaj: Followers win fight to keep guru in freezer 69 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NEBIRI, AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DIGNITARY 71 When your body becomes eligible for an upgrade 73 Australian man's thumb surgically replaced by toe 75 When Your Ancestral Forefather Is a Mummy: 19 Descendants of 5,300-Year-Old Ötzi the Iceman Identified In Austria 76 Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world 78 Woolly Mammoth will be Back from Extinction Within Two Years, say Harvard scientists 80 Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact 81 Most modern horses came from just two ancient lineages 83 We have still not found the missing link between us and apes. 89 The Most Elaborate Visualization Of The Human Brain To Date 93 Sponsors of the IAS Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 2 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 54. MORGUE EMPLOYEE CREMATED BY MISTAKE WHILE TAKING A NAP June 22, 2017 Beaumont, Texas: An employee of the Jefferson County morgue died this morning, after being accidentally cremated by one of his co-workers. According to the Beaumont Police Department, 48-year old Henri Paul Johnson decided to take a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight. While he was sleeping, another employee mistook him for the corpse of a 52-year old car accident victim and carried him to the crematory. Before anyone could notice the mistake, he had already been exposed to temperatures ranging between 1400 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and reduced to ashes. Jenna Davis, one of Henri Johnson’s co-workers, says she heard him scream for about 15 seconds after the crematory was activated. “At first, we didn’t understand where the sound was coming from. When we realised what was happening, it was too late. We shut down the heating system, but he was already dead.” Ms. Davis claims that the young co-worker who caused the accident was a new employee, and had forgotten to check for the toe tag to make sure he had the right body. The police has opened an investigation to determine the exact circumstances surrounding Mr Johnson’s death. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility of filing criminal charges against the employee who caused his death. The young man could possibly be accused of criminal negligence causing Jenna Davis says she heard the victim scream in agony as the crematory was reducing him to ashes. death. Credit: worldnewsdailyreport.com Found and sent in by Lynne Staunton-Jones Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 3 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 54. First Attempts To Bring People ‘Back From Dead’ To Start This Year BY : NEELAM TAILOR A U.S. firm is planning its first attempt at a Frankenstein-esque reawakening of ‘the dead’. Bioquark, based in Philadelphia, think that brain death is not ‘irreversible’ and plan to test an unparalleled stem cell method on patients in an unidentified country in Latin America. Details of the test will be confirmed in the next few months, but CEO Ira Pastor has established that Bioquark has developed a series of injections that can reboot the brain. The idea is to inject stem cells into the spinal chords of people who have been declared clinically brain dead, in conjunction with an injection of protein blend, electrical nerve stimulation, and laser therapy to the brain. Ultimately, the goal of this treatment is to grow new neurons and spur them to connect to each other, bringing the brain back to life. Pastor said: It’s our contention that there’s no single magic bullet for this, so to start with a single magic bullet makes no sense. Hence why we have to take a different approach. I give us a pretty good chance. I just think it’s a matter of putting it all together and getting the right people and the right minds on it. No brain dead people have ever regained brain function, so it’s a big ask from Bioquark. Dr. Charles Cox, a pediatric surgeon who has done research with mesenchymal stem cells said: It’s not the absolute craziest thing I’ve ever heard, but I think the probability of that working is next to zero. I think [someone reviving] would technically be a miracle. I think the pope would technically call that a miracle. The trials will begin on humans this year, and they have no plans to test the treatment out on animals first. Scientific experiments like this raise issues of consent, as well as blurring the definition of dead. Bioquark is part of a broader project called ReAnima which is ‘exploring the potential of cutting edge biomedical technology for human neuro-regeneration and neuro-reanimation’. GettySounds pretty creepy! Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 4 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 54. Health Huntington's disease trial test is 'major advance' By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter 8 June 2017 Scientists say they may have found the world's first blood test that predicts when someone at risk is likely to get Huntington's disease and tracks how quickly damage to the brain occurs. Experts describe the early research as a "major advance" in this field. The study, in the Lancet Neurology, suggests the prototype test could help in the hunt for new treatments. Huntington's disease is an inherited and incurable brain disorder that is currently fatal. 'Disease speedometer' Around 10,00 people in the UK have the condition and around 25,000 are at risk. It is passed on through genes, and children who inherit a faulty gene from parents have a 50% chance ofthrough getting genes,the disease and children in later life. People can develop a range of problems including involuntary movements, personality changes and altered behaviour and may be fully dependent on carers towards the end of their lives. In this study, an international team - including researchers from University College London - looked at 200 people with genes for Huntington's disease - some of whom already had signs of the disease, and others at earlier stages. They compared them to some 100 people who were not at risk of getting the condition.