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The Denisovans of Tibet

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6447461/Denisovans-lived-Earths-highest-plateau-Tibet-modern-man.html

Whole of Africa was cradle of humankind

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6443587/Ancient-stone-tools-cut-marked-animal-bones-suggest-Africa-cradle-humankind.html

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Detecting cancer early

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6461011/Blood-test-uses-tiny-bits-GOLD-detect-cell-changes-diagnose-cancer.html

Immunity failings

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6460593/Why-food-allergies-rise-Hyper-cleanliness-making-kids-weaker-doctors-warn.html

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A new approach in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. What they found was …

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Maintenance sex  
http://flip.it/23K4od

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Gene editing of babies in China

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6431801/JOHN-NAISH-Chinas-modern-day-Frankenstein-babies-new-genetic-experiment.html

Rapid diagnosis of Diabetes & Heart disease

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6429387/Diabetes-heart-disease-diagnosed-simply-shining-LIGHT-skin.html

A King betrayed

http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/04/20/how-ekneligoda-nilame-tortured-the-king/comment-page-1/

Story of a Neuro-Scientist

When King George III of England began to show signs of acute mania toward the end of his reign, rumors about the royal madness multiplied quickly in the public mind. One legend had it that George tried to shake hands with a tree, believing it to be the King of Prussia. Another described how he was …

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The Jews of Sri Lanka - email from Nihal Gooneratne
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/11/25/galilee-galle-ancient-jewish-connection

Philip Veersingam

4:29 AM (2 minutes ago)

to Nihal

Nihal,

Thanks for the article. Prof. Ranasinghe's wife Anne was Jewish. She was sent off to England from Germany when Hitler came to power. Her entire family died in the Holocaust. She became a famous writer and poetess of Sri Lanka.There is a record by Greek writers of a Synagogue in the ancient port  of Mannar where a few Jews were resident, at the beginning of the Present Era.

Philip

Surgery for a child in the womb

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6427269/Baby-girl-underwent-spinal-surgery-womb-stop-disabled-born-healthy.html