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Andy Coghlan

London
As seen in: The Washington Post, New Scientist, Slate, Flipboard, SBS, Technocracy News
I am a carbon-based lifeform, fully conscious except in the pub. I write books too shockingly bad to publish, also while in the pub
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'Gender-bending' chemicals found to 'feminise' boys

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By Andy Coghlan
| New Scientist
Life 27 May 2005 By Andy Coghlan “Gender-bending” chemicals mimicking the female hormone oestrogen can disrupt the development of baby boys, suggests the first evidence linking certain chemicals in everyday plastics to effects in humans. The chemicals implicated are phthalates, which make plastics more pliable in many cosmetics, toys, baby-feeding bottles and paints and can leak into water and food.
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Fukushima media coverage 'may be harmful'

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By Andy Coghlan
| New Scientist
Health 30 August 2011 By Andy Coghlan Alarmist predictions that the long-term health effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan will be worse than those following Chernobyl in 1986 are likely to aggravate harmful psychological effects of the incident. That was the warning heard at an international conference on radiation research in Warsaw, Poland, this week.
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We all carry hundreds of rogue mutations

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By Andy Coghlan
| New Scientist
Health 10 December 2012 By Andy Coghlan Nobody’s perfect. Even healthy people have at least 400 faulty genes, including a few that could lead to life-threatening diseases. Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues scanned the genomes of 179 healthy men and women from the US, China, Japan and Nigeria. They compared them with a library of 50,000 mutations known to cause disease.
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