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Redheads feel less pain: People with ginger hair are less sensitive due to genetic quirk

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Redheads have a higher PAIN threshold than blondes or brunettes because their skin’s pigment-producing cells lack the function of a certain receptor, study reveals Redheads have a faulty receptor on skin pigment cells that stops them tanning   But also has a hormonal knock-on effect which results in elevated pain threshold The end result is that … Read more

Genetics: quirk means up to 2.2 per cent of people can’t smell fish and may confuse it with roses

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‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,’ declaims the titular tragic hero in William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. But what if that rose were really a fish? For up to 2.2 per cent of people, the stench of fish is indistinguishable from sweet roses, caramel or nothing at all — with a … Read more