His serene face, framed by thin tresses, adorns dollar notes. Benjamin Franklin was known to be a man of science. He was a printer and publisher of repute, started America’s first circulating library, wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack, which sold as much as the Bible, founded a fire company, revolutionaised the US postal system as the Postmaster General and became famous in 1752, for harnessing...

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With every major osteoporosis fracture, the risk of death doubles. Yet it is not taken seriously the world over”, says Professor John Eisman of the University of New South Wales, Sydney - one of the first researchers to identify the gene that is affected in...