All other polonium isotopes are short-lived except polonium-210 (half-life about 138 days), which is the most commonly used isotope. It is prepared by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.olonium has 34 isotopes, more than any other element. All of these isotopes are radioactive. The most stable, polonium-209, has a half-life of about 103 years. Polonium-208 (half-life about 3 years) is the only other polonium isotope with a half-life over one year.
Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases are a group of rare disorders that occur more often in people of Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish heritage than in the general population.
This high prevalence of Tay-Sachs disease, and other genetic diseases, in some Jewish communities has lead to the establishment of the Committee for Prevention of Genetic Diseases to develop routine genetic testing of young Jewish people worldwide.utosomal recessive inherited, Tay-Sachs disease is most common in families of Eastern European Jewish origin, where as many as 1 in 45 are carriers of the mutant gene compared to the general incidence of 1 in 300. This disease has actually been described in the Ashkenazi Jewish population as early as the 15 century.