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Posted in Human Genome on Oct 31st, 2009
If you could see into your future, would you want to? If you could know whether you’re going to contract Alzheimer’s, or if you’re likely to battle cancer or die of heart disease, would you want to? Last summer Richard Powers decided he did and became one of nine people on earth to have his [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Oct 31st, 2009
For the right fee, a Cambridge ?rm called Knome will unravel all the secrets hiding in your genes. But what happens when those secrets include a higher risk of getting cancer? Or of contracting a crippling disease like Alzheimer’s? Would you be able to handle that information and the terrible choices it forces? I wasn’t.
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Posted in Human Genome, Phantom DNA Effect, Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2009
Have you ever wondered if there is more out there than what mainstream science tells you? Or why teaching and education is only about memorizing outdated? The movie clips below pick up the issue and provides scientific evidence that emotions affect our DNA. It explains how emotions can activate more than 20 out of the [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Feb 18th, 2009
A recent article in Science published last week discussed the results of genetic sequencing done for the first time on Man’s Best Friend. It seems a genetic researcher by the name of J. Craig Venter offered his standard poodle to science (well, his DNA anyway) in order for genetic sequencing to be performed on the [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Mar 4th, 2008
Happiness in life is as much down to having the right genetic mix as it is to personal circumstances according to a recent study.
Psychologists at the University of Edinburgh working with researchers at Queensland Institute for Medical Research in Australia found that happiness is partly determined by personality traits and that both personality and happiness [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Mar 4th, 2008
Mutations in genes governing an important cell-signaling pathway influence human longevity, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found. Their research is described in the March 4 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Posted in Human Genome on Feb 26th, 2008
A Columbia University Medical Center research team has discovered a new gene involved in determining hair texture in humans. The team’s genetic analysis demonstrated that mutations in a gene, known as P2RY5, cause hereditary “woolly hair” — hair that is coarse, dry, tightly curled and sparse.
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Posted in Human Genome on Jan 20th, 2008
You know that organisms develop, grow, and function in part because genes code for proteins that form the building blocks of life or that function as working bioactive molecules (like enzymes). You also know that most DNA is junk, only a couple percent actually coding for anything useful. Most importantly, however, you know that everything [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Jan 2nd, 2008
The deeper we look into the genetic code, the more surprises we find. The first complete maps of the human genome turned up far fewer genes than expected (30,000 versus the anticipated 80,000 to 140,000). Then scientists found that so-called junk DNA—stretches of genetic material that don’t code for any protein—is not junk at all [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Jul 30th, 2007
The first new genes for three decades linked to multiple sclerosis have been identified by UK and US researchers.
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