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Original Technorati articles tagged “genetics”

• in Technorati Women
  Nature, Nurture or Neither: Identical Twins Hold The Answer
  Genetics plays a considerable role in behavior, according to research
  by samkj27 / on Dec 29, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Study Focuses on Genetic Links to ADHD
  Medical research is shedding new light on the genetics associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  by jenna3967 / on Dec 6, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Is Autism Genetic or Environmental?
  So much research, so little guarantees.
  by scothoser / on Jul 7, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “genetics”

 

• Philosophy Wire: We are machines! At last!

  
  Harmonia Philosophica — Authority: 119
  Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-02-03]: A research shows that people who take drugs have a predisposition in their brain which makes them more susceptible to addiction [source: web news ]. Come on now then. Let’s believe what our “science priests” tell us! We are not beings with free will! We are the ...
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• "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": The cyclops

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 838
  "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. Ill be featuring posts in this series all week. Want to see them all? Check out the archive post . ...
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• Remember that Fate of Darwinism paper? Here’s what it says on Dawkins’ selfish gene …

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  Here, in “The Fate of Darwinism: Evolution After the Modern Synthesis,” David J. Depew • Bruce H. Weber in Biol Theory (2011) 6:89–102 DOI 10.1007/s13752-011-0007-1: Among gene-centered interpretations, Richard Dawkins’s well-known ‘‘selfish gene’’ hypothesis stands out (Dawkins [1979] 1989). This ...
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• Bird flu virus could kill half the world, scientists warn

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 166
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Bird flu virus could kill half the world, scientists warn Leading US scientists call for permanent restrictions on research to prevent outbreak of genetically engineered flu virusA group of the leading virus experts in the US has called for permanent restrictions on research in ...
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• Monsanto Forced Out of UK by Activists

  
  The Swash — Authority: 130
  It has been a truly rough week for Monsanto. After being slammed with a lawsuit by concerned farmers over their GMO crops  and  thrown out by China , now the corrupt juggernaut is being  thrown out of the United Kingdom . In an unprecedented announcement, Monsanto announced a major departure from the UK due to ...
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• Scientists call for curbs on own research on deadly bird flu virus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Virus experts in the US say outbreak of genetically engineered bird flu could be worst influenza pandemic in history A group of the leading virus experts in the US has called for new, permanent restrictions on research in the face of a new genetically engineered flu virus that could kill half the population of the ...
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• Random gene sets can predict breast cancer survival better than supposedly cancer-related ones

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 590
  I’ve written a few guest posts for the Faculty of 1000’s Naturally Selected blog, covering some interesting papers from last year that I missed here. There’s one about how eggs greet sperm , and another on how sleeping alone affects newborn babies . But the third post is one that I particularly want to draw ...
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• Aging Insights from Identical Twins

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 577
  A long-term study of identical twins reveals that an individual’s DNA may change over the course of a lifetime. Researchers discovered cases where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated, or become completely lost. The changes were mainly discovered in older twins. This finding may help to ...
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• ButterflySims Hair 45

  
  SunsetSims — Authority: 132
  Retexturizado de ButterflySims, por Marie: There’s Cake in Your Hair: ButterflySims Hair 45
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• Changing my presentation a bit. It was getting a…

  
  SunsetSims — Authority: 132
  Otro retexturizado del último peinado de ButterflySims, por BeaverHausen: Changing my presentation a bit. It was getting a… | BEAVERHAUSEN
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• February Genetics Quiz

  
  BorderWars — Authority: 99
  Inspired by the Genetics Survey on Gene Expression and an inquiry from the CanineGenetics-L yahoo group, I figure it might be fun to post an occasional genetics quiz to reinforce some of the concepts covered on this blog and provoke discussion of the sorts of genetics knowledge that is most helpful to dog ...
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• Improving Understanding Of Human Diseases With 3D Mapping Of Human Genome

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Genome Institute of Singapores (GIS) Associate Director of Genomic Technologies, Dr Yijun RUAN, led a continuing study on the human genome spatial/structural configuration, revealing how genes interact/communicate and influence each other, even when they are located far away from each other. This discovery is crucial ...
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• February 3, 1857 (a Tuesday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 112
  On this date, the Danish botanist and geneticist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen was born. His experiments in plant heredity offered strong support to the mutation theory of the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (that changes in heredity come about through sudden, … Continue reading →
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• Chaos In The Cells Command Center

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type controlled by its own program. Corrupted programs can trigger disease. Cellular operating ...
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• Circular RNAs More Common Than Previously Thought

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  In the classical model of gene expression, the genetic script encoded in our genomes is expressed in each cell in the form of RNA molecules, each consisting of a linear string of chemical "bases". It may be time to revise this traditional understanding of human gene expression, as new research suggests that circular ...
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• Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 111
  Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain’s executive hub. Among key findings of the study by National ...
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• Oh, He Stepped in It Again

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 109
  Yep, Mittens just can’t keep the old foot out of the mouth. When unscripted, the dude just falls to pieces. You can almost hear the wheels turning–focus on the middle class Mitt, focus on the middle class. And he did. And he said he wasn’t worried about the poor or the rich. Oops. It’s not just the Left ...
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• New study suggests researchers may be discarding important RNA information

  
  American Biotechnologist — Authority: 105
  Traditional RNA isolations kits and techniques usually isolate linear RNA transcripts while discarding circular material that are thought to be unimportant. However, a new study at the Stanford School of Medicine suggests that circular RNA may play a more important role in gene expression than previously thought. In ...
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• Techne (TECH) (HA) (MDVN) (MYGN) (TROW) (CIB) Ratings, Price Targets

  
  Commodity Surge: — Authority: 117
  Techne Co. (NASDAQ: TECH), Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HA), Medivation (NASDAQ: MDVN), Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ: MYGN), T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) and Bancolombia S.A. (NYSE: CIB) ratings and price targets. Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (HA) had its “Hold” rating reiterated by Dahlman Rose. Medivation (MDVN) ...
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• Response Genetics Gets $7.8M In PIPE

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 566
  Los Angeles-based Response Genetics , a developer of diagnostics test for cancer, said today that it has raised $7.8M in a private placement. The publicly traded firm did not disclose the name of its new investors. The firm said it sold approximately 5.3M shares at $1.50 per share in the financing. Response ...
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