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What Do Your Genes Say About You? The Future of Personal Genomics
Want to know what your genes say about you? According to geneticists, your genes could be saying quite a lot! Your genetics may dictate, for example, what foods you like, what diseases you are prone to develop, how smart you are, and likely factor into...
 
<em>jtyost2</em>
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How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? - Los Angeles Times
Could DNA no long be a realiable means of identifying suspects.
 
Online News
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The genetics of the white horse unraveled
The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led...
2 days ago dapx | Topics: genetics, horse, white, Science
 
Catatonic Kid
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Post Traumatic Stress for Dummies.
I’ve put together this crib sheet for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hopefully it’s useful, and it’s sure...
 
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How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? - Los Angeles Times
Interesting. It appears that DNA matches are not as rare as we've been given to believe, and the FBI really doesn't want that info getting out at all.
 
kizes
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Dogs: Finding Boston Terrier Dogs for Sale
People think that finding Boston terrier dogs for sale would be a veryeasy task. However, people need to know that...
 
Wayne Smallman
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How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? - Los Angeles Times
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with similar genetic profiles. The men matched at 9 of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
 
thesingularity
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Designer DNA: Should we be able to reprogram our genes?
(CNN) — This month, Just Imagine focused on the future of nature and the ways in which it can inspire solutions to some...
 
Roger
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How gene variations could protect from HIV infection
The New York Times reports on a “genetic variation that once protected people in sub-Saharan Africa from a now extinct...
7 days ago peripheries | Topics: Public Health, Science, Genetics, HIV
 
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How to Teach Children With Mild Autism
Here&#8217;s some tips on teaching autistic children:1. First of all, you need to know that every child with autism is different, you have to find out their likes, dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. Let the child guide you at first. Start with what...
 
luvmutt
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Dog DNA Test Results Coming Soon!
Hey there, luvmutt fans! We took a short hiatus, but we've got 30 new mutts to show off over the next few weeks. And here's...
7 days ago luvmutt.com | Topics: cute, dogs, pets and..., genetics
 
Cash
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Further Exploration into Genes and Personality
“If you want to be happy for the rest of your life you need to make an ugly woman your wife,” or “if your rent is late...
8 days ago Scientific Blogging | Topics: Genetics
 
mad4murder
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Video: Extracting DNA from Strawberries
California has decreed that genetic testing companies must conduct their work in CLIA-certified labs, but biologists know that some experiments are best suited for a kitchen. Writing for The Spittoon blog, Erin Cline explained that some 23andMe...
 
Millard Baker
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Can you be a better athlete?
Over the years I have found that most people believe that you can be a better athlete but only up to a certain point. When you hit the professional, Olympic or world championship level most people say you are already the best and cannot be better. This...
 
kambiz47
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The 28,000 Year Old Paglicci 23 Cro-Magnon mtDNA Ain’t Neandertal — It Is More Modern Than Anything Else
The open access journal PLoS One has published a new ancient DNA paper, “A 28,000 Years Old Cro-Magnon mtDNA Sequence...
 
Robin
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Obesity is a popular topic these days.....
Is it a fad or is there really such an "epidemic" of obesity that it's become the topic of the year? I really can't answer...
9 days ago survive the journey | Topics: genetics, obesity
 
GHD
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WFMW: It Never Hurt to Ask...
I'm a first time participant in WFMW...I enjoy reading the entries each week. A few times, I've even wanted to jump in, but...
 
Mister Misery
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Therapy roulette and the rise of pharmacogenetics
The Mayo Clinic recently released a study suggesting variations in the serotonin transporter gene might account for the...
 
Jack S
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CCC No.2: “Probability falsifies evolutionary change”
Today’s CCC relates to the tendency for creationists to assert that evolutionary theory can be falsified simply by...
 
Kev
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Age of Autism still don’t get it
Over on our favourite pompous blog, the authors and readers still seem to have trouble processing their collective importance...
 
NCurse
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Personalized Genetics: Selfome
It’s not about genomes and proteomes any more. Personalized genetics leads to a strange field called selfome where an...
 
RandySeaver
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What to do when your web site disappears?
Where oh where has our web site gone,Where oh where can it be?With its' info so good and its' links so fine,I hope that it...
10 days ago Genea-Musings | Topics: genetics, Ancestry.com, CVGS
 
<em>pascalvanhecke</em>
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First Personal Genome User Group (The Quantified Self)
23andme customers share experiences: "We've been conditioned by anxious media reports to believe that people want to hoard their very personal genetic profile, in fear of [..] governments, corporations, insurance companies and the neighbors..."
 
Xconomy
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Lee Hood’s Proteges Strike Again: Nanostring Ships Its First Commercial Cell Analyzer
Nanostring Technologies, a company born in the lab of biotech pioneer Leroy Hood, has grown up and is starting to sell a...
 
Stuart Ginbey
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Fat Burning Secrets by the Worlds Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models
Lifetime-Natural Bodybuilder, Personal Trainer, Nutritionist and Success Coach From New Jersey Teaches You How to Turbo-Charge Your Metabolism, Gain Muscle, Burn Off Body Fat and Develop Unstoppable Motivation ... Guaranteed! Discover How He's Taught...
 
Cash
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A Genetic Variation For Teen Tobacco Addiction?
Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that...
12 days ago Scientific Blogging | Topics: Genetics
 
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Jack S
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CCC No. 1: “Evolution is not happening now”
In this series of posts, I’m going to be dismantling common claims made by creationists in general, rather than specific...
 
Murat Y
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Going crazy about DNA
Genetic instructions that makes us unique or from another approach, cruelly just a clone from similar patterns. I have compiled...
 
Kev
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New clues to autism’s cause
Time report on a new study that found yet more genetic clues to what causes autism. A paper published in the current issue of...
 
jeremy.lyon35
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The Colors of Antiquity
Can you imagine what the extinct birds of millions of years ago looked like? How big were they? Do they look like the birds...
15 days ago Futurismic | Topics: Blog, birds, dinosaurs, genetics
 
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นักวิจัยจำแนกเป้าหมายของ RNAs ใหม่ที่ควบคุมยีน
สายพันธุกรรมเส้นเล็ก ๆ ที่เรียกว่าอาร์เอ็นเอ (RNA) ซึ่งมีสารเคมีคล้ายดีเอ็นเอ...
 
NCurse
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FDA Approves Genetic Test for Breast Cancer
Great news for those who are interested in personalized medicine. One of the first examples of this special field of medicine...
 
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the electric sheep screen-saver
Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the...
 
<em>pascalvanhecke</em>
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Should Personal Genomics Be Regulated?
"[23andme] agrees with the ultimate need for regulation, but [says] that harnessing the consumer internet for personal genomics is a really valuable scientific tool" "Harnessing collective intelligence" applied to genomics by Tim...
 
Claudia
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Genetics
Genetic testing is revolutionising our sense of identity. Even now it doesn't strikes us as strange to hear someone say "I...
16 days ago The Millstone | Topics: genetics, news, science
 
aza
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If You Think Cancer Is In You Genetic, Then Think Again
Hi warriors,Before I started research on cancer and alternative natural treatments, besides looking for an answer for the cure...
16 days ago Cancer Story | Topics: Cancer, genetics, Cancer, genetic
 
daveng
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Movie Turned Opera: The Fly -or- Egad! I hope Jeff Goldblum makes a cameo
Yes. The Fly. The “mutated mad scientist, Jeff Goldblum, hopping around a loft-turned-laboratory, spitting up stomach...
 
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