Category: Genetics
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Babies. Health screening. Stupidity.
WILL my baby be healthy? It’s a question that concerns every prospective parent. Now a service that creates digital embryos by virtually mixing two people’s DNA will give a clearer glimpse of their possible child’s health, and perhaps much more – before it has been conceived. The Matchright technology will be available in two US…
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Noah’s Ark and the stupidity of modern ecology.
GENETICS could help solve the Noah’s Ark problem: faced with limited space, which species do you save? Focusing on the most evolutionarily unique and ancient species could allow us to save more branches of the tree of life, at the lowest cost and effort. (1) We do not love nature. We do not trust…
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Maths, genes, anxiety, silence.
A new study of math anxiety shows how some people may be at greater risk to fear math not only because of negative experiences, but also because of genetic risks related to both general anxiety and math skills. The results don’t mean that math anxiety can be blamed solely or even mostly on genetic factors,…
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Live and let DIE you small hypocrite…
People in the “brainy circles” of our hypocritical society talk about diversity. But how much are differences really valued? “I wonder”, a mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome writes, “whether my friends and colleagues would recognize the value of a child who was slower, less capable and more dependent”… (1) Love is hard to…
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Disease, definitions, change…
People who carry a high-risk gene for Alzheimer’s disease show changes in their brains beginning in childhood, decades before the illness appears, new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests. (1) When does a change start? When does a disease begin? Arbitrary definitions, haunting our lives… Being ill all the time.…
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