Tag: genes
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deCODE common logic... NOT!
deCODE Genetics, a company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has hit a snag. As Science reports in this week's print issue, a national agency that oversees data privacy in Iceland has rejected a request from deCODE to allow it to apply computational methods to the…
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How educated are your... genes?!?
Genetic factors may exert a tiny influence on how much schooling a person ends up with, a new study suggests. [1] Sure. We have "discovered" all other stupid things that we can based on genes, why not this too? Science dogmatism has beginning to look more and more dangerous. And we though of Hitler as…
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Monsanto, free genes, lucky crops.
In a unanimous decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court backed the agribusiness firm Monsanto on its soybean patents. The justices concluded that an Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, violated the company's intellectual property rights when he refused to pay royalties on unlabeled soybeans he bought that contained genes patented by the company. The court ruled…
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Angelina Jolie, gene terrorism, stupidity. (and some advertisement)
Angelina Jolie, known for being fiercely private, has made a very personal disclosure. The Oscar-winning (REALLY?!?) actress reveals in an emotional op-ed for the New York Times that she underwent a double mastectomy earlier this year after a blood test showed she was genetically susceptible to cancer. "The truth is I carry a 'faulty' gene, BRCA1,…
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Evil Sweden strikes back... (or: How to sterilize "inferior" people)
Sweden had (from 1920s to 1970s) the best eugenics program in the world (i.e. compulsory sterilization of metally diseased, inferior and/ or "impure" citizens et cetera). They even "taught" Hitler, who actually asked for a copy of their eugenics law for his Reich... Even though many other states had similar eugenica programs (including USA, Switzerland,…
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