gene

I am a bit of a dilettante in biology. I've read Asimov in my earlier years, watched innumerable videos by Ken Miller, Aron Ra, cdk007, and others, and read lots of articles. I'd like to find out whether my notion about speciation is correct. Species are usually defined as groups of animals...

A gene that governs the perception of pain: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/14/news/pain.php Yet another case where our supposedly unitary "consciousness" turns out to be modular. ~~ Paul

According to Newsday, an article in today's Science authored by Dietrich Stephan, demonstrated that a form of the Kibra gene may differentiate between people with better or worse memories. I don't have access to the article, but the story says that 341 college students memorized a list of words...

wow.....pretty exciting possibilities.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5304910.stm

.....which i've just finished :) I've left the title rather vague - as there's a few questions i can think of....but specifically a couple stand out as matters of interest - 1) why are segregation distorters not more common? brief explanation of segregation distorters here I could see...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/12/nvirus12.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/12/ixhome.html "A virus that infects chalk-covered marine algae has been found to contain compounds that could be used in anti-ageing and other treatments, a British team reports today."

While driving to work this morning, I was listening to the BBC on NPR. They interviewed the author of The God Gene: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385500580/qid=1110113155/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4217310-0316042 I was impressed with this little 5-minute segment. The commentator...

My favorite nutty TV preacher died Monday of stroke at 75. Details here. Different from the more common used-car-salesman type of TV preacher, Scott was a sometimes crotchety old man expounding on the meaning of the bible, broadcast seemingly 24 hrs a day via TV and shortwave radio from Los...

How does Individual selection difer from Gene selection in evolution?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030930/od_uk_nm/oukoe_health_iceland_obesity So if you're fat, sue your parents.