genetics

In all my googlings, which was hampered by constantly forgetting the most efficient terms, it's strictly a 50/50 chance that a child of a carrier would inherit. However, when my mother and I attended the same college, we went to a hereditary-cancer talk+lunch and they wanted a volunteer for a...

Abstract: Link: [The Higher Power of Religiosity Over Personality on Political Ideology]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823?cmp=FB_Post_News&fbclid=IwAR1_DPZuWuwQcUwemqx-pVWQnTQpo0IFzg4J3lEXqMRmgNBq_4sScmgtlvQ A bit of a "post 'n dash" (apologies), but I'd be interested to hear what the community here thinks of this. In short, a microbiology...

This quote is from a BBC article a couple of years ago but I couldn't find a thread on it. Referring to George Dvorsky of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies: He believes in an “ethical imperative to uplift”, arguing that if the technology is developed it should be shared with...

I've seen some online discussion of late claiming that women with many sexual partners show Y-chromosome specific microchimerism. Some go as far to claim that this means a woman's offspring will include DNA from prior sexual partners. :eye-poppi Also there have been claims that epigenetics...

So I'm looking for a better tool to assess potential transcription factors along a 19 MB genome. One is gal4-like and the other is a GATA-type. I can't assume obligate homodimerization (afaik) as I don't have good homology past the respective zinc fingers. What I'm currently using is Geneious...

It seems the science of genetics is turning into a cat fight over the issue of junk DNA. Last year a big science project called "encode" concluded that large parts of the so called junk DNA wasn't junk after all, now another group of scientists has dismissed their findings and accused them of...

From the Quarterly Review of Biology This is an electronic publication sent out just a few days ago and so in the mean time is available to the public. Once the printed volume comes out, it will likely be closed (which is why I'm posting it here now for whoever would care to read it)...

I have seen a lot of fuzz on the Internet regarding Monsanto and how it wants to patent food or something... I have read from conspiracy theories to the actual info in the site of Monsanto... what do you all think about it? I mean, if they (and I'm sure others) want to "patent food" roughly...

I'm watching a mini series called the Manns, about the writer Thomas Mann. (The series is great, I highly recommend it). Mann had four children, two of them were gay. He himself seems to have been bi-sexual or gay. This made me think that there might be a inheritable component to sexual...

So Germany won the War and Wembley 66 after all, no? :p Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8588263/Half-of-Britons-have-German-blood.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,768706,00.html...

Study: Eastern wolves are hybrids with coyotes

Book: "Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong" I've wanted to start this thread for some time now, I bumped into this thread about epigenetics earlier today and decided that now's a good time for this. The name of David Shenk's book is: The Genius in All of Us...

I knew it would come out one day. :D http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Scientists-May-Have-IDd-Liberal-Gene-105917218.html Researchers have determined that genetics could matter when it comes to some adults' political leanings. According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard...

Disease or not, we can all agree that alcoholism is a serious problem. The idea that alcoholism is a disease was largely popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, to my understanding. Many doctors and alcohol/drug addiction specialists agree that alcoholism is a disease. However, not everyone agrees...

I've heard that once a purebred dog or cat has a litter fathered by a mutt (or the feline equivalent) they are ruined for breeding purposes. The dog or cat is said to retain genetic material from the previous mating that is passed on. This doesn't happen to other mammals so why would it be true...

Studies Show Jews’ Genetic Similarity

I have a hypothesis I've been thinking about recently. I saw an episode of the TV series Life on primates the other day, and it showed a species of monkey whose infants are brightly colored to allow the mothers to easily find them. As they mature, the coats turn a more drab color to make them...

One thing I can not understand about human evolution, is how races can have differentiated in such a small amount of time. According to Wikipedia (sorry, can not post the link yet, it is the page "Human evolution"): The dominant view among scientists concerning the origin of anatomically modern...

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...

Like mast cells. First exposure to an allergen does not trigger any reaction. But it does sensitize the cells. Next exposure triggers the immune reaction. In the mean time, those first cells have died off, and been replaced by new cells made in the bone marrow. Hence forth, all mast cells made...

I think this may have been dealt with before, but does evolution as we understand it allow for traits to develop that may lessen the survivability of an individual but overall increase the survivability of a group/species? If so, how would the trait be selected for? I guess I'm thinking of the...

GreNME made the following statement in another thread: A claim which he later repeated: When asked for evidence to support this claim, he replied: When I provided a quote from the paper that showed his claim was most likely not true (to say nothing of the confused statements in that last...

I was just reading this blog post - addmittedly old, but interesting. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ But when I got to this sentence: "Your brother or sister shares half your genes," I paused. Is that correct? Is this one of those things I only think I know? (There's probably...

In another thread, Kurious Kathy has claimed that "DNA research" somehow opposes evolution: As it would be off-topic in that thread, I've started this one so that Kathy can explain how "DNA research" opposes evolution. Over to you, Kathy.

I'm discussing once again the topic of evolution and I have to wonder sometimes if a person I am talking to really knows how advanced genetic research has come? These are skeptics who are fully convinced and knowledgeable about evolution theory, I'm not talking about people who are poorly...

How would you employ molecular and protein-folding models to determine the effect and/or mechanism of action of various phosphaplatins on ovarian cancer cells? What type of algorithms are typically employed in protein folding? Where would you find specific information on the molecular structure...

http://www.nature.com/scitable is a free, new (AFAIK) site for (technically ) university faculty and students. The first/current topic is aspects of chromosomes, evolutionary genetics and related. Research based and, unless my reading skills have dramatically died, real science!!:):):):)

Just noticed this article from the New Scientist newsfeed. Biology is so cool. :D What is interesting about this is the fact that kleptoplastisized genes are almost always nonfunctional in the host organism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/health/research/11brain.html?_r=1&nl=8hlth&emc=hltha2&oref=slogin I don't know if this link will work for you, I just grabbed it. In today's NYTimes, there's an article about a new theory of mental illness. They speculate that the mother and father's genes...