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• Parenting: Do You Want a Gifted or Hard-working Child?

  
  The Power of Prime — Authority: 110
  Giftedness is revered in our culture; inborn talent-whether intellectual, athletic, or artistic-ensures that children will be successful. How many times have you heard "Tiger Woods was born to play golf" or "Sarah Chang was destined to be a brilliant violinist"? Well, let me clear something up: No one is born to do ...
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• Empathy and Stress Levels May be Coded Into Our Genes

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  Interesting report on new research - from US News and World Report . So much for the idea of original sin . . . . We are not born heathens who need to be saved, we are born loving and need to be nurtured. Empathy and Stress Levels May be Coded Into Our Genes Posted: ...
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• Feed Your Genes: How to Prevent Hereditary Diseases

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 536
  By Jack Challem, Experience LifeWhen people say things like “Heart disease runs in my family,” and “My parents had cancer, so I’m afraid I will, too,” it confirms our suspicions that DNA is destiny. The truth, however, is that it doesn’t have to be: The DNA we inherited from our parents does not ...
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• Stay Young and Beautiful

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  Staying young and beautiful is an important factor in many of our lives. The thought of getting old, wrinkly and losing our faculties is rather daunting to say the least.Scientists who have studied aging are now saying that your genes only have 40 percent of the deciding factor to how old you look and feel, [...]
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• Now For Sale at Fire Sale Prices: Thousands of People’s Genomes

  
  80beats — Authority: 651
  DeCode Genetics , a genome sequencing and drug development company, found out the hard way that predicting disease risk simply by reading someone’s genes isn’t so straightforward. On Tuesday, deCode filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The company’s financial problems have also raised ...
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• Nanoparticles Used in Common Household Items Cause Genetic Damage in Mice

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice.Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a ...
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• Songs and Speciation

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 564
  (Image courtesy of Wired.com) How many times have you heard someone ask the question: "Have scientists ever actually observed the formation of a new species?" Our standard answer is that speciation is an event that occurs over thousands of years, one would not expect to be able to observe it. However, a fascinating ...
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• Genes may determine our ability to empathize

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov 18 (ANI): Scientists at Oregon State University have discovered that empathy can be inherited. They say that carriers of certain genes are better able to read people’s feelings than others. The genes are linked to the way in which the body processes oxytocin, otherwise known as the ‘cuddle hormone’ ...
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• Longevity linked to Genes that preserve Telomeres

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 444
  A team researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings of the study recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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• Two-sided genetic coin

  
  The Thinking Meat Project — Authority: 118
  A new article in The Atlantic has rocked my world in a way that articles anywhere seldom do. David Dobbs explains a new hypothesis regarding genes, environment, and behavior, which he dubs the orchid hypothesis. I’ve written before about genes that appear to make a person vulnerable to things like depression or ...
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• Australian Patent Lawyers Claim Patenting Genes Is Necessary For...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Here in the US, theres an important legal battle going on over whether or not you can patent genes . Not surprisingly, were very much against such a system, which gives a total monopoly to certain companies on doing certain types of genetic testing. It also makes no sense at all, as patents are supposed to be about ...
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• Double G’s Win Empathy Contest

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 509
  The “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” advice is so trite that we’re tempted to scream whenever we hear it mentioned. However, we will admit (yes, even snarky, jaded bloggers like ourselves) that empathy is a valuable character trait (and not just if you’re minoring in Global Poverty). So you wanna know ...
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• 10 Interesting Links From November 16th

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 121
  Foodborne illness: An acute and long-term health challenge for the 21st century | Science Blog – CFIs report, The Long-Term Health Outcomes of Selected Foodborne Pathogens, calls for a new approach to foodborne illness research and surveillance and provides expert reviews about some of the long-term health outcomes ...
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• Puerto Rico: Biotech Island

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
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• Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 136
  Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2009) — A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres -- the tip ends of ...
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• Mutant genes linked to Parkinson’s in some: study (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  Reuters – People of Japanese and European descent who have mutant versions of five genes may be at higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, two large teams of researchers have found. View original here:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Mutant genes linked to Parkinson’s in some: study (Reuters)
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• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 403
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
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• Scientists zero in on one key for living to 100 (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists have found an apparent key to living till 100 years- an inherited cellular repair mechanism that thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease.Researches at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University have said that the finding could ...
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• Mutant genes key to long life

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  US scientists link long life with those people who have inherited a particular enzyme which prevents cells from ageing.
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• Mutant genes key to long life

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 168
  US scientists link long life with those people who have inherited a particular enzyme which prevents cells from ageing.
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