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  Research Uncovers Cause of Lou Gehrig's Disease
  Research has found the root cause of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease.
  by jenna3967 / on Aug 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “genetic”

 

• Researchers find genetic diversity key to survival of honey bee colonies

  
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  When it comes to honey bees, more mates is better. A new study from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that genetic diversity is key to survival in honey bee colonies – meaning a colony is less likely to survive if its queen has had a ...
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• Essential Documentaries 2

  
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  A Silent Forest – The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees (2009) It’s entirely understandable that when we think about genetically modified crops finding their way into the food chain and inevitably into our own genetic makeup the first thing we’re likely to be concerned about is the effect that this ...
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• Nibbles: Indigenous conservation, Rice and conservation, Amazon medicines, Organic products, Sustainable oysters, Cherfas at Seed Savers, Calestous Juma, Cassava website, Israeli agritech, Fragaria breeding, Catacol whitebeam, Weather sensors, FAO Commiss

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 115
  A toolkit to help indigenous communities do conservation . Should they need one . On the other hand… Half of Japan’s endangered species hotspots are found in satoyama , which are endangered. Compare and contrast with rice farming in Thailand . Learn all about some medicinal plants of the Amazon , minus ...
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• Brainfood: Maize rhizosphere, Climate change vulnerability, Heterosis squared, African forests, Sequencing genebanks

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 115
  Diversity and heritability of the maize rhizosphere microbiome under field conditions . There’s a lot of it, but only measured in inbreds so far. One wonders about landraces. The Vulnerability of Biodiversity to Rapid Climate Change . We should focus on increasing the adaptive capacity of species and ecosystems, ...
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• Brain Chemistry Altered by Later Life Experience, Part 2

  
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  I recently wrote of an informative NBC News article of June 2, 2013 (see part 1 here ). Investigative reporter Rebecca Ruiz laid out medical research evidence pointing toward non-genetic alterations in brain chemistry — that is, organic changes in the brain’s chemistry after birth . Specifically, Ruiz’s ...
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• Myriad Cancer Gene Test Survives, But Stock Sinks 13%

  
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  For gene-based cancer test maker Myriad Genetics, the high-court ruling that human DNA cannot be patented is killing the stock. Myriad Genetics  ( MYGN ) stock at  $27.59 lost more than 13% of its value just Friday, following Thursdays U. S. Supreme Court ruling that human genes cannot be patented.Myriad owns two ...
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• Chipotle Becomes First U.S. Restaurant Chain to Voluntarily Label GMOs

  
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  Via: Natural News: The recent decision by Whole Foods Market to label all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) sold in its stores by the long-off date of 2018 looks silly and almost meaningless compared to the right-now policy of fresh food chain Chipotle, which is officially the first and only major U.S. food ...
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• Supreme Court Overturns DNA Patent

  
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  Myriad Genetics’ lab in Salt Lake City, Utah. The patenting of DNA and other genetic material is really controversial.  After all, it’s something that occurs in nature, so how could it be patented as if it were some company’s discovery?  Well, medical company Myriad Genetics tried to patent the breast ...
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• Human genes can’t be patented

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 121
  In a rare unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented.  As we blogged about earlier, some companies have patented human genetic material, but the judges ruled that only inventions and not products of nature can be patented. From USA Today: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human ...
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• Landmark decision? US Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented

  
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  In what is being ballyhooed as a landmark decision likely to set the course of DNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic medicine for the next several decades, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided on June 13 that human genes are not patentable. Rather than objects invented or discovered, human genes are henceforth to ...
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• The Biotechnology Industry and the Choice to Patent or Rely on Trade Secrecy

  
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  The U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipateddecision in the Myriad case today.   Basically, the U.S. Supreme Court held that isolated DNA is not patentablesubject matter.   While the U.S. SupremeCourt apparently dealt a blow to some in the biotechnology industry, it didprovide that cDNA could be ...
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• Genetic switches play big role in human evolution

  
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  A Cornell study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off. The study, published June 9 in Nature Genetics, provides evidence for a 40-year-old hypothesis ...
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• A Leadership Challenge: Locating the “You Inside of You”

  
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      I recently heard an advertisement for a genetic testing company that promises to reveal “the you inside of you.” This company implies that by gaining knowledge of your genetic composition, you can enhance your life. I’m all for couples considering having children, and individuals with a history of ...
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• How To Do GMO Food Labeling Right

  
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  Shopping, from  Anthony Albright . A Modest Proposal Should food with ingredients from genetically engineered crops – “GMOs” – be labeled?  Many argue that consumers have a “right to know” about this.  Ok, if the real reason for labeling is to provide consumers with knowledge, then the label should ...
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• A GE rollercoaster week

  
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  This week has been a bit of a GE rollercoaster. On the downward spiral side, last weekend we heard that Britain will be pushing for a relaxation of rules in Europe to allow for GE crops to be grown and sold into the human food supply. Then on Wednesday we received the latest Journal of Organic Systems, which ...
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• Forced Fatherhood?

  
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  There’s an essay on the NYT website today that raises some interesting questions, though I think the picture it paints is incomplete.   It’s an excellent and provocative title:  Is Forced Fatherhood Fair ?     I guess the idea is that Father’s Day is a good time to think about this.   And perhaps ...
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• Dogma, Division, and Downright Lousy Science

  
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  “There’s a conflict at the heart of science between science as a method of inquiry based on reason, evidence, hypothesis, and collective investigation, and science as a belief system, or a worldview.” Rupert Sheldrake High Noon There are food and chemical corporations, technological institutes, and ...
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• Single Embryo Transfer Recommended in Most IVF Procedures

  
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  The process of  in vitro fertilization  – in which embryos are created outside a woman’s body and then implanted in her uterus — has become increasingly common in the United States. In 2010, 61,564 infants were born using an a form of assisted reproduction technology (ART), and almost all of those resulted ...
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• MAJOR DECISION: US Supreme Court Rules Human Genes Can’t Be Patented

  
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  In a major decision that is sure to have enormous effects in the United States and beyond, the US Supreme Court has ruled that human genes are not patentable.  The Court rules that the genes are naturally occurring and therefore a discovery, not an invention. This decision does not directly impact artificially ...
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• Thoughts for the Thursday Thread

  
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  Background: Vera Files published a report on how a new group of models and photographers,  calling itself  Mongoloid na Pogi Productions or Monggi Productions,  received flak from groups such as the Down Syndrome Association. xxx    xxx Commentary Written by Pseudonym One “On “Monggi”: ...
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