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• in Lifestyle
  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”

 

• Interleukin Genetics raises $12M in last-ditch save

  
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  Interleukin Genetics just got a $12 million shot in the arm, a private placement funding that will be crucial to its survival as a developer of genetic tests for chronic conditions.
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• ‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years

  
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  “It is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources being wasted on taking DNA samples from thousands of innocent children while serious offenses go undetected,” said Francis Crook, chief executive of the legal activists Howard League for Penal Reform.The group was able to obtain the data for 2010 and ...
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• Common Dental Problems and How to Fix Them

  
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  Do you suffer from dental issues? Most people have some problems with their teeth, due to genetics, poor diet, trauma, or bad dental hygiene. Even if you have always eaten well and had perfect health, you may still suffer from some of these dental issues.
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• Angelina Jolie, BRCA1, Public Health, Patent Law — & the Empowered Patient--David Harlow

  
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  Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times , Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must sometimes be made in order to increase one’s chances ...
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• Follow Angelina Jolie To Reduce Breast Cancer Risk Due to Genetic Mutation

  
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  Paris – Women who are at high risk of breast cancer due to known genetic mutations, can reduce the risk of the disease by mastectomy or breast removal surgery, as practiced by artists Angelina Jolie. Some experts say cancer is about 0.2 per cent of women in the world have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. [...] Follow ...
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• Heavy Drinking and Smoking Linked to Early Brain Aging

  
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  New research suggests chronic smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and increasing age are all associated with increased oxidative damage to brain tissue. Experts say the study is the first to look at the effects of smoking and age on neurocognition in people seeking treatment for alcohol dependency. Researchers ...
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• A Day For Family History And DNA

  
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  With participation by 23andMe and the three other major companies involved in DNA testing for ancestry, as well as talks from some of the most respected names in the field, it’s no wonder organizers are predicting the June 6th “Family History and DNA” conference in Burbank will sell out. The event, planned in ...
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• Brainfood: Wild yeast, Sorbus evolution, Taro leaf blight, Vegetable sesame, Phast phenotyping, US CWR, Risk, Citizen science, GMOs, European meadow diversity, Hedysarum diversity, Pineapple diversity

  
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  Introducing a New Breed of Wine Yeast: Interspecific Hybridisation between a Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wine Yeast and Saccharomyces mikatae . The future of wine? Breeding systems, hybridization and continuing evolution in Avon Gorge Sorbus . You had me at “Avon Gorge, Bristol, UK, is a world ...
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• Genome Sequencing Diagnostics Have Significant Problems, As New Research Demonstrates

  
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  Genome sequencing diagnostics has some serious limitations to it, as researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute recently discovered when they came across three children who had some of the rare inherited conditions collectively known as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG), but only in some ...
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• Angelina Jolie, radical strategies for cancer prevention, and genetics denialism

  
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  I had been debating whether to blog about Angelina Jolie’s announcement last week in a New York Times editorial entitled My Medical Choice that she had undergone bilateral prophylactic mastectomy because she had been discovered to have a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that is associated with a very high risk of ...
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• Casey Luskin and Stephen C. Meyer discuss information outside the genome

  
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  This episode of ID the Future is 20 minutes long and it’s a follow up to a previous podcast I posted. Details: On this episode of  ID the Future , hear the second part of Casey Luskin’s interview with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of the forthcoming book  Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal ...
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• Bernanke sees more growth over the fifty years from innovation like personal genomics, life extension and clean energy

  
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  Bernanke told a college graduating class Saturday that the long-range practical consequences of innovations such as faster computers and the Internet are hard to predict. But he said inventors have only scratched the surface of the commercial applications that can be obtained in such fields as medicine (personal ...
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• Alternative Treatment Kava Shown to Reduce Anxiety

  
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  New research has shown that kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, reduces the symptoms of anxiety and may be used as a successful alternative treatment to pharmaceutical drugs for those who suffer from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Lead researcher Dr. Jerome Sarris, from the Department of Psychiatry at the ...
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• Training creativity

  
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  How can we make people more creative? read more
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• Schizophrenia Risk Linked to Declining IQ

  
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  A long-term study provides evidence that the genetic risk for schizophrenia is associated with lower IQ among people who do not develop this disorder. Schizophrenia is a rare but serious psychiatric disorder, usually beginning in late adolescence, and is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, cognitive ...
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• Angelina Jolie, Evolution and Pleiotropy

  
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  Angelina Jolie recently revealed she underwent a double mastectomy; a prophylactic measure to combat the risk of breast cancer associated with BRCA1 gene she carries. Like many other ‘disease’ genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 show evidence of positive selection, suggesting a … Continue reading →
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• Toni’s Farm and Food Roundup

  
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  The USDA recently announced $19.5 million in grants towards research on the impact of climate change on dairy and beef cattle . Researchers from universities across the nation are set to work together through a Coordinated Agricultural Project award in order to determine what cattle farmers need both short and long ...
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• Angelina Jolie’s ‘TIME’ Magazine Cover

  
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  Time magazine reports on actress Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and how she is bringing awareness to genetic testing. Jolie, by nearly universal agreement, made the right choice for her. She tested positive for the breast-cancer-related BRCA1 gene, putting the probability that she would develop the disease at ...
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• Green Movement and Tea Party– Monsanto Protection Act Breeds Strange Bedfellows

  
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  The ever-growing movement to repeal the very controversial Monsanto Protection Act has garnered the support of both the Tea Party and the green movement, thereby breeding strange bedfellows.  The Monsanto Protection Act “allows Monsanto and other companies to continue selling genetically engineered seeds, even if a ...
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• WIPO Programmes Seek To Bridge IP And Climate Change, Global Health

  
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  The World Intellectual Property Organization is involved in activities aimed at facilitating technology transfer for green technologies, and research and development for neglected diseases, malaria and tuberculosis. At the request of member states, WIPOs Global Challenges Division gave a briefing this week on those ...
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