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• The DNA snatchers: Police arresting innocents just to grab genetic details for Big Brother database

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night.The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ’spiral of suspicion’ among the public.The panel – which contains some of Britain’s ...
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• Marriage equality, inbreeding style

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 588
  The New York Times has an article on cousin marriage thats up. Heres some important bits: Shane Winters, 37, whom she now playfully refers to as her "cusband," proposed to her at a surprise birthday party in front of family and friends, and the two are now trying to have a baby. They are not concerned about ...
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• Opposites Attract: Monkeys Choose Mating Partners With Different Genes

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  The worlds largest species of monkey chooses mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study. The results obtained from mandrills, a species closely related to humans, support the disputed theory that humans are attracted to those with ...
  10 hours ago

• First ‘genetic map’ of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have published the first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time, which may aid search for disease susceptibility genes.Based ...
  11 hours ago

• ‘Mental illness’ gene identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 26 (ANI): Scottish researchers have made a breakthrough as they identified a gene that could help explain the causes of mental illness.The international team of scientists, led by experts at Edinburgh University, discovered the gene ABCA13 that may help create drugs to restore mental health in ...
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• Manipulating Just One Gene Makes a Smarter Rat

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 587
  No, it wasnt smart enough to read, but genetically manipulated Hobbie-J was one smart rat. According to recently published results in PLoS One , researchers at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and East China Normal University have genetically engineered a rat to be significantly smarter than its peers. The rat ...
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• Living Together: Shaking Off the Shame

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  FAMILY TIES Shane Winters and Kimberly Spring-Winters, first cousins, married this year despite her mother’s concerns.
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• Population substructure within China

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 588
  The state of China has 1/5 of humanity within its borders, so its genetic structure is of interest. It is obviously important for medical reasons to clarify issues of population structure so that disease susceptibility among the Han is well characterized, in particular with the heightened medical needs of an aging ...
  20 hours ago

• A bit of family medical history with that turkey and gravy?

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 685
  Is your Thanksgiving feast marred by awkward silences, backbiting comments or, worst of all, sports talk? Your surgeon general, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, prescribes the cure for these common holiday afflictions: why not take the opportunity presented by the family gathering to gorge on some of the clinical details ...
  21 hours ago

• GWAS, population structure and the Han Chinese

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 430
  Two new articles in AJHG, Genomic Dissection of Population Substructure of Han Chinese and Its Implication in Association Studies : To date, most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and studies of fine-scale population structure have been conducted primarily on Europeans. Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in ...
  21 hours ago

• Natural GMOs part 58. Each second of time in the ocean , natural gene movement occurs ten times ten repeated 23 times

  
  GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe — Authority: 115
  Marine viruses — major players in the global ecosystem Curtis A. Suttle Abstract of scientific article: Viruses are by far the most abundant ‘lifeforms’ in the oceans and are the reservoir of most of the genetic diversity in the sea. The estimated 10^30 viruses in the ocean, if stretched end to end, would ...
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• The Empathy Gene: Are We Really Born Good or Evil?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A video log for this week  The Empathy Gene: Are We Really Born Good or Evil? from Claremont Graduate University on Vimeo .
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• R1a1 and the peopling of Eurasia

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 430
  A few weeks ago people in the comments were nagging me a bit about some new papers on the haplogroup R1a1 . This Y chromosomal lineage is found at very high frequencies from East-Central Europe into India. Initially, researchers such as Spencer Wells assumed that R1a1 signaled the arrival of Indo-Aryans to the ...
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• Why whales get no bigger

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 430
  Carl Zimmer reports that it might be a function of physics . Bigger whales have proportionality bigger mouths, but at some point the biological engineering runs up against constraints: s they report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Goldbogen and his colleagues found that big fin whales are not just ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 110
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• Honorable Mention: Gene Therapy Double Helix Health Care

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 565
  Inventors Digest held a youth innovation essay contest, in part to celebrate National Inventors Month, last August. The four winning essays are at InventorsDigest.com. The magazine received and reviewed some 400 essays from across the country. Inventors Digest, in cooperation with IPWatchdog, is showcasing several ...
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• The future of human evolution

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 588
  Since The Origin of Species was published 150 years ago many articles on evolution are seeing the light of day today. Normally Im all in favor of this, I ♥ evolution. But it also means that woolly thinking is put out there as conventional wisdom as journalists simply act as stenographers for any scientist whos ...
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• 75% of Black Males Under 35 on Police DNA Database

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 604
  A shocking 75 percent of all black males between the ages of 18 and 35 are now on the police’s DNA database, according to a report published by the Human Genetics Commission. According to the Home Office, the national DNA database is a “key police intelligence tool” which helps to “quickly identify offenders, ...
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• When Your Boss Wants Your DNA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Last month, Matt Williams, an adjunct professor at the University of Akron, opened an e-mail from his bosses about the school’s new rules for hiring and was “absolutely blown away,” he says, “when I saw the reference to collecting DNA samples.” The university was saying it could ask new workers for a DNA ...
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• Police Make Arrests in Britain to Shovel DNA into Database. See also “USA.”

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  The UK Human Genetics Commission reports on DNA database sweeps by the British police: It is now the norm to arrest offenders for everything if there is a power to do so … It is apparently understood by serving police officers that one of the reasons, if not the reason, for the change in practice is so that the ...
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