"A study in mice has hinted at the impact that early life trauma and stress can have on genes, and how they can result in behavioural problems. Stressed mice produced hormones that "changed" their genes, affecting their behaviour throughout their lives. " This has to be a...
A study of identical and fraternal twins has shown that the love of exercise may in fact be a genetic trait. The study was conducted at the University of North Carolina. 5,334 identical twins and 8,028 fraternal twins participated in the study, which showed that the exercise...
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Scientists have produced monkeys with genetic material created by splicing DNA from two diferent mothers into a single egg. Eventually, this technique could be used on people to combat birth defects and disease passed down from an embryo's mother, but also raises significant...
Waterproof rice gene identified Rice is the staple food for more than three billion people Scientists say they have identified a gene that will allow rice plants to survive being completely submerged in water for up to two weeks. Most rice...
According to a study on 226 families by Plymouth's Peninsula Medical School, obesity of children is often linked to same-sex parent. Daughters were said to be 10 times more likely to be obese in case of obese...
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There has been a veritable tsunami of contradictions regarding religion -v- science for the lifetimes of many people who have considered this question. . It is an old argument, but one that still prevails...
opinion by Swan | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 514 views | 46 recommendations | 7 comments
Is intelligence determined by genes or by the environment? This is one of the most important debates in Psychology. A study by a team of scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has led credence to the theory that intelligence has a strong genetic basis....
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New research indicates that financial risk taking could be genetic with those prepared to take the most financial risk having a particular genetic make up. This could mean that the extravagant risk taking...
A recent University of California, San Diego study suggests that a great deal of our social networking habits and inclinations are the result of our genes. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard, and Christopher Dawes and...
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Galileo Galilei, when he ws buried in 1642 in unconscreated ground, left a few questions behind him. How could a man with such bad eyesight have made such astute observations about astronomy? Also, how did his bad...
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Sara and Richard Sault welcomed a second child into their lives on December 23, but were surprised when the doctors delivered a 14.2 lb baby by C-section. It supposedly required two doctors to lift the...
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Genetic experts are asserting that laws preventing first cousins from marrying are outdated, since there is no scientific basis to support the belief that their offspring face a higher risk of genetic defect. Professors Hamish Spencer of the University of Otago in New...
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Researchers at Cornell University examined the possibility of a link between environment and autism, and found that children in wetter counties within the US Northwest were more likely to have autism. ...
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Opinion Barry Artiste. Well isn’t that a kick in the pants when it seems at first Mammoths and humans crossed the ice bridge between Siberia and Alaska populating North America with the Wooly Mammoth, then as...
The World Health Organization has just finished an extensive three-year study looking at the relationship between social conditions and health, concluding that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale."Working conditions, education, housing, food, social security,...
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