Genetics

Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Genes, Biological Sciences, Science, Medicine, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

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Healthy Lifestyle's Impact on Your Genes

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: How to Prevent Prostate Cancer, Lifestyle, Epigenetics, Prostate Cancer, Health, Nutrition, Dr. Dean Ornish, Genetics, Diet, Gene Expression, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

When a Western doctor sticks a tongue depressor down your throat and tells you to say; "Ahhh," he's using one of the five senses to observe throat red...

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Voting: It's In Your Genes

HealthDay | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Genetic Traits, Genetics, Genetic Voters, Voters, Voting, Politics News

Heading to the polls on Nov. 4? If so, your genes may be driving you there, a new study suggests. In fact, as much as 50 percent of whether you vote ...

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Insomnia Gets Another Nod: 5 Ways To Fight It

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Insomnia, Genetics, Sleep Deprivation, Health, Dna, Sleep Tips, The Balanced Life, Sleep, Sleep Advice, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Are you an insomniac? If so, then which kind? The one who flat-out can't ever get to sleep? Or are you the type who falls asleep okay but then has a r...

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Gene-Mongering in the New York Times: How to Twist Science to Suit Your Fancy

Dan Agin | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Heredity and Politics, Genetics, Election 2008, Media News
Dan Agin

A Times' editorial says "there is tempting evidence of a hereditary component in political choices." But there's no tempting evidence, and genes are no basis for political speculation.

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DNA is No Longer Destiny

Adam Hanft | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Dna, Navigenics, Genetics, Dna Profiling, Gene, Al Gore DNA, Living News
Adam Hanft

Soho has long been a place where you can discover the latest jeans. Now it's also a place where you can discover the latest in genes. This week, Na...

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Give Up -- Just Be Fat

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Twins, Fat Phobia, Obese, Weight Loss Industry, Fat, Weight Loss, Genetics, Overweight, Current Research, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Would a thin gene test finally release fat people from the lazy-no-willpower-fat-is-contagious stereotype that our society is so fond of or would it only make it easier to pick them out to vilify?

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Fruit Flies -- Gotta Love 'Em

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Memory, Genetics, Memory Loss, Genes, Fruit Flies, Living News
Jacqueline Leo

When did scientists discover that fruit flies were absent-minded?

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Will Americans Ever Put a Person Genetically Predisposed to Choleric Temperament in the White House?

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Race, Genetics, Politics News
Jeff Dorchen

Here in the USA we still decide questions of who shall lead by voting, not by measuring nucleotide codes against each other, and this will never change.

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I Have an Easier Time Talking with My Kids about Sex than Food

Donna Fish | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Eating Habits, Childhood Obesity, Body Type, Genetics, Childhood Nutrition, Overweight, Living News
Donna Fish

If children see that they can still have their favorite foods, reminding them of their job to take good care and feed their body the other food groups it needs, they are less likely to struggle.

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The Power of We

Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey | Posted 02.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Anne Wojcicki, Genetics, Health Care, Linda Avey, 23andme, Living News
Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey

We believe the democratization of data and the increase in competition could help accelerate the pace and diversity of research.

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23notMe

Jon Entine | Posted 12.11.2007 | Living

Read More: Geneaology, Genetics, Geonome Project, Genetic Testing, Genetic Sequencing, Living News
Jon Entine

Those in search of certifying their identity or behavioral quirks using DNA tests may find disappointment as much as illumination.

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Searching Your Family Tree For Famous Roots

New York Times | MICHELLE SLATALLA | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living

Read More: Family Tree, Genetics, ancestor.com, Living News

I WOULD like to apologize to any neighbors who walked by my house recently and happened to see me scraping the roof of my husband's mouth with a cotto...

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Genes and the Black Box (Part 3)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.15.2007 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Identical Twins, Genes, Karma, Dna, Living News
Deepak Chopra

To claim that genes are the controllers of everything, which amounts to meta-materialism, is willy-nilly, crude reasoning.

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Genes and IQ: An Unsettled Omelet

Dan Agin | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: IQ Environment, Arhtur Jensen, Genetics, Erik Turkheimer, Genetics IQ, Iq, Politics News
Dan Agin

For middle and upper class children, differences in IQ can be explained mostly by genetic differences, while in lower class children, differences in IQ are explained mostly by non-genetic differences.

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Genes and the Black Box (Part 2)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home

Read More: Genes, Genetics, Behaviorism, Home News
Deepak Chopra

The field of genetics is rapidly maturing -- it attracts more attention and excitement than any other field of science today. As part of this matura...

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Our Dependent Nature

Susan Smalley | Posted 09.15.2007 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Genetics, Dependent Nature, Living News
Susan Smalley

We are of a dependent nature to one another and genetics keeps revealing new evidence of this. This is science; a truth emerging from the study of our DNA, our blueprint of life. If this sounds 'new age', think again.

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