Genetics

Are Toxic Chemicals To Blame For Rising Rates Of Autism?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: National Stroller Brigade Day of Action, Toxic Chemicals, Cdc, Safe Chemicals Act, Learning Disabilities, Genetics, Autism, Toxic Substances Control Act, Autism Pregnancy, Autism Risk Factors, Autism Chemicals, Green News

While pregnant with her son Edgar, Melissa Wolfe followed the lead of many a cautious woman before her. She took prenatal vitamins and ate organic veg...

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Why Popular Pet's Origins Are So Hard To Trace

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Video, Pets, Animal Evolution, Biology, Domesticated Animals, Salukis, Where Do Dogs Come From, Canines, Genetics, Evolution, Animals, Dog Origin, Dogs, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/22/2012 07:39 AM EDT on LiveScience Humans' close relationship to dogs has so far obscu...

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What Food Allergies Are Really About

Susan Weissman | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fetish, Steve Jobs, Food Allergies, Genetics, Food Allergy Awareness Week, Food Obsession, Parents News

For my son, Eden, food allergies are about how food makes him feel singled out.

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Crew Members of the USS Monitor: Solving the Mystery of the Skeletons in the Turret 150 Years Later

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Ironclad, Dna, History, Military, Bones, Civil War, Memorial Day, Sailors, Mystery, Forensics, Genealogy, Genetics, Maritime, Navy, USS Monitor, Shipwreck, Culture News

Who doesn't love a good history mystery? You don't have to be a Civil War buff to be fascinated with the attempt to identify the two skeletons found in the turret of the USS Monitor when it was raised from the ocean floor a decade ago.

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Most People Fine With Food Biotechnology, Survey Says

Food Safety News | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Food Technology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Food News

While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of ...

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Sharing Office Cubicles... and Diagnoses

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Stigma, Medical Ethics, Psychiatry, Confidentiality, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness Stigma, Privacy, Politics, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Healthcare Reform, Bioethics, Anxiety, Medicine, Healthcare, Wellness, Healthy Living News

Coworkers occupy peculiar in-between roles in our lives. Most days, we spend at least half of our waking hours with them. Disclosing our personal problems to them can offer advantages, generating social support, or can prompt stigma and discrimination.

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Mystery Of Horse's Origins Solved With Help Of Hair Samples, Math

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Domesticated Animals, New Research, Ancestry, Horses, Genetics, Genetics Study, Animals, Tame Animals, Science News

LONDON -- A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to...

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Islanders' Genes Reveal Surprising Origin Of Blond Afros

| Ellen Loury | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Population, Melanesia, Video, Genes, Ancestors, New Research, Gene Mutation, Blonde, Genetics, Afro, Solomon Islands, Science News

Pay a visit to Melanesia's Solomon Islands, 1800 kilometers northeast of Australia, and you'll notice a striking contrast: about 10% of the dark-skinn...

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Why Are African Pygmies So Short?

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Short People, Video, Genes, Bantu, Africa, African Pygmy, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Pygmy, Genetics, Pygmies, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/26/2012 06:20 PM EDT on LiveScience Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short st...

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Gene Screens for Soldiers

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Spitak Earthquake, Journal of Affective Disorders, Genetics, Genomics, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Science News

What are the implications for society if a serious mental illness can be avoided by deliberately excluding some people from certain sorts of situations? Should our screening mechanisms become so heavy-handed, if the technology allows it?

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Artificial DNA Can Do WHAT?

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Dna, Synthetic Biology, Xna Molecule, Synthetic Life, Darwin, Biology, Life Forms, Evolution, Genetics, Xna, Cell Biology, Molecule, Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, InnovationNewsDaily Contributor Published: 04/19/2012 04:26 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Synthetic molecules resembling DN...

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Research: Genetics Explain Why Some Are So Sweet

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: State University of New York at Buffalo, Genetics, Nice People, Mean People, Buffalo, Why Are People Mean, Video, College News

BUFFALO, NY -- New research from the University at Buffalo could explain why people are jerks -- and why some are so sweet. Michel Poulin, Ph.D., a...

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Autism and Genes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Stigma, Mental Health, Ethics, Health Care Reform, Genetics, Bioethics, Autism and Health Care, Autism Discrimination, Autism and Health Insurance, Autism Genetics, Autism, Autism Gene, Autism Genes, Autism and Genetics, Healthy Living News

How we -- as individuals and as a society -- respond to burgeoning genetic discoveries will be as important as these discoveries themselves.

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Check This Box: Science Is Getting Easier/Harder/Both/Neither?

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Philsophy, Science, Genetics, Autism, Medical Research, Autism Genetics, Physics, Scientific Research, Science Research, Research, Science Education, Science News

We seem to be in a transition period from a marvelously rich era of discovery in the last thirty years to an era in which new concepts and methods will be required to gain access to another range of powerful discoveries.

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What I Think About When I Think About Sex

Rob Brooks | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Reproduction, Evolution, Genetics, Genes, Evolutionary Biology, Biology, Sex, Mating, Science News

It takes something as profound as love to trick us into putting aside our conflicting interests and mistrust long enough to mate, and sometimes even to raise a family together.

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Selfless Genes: A New Revolution in Biology

Jonathan Gottschall | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Selfish Gene Theory, E.O. Wilson, Altruism, Genetics, Evolution, Selfless Genes, Richard Dawkins, David Sloan Wilson, Selfish Genes, Science News

Darwin and E.O. Wilson agree: no matter the species, if you have intense and sustained group-level conflict, selfless genes beat selfish genes; they beat them bloody; they beat them every single time.

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'Green' Scientists Offer Controversial Blueprint For 'Engineered Humans'

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Philosophy, Geoengineering, Human Engineering, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Science, Ethics, Bioengineering, Green, Climate Change, Genetics, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Bioethics, Global Warming, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/30/2012 07:27 AM EDT on LiveScience So far, conventional solutions to global warming ...

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PHOTOS: Artist's Famous Flowers Were Mutants, Gene Study Says

| Ferris Jabr | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Art, Video, Hacyc2c, Vincent Van Gogh, Genetic Mutation, Genetics, Botany, Painting, Van Gogh, Mutant Sunflowers, Sunflowers, Science News

The word “sunflower” brings to mind a mane of vibrant yellow petals encircling a dark whorl of seeds. But not all sunflowers are alike. Some sunfl...

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UConn's Role in Shaping the Future of Medicine

Susan Herbst | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Bioscience, Genetic Disorders, Dna Testing, Bioscience Connecticut, Genetic-Makeup, Genetic Code, University of Connecticut, Uconn, Genetic-Health, New Health Care, Genetics, Health Care, Personalized Medicine, Healthcare, Medical Research, College News

"Personalized medicine" is opening the door to a whole new world of medical care -- one that would offer a tailor-made approach to treating and preventing health problems in individual patients.

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Genetics as Rohrshachs: Pondering Genes and Fate

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Genes, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Bioethics, Testing Genetics, Genetic Testing, Gene Testing, Genetics and Health, Healthy Living News

"I always knew I shouldn't have stayed in that job and that apartment," a social worker with breast cancer and a mutation for the disease recently tol...

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DNA Study Shows Color Of Neanderthal Eyes

| Traci Watson | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Dna, Human, Neanderthal, Video, Brown Eyes, Human Evolution, Paleontology, Biology, Croatia, Pigmentation, Neandertal, Genetics, Evolution, Cavemen, Blue Eyes, Science News

In museums around the world, reproductions of Neandertals sport striking blue or green eyes, pale skin, and gingery hair. Now new DNA analysis suggest...

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WATCH: How To Extract Your Own DNA

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Nova, Pbs, Dna, How to Extract Dna, Video, Biology, Dna Extraction, Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Pbs Nova, Science Experiment, Science News

At 40,000 times thinner than a human hair, our DNA isn't usually much to look at. But if you're curious about your genetic material and don't happen t...

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Bee Study Showing Bugs' 'Personalities' Has Biologists Buzzing

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Animal Biology, Video, Bees, Personality, Bee Personality, Biology, Entomology, Insects, Genetics, Zoology, Honey Bees, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/08/2012 02:09 PM EST on LiveScience Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are ...

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WATCH: What Gorilla Genes Reveal About Human Evolution

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, Gorilla Genome, Genome, Human Gorilla, Gorilla, Genetics, Primate, Gorilla Dna, Ap, Human Genome, Science News

LOS ANGELES -- Take a trip to the zoo and you can see gorillas are a lot like us. But a new DNA study says we're even more similar than scientists tho...

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Am I My Genes? The Question Of Fate, Free Will And Genetics

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Religion, Metaphysics, Mental Health, Health, Ethics, Science, Coping, Genetics, Religion and Science, Medicine, Bioethics, Spirituality, Religion News

Some feel that God is the ultimate cause of disease. Others don't know what to believe and ponder the "cosmic roll of the dice." "There has to be a purpose to all this happening," one woman told me. "There has to be."

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