Genes at the Crossroads
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.
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.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living
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...
HealthDay | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
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 ...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living
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...
Dan Agin | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
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.
Adam Hanft | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living
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...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living
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?
Jacqueline Leo | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living
When did scientists discover that fruit flies were absent-minded?
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
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.
Donna Fish | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living
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.
Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey | Posted 02.05.2008 | Living
We believe the democratization of data and the increase in competition could help accelerate the pace and diversity of research.
New York Times | MICHELLE SLATALLA | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living
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...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.15.2007 | Living
To claim that genes are the controllers of everything, which amounts to meta-materialism, is willy-nilly, crude reasoning.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
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.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home
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...
Susan Smalley | Posted 09.15.2007 | Living
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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Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living