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1 Apr 2015, 11:21 am
Nigeria is one of the largest democracies in the world, and if it successfully completes a peaceful transition of power, it could signal a major turning point for the country. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 2:38 pm
It's the fault of our subconscious drives, our parents, or our genes. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 11:52 am
Gene patents first granted in early 1980s. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 6:23 am
Gene Alday told The Jackson Clarion-Ledger he was against increased funding for education, in particular funding to improve literacy. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 6:53 am
President Obama recently announced his ‘Precision Medicine Initiative’ in which $215 million dollars would be invested to ‘pioneer a new model of patient-powered research’ in which treatment takes into account a person’s ‘genes, environments, and lifestyles’, the aim being to choose the treatment which is most likely to be effective. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 5:19 am
Federal Courts - Moderator - Christine Farley, American University Washington College of Law Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School - Intellectual Property Reform Through the Lens of Constitutional Equality Sandra Park, ACLU Women's Rights Project - A Feminist Challenge to Gene Patents: Association for Molecular Pathology v. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 11:45 am
Ossorio suggested that while gene editing could be used to eliminate some diseases, it would be more difficult to cause some traits such as musical skill or skin color to be altered or enhanced. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
The implicit suggestion, when one is told that a hypothetical potential patient’s illness is explained by having a structurally different brain or different genes, while another’s illness is caused by experiences, is that experiences can make people mentally ill without having any physical and biological effect on the person, by contrast to biologically-caused illness. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 9:20 am
Mitochondria are small compartments in the cell that do most of the work of converting molecules like sugars and fats into ATP, which the cell uses to power most of its basic functions. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 7:52 am
This is changing with the emergence of precision medicine, an innovative approach to disease prevention and treatment that takes into account individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles. [read post]
3 Jan 2015, 5:46 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) For the last three years I have written of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá (Consejo Cubano De Sacerdotes Mayores De Ifá), the practitioners of traditional religion brought over from West Africa with the slave trade and now naturalized as a powerful indigenous religion throughout the Caribbean and growing in the United States. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm
Chamber of Commerce) | July 14 Following decades of advances in recombinant DNA technology, scientists began inserting foreign genes into food crops in order to confer beneficial properties such as disease-resistance and improved yield. [read post]
6 Dec 2014, 1:00 am
These cloned sequences, known as a cassette, were slotted into a fresh E. coli cell, thereby boosting its fat-absorbing powers. [read post]
27 Nov 2014, 10:59 am
There is a more powerful way. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 12:27 pm
Gene Wu has filed legislation, HB 325, to reduce possession of up to .35 ounces of marijuana to a Class C misdemeanor. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 12:36 pm
” The car crashed, killing her boyfriend, Gene Mikale Erickson, and severely injuring her. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 5:37 am
Episcopalians, however, are often some of the elite and most powerful members of society in the U.S. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 12:53 am
Atlantic Gene: Philanthropy = Political Power – read Be Afraid: The Five Scariest Trends in Philanthropy Stacy Palmer: An @philanthropy oped worth reading after the election -how foundations should engage with lawmakers http://shar.es/10ZH3O Rob Reich: Dark money and the dismantling of American democracy. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 7:46 pm
The effort was powered by the ACLU and Public Patent Foundation, who gathered a group of plaintiffs who were paying high prices for the patented gene tests on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 7:20 am
And if what they like is the power and status that it brings them relative to everyone below, that is a mainly zero sum phenomenon. [read post]
