mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2007 | news, science, technology, genome, health, dna
refaving petersigrist. this is fascinating and scary at the same time.
a) nervous what my dna would turn up about my predispositions
b) nervous about the negative societal implications -- especially as it relates health and intelligence predictions. e.g. would a dna test be required prior to getting health insurance? would a dna test be part of the admissions process for a premier school?Quoted: Logging onto my account at 23andMe, the start-up company that is now my genetic custodian, I typed my search into the “Genome Explorer” and hit return. I was, in essence, Googling my own DNA.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2008 | autism, education, science, news
Quoted: The findings also may help explain why intense education programs do help some autistic children — because certain genes that respond to experience weren't missing, they were just stuck in the "off" position.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 24 2008 | organs, news, science, medicine
Wow.
Quoted: Spievack's brother, Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound.
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To his astonishment, every bit of his fingertip grew back.ShareViewed: 15 Times
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 23 2008 | news, science, medicine, aids, hiv
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | news, health, science
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 07 2007 | technology, science, genome, news
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2007 | alcohol, health, wine, news, science
Quoted: The researchers found the highest amine levels in red wine and sake and the lowest in beer. For now, the device only works with liquids.
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Mathies suggests the device could be used to put amine levels on wine labels.ShareViewed: 9 Times
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | news, science, obesity, fat, mice
Quoted: "The vibration changes the fat distribution. We're not sure what the mechanism is. The stem cells aren't getting to the fat depots," said Clifford Rosen, one of the mice study's authors and an osteoporosis clinician and researcher at The Jackson Laboratory and at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | science, news, space
Quoted: The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth's nearest stars, a cool red dwarf called Gliese 581, 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | news, science, testosterone
Very interesting (I'm saying that in a deep voice).
Quoted: Men with bass voices tend to have more children than those who speak in a higher pitch, scientists find.
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- iantien - Nov 17 2007
- mohit - Nov 17 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Interestingly enough, I was at a talk by Craig Venter yesterday (the first person in the world to have his DNA decoded as part of the Human Genome project) he was making the point about how over-hyped DNA predisposition was as 1) generic histories are already used today for things like life insurance policies, it's not really new 2) in terms of health the benefits of being able to provide targeted preventative care can change the way we think about medicine and 3) stochastic variation refutes a lot of the notion that we're going to predict a lot, the same way identical twins have different finger prints, lead different lives and have different talents.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Decoded-My-Genome/dp/0670063584
one's behavior, health, athletic ability, etc. are each *partially* a function of one's genetic coding. in fact, your life insurance example indicates that the life insurance industry already feels this way.
this belief + access to genetic information presents tremendous opportunity. but, it has the potential to be disruptive in so many ways (how we select mates, how health insurance companies price their plans, how intelligence is assessed) that there is risk if not harnessed properly.
Send Mohit a friend request or a personal message instead.