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  1. The Right Coast

    America s most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain | News

    By Thomas A. Smith

    New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer s disease, anxiety, and depression. Used for fast…

  2. Future Lawyer

    The Influence Of Genetics On Human Longevity.

    By rickgeorges

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  3. Health Law Prof Blog

    Does Human Germline Genome Editing Violate Human Dignity? An African Perspective

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Bonginkosi Shozi (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Does Human Germline Genome Editing Violate Human Dignity? An African Perspective, J. L. & Biosciences. (2021):It has been variously claimed that alterations to the human…

  4. Health Law Prof Blog

    Genetic Counsellors

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Dimitri Patrinos, Roxanne Caron, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Ma'n H. Zawati (McGill University), Genetic Counsellors, Legal Recognition and the Road Less Travelled, SSRN:Genetics and genomics are playing increasingly important roles in…

  5. Health Law Prof Blog

    Professor Mehlman Publishes Fifth Edition of “Genetics and Law”

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Professor Mehlman Publishes Fifth Edition of Genetics and Law TextbookProfessor Maxwell Mehlman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, published the fifth edition of…

  6. Health Law Prof Blog

    Genetics and COVID-19: How to Protect the Susceptible

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Robert Field (Drexel University), Anthony W. Orlando (California State Polytechnic University), Arnold J. Rosoff (University of Pennsylvania), Genetics and COVID-19: How to Protect the Susceptible, 37 Trends in Genetics (2021):Along with the…

  7. Health Law Prof Blog

    Professor Mehlman Publishes Fifth Edition of “Genetics and Law”

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Professor Mehlman Publishes Fifth Edition of Genetics and Law TextbookProfessor Maxwell Mehlman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, published the fifth edition of…

  8. The Right Coast

    Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The major outstanding question is not whether these [epigenetic inheritance] effects are happening, but what are the mechanisms by which these changes are happening, wrote Nicholas Burton, an epigenetics researcher…

  9. The Right Coast

    Genetic testing suggests horse domestication did not begin in Anatolia

    By Thomas A. Smith

    An international team of researchers has found via genetic testing that horse domestication very likely did not begin in Anatolia as has been thought. Instead, it appears more likely that…

  10. The Right Coast

    Genetics Research Explains Why Dogs Are Very Good Boys

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Aside from the fact that we give them food and belly rubs, there was no compelling science before this study that explained why dogs like us so much. This recent…