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Genetics
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article On Succession Issues For Multi Parent Children
Judith F. Daar (Professor of Law, Whittier Law School) recently published an article entitled, Multi-Party Parenting in Genetics and Law: A View from Succession, 49 Fam. L.Q. 71-92 (2015). Provided below…
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Humans 2.0 – The New Yorker
It didn t take Zhang or other scientists long to realize that, if nature could turn these molecules into the genetic equivalent of a global positioning system, so could we.…
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Love coffee? Need coffee? Your genes may have something to do with it. | Public Radio International
Ultimately what our genes are telling us that those who can quickly metabolize caffeine are consuming more, Cornelis explains. "Partly because they re obviously metabolizing it quickly, but also in…
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Adventures in the Science of the Superorganism — Science of Us
It is not only possible, it has in fact happened that a woman who vaginally conceived a child, then vaginally delivered her, had Protective Services threaten to take the child…
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Homosexuality may be caused by chemical modifications to DNA | Science/AAAS | News
A new study of male twins, scheduled for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Baltimore, Maryland, today, could help explain that paradox.…
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Can genes make us liberal or conservative? – Yahoo News
"The association between political attitude and DRD4 was highly significant for females," and less so for men, said the study, led by Richard Ebstein of the National University of Singapore.…
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DNA data explosion lights up the Bronze Age : Nature News & Comment
It s an interesting time, because the technology is moving faster than our ability to ask questions of it, says Larson, whose lab has also amassed around 4,000 samples from…
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Chicken Embryos With Dinosaur Snouts Created in Lab
Chicks with dino-snouts? With a little molecular tinkering, for the first time scientists have created chicken embryos with broad, Velociraptor-like muzzles in the place of their beaks. The bizarrely developing…
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How Europeans evolved white skin | Science/AAAS | News
The origins of Europeans have come into sharp focus in the past year as researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient populations, rather than only a few individuals. By comparing…
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“Reality check: Is sex crime genetic?”
Main April 9, 2015"Reality check: Is sex crime genetic?"The question in the title of this post is the headline of this interesting new Science piece that a helpful reader sent…