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Someone please make the cold vaccine already!
In Genetics and Health - Posted 2 days ago
For all of man s scientific prowess and evolutionary advancement, we are the helpless victims of this sneaky little villain. Cold viruses have very...
Tags: common cold
Autism Genetics: Two Studies
In Autism Vox - Posted 2 weeks ago
A gene linked to susceptibility to autism, CNTNAP2, has also been connected to specific language impairment, the most common childhood language disord...
Tags: autism autistic childhood children hearing hearing loss schizophrenia
Type 1 diabetes: good genes behaving badly
In Genetics and Health - Posted 2 weeks ago
Early-onset type 1 diabetes may have less to do with certain genes causing inborn genetic errors, and more to do with normal genes behaving differentl...
Tags: diabetes obese type 1 diabetes
Depression changes gene function of brain cells
In Genetics and Health - Posted 3 weeks ago
An interesting article on the suicidal brain came out of Biological Psychiatry this week - A gene for neurotransmitter reception is shut down in the s...
Tags: depression
Genetic links to your health - this week
In Genetics and Health - Posted 4 weeks ago
It s the Sunday edition of Genetics and Health so let s sum up some of the genetic research and news that came up this week. A grand rounds lectur...
Tags: cancer obese obesity
Epigenetics: Nature vs. Nurture?
In SharpBrains - Posted 4 weeks ago
In yesterday's interview with Michael Posner, he says:- There is a growing number of studies that show the importance of interaction between our gene...
Tags: children
New Method For Genetic Screening in ASDs
In Autism Vox - Posted 5 weeks ago
Researchers from the Seaver and NY Autism Center of Excellence at New York s Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new method to detect co...
Tags: autism children pregnancy sex
The Genius / Autism Genes
In Genetics and Health - Posted 5 weeks ago
Anecdotally, you may have heard of people with autism who are gifted or talented in the arts, music or math. Now researchers have actually found evide...
Tags: autism autistic
Another Hopeful Mental Illness Gene Article
In World of Psychology - Posted 5 weeks ago
Yesterday, for no particular reason, The Boston Globe published one of those stories we see at least once or twice every year we are on the verge ...
Tags: depression mental illness
Prenatal Genetic Testing and Lots of Questions
In Autism Vox - Posted 5 weeks ago
Currently, there s no prenatal genetic test for autism. Long ago (as in around the time I first started writing this blog ) I referred to such ...
Tags: autism autistic children infertility kidneys mental health pregnancy sleep
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