Showing posts with label genes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genes. Show all posts
Friday, October 20, 2023

Does a "P-factor" underlie core attributes of mental health maladies?

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I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatris...
Friday, May 13, 2022

The tabula sapiens consortium - mapping cell types in the human body

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It is hard to keep up with the mind boggling advances that pop up in almost every issue of Science Magazine. In a perspective article Liu a...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Castration delays aging

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I pass on this nugget by Beverly Purnell in the Editor's Choice section of this week's Science Magazine noting an interesting paper...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Optogenetics used to induce pair bonding and restore vision.

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I want to note two striking technical advances that make use of the light activated protein rhodopsin that I spent 36 years of my laboratory...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Evidence for an influence of meditation on immune-related pathways?

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I pass on the abstract, below, and also the entire text of a study by Chaix et al .: Highlights • We explored the methylome of train...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Genes and environments, development and time

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 A special section of the Sept. 22 issue of PNAS offers a series of free online artices on biological embedding across timescales.  Here is...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Gay scientists isolate christian gene.

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 Another of my old posts, from March 18, 2009: My thanks to friend Mark Weber for bringing this satire to my attention.
Friday, May 08, 2020

Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later

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From Tang et al. : Significance Children show different temperamental styles early in development. Whether temperament predicts who ch...
Friday, April 03, 2020

Rejuvenating aging human cells.

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Nicholas Wade points to important work by Stanford researchers showing they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a you...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Heritable gaps between chronological age and brain age are increased in common brain disorders.

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Kaufmann et al. have used machine learning on s large dataset to estimate robust estimation of individual biological brain ages on the basi...
Friday, November 01, 2019

Skill development - the intelligence vs. practice debate reframed

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Vaci et al. note that what is often overlooked in the nature vs. nurture debate is the fact that both factors interact with each other: ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Like the emperor’s new clothes, DNA kits are a tailored illusion

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I recommend reading this article by George Estreich . Here are a few clips: Most people remember the emperor: a vain ruler, swindled into ...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Father's physical activity directly enhances offspring's brain physiology and cognition.

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Experiments on mice suggest that human kids of athletic fathers might have more smarts than kids of couch potatoes. From McGreevy et al. : ...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Infants and toddlers expect different third party punishment behaviors from ingroup and outgroup members.

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Yet another example of how our brains are wired to distinguish ingroup and outgroup at a very early age... Ting et al. find sophisticated s...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Facial masculinity does not indicate immunocompetence

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From Zeidi et al. : Significance Facial masculinity has been considered a sexual ornament in humans, akin to peacock tails and stag ant...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Can we really inherit trauma?

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MindBlog has mentioned a number of studies that claim that the effects of trauma can be passed through generations. Carey does a review tha...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Stop talking about 'male' and 'female' brains.

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As a counterpoint to yesterday's post, which invokes the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism, I pass on some clips from a piece by Joel ...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

A molecular basis for the placebo effect.

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Several popular articles point to work I wish I had been more aware off. Gary Greenberg in the NYTimes , and Cari Romm in The Atlantic , p...
Monday, October 29, 2018

DNA variants linked to same sex behavior.

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Michael Price and Jocelyn Kaiser report from the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in San Diego: How genes influen...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Health of fathers influences the well-being of their progeny.

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Watkins et al. show in mice that a low protein diet during the period of spermatogenesis leads to offspring with disturbed metabolic health...