DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one Abstracted from MIT Technology Review, Antonio Regalado April 2, 2018 A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test [&hell[...]
Posts Tagged ‘genetics’
Thom Gunn: Why the Jews?
Thom Gunn .. from Facebook It sure is the 64 dollar question…Excuse me everyone, one of my phantasies is a stud farm mixing Jews and Blacks, each one has in spades what the other lacks in clubs. And both have soul. By any measure, Jews are the brainiacs of the world and Blacks are the [&hellip[...]
China to Edit Babies
S GENETIC CURE FOR AIDS: MAKE BETTER BABIES A team led by Prof He Jiankui says the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had their DNA altered as embryos to prevent them from contracting HIV. The team at the Southern University of Science and Technology, in Shenzhen, has been recruiting couples to[...]
June 18th, 2016 - 9:56 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Extinction of humans.
A study of the maternal genes of skeletal and mummified remains of 92 South Americans dating from 8,600 to 500 years ago shows that all those lineages were wiped out. No living person descended from any the individuals tested is known to be living today. In a time where people loosely use the wo[...]
May 15th, 2016 - 8:54 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Is UW Outsourcing Genetics to China?
BGI and UW Medicine to collaborate on precision medicine development One of world’s leading genomics organizations and UW Medicine sign memorandum of understanding to advance biomedical technology UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE BGI, one of the world’s largest genomi[...]
April 22nd, 2016 - 12:20 pm § in America
Why Ethnic identity and race are NOT the same things.
There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’ By Linda Geddes “People think there is a DNA test to prove you are Native American. There isn’t” DNA testing is changing how Native Americans think about tribal membership. Yet anthropologist Kim Tallbear… tells Linda Gedde[...]
Wasn’t Jesus blonde and blue eyed?
Who is a Jew?? Okay, let’s be real. Most of the world, thanks to Woody Allen, Hollywood, and plenty of other reasons that have no connection to reality, the majority of the world likes to think Jews are all white, nerdy, and short. And have been like that since day one. And, of cour[...]
November 19th, 2015 - 1:40 am § in Misc.
Charlie James on Watermelon
This is my favorite fruit and I had no idea what the original looked like until selective breeding was used to create what we eat now. A 17th-Century Stanchi Painting Reveals the Rapid Change in Watermelons through Selective Breeding Giovanni Stanchi (Rome c. 1645-1672). Oil on canvas. 38 5/8 x 52½[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Finding the fountain of youth in the genome.
The Long Game: Google-Backed Calico Partners With Ancestry to Beat the Specter of Aging By Mark Bergen RECODE How much would you pay to live longer? What if Google were making the pill to do it? On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal [...]
What Is “Caucasian?”
So, we know from modern genetics that people from the Caucuses invaded Europe about 9000 years ago. Those Caucasians are the ancestors of most Europeans … aka “white” folks. However, that migration does not do much to explain skin color. White folks also include Jews, Arabs, Iran[...]