On Nicholas Wade and the blurring of boundaries between science and fantasy By Michael Eisen | Published: June 4, 2014 I just finished reading Nicholas Wade’s “A Troublesome Inheritance”, his latest effort to explain all of his personal racial prejudices in the light of recent human evolution.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘genetics’
January 25th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: of God and cloning Neanderthals
If George wants to clone a Neanderthal, why not clone Sasquatch? George Church, interview by Spiegel SPIEGEL: Mr. Church, do you believe in God? Church: I would be blind, if I didn’t see that faith in an overall plan resulted in where we are today. Faith is a very powerful[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:48 pm § in Science
Maybe not God, but A One World Genome?
Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes▿† Huiquan Liu1,2, Yanping Fu2, Daohong Jiang1,2,*, Guoqing Li1,2, Jiatao Xie2, Jiasen Cheng2, Youliang Peng3, Said A. Ghabrial4 and Xianhong Yi2 + Author Affiliations 1State Key Laboratory of Agric[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 5:19 pm § in Jews
You, you … caveman!
Fifth of Neanderthals’ genetic code lives on in modern humans outside of Africa Benjamin Vernot and Joshua Akey at the University of Washington reported in Science that they sequenced the genomes of more than 600 people from Europe and eastern Asia. They found a lasting legacy of sexual encou[...]
May the Schwartz Be With You …
The Ancestors of the Schwartz Family Were Black People! Years ago, my grandmother, Bubbie Perlmutter, told me that our family name was not “Schwartz” but “Negri.” This Latin name made some sense since I had grown up being told that we were immigrants from a group of Jews w[...]
July 3rd, 2013 - 9:54 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
White Men Can Jump
To often we accept the idea that people, more specifically African Americans are born with natural athletic abilities. I myself have heard this on many occasions, at one point possibly believed it to be true sad to say. I’ve heard theories that African Americans are athletically superior as a resu[...]
Sequencing Sasquatch!
Researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology in Switzerland are asking yeti enthusiasts or anyone with samples thought to be from the creature alternatively known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch to share them for DNA analysis as part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project, [...]
December 13th, 2011 - 3:50 pm § in UW
UW part of .4 billion dollar, four year mega effort in genomics.
NIH Plans $416-Million for Genomics Research The NIH will spend $416 million over the next four years in its version of “big science.” Most of this underwrites large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University i[...]
Courts Make Bad Ruling on Who Owns a Gene
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 29, 2011 NY Times excerpted The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents on two human genes used to predict if women have an increased r[...]
American Breeds: Race in America
The American concept of “race” is a farce. Some 40 years ago, as a medical student, I got into trouble when I asked my mentors why we were supposed to describe patients as Black or White? My mentors answered that there were genetic disorders. Excited by this idea, I began to take race hi[...]