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...event, it's debatable whether people should be encouraged to determine their genetic susceptibility to depression. "One of the difficulties we face whenever we talk about a gene," says the study's geneticist, Peter Schofield, "is that everybody wants to attribute to that gene absolute causality. In this case it merely sits in the background as a predisposer." For now, the authors suspect, testing is premature...
...least you can try. Those molecular clocks are still rather crude. "The mitochondrial DNA signals a migration up to 30,000 years ago," says research geneticist Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona. "But the Y suggests that it occurred within the last 20,000 years." That's quite a discrepancy. Nevertheless, Hammer believes that the evidence is consistent with a single pulse of migration...
Singapore, meanwhile, with its Biopolis project, is pulling in top biomedical scientists--not just Edison Liu but Americans like geneticist Sydney Brenner and, most recently, husband-and-wife cancer researchers Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins, who are leaving the National Cancer Institute after two decades. They turned down competing offers from Stanford and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center because, Copeland says, "what's going on over there is amazing. There's plenty of funding and a lot less bureaucracy." Moreover, says Liu, "In the U.S. the state government says, Let's do one thing, while the Federal Government...
...clinical geneticist and medical ethicist, I appreciated the well-balanced article on parents' painful decisions after a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Prenatal clinics, doctors and genetic counselors should provide a full picture of the rewards and risks of raising a child with Down syndrome. Experience shows, however, that this rarely happens. All over the world, pregnancies are terminated immediately after a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, without the benefit of genetic counseling. No law can ever force parents to love their unborn child, but they should be obliged to listen to an expert for an hour...
...ensure they're getting samples from pure dingoes, the Monash team will use a genetic test developed by University of New South Wales geneticist Alan Wilton. Following on from earlier skull morphology work by other researchers, Wilton's test has been ringing alarm bells about the extent of hybridization, confirming a collapse in pure dingo numbers throughout much of south-eastern Australia. And there's plenty more work to be done: one of the problems hindering efforts to manage dingoes is the lack of data on their numbers or the national spread of hybridization, particularly across vast stretches...