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Some legislators, however, are acknowledging that there is more to fatherhood than what can be defined solely by the sharing of a few genes. Oklahoma last year joined several states in adopting a law that limits the time frame for contesting paternity to a few years after the child's...
You might think a mouse's brain would be of little help explaining the genetic workings of the human brain. Not only is the mouse version tiny--it weighs just 0.02 oz., compared with the 3-lb. behemoth in a human--but a mouse's rudimentary intelligence and cognition are...
That's the idea behind the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA). Launched in September with $100 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the atlas is the first Web-based, public-access database of all 20,000 or so genes expressed in the mouse brain. Want to know where in the...
The ABA has been a revelation for drug developers as well. Its data make clear that there are almost no genes that are exclusively expressed in any one structure or region. That, says Allan Jones, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, means "people will have to...
FOR DECADES, THE PREVAILING DOGMA IN neuroscience was that the adult human brain is essentially immutable, hardwired, fixed in form and function, so that by the time we reach adulthood we are pretty much stuck with what we have. Yes, it can create (and lose) synapses, the connections between neurons...