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He also cited the Haplotype Map Project, which aims to codify variations in the human genome to find the genes that cause various diseases like diabetes, as an example of Broad’s contributions to genomics. He said researchers have already found 8 million of the 12 million human...
However they achieve their swift pace, Suetsugu and Liu are blazing a new path for Asian speedsters. For decades?even centuries?Asians have been convinced that their genes prevented them from winning high-piston track events like the sprints or hurdles. Conventional wisdom held that the limber, compact Asian body...
DIED. EDWARD B. LEWIS, 81, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. Using the lowly fruit fly, the Caltech professor was the first to explain how genes control the growth of a fertilized egg into a fully developed embryo. Further research has shown that the same mechanisms are at...
Statin drugs have helped millions of heart patients lower their cholesterol level--and may have helped in other ways as well. A study last week showed that long-term statin use may lower the risk of glaucoma; another suggested that the drugs may offer relief from rheumatoid arthritis. That's...
You quoted molecular geneticist Dr. Jeffrey Friedman as saying "there are genes in the population that predispose to obesity." Genetics may be a factor, but there are people in many other countries who have the same genes as Americans but not the same problems. Maybe our habit of blaming others...