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I haven't found a simple answer to this question, but I have come upon some satisfaction in the discovery that the field of neurogenetics is not as pat as I had feared. BPAD and schizophrenia are both marked by multifactorial genetic inheritance; they are not the results of basic...
Inside the neurogeneticists' community there is more argument than consensus over the genes involved in mental health. Diagnosis of psychiatric illness is notoriously subjective and genetic heterogeneity is the rule, not the exception, even when diagnosis is more certain. In order to trace inheritance patterns neuroscientists focus on a genetic...
Are there more potential pitfalls? There are. Among other things, there is the possibility that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants...
In Wambugu's view, there are more benefits to be derived from agricultural biotechnology in Africa than practically anywhere else on the planet--and this may be so. Among the genetic-engineering projects funded by the Rockefeller Foundation is one aimed at controlling striga, a weed that parasitizes the roots...
Of course, these particular breakthroughs have not happened yet. But as the genomes of major crops are ever more finely mapped, and as the tools for transferring genes become ever more precise, the possibility for tinkering with complex biochemical pathways can be expected to expand rapidly. As Potrykus sees it...