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Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result...
The second headline on your story, "The fault, dear Sigmund, may be in our genes," took a potshot at Sigmund Freud. You should not have implied that Freud omitted constitutional factors as a cause of neuroses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over and over, Freud cited the individual...
"The amount of information available now is huge when compared to the information available before the Human Genome Project and other genome projects like it," De Souza said. "Because of projects like that, studies like our own can add to the body of information on genes."
Outside of scientific circles, basic research is oftentimes unheard of and considered "curiosity-driven activities,"as Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) put it. That phrase evokes images of mad scientists pouring together chemicals and creating technological break-throughs such as flubber (flying rubber), as in the 1961 movie "The Absent...
However, basic research has brought clearer understanding of the common mechanisms of cancer. Now two categories of genes that contribute to cancer when mutated have been identified; and genes have already been found which can lead to a quicker diagnosis of altered tissue and pre-cancerous lesions. Ignoring these discoveries...