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...suited to the testing of a brand new discovery. Some 127 of the original group - now mostly in their early 50s - agreed to give dna samples, which were crosschecked with their life stories. The result is a guide for working out depression risk: for example, a person with the high-risk genotype who experiences three or more adverse life events in a year has an 80% risk of becoming depressed, compared with a 30% risk for someone with the protective genotype. Studies involving genetically at-risk people are the next step, say the researchers, who want to explore what types...
...That goal would become especially problematic should the research lead to wider use of antidepressants, shown to cause moderate to profound agitation in 7% of users. And will people need a dna test to find out their genetic vulnerability to depression? There is probably some personality marker for the high-risk genotype, says Parker. Despite a trawl of the data, however, "we haven't found it yet. We've looked at all varieties of anxiety and numerous personality styles," but at this stage without any luck...
...retired U.S. Coast Guard commander and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says our leaders harbor the delusion that the real fight against terrorism is overseas. In the meantime, the U.S. has made scant progress in protecting its own infrastructure. Having spent years visiting America's high-risk targets, Flynn offers a damning assessment and some solutions as well...
...closer look at the new rules shows that America?s porkland-security era may not yet be over. The changes are being made to something called the Urban Area Security Initiative, a program created in 2003 to funnel homeland security money to high-risk cities. This program was always designed to target money based on risk, and it?s only a portion of the total $2.5 billion that DHS will give states in 2006. When it was first created, only seven cities made the ?high threat? list. But as the funding rose, so did the number of cities...
...Hwang?s disgrace shouldn?t be used as an excuse to pour scorn on the idea of therapeutic cloning itself. Ambition and pride are a danger in any high-risk, high-reward area of science, but therapeutic cloning is so promising that it needs to be pursued regardless. The potential medical advantages are enormous: by cloning a patient?s own cells to create stem cells, then coaxing those stem cells to become new pancreatic, brain, spinal cord or heart tissue, for example, it?s conceivable that a victim of Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, diabetes, paralysis or heart disease could shore...