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Tag Archives: genetics
Schizophrenia and genetics
Tarjinder Singh (Broad Institute- MIT and Harvard), as well as Benjamin Neale and Mark Daly (both from Mass General), along with more than 100 coauthors (dozens of research institutes) published “Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia” in Nature recently.
Leadership and Genetics
Born or Made?
This argument has been going on forever. Whether leaders are born that way or are made into greatness. There’s also the “Great Man Theory” that focuses of the differences (intelligence, physical height, personality) between leaders and non-leaders.
Designer Genes?
Ah, the benefits of technological advances…. We now have scientists examining the genomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients, to see if there are commonalities. To learn how we can better treat the ill.
Conversion therapy? Yeah, why worry about facts?
Remember Michelle Bachmann and her ditzy husband, Marcus? With their fakokta programs to “fix” gay kids. Like their “conversion therapy” was any more sound than TheDonald’s idea to stop hurricanes with nuclear weapons.
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