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This week’s genetics quote is from Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God by Michael Eugene Wittmer. I found it interesting because this way of thinking is rather foreign to me and I’m sure many animal lovers would disagree with Wittmer’s opinion.
The only reason such questions [about genetic engineering] […]
To follow up on my previous post on the genetics of literacy, here’s a quote from Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy by Nigel Hall, Joanne Larson, and Jackie Marsh. The quote can be found in Chapter 14: Brain Activity, Genetics and Learning to Read.
…there are neural systems that include language-related portions of the brain, […]
Today’s quote comes from a book that I think many of us will want to read - Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation ed. Erik Parens, Audrey R Chapman, Nancy Press.
…the scientific truth that behavioral disorders are genetically complex makes behavior eugenics scientifically as deluded as it was morally repugnant. No one […]
This week’s genetics quote comes from From Where I Sit: Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science by Mark L. Winston, a book that entomologist Dr. Decelles might appreciate.
Gene jockeys will snow you for hours about the great technology at their fingertips, the speed at which they can create a recombined organism, the low cost, and […]
This week’s genetics quote is from Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones.
Each child is a gamble in DNA futures.
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References to DNA surface in almost every context. This week’s genetics quote is from Corporate DNA: Learning from Life by Ken Baskin.
…Federal Express could integrate 100,000 people into a single corporate body by using information much the way our own bodies do. That is, the company made sure that its people, like all the […]
Disclaimer about today’s quote from Change Your DNA, Change Your Life! by Dr. Robert V. Gerard: I am not a member of the DNA Healing Project so don’t worry about my feelings if you feel the need to chuckle or shake your head.
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Our world wide mission advocates the teachings of the DNA Healing Project, […]
Around the same time last year, I posted about about the pointlessness of the nature vs. nurture debate. And the book I came across today for the weekly genetics quote just happens to come from The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of “Nature vs. Nurture” by David S. Moore. (I’m finding so many fascinating books […]
Ethics is not my strong suit as you may have noticed at Genetics and Health. I am more of a scientist and less able to twist my mind around all the various bioethical conundrums that confront us in the genome revolution. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think bioethics is important, but it’s […]
This week’s genetics quote is from Challenging Nature : The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life by Lee M. Silver. The book is also reviewed by Nicholas Wade at The New York Times this week.
…many western Europeans and American devotees of organic food express a visceral distaste for genetically […]
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