Today my spouse Viktor is a guest of honor at the #tribecafilmfestival in #nyc . He is a cofounder and codirector of the #LAMMP charity, a non-profit adjunct of a for-profit #forensic research institute that is solving the murder case of #VenusXtravaganza. A documentary about Venus is shown 3 times at the film festival. My spouse is a subject matter expert on the #genetic#genealogy for that case. He focuses on marginalized people and minorities.
Brain (nervous system) dysfunction can be demarcated, for the sake of clarity, between genetically or cognitively caused
E.g., the behaviour that is diagnosed as #schizophrenia, can be a #genetic or cognitively caused phenomena. Although, medically, only the former should be diagnosed as schizophrenia
As for the latter, mistaken beliefs such as hearing "god" in the mind (dualism) can cause behaviours that mirror schizophrenia, but, can be mitigated with education
Could a deeper understanding of genotype by environment interactions at the molecular level be a potent antidote to societal concerns of #genetic determinism?
Our latest #PLOSBiology Perspective looks at the issue and how it could be solved.
So far, although we had #genetic and #oxygen#data supporting early photosynthesis, it was difficult to find clear fossil #evidence directly. Now, we have!
You would NEVER give a security-incompetent company your data if you could avoid it, right? Triple that sentiment when the data is granular genetic information -- yes, I'm talking about 23andMe, which has had a catastrophic hack.
Guess what? If a close relative gave them the DNA, you're screwed, too.
You didn't invite a breach of your most personal information, but your well-meaning relative inadvertently did.
We need laws that require your consent, not just theirs.
Your post makes some very incorrect claims about DNA testing and #GeneticGenealogy.
Yes, hackers stole the DNA information for people who tested with #23AndMe. No, the DNA data of people who did NOT test with them was NOT stolen--because it was never there.
Relationships can be deduced using #DNA (IF YOU HAVE EXISTING FAMILY TREE FILES to pair it with, and the MANY hours to group your results into family lines)....but your specific #Genetic information (hereditary diseases, eye color, etc.) is NOT in the database, because that cannot be accurately deduced based only on your relatives' DNA.
Those of us who research #Genealogy know well that #DNAtesting is not for the faint of heart. You tend to get...surprises (like "Grandpa cheated").
You're also handing your DNA results over to a company (and sometimes copying this to other websites), so you have to trust them to keep it safe, just like you do with any bank, employer, tax return prep company, big data company, etc.
This is fascinating. Everyone in the world with #blueEyes is descendant from one single #ancestor who lived about 10,000 years ago in modern-day #Ukraine. A single #genetic#mutation in the #gene that controls eye color is responsible for blue eyes. It functions by suppressing the ability of the #iris to produce #brown pigmentation.
In most cases, the virus's #genetic material, #DNA is enclosed within a protective protein shell called a #capsid . A research group at Lund University is working to understand the process by which the #virus ejects its genetic material from the capsid and into cells and what causes the virus's DNA to be released. #Biology#Virology#sflorg https://www.sflorg.com/2023/11/bio11082302.html
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
Leave it to the Daily Mail to make this sound dirty. Giant sloth? Nope. Denisovans
Serious reporting
The #genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health...the #genetic variant observed, which affects zinc regulation, could have signified an evolutionary advantage in our ancestors' adaptation to the cold
Impressive depiction of a #bacteriophage launching an assault on a bacterial cell. Bacteriophages, resembling creatures from a science fiction thriller, are specialized #viruses that target and infect bacterial cells by binding to specific surface proteins. They inject their #genetic material to hijack the bacterial machinery for replication, ultimately leading to the demise of the bacterial #cell.
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