LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG: Friday’s paper - Register-Guard
25 May 2012, 2:35 am
No one knows why anyone is gay — not geneticists, not shrinks, not the religious, not the pro-gay nor the anti-gay. But everyone has an opinion and pours out feelings, non sequiturs, irrelevancies, proofs that aren’t and, of course, advice. Here’s ...

geneticists to Study DNA for Signs of Yeti - patheos.com
24 May 2012, 3:01 pm
When I saw the headline “Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study,” I assumed that this was either a wild distortion of an actually serious study or the goal of some fringe professor. The Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project ...

Breeding values key to wool - Weekly Times Now
24 May 2012, 12:09 pm
A good eye, an honest stud breeder and a bit of luck can all be helpful. But the geneticists say the only real test of a bull or ram's worth is knowing the performance of its progeny. The problem is no one wants to wait that extra two or three years to ...

Antibiotic Overuse May Increase Superbug Evolution Rate - Wired News
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
“Human activities might be altering the fundamental tempo of bacterial evolution,” write geneticists Michael Gillings of Australia’s Macquarie University and Hatch Stokes of the University of Technology in a June Trends in Ecology and Evolution pape

Special issue of the EMBO Journal celebrates 30 years of Wnt research - sciencecodex.com
22 May 2012, 11:29 am
Multidisciplinary research involving Drosophila geneticists, cancer biologists and molecular biologists, has facilitated the molecular dissection of Wnt pathways, establishing them as one of the first and best understood evolutionary conserved ...

Common Diseases may be Better Understood by Studying Abundance of Rare DNA Changes Following Population Explosion - Med India
20 May 2012, 7:20 am
The abundance of rare variations across the human genome is consistent with the population explosion of the past few thousand years, medical geneticists and evolutionary biologists report in the May 17 advanced online edition of Science.

What geneticists Think You Should Know - Wall Street Journal
15 May 2012, 6:43 am
Given the rapid drop in price of whole genome sequencing — a technology that allows doctors to get information on your entire DNA — one day relatively soon you may get a chance to find out about your risks for different diseases. But do you ...

College or Funeral Is Mother’s Wish Denied on DNA Results - Businessweek
13 May 2012, 11:28 pm
Even when researchers are sure genetic data is correct, expertise in delivering the news is scant. There are about 1,300 clinical geneticists and 785 genetic counselors in the U.S., according to professional groups, or about one licensed and ...

Genetic study traces history of the domestic horse - Bangor Daily News
9 May 2012, 5:35 pm
But putting a place and date on the domestication of horses has been a challenge for archaeologists. Now, a team of geneticists studying modern breeds of the animal has assembled an evolutionary picture of its storied past. Horses, the ...