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...actually very active in our lives every day, regulating how various cells in our bodies behave. In the brain this can be especially powerful. Any significant experience triggers changes in brain genes that produce proteins - those necessary to help memories form, for example. But, says the study's lead author, Ian Maze, a doctoral student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "when you give an animal a single dose of cocaine, you start to have genes aberrantly turn on and off in a strange pattern that we are still trying to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cocaine Scrambles Genes in the Brain | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...This is a step towards identifying specific adaptations that have risen as humans expanded and faced new environments,” said Shari R. Grossman ’08, the lead author of the paper...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Use Innovative Method to Follow Genetic Footprint | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...shown potential for many applications before it saw full development, according to the paper's senior author Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology and associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Use Innovative Method to Follow Genetic Footprint | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...along with the bitter wounds from years of being in the minority, has left the party less open to cooperation. "The Senate is a nasty and brutish place now compared to anything I've seen in 40 years, and it's still better than the House," says Norm Ornstein, author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track. "We see more and more people in their late 50s early 60s, who in years past would've been moving into the prime of their careers, decide to leave." (See TIME's special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Retirements Point to Dems' Uphill Election Fight | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...community building, government-funded support services and political engagement as some of the ways the community has limited the spread of radicalization. "Many community leaders have come to recognize that [tackling radicalization] is a matter of survival," says Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion at Duke and a co-author of the report. "They know that radicalization threatens the community at large and are working hard to defeat it." The researchers recommend that the government reinforce these efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Threat of Homegrown Islamic Terrorism May Be Exaggerated | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

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