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According to the new research, the risk of osteoporosis depends heavily on which versions of the vitamin D receptor gene an individual inherits. Since each parent contributes a copy, a person's genetic endowment can be bb, Bb or BB. The most severe threat occurs, says molecular biologist Nigel Morrison, of the Australian team, "when you inherit a double whammy of the low-bone- density form of the gene. Then you're at risk of having osteoporosis...
...Alarmism—the environmental movement’s basic strategy—has led to this dead end. Since Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the movement has been dominated by doomsday scenarios. Even on the first Earth Day in 1970, biologist George Wald predicted that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken.” Fortunately, such apocalyptic forecasts have repeatedly proven to be wrong...
...Take biologist Paul Ehrlich’s popular Malthusian broadside, “The Population Bomb.” Farsighted Ehrlich predicted that a “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” causing world-wide famine and the death of “hundreds of millions of people” annually from starvation. Oops—in the subsequent 35 years, increased agricultural productivity exceeded population growth and the total amount of cultivated land barely increased...
...hope is that once those "stem-defining" proteins are identified, they might be used as targets for drug therapies that could lead to better cancer treatments. Irv Weissman, the developmental biologist at Stanford University who first isolated the blood-forming stem cell, is working on pinpointing just such a suite of proteins for leukemia...
Research for the project was made possible by funding from Harvard’s Green Fund, administered by evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, and the National Science Foundation. In addition to Moreau, researchers on the study also included Roger Vila and S. Bruce Archibald from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well Hessel Professor of Biology Naomi E. Pierce. Charles D. Bell from Florida State University was also a member of the research team...