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...National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists reported that long-term, unrelenting stress on mothers can damage the DNA of their immune-system cells in a way that may speed up the aging process. "It's an immensely exciting result," says Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford University cell biologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the report...
My hat goes off to TIME for the provocative piece "Is God in Our Genes?" [Oct. 25]. I am a deeply spiritual person and often wonder why more people are not also that way. Has molecular biologist Dean Hamer with his discovery of a God gene, one that inclines a person toward spiritual beliefs, answered that question for me? Is it really in the genes? That makes sense to me. MARGOT ROBINSON Greensboro...
Your article on molecular biologist Dean Hamer's discovery of a gene for spirituality, the so-called God gene, put too much emphasis on the religious aspect of spirituality [Oct. 25]. While such a gene may very well cause those who carry it to experience self-transcendence and to have a feeling of connectedness to a larger universe, that does not always translate into religious beliefs. I tend to get caught up in an experience, have fleeting revelations and insights and feel connected to the world outside me, all of which, according to your article, are indications of spirituality. Having...
Nowhere has that idea received a more intriguing going-over than in the recently published book The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes (Doubleday; 256 pages), by molecular biologist Dean Hamer. Chief of gene structure at the National Cancer Institute, Hamer not only claims that human spirituality is an adaptive trait, but he also says he has located one of the genes responsible, a gene that just happens to also code for production of the neurotransmitters that regulate our moods. Our most profound feelings of spirituality, according to a literal reading of Hamer's work...
Earlier this year, Douglas A. Melton, co-director of the institute, and Harvard biologist Kevin C. Eggan appealed to the University’s ethical review boards to use stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos to study the development of diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease...