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...Tsien doesn't claim that he and his colleagues have found the unique genetic key to intelligence or even to memory. "It's likely that brain plasticity involves many molecules," he says. "This is just one of them." On the other hand, he asserts--and his critics would not disagree--that "intelligence does arise out of biology, at least in part." How much remains the great question. Whatever the answer, little Doogie surely represents an important step in unraveling what role our genes play in constructing not just memory but all the other attributes of the human mind. And clearly...
...widely used MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine has also been suspected of causing autism, yet there is no definitive scientific evidence to connect any vaccines to the still mysterious behavioral disorder. Indeed, doctors claim that the onset of autism often occurs in toddlers at the same time they are scheduled for shots and is likely to be entirely coincidental. A recent study in the journal Lancet found that in Britain rates of the disorder are similar among vaccinated and unvaccinated children...
Pundits in our age of rapid misinformation will surely transmit the story as a claim that the gene for intelligence has been cloned and that a human smart pill for routine production of kiddie geniuses lies just around the millennial corner. None of this punditry, however, will bear any relationship to current realities or reasonable prospects for the short-term future. Even so, the mice studied by Tsien et al. could help us correct two common errors in our thinking about genetics and intelligence...
...graying of America has created a whole new industry aimed at people worried about remembering and concentrating. In health-food stores, you'll find dozens of products that claim to do wonders for your brain. They range from vitamins to exotic herbal concoctions. But at the head of the pack is the enormously popular ginkgo biloba--a derivative of a leafy ornamental tree originating in eastern China that racked up $240 million in sales...
...terrified, and that's exactly what the authors of Monday's killer bomb want. Just hours after the blast that killed 116 people and leveled an apartment building, police found two tons of explosives in another Moscow apartment building. Authorities are blaming Chechen terrorists for the attacks. They claim that a Chechen man wanted in connection with last week?s apartment bombing in which 90 people were killed had rented a storage space in the crumpled building, and politicians of every stripe hastened to connect the attacks to the continuing war in Dagestan. "At the same time, though," says TIME...