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...newly published results, from a team of scientists featuring Medical School instructor Brian M. Wolpin and associate professor Charles S. Fuchs, identifies a link between pancreatic cancer and the ‘ABO gene?? that defines blood type...
...make one cell a kidney gene, one a brain cell,” Oberdoerffer added. “Every cell and every organ in your body has certain things to do, and if you mess around with that—[like if] your muscle cells express[es] a brain gene??then you can imagine that clearly your cell doesn’t function property anymore.” Over time, as cells become worn out and become permanently damaged, more proteins are called away from their normal sites, leading more gene expression to go awry. This trend...
...audience was an evolutionary biologist by the name of Kevin Foster,” Verstrepen said. “He started jumping around and crying out that this is a ‘green beard gene.’” The “green beard gene?? was initially proposed by Oxford evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton in 1964. The idea helps explain how cooperative behavior can evolve among organisms. Biologists have often asked how cooperation could succeed when “cheaters”—organisms that did not express the cooperative gene?...
...Pinker says. “Writing as if they are is just as bad as writing in academese.” Pinker gave The Crimson his own “Best Recommended” list of books that balance style and substance: “The Selfish Gene?? and “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design,” by Richard Dawkins “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do,” by Judith Rich Harris “Passions Within Reason...
...exercise until he discovered Pacelli’s Ashtanga Yoga classes. Now, Selty says that he has become committed to this genre of yoga.“Yoga helps me get peace out of my regular activities and day-to-day life,” Selty says.Another of Gene??s regular students, Harvard Law School student Effie Barton, says that while she doesn’t usually have favorite classes, she does now.“Gene??s unique,” she says. “He remembers everyone’s name so that...