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Your article on psychologist Steven Pinker's new book, The Blank Slate, discussed the author's views on how much of human character is shaped by genes and how much by environment [SCIENCE, Oct. 28]. I am always amazed when I hear the phrase nature vs. nurture. What about free...
What's the advantage? Conventional vaccines are costly to make and distribute in the impoverished Third World countries that need them most. That's why Arntzen and others began thinking about using plants instead of needles, creating vaccines that would be easy to grow locally in, say, Vietnam or Bangladesh...
He has worked to identify genes associated with disease and found that a genetic variant common in the human population increases the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
He said the project’s potential usefulness in determining the relation of genes to disease is less clear, however.
Indeed, some researchers have major reservations about the project for this very reason—questioning whether the HapMap approach can be useful in tracking down the variant genes involved in common diseases.