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...this week's papers tried to determine whether stacking the statistical deck in this manner had skewed the results. When they looked at a broader population of women, the breast-cancer risk, even if a gene mutation was present, fell to 56%. National Institutes of Health geneticist Jeffrey Streuwig, who led one study, does not pretend this new number is the last word, but neither does he think the older, grimmer figure is a better one. "There is a lot of uncertainty," he says...
...been a long-term goal of ours to have a senior geneticist who does contemporary molecular genetics, beacuse we see research in that area complementing traditional research in the fossil record," said Peter T. Ellison, who also is curator of human biology at the Peabody Museum...
...appointment of Maryellen Ruvolo '74, a geneticist who studies the evolution of primates, will fill a gap in the anthropology department's research, according to department chair Peter T. Ellison...
...than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...
...problem facing any scientist trying to find a genetic lever on the aging process is the sheer number of genes involved. Geneticist George Martin at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was involved in the discovery of the Werner's gene, believes that even if only a few master-clock genes directly guide aging in humans, up to 7,000 more might be peripherally involved. Re-engineering even one of these is an exquisitely complex process. Re-engineering all 7,000 would be impossible...