Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lester Weiss, a geneticist based in Detroit, spends much of his time these days "visiting" his patients via telephone. He calls not to chat but to analyze the details of their care through telemedicine links between Henry Ford Hospital and clinics across rural Michigan. Weiss runs Ford Hospital's Genetics and Birth Defects Center, a regional research hub. Telemedical technology brings his world-class experience to locales hundreds of miles afield--and to more than one place at once...
...behold, a kindly geneticist notices Kinney's plight and decides to help him--by cloning him. Uh huh. But the more cartoonish this movie gets--a coffee pot bubbles among the complicated looking test-tubes involved in the cloning process--the better it becomes. As Doug, and Doug, and Doug, and Doug try to solve all of the original's problems, they find that the logistics of their parallel existences cause more difficulties than they can handle...
...surfing? Emphatically not. Researchers suspect that another four or five dopamine-related genes also contribute. Moreover, behavior ultimately depends as much on upbringing and opportunity as it does on innate temperament. Someone with the thrill-seeking gene might turn out to be a serial murderer, observes behavioral geneticist Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. "Under a different scenario and in a different environment," he says, "that person could become a hero in Bosnia...
...Holsteins are trapped in their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower hunter. A sad fate for a virtuous creature who lets down her milk twice a day and never is a problem to anybody...
...Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...